I’m just going to assume the innkeeper is a middle aged guy.
“I have returned.”
After walking around the grocery store and the stores that deal in travel gear, I ended up finding more spices and herbs than planned, and returned to the inn with a pleased expression.
“Welcome back. Was everything fine?”
The innkeeper poked his head out from the kitchen and welcomed me back.
“Yes. I managed to buy a lot!”
I lifted up my spoils to my face level and told him.
“That’s great. Are you going to take a bath? It’s free right now.”
At his words, I roughly recalled the plans for tonight.
Right now it’s roughly past 8. Is the Prince in his room? I need to bring him the ballpoint pen and notebook. After that, I’ll take a bath and then, ahh, I need to do the laundry as well.
Speaking of which, I’m going commando right now aren’t I. I have to hurry up and wash my underwear.
I should probably talk to the innkeeper about tomorrow’s breakfast as well.
“I’ll be returning to my room first and then dropping in the Prince’s room. I’d like to take up your offer about the bath after that. It won’t take long so I think that 20 minutes-, ahh, a quarter of a koku will do. Also, I’d like to wash my clothes, but would it be all right to do so at the bathing area?”
I think it should be all right, but it would be better to make sure just in case.
“A quarter of a koku, then. There’s no problems with doing your laundry. Do you need soap?”
“If you would be so kind to lend me some, that would be greatly appreciated. And about breakfast tomorrow, would it be all right if I prepared the knights’ portion? I’ve made a promise with the Prince, you see.”
And while I was at it, I asked about the matter of tomorrow’s breakfast as well.
“That’s fine but, will you be fine? I think it’ll be quite a large share.”
The innkeeper looked at me a little worriedly.
“Yes, even if I look like this, cooking is my strong point. I’ve always done the cooking at home, so it will be fine. Also, I’d like to use your ingredients, but of course I’ll pay.”
“Don’t worry about the ingredients. Your stay originally included breakfast after all. Just give me a call in the morning and there won’t be a problem. The guests today are all just knights after all. Before you take a bath, let me know because I’ll prepare you some soap.”
After saying that amiably, the innkeeper returned to the kitchen.
I just gave a “I’ll be relying on you.” before heading to my room.
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“Phew…”
After that, I returned to my room and placed the bag with my shopping in it on the table, and after bundling my dried clothing together so I could immediately grab it later, I picked up the ballpoint pen and notebook and went to the Prince’s room. I received the remaining 80 silver coins for the pen and notebook, and after teaching him just the basic key points, I went to have a bath.
After returning from the bath and hanging the washed clothing so it would dry easily, I jumped into bed and began thinking about what I would be doing from now on.
“Another world, huh… I wonder if Otousan, Okaasan and Oniisan are worried. Are they eating properly…? Shishou isn’t cross is he? Last time I was just late, but he was terribly cross after all…”
While thinking about such things, I laughed at myself a little for being unable to think of anything important.
“There’s no way to contact them after all. I wonder if they’ll apply for a police search tomorrow… I’m not going to be going to school after all… I’m going to lose my perfect attendance.”
While looking at the seiling, I thought about my old world.
“They’re, probably worried aren’t they…”
From their side, even finding my location is impossible.
Having said that though, I can’t contact them from my side either.
Even if I think about it, there’s nothing I can do at this point.
Having concluded this, I decided to consider the things I would do from now on.
“Tomorrow I’ll make breakfast for the knights. If I remember correctly, there are 16 people, so including the Prince and I, that’s 18 shares is it? That’s quite a lot of people, isn’t it. After that, we’ll head to the capital, and the plan is to arrive at dusk. The Prince said that he wanted to express his thanks, but once I get to the capital I’ll have to look for an inn after all. An inn with a bath would be nicer, wouldn’t it? If I ask one of the knights, they might be able to tell me about a good one. Registering as an adventurer would come the next day, huh. After registering, I need to do some shopping don’t I. I need new clothing and underwear after all, and if I’m going to work as an adventurer then I’ll be needing weapons as well, right? As you’d expect, I won’t get anywhere with only a bokutou after all. Aahh, and I’ll have to do something about my food too… It would probably be fine just to cook for myself, but cooking for myself when I’m living in an inn is… Even if I can cook for myself, I’ll need a kitchen after all. The bread is a problem too, isn’t it. Baking yeast can be made from apples, can’t it. As for the method… alright! I remember it. After all, I’ve made it myself before, so it should be all right. Would it work just to ask the people at the inn to borrow their kitchen? Or better yet, should I teach the inn staff how to cook so that I can eat it at any time? But if I do that, for a while I won’t be able to eat consistent food after all… For now I’ll talk to the others about it after I decide on an inn. It depends on how the knights react tomorrow, but if they think that my food is delicious, then they should understand.”
Delicious things are justice. Delicious things bring happiness to you. This is the same in all countries. I’m sure that it’s true for parallel worlds too.
Thinking about the future, I convinced myself that even if I was searching this world for a way home, I had no choice but to live.
Having felt this way, the drowsiness has finally come, so I’ve decided to just follow that idea and sleep.
I replaced ‘royal guard’ with ‘household guard’. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it last time, but it’s finally come to me.
Oh yeah, and “No retreat! No bowing down! No looking back!” is a quote from Sauzaa of Hokuto no Ken fame, and happens to be my favourite HnK quote. He screams it upon defeat at the hands of Kenshirou, and jumps off the pyramid to fight him.
When I was immersed in the joy of receiving the order to destroy the capital, that human had suddenly appeared and continued her misdirected words.
That human still thinks that I’m her younger sister? There should be limits to misunderstandings. Even though I spared her life out of mercy, she really is too foolish!
This is why those diminutive humans are beyond saving. But though they were only a temporary family, I did live with them for over ten years. I’ll take her head painlessly. I filled my hand with mana, feeling an emotion similar to compassion.
“Human, even if only temporarily, you were my elder sister. I will at least give you a painless death.”
I flashed a knife hand strike towards the human’s neck.
The sound of an impact resounded through the room――――
I’ve cut it.
But for some reason the response against my hand felt strange. It was like hitting a dense wall of magic power.
I-, It can’t be, how…
Of all things, there was not a single injury on that human.
Impossible!?
If I put magic power into my strike, even a dragon, famed to be the toughest in the world, could be cut through like butter.
“Surely you did not show mercy to them?”
The Viceroy must have thought that I had eased my hand as well, for he questioned me as such.
“Viceroy, that is an insult to me. I put in enough power to even bisect a dragon!”
I understand the Viceroy’s doubts. But I did not ease my hand. Being groundlessly suspected like this is insulting. After that, those in the surroundings began flinging insults upon me.
The only thing you bastards don’t run out of is things to say. There is something wrong with this. Is this one truly a human?
While I was feeling surprised, the Viceroy took everyone outside. In other words, the rest was up to me.
Kuh-, fretting about it will get me nowhere. I probably unconsciously relaxed earlier because they were only a human. This time I’ll do it seriously. As I was firing up my spirit,
“Camilla-sama, please leave this to me.”
My household guard Nielsen said this, and stepped out before me.
Nielsen is always like this. Perhaps he’s a worrywart, but he always takes the initiative to test out irregular dangers like this.
But it would shame me to step down after being looked down on like this!
“Nielsen, there’s no need for you to step forward. I have received my orders.”
“No, you have only just awakened, Camilla-sama. I do not believe you are at your full strength yet. This is a job for I, the captain of the household guard.”
He stubbornly refused to yield to me. He has always been stubborn at times like these. It’s true that I have only just awakened, and it is also a fact that I’m not in my normal condition. Finally deciding to leave it to a member of the household guard, I stepped backwards with the meaning of leaving it to him.
Seeing me step back, Nielsen clenched his fists and let out his killing intent. Filled with fighting spirit, his touki quickly swelled up.
Hu hu, at this point, even I would have a hard time against Nielsen.
Now then, human, what will you do?
“――――I’m going to ask just in case but, could it be that you’re serious?”
Paying no heed to Nielsen’s pressure, she provoked Nielsen, implying that he should “Get serious”.
How interesting. Then shall we have a look at your true power!?
And so, the battle between Nielsen and the human began. Nielsen responded to the provocation, and went all out from the start. He played his hidden card.
Bomber Fire[Super Demonic Flame Burst Fist]…
If I took that head on, even being one of the Six Demon Generals, I wouldn’t escape unharmed. Many strong warriors were buried in the last war by this mighty technique. Letting off incredible touki, Nielsen leapt forward.
Mmn. I can feel magic power even greater than the time of the last war. Something like a human will probably be turned to mincemeat in an instant. The victor has been decided, hasn’t it.
But a situation beyond my expectations occurred…
What on earth is she?
She took Nielsen’s fist head on. But despite that, she didn’t seem to care, as though she was handling a child.
Should I join the fray as well?
It pains me to disgrace Nielsen’s way of the knight, but I cannot allow my most trusted subordinate to be done in.
I quietly let out my magic power, and searched for an opening to counterattack. But far from finding one, the moment I showed signs of going on the attack, she glanced towards me.
C-, Could she have sensed my killing intent or something?
While receiving Nielsen’s blows, she hasn’t let her guard towards me down in the slightest.
What an incredible expert…
At this rate, Nielsen will be killed!
But there are no openings. I could do nothing but watch the battle in a daze.
And then, in the end…
She shouted something, and with three hits, only three hits, she buried the subordinate I trusted the most amongst all my kin.
While I was feeling shocked at Nielsen’s defeat,
“Timu, do you have anything to say?”
she dared to draw near me, and provoked me as such.
Hmph, are you telling me to praise you? My irritation grew at those haughty words of hers, but her strength was the real thing. I hadn’t encountered such a powerful expert even in the previous war.
“Human-, no, with that power you cannot be. What on earth are you?”
She should not be a simple human. If you consider only close combat, then Nielsen’s strength is a match for the Six Demon Generals. And she easily crushed that. It can’t be helped that I wonder about her true form. But she did not answer my question, and continued to draw near.
“So you plan on finishing me off next!? But I am the one known as Camilla of the Flash; I cannot hesitate.”
Indeed. I am one of the Six Demon Generals, Camilla of the Flash, and cannot back down in the face of a strong warrior. I’ll go all out and defeat you.
Now then, what should I do?
I seems that they have the advantage in close combat.
But then how will they fair against magic? It is often the case that those that have enhanced resistance against physical attacks are weak against magic.
I decided to fire off the most powerful magic I had.
“Hmph, this is my most powerful secret technique. O magic bullet, become countless stars! Star Freya![Super Demonic Star Magic Bullets!]”
Star Freya[Super Demonic Star Magic Bullets]…
It’s my most powerful secret technique, and is an emission type magic. Homing magic bullets that number even in the thousands rain down upon the target. It’s impossible to escape. And moreover, even a single bullet has the power to completely annihilate a low ranked demon.
“Feel free to become chunks of flesh!”
I won’t miss. Feel free to become garbage in an instant.
Thousands of magic bullets hit her dead on. Even amongst the strong foes of the past, not one had survived after being hit with this many magic bullets. There is no way to defeat this secret technique of mine except to defend before it’s invoked.
But, once again, my expectations were overturned――
I-, Is such a thing possible?
Indeed, they had hit her dead on. All of the bullets were hitting her, but there was no effect. On occasion, she would look like it hurt, but that was all.
What on earth is her body made of?
I had stiffened from the shock, when suddenly, she dashed forward and got behind me.
C-, Crap!
I had my arms pinned behind me, and was lifted off the ground.
“Wha-!? What do you intend to do to me? U-, Unhand me! I-, I can’t move!?”
W-, Why can’t I shake free?
Despite mustering up all of my strength, I couldn’t escape from her bindings. My power can even tear open a box welded shut, so why?
While shocked and writhing about, she showed her intention of hitting me with her open palm.
“Hmph, physical attacks will not affect me so easily, you know. This body of mine has a magical barr――Guhah-!”
W-, What just happened?
The moment I heard a slapping sound, my body was assaulted by a pain like everything inside my was burning to pieces. My body always has a magical barrier protecting it.
Even though half-baked attack shouldn’t even bend it…
“Timu, please reflect on what you’ve done!”
Her palm assaulted my buttocks. She struck me as though my barrier were useless. Moreover, she clad her palm in a massive amount of magic power, so being struck is unbearable.
“Hahh, hahh, i-, impossible! To so easily break through my magic shield――――A-, and moreover, to put in such an enormous amount of mana.”
So easily overcoming my magic barrier, and that gargantuan magic power; what on earth are you!?
Even after that, she let out more words of unknown meaning, and relentlessly struck my buttocks.
Hahh, hahh, each time I receive her strike, the mana in my body runs backwards. Terrifying magic power is rampaging inside my body.
Kuh-, what’s happening? But, I won’t lose! I’m one of the Demon Generals, Camilla of the Flash!
I shouted with all my strength that I would not lose, but each time I was struck, it felt like my spirit was being saved away.
“Hahh, hahh, if you’re going to kill me then kill me!”
…But she would not kill me, and single-mindedly continued to strike me.
Does she intend to continue tormenting me for fun like this?
Hahh, hahh, it’s certainly possible. The people of this world hold tremendous hatred for we of the Demon King Army.
――――Is that what it is!?
The strikes were completely unceasing, and moreover, the power of the strikes were meticulously adjusted so that I wouldn’t lose consciousness. Because of that it was just unbearable.
How long is this torture going to continue for…?
It’s terrifying. Could she be intending on continuing until my spirit breaks?
The moment I arrived at that thought, some taut thread in my heart snapped.
“Uu-, uuuuu――――I-, I was wrong. Please stop it alreadyy!”
Please just kill me already!
I abandoned my pride as a Demon General, my pride as a demon, and entreated her. Don’t degrade the vanquished any further. But, she showed absolutely no sign of killing me.
“Uu-, uuu… K-, Kill me! H-, Having received this kind of humiliation, I can never live it down!”
What on earth does she want to do? I gazed at her resentfully.
“Timu, listen up.”
“W-, What…?”
She looked at me with serious eyes, and talked to me about herself.
Hearing her story, I was shocked…
Shockingly, my elder sister Tilea turned out to be a reincarnater, and was originally the Evil God Dark Matter!
It seems that before she reincarnated, Evil God-sama lived in a nation called ‘Jyapan’. Apparently in ‘Jyapan’, twenty odd years after you’re born, you leave the shelter of your parents’ home and become independent.
How shocking!
Normally a demon lives under the shelter of their parent’s home for hundreds of years. Children will immediately lose their lives when an enemy attacks after all. In their parents’ homes, demons will save up their mana, and learn how to battle.
So in ‘Jyapan’ once you turn twenty something and become independent, almost everybody joins the “Companee” and works for provisions, is it? But it seems that because of the terrible harshness of the circumstances in ‘Jyapan’, each year tens of thousands of people take their lives.
Unbelievable!?
Even we of the Demon King Army that live the epitome of harshness don’t die in such numbers. Moreover, for the deaths to be not because of war, but because they take their own lives, just how terrifying of an environment is it? But it seems that almost everyone subordinates themselves to the ‘Companee’ and work as they shave off their life.
Isn’t there any dissatisfaction? Don’t uprisings occur?
I was thinking these questions, but it seems that as you’d expect, they do happen. The ones who rise in revolt against this trend are a group called ‘Niits’. They’re a group that flies under the banner of “If you work, you lose.” and endure friction with their parents and surroundings as they battle, and it seems that back before Evil God-sama was an “Evil God”, she also battled against her parents each day as a member of this group.
How shocking!
Being the parents of Evil God-sama, they were probably quite the powerful experts. Given that she battled such people each day, there’s no mistaking that it was an extraordinary battlefield. Evil God-sama probably class up’d during these battles.
Even though I only finally surpassed my parent’s mana after a thousand years, Evil God-sama tried to overcome her parents after only a few decades.
And it seems that Evil God-sama had comrades in arms as well, but with each passing year, one by one they would accept defeat, and subordinate themselves to the ‘Companee’.
But with “No retreat! No bowing down! No looking back!” as her motto, Evil God-sama wouldn’t admit defeat, and continued to battle on it seems.
How dignified!
And on the fateful day, having received her final provision, ‘Whell Fere’, Evil God-sama gathered her determination for the final showdown, and in the end she was hit by a ‘truk’ and met her grand end in battle――――
But still, what on earth is a ‘truk’!? This is Evil God-sama who shrugged off even my most greatest secret technique. And this attack ended that Evil God-sama’s life. A Ragnarok class forbidden spell. There’s no mistaking that it’s something of unthinkable destructive power.
“F-, For something like that to have been――――W-, What have I done!?”
After hearing her story to the end, I realised that I committed acts of rudeness against an unimaginable personage. To have lumped such an esteemed personage together with humans, even stupidity should have its limits. Regret surged inside me for the rudeness I committed against this great personage. I’ll probably be killed. It can’t be helped. That’s just how greatly I’ve blundered after all. But, Evil God-sama didn’t hand down punishment, and was kind enough to give words of guidance to this weak me.
Deeply moved, I trembled, when suddenly Evil God-sama bestowed upon me a gentle embrace, and even granted me warm words.
Thinking back, even though I’m one of the Demon Generals who directly serves the Demon King Zorg-sama, I’ve only ever been seen as nothing more than one of the generals. And there seemed to be an eternally large distance between us. But, a personage as great as, no, even greater than Zorg-sama, is treating me, this frail me, as though I’m their real sister.
To have such honourable and unmerited expectations placed on me, what should I do to repay this favour?――
Indeed, there is no way but to offer my heart and body and loyally serve her. That’s why I did as my heart told me to, and expressed my feelings to Evil God-sama.
Note: Please don’t read it in the little pop-up for the reader. For some reason it doesn’t reflect my later edits (which I often make a lot of after publishing), so please click ‘view original’.
One Day I Became a Burikko Villainess Noble Girl, out now.
Honto tutorial here.
Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.
You might be thinking, ‘Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?’, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particular) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.
Still not 100% sure that I should be translating 火薬 as gunpowder since it sounds a bit awks in English given the setting, but mmn.
“Uwwahhh. The town is falling apart.”
The town that I was overlooking from the skies was more broken than I had imagined.
In particular, the areas around the mansion of the lord of this territory, Viscount Wazzurri, were extremely messed up.
The estate was half destroyed, and the areas of the town around it were burnt black as well, with mountains of rubble here and there.
There were few people in town, and it seems that the inhabitants of the town had fled somewhere else. Mmn, this isn’t a place that people can live anymore after all.
“…Are these extremists idiots?”
Achille quietly cursed besides me. It seems that he has some gripe with this.
“The extremists have their hideout somewhere in this town?”
“Yeah, we’ve already found it. And the people responsible for the hijacking of this town should be there, but…”
It seems that the spy unit has already been sent to investigate what was going on in this town.
The soldiers moved under leadership and entered the town.
“Camille, what do we do? This building is completely wrecked after all, and though we have orders to standby, I think staying in the air is too conspicuous.”
A woman who was one of my Red coworkers called out to me. She’s one of the magicians that was dispatched to rescue the town like me.
A number of Red magicians were floating in the air on quills just like we were.
This is of course, the magic that I made popular.
Unlike the soldiers from the castle, we magicians are being treated as a “Raid Unit”. That’s why we were able to act somewhat freely to an extent.
“Hmmm, Achille. What do we do?”
I left the problem all to Achille.
When it comes to difficult problems, there’s nothing better than asking him. A prodigy like him should be able to come up with a smarter and better answer than I can.
And moreover, Achille’s been granted some of the rights to command on scene at this town… Well, the subordinates he can use are just our raid unit though.
Achille normally works as an official, but because there’s also the matter of being the son of the Magic Building Number Two’s Soleil, the magicians follow his instructions relatively obediently.
“Let’s see… The soldiers from the castle are attacking the town from all four directions, and at the time the extremists will be at an overwhelming disadvantage too. I think it’s fine even if you don’t do particularly do anything Camille.”
It’s here; his overprotectiveness. And that doesn’t answer my question.
“Come on, don’t dodge the question.”
During our town recovery mission this time, Achille has been trying his best not to get me involved in battles.
It’s totally clear from his attitude.
Right now we haven’t spotted anybody obviously under the influence of forbidden arts so it might be fine but… I somehow can’t agree to this. I did come all the way out here by Royce-sama’s orders after all.
After all, it might be like that time again, when the town in the Jade family’s territory was attacked, and the soldiers were in a pinch…
The extremists might be stopped in the end even if I don’t help them directly, but even if only a little, I might be able to reduce the victims on our side.
“Camille.”
“What?”
“Can you promise not to move on your own? That you won’t leave my side?”
Mn? Could this be permission for me to act? No matter what he says, it feels like Achille is sweet on me in the end.
“I won’t, I won’t. I’ll stay by your side.”
I’ll answer obediently just in case. Just staying in the air on standby to reduce the risk to the soldiers is a little pathetic after all.
“Can you see that building over there?”
Achille was pointing to a building with a flat wall. While all the buildings around it were broken, only that building stayed neat and tidy.
“Apparently that building is the hideout of the hijackers and their commander.”
“Oooh!”
So all we have to do is charge in and arrest them, huh! Captain Achille!
“Let’s hurry up and goo!”
I was suddenly filled with motivation.
“If we just stay floating up in the sky like this, we certainly do stand out after all. For now, let’s try and find a safe place to land.”
We chose a place where the soldiers and extremists weren’t fighting to land.
The people left behind in this extremists base don’t seem to number very many. All of the enemies are outside the base having a big fight with the soldiers.
“Even if people who seem to be normal citizens approach us, don’t let your guard down… There might be enemies among them.”
“Mn, got it.”
We stepped down into an alleyway close to the enemy hideout.
“Time to charge.”
“We’re not going to charge in immediately. We have to check out the situation first… Although there are probably less people in there, we still don’t know how many people there are. We’ll charge after some accurate intel arrives.”
Announced Achille decisively. This damned prudent guy!
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“Oneechan!”
From the corner of the alleyway, I heard a child’s voice. When I turned around, I found that a little girl was standing there.
“Eh-…”
The girl’s long hair was tied in two, and she was holding a plush toy in one hand… Like that, she came running towards us.
“Hey, hey, can you help me? It’s scary!”
The girl spoke with a smile, and was clearly out of place in this town that had turned into a battlefield.
“Hey, help me?”
For just a single child to be alone here… It’s strange.
And moreover, even though the situation is like this, why is this girl smiling?
“Hey, hey, won’t you help me? I got separated from mama you see… so, help me?”
What’s with this… I have a bad feeling about this. Why that is though, I don’t know myself though.
But even Achille said not to relax my guard even if a normal person approached us after all.
-tick tock… tick tock…-
Suddenly, I could hear a somewhat systematic sound coming from the girl. The ticking sound continued.
I warily observed the girl. The sounds are coming from… inside the plush toy in her right hand.
“Let go of that!”
Probably realising the same thing I did, Achille quickly snatched the plush toy from the girl and threw it far away.
The next moment, the plush toy shone and exploded with a violent wind. An incredible roar resounded.
The surrounding buildings were destroyed by the blast of the explosion, and large holes opened up in the ground.
“What… was that?”
The doll… exploded?
We immediately defended with magic so everybody is unharmed. Achille covered the girl as well, so she wasn’t injured. A female Red magician is searching the girl’s clothing to see if there isn’t anything else hidden.
“They probably put gunpowder inside the doll. It seems that they applied magic to it so that they could ignite it from a distance.”
Achille told me this with a disgusted expression.
“The extremists did this?”
“Probably.”
“That girl is…”
For such a small child to be wandering around with a doll that’s basically a bomb…
“Probably with them. Isn’t she following the instructions of the adults? I don’t think that they told her about the gunpowder though…”
“What the hell! That’s disgusting!”
It means that they had this girl hold dangerous explosives without her knowing.
Even though there’s a good chance that she would’ve been blown up too if things went badly, she probably hadn’t the slightest idea.
“Unforgiveable… Mn? Ah-, Achille look! At that girl’s neck!”
I was pointing at a black bruise at the bottom of the girl’s neck.
“Forbidden magic… even a child like this. It’s probably a similar spell to the one that they tried to cast on me.”
This is unbelievable!
“Hey, Achille. Do you think there are other children besides this girl that have forbidden magic cast on them? If there are, then we have to save them.”
In the worst case, they could even die from an explosion.
“I’ll use communication magic and warn the soldiers too. We can’t let them come into contact with children holding explosive dolls and get caught up in the explosion.”
“Yeah. And while we’re at it, after they finish dealing with the explosives, tell them to shelter the children so that we can dispel the forbidden magic too.”
We immediately sent off a communication magic.
While we were sending off a warning, a communication spell came came from a person who seemed to be a member of the spy unit.
“Hmm…”
“Achille, what did the spies say?”
“It seems that there are only ten-odd people in the extremist base. The others are all out.”
“Then even if we charge in…”
“Among them is a person who seems to be a powerful magician… He might be the guy who’s casting the forbidden spells right now.”
“Then he’s dangerous isn’t he!? We have to hurry up and catch him.”
“Camille.”
Achille gazed right at me with a serious expression.
Uu-, you don’t have to worry. I’m not going to charge in by myself or anything you know.
Note: Please don’t read it in the little pop-up for the reader. For some reason it doesn’t reflect my later edits (which I often make a lot of after publishing), so please click ‘view original’.
One Day I Became a Burikko Villainess Noble Girl, out now.
Honto tutorial here.
Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.
You might be thinking, ‘Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?’, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particular) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.
“Hmph, it’s hard to relax in such a needlessly sparkly room.”
Whilst saying that, Raiga arbitrarily decided to sit down on my sofa and made himself comfortable like he owned the thing.
If you’re going to complain then I don’t mind you getting lost… But Raiga doesn’t seem to have any intention of leaving.
For now, let’s try greeting him.
“Hey, Raiga. Is Mei healthy?”
“Yeah. Today I brought her with me to the castle. If possible, I’d like to let her go to school as much as possible, but her morning sickness is pretty bad so I think it’s about time that she starts taking time off school.”
It seems that Raiga is sweet on Mei as usual. Even his usual cold-looking face has loosened carelessly.
“Hm~mm, that sounds rough. …And so, what did you come to talk about today? Right now is my precious rest time you know?”
Henri who was standing nearby showed a baffled expression.
It’s not unreasonable… At the end of the day, the one sitting here is Raiga.
Right now he’s not antagonistic, but just a little while ago he was my natural enemy. When I was young I had a hard time because of his followers too.
Because of the incident with Count Tito earlier, we’ve gotten closer but… that doesn’t mean that I can let my guard down yet.
After all, even though he owes us about Mei’s rescue, he’s acting ridiculously arrogantly right now.
“I came to tell you that I’d lend you my subordinates… Your subordinates are all theory-loving magicians aren’t they?”
“Hahh? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“Like I said, I’ll make it so that you can use my knight order. Honestly speaking, you don’t have enough knights after all.”
“Mm~mn, I can’t really deny it.”
It’s just like Raiga says.
At present, the knights in the castle are splendidly split into the King Faction knight brigades and the Royal Prince Faction knight brigades, based on their dispositions.
And vexingly, the knights in the Royal Prince Faction… or rather, the knights under Raiga’s control are better quality. Being a muscle-head, he has his own knights.
Right now the knights in the King Faction are constantly vying for accomplishments, and there are lots of times when they don’t do their jobs properly when the time comes. It seems that the time that I was abducted was the same.
Even though they should have ability, instead of training their skills they’re busy getting better at pushing the blame onto others… Honestly speaking, having Raiga’s knights go with Achille and Camille would be really reassuring.
“Magicians are a bundle of individualism, and aren’t suited for physical labour either. You need knights that you can use, right?”
Certainly, having knights in the extremist subjugation would be reassuring. When all’s said and done, their physical strength is on another level.
Both Camille and Achille are slender, so they’re not suited for jobs that use their body…
“But why did you suddenly feel like lending me your knights?”
Raiga suddenly averted his eyes.
“Hmph, you’re having trouble aren’t you…? Both that magic idiot and that prodigy in sheep’s clothing aren’t by your side.
Could it be that because Camille and Achille aren’t by my side… He’s paying attention to me?
That Raiga is? Even though he’s Raiga?
Since we were children, we haven’t gotten along.
We never directly fought but even so we had problems with each other.
“Have you gotten soft because you’ve become a father?”
I suppose wonders do happen.
Raiga looked at me and gave a massive grimace. Blue eyes just like mine narrowed unhappily.
But it doesn’t seem like he’s withdrawing his offer.
“I’ll be staying in the castle for a while you see… There are heaps of things to do.”
“Things to do?”
I reflexively asked him.
“The garbage that would harm Mei, I’m going to beat out all of it from the castle without exception…”
Then, isn’t that the same as what I’m doing? He wants to do something about the rotten leaders of this country, right?
…What timing.
“Raiga.”
“What?”
“I’ll help you with that. At the very least, I think I can completely clean up the King Faction after all, and I’ve prepared a few things for the Royal Prince Faction too.”
“I see.”
Raiga looked like he was thinking for a little. His silver hair wavered.
“Well then, I’ll try my best to do something about the Royal Prince Faction… Be careful. My father is moving to use this extremist case to take down the King Faction that’s full of openings.”
“I thought so… Geez, Ojisama, you sure didn’t betray my expectations.”
Honestly speaking, I’m grateful. From my position it’d be difficult to make a move on the nobles of the Royal Prince Faction, so it’s a great help to have Raiga make a move.
“I see.”
We decided to join forces. Our fathers quarrel without end, but there’s no reason that even we have to as well.
And moreover, our interests overlap.
If Raiga cooperates, then we probably won’t suffer from a surprise attack from the Royal Prince Faction while we’re busy with the extremists either.
In that respect, he’s a helpful cousin.
After that, he drank up the tea that Henri brought, demanded more tea and sweets, and after completely wasting my rest time, he left the room with a satisfied expression.
Didn’t he have any suspicions about poison being put in his drinks or food?
Is he broad minded? Or is he stupid, or bold? …I don’t really understand this cousin of mine.
Author’s Note:
Raiga-sama is clumsy, but is actually a good guy… is what this story was about (laughs) With his beast-like intuition, he can see through enemies and poison.
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One Day I Became a Burikko Villainess Noble Girl, out now.
Honto tutorial here.
Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.
You might be thinking, ‘Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?’, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particular) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.
“Mn, mn… So she’s coming?”
After receiving a message from Henri, I sank down into a luxurious chair in my room.
Everything in this room was chosen by me, as was the interior decoration of my dorm room at the academy. If I don’t arrange the things around me myself, I just can’t calm down. There have been traps in furniture countless times after all.
The “she” I mentioned, of course refers to Beatrix.
It was a bother making all the preparations and arrangements to take Beatrix as my wife, but with this it’s a certainty that I can have her nearby now…
“She’s probably angry, huhh.”
There’s no way that a straightforward and honest person like her wouldn’t be dissatisfied with the methods I took.
I honestly wanted to spend more time deepening my relationship with her. Just like Achille and Camille… No, that really might have taken too long.
But I don’t have much time left, so it can’t be helped. It’s the answer that I’ve reached after much thought.
And I don’t regret this.
It’s a decision I’ve made to ensure that the things important to me remain by my side.
I know. I know how easily the things important to you can disappear if you don’t take extra care to protect them.
“I wonder if Achille and Camille are okay.”
I’m quite worried about the safety of my two dear friends.
They’re moving together with the soldiers sent to the town to suppress and drive out the extremists.
According to the notice from this morning, the extremists are planning on heading to Viscount Jade’s territory from the territory they’ve controlled.
“I actually wanted to go with them too…”
It’s impossible given my position though.
Sometimes I really loathe this position of mine, but nothing can be done about it. Being the case, I feel that it’s better to make effective use of this shitty position and do something constructive.
Topageria have probably taken care of the thing I requested of them.
With this, the movements of the extremists should be restricted to an extent.
The king of the neighbouring nation didn’t seem to particularly object. In exchange, I’m taking the knight of the second prince (who had issues finding a husband) as my queen after all.
The neighbouring nation seem to feel guilty about the Frau Monier incident too.
Who would have thought that one of the key members of the extremists was a Topagerian, even if adopted.
A reply from the Topagerian king came, saying that he had received my complaint and was moving to impede their activities.
It isn’t just limited to outside the country. From now on there’s a mountain of things I need to do internally.
I get it. I get that I’ll eventually have to pay for something as selfish as wanting to enjoy school life a little, despite knowing about the conflicts within the castle.
“It seems that our nation will need a large cleanup pretty soon, huh? It seems that all the filth in the castle has been just about gathered up after all.”
“Indeed, Your Highness.”
Henri smiled.
He’s the grand chamberlain that’s followed me since I was a child, and stays by my side even now.
Henri is like a parent figure, someone else important to me.
“Well then, let us move forward the preparations for the clean-up, Your Highness.”
“Mn.”
The proof that Achille spent many years researching to pull out the problem of these geezers… For some reason Achille is really good at finding these things, and I was taught by him too.
All that’s left is to clean up the castle from the roots.
“Sorry to my father and uncle but… if they covered up this much fraud commited by their subordinates, then they probably can’t be covered for anymore.”
And, one day I’ll be having them leave the castle as well.
Honestly I want to drive them out right this minute, but as you’d expect, that’s impossible at this stage.
-knock knock-
Somebody’s knocking at the door. I wonder who it is.
Right now is my precious rest time, so I even told them not to let anybody in.
“Just who is it…?”
Henri headed towards the door… and then returned with a bewildered expression.
“Y-, Your Highness…”
Without even even time to ask him what was wrong, the door to my room was violently opened.
“Seriously… Does not a single one of your subordinates know how to guide people properly?”
“Eh-?”
“Royce, we need to talk.”
Shaking off the chamberlains who tried to stop him as he boldly made his entrance was a person surprising enough that I couldn’t immediately complain due to the shock.
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One Day I Became a Burikko Villainess Noble Girl, out now.
Honto tutorial here.
Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.
You might be thinking, ‘Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?’, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particular) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.
FYI, ‘scenario’ in english visual novel jargon etc. refers to the story/script. Ah, btw, I’ve been using ‘villa’ to mean ‘secondary residence of less importance’ but I realised now that villa apparently usually refers to bigger, richer get-away type houses. And um, that’s not what I meant. But “secondary residence” sounds less fluid, so I’ll keep using villa. Unless you guys prefer ‘secondary residence’ and ‘secondary estate’. Please leave a comment if you have a preference or an opinion.
This… might be different to the Revolution End.
In the game’s Revolution End, at the very least, there was no mention of a town like this.
Or it could be that it just hadn’t been mentioned in the story, but it really did end up in this state.
The game’s Revolution End went like this.
The K of Clovers and the protagonist managed to get together…
After that, the Garnet Nation wanted to use her magic and aimed for her, but they somehow managed to avoid it. Three years later, they started the revolution and the monarchy collapsed.
The ringleader was shockingly revealed in the end to be the K of Clovers.
The revolution succeeded, and the king and Royce-sama were executed.
In front of the guillotine, the heroine and the K of Clovers stared at each other in a trance, and that scene spelled the end of the game’s scenario, so we don’t know what happened after the revolution.
“There’s no way I’ll let Royce-sama be executed.”
I was sideways on my quill, and overlooked the chaotic city from high above in the skies.
There was a flame rising from the plaza. Around it was a group of men who seemed to be extremists, raising their voices.
I still can’t hear what they’re saying, but it’s probably criticism towards the monarchy or something.
All of the extremists were wearing black clothing, and green scarves around their necks.
“It’s worse than I thought, huh…”
They probably fought with the public safety force… there were vivid scars left here and there around the town.
“Now then, time to work, time to work.”
My job was to indirectly assist the soldiers who were driving the extremists out of town, as well as help the soldiers who were taking back the other town from the extremists’ hands.
This was the compromise between Royce-sama and Achille.
I wasn’t standing on the front lines, but if the soldiers were in danger, then I’d lend them a hand… What a complicated position.
A few other Red magicians came along to this town. They should be carrying out their jobs of helping out the soldiers at other locations.
Achille went to check on the viscount’s estate, and we’ll be meeting up later. Thanks to the great efforts of the viscount’s soldiers, it seems that the fire was kept at a small scale.
The soldiers from the castle charged into the plaza.
I’m worried about Achille who’s gone elsewhere, and Royce-sama who remained at the castle.
I had the two of them wear the new tattoos that I completed.
Using the dyes from the flowers I plucked from the academy greenhouse, I tattooed their arms with a scale design. The effect is protecting the two from forbidden arts up to two times.
Honestly I wanted to do something more Hearts-ey like pictures of hearts or roses, but… I lacked the courage to draw those kinds of designs onto a man’s body.
So I went with a simple design. You could even mistake it for a bracelet at first glance.
Of course, I have them on my arm too.
They can’t completely protect us from forbidden arts, but I think that this is enough to somehow protect us from surprise attacks.
The soldiers of the castle were cornering the extremists. The soldiers were catching the scattering men.
“How strange.”
A certain group of extremists grouped together and ran in the same direction. And chasing them were soldiers.
Even though it would be easier to lose their pursuers if they split up, instead they’re showing no signs of breaking up which is odd. It looks almost as if they’re leading the soldiers somewhere.
They approached a narrow alleyway, and the moment that the soldiers formed a line, the extremists ambushed them from the side.
Some of them came out from the windows of commoner houses, some of them came from the side-streets, and they attacked the soldiers all together.
The line of soldiers fell into disarray.
“Mmn, things look bad at this rate, don’t they.”
Just in case, it’s better to do something early, right? Achille told me not to make a move until the very last moment thought.
From the skies above, I aimed for the direction of the extremists.
“Ummm, I wonder if sleeping magic and wind magic would be good… If I use too much magic then it seems like Achille will scold me again for wasting magic power after all.”
I used wind magic to carry the sleeping magic to the extremists.
The movements of the extremists who were vigorously attacking the soldiers became sluggish. They collapsed one by one.
“Ohh dearr. A few of our allied soldiers fell asleep as well… Adjusting this sure is hard.”
Well whatever. With this, the soldiers should make a comeback.
The soldiers who once again held the upper hand began arresting the extremists.
※
“Camille!”
Somebody called out from behind me, and when I turned around, I found that Achille was floating on a quill just like I was.
It seems that he came back from the viscount’s villa before I knew it.
“Ah-, Achille. Welcome back. Was your villa okay?”
“It’s fine. Father and Desirée are dealing with the rest.”
He didn’t mention Dominique’s name… even though he’s the first son. And even though he’s the next head.
I had the feeling that it was better not to delve too deeply, so I decided not to mention it and just gave a smile.
“I see.”
“It seems that the soldiers of the castles have the upper hand here, huh. I wonder if driving all of the extremists out of town is just a matter of time.”
“Mn, it was annoying so I had them sle-… Ah, I mean, nevermind.”
“…”
Achille was looking at me like he wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed.
Phew, it looks like I’m off the hook this time.
“Camille, let’s move to the town that has their headquarters. Another group of soldiers are already headed their way.”
I nodded towards Achille, and turned my quill towards the direction of that town.
This town is probably alright now.
“Got it.”
The town that serves as the extremist headquarters is just nearby.
We flew through the skies towards it.
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One Day I Became a Burikko Villainess Noble Girl, out now.
Honto tutorial here.
Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.
You might be thinking, ‘Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?’, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particular) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.
Just a reminder that the Q of Clovers speaks in a Kansai dialect, possibly Osakan but I’m not skilled enough to tell. Or rather, I could look it up if I wanted to know but I don’t care. And don’t ask me what accent I’ve translated it into, because I made it up just now. Real accents are too hard.
“‘onestly, ‘uu is it!? ‘uu’s the idiot that’s been usin’ gunpowder in the middle of the bloody town!?”
I heard that the town that my parents’ clinic was in met with the extremists, so I came running.
I’m taking leave from my maid work today.
They probably set alight a large amount of gunpowder with magic.
A pillar of flame rose from the area near the town’s central plaza. The clinic is fairly close to the plaza if you use the back streets.
There was a rumour that the extremist commoner forces had taken over a town close to this one but… it seems that it was true.
“What a troublesome bunch.”
When I first found out about the existence of the extremists, I was feeling a little dissatisfied about the current monarchy, so I just silently watched over them though.
I was an idiot for considering for even an instant about supporting people who’ll destroy the town like this. The people of this town who felt the same way as me are probably thinking the same thing. For a group who’s opposing the monarchy for the sake of the people to be disrupting the lives of the people, what are they thinking?
“It would’ve been fine ‘ad the soldiers just suppressed them earlier, but…”
This town lies in the territory of Viscount Jade so the soldiers of the Jade family are running about firefighting and leading the citizens to safety. But I know; the Jade family isn’t financially affluent, so they don’t maintain that many soldiers.
What’s left is the town’s vigilante brigade, but it seems that they already have their hands full with ensuring the safety of the citizens.
The nation’s public safety force that’s stationed in this town… were the very first ones targetted by the extremists, and were wiped out. I think they were stationed at the pillar of flame from earlier.
Even while that was happening, a bunch of people that seemed to be extremists were raising their voices in the area near the flame pillar.
“An organisation that ignores the livelihood of the people and does nothing but war internally is unneeeded!”
“An organisation that threatens the livelihoods of the people is unneeeded!”
Are they idiots? The ones threatening our livelihoods right now are you lot!
My parents’ clinic was terribly busy.
Normally it’d be better for my parents to take shelter as well… but the injured kept being carried in one by one, so my father the doctor and my mother the nurse didn’t run away.
Members of the public safety force, and normal citizens who were wrapped up in the extremists’ attacks…
“Dad, mum!”
“Aurelia? Why are you in a place like this?”
“What about your work? This place is dangerous, so go back to the Viscount’s estate!”
My father and mother both took the same attitude.
“Today is my break day. I was worried, so I came to see ‘ow this place was goin’… I’ll ‘elp.”
I’ve always been helping my parents since I was small, so I can generally do the jobs required at the clinic.
Without listening to my parents, I began running about treating the patients.
“So you’re the ones that were sheltering the pawns of the nobles!”
The door to the clinic was suddenly opened, and a large man walked in.
“What’s with ya?”
One by one, men who seemed to be the large man’s companions came in one by one.
“The members of the public safety force should be here. Hand them over.”
“There’s no way we could hand over our patients to you people.”
My father had appeared from inside the clinic, and told the man as such with a firm attitude.
“Are you guys planning on supporting the nobles?”
The man closed in on my father with a severe expression.
At this rate, my father might be in danger… The moment I thought this, another extremist man barged into the clinic and shouted.
“The soldiers have been deployed from the castle! Head back right now!”
The men flew into a panic, and ran away from the clinic one by one.
Finally, all the extremist men disappeared from the clinic.
“We’re saved…”
My father and I both weakly sat down on the floor of the clinic.
After a while, my mother told me “You’re blocking the way.” and kicked me.
Oww…
Ummm, so as some of you may have noticed, I’ve picked up Tilea’s Worries. The poll in the end had 25% against me picking it up, and 75% for, so I’ll be picking it up as another side project.
For the record, my ‘main’ project is Otoburi because not only do I really enjoy it, but also because it’s a lot of fun to translate. And it just happens to be at the right level of difficulty for Japanese practice. I learn a lot less than the rest. Ah, hm. This isn’t really a status update so I guess I’d better add ‘random message’ to the post name huh.
Uhh, what was the point of this post again? Oh yeah, right. What to do next. Err, so I’ve actually got a few things on my mind. I guess it’s time for another strawpoll.
Please do BOTH. And have a look at Otoburi chapter names on the TOC before you vote. (:
And yes, I’m aware that I have a terrible habit of wanting to pick up more teasers. Can’t be helped. It’s refreshing for me. Plus, I want these to get picked up over others. Hoping I can shift the tides even a little bit by converting leechers who will then go beg translators when they ask “What project should I pick up?”.
“There’s no response. He’s just like a corpse.” is actually a stock system phrase from Dragon Quest.
Dark History/Black History（黒歴史, kurorekishi）, if you don’t already know, is a tongue-in-cheek Japanese term about embarassing things that a person doesn’t want to remember about their past. Usually stupid shit they do like writing a love poem, or dyeing their hair blonde for a high school debut. Perhaps dating somebody they really shouldn’t have.
It seems like Jiisan is out cold, huh.
-poke poke-
I try lightly poking him with my foot.
…………
Mn, there’s no response. He’s just like a corpse.
Now then, since all the obstructions are gone, let’s get to the main point. I turn back towards Timu.
“Timu, do you have anything to say?”
“Human-, no, with that power you cannot be. What on earth are you?”
“Phew~ It seems like you still don’t get it at all, do you?”
Like I thought, it seems that she hasn’t reflected yet. I was thinking that if Timu regretted her actions and apologised then I would forgive her. But, she’s continuing to act as her event character Camilla to avoid the issue.
Well, it’s not as though I don’t understand the feelings of not wanting to apologise. Her feeling of resentment about me leaving her aside and making her feel lonely is probably quite strong. But using chuunibyou to run away from reality will only bring unhappiness to Timu’s life. I suffered because of this in my previous life.
It can’t be helped. This is for Timu’s sake. I closed the distance to swing the whip of love.
“So you plan on finishing me off next!? But I am the one known as Camilla of the Flash; I cannot hesitate.”
Timu began to chant some sort of incantation-sounding chant. And then Timu’s body was enveloped by a magic circle.
“Timu? What are you doi――”
“Hmph, this is my most powerful secret technique. O magic bullet, become countless stars! Star Freya![Super Demonic Star Magic Bullets!]”
“Wha-!? Magic!”
No way! Timu is using magic. Something like bullets of magic are being created from Timu’s hands. And moreover, in countless numbers.
Amazing. Just when did Timu learn to do something like this?
Certainly, it’s possible to use magic in this world. But by no means can everybody use it. Only chosen people who have foundations in magic can use it.
Timu, you…
You’re actually a genius at magic as well, aren’t you!
Today has been nothing but surprises. Her running speed was amazing, and then there was her ability as an actress, and then I found out that she can even use magic.
There’s a school of magic in the capital. And if she enrols there and trains hard, she might be able to work for the palace in the future. Timu, even though you have this much talent…
Timu, I’m begging you. Please take care of yoursel――Huh? Oi oi, isn’t Timu kinda aiming those magical bullets at me?
Isn’t this bad-
“Feel free to become chunks of flesh!”
“Ah-, ow, that hurts-, owowow! H-, Hey, Timu, it hurts I said――”
Just as I expected, the magical bullets were shot from Timu’s hand and hit me. A rapidfire of shots flew from Timu’s hand and hit me without even giving me a chance to breath.
Uu, each time one hits me my skin stings.
How do I say this? Right now Timu is…
Right, she’s like a kid randomly firing BB bullets from their model gun.
…I see. So this is why Timu’s chuunibyou has progressed beyond my expectations. Being able to use magic is like having a kind of status. It’s easy to think that you’re someone special. In Beruga town where I live, the people who can use magic is basically limited to the former adventurer Guard Captain Bizef after all.
Moreover, there’s probably no mistaking that Timu has been practising in secret. And she managed to learn how to use this emission type magic. Even though this is probably beginner’s magic, she probably learnt this all by herself without anybody teaching her.
It’s amazing! She probably wanted somebody to praise her. I bet she especially wanted me, her older sister, to see it.
But I was completely preoccupied with my cooking, and didn’t pay her any attention. And it seems likely that while she was lonely and using magic all by herself, that jiisan(Nielsen) saw her and said, “What’s with this child? She can use magic! And she’s cute! She is surely the master I sought, Camilla-sama! Camilla-tan, lick lick“.
And what happened after that goes without saying. He flattered Timu with cunning words and aggravated her chuunibyou.
Damn it, that damned pervert(Nielsen)! You’re not a jiisan anymore. You’re just a pervert. I’m getting angry again. Should I kick him once more to be safe!?
No, but there’s something I should be doing before that. Disciplining Timu.
Right now, Timu is just like a kid who had somebody buy them a model gun. Usually when a parent buys their child a toy gun, they teach them not to shoot it at others. Teaching them the rules is a matter of course. As her older sister, I have to teach her properly.
That you can’t fire magic at people!
“Geez, Timu, enough already!”
I ran through the barrage of bullets and forced Timu’s arms behind her back. And like that, I lifted Timu’s bottom up. Indeed; this is the typical spanking position.
“Wha-!? What do you intend to do to me? U-, Unhand me! I-, I can’t move!?”
“Timu, naughty children need to be spanked.”
I waved my hand back and forth and showed Timu a spanking motion.
“Hmph, physical attacks will not affect me so easily, you know. This body of mine has a magical barr――Guhah-!”
I spanked Timu’s bottom, whether she agreed or not. Timu let out a cry of suffering. I almost stopped my hand unconsciously, but if I went easy on her here, it would all be for nothing.
“Timu, please reflect on what you’ve done!”
“Hahh, hahh, i-, impossible! To so easily break through my magic barrier――――A-, and moreover, to put in such an enormous amount of mana.”
Timu, you’re still going to speak that nonsense? It seems that you haven’t been punished enough, have you?
I spanked her bottom again.
But Timu continued to say things such as “mana” and “the pride of the Demon King Army” and wouldn’t reflect.
It can’t be helped. I spanked her more.
Each time Timu let out words that weren’t reflecting, I spanked her. With the sound of each sharp slap, I could hear Timu’s moan. Her bottom has become red too.
Uuu, this really is tough. I don’t want to see my beloved little sister suffering. But discipline is important. Taking care that it’s not strong enough to hurt her, but still strong enough that she’ll reflect, I continue to spank her as I regulate the power――――
“Guha-, gahah-! Haa, haa, I-, I’ll die.”
“Should I give you another hit?”
“Uu-, uuuuu――――I-, I was wrong. Please stop it alreadyy!”
Timu finally began to break down in tears. There’s still a little chuunibyou left in her speech, but it seems that she’s finally reflected. Seeing Timu crying hurts my heart.
Timu, I’m sorry.
Even though it was necessary, I still hit my beloved little sister. It was tough for me too. Mn, I’ll stop the scolding here. Timu’s already reflected after all, so I need to comfort her, right?
“Timu.”
I spoke to her in the gentlest voice I could muster.
“Uu-, uuu… K-, Kill me! H-, Having received this kind of humiliation, I can never live it down!”
Timu gave me a frantic and angry glare.
Timu, humiliation, you said?
――――I see! I’m sure Timu is embarassed. Not only did her chuunibyou get really bad, but on top of that she even raised her hand against her older sister. She’s definitely worrying about that. In my past life when my parents gave me a warning and I acted violently, I wanted to die as well. Because my behaviour was shameful, I just kept thinking about it. Timu is probably feeling the same way right now.
――――Alright. Then right now, I’ll talk to Timu about my past life. I hadn’t planned on telling anyone about the memories of my past life. I’d hate for them to think I was a crazy after all. But I have to say it. If I tell her about how in my past life, I had a severe case of chuunibyou and raised my hand against my family, Timu should be able to empathise and understand.
Compared to me, Timu has absolutely nothing to be ashamed about.
And to comfort her, I’ll let her know just how much I care about her.
“Timu, listen up.”
“W-, What…?”
I gazed at Timu with a serious expression.
And then about how I was a reincarnater, about how I was born in a country called Japan in my past life, about how in my past life I suffered from chuunibyou, ah, but since she wouldn’t understand the word ‘chuunibyou’, I confessed that as the ‘Evil God Dark Matter’ I did some extremely cringeworthy things.
And then, even about how in the end I was run down by a truck, and passed away all too quickly…
…I told her all of it. It ended up being all of my dark history, didn’t it?
Does Timu understand what I’m really trying to say?
“F-, For something like that to have been――――W-, What have I done!?”
Mmn, though she seems to be in shock, it looks like she believes me.
“Timu, right now you might be weak. But you’ll definitely become strong. You can definitely become strong! Fate has chosen me to be reincarnated as your older sister after all. I’ll always watch over you.”
“I-, I――”
“Let’s keep getting along, okay?”
To show her that we’d made up, I hugged Timu.
And in my arms, Timu looked up at me,
“Yes. As Evil God-sama commands――”
and said that to me with enraptured eyes.
W-, Why?
It seems that my troubles are going to continue.
tl: “mana” and “the pride of the Demon King Army” is actually “我(ware)” and “the pride of the Demon King Army”. Using 我 in Japanese as a self-pronoun is very umm, grand, I guess. A young girl using it as her default personal pronoun would be a great show of chuunibyou I suppose.
お兄ちゃん、やめてぇ！ 