35 Chapter 34: Crazy girl

"... Well. In any case, I think it would be much better and more believable if I showed it to you directly."

With these words said, Nader, waved his arms and exerted his Space Law around Shizuku, she and the bunny Yuki who was purring like a cat, despite being a bunny, disappeared from the platform at the same time as it dissolved into thin air.

Space distorted in front of Nader, and the girl with her hair pulled back in a ponytail and the bunny with twitching ears appeared in front of him.

Naturally, even this being the third time Nader teleported her, Shizuku could not find a way to overcome the dizziness. She shook her head and when she looked up, she saw Nader standing next to Yue, who was pressed against her body kissing him on the neck, just inches away from her.

Nader raised his hand intending to touch Shizuku's forehead to directly send Noit's memory to her mind, however...

"W-wait, wait! Why are you suddenly coming closer? Getaway, this is too hasty! We can talk about this, okay!? So stay in your place." Surprised, Shizuku took a step back and lifted Yuki forward, using her as a shield made of rabbit with the intention of her stopping Nader instead.

Nader cocked his head in confusion. Even the two people who were sobbing in despair couldn't help but stare in shock and surprise at Shizuku, who always remained serious no matter what situation she was facing. Therefore, seeing an embarrassed expression on her face shocked them to the core.

Of course, this did not go unnoticed by Yue's mischievous ear. She, who caught wind of what was going on, stopped her little kisses and turned her stoic face towards Shizuku.

"Shizuku... You pervert."

You are the most unworthy of labeling me a pervert! shouted Shizuku in her mind as she tried her best to calm her pounding heart. Earlier, because she was a little dizzy, she had seen the beautiful face of Nader, who was almost always within her dreams to save her, suddenly approach her face, as if he was about to seal his lips.

"Are you all right? I feel like you're acting really weird."

"Y-yes. I'm perfectly fine. Yeah, I've never been better than I am right now."

Nader finished with a shrug without delving too deeply into the subject, "Since it's the case... Anyway, as I said before, I want to show you directly what had happened, so I need to touch your forehead."

"O-oh, fine then. You're free to do whatever you want." She nodded a little uneasily and with a serious face, however, the small pink blush on her cheeks remained.

Yue shot a disapproving look at Shizuku before ignoring her and started kissing Nader's neck again. At the same time, Yuki felt hurt with Shizuku as she had literally used her as a rabbit shield.

'I'm afraid that if I tease this overly serious girl too much, she'll end up with her head exploding...'.

With an inner thought, he laughed in amusement, and without a word, Nader touched Shizuku's smooth forehead. Ignoring Shizuku's flinch under his touch on her forehead, he used the [Memory Stealing] skill to show Shizuku the memory fragments where the events experienced at the time Noint saw the 'secret' plot was recorded.

Supposedly, on the night of the same day the heroes returned from the labyrinth, Noint had seen Eri Nakamura smiling sadistically while talking to Hiyama. So, arousing her curiosity, she had focused her ears, catching everything that was going on.

To make a long story short, Hiyama had seen Kaori Shirasaki enter Hajime Nagumo's room, something that made him quite jealous and, at the same time, furious. He had decided to take revenge. At that moment, fury made him curse out loud that he would kill Hajime no matter what price he had to pay. He wanted Kaori to be his alone.

He was so engrossed in his thoughts, that he hadn't noticed a girl watching him from the darkness, a sly, distorted smile on her face.

This girl was none other than Eri Nakamura, who at that moment approached his classmate and for the first time, revealed her true personality.

A sinister, manipulative, and vicious personality that was previously hidden under a mask full of falsehoods.

"To think that my classmate was this kind of person. Pretty disgusting."

"H-ha!? who's there!?" Hiyama shouted in panic and turned around, only to see his classmate.

"Say me. Do you really want to get rid of your love rival by killing him? I wonder how our classmates will react when they find out what you're up to, Hiyama-Kun~."

Eri had an amused and slightly distorted smile plastered on her face, as if she had found her classmate's actions amusing.

Hiyama forgot that he had been caught red-handed, and was surprised by a completely different fact. To say he was quite shocked and surprised was an understatement.

Eri's personality, which normally behaved like an angel in front of the heroes, was not giving credence to what they were seeing, this, of course, applied to Hiyama.

However, he soon regained his composure and his face paled in panic.

"W-why should they believe you in the first place? You have no proof of what I said."

"Really? But unlike you, who had activated the maze trap and is someone who always creates trouble, I'm seen as a good girl, so it's normal for them to believe me, don't you think so too, Hiyama-Kun?~"

"N-no! Anything but that! I'll do anything. Please don't tell anyone."

"Hey, don't make it seem like I'm the bad girl here. Fufu, well, to tell you the truth, I don't want anything from you. However, I want you to be my right-hand man for now."

"You..." Even though Hiyama wanted to refuse and give in right now, he knew that Eri would declare to everyone what she had seen here.

As he thought about killing Eri later as well, Eri smiled wisely as if she already knew what he had in mind and declared.

"I've seen that you want to make Kaori Shirazaki yours, don't you?" Seeing that Hiyama was looking at her without saying anything, but his eyes were shining with greed and lust, she smiled mischievously and continued.

"If you follow me and do everything I want, I will make Kaori Shirazaki yours. You can even make her your sex slave to play with her every day, how about that, isn't it good?"

"... How do you plan to accomplish that, and where do you want to go by doing this?"

"Fufu. That's something that's none of your business at the moment. Sure... if you accept it, I might consider revealing it to you, and if not, you know what will happen... Surely you don't want your filthy tainted name to go around the world."

Cornered, Hiyama bit his lips hard enough to make them bleed and glared at his companion with hatred and fear.

However, having no escape, and not wanting his companions or, worse, the nobles and the Holy Church to frame him, he nodded toward her, "A-all right, but remember your promise."

"Fufu... I knew you weren't as dumb as you showed yourself to be, Hiyama-Kun~" she let out a sweet chuckle as she licked her fingertips. Her mocking gaze on the pitiful figure of her classmate was drawn.

Unaware that Noint was influencing her mind and corroding her mental defense from a distance so that Eri would bring up her true plans and not interrupt with her Lord Ehit, Eri began to drop the beans for her classmate:

"Maa~ It's no surprise that I have the necromancer job. Besides, you must know the scope this ability will have, right? Fufu... now tell me, what would happen if we turn the whole kingdom into undead? Hahahaha..."

The whole time Eri was talking and laughing like crazy, Hiyama was looking at her as if he was in the presence of a smiling Demon personified in front of him.

He was aware of what a necromancer could do. And in turn, he knew that to turn a human into an undead, they would have to murder him! Just imagining the murder of all the people in the kingdom made his hair stand on end as he shuddered.

A madwoman! She's a complete madwoman! Those were Hiyama's only thoughts to describe Eri at this moment. He never thought that this girl who seemed sweet and got along with everyone had such a twisted and psychopathic personality.

At this moment, Hiyama hesitated and seriously considered walking away from this crazy girl and alarming his classmates. However, he was by no means a fool, he knew that no one would believe him. Of course, he liked Eri's idea, but he knew the dangers involved.

"... Kaori, what about Kaori? Do you want to turn her into an undead too?" the boy asked.

Turning Kaori into an undead was the only way Eri could gift Kaori to Hiyama. However, at the thought of having sex with a zombie, Hiyama's face paled.

"Oh?" Seeing the disgust that was on her partner's face, Eri smiled creepily, and the silver reflection of the moonlight illuminated her glasses.

"Come on, come on~ Don't you want Kaori to follow your every command and fulfill your despicable, dark desires? To turn her into a sex slave, a b*tch for the sole purpose of venting your lust? Fufu... And let me tell you something, Hiyama-Kun~".

She approached Hiyama and crouched down to the level of his face before bringing her mouth close to Hiyama's ear and murmuring, "Kaori's appearance will remain the same...".

Leaving a fire of desire burning inside the boy's lustful heart, Eri jumped back with her hands behind her and with a distorted smile, sneered, "Fufu..... Although I guess she'll be a bit cold, that doesn't matter. In any case, I'm counting on you from now on, Hiyama-Kun, Pfhahahahahahaha".

Seeing the demon's back move away and hide in the darkness again, Hiyama's body went limp as he hid his face in the middle of his knees.

"Hehehe... Kaori, don't blame me for this. If you had chosen me instead, you wouldn't have gone through this. Yeah, this is it, it's all that damn otaku's fault... Now no one will stand in the way of our love anymore, hehehehehehe..."

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*Slap* *slap*