2 I Am Homeless Emperor!?(2/2)

Moving forward by another year, it will pass 5 years since I transferred to this world. I've thrown away my pride back then, and I would do it even now if it fits the situation.

I used to think I don't want to become homeless because if I became so, it's shameful because it is the embodiment of 'society's failure,' and now that I became so, I have nothing but amazement for them.

It's hard to fish for edible food at the trashcan and live your way on a cold day. Not to mention, showers, food, and cloth.

On my way to the hidden base, I found a person all cloaked, covering their body including the head, lying down at a chair in the public park. At first, I thought of avoiding it because as a homeless, it was important to hone your instinct to survive, and that person reeked of 'danger.'

But then, as I was about to pass by, the body which was facing the chair, rolled over to face the sky, causing me to see the beautiful face which was breathing heavily and seemed to be in distress.

A dolt of shock ran through my body as I looked over her face. Then, I made a decision that caused me to question this decision even now.

"Satan, what am I doing... I am past my puberty..." Truth be told, although I did take some small attention because of my black hair, no one really did attempt to interact with me.

Probably because of how I look, how I must have smelled (I can't smell myself), and how I act.

Seeing the person in agony, I walked up to her and patted her shoulder to wake her up, "excuse me, miss, are you okay?"

Even after my action, she remained the same, breathing heavily in agony. Shaking my head to firm my resolution, I opened the cloak, revealing the attire she was wearing along with her fit body.

She seemed to wear everyday clothes and a jacket above it, but within her jacket, belts were tightened around her waist and chest to prevent her breast from swaying.

On her leg, she wore a mini-skirts with tights which were torn all over. Back then, I decided not to pry deeply into her background.

Looking into the problem, at that time I soonly found a snake bite on her shoulder, and her arms were pale, not looking too healthy.

On the spot, I remembered the first-aid book which I read, and I made up my mind.

Rather than bringing my tool (found discarded) here, I decided to bring her along to my secret base because, by the time I got my tool to treat her, the poison would have spread to her heart.

"Lucifer, I think I want to save this girl," I justified my action by talking to myself.

I have to admit it myself but I had an interest in evil gods back then. Although I still have an interest in them now, it isn't to the point of I add their name to my sentence when I talk to myself like back then.

I piggybacked the girl to my secret base and started treating her.

"Err, the book said to suck out the poison, didn't it? Wait a minute, won't I poison her instead with my saliva?" I have to admit it, but at the time, I don't remember when was the last time I brushed my tooth.

"Ey, fuck it. The book said to suck out the poison and dip the wound with warm water after doing it, sorry for defiling you," I apologized first to the girl before I leaned my entire body to the unconscious girl.

If one looked in the wrong direction, one may misunderstand it and to be honest, even I think I am sexually harassing her.

Keeping my strange expression, I started sucking the poison out of the girl's body. Whether it was against my will, as I was sucking the poison out, my saliva reluctantly enters from the bite wound to inside the girl's body, and finally, then, did her skin begin to return to its original healthy color.

"Dear Beelzebub, this technique really is effective," I was surprised at how fast the poison was retracting and thought that I did a great job copying the instruction mentioned in the book.

Now that the poison was completely erased, I still dipped her in warm water.

Then, I let the girl rest for a while, in my rest outside the house I made for myself, I began to wander off inside my mind, "what do I do next? What if she was dangerous? Do you think a lion would thank you for healing its wound?"

I talked to myself. This was how I used to advert my attention from loneliness back in the day.

By the way, on the next day, she disappeared... and reappeared the next next day.

"Ah, there you are. Shirasaki-san! I've been searching for you the entire time! You are the one who saved me the day before yesterday, right?" the woman from before, tapped my back.

"How do you even know my name..." Surprised at the sudden appearance, yet still alert to what she might do to me for seeing her face or whatever the cliche, I guarded myself... though I got to be honest I don't know how to guard myself.

"Eh, Ah... That's right, everyone calls you Homeless Emperor, and you're famous around here! So, it's not that weird, right?" the girl moved her hand around in confusion.

"I don't remember telling a single person my name, though?" Although I was still alert, that small act of hers caused my heart to melt with sweetness. I've already known that she was adorable since I first met her but acting that cute was just too much for me.

'I am being called Homeless Emperor around here? What the fuck?' For the first time, I understood what the citizens around me thought of me.

"A-anyway! I've come to you to send you my gratitude. We're but a stranger but you saved me out of kindness, I am truly grateful for that! Is there a way to repay this favor?... That's right, can I buy you food in return for saving my life yesterday?" The girl blatantly changed the topic.

[Free Food]. For someone like me who hasn't had the opportunity to earn legal money yet, and ate junk(literally) food every day, it was the most pleasing thing to have heard about in 5 years.

But then, I remembered her expression the day before yesterday.

Who are you talking about, I am the local homeless, in fact so local that people around here started calling me Homeless Emperor. I know every single place around here and am sure that snake doesn't exist in this neighborhood.

Not to mention, that suspicious clothes of her, it didn't take a genius to realize that someone was targeting her life. So, I worried for her.

At the time, I made it myself that this will be the last time I will be worrying about the girl.

"Are you... okay with your work? Look, I'm not trying to pry on your background too deeply, but before we have food, have you done your reporting to your boss yesterday?" Of course, going out to food was an already decided thing.

"So you knew..." the girl, said with an appalled face.

"Yes, only that you may be a person of dangerous profession, or that someone is or was targeting your life," I said unsure.

"Haah~, I am so bad at this... That was Gu Poison, a deadly poison brought from Celestial. Unless you have the antidote for it, it is impossible to cure it, so they thought I would surely die and took it leisurely. Yesterday, they found my corpse," the girl gave up on hiding herself like she usually did but sucked at.

'It isn't possible to cure unless you had the right antidote? Then, no way the technique of the book I read in the common library would work for it. Did someone give an antidote to her before I came to rescue her? Or is it because I am strange?" At the time, I was thinking something like this.

Then, said this, "are you going to stay dead?" I wanted to see through what this girl was thinking but the human wasn't made to be able to do that.

"Honestly, I am hesitating. I feel the duty to come back to my organization but a side of me also says, that I don't want to. It's weird because I usually don't hesitate... I am just made not to hesitate," the girl said unknowingly.

She wasn't aware, but this was the most emotion she has shown in a short time since this year came by. I also didn't know that, obviously.

"A shady organization... so you being a dangerous person is a sure thing. Anyway, keep being dead. I've seen a human dies in front of me, but to be honest, that's not something that you should witness every day, especially at your age and your gender."

This was the moment when our common sense collided.

To the girl, the order of an organization was absolute. If she had a lover and the organization told her to kill that person, she would do it without hesitation.

But my word has successfully developed a hesitation inside her mind. Is it because she knew that it was the organization that tried to erase her? Or was it because of the my saliva that entered inside her, as if purifying the curse inside her?

Even to this day, both I and her wouldn't know there was a certain thing.

"Come on, what is your name?" It was when I asked this question, that the hesitation in her mind turned into a decision.

"I... It is the name that no one knows, not to mention, remembers. I will truly introduce myself for the first time. I, the White Cleaner, Sakamata Chloe retire from the organization and introduce myself to you." Chloe said.

Now that I think about it, isn't this the last time Chloe spoke formally? Whatever, continue the story.

"It's a pleasure meeting you, Chloe, now now, let's go eat a meal!" for some reason, at the moment, I was happy to know that I am the first person to ever know her real name.

'Still, White Cleaner is a weird nickname though,' honestly speaking, I thought at the time and even now, that her nickname was weird.