c3 (1/2)

Intermission

“I felt like something extremely rude was just said about me.”

good instincts

In the middle of her meal, Severed Head-chan suddenly started grumbling about something.

don’t talk while eating

“What’s wrong, Severed Head-chan”

no body

The brown-skinned girl who was feeding severed head-chan faithfully responded.

Right now I’m separated from severed head-chan. Brown-chan who is still in her teens is currently hugging Severed Head-chan and feeding her.

Hearing Brown-chan’s words, Severed Head-chan frowned.

finish your food

“Stop with the Severed head-chan. You know my name right?”

“Nono. Body-sama calls you that so I’m learning from her~”

head says no, but body says yes

Without any sign of flinching from Severed Head-chan’s glare, the brown-skinned girl that seems to be a foreigner laughed it off.

This Brown-chan is a girl with a hardy history of attempting to steal Severed Head-chan when we had just began our sewer life. (T/N: 剛毅な経歴, hardy history? no idea) She was born in the sewers and our first meeting was when she somehow saw Severed Head-chan I was carrying under my arm as a valuable treasure, so she tried to to steal Severed Head-chan and escape only to collapse with a surprised scream.

Since then, we’ve been living together with Brown-chan to ensure the protection of our secret. She seems to have a lot of potential and is quite useful.

foreign talent?

“Using sama for Body and chan for me……I still can’t accept that.”

“Is that so? No matter how you think about it it’s appropriate. Here, aahn.”

“Mu. ……Aahn.”

nom

Brown-chan is transporting food to Severed Head-chan’s mouth. Without any special sign of resistance, Severed Head-chan opened her mouth and accepted it. After that she chewed and swallowed, where that ingested food disappears to is an eternal mystery.

I could also feed her, but in the past when I teased her by pulling back the food just as she was about to bite down on it, the short tempered Severed Head-chan got mad. After that, Brown-chan has been in charge of meals.

Looking at Severed Head-chan who looks like some animal being fed, Brown-chan’s cheeks loosened into a smile.

pet

“Fufufu~, Severed Head-chan is cute~. Body-sama, can I have Severed Head-chan?”

“Of course not!”

can i have one

Ignoring Severed Head-chan’s instant yell, Brown-chan focused on me with s.h.i.+ning eyes.

But in this case, just as Severed Head-chan said, no.

Knowing that it wouldn’t be transmitted to Brown-chan, I conformed with Severed head-chan.

After all, Severed Head-chan is my toy.

selfish~

“Who’s a toy!”

“Is that so~. I can’t have her?”

shame

Hearing Severed head-chan’s yell, Brown-chan perceived my thoughts and her shoulders drooped. This kid loves Severed Head-chan. What a weird taste.

Well, it’s about time.

Judging that the meal was done, I took Severed Head-chan from Brown-chan.

confiscated~

“Hm? Going out?”

never leave your head at home

Yes.

As I answer Severed Head-chan, I fit Severed Head-chan to my neck and returned to a human-like state from a zombie one.

Now I am able to join with Severed Head-chan. Since I got a certain craftsman to work on my neck’s surface, if I wrap a scarf or something around the connection part, I can openly go out as a normal human.

By the way, as for the craftsman I requested to work on my neck’s surface who had said “Even if I die–no. Even if my wife and daughter were taken hostage I will protect your secret”, a trustworthy person who said such sincere words while crying as he vigorously made his oath of confidentiality.

And so even though I’m known as the ‘Headless Empress’, the only one who knows that me and Severed Head-chan can be separated is Brown-chan and that craftsman.

(T/N: The term used of headless can also be interpretted as neckless, so….)

yeah, scarf

“That’s one of the occurrences that confirmed you really are a devil. So, where are we going?”

to heaven

To the Severed-Head chan that so earnestly accompanied me of my trip down memory lane, I send this thought with a smile.

Just going to deal the finis.h.i.+ng blow.

TODOMETA

“Finis.h.i.+ng blow?”

one hit sure kill

Yes. Remember? Just recently I let Severed Head-chan meet the King.

its an honour

“Ah, yeah. That was fun!”

royal visits are educational

Saying that, Severed Head-chan’s face lit up with a smile.