Arifureta After III Brutal Hero Shia Arc I Killed Him, Desu?
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「……Hajime, wake up. Hajime.」
A voice that was like a breath of fresh air entered inside his very heavy head.
「……Hajime. Shia is……Shia is……wake up, Hajime.」
The familiar lovely voice had a reverberation that sounded vaguely agitated.
*Shake shake* The small hand was shaking him. The sensation felt like he was in a cradle that invited sleepiness instead.
「……Hajimeee. Wake uuup. Shia is~」
*Shake shake*. In addition, *bum!* a weight came down on his stomach……
Sleepy. He was really sleepy. But, it seemed his beloved vampire princess wanted Hajime to wake up no matter what.
It wasn’t a trivial matter for her to be this agitated. Even his brain that was working dully from sleepiness’s attack could sense that at least.
With hardship, Hajime faintly opened his eyelids that were transforming into powerful magnet.
「Aa~, Yue?」
「……Nn, Yue here.」
It was Yue-sama. Yue-sama who looked like she was fretful for some reason, or perhaps looking troubled, was straddling Hajime’s stomach with expression that was hard to describe.
「What’s wrong, why are you making that face? Did something happen?」
His voice was filled with heavy sleepiness, however, Hajime asked while caressing Yue’s head with extremely gentle hand motion.
Yue narrowed her eyes pleasantly for a brief moment, but she immediately renewed her expression as though to say 「This isn’t the time for this!」.
「……Hajime, trouble.」
「Huh? Did I make some trouble?」
「……Nn, wrong. Hajime didn’t cause any trouble. You were just sleeping normally. Rather, thank you for the wonderful sleeping face.」
「Ah, right. So? What is it?」
「……About Shia.」
「Shia?」
It seemed there was a trouble that happened to Shia.
Hajime focused his eyes and kicked his awakening brain into gear while asking what Yue meant.
The straddling Yue-sama made a really serious expression.
Hajime was filled with bad premonition. ‘Don’t tell me……’ he thought.
Did Shia turned the city of Akiba into a scene of carnage?
Did the warriors raised their howl?
Did Shia’s rabbit ears get targeted by them whose boundary was broken?
Or perhaps, had the world already moved?
Every possibility formed and vanished, formed and vanished……
In that case, this might be bad even if this was Shia they were talking about.
In the end, would she be able to escape from that city that had been transformed into a wicked haunt with her own strength?
No, Yue was making a grave expression like this, perhaps the SOS had already arrived!
The battle strength of that city’s warriors, gentlemen, ladies, etc. when finding prey was something that couldn’t be measured with logic.
After all, it surpassed the agents under every country government at the very least!
「……Hajime, listen calmly.」
「Yeah.」
Hajime gulped while staring back at Yue’s eyes that looked like they were going to burst into tears and listened.
「……Shia is, Shia is-」
「What happened!?」
「……possibly thinking that I’m a NEET!!」
Yue’s voice echoed like a scream.
*Tick tock tick tock*, the sound of the clock’s hand was echoing excessively clearly. The room was deathly silent like a grave.
The tearful Yue was making a really grave expression just as before.
「For now, calm down.」
That was Hajime’s first sentence after calmly listening.
「Whatever……」 was written on Hajime-san’s face. The completely spoiling Hajime-san who would forgive almost anything as long it was Yue made a still stare that was reminiscent of Yue. Furthermore, he immediately put back the blanket over himself and moved to shut out Yue from his mind. It felt like the voice of his heart 「I’m sleepy here, stupid idiot」 could be heard.
Yue’s face turned into one where it looked like she had received the biggest shock of her life. If this was in a manga then a sound effect word *GAAAN!* would be drawn behind her. Or perhaps there would be lightning strike and sound effect *PISHAA!!* on the background.
Yue grabbed the blanket barrier that covered Hajime until his head and started pulling insistently.
「……Hajime! Hajimee! Listen ! Listen to mee!」
「……………………What?」
「……If Shia thought of me as a NEET, I, might die from shock.」
「You are immortal.」
「……The wound of heart cannot be automatically regenerated.」
「…………Is your mental soft like tofu huh?」
Most likely it was like that because the other party was Shia. The strongest vampire princess-sama was unexpectedly weak against a blow from someone she liked.
Hajime insistently tugged on the blanket to pull it back on him while answering half-heartedly.
Yue insistently tugged on the blanket to pull it away while speaking with a serious face.
「……I, have a thought. That rather than being told right from the front, being told from words that appeared inside a casual conversation is more damaging.」
‘Generally a person with nothing to do in the house……’, certainly, it sounded like a true feeling that inadvertently leaked out.
She got the feeling that since coming to earth, Shia’s respect toward her was fading.
Certainly there were times when she put her clothes into the washing machine while there was still tissue in her pocket (three times) and she got scolded with fury like erupting volcano……
There were also times when she forgot her turn to take out the trash (four times), it angered Shia greatly……
When she took care of the whole thing with azure dragon because it couldn’t be helped, Shia looked at her with a really exasperated gaze for some reason……
She got reminded frequently about the classification of laundry……
‘Wait a second Yue-saaan! Please don’t roll around at that kind of placeee. I cannot vacuum that place like thii~s’, she was often told like that……
However! Even with the me who am like that!
「……I want Shia to look at me with her usual respect and affection filled gaze!」
‘What should I do?’, Yue-sama turned a pleading gaze while shaking Hajime repeatedly *shake shake*.
Hajime wordlessly turned his eyes at the clock. And then, his gaze became really complicated.
「It has been two hours since Shia went out huh……. Just how much you are troubled by this?」
Yes, two hours were already passing.
During that time, this vampire princess-sama was sitting and hugging her knees on the living room’s sofa while acting dejected all this time.
Hajime let out a sigh, then he suddenly reached out to Yue and pulled her under the blanket.
「……Hajime?」
「For now, let’s sleep. You will feel refreshed for sure when waking up.」
‘Perhaps’, he said inside his heart. He pulled back the blanket over himself while making Yue as his body pillow.
「……Muu. Hajime is avoiding the question……」
Sleeper’s breathing immediately came out from Hajime. Yue pouted her lips while looking up from his chest.
After staring fixedly at him for a while, Yue was also lured by sleepiness. Her eyes drooped and she squirmed in her search for the best position.
And then,
「……Nn. I’ll give Shia a firm talk when she come home.」
She wasn’t an idler by any means. She was only enjoying the time where she wasn’t doing anything!
In other words, she was always super busy at any time!
‘Will it become evening when she return home? Shia, won’t she come home quickly?’ Yue thought while entrusting her body to Hajime and joined him in his afternoon nap.
「……Good night.」
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「Good morning!」
Dahlia’s energetic voice resounded in her rabbit ears.
「……Morning.」
Shia returned the greeting even while not stirring at the slightest. And then, her voice was terribly bitter.
She was imposingly standing still while crossing her arms. She was watching the morning sun completely rising to the zenith of the hill from the window of a luxurious room.
Yes, she was watching the morning sun.
The night was over and the morning arrived. Furthermore, several hours were passing.
And yet,
「My pickup hasn’t come.」
Her rabbit ears, her eyes, and also the corner of her mouth were twitching. Her eyes looked completely angry.
When looking at her wristwatch, eight hours had passed since she was summoned. She went out of the house before noon, so at this time the evening had passed since a long time ago already. It was dinner time.
Then, there should be a phone call to Shia who hadn’t returned home, at the same time they should have noticed that she couldn’t be contacted.
And yet, her pickup hadn’t come.
Could it be, that the gap between worlds were larger than she expected and the magic power requirement was harsh?
She was thinking such possibility, but she still felt a it sad due to the expectation she held at the beginning.
She couldn’t possibly imagine, that to think only two hours had passed at the other side.
And then, she also never imagined that her nonchalant words had deranged Yue.
(We, well, it must be that. Surely there is a problem with the magic power requirement, yep. Even the transfer to Tortus is still in the middle of research to make it simpler I’m told.)
Shia convinced herself somehow.
Beside such Shia, Dahlia bowed with a reserved attitude humbly.
「Udar-sama, good morning.」
『Right.』
The reply came from the sphere of light……the divine spirit of thunder cloud lightly floating between the rabbit ears of Shia who was standing imposingly while staring at the morning sun. His name was Udar. His true name was longer, but it seemed that was how he was called with the range of voice that human could pronounce.
『By the way Shia. Respond to me already. This is the first time I’m ignored like this. I don’t know what to do.』
*Float float, float float. Whirl-.*
Udar-san made an appeal about his own existence toward Shia with a somewhat pleasant impression.
Wonder why? It was nothing more than a light ball, but it looked sad somehow……
「Eh? What? I’m sorry, I didn’t notice at all.」
『……I’m, a divine spirit though.』
「Right now you are just a ball though……」
『……That’s, right isn’t it』
*Flo-loat~, flo-lo-lo-loat~.*
It somehow looked like it was crying.
Now then, why was the divine spirit of thunder cloud Udar was staying at Shia’s side in this state?
To explain it simply, the divine spirit who bore wound in his heart due to Shia’s blow that resounded until his soul became unable to maintain his human form and got reduced until this state of light sphere.
However, Shia had no intention to annihilate the divine spirit, so she didn’t even deal the finishing blow to Udar. Like that, Shia requested the bewildered Udar ‘I’m begging you, let’s have a talk’.
She was victorious in battle when challenging a divine spirit like him right from the front, however she mercifully (?) didn’t take away his life, far from that she said that her wish was only to have discussion. It seemed that left really deep impression on Udar.
In the first place he was the loser. In other words it was equivalent that the will and determination of a divine spirit had lost against what Shia had.
In that case, ‘It’s only right that I respond to the wish of this strong, beautiful, and noble girl!’ it turned like that.
In any case, even if they were going to talk the royal capital was in the middle of full pandemonium and the damage was enormous. The night was also late, there were a mountain of things that had to be dealt with.
And so, Shia who had rendered a distinguished contribution was to rest in a room in the palace. Eric and others would prepare a place for dialogue with the divine spirit after the sun rose, and they ran about to deal with the aftermath before that.
And, that was how they reached this point.
『Shia, Shia. When will the pickup you mentioned will come?』
*Boing boing*, Udar who landed on Shia’s head went *boing boing* while asking. Even though he was a ball of light, his movement was like a slime for some reason.
「H~m, they haven’t come at this time, so perhaps it will take a bit longer……」
『Will it be alright? Our mother Lutria is weakening moment by moment. There won’t even be ten years.』
「Ahaha, I also won’t wait that long.」
Udal bounced *boing boing* on Shia’s head. The gap from his good-looking man appearance was terrific. His appearance was practically like Puyo○yo.
By the way, the mother Lutria he mentioned referred to the will residing in the star tree. The mother of all divine spirits and spirits.
Shia put the bouncing Udar on her palm and smiled wryly while saying 「As expected from god. Their sense of time is really different」.
「……Divine」
Dahlia who was silently watching such interaction of Shia and Udar unconsciously whispered that.
In her eyes, with the dazzling morning sunlight was illuminating them from the window, it seemed that to her it looked like a greatly exalted existence of the divine spirit and the beautiful hero were frolicking with each other.
It was as though she was witnessing a myth that was talked in the book. She watched enraptured.
「Dahlia-san?」
Shia tilted her neck seeing Dahlia whose mind went into a trip.
「My, my apologies! I have only seen a divine spirit-sama calling human with their name and acting intimately like that only in books so, I unconsciously」
Dahlia returned to her senses in surprise and bowed respectfully.
「The preparation of breakfast will finish soon. Before that, how about taking a bath first?」
「Aa~, I see.」
She was also recommended to take a bath first before she was guided to her room, but as expected, Shia had no intention to expose her defenselessness in this place where she didn’t know what would happen and firmly refused.
However, Shia was a wholesome woman. She loved taking a bath. She didn’t feel refreshed at all with just lightly wiping her body.
She endured thinking that there would not be a problem entering the bath and relaxed after her pickup came, but now her heart shook when it looked like her pickup would come late.
Although, she didn’t know when a divine spirit like Udar would come.
Udar guessed Shia’s worry that was wondering what to do and called out.
『Shia, are you being wary?』
「Yes, well. There is no guarantee that Udar-san’s comrade won’t come after all……」
『Then leave it to me.』
「Eh? Will you stop them from coming?」