Chapter 24: You… Are You Damian…? (Part 2)

I didn’t expect the words “let’s go back” to sound so scary.

Muttering a small curse, thinking of Lumani’s figure who had fled after causing all the substantial causes, I closed my

mouth tightly, seeing Leticia’s somewhat chilly expression.

I felt like I shouldn’t talk to her right now.

I didn’t know much, but I knew that Leticia was angry because of me.

I wasn’t so insensitive that I didn’t know that.

Crucially, Leticia’s eyes were lifeless.

Gulp.

I swallowed dryly, smiled awkwardly, and tried to talk to Leticia.

“Leticia?”

“What.”

“…Ah, nothing.”

Surprised by Leticia’s cold reply, I flinched and quietly tucked my tail.

I felt like a puppy who had done something wrong to its owner, especially since I was wearing a collar.

But right now, it was more important to appease Leticia’s mood.

“Um…Leticia?

What are you going to do when we get back?

It’s late, so maybe get ready for bed.”

“….”

“Le, Leticia…?”

“…I’ll do research.”

So what kind of research are you going to do?

I think you should at least add a subject to the front so I know, but Leticia didn’t tell me.

I tried to break the awkward atmosphere by forcing the corners of my twitching lips to rise and talked to her several

times, but Leticia only answered in short, monosyllabic words.

She didn’t say anything more.

It was a vicious cycle of me saying anything as soon as her tone softened a little.

“Look, Leticia!

The moon is so pretty.”

“Yeah, it’s pretty.”

I spoke with a raised tone, unlike myself, but the answer I got was lukewarm.

At Leticia’s reaction, which seemed to be very angry, I silently followed her back to the academy, sweating cold sweat

inwardly.

I’m thirsty.

It’s not just thirst, but Leticia’s chilly gaze automatically suppressed me.

If I had known this would happen, I should have drunk enough water…no, blood.

In the middle, Leo also said that it was getting late and that he should go back to the mansion, saying that he would

visit again later, and left, so now I was walking alone with Leticia under the streetlights that seemed to go out at any

moment.

So maybe that’s why I feel like being with her is more of a hardship.

If Leo had been there, it would have been better.

Ah, is that not it?

I saw that Leo also seemed to be constantly checking Leticia’s mood, so did he run away first knowing that Leticia

was in a bad mood?

If so, Leo made a reasonable choice.

Take me too.

Even though I knew I couldn’t follow Leo, I held onto a vain hope and looked at Leo’s empty seat with a sense of

futility, and then I came to my senses at Leticia’s voice in my ear.

“Charlotte.”

“Y, yes?!”

“Why are you so surprised?

You act like someone’s going to eat you.”

How can I not be surprised when the person who acts like she’ll devour me without hesitation if I let go of the

tension even a little is right in front of me?

By the way, I never dreamed that she would talk to me first, when she had been ignoring my words all along.

I swallowed again when I saw Leticia’s eyes, which had stopped in their tracks with their backs turned completely

and were looking at me with fiercely open eyes, with a sticky obsession that wasn’t there just a moment ago.

It was an incomprehensible emotion.

Relying on the flickering streetlight, Leticia and I looked at each other.

With expressions that had a lot to say to each other.

Leticia’s expression, which had been as chilly as the snow falling in the north, had returned to her usual expressionless face.

How long has it been?

Leticia broke the silence of looking at each other for a long time, moving her lips.

“I’m not angry.”

Leticia said, seemingly firmly.

“You don’t have to be careful around me.

I’m just sulking.

Why?

I don’t care, but I can’t stand other b*tches hitting on you.”

At that, I let out a hollow laugh.

So the reason you’re angry is because I was kissed by another b*tch.

That was a disaster for me too.

The words, ‘What am I to you?’ rose to my throat, but I fortunately closed my mouth and didn’t say them out loud.

But it was a really absurd answer to me.

If it were when I was Damian Radius, if I had been kissed by another woman, she could of course be jealous as a

lover, but right now we were nothing.

There was nowhere, nowhere, for you to be obsessed with.

You know that drives me crazy.

The suppressed emotions burst out.

Seriously.

Leticia, what are you thinking?

Leticia, who swept the hair hanging over her ear back to me, who was making a strange expression, narrowed her

mysteriously shining purple eyes and asked bluntly, without turning the words.

“Are you curious?”

“…About what.”

“What else?

You were curious, weren’t you?

Huh?

Why I, who hate demons, am so obsessed with you, a demon, when I’ve never seen you before.”

“……It would be a lie if I said I wasn’t curious, but it’s surprising.

I thought you just spared me out of boredom.”

“You’re still bad at lying.”

Still?

“What do you mean by that?”

“You’re bad at lying, but when you try to hide the truth, you used to tremble your eyes like a habit.”

“…?”

“It’s still a habit.”

I opened my eyes wide.

Leticia’s muttering was enough to shake me.

Yeah.

You were always like that.

I thought it was strange from the beginning that you acted as if you knew me well.

If you knew my identity, all of your actions so far make sense.

But if so, why didn’t you question me?

‘Did you know my identity?’

As I raised my head like a person demanding an explanation with an anxious face, Leticia, who was folding her arms,

took a deep breath as if she was frustrated, and suddenly raised the corners of her mouth shyly.

A blissful smile.

It was the smile of a blissful person.

Like a lion in front of freshly caught prey, Leticia’s smile, with a blush on her cheeks, was dazzling enough to blind

the viewer, but on the contrary, it gave me goosebumps.

I took a step back without realizing it at Leticia’s unusual momentum, and Leticia put her hand on my shoulder, as if

she wouldn’t miss it.

“Did you notice?

No.

It seems like you’ve noticed for quite some time, so that wouldn’t work.”

“…You.”

“I waited.

I held back and waited.

Even when I wasn’t sure that you were you, I waited for you to tell me, I waited for you to say it with your own mouth.

Because you did that before.”

But not anymore.

I can’t take it anymore.

I don’t like the fact that other women are interested in you.

Leticia added.

“I’m enough as a lover, aren’t I?”

And when the streetlight shone entirely on Leticia’s figure at a good timing, I froze.

Leticia wasn’t smiling ecstatically.

On closer inspection, it was different from a blissful smile.

The smile of a desolate person who can’t cry or laugh.

When I saw the smile that was exactly like the smile she had just before she and I broke up, my mind went blank.

“Don’t run away.”

Whoosh.

I felt a hand wrapped around my waist and I was pulled forward.

Since I didn’t resist the touch, I was helplessly embraced in Leticia’s arms, and I looked up at her with a bewildered

expression.

Unlike me, whose mind had gone blank, Leticia, who was fine…no, maybe not fine, was breathing heavily, and

pushed me against the wall.

My back felt a cold sensation.

Leticia was taller, so I ended up being trapped in her arms.

I was embarrassed because I couldn’t keep up with what had happened in an instant, and the moment I looked at

Leticia, I felt a chill.

“…Leticia.”

“Haa—.”

“What…wait.”

“What the hell.

Charlotte, do you know that you’re also the same when you’re flustered and your head doesn’t work well?

If you wanted to hide it, you should have hidden it thoroughly.

You’re just making me anxious.”

You know you’re a bad person?

There’s no way you would have tried to hide your identity from me.

Leticia, with a sinister smile, buried her face in my cleavage and said.

“When I first saw you, I thought the summoning had failed.

However, I wasn’t disappointed.

Why?

Even though I called a devil, it wasn’t necessarily a summoning to call a devil.

Do you know that there was also magic to summon a specific person in that magic?”

“….”

“You’re not surprised?

You knew it.

So when you were summoned, I was disappointed, but I didn’t despair.

The ancient devil summoning is just a part of my goal to summon ‘Damian Radius’.

Honestly, I didn’t care about the devil summoning…but my suspicions gradually turned into certainty.”

My thoughts stopped.

Hiding my trembling voice, I looked down at Leticia, who was tightening her grip on my waist as if to tell me not to

run away, and opened my mouth.

“…That means…”

“There’s no way I would have forgotten you when I failed and hoped for success over and over again.

I learned all the magic, with and without magic, just looking at you.

I didn’t know your hair that you left behind would be helpful.

It seems that the goddess wanted me to be happy.”

“Wait, wait.

Leticia, calm down…!”

“Is there a need to calm down?

More than that, you look cute when you’re flustered.

I didn’t expect you to appear as a woman, but I like the fresh look of a woman.”

Right, Damian?

“Don’t deny it.

Even if you deny it, I’ll find out as much as you deny it.”

To the mouse that was finally cornered, Leticia smiled and firmly drove the point home.