The present-giving continued. Though Tre-san and Akane-san expressed concern, I could honestly say that I didn’t feel ntally tired at all.
Since I was simply enjoying so pleasant conversations while receiving presents, it felt like I could keep going without needing a break.
……Hmm, maybe I should take a break after all. I let my guard down because I’d already dealt with the ntally exhausting folks, Shiro-san, Makina-san, and Pandora-san, but…… yeah, there's dea-san and Phenex-san still left……
[Hello, Miyama Kaito-san. A fine day, isn’t it? Though this world is filled with sorrow, it is also a day that reminds us this world isn't filled with sorrow alone…… Happy birthday.]
[Thank you. You're in your human form today, dea-san?]
Apparently, dea-san isn't on any infiltration missions at the mont, so she herself said it was fine to call her by her real na even in a crowd like this. That’s why I just refer to her normally as dea-san.
She and Phenex-san had perford together at a live concert before, where she appeared in her usual lamia form, but today, she had taken on a human shape.
[My original body is rather large, you see. There's a chance I might obstruct soone's view and inadvertently cause sadness. And more importantly, they say eting soone's gaze is the first step to forming a closer connection. Monts like these give rise to wonderful encounters, and I wouldn’t want to miss the chance to make new friends……]
[I- I see…… errr, just, you know, keep it reasonable……]
On the surface, it sounded like a normal statent about wanting to et new people at a party where there were many strangers. But in dea-san’s case, with her peculiar preferences and the ecstatic look on her face, it ca off like she was scheming sothing indecent.
Well, despite how she talks, I get the feeling that dea-san probably won’t actually try to make new “friends” or anything. She may seem to act on madness, but she knows how to hit the brakes right at the edge. Still…… the look she had, like she was about to drool, was honestly a little concerning.
[Fufufu, don’t worry. I do understand that publicly displaying one’s fetishes in a place like this is essentially suicide. The feelings just overflow from within , nothing more, I have no intention of acting on them.]
[Well, yeah, I figured…… I actually think you're soone who knows when and how to restrain yourself.]
[Indeed, you may rest assured…… That said, while it's a joyful thing, the world has been peaceful lately, so I haven’t had many chances to et and part with new friends, which saddens . Phenex does allow to kill her from ti to ti, so that keeps my heart content though.]
[……You two sure are close.]
Yeah, as I thought, dea-san is soone who can look at herself objectively. She understands her preferences are seen as deviant by society, which is why she lants the lack of opportunities to indulge in them while also expressing happiness over the world being at peace. If you ignore her unusual fetishes, she’s actually a fairly reasonable person.
Well, that fetish is the one and only major issue about her but…… as long as she’s goofing off with soone like Phenex-san, who shares her tastes, it’s probably fine.
[Now then, for your birthday gift…… Back when Miyama Kaito-san visited the forest, you didn’t seem very satisfied with the chair, so I’ve been making chairs myself since then. I’ve brought one of my best creations today.]
[A chair? Thank you…… It's beautifully wrapped, but what kind of chair is it?]
Back when I visited the Dark Forest where Tiamat-san lives, she brought out a chair made of bones…… the creator was apparently Rasal-san, but Pandora-san even comnted on it at the ti.
It seems that inspired her to start making chairs, and now she’d brought one as a birthday present.
[It's a snakeskin chair.]
[……………………]
[Ahh, please don’t worry…… It’s not made from my skin or anything like that. I used the skin of a species called the Grey Python, which is commonly used for leather goods.]
[A- Ahhhh, I see. Sorry, I just…… made a weird assumption there……]
When she said "snakeskin", for a mont I thought dea-san had made a chair out of her own skin and given it to as a gift, but apparently, that wasn't the case.
[Think nothing of it…… In fact, I did initially consider gifting you a chair made from my own skin, but then Shalltear-sama suddenly appeared and said "He’s going to be utterly horrified, so stop it", so I prepared sothing else instead.]
[I- I see……]
Alice really is always reliable. I an, dea-san’s lower body is technically that of a snake, so it wouldn’t be impossible…… but still, if an acquaintance handed a chair and said “I made this using my own skin”, I honestly wouldn’t know how to react. I’m incredibly glad that got nipped in the bud ahead of ti.
Serious-senpai : [By the way, with their conversation like that, didn't Kaito take so ntal damage from this……?]
? ? ? : [Not really, no. When he's listening to stuff like my group, Ein-san's maid theories, or Kuro-san's baby castella rants, he just ends up looking fed up because he’s completely uninterested. He feels ntally tired, but his SAN value doesn’t drop at all. I doubt he'll even need a break.]
Serious-senpai : [Feeling tired but taking no actual damage…… I'm impressed.]
? ? ? : [Well, I an, it is Kaito-san we're talking about here. He deals with Makina, who shows up at his place like 5 tis a week or summons him into a synchronized dream, and still acts totally unfazed. Of course his ntal fortitude is monstrous.]
Serious-senpai : [Now that you ntion it, I rember the narration briefly touched on it, but I just glossed over it…… He's so used to Makina’s rampages that he can even tell what stage of a ltdown she's in…… This guy’s really got the ntal strength of a monster……]
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