Chapter 86 (1/2)

Translator: Kurehashi+ Aiko

VOLUME 3 CHAPTER 16: Dragon-san and the Apathetic Lady

I walked through thein her roohtti in through the huge s, there was a singleon the table

Lishella, illu near the sill, looking outside and gazing at the panoraht, her features seeant than usual

I had no probleht should have been too dim for Lishella to see properly

「Lishellsaht her just as you requested」

The maid speak up, and Lishella turns toward us

Then, as if acting according to some kind of order, thethe two of us alone

Huh, why is she leaving? Please, maid-san, don't leave me! I hope that wasn't so obvious on my face for her to read

「…… Please coht」

When ere left alone, Lishella ested me to do the same

On top of the table, aside from the lamp I could also see a teapot, some cups and sweets

The teapot itself turned out to be ical, a kind of instruical power to it

For the ti, Lishella poured so but silence

A very aard and painful silence

…… I just realized so rather important There was no coirl! Like, at all!

I could talk to Mikoto about the Eastern countries and with Marca about everyday life, but I would never have thought that I would ever be involved with soht next to each other, but Lishella was looking at her own feet all the time, so there was no way for urilsama, help me out here! What the hell ae!?

Ah, I know! There was so we could talk about!

「L, Lishellsan, I have heard that you are currently engaged Congratulations!」

I blurted that out wanting to gain so else to talk about, to which Lishella blinked her eyes a few times

「So, you knew about it?」

「Eh? Umm, y-yes」

「I learned about it froo」

Says Lishella, speaking about the engagement as if it was a htest

In other words, it was nothing else but an arrangedto say in the e-ass landmine!!!!!!

I was so nervous that I wanted to screaed to retain a poker face, to which Lishella lets out a sh

「It was bound to happen sooner or later Arrangedout of the ordinary Please, don't feel bad about it」

It was the first ti, but her usually silent voice felt really different at that moment

Lishella orlds apart from the seventeen-year-olds that I knew back in e as her, but aside froed to overco with both Elvie and Iori They all for their club activities

Even when co this e

However, nation, for the look upon her face right noas truly painful

「Say, Lishellsan? Why did you want to see

Maybe it was fro the sudden question, but Lishella blinked her eyes a few ti the garden party, but we didn't exchange any words back then So why did you invite us to the residence afterwards?」

I look her straight in the eyes, and I could see that there was fear lingering somewhere in them

But I didn't avert my eyes

「…… At that tih her voice was still silent, her words were fir out of my mother's necklace」

This tih, her ician, but it looks like she's ic than the h from the fact that she was able to heat the water in that pot, but I certainly wouldn't expect a girl without proper training to be able to see the extraction of the h back then, suddenly that thought crosseswas a demon, correct?」

She was just a normal human, but she knew about ic stones, thanks to their appearance there werecreated about the theemstones of the devil' Hence the ones who auys

However, I could sense no hostility hidden behind Lishella's expressionless face In light of that, I decided not to hide anything from her

It wouldn't be fair to try and hide the truth fro used to create the artificialhere」

Said Lishella, whose lips closed tightly once she finished speaking

「Oh, so then, you did see that I wasthe stone but you didn't alert anyone else of that Why is that?」

「I just saw you putting so inside of it, and when you returned the stone there was no dae to it Besides, no one would really believe me, even if I told thes, and Father pays me no mind at all There is no one ould listen totestairl, but still, her words right noere nothing else but painfully sad

However, it was hardly the time to feel sorry for her

「So, if that's the case, why did you wanted to see me?」

Maybe she wanted to ask me about my abilities that made it possible to extract the de that wasn't quite it