Chapter 127 – Confession (1/2)

CHAPTER 127 – CONFESSION

I let Iris sleep in that place.

She collapsed through exhaustion, but she doesn’t have any injuriesーーI mean, I won’t let her have any, and she is breathing fine as well.

I thought that she would recover after resting for a while.

「Lent me your strength, Eleanor」

『Yareyare, huh』

『Hikari will help too』

Eleanor who seemed to say it can’t be helped, and Hikari who really want to help.

I placed my hand on the hilts of the mother and daughter Demon Swords while they’re in their sheathes.

With a strong and clear image, I released an aura.

It’s an aura that is a little different to up until now.

That aura is darker than black, and even more terrifying. An aura that reminisces everything sinister and disastrous.

I raised that auraーーspread it around, avoiding only Iris who is lying down.

It’s a silent message.

It’s a threat that says I shall make those who approach, experience something more terrifying than death.

Though it is alright to just kill the monsters when they appear.

If I get serious, I can chop those Akephaloses into two with their shields without even making a sound.

I can do it, but there is still a certain chance that I might fail.

Like the possibility that I might make a sound, or the possibility of making a shockwave.

To be sure that I can let Iris rest, I thought that the best way is to make a threat.

It became silent.

That silence was like that of midnight when even the trees and grasses sleep.

And after watching Iris for a while, she woke up.

「……Kakeru?」

「You woke up?」

「……」

Iris saw the aura that I am releasing.

「……thank you」

The wise her understood its meaning from the circumstances.

「Don’t mind it. Have you rested well?」

「Yeah. I’ve recovered pretty much」

「Good then」

I retracted the aura.

The surroundings returned to normal, and started to make cave-like sounds.

Suddenly, I noticed that Iris is staring at me.

She is staring straight at me with teary, hot eyes.

「What happened?」

「I am……a useless woman」

「What is it suddenly?」

「I fought with the Akephalos. It felt good. I was able to fight for Kakeru’s sake, and even that, with all of my strength……I fought only for Kakeru. That felt very fulfillingーーand really good」

「Isn’t that great?」

I also know about the excitement and heightened feelings from a fight.

I also know about the pleasure of embracing woman after thatーーbut that is a different topic.

That’s why, I said that, butーーIris slowly shook her head.

「It tasted like sweet honeyーーthat, is addictive. I thought that once I’ve tasted that, I won’t get satisfied by anything else. I thought I would throw away everything, my country, my status, everything. I thought that, I wanted to throw away everything else, and fight only for you. As a simple woman, and only yours……that’s, what I thought」

Iris made a desperate face, one that might cry anytime.

「Elder sister is amazing Even though she became Kakeru’s woman, she’s able to preserve herself, and was able to act as one of Teresia’s Twin Flowers. She’s an amazing person, that I cannot beat at all」

Finally, tears started to drop from her eyes.

「But compared to that……I’m a useless woman」

『She looks very conflicted. A princess and a simple woman, as a public person and as she is in private. She’s too serious』

That’s what makes Iris lovely.

I stared at Iris and said.

「You’re saying it difficultly, but in short, you want to be my woman, right?」

「That is……that’s true」