A Misunderstood Mentor

s sweats profusely.

Ah! I promised that we would go to apologise together but we didn’t make it in time.
My apologies.

“I wonder if Miacis will be able to fight with her full strength for a bitch like me”
“Tha-That’s not true at all nya.
I’ll give it my all nya!!”
“For the sake of a bitch?”
“Yes nya! For the sake of a bitch…..ah!”

The two look at each other.
An awkward silence descends.
Miacis’ sweat is like a waterfall at this point, making her whole body drenched.

“Tha- That’s not what I meant nya! It’s just that I couldn’t imagine Demon Lord-sama doing something like kissing nya! I thought you had a communication disorder and couldn’t talk properly with people other than us nya!”

Miacis has yet to realise she’s just adding fuel to the fire.
The Demon Lord looks at her with cold eyes.

“Miacis”
“Yes nya, Demon Lord-sama”

“Firstly I’d like to know how strong the enemy is”
“Understood nya, previously the Four Heavenly Kings (including Dogma) challenged Alice nya.
The data from that time…..”

The Demon Lord shakes her head slowly.

“That’s not it.
I want to see with my own eyes Miacis, right now.
I have a communication disorder so I’m not good with words”
“Hanya!?”

She’s finally noticed her mistake.
Miacis’ eyes dart left and right looking for help from Carmilla and Azathoth but the two of them avoid her gaze and look away.

“U-Understood nya!”

Having made her resolve, Miacis stands up.

“Miacis, charging in nyaaaaaa!”

And thus began what would later be known as the Great Alice War.

Ever since the Great Martial Tournament ended, Miacis has been coming every day, morning to night, to earn Takumi Points for the Demon Lord.
If the Demon Lord comes, I intend to ask her to forgive Miacis but ever since that day, she hasn’t appeared.

I’m slightly concerned that she’s planning something behind the scenes again.

Not to mention Alice too.
I haven’t seen her since the end of the Great Martial Tournament either.

“Hey, Reia”

I call out to her unintentionally.

“What has Alice been doing since?”
“Training.
After seeing Takumi-san nearby at the Great Martial Tournament, she still has ways to go.
So she says”

What was she looking at and how was she looking to think that way.

“I’m sure that Alice-dono doesn’t want anyone getting close to Takumi-san until she is capable of standing alongside you.
It’s for that reason she created the Takumi Point system”

If that’s the case, why is Reia allowed by my side then?
Just what is Alice to Reia and Reia to Alice.
Even after seeing their reunion at the Great Martial Festival, I still don’t understand.

All I know is that Reia…..

The Four God Pillar’s barrier shattered and the Four Heavenly Kings (excluding Dogma) intruded.
Out of those who won the first match, only Reia didn’t enter the stage.
Before the barrier broke, when the Demon Lord was close to me, the first to try charge onto the stage was Reia.
However with the barrier destroyed, Reia didn’t even try to stand up.

“Reia everyone’s going up! Are you not going to join them!”

At Chloe’s voice, Reia stares at the stage, no, at Alice.

“Alice-sama has come.
…..There is no longer anything I can do”

“What are you saying.
Are you fine if Takumi-dono gets taken”

Reia averts her eyes from Alice and looks to the ground.
I can’t see her expression.
But her body is trembling.

“…..in the end, I’m Alice’s…..”

Her last words were so quiet that I couldn’t hear them.
And even until the very end, Reia never participated in the Great Alice War.

“Wha-What’s wrong, Takumi-san?”
“A-Ah it’s nothing”

I look away in a panic.
What did Reia say at that time I wonder.
Somehow it feels like something that I shouldn’t know, so I haven’t been able to ask.
I’ll wait until one day when Reia can tell me herself.

For the time being it’s fine to spend our quiet lifestyle together like we did in the beginning.
Such naive thoughts filled my head.

There was something I could not have predicted at that time.
That in only one month, someone who had collected 10 billion Takumi Points would appear…..

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