Chapter 14: The Red Devil's Chamber (Part II)

It has been said that food, like wine, can be intoxicating. I didn't believe this before, but now I have to raise my hands in agreement.

- After I had eaten and drunk my farewell, and let the breeze blow downstairs, I suddenly remembered the apron I had forgotten in the kitchen. I had no choice but to go back again, and while I was thinking about how to speak, I unexpectedly saw Red Misuzu standing outside the door.

"Huh? Mr. Morikin? ”

"You don't need to call me teacher, I can't afford it. Even in terms of age, I'm not a few years older than you. I smiled wryly.

"Speaking of which, what are you doing here? I forgot something...... Can you let me in? It's in the kitchen. ”

"Huh? Now? ”

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing...... Come in. Be careful not to disturb the eldest lady's lunch break. ”

It's so easy to talk to. I breathed a sigh of relief and walked lightly down the aisle, only to find something I didn't expect—Sakiya entered the room with a tray that looked valuable. The door closed softly and did not close. But that has nothing to do with me. Now I'm just going to go to the kitchen......

No way! I care! The picture of Sakuya sweeping the whole seat of the Han Dynasty alone has been lingering in my mind! However, can a tray of that size hold child-sized food at best?

…… As a result, when I came back to my senses, I was already in front of the door. What, do I have the talent for tail lines......

The heart shrank suddenly. The heat flows down the back.

Pain.

Pain......?

It's a feeling, not nervousness. And what kind of guilt, it's not the same level of stuff at all. It's like something that wants to break through the pain of the chest......

- "Ahh ”

The voice. It's not a band and troubled tone like Sakiya. Not Remilia's faintly proud tone.

- "Boom! ”

I lost my vision for a moment, and I couldn't open my eyes under the intense impact.

The door exploded. The cracked wood chips, I don't know if they scratched their faces.

Sakuya, who turned around, and Remilia, who was sitting on the bed, showed a look of surprise and a slight panic.

Also, holding a black tea cup in one hand, and holding the other hand up in a false grip, with canines like fangs in the grinning mouth, Flandoro Scarlett.

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“…… Flandrew? ”

It's Flandrew, yes, but I can't help but mutter. And the ...... I've seen before No, before, except for the exquisite appearance, there was no specific impression at all. Memories are churning, but to no avail. No, it's anything but unusual......

"Fran?"

Remilia grabbed Flandrew's shoulders and looked at me with an indescribable light in her eyes. That's - is it vigilance?

"Mr. Morikin, Fran knows. This door blocked Mr. Morikin, so if he stabbed [that] with a 'snap', he couldn't stop Fran......

"Mr. Morijin, don't you know Fran? Although Fran gave her body to her sister, Fran ......"

Flandrew's voice grew quieter and quieter, and I broke free from the mire of my mind, and saw her hand slowly lowered, her wild smile retracted, her eyes half-drooped, and her whole person was quiet as usual.

"Fran, you know it all......"

The sound is gone. There was a dead silence in the room, not only the movements, but not even the words. I felt like the information I was receiving was leaking out of my head, blank, but I could still recognize how unusual it was.

"She, what's wrong?"

"Fran, she's fine."

Unconsciously broke the silence. Remilia's cold eyes widened in my vision, and the cold seeped down my spine. A point of intuition touches a warning.

This is the inner side of the world, I'm afraid it involves such an area. It's different from the inside of the school park, which is full of fantasy but not dangerous.,Non-human.、Non-human.,Non-human.,I've always been afraid of.、Avoidance......

I saw Flandrew's eyes, not only were they out of focus, but even their pupils seemed to have been lost. In the throbbing crevices that seemed to be choking his throat, his mind slowly returned to his head, just struggling to navigate the current state of affairs.

"What does Fran mean by giving her body to you?"

"It's not interesting."

I can see it. The [power] around Flandoro is exactly the same as Remilia's. No, it's more appropriate to say that it has been assimilated. I read the meaning, and—

It's time to leave! - The aura around me was roaring at me, but there was something I couldn't stay out of. I can read it. I can imagine the events I faced......

"Remilia. I don't know how you did it, but your sister is controlled by you, right? ”

"Roadless !!"

In an instant, a galewind swept around Remilia, and his vision was filled with red power. Suffocation, and cold. Really, really, there is a crisis of death.

"I want to know. Even as a teacher......"

Fear, I seemed to see my fear condense around me, but I continued to speak. Calmness, the real fear that rises in my heart, is the calmness of this extraordinary, not at all my own......

"No," no, the so-called teacher is just a lucky apportionment name, if you want her to listen to it, it's another, another—

"Even if it's as, as you once said, 'the same kind.'"

So, although I don't understand the meaning of Remilia at that time, it must be the key, and my intuition came from nowhere.

"'Like-minded?' Sakiya, did I say anything like that? ”

Sakiya and the stunned me looked at each other. Was she hesitating, because she didn't really know. No, why would she hesitate in that case-

“…… Yes. ”

The last one in Sakiya is a gambler's eyes.

"Yes."

Remilia seemed to be distracted, and her breath settled back into static. I hurriedly gave my brain the command to think—

Pain!

A sudden pain in his chest. It was as if something was going to break through the flesh and drill out. The mind is disturbed, and it is difficult to maintain the vision that can see the world inside. At this time, I saw Flandrew again.

Flandoro didn't move, but I felt that something was frantically trying to break free. The aura around the body is stained, and the pupils seem to be the window panes that have been smashed hard......

"Fran ......"

Small, emotionless voices came from her throat. Her palms were facing mine, and she lifted them up little by little.

Here it comes!

It's out!!

"Fran...... Want. ”

Pong!

The teacup in her hand turned into smashes! The darkness that broke free from that red breath! Flip the roll! Hideous! Roaring!

Dodge - no, not in the realm of hopeful dodging——!

"Bang-"

Blank. Time is cut off, and space loses its color.

Subsequently, consciousness returned. Pieces of cloth scattered. It was like a cool breeze was blowing on my chest. The assault was over before my mind could appear.

I sat down, the front half of my robe torn. The heat runs down the back. Remilia pinched Flandrew's wrist.

"This ...... That's ......"

Didn't know what was going on at all. I couldn't concentrate my mind, and I couldn't see the current state of the strength of the two people, but the moment before was engraved in my mind. Far more violent than Remilia's tyranny, and more exaggerated than Reimu's in numbers, this level of horror is absolutely unprecedented. In the moment just now, I really smelled the breath of [death]. If it weren't for Remilia......

"My sister likes you very much, Rinnosuke."

Remilia said coldly.

"Hello...... Happy? ”

How can it be. That, that kind of insect-like look, how can it be like-no. That's not indifference. In there, I saw something simple, and I couldn't tell whether it was curiosity or anticipation.

"Yes. Scared? ”

But this sabotage is real. In other words...... This is the original Flandrew, is this how Flandrew expresses her liking? Is this the reason why Flando revealed herself and was sealed in her own body?

I want to find fear in my body. However, no. Is it numbness, on the contrary, something that does not know what rushes from the chest cavity to the brain. Is it hot blood?

"So, are you controlling her?"

What am I talking about? Desperate to chase it.

"-You? Still don't get it? ”

"Good. Isn't it destruction? That's all. ”

Is that all, what are these words, this tone, as if it were commonplace.

"I saw it. Fran was in her eyes, pounding desperately at the cage, I saw it. ”

"—what do you know!!"

Remilia cried out.

"I just, I just want Fran to live a normal life!"

"Ah, that's it. That is, not to deny that it was against Fran's wishes. ”

Rotten. In front of the object of anger, he continued to touch the undoubted scales.

"You know what!"

The depressing, volcanic-like, is accumulating in front of you.

But. The body doesn't seem to be your own. Obviously restless, blood and qi are surging. But. Calm down. Too calm to know what to say.

"Your sister, are you happy?"

"Leave it alone! I'm just—I just want Fran to stop being seen as a monster————!!! ”

"She's not your sister like that! It's just a puppet made by you under someone else's standards in the guise of your sister! ”

Amazing volume burst out of my throat. In an instant, countless flashes of thought flowed past his eyes with the tremor of his vocal cords—that, that! Followed by a wave of anger, reluctance, and all sorts of words that are far from being able to be said.

Remilia's eyes widened, her lips opening and closing in silence......

"I know...... I've always known that......

However, I just ...... Want Fran to ...... I can also get along with others and accept the happiness of others............"

As if she had lost her strength, Remilia lowered her face.

"But...... But I, what's the solution......! ”

Drip.

…… Did she cry?

In an instant, what had accumulated in my throat, with the sound of sobbing, ebbed and drained. Is that - courage.

- What did I just say?

That's hurtful words. Provoke a girl to cry, the sin is unforgivable.

No. Calm down. Restore your thoughts. Come back to my usual self. I reopened my mouth with a soothing mind.

"Remy. Fran. Would you like to hear the story I want to tell? ”

"Huh? Mori Kinrin's help. Remilia suddenly looked up, her scarlet eyes shining. Are you getting something wrong? It's not that I'm here to listen to you, it's that you've come to my room to talk. ”

“…… Sister. ”

"Fran ?!!"

A blonde delicate girl. Neither violent nor sluggish, but with such eyes, he prayed to his sister.

"Sister...... Fran, want to hear it. ”

"Fran...... Well, you say. - It's just that Fran wants to hear it! ”

Remilia looked away. I could feel a smile on my lips. Fran knew it all, and at first, didn't she say it herself.

"I, ah, used to be an ordinary person who did nothing.

At that time, I was completely wantonly kneaded in the cracks of society. If you want me to be round, I will be round, and if I want to be flat, I will be flat. Coming to this school park,It's purely because I feel that I'm a little unusual.,I don't want to drown in the sea of people anymore.。 Ah, speaking of which, I'm still just an ordinary person.

But, but, even if I've been living an ordinary life, watching the demon hunters do nothing, but, at least, I understand—"

Passing by are the girls I am either familiar with or nodding to, as if they are from some distant past.

"What do you want to say-"

"I don't understand what it means to be a demon hunter, but since I became a demon hunter, I was destined to be not ordinary, but destined to be unique. Fran or Remy, you don't need to live within the boundaries defined by others, and you don't need to be limited by other people's standards at all. Girls like you, just live like yourself. ”

"Mr. Morijin, you smile so pitifully."

"—Whatever it is. Treat me as a teacher and listen to me. ”

For some reason, there is such a phrase in my head that takes root with deep conviction. Obviously, I only have a one-sided relationship with Flandrew, but that's how I believe-

"—It's not that a good boy like Fran can't get along with people, but he hasn't met anyone who can get along with him."

The trump card came into effect. Remilia's lips twitched slightly, as if chewing on the words.

This sentence is not only said to Remilia. I used to be so good if I had heard this earlier.

"—are you? How many people who were attracted by my sister's appearance were terrified. ”

Hah, the tone is relaxed.

"Ah, well, I was no different from those people at first. But ah, if a girl doesn't have a smile and no joy, isn't that just this skin? ”

"This, this is different!"

Remilia seemed to be flustered.

"Well, of course it's not. You care about ordinary people like me. ”

"Just kidding! How could I ——! ”

"yes. Fran is equal to you. Whether it's Remilia, Sakuya, or Pachouli. So, Remy just cares about ordinary people. ”

"None, no road race!"

"Sister, is that so?"

"Fran!"

Under the gaze of her sister, Remilia finally, it seems, her cheeks flushed.

"Well, Rinnosuke, I agree with you a little bit. The Uscaret family is a maverick. ”

The awkward look is really charming. I couldn't help but think about it.

"Well, that's cute."

"Huh? Lovely, of course......"

"It wouldn't be bad if I had a sister like that."

"Don't think! Fran is my sister! ”

"Where. I'm talking about you~~"

“！”

Remilia, who cherished her sister in her arms, didn't seem to know how to respond.

"- No Road Race! Why don't you leave! I didn't ask you to preach! ”

"Huh? That's right. - I'm a businessman. I'm going to get paid. ”

"Remuneration?"

"Uh-huh. If you can, borrow me some books to read. Accordingly, Fran's friends or something, I know some people who might be able to help. ”

"Well, you're responsible."

"Mr. Senkin, do you want to find a friend for Fran?"

“…… Yes. Wrap it around me. ”

"Well, I'll make an appointment, Mr. Morikin."

Fran struck me in the heart with her soft voice. Clean little finger, trembling slightly. Ah, it really arouses a lot of protectiveness. I can't help but talk about it.

"That's it, it's agreed."

Yes. I could feel something more than I could put into words. Perhaps, on the back side of the world, I can't continue to hide. I was thinking about it in my heart. I need to take the first step - borrow some books to read, which is probably a good idea.