Volume 1 Chapter 89: Completely Lacking the Awareness of Being a Villain
“Ah, I must refuse that as well. I’m not some doll lying on a bed for you to play with~”
Kaguya still smiled brightly after hearing those words. The charm in her eyes was slightly less seductive than Sasha’s, but she had her own cute and attractive style.
“Well, I can tell. You’re a very tricky person who refuses to suffer even the smallest loss.”
Sasha laughed softly. The blood-red long blade in her hand gradually turned into smoke and disappeared into the air, as if showing that she no longer had hostile intentions.
“But it doesn’t matter if you disagree. I prefer using force anyway… I quite like your personality. You seem perfect for holding in my arms and teasing slowly.”
She narrowed her eyes halfway, looking sleepy while constantly yawning.
“Forget it, let’s stop here for tonight. It looks like Dian and Heidi still want to talk with you, so I won’t get involved.”
“Kaguya, right… I didn’t expect there would be someone in the human world who could match me.”
“I’ll remember you.”
“Until the day I make you mine, you’d better stay alive and don’t die, okay~”
The red glow in Sasha’s eyes and her black hair quickly faded away. Then her body swayed slightly before collapsing straight to the ground.
“Now, I believe we can finally talk, Miss Kaguya?”
Dian, who had been silently watching from the corner the entire time, stepped forward and caught the falling Sasha, letting her lean against a chair that was still mostly undamaged. Then she quietly stared at Kaguya with emotionless eyes behind the mask.
“Oh?”
Kaguya laughed softly while playing with the hair beside her ear. A teasing look flashed within her different-colored eyes.
“Then here’s the question, why should I talk with you?”
She lightly pressed her pink lips together and looked at the thin masked figure before her with clear eyes. The smile on her lips grew more obvious, like a little fox about to catch its prey.
“I don’t know why you only stood there watching just now… but that girl clearly can’t fight anymore. In this situation, wouldn’t it be easier if I just killed all of you directly?”
Kaguya smiled sweetly as if what she said was completely natural. She raised one finger, and a ball of cold dark light gathered at her fingertip, as though she would prove her words true in the next second.
“W-Wah!”
Before Dian could say anything, the unconscious girl leaning on the chair suddenly opened her eyes wide and nervously looked back and forth between Kaguya and Dian.
“S-Sasha that idiot… once she starts fighting, she completely loses control!”
Her hair had already turned blonde again, clearly showing that Heidi had taken back control of the body.
The girl seemed completely unaware of the strange atmosphere in the hall. Instead, she hurriedly stood up, walked in front of Kaguya, and bowed deeply toward her.
“I-I’m sorry!”
Faced with the girl’s sudden apology, Kaguya froze for two seconds. The light ball on her fingertip disappeared, and she slightly turned her face away. When she looked back again, her usual gentle smile had already returned.
“Hm? Why are you apologizing?”
Heidi lowered her head, her eyes wandering nervously, completely unable to look directly at Kaguya. In a small and frightened voice, she said,
“J-Just now, Sasha suddenly rushed forward with her sword for no reason at all. I couldn’t stop her… I’m really sorry! W-When I go back, I’ll seriously lecture her properly. Something like this definitely won’t happen again next time! I promise!”
Only after seeing that Kaguya still remained silently smiling did Heidi finally raise her head. Her originally pale cheeks were now covered in a deep blush, and even her voice had started trembling.
“Um, also, the things Sasha said just now were only jokes! Please don’t take them seriously!”
Kaguya: “......”
The hall suddenly fell silent. It almost felt as if a few invisible crows flew past overhead.
No, seriously, what is even going on here?
She and this girl should be enemies, right? Just like how it was with Sasha earlier, enemies trying their best to kill each other…
But now?
The first thing you do after waking up and regaining consciousness is apologize… to your enemy?
What is there to apologize for? Isn’t fighting with weapons completely normal between enemies?
Do you even have any awareness of being an Imperial officer?
One professor who stood by and watched for some unknown reason, and one strange little girl apologizing to the enemy… is everyone in your Empire like this?
Compared to them, Sasha, who attacked with killing intent in every strike, suddenly seemed much more normal and pleasant.
Kaguya crazily complained in her heart. The corners of her lips twitched slightly as she desperately maintained the elegant smile on her face, trying not to do anything that would break her image.
But no matter what, the tense atmosphere had completely lost all seriousness after Heidi interrupted like this.
“So, this should prove that we don’t have hostile intentions now, right?”
Dian, standing nearby, patted Heidi on the shoulder and pulled her behind herself. Then she nodded toward Kaguya.
“If we continue fighting like this, sooner or later the noise will spread outside and certain people will find out. That would not benefit either of us, wouldn’t it?”
“I know that Miss Kaguya is different from ordinary magical girls… perhaps we can reach some kind of understanding.”
“Heh…”
Kaguya lowered her head and laughed softly, not answering immediately.
Dian’s meaning was already very obvious. She was hinting that if the fight continued, other magical girls and the Special Investigation Department would eventually notice the disturbance here.
Kaguya was indeed different from ordinary magical girls like Amethyst and Amber. After realizing this, Dian easily came to the conclusion that Kaguya was not on the same side as those magical girls.
So Dian was trying to place herself and the others on the same side as Kaguya.
Of course, for someone like Kaguya, who had spent nearly twenty years as an exhausted office worker in her previous life, she naturally understood all the hidden meanings behind these words.
She was far too familiar with these kinds of verbal traps…
Especially back when she worked at the Disaster Management Bureau. Even when she felt disgusted enough to throw up inside, she still had to put on a respectful attitude toward her bosses and seniors, all in the name of “social skills” and “human relationships.”
Kaguya hated and despised that from the bottom of her heart.
And now, while facing this masked woman whose face she could not even see clearly, those same feelings of disgust began to rise again inside her.
But…
She was no longer that unimportant office worker from the Disaster Management Bureau.
Now she had enough strength and confidence to overturn the entire chessboard.
This so-called Empire had probably done countless terrible things in secret, and this person called Dian had likely created who knew how many strange monsters behind the scenes…
And right now, Kaguya could permanently remove this threat once and for all.
Kaguya’s eyes swept toward Dian, who appeared completely defenseless… and then toward Heidi, who still shrank back without daring to look at her.
For the current Kaguya, taking down these two seemed like an extremely easy thing to do.
The choice was right in front of her, and making a decision should have been very simple…
After a quick thought, the girl blinked playfully, took a soft candy from a candy jar, and placed it into her mouth.
“Alright then, what do you want to talk to me about?”
Mm, of course she would deal with these people eventually, but not now…
At least not before she got the information she wanted.