Short Story ─ New Year's Wish

Ixion: Hello everyone, Ixion greets you.

Bell: And I'm his assistant, Bell-chan.

Ixion: No one asked for your opinion.

Bell: How cru~el!

Bell: Bell-chan has been looking forward to this segment!

Bell: After all...

*The lights go out and an announcement appears in the background.

Bell: This is the New Year's special! Everyone wants to know what our characters want for this year!

*Characters enter*

Liam: Oh, here we go again. What memories.

Frey: It's certainly a pleasure to be here for another year.

Chlust: It's very nostalgic indeed.

Clovis: It's the first time I've been here. So it feels strange.

Warren: It's nice to be here with all of you.

Erselica: We are one more year alive thanks to all of you.

Cana: My only wish is to be together with Erselica-sama!

Allen: I think so too, it was a good year together with the Master and the Count.

Bell: Umm, I don't think anyone is interested in your opinion, but go on. The real actors haven't arrived yet.

Erselica: Hey, that's offensive to us!

Erselica: ... Anyway, everybody. Say your wishes to go to lunch.

Cana: I already said my wish.

Allen: So did I.

Warren: My wish is like all of ours. To spend more time with Erselica.

Clovis: I couldn't have said it better myself.

Chlust: Erselica is the best thing in the world!

Frey: For the first time I agree with you. It's amazing that such wonderful words have come out of your mouth.

Liam: My wish is like yours, but I wish more that my mother would accept Erselica as my wife.

Bell: It's all very nice, but no one cares what you wish for.

All: How horrible you are!

*They are peacefully removed by robots*.

Bell: Now without further ado, let's welcome Master and the girls!

*A door with lights opens*

Rudel: Ixion, this again?

Airi: It's nice to come back here since it means we've spent more than a year together.

Alisa: The best of all is that we can spend a year together again.

Lucy: This will be my first year with you.

Sara: For a first year, I'm really glad to be here.

Lecia: I should be in the Kingdom working, but I was asked exclusively to come.

Alicia: Even though I haven't shown up yet, it's nice to be here.

Ellen: Fufufu, it's nice to be allowed to be with you.

Ixion: Now that Bell won't bother you anymore. Let's get down to what all the readers want.

Bell: Tell us what your wishes are for this New Year! Haha I beat you!

Ixion: You think so.

Ixion: *Ixion electrocutes Bell*.

Bell: Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Damn youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Ixion: Well, now that the annoyance is out of the way, let's start with you Alice.

Ixion: Oh, for those of you who don't know her. She's the mysterious girl who sent Master a letter confessing her feelings in volume 3, then appeared in volume 5 and 6 briefly to reveal that she's Alisa's cousin and her romantic motives towards Master.

Ixion: Personally, I wish to read how a nice girl like her falls in love with a man like Master.

Alisa: ...

Alicia: Well, my wish is simple. For it is to have the opportunity to be able to converse with Rudel-san.

*Alicia looks in a romantic and blushing way at Rudel*.

*Alisa makes a bad face*.

Ixion: I can't wait to see what you'll say in volume 6. Next is Eleonora.

Ellen: Fufufufu, sounds good to me.

*She crosses her legs and shows her thighs.

Ellen: My wish is only that a certain girl matures and understands that a man can have as many mistresses as he wants.

Alisa: Why do you see me saying that?

Ellen: Fufufu, no reason.

Ixion: Well, next is Sara and then Lucy.

Sara: My wish for this year is to be able to go with Rudel to his country, my family is not against it, but I would like to avoid unnecessary lawsuits with the legal wife.

Lucy: I think the same as her. I want to go with Rudel to his country, but I don't like the way certain people stare at me.

*Alisa and Airi look away*.

Ixion: No doubt the Master's life is interesting, let's go now with you two and at the end the Master and the queen.

Alisa: ... My wish is that certain women will stop associating with my future husband. And may they understand that only women destined for him is the only thing he needs, nothing more and nothing less than the two of us.

Airi: I support Alisa, Rudel-san doesn't need more than two women. He can have all the fun and show off he wants with us. We don't object to him showing off in front of us.

Ixion: No doubt those two are an interesting case of tons of love, aren't they?

Rudel: Shut up. My wish is just to stop having problems in my life.

Rudel: I want to stop stressing about keeping everything from going wrong.

Ixion: I would love it to be as you say, but it's not like that...

Ixion: Let's go to the last person, the queen.

Lecia: Well... my wish is the same as always, that the Kingdom prospers and that the Count supports us in the future when Liam becomes king and makes Alisa and all the other girls happy.

Bell: That sounds very nice and pure for a married woman, but isn't there something missing?

Lecia: Something?

Bell: Yes. Someone's happiness.

Lecia: ... I don't know what you're talking about. My happiness is in seeing the kingdom prosper.

Bell: But the queen is also part of the Kingdom, right? In that case it wouldn't be strange if you wanted to be happy too, would it?

Lecia: I already told you that my happiness is in the Kingdom──.

Bell: Chapter 67 of volume 5, I'm just saying that.

Lecia: ...

Bell: Don't worry, I won't say anything. I just wish you wished you were happy too.

Ixion: Stop bothering the queen, it's still too early for that revelation.

Rudel: You two, stop bothering my queen.

Bell: He said it! The Master said it! He emphasized that the queen is his queen!

Rudel: D-Don't talk nonsense, hahaha.

Alisa: Rudel...

Airi: Rudel-san...

All: ...

*Rudel trembling*.

Rudel: I told you I didn't do anything!

Ixion: I guess in volume 6 we'll find out how much he changed.

Bell: That's all dear readers!

Bell: Did you like it?

Bell: Do you want more?

Bell: Want to see more of my great involvement in the world?

Bell: All that and more you can see when volume 6 is released!

Bell: The surprises and revelations in the upcoming Sacred Tree arc will be awesome!

Bell: New characters! Will they be enemies or allies? Will the Master finally go the Harem route?

Bell: Will Lucy be accepted in the love triangle of the Master and those two?

Bell: Zack and Diana, what are they planning to do?

Bell: Wait! Who the hell are Zero and Grappler?

Bell: Aaahh! There's too many questions and no answers! Blee──!

Ixion: ... I'm sorry for what this idiot did.

Ixion: We hope to have your support next year.

Ixion: With nothing more to say, we'll see you soon. Bye.