After That
When Asch woke up, it was his own room over there. After that, he lost consciousness right away, and he doesn’t have any memory from then onwards, but there’s an extraordinary amount of pain running through every nook and cranny of his body. The pain so severe that not even his extraordinary regenerative power can heal, speaks a ton about how intense a battle it was. When he tries to raise his stiff head look around――
“……why are you sleeping beside me, Lily＝Schwarz-kun”
The golden-haired beautiful young girl who’s lying and sleeping soundly at the lover-use(never been used before) bed set up beside him.
“Good grief……the bed is not there for your sake”
While grumbling as such, he slowly raises his upper body and moves closer to her side. Not noticing his presence at all, Lily is comfortably and enjoyingly breathing softly in her sleep and smiling「ufufu」.
“……”
Squish Squish.
The ero loli Magician, silently touches her cheek.
Squish Squish.
Squish Squish.
“……fufu, stop itt Cis”
While happily talking in her sleep, she displays a playful behaviour. She’s probably, seeing a dream where she’s playing with her best friend or something.
“Fuu……good grief. Being a child is envious no matter when it is……oww ow ow ow. As I thought, my body is still stiff……oops!”
Extraordinarily deliberately, Asch tumbles and hangs over the golden-haired beautiful young girl. His right hand on her breast, his left hand on her butt.
It’s an overwhelmingly premeditated crime.
“……oww ow ow ow. That was inevitable huh; good grief……however, although your flat chest is hopeless, your butt is quite――”
Across Asch’s eyes, in front of the door, Mira was standing there with her eyes fixedly on him.
“……ahem”
“I do not quite understand what you are trying to pretend did not happen”
The competent butler’s words are, cold as always.
“How’s Estelise?”
“She is already rescued by Board Chairman Lioar. Delta-sama had sheltered her at a safe location, so she was unharmed”
“Good grief……that old man, doing nothing but acting cool. Does he want to be popular that much”
“He is not you”
“……ahem”
“I do not quite understand what you are trying to pretend did not happen”
The competent butler’s words are, as expected, cold.
“Are the preparations to dissect Delta’s corpse ready?”
“……yes”
“Great”
The Dark Magician, makes a satisfied smile.
“……as I thought, even Delta-sama is subjected to the same treatment huh”
“What was Delta. It’s foolish, to hold sentiment towards somebody who became a corpse. He’s a magnificent genius. He can probably yield good results”
“……”
“What?”
“Why, did he, save me?”
“……do you find it strange?”
“I do not understand. He saved me, an enemy, much less one who’s not even a human……”
“……the village he’d lived in, was attacked. He lost everything in a single night; his father, his mother, his younger sister”
In this world, there are things that you can’t do anything about. If an evil person pops up all of a sudden, the weak can only scramble to flee. Delta, he was trying to change it somehow, change such a reality, change such a helpless destiny. For the sake of creating such a world, he has no qualms even about sacrificing everything.
“However, the one who saved the young him was, a single young girl. I guess, coincidentally, she had the same sepia hair like you”
Delta burned the sight of her, who saved somebody else without sparing a thought for her own life, into those eyes of his. Despite adamantly telling himself that he’ll be merciless, that heart of his was constantly drawing closer to her. Despite swearing to sacrifice everything, he lived by, and then died by, the dilemma of being unable to forsake even a single woman.
‘Delta＝Laplace’, was such a human, Asch comments.
“……well, it’s something that doesn’t matter to me though”
The Dark Magician, wrapped up as such.
At that moment,
“……fue? Ah, Asch-sensei! Wh-, why are you here!?”
Lily woke up and jumped up.
“Haa……oh my, the noisy one woke up”
“Sensei! For you to leave the sacred lesson to somebody else; are you still a teacher!? Is that how an adult with a sense of responsibility act!?”
Perhaps she doesn’t have any memory at all; the studious golden-haired honour student beautiful young girl screeches about something that happened god knows when.
“Yo-…..you sure are noisier than expected! Let me say it up front, but I am your life benefactor, you know!”
“What half-asleep things are you on about! Please quickly get on with the lesson please quickly get on with the lesson please quickly get on with the less――”
“Aaaaaaaaah, what a noisy and annoying fellow you are”
“Wha-, wha-, wha-, what did you sayy!”
Along with their bickering,
the night ended, and the morning daylight started shining from outside the window
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A few days later, at the Taboo Mansion.
“Asch-sama, it is done”
Mira, spoke to the Dark Magician who’s engrossed in reading.
“Good job. Did you do exactly as I said?”
“Eeh……”
“Then, okay”
Asch says that and starts reading again, but no matter how much time passed, the butler keeps on standing there without leaving the room.
“……what is it. I am busy with reading”
“I rested Delta-sama’s corpse in the grave as I was told, but next to it……there was a grave with the same name as me”
“……it’s probably a coincidence”
The Dark Magician, disgruntedly flipped to the next page.
Chapter 3 End
