The Bride Of The Sacred Forest God
Chapter 7. Desire Reds for Aragaki-sama

Aragaki displayed the hatred clearly and repeated her orders again.

“Now, you already know what your ancestors did in the past and I don't want to repeat my words. You said that you would do my orders, didn't you?”

Reda who was holding the knife started to move her hand. Not doing anything yet, Ryuunosuke again ran towards Reda and cried.

“Reda-sama do not do it! Reda-sama! Ryuunosuke will protect Reda-sama! I beg you not to do!”

He ran again towards Aragaki. He's really desperate.

“Aragaki-sama, Ryuunosuke likes Reda-sama! Aragaki-sama will also definitely like Reda-sama! Reda-sama is very good, please pull back those words! Hiks..Ryuunosuke please, Ryuunosuke please. Hiks..hiks...”.

Hearing Ryuunosuke's cry that even begged like that made the other four servants feel bad. That's because it happened the first time.

Reda looked at the knife and asked Aragaki.

“A–Aragaki-sama..is after I do your command, Aragaki-sama will like humans?”

Everyone looked at Reda with confused faces, including Ryuunosuke who was still crying.

“Reda-sama..hiks..”.

“Will if I kill myself, Aragaki-sama will be willing to open a little of your heart and willing to forgive a human being?” Reda asked Aragaki. His face looked so calm as he held the small knife in his hand.

Aragaki looked at him coldly and said to him, “Hate I have in humans will not disappear at any time. Even if you die after killing yourself, this fire of hatred will still burn.”

Hearing that answer, Reda smiled and put her knife back on the floor. He pushed the knife slightly forward and kowtowed back.

“Please apologize profusely, if so then I cannot carry out the order.”

- Deg

A surprise, not just for Ryuunosuke but for Aragaki. His eyes widened in surprise at the reply from the village girl.

This was also experienced by four loyal servants. Even the phrase Reda made them unable to comment anything. Their minds were so empty and did not know what reaction could represent their feelings of surprise other than sculpting.

“One more time, forgive me.” Reda lifted her head then looked gently at Aragaki and said, “Aragaki-sama, my late father and mother said that no matter what happens we must keep the promise that has been made.”

”I promised Ryuunosuke to fight together so that Aragaki-sama would look at me a little while I was your servant. We promise to fight together.”

“If I die now, then that means I have reneged on my promise and God will not accept my spirit back to the afterlife. Even if my spirit is accepted, I have reneged on my promise with Ryuunosuke and it will make him sad. She will probably remember that and turn to hate me.”

Aragaki was really surprised. Now, not only was her tail enlarged but the nails on each of her beautiful fingers began to grow.

“Aragaki-sama, I realized that I might have the blood of my ancestors who had reneged on his promise to you. I'm really sorry. But, I wouldn't do such a thing.”

“In addition, I don't care if it has to die after 3 months like any other. But, at least I will try to melt the hatred in Aragaki-sama's heart. I will serve Aragaki-sama until there is a human who will be your true love.”

A sentence that so touched Ryuunosuke's heart. He couldn't express his sense of worth hearing all that.

“First time..first time there is a human girl who wants to think about Aragaki-sama. For the first time, there is a human girl who is willing to try to turn the cold heart of Aragaki-sama to humans all this time. Ryuunosuke is convinced that Reda-sama is the right girl for Aragaki-sama. Ryuunosuke sure it.”

The little fox wiped away her tears and when she wanted to approach Reda, suddenly felt a heavy aura behind her. It was the aura of anger from the master.

The tails belonging to Nagi and Ginko even became tense and trembling from fear. The whole room became so tense. Unless Reda was still smiling, the other demon felt a pressure in the room.

The red marks on Aragaki's forehead started to appear and his tail became as huge as when he was angry at Ryuunosuke.

“How dare a man say he will try to melt my hatred! How dare a dirty and despicable girl like you say that I will meet a human who will become my true love! Since when do humans dare to set me up!!”

A gust of wind was felt until the entire closed shoji door became blown away and damaged.

Not only was the door broken, the table and all the decorations in the room were blown away and damaged due to the power of Aragaki.

Reda tried to resist the power of the angina so that it would no longer be thrown like the first day.

Aragaki was like cursing Reda who dared to say all the things for her that were so absurd.

“Never once did you dream of being able to do it! Until then, this heart will not open and melt for humans! Until any moment, I will curse you all! Even if you die and leave Kamakura, the village and the rest of it will be wiped out!”

“That filthy, contemptible thought I will never accept. Till any time, I will refuse to remove my hatred for your nation!!”

Aragaki's large tail moves to attack Reda. The four maids who saw her became panicked because they thought the girl would actually die.

But everything is not like that. The tail of Aragaki who was about to attack him stopped right in front of the face of Ryuunosuke who had run towards Reda.

The little fox dared to oppose the master in order to protect the village girl. He stood in front of her in order to stop the attack that would injure Reda.

With a trembling body, he begged Aragaki.

“Aragaki-sama, please stop that. Ryuunosuke please, give Reda-sama a chance to do so! Reda-sama is different from the others, right? Nagi-sama, Ginko-sama, Hakuren-sama and Kuroto-sama also thought so right?”

Aragaki fell silent and looked at the four servants who were seen about to stand up from his place to protect the girl. They don't seem to be very aware of their body changes.

“What do you guys want to do?” aragaki asked with her cold eyes

The four looked towards the master and only realized that they had changed their resting position into one leg ready to step towards the middle.

Realizing this, the four of them immediately regained their composure and saluted by bowing to the ruler.

“We apologize to you, Aragaki-sama.”

“Nushi-sama, there is no intention from all of us to oppose what Nushi-sama is doing. We are really sorry for our impoliteness.”

“Please forgive us, Aragaki-sama.”

“Inscuse us.”

Aragaki looked back at her little fox who was still standing with her trembling little legs. He kept trying to keep his small body and small arms stretched out in order to protect the village girl.

“Aragaki-sama, Reda-sama is a good person. Reda-sama knows where she is now and Reda-sama does everything Ryuunosuke taught her. Reda-sama is different from the girls before. Ryuunosuke is very sure!”

“I beg you, please give me a chance to Reda-sama finish his task. Please let Reda-sama serve Aragaki-sama. No need to get married no problem. Reda-sama also said it. Ryuunosuke only wants Aragaki-sama to give Reda-sama a chance. Hiks..”

Seeing his beloved little servant so scared and sad, Aragaki pulled her big tail back. The entire terrifying aura was held back by him and he returned to his original form. He stood up and walked out of the room. Before he left, he briefly said to Ryuunosuke.

“Ryuunosuke..”

“I–iya?”

“Because you are so adamant about wanting him to do his job. Do as you please. Make him useful and after 3 months, I'll kill him myself. Instead, don't get your hopes up on the trash from that damned village.”

As soon as Aragaki left, the four servants immediately sat down leisurely and full of sweat.

“I'm almost dead. I thought Aragaki-sama was going berserk. If he goes berserk, I'm sure I'll cut 100 years short.” Nagi said while wiping the light on her forehead

“Nushi-sama was really an emotion earlier. I'm grateful we didn't get thrown out either.” added Ginko

“But, this is the first time in 200 years I saw Aragaki-sama getting angry at the welcoming event. Isn't that right, Kuroto?”

“Aa, I guess it's also because of that village girl.” Kuroto pointed at the village girl who was hugging Ryuunosuke

Ryuunosuke immediately hugged her as soon as Aragaki exited the room. She was crying in the arms of the beautiful girl.

“Huwaaaa..Reda-sama, Reda-sama..thank goodness...thank goodness....hiks”.

“Thank God yes, Ryuunosuke.” Reda stroked Ryuunosuke's hair and ears gently while giving her beautiful smile. “From now on we will fight, Ryuunosuke. We fight for Aragaki-sama to smile again yes.”

“Hiks. Ryuunosuke will help Reda-sama as well. We fight yes. We fight for Aragaki-sama.”

Reda stroked the little fox until her body stopped trembling. Seeing the gentle hand movements that rubbed and stroked Ryuunosuke's ears and hair made Nagi and Ginko seem so eager to feel it too.

Perhaps this had never happened before, therefore the tail of the fox both swayed as it enjoyed the backup he was seeing now.

“Ryuunosuke lucky once.” Nagi murmured in heart

“Why am I so envious to see that. But, this doesn't mean I accept the girl. It's just that I feel you too.” thought Ginko.

In his heart, Reda kept saying the same thing.

“Reda will fight for Aragaki-sama and Ryuunosuke. At least, this is my last chance to live. I will try to make Aragaki-sama smile at me.”

“Although just a little, I wish I could melt the ice wall in his heart. Until that love appears before her, I hope Aragaki-sama will be happy.”

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