Kuro no Maou

Episode 227: Competitors in Love

Witches don't fall in love, I thought the adage was true.

I don't even realize the first love that many people experience in their childhood, and even when I was in the Elysion School of Magic, which became an environment with men close to me, there was nothing about romantic feelings to me, something I couldn't even possibly understand.

But the thirteenth day of the month of red flames, that day, I was reminded from the bottom of my heart.

Witches don't fall in love, they say it's a lie.

"It's okay, Fiona's not bad, the ring broke because the shield was torn, then that means you protected Fiona."

That's how when Mr. Chrono hugged me, I found out, that this was love.

No, the truth is, for a long time now, you must have had romantic feelings for Mr. Chrono.

I've been desperate, deluded, denied, told myself it's nothing.

I must have been unconsciously afraid to admit it.

'Cause Mr. Chrono already has Mr. Lily, and besides, I can't be the attractive woman who fishes with Mr. Chrono because I can't even make friends satisfied with my lover, but I'm the witch who only has magical power.

I'm the one who's good with his hands, not the one he wants.

However,

"If my ring protected Fiona, even if it was about a scratch, that's enough, it was worth the gift."

I couldn't do it anymore.

I can't stand it, I can't wait, I can't contain everything, I want Mr. Chrono, I want it, I want it, I can't help it.

Embraced by Mr. Chrono's arms, he spoke kindly, my heart was just as fascinated (charm), as fanaticized (basark), to the disease of love (noroy), as if I had, I could only think of him anymore.

Now I know, as a student, how they felt when they were thriving on the topic of love.

Because I'm pregnant with a child of someone I like, and how she feels about leaving school.

Desperate for a reality that never connects with thinkers, her feelings of losing her life.

Crap, ridiculous, incomprehensible, I even feel sorry for me in the past for thinking so.

Because if you know how it feels so nice, if you realize it, everything in the world looks different.

"Oh, I'm glad Fiona's not hurt.

Right, now I'm going to give you a ring with a strong effect that will protect you better.

If you're worried about breaking like today, I'm really just gonna wear a ring with you.

Why don't you stop crying?

Yes, if Mr. Chrono says so, I'll stop crying, no matter how much, stop crying and show it to you.

So, please, give me the ring, because this time, I will never, ever break it or anything.

Placing a ring in this left-hand pharmacopoeia isn't just admiration, it's really, truthfully, I swear my love for you.

"- Hehe."

And now, on my left pharmacopoeia, a new ring emits a silver glow.

A simple silver ring with no decoration must be just a ring with no hint of protection or magic.

But this is what Mr. Chrono told me.

"You don't look very happy, Fiona"

By that voice, the heat that dominated his head cooled rapidly.

Look, there you are, Mr. Lily, standing in front of me, looking like a girl for some reason.

There are no shadows around, just me and Mr. Lily in front of the inn's own room.

"Nice ring, what's wrong with that?

"Mr. Krono gave it to me."

Mr. Lily had an invincible grin, but now the magic of light was leaking a little.

"Yes, that would be nice."

"Yes, I am so glad to receive such a wonderful gift from Mr. Chrono"

There's no point in lying against her.

Even without telepathy, Mr. Lilly will have all the guesses.

"You're just a little jealous, that I've been dating Chrono since yesterday"

"I've been listening to the situation."

It was me and Mr. Chrono who captured the killer named Joto, so the Sparda gendarmerie asked me today.

The curse weapon and the testimony of an elf woman who was about to be attacked have cured so much that the adventurer captured the prize neck.

On the way home, it's a wack that Mr. Chrono bought me this new ring.

Incidentally, the magic equipment (magic item) that replaces "The Circle Shield of the Goddess of War (Altena Guardling)" is Chrono's purse. Circumstantially again.

Ugh, I'm looking forward to it, Mr. Chrono.

"Hey Fiona, you haven't forgotten our rules, have you?"

"Of course, I haven't forgotten, love within a party is a source of trouble."

Me and Mr. Lily's gaze intersect.

Her emerald circular eyes, however, dwell in a fierce light like a Rank 5 monster.

Don't look so scared, Mr. Lily. I'm not short circuited enough to break my current relationship right away.

Even I have reason to hold onto my hot instincts, just like you.

"Yes, that's fine."

"You seem to understand, above all"

As such, me and Mr. Lily turned to each other's chambers.

Mr. Lily opens the door and slips his body into the room.

If you think you're sleeping with Mr. Chrono in that room, like this, you have two things springing up from there in your belly.

"Mr. Lily, that's sloppy."

As I entered my room, I whined about that as I threw myself out to bed.

"It's sloppy,"

I shouldn't, I need to look at the ring at times like this, touch it, calm my mind.

"Ha... love rivals, I don't know what to say, it sounds terribly stale..."

This is sure to be the biggest and most powerful enemy of my life, I only have such a hunch.

But I'm not willing to lose or give in.

I already realized that there was nothing more I could do about it, that I liked Mr. Chrono.

"- In case there's a time, even one way to kill Mr. Lily, you have to think about it."

Next room with one wall separated from Fiona's room.

"Somehow, I expected this to happen, but when I did, how could there be something in there that would come to mind -"

Lily then fell asleep in bed in the same way, and uttered the same dialogue.

"Fiona, we have to have the means to kill you in case you have to."