I was about to wipe away the tears that were gathering in Ectenron’s eyes without realizing it, but I almost got burned by Holloway’s gaze.
“Are you jealous?”
Holloway’s eyes sank at the polite speech that came out naturally.
“…”
“Jealousy?”
“It sounds like the tone of someone who is offering a challenge, you know.”
I wonder if he knows that I have imagined throwing down the gauntlet to his face tens of thousands of times in my mind.
“This is Ectenron’s, right?”
I handed him the necklace.
Ectenron smiled brightly as he looked at the necklace in my hand, then our eyes met, and he snatched the necklace away and hurriedly hid behind Holloway.
Don’t you know how to be grateful?
I was about to say something, but when I saw Ectenron’s eyes turn red, I became solemn.
I grabbed Holloway’s hand and pulled him along without realizing it.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
Holloway’s voice, which had somehow gotten a little higher, seemed suspicious, but his face showed no change.
I opened the door confidently and closed it right away.
Haha, it couldn’t see me because I closed it too quickly, right?
“There’s an evil spirit.”
“Yeah, there’s an evil spirit.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Don’t ask me.”
I want to ask you.
[You have to get rid of the evil spirit in front of the door to go outside. Choose and fill the gauge.]
As long as it’s not dancing.
[1. Play tag with Holloway while moonwalking.
(٩( ˘ ⌣ ˘ )ᆨ)]
Is the one I just saw for real? Is that right?
[2. Play tag with Ectenron while fan dancing.
(✺◟(◉ᓀ◉)◞✺)]
What about my human rights?
I guess all the choices were like that because I got a taste for dancing once.
[3. Make the evil spirit laugh with your body.
💪( ` ω ´ 💪)]
It looks like an emoticon that says ‘beat me up’.
I’ll forgive you once. Give me the choice screen again, again.
Yet the choices never changed.
The world makes me suffer so hard.
At that moment, Holloway suddenly waved his hand in front of my eyes. His hand went straight through the system window.
“…!”
Wow, I was surprised.
I was so surprised that my heart pounded.
“Why are you so surprised?”
“Nothing.”
“…”
He remained silent for a while, then suddenly grabbed my hand and squeezed the air.
No, to be exact, he pressed 3.
Huh? What’s going on?
“…?”
“…”
“…??”
“…”
My bewildered face, not fully grasping the situation, met his indifferent face.
“What did you do? Why are you killing me?”
“What am I killing?”
“Me.”
“…”
Ding.
[‘3. Make the evil spirit laugh with your body. 💪( ` ω ´ 💪)’ has been selected!]
You just killed me, you!
How did you press 3? No, I mean, 1 and 2 are ridiculous too, but…
How did you press so precisely!
And make the evil spirit laugh? Are you sure it won’t kill me during that time?
I pulled out my hand that was still being held by Holloway and asked him fiercely.
“Why did you suddenly raise my hand?”
“I calm down your excitement.”
“How do you calm me down!”
“What was there?”
“…”
“Shall we press one more time?”
Try it…
It’s already chosen and gone.
Holloway fell back one step while looking at me, standing still.
Just like how I’m looking at what I do in the future.
What is it, I wonder. Did he really press it, knowing that?
If so, he’s a son of a b*tch.
I can’t believe he made me press that when I looked so obviously stressed. He’s so mean.
Looking at the past of Holloway, I couldn’t swear comfortably because I understood that it would be difficult for him to have normal feelings.
Making it laugh with my body…
What do I have to imitate?
I opened the door, thinking about what kind of gag to do.
The evil spirit, still standing firm, swayed unsteadily, unable to remain in place.
—Crack, crackle…
[Gauge ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐]
I held the door again and pretended to open it, banging my head against it.
Bang!
Ectenron and Holloway flinched at the loud noise. Ectenron shouted in surprise, reaching out his hand.
“Uh…!”
“…”
I glared at the two with a reddened forehead.
Stay still.
—…
The staggering demon suddenly stopped.
Did it work?
Yet the gauge didn’t even go up a little.
Yeah, banging one’s head against the door. That was too cliche.
I took a deep breath with the door wide open. Then I stretched out my arms and slightly bent my legs.
Okay, let’s go!
“BRRRRMMMM!”
Motorcycle imitation!
[Gauge ⏹⏹☐☐☐☐☐☐☐]
Wow! Two squares!
[Holloway and Ectenron are excited.]
It’s all because of who, though.
“Clip, clop, clip, clop.”
This time, I did a lap while imitating a horse as Holloway and Ectenron bent down, shivering.
Is that fun?
I’m not doing this for you guys to have fun.
Holloway covered his mouth with his hand and laughed quietly, then looked at me and wiped his lips.
“I guess I pressed it right.”
“What did you say?”
I didn’t hear him because I was too focused on imitating a horse.
When I asked him again, he just shrugged and said unluckily.
“Continue, please.”
“F*ck.”
“Hicc…”
Ectenron was almost sobbing at my insults.
I won’t be fooled anymore. You’re laughing.
[Gauge ⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹]
I couldn’t bring myself to tell you what kind of body gag I did.
It might seem like something was omitted, but I hope you’ll ignore it.
With my human rights gone, I made the evil spirit laugh to its heart’s content (other two demons also laughed out loud) and was able to fill up the gauge.
[Gauge recharge complete!]
[The evil spirit satisfied!]
—It’s fun…
“Thank you.”
I bowed and thanked the audience who watched my nonsense.
The two were breathing hard, as if laughing was hard for them.
They laughed harder than the evil spirit, you know.
I will never forgive you.
—Gift…
“I’m so touched I don’t know what to do.”
Isn’t it giving me something weird?
I couldn’t bring myself to reach out due to my anxiety, so Holloway, who had wrapped his hands around mine from behind, boldly stretched them forward on his own.
“It won’t be bad.”
Try and make it bad once.
The evil spirit, whose body was dripping black liquid like a mud monster, suddenly put its hand in its mouth.
“It won’t be bad, you say?”
“Am I mistaken?”
When I looked at him with resentment, he raised the corners of his lips slightly and just held my hand tightly.
—- Gulp, gurgle… ugh.
The evil spirit, who was making strange sounds and shaking its body, took out a pouch soaked in black liquid from its mouth.
一Plop!
And it put it down on my palm as if it was throwing it. With a sloshing sound, the smooth liquid flowed down my hand.
Isn’t there something like an eyeball inside when I open it?
I opened my eyes as narrowly as possible and looked inside the pocket.
“…”
It’s a seal. Another noble’s seal ring came out.
I quickly took out all the contents inside. Two seal rings and a ribbon hair tie with a ruby came out.
It was quite pretty, as if it was made with a lot of effort.
“Uh…!”
Ectenron suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise and looked at Holloway, pointing at the ribbon hair tie.
Holloway put his index finger to his lips and shook his head.
“What? Is this how you can ostracize people?”
“Because it’s something only demons share.”
“Then I have nothing to say.”
I quickly gave up.
[Remaining Footprints (3)
Characteristics: Someone’s precious hair tie. The owner of the lost hair tie can roughly know the location of the person who picks this up if someone finds this. The owner would be really grateful if you could find them.]
[The owner of the hair tie’s affection for you is not ‘It Will Be Nice if Evelin lives?’, so the story is not yet unlocked.]
Hmm, one of the demons.
Is it Suriel’s. Because he likes pretty things, I don’t know.
This time, I examined the two seal rings.
One had fan-shaped petals, and the other had two swords crossed.
And I realized that the feeling I had thought was relief was heading towards the abyss.
They were the emblems of the Marquis Werner Hacios’ family and the Count Alholf Kersian’s family. I bit my fingernail against the corner of my lips.
Though I shouldn’t show it, I became anxious without realizing it.
I was afraid that my family’s seal would come out too.
“It’s bleeding.”
“That’s because I bit until it bled.”
I took my hand away from Holloway and threw away the dirty pocket, putting the ribbon and ring in my cardigan pocket.
I thought he would say something about throwing his hand away, yet he followed me without saying anything.
“Now we have to get out of the basement again. Is there anything left to do?”
“…What do you know about me?”
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have said that.
In the past he was a demon who would kill me if there was even the slightest suspicion.
Yet now, he was incredibly quiet. He even showed his audacity by using my hand to stamp out something strange.
He didn’t even know what he was pressing, and it seemed like he did it based on his intuition.
How did he press that spot?
Now that I think about it, we talked familiarly when I saw Holloway’s past.
I had noticed something from there.
“What if I know?”
I thought deeply. Interfering because he knew, and pretending not to know and continuing on like he was doing now.
“But I wonder if it would be good for Sister if I pretended to know.”
The thought didn’t last long.
“Just keep your mouth shut.”
He answered, holding back a laugh.
“I will do so.”
I couldn’t relax even for a moment.
When I sighed and came out into the underground hallway.
“Kyaaaaah! Please, is anyone there?!”
A thin scream was heard. And Ectenron turned his head faster than anyone else.
It was understandable.
This scream was Celyr’s.
Even if Celyr screamed because her past memories were still underground, why did she come all the way here?
Is this ribbon Celyr’s?
Ectenron hesitated at the screams coming from the hallway, looked back and forth between me and the hallway, and then quickly picked me up.
“Huh?”
“Ectenron.”
Holloway called him low, yet he started running towards Celyr. Even carrying me, at that.
“Huh? HUUHHH?!”
I’m being kidnapped!
This bastard is taking me to Celyr, who is desperate to kill me!
“Holloway!”
He’s kidnapping me!
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