After exchanging greetings, I took a seat at the table dea-san had prepared for us and had a cup of tea. With dea-san’s physique, she wouldn’t have any use for this table and chairs, so they’re clearly sized to fit Pandora-san and , so I’m grateful that she took the trouble to prepare them for us.
However, even if that’s so…… I don’t want to nitpick people’s hobbies…… but why are the table and chairs “made of bones”?
[……What’s with the bad taste in these table and chairs?]
Sohow, while we’re greeting the Ten Demons, I feel like Pandora-san has beco a decent person. She said exactly what I wanted to say, and I really appreciated it.
[They were gifts. There is an eccentric necromancer living deep in the Dark Forest, and she apparently made these out of a whim, but it was hard to use for …… Considering the size of Miyama Kaito-san’s physique though, these seats were just right, so I used it this ti.]
[So they were just forcing their unused items to you huh……]
Necromancer…… If I rember correctly, Sechs-san was also sothing like a necromancer. Well, Sechs-san lives in Kuro’s mansion, so this necromancer shouldn’t be him.
However, I think the atmosphere of the Dark Forest and that necromancer are a perfect match.
We’re getting a little off-topic though, so I decided to thank dea-san again for that incident back then.
[……Errrr, I’m going back to the topic, dea-san. For helping in the previous battle in the God Realm, thank you.]
[No problem. Fighting is a sorrowful thing, but it’s also a fact that fighting will never disappear from the world…… If that’s the case, then it is my own wish to go to the battlefield to use my body as a shield for the sake of my friends.]
[……………………]
What she’s saying sounds like she’s thinking of her friends, but Pandora-san looked at her with a doubtful look on her face.
[You just want to satisfy your own desires, don’t you?]
[I won’t deny that. Sorrow is also a “delightful” thing after all.]
[……U- Unnn?]
Ahh, she’s starting to spout outrageous things. Sorrow is a delightful thing? As I was feeling confused with what she’s saying, Pandora-san lets out a sigh before explaining.
[……Tiamat is a psycho who finds pleasure in ntal pain. In particular, she loves the “sorrow of killing and separating with those close to her with her own hands”. When on a mission to dispose of a target, she would regard them as a close friend or a family mber, before cruelly torturing them to death.]
[………………]
Ehh, the heck is this. That’s scary…… A- Ahh, I see now…… That’s why, earlier, when dea-san told that “she thinks we could get along with each other”, Pandora-san told her not to involve with her obsession……
[Ahh, how extrely sorrowful. I’ve gotten my hands on a lot of people…… and everyone has beco invaluable to . If our relationship had deepened, we could have been lifelong friends and companions. Aaahhhh…… Plucking away such a future that should have happened was heartbreakingly sorrowful.]
The expression on dea-san’s face as she said this was one of ecstasy, and how should I say this…… she looked really happy. I see, it seems like she really is one outrageous person, worthy of being nad alongside Phenix-san.
[……Don’t you dare release your ultrasonic waves, okay? If you do, I will imdiately execute you.]
[I understand. Ahh, Miyama Kaito-san, I’m sorry if I frightened you. Please don’t worry, even if I may look like this, I’m able to control myself…… It’s just that, when I get close to soone, I have a slightly sinful obsession of wanting to kill them and wallow in grief.]
[H- Huhh……]
All in all, I can’t co to any conclusion other than her being an outrageously dangerous person!? I an, could the frightening gravestones around here be…… L- Let’s not think about it.
Listening to the information Pandora-san said to , she certainly was an outrageous person that I could understand why Pandora-san called her a psycho…… The conversation doesn’t seem to be particularly strange for her, as her tone remained polite and calm.
We continued chatting like that for a while, and after a certain amount of ti had passed, we decided that it was ti to leave, so we got up from our seats. Thereupon, just as we were about to leave, dea-san ca up to talk to .
[……Miyama Kaito-san, excuse for a mont.]
[Eh? Whoa!?]
Slipping her hands under my armpit, dea-san lifted up like a doll, and I instantly felt as if I had climbed up to a building’s second floor.
When I was startled by what she suddenly did, dea-san silently looked at , and after a while, she smiled.
[……I like you very much.]
[Eh?]
[Ah, I’m sorry, please don’t get the wrong idea. I ant it in a way that has nothing to do with my obsession…… It was just that I like “those who I couldn’t kill”.]
The expression on dea-san’s face as she smiled at looked sowhat lancholic and lonely.
[Even if it’s not through your own power…… Even if, no matter how much I like you, no matter how much I want to kill you…… Despite everything, I couldn’t kill you…… and thus, it feels inexplicably “reassuring”.]
[……………………]
I wonder what this feeling is…… dea-san, who was just as Pandora-san said, feels like killing soone close to her and feels pleasure with tragedies…… I think she’s definitely a psycho.
Since she herself confirms that she feels pleasure from ntal pain, I think what Pandora-san about her brutal ways of satisfying her own desires when she should be on a mission to eliminate a target is true.
But even if that’s so, I feel like she “wasn’t evil” at her core. After all…… I think that she herself is aware of her own abnormality.
[If another opportunity cos, please co visit again.]
As she lowered my body, dea-san smiled with a look of tenderness on her face.
For her, liking soone and killing soone might just be directly proportional. The more she likes a person, the more she will probably feel the desire to kill that person and separate from them.
I think this is why she lives in the Dark Forest, where few Demons live, and sings for her deceased kin.
At least, I felt that the words she said just now…… the relief of not being able to kill was unmistakably dea-san’s true intentions.
[……Alright. I’ll co visit again when I have the opportunity…… But at that ti, I’d like it if you don’t have these bone chairs……]
[Bones won’t do huh…… I see, I’ll study about this matter that ti then.]
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