Chapter 2
「Yakitori, huh! It's simple, but it's great, isn't it? Do you have any alcohol?」
「No, we don't usually drink. We only have some for cooking.」
While being stared at by everyone, "Jet Black" confidently enjoyed the yakitori.
It was a mystery how he was eating with his helmet on, but it seemed like the food passed through the helmet and into his mouth.
Although it appears to be a helmet on the outside, Mars considers the possibility that it's just an illusion.
「Like you're following the law? But you're already over eighteen, right?」
「In Japan, it's twenty, the legal drinking age. Are you serious?」
「Ah, right. But there are no such restrictions in this world, right?」
「Well... I didn't have a habit of drinking even in my past life. And Lilia is the only one who can drink among us.」
The crackling sound of the bonfire and the voices of Mars and "Jet Black" were the only sounds heard.
It was a space filled not just with awkwardness, but with hostility.
Only the central figures paid no attention to it at all.
――What kind of life has this guy led?
A genuine question arose in Mars's mind.
What does it take for someone to be exposed to hostility and still remain carefree?
It would be impossible unless their everyday life was filled with violence.
But Mars stopped thinking.
If he started imagining the background, he wasn't confident that he could remain in a state where he could fight.
「Well then, I'm going home. Thanks for everything. Oh, no need to rush to the dungeon. It's fine even if it takes a year to get there.」
「I'll take your word for it. Although I don't plan on taking that much time.」
「There are various things I have to take care of here. Anyway, I've said what I wanted to say.」
As "Jet Black" disappears through teleportation, he leaves a final message.
「――Wait at the climax. I'm looking forward to it.」
「――At least tell me your name before you go.」
Mars doesn't realize that his lips have slightly loosened.
As "Jet Black" disappears, everyone relaxes, relieved.
「Nyaaaaa! It's frustrating-nyaa!? That guy ate Nemu's precious roasted food-nyaa! Friends-nyaa!? Is he friends-nya!?」
「It's troublesome to be given a sense of security like being at his parent's house, isn't it!?」
Nemu and Hazuki raise their voices in anger.
「W-Why are you touching my breast...!?」
While vigorously grabbing Sion's breasts, the two of them express their anger.
Unlike Lilia, Sion, who doesn't get angry easily, continues to endure sexual harassment with a flustered face.
「Could you both calm down a bit...?」
「Master—no, Mars. Are you alright?」
While admonishing them with a sense of exasperation, Lilia asks with a serious expression.
The meaning of "Are you alright" is conveyed through her expression.
Can you fight against someone of your own kind? That is the question being asked.
In a way, "Jet Black" is closer to Mars than anyone else.
「I'm fine.」
There is no intention to fight, but there is animosity.
He knows how to kill the enemy before him.
Affection does not cloud the blade. That's what he wants to believe.
「I will be the one to kill him. If there is a reason for me to be in this world, it's probably this.」
Since being reincarnated, it has been a lingering question.
Why was it me?
The answer to that question has taken the form of a person standing before him.
Mars makes a choice whether to entrust the world to "Jet Black" or not.
That is why he was reincarnated.
「Don't put too much pressure on yourself. It may have been your role at first, but now you have various paths ahead of you. There's no need to restrict yourself to just one.」
This is not as an Elf slave, but as Lilia herself speaking.
There is also the option to willingly accept destruction. That's what she wants to convey.
The wish to die together can still be granted.
「I want to defeat him. No, it's more like I want to crush him. I'm sure I'm the only one who can stop him, and it's my duty to do so.」
It's strange, but Mars had a possessive desire toward 'Jet Black'.
That feeling was similar to the day he met Lilia.
In other words, it resembled love.
He wanted to make them his, no matter what.
However, what he desired was the death of 'Jet Black'.
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