30. Interlude......
"I just walked around and left...... Generally speaking, shouldn't it be like this to rescue you from Lu......?
"If we leave, it's going to be a big problem. After all, now we are the suspects who have been taken into custody, and once we escape, we don't even have a chance to defend ourselves, so we have fulfilled the identity of the 'spy' who made up something out of nothing. What happens to us is another matter, but it is difficult to say whether these orcs, who have finally calmed down, will be angry because of this...... As a member of the mercenary group, you are considered to be suspected of being a spy, so how will your companions be treated, right?"
This is indeed the case—and the young man hung his head in frustration when he was mentioned at this point. As the butler said, even if you have a chance to escape, there is no way to do it, unless you can ignore the safety of your teammates who don't know where they are being guarded......
"But you're different, sir, aren't you? what do you want to stay for...... Obviously, with that young lady's strength, it's a trivial matter to take you out of the city, right?"
The purple girl, who can heal an injury that is almost a lifelong disability with a single stroke, and seems to be unfathomable in strength, is it quite easy to leave here with one or two people, right? I can't leave, but the housekeeper's words are completely fine, and the eldest lady said so......
As a result, the housekeeper refused.
"Does that really matter? When you left, your eldest lady's face was terrible. ”
It's also strange to say. The young man had thought about what he would say if he saw the girl who had saved him again, but when it came to the actual situation, he found that he didn't know what to say at all—did the other party need his gratitude......? Maybe it's something important to me. But for her, it's just a small thing, right?
And looking at the other party's appearance, he has no intention of mentioning this matter.
The young man himself never thought that he would actually say such a thank you to his life-saving benefactor - the significance of this matter is completely unequal in the hearts of both parties, and dialogue or anything cannot be established at all.
In the end, it turned into a situation where he was smirking unilaterally.
On the other hand, young people always feel. In front of that girl, she seemed to be oppressed inexplicably, and there were a lot of words that were clearly prepared in her head. When I was about to exit, somehow I lost it in an instant, and I didn't remember anything......
"Isn't that scary? If it weren't for the fact that there were outsiders. Maybe it's possible for the eldest lady to cry. ”
"That's really a sensual lady......"
"No, it's not usually like this for the eldest lady, I think, it should be a relationship where I submitted my resignation, right?"
"I see...... Huh?" Following the butler's words, the young man naturally continued, but soon felt that something was wrong, "Eh, resignation!?, when will you ......?"
"It was just now—although I didn't say it directly, but the eldest lady is not a slow nature. With the tacit understanding between us, she must be able to understand it~"
Look at what the butler said as if nothing had happened. The corners of the young man's mouth twitched.
In this case, it is impossible for the eldest lady not to be angry and decisive, right?
didn't blow up on the spot, it seems that the eldest lady is indeed like what the housekeeper said, very able to control her emotions - in other words, after experiencing the more than ten years of life that the housekeeper said, the relatives who have been accompanying and taking care of themselves suddenly said that they want to abandon themselves, and they will definitely vent their temper, right?
Recalling the expression of the eldest lady at that time, the young man suddenly felt a cold sweat.
"Isn't that weird? Why am I doing such a boring thing like this?"
"Hell if you can understand...... Stupid as I can see that your master and servant have a good relationship, that's why I don't understand what kind of trouble you want to make like this. ”
"It's easy, because my employment contract has expired. ”
The butler suddenly threw out a sentence that made the young man unclear.
"...... employment contract?"
"As a mercenary, you should know the situation on my side, right? My 'contract' was signed before the eldest lady was born, and it turned out that this was a lifelong contract that would continue until I was old until I died...... But now it seems that I can retire early and enjoy the blessings. ”
"I'm sorry, but I don't know at all - please don't immerse yourself in a self-created atmosphere when you engage in 'explaining' and other behaviors...... If only an outsider like me who doesn't know anything could understand what I said in that state of mind!"
“...... Don't say that, this is an effective way to improve your depth and experience in front of others~"
"I don't know how you feel on your side, I just know that as the one waiting to be explained, it's super hot!"
“...... Then forget it. ”
"Don't you even plan to continue explaining!?"
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"It's a bit of a surprise, I thought you'd lose your temper. ”
"Doesn't I look like the kind of girl who throws tantrums?" Lilier glared at Aisha with a resentful look, which made Aisha laugh awkwardly.
This is really strange, isn't the image of Liliye's character who just appeared on the scene supposed to be the eldest lady of Tsundere?
As a result, as the eldest lady, Liliet's shrewdness is not low at all, perhaps because she has not been involved in the world, Liliet's experience is still a little lacking.
"But you so readily agreed with the resignation of the gentleman butler, even me. I'm also surprised - in my opinion, understanding is understanding, and being able to suppress one's emotions and force oneself to accept it is not something that everyone can do. You must have forgotten. You're only a teenager, aren't you?"
In a sense, Lilia is also a very cold-blooded person - especially cold-blooded when it comes to herself.
It's obviously a very sad and sad thing, but she can just force herself to convince herself as if nothing happened...... Such a person may be very gentle with others, but this few gentleness is rarely used on himself. If there is an item about oneself in the selected option. And if it conflicts with objective interests or the happiness of others, such a person will undoubtedly block out matters related to himself, right?
Maybe Liliet's personality was not innate, but the circumstances of her past life. Life experience has undoubtedly shaped her into what she is now. For personal well-being, Lilier does not value it as much as most people, and the immediate consequences of it are. It's Liliet's experience of grief and pain. Resistance is abnormally high.
Even if it is one of the few things that can enter her heart, when she loses, she can convince herself to look at it calmly and objectively...... If it is related to Liliet's age and her usual behavior, the feeling of this time may even be terrifying, right?
"Teenagers...... Aisha, you don't think I'm scary, do you?"
"How is it possible, I have lived so long, and I have seen more than you are crazy. You're just a little too strict with yourself - but then again, I've met a lot of people. But like Liliet, it's rare to be so cruel to yourself that you seem to be lovable~ At least, there is only one one that impresses me. ”
"This ...... What a strange way to say this......
Aisha's words sound strange and embarrassing.
"The same thing, if some people do it, it will be bullying and cool, and some people will do it, and it can make people hate itchy, but there are some exceptions, but there are people who can make people want to hold it in their arms and rub it~"
"Aisha, are you really trying to persuade me to enlighten me? for something, it always feels like you're just indulging in yourself...... Indulge in teasing my interest. ”
Lilia found that the psychic defenses she had always relied on didn't seem to be of much use to Aisha's eyes—this person could disrupt her mind with just a few words.
"Speaking of which, who is the other person you are talking about who is very impressive?"
"Do you want to know the way?"
Liliet nodded—of course, of course! Maybe that was her potential competitor......
"It's your ancestor, if you put aside the rest of your personality, in some places alone, it can almost be said that it is carved out of a mold. ”
“......”
Well, the preface retracts, this "opponent" is not at the same level as himself at all - what is the point of competing with a dead person, but in terms of winning rate, it is also no chance of winning......
What's more, that's his own ancestor, well, it's right to leave such a deep impression on Aisha's heart!
"Well, I don't know what you're excited about all of a sudden......" Finding that the atmosphere around Liliye suddenly became high, Aisha also felt a little helpless about Liliye's changes, "However, don't you really plan to say goodbye to the housekeeper?"
"Humph!"
Lilier snorted coldly, and her expression suddenly turned cold.
"That's just his unilateral submission of resignation, and I just didn't object to it - it's too shabby for me to say goodbye to Grandpa Ma Ao like this! Although I grew up watching him, but on the other hand, he also watched me grow older, so I also know very well what Grandpa thinks!"
The butler suddenly proposed to break off the relationship between the present and Liliet, although Liliet was quite surprised and reluctant, but it was not that Liliet didn't understand the other party's thoughts - it was because Liliel also understood the housekeeper's thoughts that she could behave so indifferently.
"Aisha, that night, I killed an orc. ”
"Ah, I know. ”
"Until then, I had always had the goal of revenge in my heart, but it was only a goal. No matter how strong I have it in my heart, it's just a goal. Well, if you want to describe it. That's a theorist rather than a pragmatist, right?"
"Liliet, you ......"
Aisha suddenly had a hunch about what Liliet was trying to express.
"But that night, not only did I see the blood myself, but I also participated in it—the moment it tore apart the creature's body, the scarlet blood splattered out, and for no reason I felt excited. I don't know what most people's expressions are when they first get their hands covered in blood. But my words, I can be sure, at that time my expression. Must be smiling. ”
Lilia had also heard rumors that some races were bloodthirsty by nature, and that for many people it could be a nightmare first murder experience, and that it would seem like drinking water to those races. And even among humans. Liliel had also heard of some people who didn't feel sick when they first killed someone. Instead, she felt a pervert of pleasure, but before that, she had never thought that she was one of them.
"But there's no way that old man will dislike you for that......" Aisha even thought for a moment that Liliet was on the wrong foot, but soon she thought of something.
“...... You don't want to say that it's because of your current mental state?
Originally, it was just premeditated, but now it is starting to walk on this path?
Aisha had thought that the housekeeper had submitted his resignation because of some pact between him and Liliet's mother, such as witnessing Liliah achieve her family's ideals, but now it seems. Maybe it's a little more complicated?
"After all, I was brought up by Grandpa Mao, and there are some subtle changes in my body. Maybe I didn't even notice it myself, but he knew it before me—and it was because of Grandpa Mao's abrupt behavior just now that I thought of this. At that time, I was worried that the unexplained excitement would interfere with my personality and mental state, so I deliberately suppressed it, and it should have been discovered by Grandpa Mao, right?"
At this, Liliet felt a little ridiculous and shook her head in annoyance.
"It was obviously my own insistence on revenge, but I ignored it myself...... At the end of the day, it was Grandpa Mao who reminded me—I didn't even notice that since that day, I seemed to have an inexplicable passion and impulse for this aspect...... It's just that I didn't notice it because of my deliberate suppression of this emotion before. ”
"Born ...... Desire to kill?"
Aisha also frowned.
It's not like Aisha hasn't seen this kind of situation, but in Aisha's memory, there are still many people in similar situations, but Aisha has never encountered someone who wants to tell this experience like a bystander like Liliye. Generally speaking, people with such bad impulses, when they first come into contact with the bloody awakening, are either dominated by this impulse and fall into it in the future, or they are suppressed by will, but later on, they are also secretive about such things.
And Liliet's situation seems to have something special?
"Are you sure that your impulse is connected to your obsession with revenge?"
"Yes, otherwise, how could I ignore the obsession I have always insisted on? The way of revenge, I will continue to consider it in the process of growing up, the object or something, maybe it will also change because of some information that I did not know in the past, but I will not change this insistence...... But now, I feel an impulse in my heart to follow a path full of red. You know, I'm not the kind of person who would complain about violence indiscriminately. ”
However, his body has a strange attachment to red, which makes Liliye feel a deep headache.
"Let's put it this way, maybe it's because in my heart, the roots of revenge are too deep, and the strange murderous urge entangled with it......"
“...... Combined with the violent factor of the obsession of 'revenge' itself, has it inadvertently materialized your revenge?"
"Probably...... Anyway, if I don't deliberately channel my mind, but follow the impulse of revenge in my heart, it's almost like I'm planning carefully and doing it carefully...... I didn't really plan to do it yet, but it looks like we've already started to do it. Well, in fact, I also plan to go back after this incident to investigate the truth of my mother's death, but this kind of thing actually made Grandpa Ma Ao find out first, and I always feel a little strange regret......"
“......”
This person is really strange.
Obviously a person who has a strong belief in revenge, but Lilier gives people the impression that she doesn't care about it. Born with the urge to kill, such a peculiar situation also appeared in Liliet's body, such a harmonious combination, but it did not affect Liliet's mental state in the slightest.
Normally, a guy who is born with a love of killing has encountered bitter hatred, and it is no surprise that he is almost a definite revenge murderer, right?
[Perhaps, this is the protection that Lilier's mother gave to Liliet, right?] It is unimaginable that a young child, in such an environment, can grow up to be completely unaffected by it...... What about terrible people. 】
For humans, this is really anomalous.
"As a result, Mr. Butler first noticed the subtle changes in you, and with his understanding of you, he keenly felt that you had begun to implement the plan. Originally, he also expected this day to come, and planned to give the most effort to your wishes until the last, right?
Aisha pondered, with the character of the old gentleman she knew, most of them should have thought like this, right?
After doing it for a long time, it turns out that the reason is still on my own in the end? (to be continued......)