PDLP Chapter 138 Rinne's Chapter: The Key
Chapter 138 Rinne's Chapter: The Key
Chapter 138 Rinne's Chapter: The Key
Because Ming and Sha had bathed together, the two of them blushed and fell asleep with their backs to each other the next morning, too embarrassed to look at each other.
Ming woke up from his deep sleep, stretched, and looked at Shahe, who had rolled over and was still fast asleep, clutching his wrist. Ming's eyes still held a sense of bewilderment and unreality about what had happened last night.
"..."
After thinking for a moment, Ming gently stroked the belly of the still-sleeping Shahe, looking at the alarm clock in the room, which was still more than ten minutes away from ringing to remind her to go to school.
"Sawa, sigh... I'll take responsibility..."
As he spoke, Ming stood up, turned off the alarm clock by the bed, and walked out of the room toward the kitchen.
"Since it's still early before school starts, let's make breakfast for Sawa first, and also her lunchbox."
Ming went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and simply found some eggs, bread, and vegetables. Knowing that Shahe liked Western-style breakfasts, Ming decided to make a simple fried egg sandwich.
Just as Ming was focused on cooking, Sawa woke up. She was startled to find no one beside her, and then, remembering what had happened last night, her face instantly turned bright red.
She got dressed and headed to the kitchen. "Oh no, I overslept! I promised to make breakfast for Ming today!" But when she got to the kitchen and saw Ming's busy figure, she was filled with emotion.
"Ming, good morning," Sawa said softly, a little shyly.
Upon hearing Sawa's voice, Ming turned around, a gentle smile on his face.
"Sawa, good morning. You can rest a little longer, breakfast will be ready soon."
Sawa shook her head and went to help. The two prepared breakfast in tacit understanding, and for a while, only slight sounds filled the kitchen.
After preparing breakfast, they sat down to eat. Ming suddenly spoke up, "Sawa, we need to make a proper plan regarding what happened last night."
Sawa nodded, blushing.
...Gurgle transition sound effect~
After breakfast, the two packed their things and headed to school together.
On the way, Sawa said with some worry, "Won't the classmates be very surprised if they find out about us?"
Ming held her hand. "Don't worry about what others think, as long as we know what's going on, that's enough."
Upon arriving at school, the two had barely entered the classroom when Kenta, who was barely able to get close to Ming, approached them and said with a mischievous grin:
"You two came to school together today, you're really close, like an old married couple~"
Ming and Sha exchanged a glance, somewhat embarrassed. The school bell rang, and everyone returned to their seats.
However, during the break, both Sawa and Akira were unexpectedly called out by the substitute homeroom teacher.
The homeroom teacher stood in the corridor, arms crossed, watching the two of them. Sawa felt a little nervous and uneasy, while Ming remained relatively calm. After all, unless the homeroom teacher installed a camera in his own bathroom, what happened last night would never have been discovered.
"You are all active members of the class. I hope you can go to the equipment room and move some things for the hockey game." Sawa and Akira nodded hurriedly.
On the way to the warehouse, Sawa suddenly stopped, her cheeks slightly flushed.
"Ming, the way our homeroom teacher acted just now, I thought he found out about us."
Ming simply smiled and reached out to ruffle Sawa's hair. "Don't worry, it's not that easy to be discovered."
Entering the equipment room, it was somewhat dimly lit. Ming was looking for hockey equipment when Sawa accidentally knocked over a shelf, making a loud noise.
Ming rushed over to check on her and found that Shahe had fallen to the ground and twisted her ankle. Ming helped her up with concern, "Does it hurt? I'll take you to the infirmary."
After a thorough examination, Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief, because he found that the injury was not as serious as he had imagined; it was just a minor injury to his ankle.
So he gently helped Shahe to the infirmary and told her to rest on the bed for a while.
"Just lie here and rest. I'll go find some classmates to help. We'll go to the equipment room together and move the things we need over," Ming said gently to Shahe, his eyes full of concern.
After saying that, he turned and left the infirmary, hurrying towards the classroom.
Just after Ming hurriedly ran out, a raging black flame suddenly burst into flames in the originally quiet and peaceful infirmary!
"Huh?" Sawa looked at this scene with some horror.
The flames seemed to come from the depths of hell. Accompanying these eerie black flames, a humanoid ram-headed figure, charred black all over as if burned by fire, slowly emerged from the flames.
Seeing this, Sawa was startled and tried to get up, but she was unable to do so because of her injured ankle and accidentally fell to the ground.
"what..."
She stared in terror at the suddenly appearing monster, her heart filled with dread.
"Who...who are you..."
Looking at the terrified boy before him, the charred ram-headed monster let out a low, hoarse laugh, "Hahaha! How interesting! My name is Asmodeus, and the smell of your fear is quite delightful..."
"Nice to meet you, Miss Key, the boy's key~"
"Huh?! A key... a key?"
"Yes, 'key' is the most fitting word, miss."
The girl trembled uncontrollably from fear of the unknown. The monster's fingers slowly approached her forehead. She wanted to escape... but the injury on her foot wouldn't allow her to. She wanted to scream, but no sound came out of her throat.
As Asmodeus's fingers touched Sawa's forehead, the medicine on the cabinet in the infirmary suddenly fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
'clang--!'
[Two hours ago~]
"My foolish sister, how much longer are you going to keep up this act?"
Rinne, who was originally going to school with Shido, walked steadily on the road, silently sensing the Asmodeus that was connected to her in reverse through the spiritual energy lines of the Heavenly Palace Tower, and felt a little irritated.
"You don't understand! Shido is someone I can spend my whole life with!"
"Really? You're using your fragile body to support the entire Paradise and even diverting your spiritual energy to maintain control over me? Hahaha, how laughable! How laughable! You're nothing more than a substitute for those girls!"
Asmodeus, lying on his side atop the Heavenly Palace Tower, made no attempt to hide his mockery, as if he could derive boundless pleasure from his "sister's" irritability.
"........."
The girl remained silent, as if deep in thought.
"Should you remain silent because you shouldn't be a 'substitute'? If you ask me, you should learn from your 'older brother,' hahaha~"
"Hmph, studying? You won't feel any emotions if you study. You'll only be able to rely on that most basic sense of life that humans give you?"
Upon hearing Rinne's sudden taunt, Asmodeus's smile vanished instantly.
Upon hearing Rinne's words, Asmodeus grew increasingly enraged. "What do you know! Only an emotionless elf like me is the most perfect being! Even my mother was tormented by love, but I can surpass her in this respect—!"
"Is your so-called perfection nothing but a cold, empty shell?"
"It's better than you, a loser who can't even get a man, okay!"
"So what? For me, all I need to do is spend my life with Shido. As long as I can pretend to be convincing... as long as I can pretend to be perfect, that's enough..."
After hearing what the other party said, Asmodeus's lips curled up slightly, revealing a barely perceptible sneer, but he did not utter any further rebuttal or argument.
He knew perfectly well that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't persuade this stubborn person. So why waste his breath?
At this moment, his deep and dark eyes were fixed on Shido in the distance, his expression somewhat enigmatic.
"Oh dear, it seems we won't agree with each other, my foolish sister."
"If you have something to say, then please say it directly. On the contrary, you, because you can't feel love, use destruction to show yourself and you don't even care. Compared to me, who calls himself your older brother because he was born earlier, you really seem like an unreasonable little child."
"Although it's infuriating to hear, I'll take it as a compliment, my silly sister."
"Just say what you mean... I don't like your way of speaking, which deliberately tries to appear elegant."
"Yes, yes, that little sister... that [key] is really interesting~"
As Mendes spoke, glancing at Sawa, who was still fast asleep in Ming's arms, his smile becoming increasingly playful.
"By extracting all of Ming's memories and placing them inside her body, as long as the container is not destroyed, the memories cannot be taken away. Even if your paradise collapses, the memories and the link with me will dissipate within that girl's body. Who told you to do this?"
Although Asmodeus asked the question, he already knew the answer in his heart: the "mother" who was both of them.
"...She, this man, is Shido's friend, and I have no real reason to hurt him..."
"Oh...hahaha! I see, so you've realized this man is a threat...Let's make a deal, little sister, how about it..."
"Uh! What kind of deal?"
"I need to take your original body; the little bit of spiritual power used to maintain Paradise will be used to maintain my body after I leave..."
"What do you think you, devoid of emotion, have to offer me? I have no reason to use the power that sustains this 'paradise' to help you, and besides, it's not worth helping someone who isn't even worthy of being my brother."
Rinne spoke decisively. To others, she was a gentle girl who would sacrifice herself for Shido's happiness.
But helping a jerk like Asmodeus isn't worth it, in every sense of the word...
"Wait a minute, let me finish... I really have things that are far more trustworthy than I am, you see..."
"what?!"
Asmodeus held a pale white orb of light in his palm, and Rinne was immediately struck by what was recorded within it after only glancing at it through the [Paradise].
"Fine, I can agree, but if you dare to harm Shido, I won't let you go like I did when I first extracted you; I'll just wipe you out right here!!"
"As you wish~"