"Okay, let’s see..." I murmur to myself outside the mansion. Kaelan left to soak up so sun, and I have three guaranteed days and two uncertain days to enjoy, so I decided to do sothing useful.
I’m testing the power of misfortune through "stages." I’m basically trying to make one effect hit sothing else, which will then hit sothing else, to generate a greater effect.
For this, I’m observing the birds in the sky. I’m going to try to knock down a bird using an apple I have in my hand. I take a bite of the apple, testing it while applying misfortune to a stone.
To a tree in the distance that also receives the effect, I then apply misfortune to the birds flying. My goal is to throw the apple and try to create a chain reaction.
’Seems good enough...’ I apply misfortune to the apple and prepare to throw it. I take just one more bite of the apple and throw it as if it’s nothing special. The apple quickly hits the tree.
Soon, so leaves and a few fruits fall from the tree. The bird is startled by the noise and ends up flying faster, colliding with another bird and falling from the sky.
It falls directly on the stone I applied misfortune to, thus dying. A sequence of "natural" events that seem too unrealistic, but happened without much real interference.
’It’s a terrifying power...’ These small effects would never make defeat Nyarlisse. She was already hit by a chandelier when I was a goddess, and when I was a goddess, my power was much greater.
So the current power, even weaker, would never do anything against her, which is a sha, but it works against weaker Yanderes.
’Maybe this is the choice...’ Painless death caused by an accident like this, not bad, I think.
’Will I at least have a way to be protected from this curse if I conquer Yui?’ I don’t know, if that happens, it would be a very good bonus that I would love to have.
"Hey, dragon, what are you doing?" Kaelan appears, talking to . He was probably watching, though asking doesn’t make sense when we can’t even talk to each other.
"..." I just point to the sky to indicate that I was observing. He just looks montarily.
"Maybe in the future I’ll let you fly freely without restriction," he says, as if that’s the reason. I just nod in agreent.
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Two guaranteed days and two uncertain days remain until I need to change worlds. Today, Kaelan and I are participating in a "training session." He’s started trying to teach commands and reward with fish.
"Okay, dragon, you need to understand basic commands first before you can understand advanced ones, after all, you’ll need to use your abilities in the future," he says, sitting on the ground.
"If you do it well, you get a fish. If you fail, you don’t get anything," he speaks simply, as if I don’t understand.
I decide to make his life difficult in the next few days, so I pretend not to understand and tilt my head to the side in confusion, which seems to irritate him.
"It’s not that hard, just stand up," he says, moving his finger up to indicate standing up. I look down and then back at him, and then lie down on the ground and roll to the side.
"No!! Not like that, you’re supposed to stand up, not roll on the ground like a dog," he says as I stop and sit up again, feeling uncomfortable, with my wings not helping to roll on the ground.
"Okay, if you can’t even do sothing as simple as standing up, how do you expect to stay alive? Are you too stupid to be a dragon?" He says, and I let out a loud sigh as if he’s being annoying.
"..." He grabs my hand and pulls up.
"This is standing up," he says, holding my waist.
"Now go to that place and sit there," he says, pointing to a chair. As soon as he lets go, I walk to the chair and sit on the floor.
"Not like that! Sit on the damn chair," he yells as my tail knocks over the chair and my wings spread out. I see a vein appearing on his head as he cos up to .
He picks up the chair and sits on it, but it’s obvious he doesn’t have the patience to teach soone, especially a being he considers stupid and wild.
"Seriously, why do you have to be so stupid? Look and learn, you need to sit on the chair, not on the floor," Kaelan says, trying to keep calm as I smile at him.
"You know what, forget it, I’ll ask i for help," he says, abandoning here and going into the mansion. Of course, because of the collar, he must have confidence that I won’t just run away.
"Hahahaha," I laugh with amusent. He’s just rough, but not tyrannical, since he doesn’t want to force to obey through pain or coercion.
"I guess this world isn’t so bad..." Kaelan would be a nice Yandere at first, I think, but it’s a sha I’ll have to leave soon.
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I have one guaranteed day and two uncertain days left before the end. I need to prepare. I’m eating lunch with Kaelan, the sa mixture I’ve learned to like, even though eating from a bowl is strange.
"Hey, dragon, you seem more distant than when you first arrived. Missing that tree hole you lived in?" He speaks harshly, but genuinely concerned.
"I’ll probably kill myself tomorrow, not that you’d understand that, so this is probably one of my last als today," I say to him, knowing he won’t understand.
I eat the food in the bowl, savoring the pleasant taste while observing him. He watches eat as I finish quickly.
"Miss Dragon, you’re dirty from training attempts. Could you accompany for a bath and change of clothes?" i says in her sowhat excited tone as she approaches.
I stand up to follow her. She quickly grabs my hand and starts pulling through the room until we exit, and she closes the door, leading away.
"Miss Dragon, you won’t do anything foolish, will you?" She says seriously, and I tense up.
"W-What?" I speak, even though I know she doesn’t understand.
"Your surprise gives it away. The way you spoke at the table was strange. I’m very intuitive. You said sothing bad, knowing we wouldn’t understand, but I know it wasn’t anything pleasant," she speaks sternly.
"..." I swallow hard, getting nervous.
"You’re terrible at hiding what you don’t want to show. It’s almost written all over your face that you’ll do sothing bad..." She looks at severely, as if judging my soul.
"It’s better not to do anything bad to the master, or I might end up doing sothing terrible to you. It’s my duty above all to protect the master, even if it goes against his orders," she says, making a clear threat to my life.
I give her a smile. How ironic that she’s threatening with death when the foolishness I’m going to do is literally with my own life.
"...Smiling after a threat like that?" She says, raising an eyebrow.
"Be on alert, dragon," she says, no longer calling "Miss," making the threat more intense, but I just look at her with a certain disdain.
"Thank you for the advice, i. I didn’t know I was so obviously transparent in my feelings, even though you didn’t understand ," I thank her for making this so clear. I thought I was hiding it well, and most people don’t notice.
But those who really understand people and behavior seem to understand, even when it’s hidden, and as Yanderes are observant, most must notice it.
"...What did you do?" She asks, seeing a completely neutral expression with just a smile. It’s a fact that if it’s about maintaining an act, I’ve always done it well, even though I’ve made many stupid decisions since I got this curse.
"...I’ll keep an eye on you, dragon," she says seriously, now realizing that with just her "advice," I was able to quickly hide what was so obvious.
Of course, unlike acting feminine like Yara did with , hiding what I feel is not automatic, but requires so degree of self-effort, but it’s enough.
i decides to move forward, more tense and attentive to my movents, truly thinking I’ll do sothing.
’How lucky I am,’ I think with irony.
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[Shizune!! Ti’s up, I got everything we needed, and you can go to another world] I hear Nyzz’s voice out of nowhere while I’m in my room. Today is the last day.
"..."
[You seem tense, sad to be leaving this world?]
"More or less, but it’s better than what would happen if I stayed here," I say, pointing to my head after putting misfortune on so of the traps in the room that were made to prevent from being at risk, now used for the opposite effect.
’I just need... to aim it right...’ I’m trying to put the misfortune on my brain, so the misfortune effects will try to target my brain.
[Clever!! You’ve mastered this power like a human mastering the ability to breathe, go, go, go, go!! GO!!!] Nyzz starts cheering.
"Please don’t cheer for this," I say as I launch the misfortune just on my brain and take a step forward. A trap snaps, activating a chanism on the other wall.
Soon it activates another, triggering a trap on the wall made to prevent from sticking my hand in the gap. I hear a thin sound of air being cut and look back, seeing an arrow moving very fast, too close to dodge.
’Oh...so that’s how...’ Before I can conclude the thought, the arrow hits my brain perfectly in areas too important for to remain alive. Now, the reason for this arrow trap is a surprise even to .
[Not bad, Shizune. If you do this to people, you’ll be invincible against ordinary humans!] Nyzz says as my body collapses on the floor, ending this life before Nyarlisse arrives.
[Don’t worry, Shizune. I’ll make the next world very difficult for Nyarlisse to notice you. Sleep well!] Nyzz speaks as if all this was a dream.
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