Chapter 3 – Bringing Someone Between Yuri, Sandwiched Between Yuri
Kuki Masamune was stuck in the ground.
“Even though this is our first reunion in two weeks, you’re really savage.”
The Kuki Masamune that I threw passed through the transparent Arshariya. Because Arshariya deliberately fell down at the same time as I threw it, it looked like the sword pierced her head, but… she actually doesn’t have any substance.
“Rather, you… aren’t you getting smaller?”
She is indeed getting a little smaller. Arshariya, who has shrunk to a height of about 130 to 140 cm, even had a younger face. Although her face is still annoying as ever, the cigarette she had now was just a toy with a shining tip, and her trench coat had also become mini sized.
“Isn’t it your fault?”
“Somehow, even your voice became cuter!! You even speak with a lisp, that’s gross!!”
“Good grief, it’s not the time to say something like that, right? There is something you have to worry about– stop it (1 hit). Don’t hit me (2 hit). Stop beating me to the pulp (3 hit). My face is that of a child, you know? (4 hit, 5 hit, 6 hit, 7 hit).”
Of course, there is no damage.
I stared at Arshariya’s face, it’s not like her face has been repaired or anything, her face just didn’t deformed even 1 mm.
“What’s going on…?”
“Stop doing something futile. We’re a fateful cooperative body. I’ll explain it from scratch, so listen first.”
“Master?”
Perhaps worried about me who hasn’t come back for a while, Snow called my name suspiciously.
“Snow!! Don’t come!! Arshariya is back aga—”
“Yes?”
Looking at the direction I pointed to, Snow tilted her neck.
“What are you talking about by yourself from a while ago?”
“Eh…?”
Little Arshariya then shrugged her shoulders.
“Although I do think that stupid face of yours is wonderful, first of all, it’s better to keep her at a distance. It’s better if you don’t show that wonderful stupid face of yours to that cute maid. It would be awful if her 100-year-old-love cooled down immediately after the moving reunion because of that.”
“N-nothing… I’m just exercising…”
“Yes, yes. It’s the usual abnormal behavior, isn’t it? Please take your time.”
With a bitter smile, Snow returns to the bench.
On the other hand, I sat down in the fountain and stared at Arshariya who was drinking Dr.Pepper with her tiny hands.
“Uee… you, I think this isn’t something good to drink for humans….?”
“Explain (with my blade in hand).”
“Of course, of course, I will always answer YES to you. You and I are destined partners, after all.”
While putting up with her creepy lines, I faced Arshariya.
“First of all. This may be difficult to accept for a human, but there is a fact that I want you to accept… you are dead.”
“Ah, is that so? And?”
“… then, do you know why you are alive?”
While smoking water vapor, mini Arshariya whispered.
“I brought you back to life– normally, you should give me a thanks, not a fist here (right fist that pierces the heavens).”
“Why did you do something unnecessary…!! If you and I died together there, it would have been a happy ending!! Being able to double kill Hiiro and Arshariya, I was supposed to be part of the Yurimpics in the underworld, you know!!”
Arshariya smiles bitterly with my fist appeared from the back of her head.
“But, I also didn’t want to die in vain there, okay? And under that circumstance, there was only one way for the demon Arshariya to survive.”
Arshariya raises one of her fingers and shakes it.
“Right before that explosion, my excellent brain thought about the way I could survive that… pursuing only that one objective, it immediately acted, without choosing the means. And that is by using one authority that no demon but Arshariya the Shrine of Death can use. The construction of a human body. Because I was the one who loved and understood humans the most among the six pillars of demons, it was possible for me to analyze humans in detail and reconstruct their bodies. I am the only demon who can reconstruct even the dead with that data.”
“I know. Of course, I know about your fucking absurd authority. But why did you bother to rebuild me? It would have been much easier for you demons to heal yourself, right?”
“That’s, unfortunately, impossible.”
With her legs crossed, Arshariya continues with a lovely voice.
“Unlike humans, demons do not have a solid vessel called the physical body. We just vaguely have a human mold, which actually is just a mass of magic operators. That is why we can freely regenerate and transform our bodies. However, in that explosion, if all the magic operators around me are to explode, I wouldn’t be able to repair it according to the original form… Devil-sama was the one who created that form, after all, and I don’t have the data for that form.”
Now that she said that, that’s true.
There is no way they can create something that they can’t think of from scratch without a blueprint or a mold. Conversely, as long as she understands what she is trying to create and has a thorough understanding of its structure, she can create it.
“Alright, I understand why I came back to life. But why are you coming back to life?”
“Sadly, I am not. I’ve completely disappeared… except for some parts of me inside you.”
Arshariya smirked.
“At that time, immediately after reconstructing your body, I moved the magical operators that make up the demon Arshariya inside you. Because as you already know, humans can store magic operators inside their bodies. You humans call it magic power and use it to activate magic. In conclusion, you are mixed with the demon Arshariya–”
Hearing that, I tried to stab Kuki Masamune that I just picked up into my belly– until the blade was blocked by an anti-magic barrier.
“Dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!”
“Do you even have any hesitation or emotion? Stop it. My magic power isn’t infinite. Don’t make me use my magic power for something like this.”
I tried to do seppuku over and over again, but failed. At best, I could only break my knee while breathing heavily.
Then, with dead eyes, I look up at the blue sky.
“Kill me… kill me…”
“This is the first time I see a human who isn’t even glad after coming back to life, and even wanted to die again… scary… people normally hesitate before doing something like that, you know… at least, cherish your own life…”
I finally understood. Why I was being called Founder and why my magic power increased so much.
That’s because Arshariya’s magic power exists in my body. It is natural the amount of magic power I would have increased tremendously if the magic power of a demon entered my body as it is. Since demons are a mass of magic operators, or should I say, the magic power itself, it is understandable that the girls from the Arshariya faction regards me, who has the magic power of Arshariya, as their 『Master』.
After a few minutes, I recovered and looked up at Arshariya.
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“How can I get you out of my body…?”
“Impossible. You and I are a great match, after all. Normally, if a human takes in the magic operators of a demon, he or she won’t be able to stand it and ends up disintegrating. I don’t know why, but you already had the foundation to accept me and the talent to turn into a demon.”
Sanjou Hiiro the Demon.
On Lapis’s route, Arshariya took a liking toward Hiiro and made him a demon. In other words, accepting a part of Arshariya, her magic power. That also means, from the beginning, I already met the conditions for becoming a demon.
“Don’t you think it’s actually just right?”
With a shimmering smile, Arshariya said.
“I love to bring a man between Yuri. And you love to be sandwiched between Yuri. We are the strongest duo, so let’s destroy Yuri together–”
At that moment, the neck of Arshariya that I slashed rolled on the ground.
“Don’t be silly!! Get out of my body, you evil spirit!! Get lost!! Get lost from this world, you evil!! Don’t learn and use the word Yuri!! I don’t want to hear the beautiful word ‘Yuri’ from your dirty mouth!!”
“That’s terrible.”
Arshariya walked slowly, headless, to pick up her head. However, I kicked the head, and the spinning head fell into the fountain.
Then, with a sound, Arshariya grows another head all of a sudden.
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“What domestic violence–not, internal violence.”
“Why can’t Snow see you, and only I can see and touch you?”
“It’s natural. I don’t have any substance, after all. I just concentrate my magic power on your eyes and make you see what you wanted to see. The reason why you only see this uncool body of mine is that if I don’t do this, I know that your murderous intent will run out of control. I concentrated my magic power on your fist and feet to reproduce the feel of touching me, but in reality, you are just hitting or kicking the void.”
“Aren’t you really just an evil spirit… don’t take possession of me without permission…”
“Please don’t be that hard-hearted and let’s get along.”
While laughing, Arshariya patted my shoulder.
“Most likely, there is no other person in this world who can accept my magic operators. In conclusion, if you die, I will die too. It’s precisely, a fateful cooperative body! Wonderful! We are best friends and partners!! Come on, let’s cheer together!! Let’s destroy Yur– (The sound of face breaking)”
“Just kidding, just kidding. Everything you think is leaked to me. I know you want to protect Yuri to the point you want to take me to the underworld together. To be honest, it doesn’t fit my beliefs, but for the sake of my dear Hiiro, I’ll pitch in and help. In short, Hiiro-kun, you want to give them the worst 『I’m actually alive』 scene, and you want to decrease the favorability of Tsukiori Sakura and the others toward you and restore their normal lives, right?”
I, who was destroying Arshariya’s face with my elbow, then stopped.
“… That’s right.”
“Then, leave it to me.”
With a smile, she whispered.
“After all, I’m a professional in regard to destroying love. I’ll show you how I change their favorability that they’re pouring into you into zero.”
“A-Arshariya-sensei…? (sudden change of attitude)”
A halo shined from behind Arshariya– and she nodded powerfully.