Chapter 290: Blood-soaked Fists
Translator: Reflet
Editor: ryunakama
Akiha stood up, trailing her hands along the wall as she started walking.
She did a lap around the pure-white wall that screwed up both spacial and temporal sense.
Taiyou followed her with his eyes, unsure of her intent.
「Hey」
「Hm?」
「We can’t……get out of here until I start liking you?」
「Apparently. That’s at least why they locked us in here」
「That suuucks」
Akiha said with a sigh.
It was the most unpleasant face he had ever seen her make.
「I don’t wanna do that. Being forced to. Cause that’s what it is. Like livestock locked in cage and being forced to mate」
「……You of all people would say that? After you forced Aoba to co to my place?」
「That was different. I did that to help her get refuge, but I didn’t intend for Aoba to get comfy with you」
「……Well yeah」
Taiyou agreed. Akiha did like her, so he had no choice but to admit that they were different circumstances.
He looked around the room as he thought that.
This room was a prison to lock them in, designed to induce them.
Taiyou gradually felt unpleasant as well.
「Yeah, this isn’t good」
He said, standing up straight.
「What do we do?」
「Let’s get out」
「Eh?」
「It’s as you say. This isn’t the right way to do things. Even if you were to fall in love with like this, my heart would never feel right」
「……」
「The Akiha that I know is free. It’s fundantally wrong to force a free-spirited girl like yourself to make a decision while bound like this」
His back to Akiha, he solidified his resolve as he stared at the wall.
「So let’s get out」
「Is that really okay, Taiyou-chan?」
Hera asked him. Her face was a little downcast.
「Are you opposed to it?」
「Nope, I only belong to Taiyou-chan, so I support your decision, but……I just, I just think this isn’t really like you」
「Not like ?」
「Yes indeed. You are a person of『Objective and thod』, but right now you’re valuing the thod an awful lot……is that really okay?」
Okay.
He felt like there was a lot of aning packed into that word.
Words that ca from the fairy he had t before any of his brides.
「I get what you’re saying, but you’re mistaken」
「Mistaken?」
「Yeah, mistaken. It’s not that I’m prizing the thod. It’s that the objective changed」
「What do you an?」
「My first objective was to get Akiha. But now it’s a little different. It’s beco “make Akiha mine”」
「Make her yours, you say」
「……」
He could sense Akiha from behind. He could sense slight movent.
Taiyou continued. Not to persuade, but to proclaim his resolve.
「If all I had to do was “get” her, then this would be fine. Probably the easiest thod. If Youran’s involved……yep, if I were her, I’d slip aphrodisiacs at al ti and force her to be one of us」
「That’s graphic!」
「According to Kohaku, that makes all sorts of things go well. But all that is is “getting” her. To elaborate, it could very well beco a『consenting body but unyielding heart』kind of thing. But I realized sothing as we spoke. I like Akiha when she’s free and wild. I want to get all of that……that’s how I feel now」
Taking a breath, he continued.
「If that’s the objective, then this way is wrong」
「Taiyou-chan……」
「So we’re getting outta here」
Taiyou said, directing his consciousness at everyone outside.
「You can hear what I’m saying, right? I’ve made my decision, so open up」
An imperative tone. Taiyou rarely spoke that way, but his brides desired it.
He was counting on that, but got no reaction.
「No dice. Hera, they looking at us over there?」
「Uhh……」
「Hera」
「……Yes indeed. They’re all in front of the monitor」
「Yeah? Then I guess that’s out」
Taiyou took a deep breath, lightly clenching his fists.
「Hey, what now?」
「If they won’t open it from there, then I gotta pry it open」
「Pry it open? How?」
「Just gotta slug it」
Taiyou said, hitting the wall with all his might.
At 80% power.
But no results.
It felt as if he had only just woken up, his power drained.
He had given up at this point earlier, but not now.
Taiyou unleashed another punch, hitting the sa place with the sa power.
There was no response, but he kept hitting it.
Hitting it, hitting it, continuously.
He felt as if he were continuously hitting a thick sponge.
「Taiyou-chan! There is blood coming out of your hands!」
「I ain’t dying」
Indifferent to the panicking Hera, Taiyou hit the wall again.
He hit the wall without caring that his blood was painting the once-uniform white.
「Give it another――」
At that mont, he drew back his hand like a bow to launch another strike.
Soone gripped his arm. Akiha had clasped his arm with both hands.
「Give it a rest」
「……」
「C’mon, you got blood coming out. Rest a bit and we’ll think of sothing else」
「……Nah, I think not」
「Why?」
「Once I realize sothing, there’s no stopping . I can’t have you trapped in this tiny box」
「But I――」
「It doesn’t matter. I can’t endure it. I can’t bear the thought of you being locked in」
「……」
Akiha’s face was full of astonishnt. She must have not expected him to say that.
He softly removed her hands, taking a breath, then hit it again.
Hit it, continued hitting it.
The bloodstain on the wall spread, to the point where it was wet and quite literally dripping.
Taiyou’s fist was stained red. He disregarded it and hit the wall.
A change occurred.
He felt it give. The mont he hit the wall, he felt a difference.
Even a wall that absorbed impacts would reach its limit with enough hits.
Taiyou had assud that. Now with a sense of accomplishnt, he gained further determination.
But he had misunderstood.
The anti-Taiyou room Youran had prepared was not so feeble.
It was a thing that simply one-upped Taiyou’s pure power.
He had only felt it give because he had one-upped it in terms of power. He had overco its limits.
Intent on continuing to hit the wall, Taiyou did not notice.
That the『idol』modification had suddenly increased, and that he had unconsciously exposed wings from his shoulder.
That there was heat in Akiha’s gaze.
His fist had broken through the wall.
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