Volume 3 Chapter 7 (2/2)
”Oi, don't make me such a lovey-dovey type of person I have never done such a thing …Though I did part with Rikka here just now”
”Have never done…? I see, so it's like that-death So you're that sort of person, the type who excessively flirts only at parting, aren't you? Dekomori frequently coates at the train station-death Deko Lover(Station Pet)'-death!”
”Don't callthat detestable! But, well… I too see people like that quite often!”
What was up with those type of people anyway?
Why do they do stuff like clinging to each other in public, and getting teary when they part?
”It was meant to be a joke-death As expected, soure that out-death Your brain ain, it's not like that part of you bothers Dekomori and Master-death… Gehehehe…!”
”You know, Dekoh in a cuter manner…”
”Hant this laugh is-death, kepupupu”
”That's not cute at all!”
”Ah! damn-death! It was a trap-death! You coward-death!”
And, with an expression that signalled that she felt really hurt, Dekomori turned on her heel and walked away
I had trouble telling if she alking away due to shock, or walking away since she didn't have any urgent business here Either way, since her pace was slow, I ended up walking right next to her, and was heading ho down? Even though she's a deko[3]
I highly doubt that that was the case here
Still, it would be bad if I did end up hurting apositive to her next
”Us currently are between you and her It's just, well, as youthat I act like a Station Carressing Lover(Station Pet)”
”Oh? Suddenly the Door Floor Masker is looking down onas if you're her boyfriend?”
”I am her boyfriend! More importantly, don't try to make that name work!”
What a fast flip-flop that was! Just atreated as an overly lovey-dovey boyfriend Moreover, she wasn't feeling down at all
Since her reversal ca at her
Why was it a waste of breath? It was because ry voice didn't even make Dekomori flinch: rather, she continued on with the conversation
”? But Master has never said that you were her boyfriend-death?”
”No, but she had said that I'ht?”
”If that's the case, then Dekomori is also Master's boyfriend, since Dekomori is also contracted to Master as a servant-death!”
You're okay with being her boyfriend…?
Moreover, she said it whilst wearing a weirdly triumphant expression
However, I had to be fir her contactee - ither fiancé”
”Yikes, it's a one person bacouple[4]-death!”
I was told by middle school student that I was a one person bacouple
Well, it is true that I haven't promised Rikka that I'd marry her, so in that sense it wasn't inaccurate to call ain, what exactly is a one person bacouple?
Isn't that just an idiot?
”Maybe the rotten commoner isn't aware of this, but to be so-death? And since you don't have one, you must not be her fiancé-death!”
”No, well… yeah, you're right Still, you shouldn't really be saying to so like a ”rotten commoner””
”Eh? Fine then - Rot! You commoner!”
”The imperative form!? Dekos like ”rotten commoner”, do you?”
”Hmph… of course not-death Dekomori is a solitary warrior-death, and so any подругаs[5] that I've opened my heart to will be called by an appropriate name-death”
”Kepupu! Don't you knohat that means-death? Looks like in the end, you're merely just a Dark Flame Master!”
”You still haven't corrected the way you laugh… Shouldn't you have already fixed it by now…?
Still, I had a much better i me a rotten commoner and had instead started to call me by my actual alias
I'htful
”Oh! It seems that the curse is still effective-death…! As expected, you really are Dekouard Master-death! And then for Dekomori, Master will… Gehehehehehe!”
”Wait, what's with the yuri[6]-like statements every now and then!?”
”Huh? It's not like that-death! Dekomori just really respects and adht not understand-death, but to Deko that Dekomori wants to call onee-samdeath!”
Dekomori's face was full of resentment as she spoke fervently And thus, a new fact was discovered
Dekomori was really, really fond Rikka
”Onee-saht!” Say that as a reply! Deko like this at least once!
”Yes, well thought”
And in the very instant I said that line as a joke - Dekomori's weapon, what she coins the Mjölnir Ha blow on my stomach ”Uwaaaaaaa!” is what I would screahthat I stopped breathing for a moment
”SUPER INAZUMA ATTACK-DEAAATH![7]”
”Indeed, that attack's offensive ability was…”
After hitting me, Dekomori then perfectly replicated the tradeirl
”Returning back to the previous topic, about calling Master onee-sama - ”That is not my name,” is what Master said, and so Dekomori calls Master Master-death”
”O-oh… is that so?”
…Since Rikka was quite popular aet somewhat suspicious when I hear statements like that
Even the reversed Kazari-chan seemed to fancy Rikka a lot
Now that I think about it - I don't have any male rivals, do I?
”Well, when Dekomori inevitably marries ive up-death”
””Just give up” huh… However, I'd never hand Rikka over!”
”It's futile-death According to Dekomori's sources, first loves are doo that alike that's not the case at all!”
”Hah, there are no falsehoods written in the Mabinogion-death!”
”M about?
As expected of so fro nonsense
Up till just then, ere having, at least in my opinion, ato keep pace with her train of thought
”DEATH![8]”
”Not to say that I understood thebehind your conduct just now!?”
Please don't suddenly juenerally startles the other person To do it so abruptly ht with them
”Dekomori was just that surprised-death That the Dark Fla what both Dekos were-death”
”Don't say soet what you're trying to say When you say setting, it's like your position, right? When I was entering high school, I too wondered what h, in the end - I ended up being a low-profile sort of character
Right now, my position is 'Rikka's boyfriend' My presence was so weak that a term like 'Rikkchan's boyfriend' epitomised the entirety of who I was
”Kepupu! The 'Dark' in Dark Fla a faint presence-death! Perhaps you should change your name to 'Faint Flame Master'-death!”
”Hey, er than that…”
Iway too h
Is laughing like that part of your setting or soh properly
”Gehehehehe, it seems that the faint shadow poison is still works-death…! As expected, its effect of reducing you to nothing but a faint shadow lasts for a long ti worse and worse! Listen, my -”
”Reality, be rent! Synapse, break!”
”Listen to me about my na that Rikka had also been saying lately”
”Death! It's Dekomori's secret technique-death! Its effect is -”
”…Eh? Effect?”
”By the way, for some reason Master says that there is an aspect of the Dark Fla-death - whereabouts is that evil persondeath? As far as Dekomori can tell, you're someone feeble-death”
”Oi, tell , don't worry about it I no longer have that kind of power anymore”
”What, so in the end you really were just a small fry compared to Dekoe!”
Evading the sudden attack from the Mjölnir Ha me I was about to be hit), I struck Deko avoided both her attack and her stupidity, Dekoroaned in frustration
”You, you harmed me-death Could it be that you actually were still the De-death? No,the De because Dekomori had been deceived by you-death! Well, Deko as Dekomori is Master's servant, Dekomori will turn Dark Fla onions over the course of three days!”
”What the hell it is that you are trying to say!?”
”Well”
And with that, Dekoot so worked up that it was just her enthusias, and so she had no idea what it was that she was trying to say
”The play, so that at best, you're not doing so in Master's way - do your best-death”
”Don't try to forcibly bring an end the previous conversation! And, huh? How do you know about the play?”
”Death, it's because I had communicated via telepathy with Master just the other day-death”
To not just say so like you called her over the phone: as expected of a patient
”Oh, thanks, I'll be sure to keep doing ht, the play will be on next Saturday, and so if you're interested Dekomori, please come and watch If you do co”
”There was no need for Dark Flame Master to ask -death Ah, are you still going to properly treat -death?”
Dekomori looked up at me with only her eyes, which e teary
Seeing this part of her reminded me that in the end, she really was just someone a year level below me; a middle school student who stretched her back and stood on her tiptoes tothat her fah…
Still, this felt sort of nostalgic
It kind of reminds me of the time when I first met Rikka
An underclass a chuunibyou patient, and in tere
To be honest, she kind of feels like another younger sister to ot it I'll still treat you out to souess even the Dark Flaet-death Dekos that can never co-exist together-death! Nothing but death to those who love Master!”
”…Yeah, yeah”
What a thing to say with a triumphant expression
I mean, didn't you also love Rikka? Well, it's not like I could say anything in response about it, since I too could understand that feeling
”The contract has been established too - well then, since Dekomori must return soon to the battlefield as she is a warrior, here is where we part ways-death”
”That setting… I like it Oh, see you”
After sticking her tongue out at me, Dekomori turned her back towards me and started to make her way back
Not to the battlefield, but to her own house
As I looked at her set e my best
Tomorrow's the cultural festival
[1] Same kanji (特殊性癖) for what I've translated earlier as ”special fetish”, giving Yuuta's following line its double inal japanese text, Dekomori remembers DFM as 団(D)地ふ(F)すまも(M)しもし (danchi fusuma moshi+moshi+; literally Apart panel] hello) instead of ダークフレイムマスター (dauku fureimu mastutau) To retain the joke, it is translated here as a bunch of nonsense that rhymes with Dark Fla down, or 凹んでる, can also mean 'cave in' This (in particular 凹, which by itself can be interpreted as concave) then plays on the next line, 凸なのに, as 凸 can be read as the opposite of 凹 (convex), and the fact that 凸 is part of Dekomori's name (凸守) The joke here is that Dekomori, much like her na down Interestingly, 凸 by itself, at least when read as でこ (deko), also means forehead
[4] This was an aard line to translate In the original line, the phrase ”一人バカップル” was used, which when translated literally means ”one person idiot couple” The term バカップル itself is a portmanteau of the words バカ(idiot) and カップル (couple), and refers to a couple that's either too stupid when it coood I couldn't figure out a good way of phrasing the notion of a 'bacouple' in this and the following lines, so I left it as-is
[5] Russian for a feirl's love
[7] From the line of ”Onee-sama, let's use that!”, to ”SUPER INAZUMA ATTACK-DEATH!”, Deko to the scene in the series Gunbuster in which the protagonists use the Super Inazuinal text