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“Glug … glug … PWAAAH! The first mug after a job is special! GET ME ANOTHER ONE NEE-CHAN!”

“… you sound like an old man, and isn’t this your seventeenth cup and not your first?”

“Don’t sweat all the little details! Anyway, why is a dog watching all the small stuff! You’re going bald? Huh?”

“I’m not going bald, idiot”

That was Casca’s voice, swinging her empty mug around amid the night’s bustle inside the tavern.

The one who retorted her, Lady, had a small gla.s.s filled with fruit juice in her hands.

She disliked alcohol, perhaps because her real self was a wolf.

“Ugh … these, detestable carrots … this is for the evil that cause me suffering, this is what you get … !”

Looking down detestfully at the carrots mixed in with the food, Eliza picked them out with a spoon.

She even accurately picked up the small fragments and flicked them out, displaying her nimble-fingeredness in a useless way.

“But it’s not good to waste food, so I’ll make Beth eat them lat…”

“— Hmph. You’re kidding me, why do I have to clean up after your food sc.r.a.ps?”

“— What’s wrong with that? Beth can eat carrots after all!”

“— I’m saying I don’t like being conveniently used by you, stupid Eliza. If you get it then hurry up and die, or do you need me to kill you?”

Rapidly switching personalities, she began a one-person quarrel.

It happened often, so Casca and Lady didn’t pay it any mind.

But the other patrons were somehow surrounding them at a distance.

“Ah, right, Lady-san, can you drop me off by my house later? It’s far away so …”

Eliza said, remembering once the fighting had settled.

The place Elizabeth lived in was in the capital’s west ward.

Because she was still a student, she still lived with her parents.

She secretly snuck out of the house, and secretly snuck back in.

“… alright. Normally I don’t let anyone other than my beloved ride on my back though. It’ll be troubling if you came home late and get found out”

“Thank you very much! Come on, Beth, you say thanks too!”

“— Hah”

“— Why are not cute at all! If you keep on going like that I’ll kill you one of these days you know!?”

The one person fight started again.

Even though they inhabited the same body, their relations.h.i.+p was extremely bad.

That said, even if their basic foundations of being a “killer by habit” are the same, their characters were polar opposites of each other.

Eliza and Beth, who had different hobbies, liked different foods, and even had different taste in men.

Telling them to get along with each other may in fact prove impossible.

“— In the first place, Beth is always getting on my nerves! Why do you have to be so delinquent and abrasive!”

“— Hmph. Better than the girl whose head is emptier than a flower field”

“— Who’s a flower head!? I don’t want to hear that from Beth!”

“— Hah? The h.e.l.l are you on about, I’ll kill you!”

Taking out a mirror from her skirt pocket, the two, I mean, one, alternately yelled at each other.

If seen by someone who didn’t know her, they would think she had lost it.

Watching them while chugging her refill, Casca smiled as if seeing something funny.

“What are they fighting with themselves about? What a handy pair oi”

“— But I do know! Beth to s.h.i.+zuru-senpai hmnggggh”

“— Don’t say anything unnecessary! You always always say too many stupid things!”

She m.u.f.fled her own mouth and released it, then yelled into the mirror.