Chapter 27 (2/2)

“Why are you saying such things! Something like killing us who are your comrades!”

Marie receives a shock from what Mylene said and looks at Mylene with teary eyes. Gand and I also feel the same way as Marie. However, Mylene’s expression didn’t change even after hearing Marie’s voice. s.h.i.+t, what the h.e.l.l is going on! Even though we were able to meet Mylene after all these troubles, she wants to do something like killing us!

“Are you threatened by somebody!? If that’s the case then we’ll beat them up! So come back to us, Mylene”

We call out to Mylene over and over again. There’s no way Mylene will say something like this. She’s definitely being threatened by somebody. However, she didn’t react to our calls at all. Far from that, she looked over at us with a pair of coldhearted eyes that we’ve never been shown before.

“Kukuku, it’s futile no matter what you say to her. She used her life and made a contract. In exchange for a.s.suring her life, she’ll be comrades with us and kill you guys. The slavery contract has already been completed”

Mylene who looks at us with coldhearted eyes remained silent, the robed person who’s beside her says that to us as he laughs. A contract to become their comrade?

“Why did you make such a contract!? If you had just waited for us to come……”

“What do you guys think you know!?”

I who can’t understand at all why she made such a contract, tries to question Mylene about it but, Mylene’s yelling voice resounds as though to cover my voice. To Mylene’s angered voice that we’ve heard for the first time, we turned silent.

“Have you guys ever felt something like an unavoidable death? A definite death before your eyes that you can’t avoid no matter what you do, do you understand how scary that is!? If I just wait for Lynk and the others to come, is what you say but, if I had waited for that then I would have already been killed!”

“……Mylene”

“Then it was proposed to me, that my life will be spared in exchange for becoming his subordinate, that’s what it was. Since I can’t rely on something like you guys saving me, since I myself don’t want to die. However, the condition was that I just have to kill you guys”

Mylene who speaks as though it’s nothing. Is this our fault. Because we were late that Mylene is……

“Kukuu, that’s not all there is to it. Since we can’t just trust what she says, she will endure pain, that’s what we have her do. Even if her face is all sloppy with tears and snot, the fluid within her body dripping all over, the endless pain continues”

“Uuu, that was painful just remembering about it. Although it’s an illusional pain, punched and kicked is a given, my nails peeled, cut by swords just for jest, wrapping it up with being stabbed throughout the body by villagers……”

……What is she talking about? Was Mylene made to taste such pain?

“However, I’m glad now that I was able to taste the same pain as that person. I’m able to have that person gently embrace me, me who somehow endured it, me who was dirty and tainted throughout my body. This is true comrades! He washes even my dirty body carefully, gently caresses my head……fufuu, it’s like paradise every pa.s.sing day until today since then!”

“The creaking every night is noisy”

……What the h.e.l.l is this. Am I dreaming. Mylene whose cheeks are dyed in red like she’s having a fever. We who saw in this short time the numerous Mylene that we’ve never seen before couldn’t move nor let out a voice at all.

And then, Mylene who looks over at us as she is with her feverish expression. In contrary to that expression, an outrageous killing intent covers us.

“So, please die for my sake♪”

Mylene who says that to us like she’s looking forward to it……is the gentle Mylene from before no longer there.

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