Now, for the first time in our 8-year relationship, I was on my knees to Yomi.
Like a husband who has been caught cheating on his wife.
…I mean, who’s a married couple geez!
……No, we are not.
Until now I had never told anyone that I had interacted with Isuzu-sama.
Not the Demon Lord, not Yomi.
And somehow Yomi found out about it.
…How did she find out?
No, I wasn’t actively hiding it, but…Still, there should have been no way to be sure.
…Wait, Yomi was sleeping earlier.
So does that mean that Isuzu-sama interfered with her consciousness!? I thought Yomi, being human, cannot be interfered with by Isuzu-sama!
…At any rate, being a sinner, I had no choice but to wait for the sentence to be handed down.
And the verdict was――
「…Umm, Lean. I’m not mad at you, okay?」
「…R-Really?」
「Yes, it’s true. I’m sorry I’m being so mean to you.」
Alas…I knew she was an angel!
How could she so easily forgive me for such a sinful thing…!
「I wonder why Lean started to get down on her knees. It’s not something to get so angry about, is it?」
……
……Huh, you’re right.
Unless you’re a show-off, not telling an occult story like『I can communicate with God』is a no-brainer.
And besides, 80% of my interactions with Isuzu-sama are at tea parties.
Then why did I reflexively get down on my knees…………
Ah.
「Umm…that…to Yomi, I was hiding something from her…I felt guilty…sorry.」
「Huh? I think everyone has something to hide, right? I don’t think you need to feel guilty about that.」
I thought it was an angel, but it really is an angel.
I can’t look directly at her anymore because she is too dazzling.
But I’m looking at her changing clothes.
「I see. Thank you, Yomi. T-Then! Did Isuzu-sama interfere with Yomi too, by any chance?」
「Yes. She said it took her 8 years to finally connect with me. She also gave me some delicious sweets.」
That evil god is really doing a good job of feeding my Yomi.
「Also, she asked me if I wanted to become her retainer, and I told he I’d accept in a couple of years. Also, Mia…She also told me that she made sure that my information regarding my sister’s fascination was kept out of the public eye.」
………………ha?
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「…I see. Both Yomi and Lean have been interfered with by Isuzu-sama… That god… Well, unlike the Goddess Misery, she has been guiding us well, so it’s okay…」
When I told the Demon Lord about this incident, she, as expected, started to hold her head with her hands.
By the way, I’ll keep it a secret that I’m a reincarnated person. It would have too much of an impact.
「Furthermore, Yomi will become a retainer and be given the blessings of an evil god? I wish you would consult me about that kind of thing… Also that? The Mia case, the information leakage was contained?」
「Yes, that’s what she said. She said there was nothing to worry about.」
「Quite a quandary, what have you… Well, let’s just be honest here and say thank you and pray.」
I’m mostly a bit of a jerk, but Demon Lord’s response to Isuzu-sama is rather messy as well.
Are you really the only retainer?
「Well then, it’s time to get down to business. Yomi, what do you want to do with Mia?」
「What to do…?」
Mia.
She is one of the Twelve Holy Apostles, who is now ranked eighth in the hierarchy.
And, according to Yomi, she is her sister.
「I ask you again…is she really your sister?」
「Yes, she is. I haven’t seen her in eight years, but I’m pretty sure that’s her face.」
…Huh, they certainly look alike. Same hair color.
Well, Yomi is prettier.
「……How could a girl like Yomi be born after this goddamned woman? Did they screw up the genetics?」
「That’s what I thought too.」
I don’t know, I just don’t get it. This woman’s face is like a pre-made beauty’s face or something like that.
I admit that I once thought she was beautiful, but that was only because her facial parts were similar to Yomi’s.
「I have already decided what I want to do. I want to kill her with my own hands.」
「…I knew it. But do you understand? You now saying that you will kill a blood relative, even if it is only a blood relative?」
「That woman is just a stranger to me, a blood relative. If I were to use words like『family』, Lean would be much closer than her.」
「Hey, don’t say that. Look, Lean is falling apart.」
「Eh?」
F-Family!?
M-M-Me and Yomi!?
W-Well, that, or, maybe that……
「Um…Lean, you didn’t like it? I, well, you know…I sometimes feel like Lean and I are like twins…」
「I don’t mind it at all, in fact, I welcome it.」
I’m sorry I made a lewd mistake.
I’m seriously sorry I thought it was a husband and wife kind of thing.
「R-Really? Then that’s good. Back to my story, Mia has done a lot of things to me in the past…In my village, Mia was a queen. She was born with a beautiful face, and her parents, as well as most of the people in the village, favored her. Some people treated me as a mediocre child born later in life, a nuisance…including my parents.」
Okay, let’s kill all those people.
You have the nerve to treat my Yomi as an ordinary face.
I’m going to pound my fist into all of their faces and make them the ugliest people in the world before I kill them.
…Apart from that.
「(……But, Demon Lord. No matter how good Mia’s face is, Yomi is as beautiful as she is, right? Why was that woman the only one favored?)」
「(Perhaps it is a matter of nutritional value. The fact that she was favored in the village means that Mia probably grew up beautifully by eating the village’s good crops and other things from an early age. On the other hand, Yomi, who was born later, was not given as much as Mia. Therefore, Yomi lost weight and her beauty was spoiled).」
I see. Okay, let’s kill them all.
That arrogance against my Yomi, deserves all death.
Let’s starve them all to death.
「Lean, stop making that bad face. So, Yomi. I don’t care if you kill Mia, but what are you going to do with all the fascinated demons around her? Are you going to abandon them?」
「No way. I’ve got a body enhancement spell.」
「Oh, I see. So you can stop them from moving.」
Given that, is it strategically better to let Yomi go alone?
…It’s aggravating that I can’t kill that Mia, the only woman I’ve unintentionally let escape in the past, but…let’s give it to Yomi this time for the stones.
「The sooner we do it, the better. We’ll do it tomorrow morning, okay?」
「Yes, leave it to me.」
AN: I think it’s time to remove the “little” from “little lily”……