The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 82: New Rival
"I'm sorry for deciding without your permission, but that's not really a problem, is it?"
"No way, you know that I'm on bad terms with the Knights, right!"
"That's because you caused trouble."
Then, Kaizo noticed. Victoria's fingertips that grabbed her arm trembled little by little.
"So, you're on Eve's side again." Victoria quietly muttered.
"No, it's not about whether I'm by his side or not."
"You said so, but...."
"Eh?"
"Even though you said you'd be my contracted spirit." Victoria raised her face, and teardrops flowed from her pupils.
"You,"
"Enough, out!" Victoria pushed Kaizo away.
"Hey, Victoria?!"
"Quick out! I-I hate people like you, I hate you so much!"
A red hot fireball was released from Victoria's palm.
"Ouch!"
A flashy explosion rang out, and a wide gaping hole opened on the wall behind Kaizo.
"H-hey, wait, why are you so angry?"
"Silent idiot, get out!"
This time he started reciting spirit magic from the strongest class, so Kaizo came out confused. If Victoria tried earnestly, she would be capable enough to destroy this dormitory.
After running outside the dormitory and taking cover, Kaizo sighed. "W-what the fuck is that?"
"Why is Victoria so angry? That's just incomprehensible. Is he not happy with me joining the Knights?"
He looked into the window of the room on the second floor, but he didn't see Victoria there. Before long, the window curtain closed.
"Ah, if she becomes like this, she won't listen."
Victoria Blade's. She was a girl who was almost like a flame that could burn everything with just her emotions.
(Well, however, that is the part that suits him best.) Kaizo let out a long breath once more. He left the Crow Class dormitory with heavy footsteps.
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POV: The Victoria Blade
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After driving Kaizo away, Victoria walked to her bed feeling annoyed and angry. His footsteps were also struck quite strongly.
"I hate that guy, I hate that guy! I hate him so much!" Victoria fell to the bed.
Pressing her soft pillow against her cheek, she tightly grabbed her sheets. Salamander appeared to be worried, but Victoria threw him away without a word.
He did not even want his contracted spirit, who had been with him all this time since he was young, to see his crying face now.
"Do I look like a fool?"
For a few days, she had been practicing how to make chocolate all this time.
(I-this is of course due to obligations. The chocolate I'm gonna give him for duty.)
The exercise had an effect, as he was gradually able to make it well. Even though he had stopped making large amounts of ash, it should have been good enough for him to be praised.
On the actual day, tomorrow morning, she planned to give Kaizo the chocolate she made so well. That's what he wants to do right now.
'You did well, ' he wanted to be praised that way by her.
"However, he..." Victoria groaned, and hit her pillow.
(The food Eve makes is definitely better than foods like my chocolate.)
That feels annoying. His mind was jumbled, and although he did not understand what was annoying, it was annoying. He was like a person who was angry because of an unclear thing.
"I'm a very disgusting person."
He'll understand. He clearly did not have any bad feelings towards Kaizo. Really, there was no doubt that he was just thinking of helping Eve and decided to join the Knights. He is such a man.
Even Victoria didn't hate Eve much. Of course, their relationship was not good, but he realized that he was a proud elementalist. However, it made him very angry for a reason.
(Why?)
He understands the reason. He had thought that he was a more special creature to Kaizo. It was more like his figure looked similar to someone.
(Again, he said that he would become my contracted spirit.)
Pressing gently on her lips with her fingertips, her cheeks quickly became hot.
(In addition, ka-we even, kiss.)
It became a painful feeling like her chest was tight.
(But, that's wrong.)
That doesn't mean that only Victoria is special.
(That's because I'm the sister of the Queen of Disasters, so she.).
He may just think that his circumstances are sad, and just sympathize with him. After thinking that, Victoria became very lonely.
Kaizo definitely did not understand why Victoria was so angry. Victoria also did not clearly understand why she had such feelings. His current feeling was almost like a burning fireplace.
'This is not the fire of Victoria Blade' Kaizo's words kept swirling repeatedly in his head clearly.
Just then, there was the sound of the door opening.
"Kaizo!?"
Victoria excitedly lifted her face from her pillow, but the one who was there, was Tiana with a confused expression. Looks like he has returned from his shopping errands for dinner.
Victoria covered her face with a pillow in confusion. He didn't want her to see his teary face.
Tiana looked at Victoria's current state and seemed to have guessed the situation somehow.
"Heh, you got into a fight with Kaizo?"
"Go." Said Victoria covering her face with a pillow.
Tiana sighed, sat on the bed and placed her hands on Victoria's head.
"I said leave me alone, right!"
"You really are like a child. Very different from Monica."
"I'm different from my sister anyway." Victoria replied in annoyance.
"Hey, Victoria, why aren't you a little more honest?"
"I-I'm sorry I wasn't being honest. Besides, even my chest is small."
"Huh? Nobody said anything about the chest, you know?"
As Tiana gently rubbed Victoria's head like a kitten, she sighed. "What do we do about dinner?"
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POV: Eve Veilmist
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At that moment, Eve rolled around on her bed in pain.
"I-I'm wearing embarrassing clothes." He spread out the servant uniform he was wearing just now, and blushed in embarrassment.
(Even if it's for the sake of rewarding him for my debt, this is, as expected, excessive, isn't it?)
"But...."
Eve tightly grasped the maid uniform, and continued, "Kaizo said it suits me."
Remembering it, his cheeks reflexively relaxed. Eve opened her eyes as she was shocked, and slapped her cheeks with both of her hands.
"I-I'm Captain! If I'm not strict, I can't be an example to everyone!"
(A knight from the Veilmist family must not show his weakness. Eve Veilmist always did. However,)
(I showed it to him.)
He never even showed a side of himself, feared by insecurity, in front of peers he trusted.
To be honest, he had no intention of inviting Kaizo to the Knights until then. However, when he looked at his back as he was about to leave, he subconsciously called out to him.
(I wonder why I don't understand it well myself.)
At first, he thought that things like male elementalists were enemies that would disturb the public morale of the academy.
(Since when did I, strangely start caring about him?)
As he thought of Kirigaya Kaizo, his chest tightened and hurt for some reason. Such a feeling was the first thing for Eve, who was raised as a knight.
Incidentally, he glanced over the table. The neatly wrapped chocolate was lying there. Tomorrow is «Holy Valentine's Festival. A day to give chocolate to the opposite sex that occupies a place in one's mind.
"I-this is a gift for applying to Knights. Of course, there is no other meaning than that." Eve groaned spontaneously.
If that was the case, he should not have been overly tense, but the throbbing in his chest did not stop for some reason.
(When should I hand it over?)
After all, this was his first time doing such a thing, so he did not know what he should do.
"Di-he wouldn't think I was such a weird girl, would he?"
"What's so weird, Eve?"
Suddenly, a voice like freezing cold air sounded. Before he knew it, the door of the room opened. And, there, he stood. She had shiny blonde hair and ice-cold-headed blue pupils.
"Ah, brother?!"
"What kind of cowardly face are you making, yet you call yourself a knight of the Veilmist family?"
She was the strongest elementalist in the academy, Lucia Eva Veilmist.
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*Connected.....
*Note: This story is fictitious. If there is a similarity in the name of the character, the scene, or the story, it is a mere coincidence and there is no element of intentionality.