NOVEL NEXT chapter 5
5 – My Dear Disciple
“…… Even if I ask, you’re not going to answer me, are you?”
“Um… ….”
At Ashera’s question, White’s expression became subtle.
…… How did know?
Simple guesswork?
Or is it a clear guess based on some basis?
Was there a hint that she let go so that she could anticipate her intentions?
In White’s head, speculations rushed to and fro.
Because I can’t stop answering forever.
“…… First of all, yes. Master.”
“… ….”
White muttered in a slightly guilty voice, and Ashera narrowed her eyes.
‘…… I’m sorry, Master.’
White closed her eyes tightly.
How can I not harbor guilt?
I just unilaterally notified you, but I can’t explain why?
What does this mean?
She doesn’t even know how she wants her to understand her intentions, even the person who brought her up.
Her own mentor, Asherah.
How would she accept her own words?
“… ….”
A look of uneasiness appeared on White’s expression, and then it disappeared.
He was said to manage his facial expressions in his own way, though.
Because he wasn’t the black demon king who couldn’t read the fragments of that emotion that came to his mind in a very short time.
“…… Well, is that so?”
Ashera gave her head a nod with a curious look of understanding.
“I understand, disciple.”
“…… Master?”
I wonder if I didn’t know that such words would come back.
At Ashera’s first words, which were more positive than expected, White widened her eyes.
“Huh… ….”
She let out a strange nasal sound once again, and Ashera opened her mouth again with a slight disapproval.
“Well, disciple’s stubbornness is what I know best. If the disciple made up his mind and decided not to open his mouth, he would never speak out even if he opened his mouth and threw a fireball at it.”
“…… Great.”
It was a light tone, as if asking for a bite to eat.
With the calm life and bloody back talk contained in it, White broke into a cold sweat without even realizing it.
That black demon lord.
If she made up her mind and forced her own mouth open to ram her fireball, she would do nothing impossible.
‘…… Be brutal.’
Swallowing dry saliva once, White made an effort to make up a calm expression.
Showing her timidity will only make her catch her weakness.
That’s why.
“…… Master.”
“Yes?”
First, change the topic.
With White looking very serious, she opened her mouth again.
“I can’t tell you right now, but I will one day.”
“…… Someday?”
Ashera asked in a blank voice, and White broke out in a cold sweat.
Really uncomfortable, and with a very subtle expression.
But with a clear expression of will.
“…… Someday.”
White opened her mouth again and let her speak out.
“I will tell you everything. To the master my everything.”
“… ….”
“…… Please, could you please wait?”
White ended her words with a slightly uneasy look.
He began to carefully examine Ashera’s expression.
How will she react?
Should I be angry?
Or even if it’s not, should I show off a bad feeling?
Or should I just accept it wholeheartedly?
“… ….”
No matter what answer came out, I just had to wait.
White kept her mouth shut, directing her quivering eyes at Ashera.
“──.”
Finally, the time has come for Ashera to open her mouth.
The first thing she said was, none other than.
“Okay.”
“…… !”
It was a more positive word than I thought, to the extent that White was delighted.
“…… Master.”
White called out to her, and Ashera let out a chuckle at that.
A little bit bitter, but it really feels like it can’t be helped.
With such a laugh, she opened her mouth again.
“What can I do, I. Should I wait for the disciple to tell me? What kind of secret is our lovely disciple hiding, why does she annoy me so much?”
…… Really interesting and curious at the same time.
Ashera ended her words with a bit of her bloody eye smile.
“…… !”
The reason why White’s expression became as bright as that of a boy of that age.
It was a sight that made Ashera unable to be angry even if she wanted to.
“…… Ahahahaha.”
Shaking her head with an air of helplessness, Ashera let out a fresh, shallow laugh.
*****
“… ….”
White goes back to her mansion, in the nearby woods.
The forest was the space where none other than Ashera lived, and it was the gathering place for White and her.
“—Are you okay?”
“… ….”
In such a place, a third person’s voice resounded calmly.
“…… Serpia.”
Ashera’s eyes grew colder.
“I would have told you, obviously, not to interfere.”
Koo goong, koo goong…….
A dark blue light began to slowly flow from Ashera’s body.
The trees and stones in the forest swayed wildly according to the movement of her mana.
And facing that pressure head-on.
The woman called ‘Serpia’ carefully bit her lip and opened her mouth.
“…… But, she couldn’t help interjecting.”
“… ….”
“Forgive me for disloyalty. Demon King.”
At the words she added, Ashera’s eyebrows twitched in displeasure.
“…… I told you not to call me by that title.”
“Sorry.”
“Haa… ….”
Ashera let out a sigh of relief at the sight of Serpia straight up apologizing.
If you bring out the words of apology with a serious look, wouldn’t it be a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of
“You are a very clever underling… ….”
That’s why I just muttered that once.
Down!
The mana that Ashera had drawn up was scattered in an instant.
Accordingly, the shaking forest, as if facing an earthquake, also naturally began to return to its original shape.
“…… So, what do you want to say?”
Looking around the forest, Ashera opened her mouth again.
At that, Serpia’s expression immediately hardened.
And then, the word that came out of her mouth soon after.
It was a word that she had no choice but to say very carefully as she herself.
“…… Would you mind trusting the boy?”
“──.”
With that short word, the expression on Ashera’s face disappeared in an instant.
Go oh oh-
The movement of mana, which had calmed down a bit, began to fluctuate with a look of uneasiness once again.
“…… Serpia.”
“Yes. Demon King, no, Ashera-sama.”
Asherah called her with a calm and calm voice, and Serpia, bewildered, managed to get her answer.
Serpia swallowed her dry saliva once, feeling the sensation of cold sweat trickling down involuntarily.
…… I knew.
She is her own lord, the subject of her allegiance.
What kind of feelings and thoughts do you have toward the platinum-haired boy who is the heir to the Duke of Qliphort?
…… But.
As her most faithful subordinate or servant.
Because I had to say as much as I had to say.
“… ….”
However, it was not so easy for Ashera to withstand the pressure of the mana shed under her cover.
Simply gritting her teeth, Serpia withstood the pressure.
“I am.”
…… Finally, Ashera opened her mouth again.
“…… I am. Didn’t I tell you not to say anything about the boy, not to have any doubts?”
In response to her voice, which seemed to contain a bit of murder, Serpia quickly took out her answer while moving her body.
“Of course I know. However, the story the boy brought up today went too far.”
“… ….”
“A story about the 12 demon kings. It was never something the boy would say. Don’t you know?”
“…… Ha.”
Ashera sighed at the end of Serpia’s persuasion.
…… Her words weren’t entirely wrong either.
‘…… No, on the contrary, it can be said that it is quite reasonable and correct.’
With only a bit of a bitter feeling inside, Ashera scattered the mana again.
Serpia felt her body lighten once upon a time.
Soon she swallowed her dry spit, then began to speak again.
“I didn’t hear everything, because I didn’t get that close.”
A disturbed expression appeared on her face.
“…… The boy I knew, White, would never have said that.”
Yes, it was.
The boy she just felt was ‘White Qlippoth’.
Even though he is gifted with unparalleled mana, he may one day become a part of the strongest mages.
Absolutely, he was not the kind of person who would bring out such serious words in a matter related to the 12 Demon Kings.
So, she said that even though she knew that her lord would be angry with her.
Her She Her own lord was too unconcerned, and it was she who had the role to dare to offer her advice.
Even if she exploded in her rage and perished, her words had to be spoken out.
…… And fortunately, Ashera seemed to agree with her words in her own way.
But.
“Even so, I will not allow any harm to my disciple. Serpia.”
“…… Lord Ashera!”
“I won’t take objections.”
Wow!
“…… !”
Blue mana flew in and wrapped around Serpia’s neck.
It didn’t contain much life, but it was very fast.
That’s why Serpia couldn’t say anything anymore.
“…… Go back To the place where you have work to do.”
“… ….”
At Ashera’s mediocre words, what action could she take?
All I could do was nod my head with difficulty and follow her words.
Woe!
The mana shimmered once, and right after that.
Serpia quickly hid her figure in her forest.
“… ….”
And then Ashera was left alone in the forest.
Over her expression, a subtle and somewhat vague smile began to appear.
‘…… Serpia, you must have had a hard time understanding it.’
Why does his own lord believe in that boy so much?
No matter how much I think about it, I wonder if she is showing trust beyond limits.
That’s probably why he made up his mind and gave advice.
I don’t harbor anger at him again.
Because I fully understood her feelings as well.
…… However, it was not.
“…… Disciple.”
Soon, a complicated and subtle voice slowly leaked from Ashera’s mouth.
‘Why do I trust him?’
Fishik-
Ashera let out a shallow laugh.
…… That is, yes
It was just a very simple and incomprehensible reason.
Perhaps that was about 10 years ago.
-…… Smartphone! PC! Console! Anyway, my electronics! Aww!
“…… Pooh.”
Her moment came to her mind At the voice of her own disciple, Ashera put her pale smile on her lips.
…… What can I do?
Hundreds of years of coming over to this world.
For such a long time, he was the first person from the same town I met.
How could I not be happy?
How could you not have a friendly feeling?
…… But, that’s it.
Although it was only for such a simple reason at first.
Growing up, living with him, teaching him.
At some point, I came to like the boy himself.
“…… I know, actually.”
Ashera let out a bitter voice.
…… That his own disciple had been hiding something since some time ago.
An expression that always seems to be worried about something, or that it is very afraid of something.
“…… Ahahahaha, the disciple is also true.”
Couldn’t she have thought that she couldn’t read it?
If so, his own disciple was seriously neglecting him.
Or, he has a lot of confidence in his own poker face.
“Whoops… ….”
A lonely smile appeared on Ashera’s face.
-…… Someday.
-I’ll tell you everything. To the master my everything.
-…… Please, could you please wait?
“…… You will have to wait.”
I don’t know what happened.
Her own disciple, what White went through.
What happened, why did he suddenly have the face of an adult and erase the expression of a boy?
“…… However, if you would like to tell me someday.”
Whether it’s years or decades.
It’s just a matter of waiting.
…… In waiting for her many years, she was very confident.
If until the end, her own disciple doesn’t bring her up.
“Whoop, whoop. Whoop whoop…….”
…… Slowly, a bloody smile began to appear on Ashera’s face.
“If so.”
…… At that time, I gathered the resentment that had accumulated up to this point.
That reprehensible, her unmatched disciple, will inflict more pain than her death.
“…… hahahaha, if you don’t want to be like that.”
I want you to tell me everything.
…… My dear disciple.