Volume 4 - CH 19

Act 4-19: Please Sleep For A While

The head of the zombie who received a relentless spear thrust from Roman’s spear was pulverized till not even its skull was left intact.

Seeing Roman who was twirling his spear as if it was his own limbs and slaughtering undead in a single breath,

（Yeah, he’s strong after all!）

Lumine Hellner couldn’t help but praise Roman in her heart.

Roman had literally slaughtered the undead on his own a while ago. Lumine and the brown-haired youth with crop cut, Kirabi had reduced their role to mere spectators since a while ago.

The difference between Roman’s and the other two strengths was too big, the other two would only become a hindrance if they tried to assist Roman. And that was the bitter truth of their situation.

（Dammit! Dammit! Dammiiiiiit!!）

At this rate, things would proceed in accordance to Hellner house’s plan.

Hellner house was a long-standing family whose main family and branch family were making a living from their sword art. They were the kind of traditional family who held the belief that marrying someone with strong talent would maintain the height of their descendant’s talent. Thus, they’re eyeing the spear king who had one of the best gifts in the world.

Big sis managed to buy some time by participating in the Babel examination since Hellner house thought that it would be a plus for her.

In this regard, big sis had always insisted that she will choose her own husband. Big sis was a stubborn girl. Never once did she change her decision once she made up her mind. Thus, they prepared the spare plan to marry me to that Roman.

Naturally, their cat-dog-like relationship made them seem like an impossible couple, thus marriage between the two sounds like a joke for them… and the people around them.

In short, the Hellner family had literally forced Lumine to marry her nemesis, Roman for life.

At this rate, big sis would definitely go back to that disgusting hometown of us after we graduate from Babel, and then――

（No! I ABSOLUTELY CAN NOT LET THAT HAPPEN!）

Lyla’s happiness was her happiness. But, Lumine couldn’t bear the guilt of her becoming the source of her big sister’s sorrow.

Speaking of her choice of husband, Kai Heineman was much better than Roman, albeit much weaker. But at least, Kai wouldn’t force big sis to marry him. In addition, I’m sure that big sis was in fact in l――

When Lumine was pondering about such things,

「Such superb spear handling.」

The brown-haired youth with crop cut, Kirabi was clapping his hands.

「…」

Maybe because he had enough of hearing such praise, Roman didn’t even turn around to give a reply to Kirabi’s praise and suddenly,

「As expected, I’m going to lose if I challenge you from the front.」

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He muttered those incomprehensible remarks. Almost at the same time, Roman suddenly fell to his knees.

Numerous beads of sweat appear on Roman’s forehead. And then, a chill ran down his spine as he saw the eerie smile on Kirabi’s face.

「W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?」

He retreated at once while asking such a question as soon as he saw that eerie smile but,

「Resistance is futile.」

Kirabi spoke with a smile while being surrounded by countless small creatures.

「W-Wasp?」

It was a familiar creature.

「!」

Suddenly, he felt sharp pain from the nape of his neck, thus he struck the place with his right hand. When he looked at his right hand, he saw the corpse of a bee.

「How cruel of you to kill my adorable wasps.」

「You, bas*tard!」

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She somehow managed to curse at him but――

「But, this is the E-N-D.」

When Kirabi pointed his finger toward Lumine, the latter suddenly fell like a sack of potatoes. Lumine felt her body was as heavy as lead.

「Rest assured. I only used paralysis poison on you guys. You won’t die yet.」

「You… bas-… tard.」

Kirabi walked to Roman who was spitting those curses even with paralysis poison in his body and then trampling down on the latter’s face.

「Quite lively, ain’tcha. But, it seems you forgot about your current situation――」

Roman raised his face, and spit on Kirabi’s face,

「Go to… Hell.」

And cursed on the latter. Kirabi who snapped upon receiving that treatment,

「This is the first time I met such a ru~de fellow, I’m really pissed off now!!」

He mercilessly kicked Roman in his rage. Even though Roman was bleeding from his torn lips and forehead, Kirbi kept kicking on the former as if to vent his anger.

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Roman only fainted after Kirbi vented all his rage on him.

Kirbi who breathing heavily after that,

「Woops, mustn’t kill him by accident. This kind of death is against my raison d’etre as wasp user.」

After he shook his head as if snapping out of his trance and took several deep breaths. He revealed a nasty smile as his line of sight then moved from the unconscious Roman toward Lumine. That expression alone was enough to send a chill running down Lumine’s spine, and though she almost screaming, she swallowed her voice.

When Kirabi pointed at his own face with his index finger while looking at Lumine’s dreaded face with a satisfied look on his face, countless wasps were coming toward him.

「Both of you going to become the nursery for these children.」

Kirabi declared so with a lively voice.

「Nur… sery?」

Kirabi’s smile became even more highlighted upon seeing Lumine’s confusion and,

「Yes. These childs going to use your flesh as an incubation bed for their eggs. Human meat are the best seedbed for them after all.」

He spoke so toward Lumine and co with a joyous voice.

「Now then, let’s start with you, Lumine-cha~n. You’ll become a meatball by the time Roman wake up from his sleep.」

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A chill ran down into her spine along with an unspeakable sense of disgust just by hearing his remark.

And then, as if enjoying Lumine’s dread,

「Their children will eat your flesh as they hatched. Your pain will be gone as the hatched tiny wasps ate your flesh from the inside. It’s hard to come experience you kno~w.」

Kirabi approached Lumine step by step as if he want to instil even greater fear to her.

「S… top.」

She tried desperately to tell him to get away from her but, it only enlarged his sadistic instinct. Lumine wasn’t idiotic enough to not realize that fact. And yet, she had no choice but to speak. Because there was no way she wanted to die in such a tragic manner, became a nursery for bugs.

「Ohoho, you can’t be that selfish. It’s a lady’s duty to accept that fate after all.」

Kirabi’s right-hand which had many wasps coiling around it was slowly reached out toward Lumine.

The moment that hand touched Lumine, they would lay their egg in her body which would result in the most gruesome death for her.

（No! Stop!）

Her eyes were blurry from her tears.

I don’t want to die! I refuse to die in that way! I won’t be able to see my dad and mom again if I die. I won’t be able to see my siblings too. Including big sis. in addition――

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She experienced a phenomenon close to a revolving lantern when she felt that she was about to die, a moment that felt like forever.

And the last thing that popped out at that moment was unexpectedly not the face of her siblings or her father, and not her big sis either. It was the face of a certain black-haired youth who had always been gentle to her since their childhood.

「He… lp… KAI-ONIICHAN――!!」

The moment Kirabi’s finger was about to touch Lumine, Kirabi who enjoyed Lumine’s dread failed to realize that his right hand had already fallen to the ground, and chopped into tiny pieces along with the wasps around it.

「Eh?」

Kirabi who was dumbfounded for a few seconds upon seeing his bloody wrist was,

「UGAAAAAAAAAAAA!!」

Screaming in pain.

And the culprit of that situation, a black-haired youth just walking calmly and laid Lumine’s body beneath the nearby huge tree without even casting a glance toward Kirabi.

「Go sleep for now.」

It was a reassuring voice that she heard so many times. Hearing that, Lumine’s consciousness faded into darkness due to the newfound safety she felt from that voice.