Chapter 228: Shirokiyami / The Scent of Crepes (1/2)

Chapter 227: Aoba / You Just Get Outta Here Chapter 229: Shirokiyami / Enemy Line, Remote Line, and Home Line

Translator: Reflet

It was night at Taiyou Castle in the quiet living room.

Taiyou was there by himself, silently levelling up.

It was the way to rack up exp to the next level, which he had found out from Hera ahead of time, and it was a repetitious operation of putting colorful marbles into a music box then taking them out again.

Take one, put it in, take it out.

Take one, put it in, take it out.

Take one, put it in, take it out.

Taiyou was doing that grind by himself.

「A lonely……per…son」

「Uwah！」

All of a sudden, he heard a voice on the other side.

The sofa facing him on the other side of a table. Shirokiyami had appeared in the area where there was “definitely” no one.

Her long white hair and vague red eyes as well as her unique respiration hadn’t changed, but she somehow seemed even “darker” than before.

Perhaps because summer was over and the nights of fall where getting colder day by day, her lace dress had become long-sleeved as well, covering much more of her skin than before.

It was a black dress that she had worn because of her being self-conscious about her “whiteness”, so Taiyou took that aspect to feel like she had become even darker.

「Ya can’t just appear like that, c’mon. My fragile heart was seriously about to burst」

「I was always……he…re」

「No way」

Taiyou promptly asserted.

Shirokiyami’s vague eyes were clear for once as she gazed at Taiyou with a faint trace of surprise.

「But I erased my……appearance and…presence」

「But I didn’t smell you until just recently」

「Smell？」

「Yes, smell」

Not bothering to stop his hands taking marbles in and out, Taiyou looked around Taiyou Castle.

「There’s a certain smell affixed to this house of everyone- that is to say, the smell of my four wives, who live together with me. Your scent wasn’t among them until just now」

「Do I……sm…ell？」

She tried sniffing her sleeves.

It was like that of a puppy, and it was very cute.

「No, you don’t smell. If anything I’d say you have a good scent. No, I just meant that that scent wasn’t there until earlier」

「……？」

「You don’t get it? It’s like if I were to put meat on the grill but suddenly smelled someone starting to eat crepe from the neighboring table」

「I…hate……cre…pes」

「Then bread or something like that」

「I…see」

Shirokiyami suddenly pulled at her chin slightly.

It was a cute mannerism. While he was thinking that, Taiyou realized something.

At first he had thought that she was wearing fall clothing, which was why the clothing was covering more of her skin, but that didn’t seem to be all there was to it.

He thought to check that with her.

「It’s small today, eh?」

「What……is？」

「Your chest」

Taiyou said bluntly.

Unlike Youran, she wasn’t well suited for wordplay, so he asked her straightforwardly.

Usually, it was the sort of topic that was taboo amongst females, but he was sure that Shirokiyami wouldn’t mind.

There wasn’t any particular reason for it, but he nevertheless felt that.

At length, she answered without changing her expression in the slightest.

「Mhm. Today……it is…small」

「Today, huh?」

「Mhm……」

「As I thought. I’ve always felt odd about how your chest would get bigger or smaller」

「Mhm……it changes every…day」

「What is this, a food special！?」

Taiyou gave an enormous quip.

Even then, his hands had not stopped.

「So how are you doing that？」

「Metamorphosis」

「Metamorphosis？」

「Yes. I was told long ago by someone……that I ought to…be able to transform…to the…third…stage」

「Umm, I’d really like to know the identity of this “someone” that you frequently discuss！」

(Although it’s probably some no-good person like Kohaku or Hera), he added in his head.

「Well……they are a student…at the academy」

「Seriously！」

「They’re repeating a year……so they are still…first year」

「And they’re the same grade as me！? They’re not seriously one of my classmates, right！」

「Probably……not」