The next morning, the tough guys didn't come home. The three of us who remained in the inn, me and Lulu, and Mr. Dran, were surprised by it and decided to go find the tights.
The sun rises and the neighborhood is already bright, but there are no tough people anywhere. I tried going out to the castle, but Princess Alicia says she hasn't come either. I'm not in the guild, I'm not in the weapons store, I'm nowhere. Where has he gone? It's about him, so even if he wants to leave us and move to another city, he should leave a lot of messages behind. Well, there's no way I'm leaving with the lululu I cherished as a family.
We look. Find the tights, Finia, and Layla. Maybe he's in danger, so we have to look for him as a companion. Without tough, we can't have enough parties. It becomes incomplete... because we have come together attracted to him.
"Where have you been... tough"
Nowhere.
Yes, as if it had disappeared from this world - nowhere.
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I haven't had an after-school date in a long time with Shiori. Well, I guess it's not really okay to call me a date because I'm not your lover, but I laugh at you saying that me and Shishi are just dates because we're best friends.
Ah, that's fun. Really, I can feel relieved to be with Shishi...... why not? Maybe because there's love there. Just like when you're with Finia, I figured having her next door would be the happiest place in the world. This is the first time you've ever liked me for not knowing love, so I think it's important too.
A hard bond to lose is good, after all.
"Mr. Tight?
"Yeah... the sky's starting to turn dark already"
"Yeah, well, it's gonna be totally sunset and dark soon."
On the park bench, me and Shishi sit next to each other. Born between me and her, the distance of 30 cm is cozy. As the sky darkened, I was only a little sleepy. Even though I slept during the day, I didn't expect the sleeper to attack me again. Ever since I came back into this world, I've just had the feeling that it's gotten a little hard to live. Perhaps it's because of these left eyes... but should I say that they've consumed more energy?
"Mr. Tight? Are you sleepy?"
When I was nagging, I heard Shiori's voice for quite some time. Nodding, Shishi pulled my body all the way, putting my head on my thigh with Po Sun. So-called knee pillows, I used to do a lot for Leila, but I may not have had much experience getting hit.
Yeah, but you might also know Leila's gonna get tough. Soft, warm. This is going to be a bit of a habit.
"Just a little, this is how I'll do it for you! You can sleep."
He caressed his forehead. So the sleeper grew stronger, and I fell asleep again.
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"Ahhhhhhh!!! Hey! Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!!!
"Ugh... good scream, let me hear more?
"Hih... gi... no, no...!! Ahhhhhhh!!"
In the dark, up, down, left, right, but in an endless space of darkness, purple eyes, a demonic tribe stained black with white eyes, was ravaging one fairy. The fairy is restrained in chains of magic on the limbs of its little body and in 'X-shapes' in the air.
But the Demons had no hands on the screaming fairies. He was making me scream without a hand.
But for the first time, when the Demon clan lifted the little fairy's jaw hard at its fingertips, it picked its head with its index finger and thumb. And start turning the fairy's neck crisp like a child who treats your doll abusively. The neck bones are spinning to such an extent that they are likely to break, and the momentum is exerting strength that they are likely to spin 180 degrees.
"hey..................................................................................!!
"Ugh... I knew it!"
"Heh heh... heh heh heh heh heh heh!!
But I pulled the power out of that finger one step ahead of me. But after a little coughing up, I scream again. It's a scream as if you're in pain.
"Does it hurt? But the flesh won't hurt, will it? Ugh, what you're hurting is... 'the heart'. It's the least harmful thing for you, a species of thought."
Yes, this demon tribe had that power to fairy...... it was attacking Finia's heart. Mental contamination, Finia's body is composed by strong thoughts and magic, unlike normal flesh, so that the strong thoughts that magic her flesh is a medium will constitute.
This means that stimulating Finia's mind hurts her very thoughts for being. And if that thought breaks...... Finia can't exist anymore. It will disappear. Therefore, being attacked by a mental attack can be very painful for Finia.
This demon clan, by its very nature, has the power to be considered a natural enemy of the fairies of the thought species. She had killed fairies of thought species with that power intact, and most importantly preferred to kill fairies of thought species. Originally, the fairy of the thought species is not like that, so she has only killed the fairy of the thought species once in the past... I thought she would never play with the fairy of the thought species again - that's where Finia appeared. Her tension will culminate.
"Ugh heh heh... really, good wow... the screams are the highest whenever you hear this strong thought breaking...! I wish I could make it a small item and decorate it."
"Higi ah......!! Ahhhh!!"
"Ugh, just a little break"
"- Huh... Huh...!!
Then she moved her fingers and stopped the mental attack that was hanging on Finia. Finia, whose severe pain has subsided, is desperately oxygenating her body with screaming tired or rough breathing. Finia glanced at the demon clan in front of her as she felt a careless sweat seep and disgust.
"Oh... you still have those eyes, you look like a superb ideologist inside"
"Ha... ha... tough guy..."
Honestly, the mental attack Finia was under is the least compatible attack for an ideological species. The fairy of thought species, which is good to say ideology itself, is doomed to this attack. If you go in under that attack for as long as Phinea, the ideological species will probably break your heart and vanish.
But Finia still survived. The will is not dead, and the mind is still firm. Because her thoughts were directed at orange sounds… as long as the orange sounds were alive, the thoughts would not be interrupted.
But there is no orange noise on this occasion. Because the demon clan in front of him has taken him somewhere.
"Oh... you care about that boy? Ugh, I already killed that boy."
So when she said this, Finia opened her eyes and lost her words. I killed the orange noise, that means there's no more. And Finia doesn't have any more elements to convince me that she's lying than there's no orange noise on this scene.
But losing her words, Finia immediately let her eyes dwell and stare.
"... it's a lie, you're not weak enough to do it to you"
"Ugh... what do you think? Sure, it was a tough defense... but nothing physical is the only way to kill a human being."
"Mr. Tight is alive...! So I can't beat you......!
"When will that attitude collapse... I look forward to it now"
Finia and the Demons had their gaze crossed, one holding an abusive demonic light and one holding a dazzling light in their eyes that had decided to be indomitable, clashing it.
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- - Rookeshide Kingdom, Castle Library
In the library of this Luxhide Castle, where numerous books were housed, Second Princess Iris Luxhide was softly reading the book. Even so, it does not seem to be able to concentrate on the contents of the book, and I sighed when I saw the entrance door from earlier.
It's like you're waiting for someone. But it also looks a little more sober when you look at the clock.
What she's waiting for is a boy named Orange Sound who spoke to her last night.
Although she is extremely people-friendly and tends to be quite distant from people from her hobby, the likes of torture, it doesn't mean she doesn't like people. Ning Lo, as much as I want to talk to people more.
So for the first time in a long time a boy named Orange Sound was someone else but he talked to me for a long time, so I was pretty open to him with a little conversation. Sometimes I didn't really get caught up in hearing about my hobby, which is the biggest estrangement factor in my torture hobby, and I missed him for the part where I wanted to see him again.
And I believed and waited for the word to come again today, but he never comes. Iris tilting her neck wondering what it means.
"Mr. Tight...... is something wrong?
I shrugged and gave him a slightly worried look. In some ways, I may have a thick personality where I don't think I've been lied to for asking about my hobbies.
When she thought of it that way, she took a seat. When I gently tap on the cooking clothes I always wear, I treat the book I had and leave the library.
"Maybe he's at Alicia's."
Iris' eyes, so leaked as he walked down the hallway, dwelt only a little light of intelligence. She has no talent as a princess, but... it's a perception around her, not a true thing about herself. She doesn't have the brains to divide the royal family and isn't athletic enough to fight any more... but she's a princess too.
She also has her own talent.
"Kind of, I don't like it"
That's a talent she hasn't noticed herself. talent she herself had since her birth. Nobody notices, everyone knows, simple and awesome talent.
Second princess, Iris Luxhide. Her talent, with the potential to surpass anyone if she sucks... maybe for the first time since she was born, the time has come to look into the eyes of the day. And whoever sees it will notice.
That she's completely talentless - that she's not ordinary.