108 – How could you (yes) do this to me (1)
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A quiet mansion where everyone sleeps.
A dark room.
A number of people are gathered around a candle on the desk.
Anastasia yawns with half-closed eyes.
Raviel smiles as if Moor is having so much fun.
And Tina, sitting on Adele’s lap, biting into a cookie.
They were all members of the Emergency Response Committee that Adele had assembled.
There is one reason why they were convened today.
She said it was okay, but it was to relieve Charlotte’s dissatisfaction that was building up internally.
The people gathered here each had a cause for the dissatisfaction, so they decided to find a solution amicably.
“Therefore, let’s hear each other’s ideas. It’s okay even if it’s not a good idea, so please tell me whatever comes to mind.”
This is Adele’s explanation.
Tina, who had been quietly listening to the explanation, lifted her head and looked up at her Adele and opened her mouth.
“But the fundamental problem is not us, but isn’t it provided by the young master?”
That word hit the mark.
In the end, wasn’t it Adele who asked if it was OK to accept them, whether it be Anastasia, Tina, or Lucy?
But now that you are accomplices, take the responsibility you deserve! Saying that, there was no unfair feeling.
“Charlotte’s dissatisfaction is not from us, but from the boy, so I think it’s the boy’s job to resolve it.”
When I heard it, I thought that was the case.
Charlotte, after all, she seemed to be trying to get along with either Anastasia or Tina.
The object of her dissatisfaction, in retrospect, was always Adele.
“…… Then I turn to the topic of what I would like to do.”
When Adele corrected her words at Tina’s sharp point, as if she had waited for that, Raviel raised her hand and said her words.
Her smiling face didn’t seem serious, but since she was the one who asked for something, Adele chinned her as if to tell her.
“How about showing up as a child?”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“No, it seems like the childhood Charlotte in my memories of you was very fond of the young you. When she sees you, who has grown smaller, she wonders if she will be relieved of her anger because the memories of that time will come back to her.”
She listened because she was told to say something, but Raviel pointed at Tina with her fingertips, noticing that she didn’t think it would have any effect.
“Look at Tina.”
Everyone’s eyes followed her fingers.
“Why, why but?”
Tina, who was eating the cookie with her mouth covered, looked around her head as she was about to put her cookie in her mouth as her eyes were focused on her.
Raviel then added her explanation.
“Now, look. Now Tina is eating dirty, getting crumbs of her cookies on her mouth and spilling on her clothes. But no one will be upset to see that.”
Adele saw Tina hurriedly brushing the crumbs from her clothes.
With the idea of getting rid of the cookie crumbs so that they can’t be seen, she is shaking off the dirt from her clothes with her hands.
It would be normal to get angry if you thought that they would fall on the floor and disturb the room, but strangely, I didn’t get angry.
On the contrary, it looked cute.
“That’s the prerogative of cute people. You look like a child, so even if you do something stupid, you won’t get angry.”
“No, would this old man look cute just because he changed like a child on the outside?”
“He’s talking about something he doesn’t understand. In terms of Tina’s age, she’s much older than you…….”
Raviel’s mouth, which was about to say something, was blocked by Tina’s cookie, and she couldn’t finish her words.
As she chewed on the cookies, Raviel told her to stop, and Tina, who started eating her cookies again, gave her a wicked smile.
“Anyway, why not try it? You have nothing to lose.”
With Raviel’s suggestion, the plan was established semi-forcefully.
“It’s done.”
Adele quietly opened her eyes after receiving the magical treatment at Raviel’s words.
He tried to check his face through the mirror on the table.
It was strange.
Obviously, given his height when sitting, he should have been able to see the mirror on the table, but he couldn’t see it now.
All I could see at eye level was a drawer full of books under the table.
Those were the clues that announced that he had returned to his young body.
“You really got smaller.”
Adele murmured, looking at the loose sleeves that did not fit her body.
At that moment, he could realize that the voice that came out of his throat also became younger.
Looking at his face through the mirror that Raviel gave him instead, it was Adele’s old face that he remembered.
Different from the time when he gave a harsh impression, his eyes gave a gentle impression.
The cheeks that haven’t lost their breasts yet, the smooth skin, and so on, it’s definitely Adele’s body of the past.
“I never thought this would be possible. Should I be called a sage after all?”
As Adele groped her body and admired Raviel’s skills, she could feel the gaze from above.
Raising his head in that direction, he saw Tina and Anastasia looking down at him with wide eyes.
“Is this the young boy? Can’t you see that I’m the same person?”
Tina, who always felt small, now looks like a giant.
Adele’s height, almost touching her chest, had to turn her head almost 90 degrees to look up at her if she wanted to see her.
Tina put her hand on her side and lifted Adele up.
“…… Cute.”
Anastasia approached likewise and poked Adele’s cheek with her finger.
Although Adele felt burdened by the two of them treating her as if she were a child.
‘I can’t even move.’
Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried, Tina’s hand didn’t seem to budge.
As her body returned to her childhood, her strength naturally weakened.
Even her magical power is weak, as if she had been tweaked to prevent her from using it.
Even if she tried to resist in this state, she would just struggle with her feet in the air.
If that happened, it was obvious that the two would be more cute, so the best thing to do was to stay still.
“How about my plans? It sure doesn’t seem to work, does it?”
When Raviel smiled and said to the two who were playing with Adele like a toy, they both nodded her head without hesitation.
Because she was the trustworthy Adele.
Because her eyes and atmosphere were like that of a beast.
The gap that can be felt from the smaller figure, as if it would fly away when the wind blows, has been maximized.
That gap definitely had the effect of stimulating her maternal love and making her want to take care of and protect her.
“…… Then why don’t you put it down?”
“I hate it.”
Anastasia said that to Adele, who felt burdened by this interest and wanted to break up the meeting quickly.
“Why is that?”
“Your way of speaking is not cute.”
“… ….”
So why are you asking me to imitate a child’s accent?
I felt like I was going to die of shame right now, but Anastasia demanded of Adele as expected.
“If you ask like a child, I will drop you off.”
“… ….”
Adele quietly looked around, but there were no allies.
Tina and Anastasia were a team, and Raviel is just having fun seeing herself in trouble.
“… ….”
Time passed by, receiving endlessly expectant eyes.
“… ….”
I thought about it over and over again, but I couldn’t overcome this situation.
Insufficient physical strength, insufficient magical power.
The only thing left is to listen to the other person’s request.
“…… How could you guys do this to me?”
That’s how Adele had to repeat the word to drop off several times until Anastasia liked it.
I just wanted to bite my tongue and die.
* * *
“hehehehe.”
Back in her room, Lucy couldn’t erase the smile from her face.
Sitting on the sofa looking at the brooch as a gift, he occasionally let out a silly laugh, which was so annoying that Lucy from the future felt like taking a punch.
But even in the hands of such a future Lucy, Adele gave her a gift as a reward.
Influenced by Lucy from the past, he was really confused because he felt like he would feel better just looking at this gift.
This is how I feel, but I feel like something I’m not is eating away at me…….
It’s strange to put it into words, but it was a feeling that couldn’t be expressed without expressing it that way.
Anyway, one Lucy was writing a diary about what happened today, and the other Lucy was reading a book to pass the time before going to bed.
Smart.
A knock at the front door.
I wondered if anyone would come to visit me at this late hour, but there was someone who immediately came to mind, so Lucy hurriedly took out a hand mirror and checked his face.
Thanks to the fact that he had been wearing a face pack a while ago, even if he hadn’t put on makeup, he wouldn’t be outdone.
After touching his hair with his hand, Lucy sprints to the front door like a dog welcoming its owner back home.
“Hey, what is it? Is there something I forgot——”
The moment she opened the door without even checking who it was, Lucy’s bright face hardened.
It was because the person standing on the other side of the door was not the person Lucy expected.
“…… Kyle.”
There was Kyle.
With Lucy’s reaction, as if there was someone coming to visit at this late hour, her complexion went awry.
“What happened without a word?”
“That person can come without an appointment, but I can’t?”
“What are you talking about?”
“I saw it.”
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For some reason, Kyle looked angry.
“You and Adele are hanging out together during the day.”
“You always went out with Adele. But why…… ?”
“Your expression is different from usual. I know because I’ve seen you for a long time. What does that expression mean?”
Lucy, noticing the strangeness of his condition, took a sneaky step back, but Kyle took a big step and grabbed her shoulders with both of her hands.
“Kyle, it hurts… ….”
“I want to believe my eyes are wrong.”
With the momentum to crush her shoulder blades, Lucy frowned at her and complained of her pain, but Kyle, whose eyes were already dark, didn’t seem to hear.
He didn’t care what Lucy said, he just continued with his words.
“Because that keeps lingering in my eyes…… After thinking about it…… My heart was stuffy, so I wanted to check with you. So I waited in front of the dormitory, but the light in the room did not turn on even after several hours. Maybe he won’t come to my room today. Just in case, I kept waiting for you. So please answer me Lucy. You, Adele and I are not the kind of relationship you think, are you? Please say no You all know what he did to me. Then that can’t happen. You’re not supposed to do that…….”
Lucy, who had been quietly listening to Kyle, slashed his arm with her hand and took a step back.
And Kyle gnashed his teeth as he could not believe that she had slashed her own arm, her eyes wide open as she alternated between Lucy and her own arm turning red. .
“Are you sure you are siding with Adele?”
“I’m not specifically defending what he did in the past…… But whatever I am with Adele, what does that have to do with you?”
At that, Kyle stood still.
She stared at Lucy with her empty eyes, her arms drooping like a puppet with her strings cut off.
Since that gaze was so bizarre that it gave goosebumps on his arms, Lucy slowly backed away.
“What does it have to do with you…… Since it’s between you and me, of course it has something to do with it…… That’s also true, you’ve known me for over 10 years, and you’re like family. Do you feel like it with the enemy of your family? Looking at him, smiling like he’s happy, can you do that to me? How do you How can you…… ?”
And she screamed so loudly that Kyle broke her face as her tears flowed down her cheeks.
“You!!!! How could you do that to me!!!!”