NOVEL NEXT Chapter 113: Gloomy Passion
１１３. Gloomy Passion
TN: Potential Wild Yandere Has Appeared
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「ENMA!? What are you doing here!?」
"You're supposed to be in the frontline――!?" I almost jumped on my feet while shouting at her.
Good day, this is Jilbagias who got startled by the sudden appearance of the lich who isn't supposed to be here today.
Ma~n, of all things, I ended up letting my guard down and she ended up seeing me flirting with Lyla.
How embarrassing.
「Fu… Fufu, fu…」
Look, even Enma was laughing hysterically while looking over at me. My image as a cool and composed Demon Prince in any situation was in jeopardy…『Y-You…』
Ante muttered something with a trembling voice. What's the matter?
『N-No… Forget it… It's nothing…』
The heck, now she talks in a roundabout way again. Why did you often start acting like that lately?
「I just finished my work… in the frontline as fast as I can and then returned you know?」
Said Enma while cocking her head as she spoke awkwardly like a broken mechanical doll.
「Day in, day out… We were worked… Like cart-horse to handle the corpses without a moment of respite…」
She replied with a forced smile.
「But… I've finished my workload…! And returned… As fast as I can!」
「Hee. Why are you in such a hurry though?」
Then, her movement came to a stop at once the moment she heard such a casual question from me.
Crack… Enma's fingers sunk even deeper into the stone pillar right at the very next moment. Woah, such a powerful handgrip. I mean, what's the meaning of her gaze… Toward me?
Did she by chance come to boast about the improved performance of her body? Maybe she got enlightenment in the frontline. I'm disappointed since there was no way it would be a good thing…
「Woo~f…」
Liliana whined in fear, hiding herself behind Lyla and me. For some reason, the color drained from Lyla's face.
「Girls, it's not the first time you've met Enma, right? No, is this the first time for Liliana?」
「T-This is, indeed not the first time for me, but…」
Lyla replied with fumbled words while looking as if clinging to me.
… Aah, she must be getting startled upon witnessing the prided grip strength of the lich. As for Liliana, her state had already surpassed a mere getting startled. Well, from the perspective of a dog, she might have seen Enma as an unprecedented threat.
「Calm down Liliana. She's Enma, a former human turned lich.」
I introduced Enma to Liliana while embracing the latter to reassure her.
「She might be an undead but she's an extremely intellectual and stylish woman with a great sense of humor. Well, she can be offbeat every once in a while like now but, she's also a wonderful person in this world, someone who you can never feel bored with.」
I gave plenty of lip service to Enma to reassure Liliana that the former wasn't a dangerous person.
I wasn't telling a lie either. She really is an enemy that I could never get bored with.
「Woof…」
Liliana looked at Enma with a troubled face as if saying "Really?".
And Enma being Enma, she looks really surprised for some reason.
「O~i Enma, you're scaring my dog. Stop showing off your prideful handgrip.」
「… Eh? Ah, whoopsie!」
Only after I called her out did she realize just what kind of vandalizing act she just committed. This shameless woman… Someone from the Corvut tribe had to fix the damage caused by her later.
「Ahahahaha… I lost my composure I guess…」
Said Enma while waving her hands, her expression changed from flustered, serious, laughing, troubled, and bewildered.
「Uhm… Jil-kun!」
「Yes?」
「T-The thing you said just now, is that true?」
「The thing I said just now?」
「A-About me… Being a wonderful person, on this world…」
Enma asked timidly with an upturned gaze while twirling her hair.
「Yeah, I've said it myself after all.」
I replied with the best possible smile.
「At least in my opinion, you are―― The most wonderful person on this world.」
No one is as dangerous and plain as a human enemy as you!
「… JIL-KUN! HAH, HOOOO!」
Enma suddenly pressed her chest while letting out a strange scream.
「Huff, huff… I Almost thought that I got a heart attack…!」
「You're an undead, your heart had stopped beating a long time ago.」
「Are you misunderstanding something here? It still drives this body after all. The thing that was flowing inside wasn't blood though.」
Seriously. So her heart was beating…
Rather, her heart was about to stop beating when I praised her as wonderful huh, this woman was too self-assertive…
「I… Wanted to meet you, Jil-kun…!」
Said Enma as she hugged the pillar in the shade as if she hugged me like that of a stage actor.
「That's why I came back… Like wind! Since I want to meet you!」
「I see.」
Though this fella has a lot of kin, or should I say subordinate―― Such as Claire―― It seems she has no friends.
It seems she was not satisfied with just her subordinate since we got along really well(From her perspective) during our necromancer lesson.
「JIL-KUN…!」
Her marble-like eyes were looking expectantly at me. Uhm, can't be helped I guess. Maybe I should say something to her…
「I… Miss you so much too. So welcome back.」
I flashed the best gloomy smile that I trained every once in a while in front of the mirror while on the toilet. As much as I hate it, since the current me was really good-looking, the gloomy smile was a perfect match for my image…
「… J-JIL-KUN!!!」
Enma who was moved to tears by my third-rate acting was――
「I―― I MISSYOU SO MUUUUUUUUUUUCH――!!」
And charged toward me.
She rushed ahead toward me.
She forgot to put on her hood, and charged straight toward me under the sunli――!
「Hey, watch out!」
I stood up right away and tried to push Enma back under the shade but her speed and strength were far exceeding my expectations and caught me in her a hug.
「JIL-KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!」
Her body was soft as if she was a living human―― Yet cold like a corpse.
LET GO OFF ME! RATHER, DON'T USE USELESSLY GOOD PERFUME!!
The moment I thought so, smoke started to rise from her body, she was burnt under the sun, and set ablaze!
「WOAAAAAAAAAAAAH!」
Enma who hugged me instantly was covered in flame while wailing in sadness. Ouch-O―― Wait, why wasn't it hot at all? This flame wasn't hot at all…
「Aaaaaaaaaah… As I thought, Jil-kun is really composed…」
Enma who was smiling happily seeing my serious face then――
She turned into ashes.
「Eeeh…」
『Eeeh…』
「E~h…」
「Woo~f…」
Ante, Lyla, Liliana, and me were equally dumbfounded.
「… U-Uhm!… That person turned into… Ash!」
Exclaimed Lyla, pointing at a lump of ash.
「… Don't worry about it. She's just that kind of fella. Since her real body is kept elsewhere, she simply just transferred to another body.」
「Eeeh…」
Lyla was at a loss for words hearing the ecology of lich.
Liliana sniffed the ash carefully, then sneezed loudly. The remnants of Enma got blown up―― Stop it! It's not a good thing for your body! There's no problem since you're a high elf! But it's not a good thing, ethically!
… What should I do about this? Ah come to think of it, Enma seems to have a business with me. Should I wait for her… Or go back to my room…
Nevertheless, Enma's physical abilities were at least three times higher than I expected. I mean, no matter how careless I was, she ended up tackling me first. If this was a battlefield, I would've already become part of her undead collection…
『You… Really are wary of her eh…』
What else do I have to think about her then?
「… Dear.」
Suddenly, Lyla called me with a renewed attitude.
「Uhm, yes?」
「… Told her that she is―― A wonderful person.」
While pouting.
「… Do you really think that she is… The most wonderful person in this world?」
I let out a wry smile upon hearing Lyla's remark.
「Yes. I definitely feel that way.」
Lyla hung her head down with a sad look on her face after hearing my reply.
「… On this world, that's it.」
But, her eyes flickered once again when I continued on.
「You're the ruler of the sky, aren't you?」
I saw Lyla's lips blooming into a lovely smile when I got on my knees and told her so.
「Lyla is the most wonderful girl under this sky.」
That was what I really felt about her.
「… Geez, you're such a tease.」
Though it was a farce that I set on my own, Lyla's face ended up flushed red and she started to hit my chest. Hahahahaha, she is such an adorable girl.
After that, we didn't do anything but look into each other's eyes―― Joining our hands together――
「A~h! Flirting couple~!!」
But, it was soon interrupted by a familiar voice that resounded in the garden.
When I turned around, a hooded girl in the shade, looking at us from the gap between the fingers of her hands that was covering her face while shouting 「Kyaa~」.
「That voice… Claire huh.」
「『Just now』, what do you mean by 『Just now』!」
Though Claire was pouting upon hearing my bored voice, she covered her mouth while looking around as if she just realized her verbal slip. Different from Enma who had peerage, Claire couldn't speak carelessly to me, at least when we were in public places.
「Cough. I brought a message from Count Enma… 『Sorry for the mess from a while ago. We will have necromancy a lesson tomorrow.』.」
「Ah… Sure. Well, that goes for both of us I guess.」
Another necromancy lesson huh… Another chance to commit taboo… And since she just returned from the frontline… A place with a lot of corpses.
I'm depressed now.
「I understand… Man, to think that my teacher also built up a lot of dissatisfaction when working on the frontline…」
Said Claire with a wry smile on her face. Maybe it was a stress because she had been receiving unreasonable treatment from the Demon Race for a long time.
Once it exploded, she might rebel, exterminate all the Demon Race safe for me.
「I see… That must be a big deal.」
But, I had to at least show sympathy, even if it was just for a show. I mean, it feels like an irony that Claire, who died in agony due to the Demon Race, ended up being resurrected as an undead and forced to work for the one who caused her death… Unable to rest in peace.
「Well. It's good enough that we are back in one piece! Moreover, Your Highness can look forward to tomorrow's lecture!」
Claire declared so with a huge grin plastered on her face.
「We hauled a lot of Sword Saint and Fist Saint corpses! Meaning that we will have a lot of fun tomorrow!」
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