Chapter 26 (2/2)

What am I hiding, I was a hero during my 『first time』 and 『second time.』

Ain’t I amazing?

「(But you know~. That past “hatred?” thing still continues to now?)」(Kazuha)

The 2 people[or not] glanced at me.

Something’s still coming together……

「(That’s all I know……. It seems to be 『hereditary』?)」(Tao)

Hereditary, huh.

Well it’s better to call it 『instincts,』right.

Ah. Now that you mention『heredity,』 the story about how us humans came to use 『magic』 is true. Some bigshot from the past extracted the 《magic gene》from the demons and added it to the royal family’s makeup, that’s why we can use magic now, right?

The first time I heard that my chest felt really bad.

In the end, demons and humans have few to no differences between them.

What was I saying again? Ah, after hearing that, spirits too aren’t so different.

They used the humans to dispel their malice, right?

I don’t know much but that’s about it. They did it selfishly, so don’t include me.

That kind of pent-up resentment gives me goose b.u.mps, ya know.

『How stupid!』 I thought……

「(…… What are you grunting, groaning and agreeing about? Kazuha?)」(Tao)

I ain’t grunting!

「(……Anyway, if this continues there won’t be any progress.)」(Tao)

Yep.

「(Ah, you know. Is it ok to not go to your dad’s place?)」(Kazuha)

I thought Tao would return to her home -Taotao Hanten- after we came back, but.

「(As if I can return! Other than pretending to not know that you’ve 《bound》the town’s guardian『spirit』- I’m still in the same party with the one who did it so how can I appear in town?)」(Tao)

「(That’s one outrageous person~)」(Kazuha)

「(IT’S YOU!!!!)」(Tao)

It was me……

「(Then, what ya gonna do?)」(Kazuha)

「(….. Now that It’s come to this, I’ll have you take responsibility!)」(Tao)

「(We will…… get married?)」(Kazuha)

「(That’s not what I mean by『Take responsibility!!!』ARE YOU STUPID!!!)」(Tao)

I’m kiddin’~.

As always, Tao really focuses petty things…… mutter mutter mutter……

「(E-……Eh, it’s not ending……)」(Tao)

Tao sighs as she watched the two duke it out.

「(Ah, Th~e~n~. Let’s take a bath!)」(Kazuha)

I really am tired.

I did do my best.

I wanna relax in the hot spring.

‘Cause I didn’t get to enter the hot spring 『on that day』……

「(Oh! That’s a good plan! They’re open at the moment!)」(Tao)

Thus we. I mean, Tao and I.

I with Maou.

Tao’s with Ruru.

Each pulled our target from the other’s grasp to keep them from choking each other.

Thus forcing them into the hot spring……

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