Chapter 10 (1/2)
Intermission - Spontaneous death on the spur of the moment
Whenever Youichi Zudou found himself before the doors in front of him he would feel a sense of unease Noas no exception
Even after all this time he wasn't sure how to approach shi+on, she who ascended to the status of sage Did she truly aspire to be a sage or did she sacrifice herself for their sakes?
Worthless thoughts ran through his mind and he dropped them with a shake of his head
Noas long past the time to ponder worries like these,he had his own duty to fulfil
The duty of an acolyte, a sage's follower
Youichi knocked
”Come in”
A voice sounded right next to his ears byany more time he opened the doors
The room beyond was made up of white and pink; white furniture with exquisitely carved feet, a pink rug in match with the pink curtains, and above the canopy bed a chandelier with flower motif
In the e shi+on, half buried under huge cushi+ons Lazing about in a loose negligee it was apparent she paid little heed to the fact she had a visitor
”My, isn't it Youichi-kun Did so happen?”
She was a little surprised upon seeing it was Youichi who had entered her room
”Was it not you who requested of e-sama?”
He walked up to shi+on with a sigh She was the same as always
”Youichi-kun, you can drop that manner of speech when it's just us two”
shi+on unhappily knit her eyebrows and Youichi sighed once more
”da's just, eventually I'll screw up if I don't constantly talk like that”
”There aren't any problee says it's fine, no?”
”You expect the rest to stay disciplined if they see me talk to you like that?”
”Fine, fine So, how about that report?”
”First off, the invaders Kurayae was enorion has been turned into a desert, recovery most likely impossible”
”Just repelled?”
”It got away Santarou-saain,' but it's questionable whether that thing has those kinds of mental capacities in the first place”
”I see Please carry on”
She spoke in an unsatisfied tone, visibly disagreeing with Santarou's way of handling the matter
”Sage Lain-sa but that, too, ended in repelling it”
”In Lain's case it's understandable You know, since she loves animals”
”Hedgehog's case is starting to get ot herself killed instead That's the second one this year At this rate it'll just keep causing
casualties, can't we ask the Great Sage to handle it?”
”That won't do You kno busy Grandfather is”
What you mean 'Grandfather,' as if
There was not a drop of shared blood between shi+on and the Great Sage; the whole 'Grandchild of the Great Sage' spiel was no e's warped ga house
”As you know, flirting with his slaves is a most important matter to Grandfather”
She poked a little fun at hie's help, he just felt like giving it a try
”Regarding Hedgehog, let's send out a teaes to deal with it, I'll take part”
Their scope of knowledge of Hedgehog didn't extend much further than its appearance A slender human body clad in metal of black luster and countless spikes that could only be described as afroehog Based on its behavior the current theory suggested it was most likely a machine
”Those would be all the invaders we don't know the type of As for the angel type, two entities showed up The one that appeared in Zabora was eradicated by Sage shi+rou-sa is, there's so us Their way of appearing in near rando”
”Could they have noticed?”
”They don't seerasp on the location, but it looks like they're closing in on it They'll probably pinpoint it eventually”
But Youichi didn't knohat they were trying to achieve The question of why there were beings targeting this world was still unclear
The Great Sage ht've well been the only one that knew, but the day he would get over his sloth and spread that knowledge was unlikely to ever dawn