I'll Wrap You in a Blanket

I'll wrap you in a blanket. 32. I'll wrap you in a blanket.

Even so, such nights inevitably passed. “····” Ah, by the way, did it torment you because of the trauma? Well. Before I could even think it was painful, my reason shattered and instinct began filling with the urge to breed···· At first, I clearly wanted to escape somehow, clutching Tia’s hands that gripped my waist out of my will as a man and my trauma. But how should I put it. A strange sensation that seemed to rise from deep within my chest, along with the feeling that it was stealing the strength from my body, simply meant that bastard Tia was far too strong. Of course, she knew her own strength and controlled it well, so the moment I was caught, I was dragged in like an ant fallen into an inescapable antlion pit, just like that, just like that····· “Nghaaaaah———!”

Flop—— I woke up as if launched from the bed, convulsing like that. Was it a nightmare? “···· Ha, haha····” Yeah, once I came to my senses and woke up, reality started to register. Right, it must all have been a nightmare. Otherwise, there was no way I would have screamed like a bitch in heat under the Demon King’s hands, getting pounded into a mess. Yeah. Wasn’t I Karia, a man and a woman who still carried the spirit of the male Belberman? Right, I still hadn’t lost a man’s pride. It was all just a dream. Me willingly touching that huge, vicious thing of Tia’s, rubbing my face against it···· Stop, stop!! Stop thinking about it. Yeah, let’s stop thinking about the dream. I have reality···· Squish—— “·····” No matter how much I tried to escape.

“This fucking shit.” Last night, Tia had definitely taken my virginity. The bed was still reeking with that musty smell of fluids everywhere, and though I still had my top on, my bottom half was missing, my thighs and buttocks covered in Tia’s fluids. Yeah, my face too. My chest too. This fucking shit. “The bathroom, quickly·····” The moment I recognized my true appearance, I felt my mind go distant. While trying to steady my blurring vision, the suspicious heat rising in my body again from that musty, earthy smell made me mutter, “P-Please, Karia···· You still have Belberman’s will····” I somehow slipped out of the room, avoiding the eyes of other attendants and executives, and ran to the bathroom. “····” Damn it, it was too shameful. Even without a man’s pride, the fact that someone might see me like this was too sad. I was always the nice guy Belberman!!! That bastard Tia!!!!!! Whoosh—— How could this be. Fortunately, I was holed up in an empty bathroom, washing my body. Even while rinsing under the running water before getting into the tub, last night’s memories refused to fade. It felt as if they had dug deep into my body and imprinted themselves with a thud. The sensations of that moment, that instant, seemed to have burrowed into the marrow of my bones and left their mark. I still remembered the moment that hot fluid was sprayed all over my body. My whole body tingled. The thrilling sensation wouldn’t stop, squeezing every nerve. To think Tia had kept her sanity after being subjected to this. I still couldn’t shake off the memories of those moments, along with the vivid sensations left inside me, the hollow feeling of something emptied, and even ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠Tia’s breeding fluid that hadn’t yet left my body.

Honestly speaking, the truth was. The truth was, man or whatever, I just, just liked it. Even if that size wasn’t realistic, I had already been subjected to Tia’s antics before, so I got excited easily and had no choice but to accept it. I was happy. It felt like I finally understood what a woman’s joy was, what an orgasm without post-nut clarity was. Of course, it was a bit rough. Haa, but saying it like this really makes it seem like I’ve lost my identity as a man. No. Even so, I am still Karia, who possesses the strong will of the man Belberman. Although I pretended to submit at the time, I endured it. Yeah, I am a man. It’s just···· that I’ve had various experiences. “Haaa····” For some reason, I felt utterly miserable. Why did this feel so sad? The fact that I, born a man, had to keep shouting about my pride as a man was too heartbreaking. Sluuurp—— Even so, in that merciless confusion, I slowly washed away all the memories left outside and inside my body, carefully stepped into the tub and sat down. Still, I felt a bit better, thankfully able to melt away the fatigue accumulated overnight. “Uhaa·····” Like that, as I began to melt like a snowman in the tub, I wondered why. “··· Huh?” Leaning against the tub wall and looking up, “······” “·····” I found someone looking down at me, our eyes meeting. “Ah.” It was her familiar figure. “Hop hop.” Greeting me with her usual deadpan expression, as if happy to see me after so long. “It’s Jemma. Have you been well?” “Jemma——!” My one and only precious subordinate, Jemma. I immediately rose from the tub and hugged her, shouting in an excited, agitated voice, “Really, even if you’re busy, at least come say hello——!” “Haha, Master is as proactive as ever···” Jemma hesitated for a moment, then carefully hugged my back and replied, “I’m sorry I couldn’t properly greet you until now···· I missed you a lot too, Master.” Because she spoke to me with a voice full of sincerity, I shook my head, let go of Jemma, and said, “It’s fine···· I heard everything. You’re becoming an executive?” Jemma looked at me with a slightly flustered face and said, “Ah··· Actually, I wanted to surprise you, but you already noticed···” She told me the reason she had worked so hard without even greeting me, and after I smiled and patted Jemma’s shoulder encouragingly, “Do your best and work hard, Jemma.” I cheered her on with a proud smile. “Your master will always be supporting you.” Jemma stared at me blankly for a moment, then blinked her eyes and muttered very softly, as if slightly embarrassed while fiddling with her elbow, “···· As expected.” “Huh?” “I’m glad I chose to serve you·····” Even though the bathroom was very quiet, her voice was so small it was like I could only see her lip movements, drowned out by the sound of the water in the tub I was in, so I couldn’t hear it well. “Uh, huh?” When I looked flustered as if I hadn’t heard everything, “It’s nothing, Master.” Jemma smiled brightly and said, “I really missed you.” She stepped into the tub I was in and carefully entered while speaking. She said she missed me. “Yeah, I missed you so, so much too···· Really.” I answered while sitting in the tub together with Jemma. Ah, but that didn’t mean attendants could enter the same bathroom as their master. It was just because Tia’s personality was special; she allowed most subordinates to share the bathroom if they were the same gender, and also because the bathroom was originally spacious. I guess I should consider even this as Tia’s grace. Usually there was no one as annoying as that kid, but at times like this, she really was a good kid. Like that, Jemma and I enjoyed a happy, cozy bath while chatting. While doing so, Jemma told me about the things she had learned, letting me know she had been having extremely tiring days, and when I touched her noticeably thinner face compared to before with a pitiful gaze, Jemma still said she felt healed by waking up earlier than anyone every morning to clean my room. Well···· I thought that was possible and accepted it casually. In fact, even during my Belberman days, I used to feel healed in really strange places. “Hmm?” But while we were talking like that, I started to wonder why I was bathing with Jemma, who supposedly woke up so early. “Jemma, what time is it now?” When Jemma finished her story happily and was enjoying the bath while humming a pleasant tune, I stopped moving and asked her the time. “Oh, there’s no clock here so I don’t know··· It’s probably 3 AM.” “I-Is that so?” That’s right. I had come to wash up roughly without getting proper sleep. Yeah, normally the room should have been cleaned by the time I woke up. Something felt off. But if that was the case, shouldn’t Tia have been in bed too? I didn’t see her. “Hmm········” “Is something the matter···?” While I was deeply thinking about Tia’s whereabouts at this early hour, Jemma asked as if trying to help me. “Ah, it’s fine.” I smiled at Jemma and said, “It’s nothing important, so you can focus on your training.” Jemma looked at me with a very happy face and said, “No. This Jemma is Master’s subordinate who must assist you. Even if I become an executive, I am still Master’s subordinate, so I can help whenever Master wishes, so please just say the word!” She shouted while hugging me tightly. “····” While reflecting on my past self who had doubted that this child might leave my side, “Thank you. Then I’ll call you when I really need you···· Come back then.” I spoke in a voice warmer and cozier than the hot water in the tub, and “Yes!” Jemma answered with a very energetic voice and a very happy smile, so our reunion through this coincidental bath ended, albeit regrettably, without lingering attachment. Even though the reason for this reunion happening this way was actually because of me. Well, if I had to point fingers, wasn’t it Tia’s fault for making decisions without any discussion, just listening? Of course, now that Tia was in the Demon King’s position, I understood that it could happen. But even thinking that, Tia was still a bastard. She dirtied my body like that, like a dog···· This bastard. “····” Anyway. The fact that Tia was a bastard was something I always knew, so now I was indifferent. Right now, I was just curious about where that kid had gone so early in the morning. Of course, before confirming that, after sending off Jemma who finished bathing first and quickly went to work, I followed after her slowly. Because I finished a very leisurely and quiet bath. “···· Hoo.” As expected, rather than a kid like Tia, wasn’t my body always first? Yeah, that kid would do well on her own. So after finishing my bath, I led my very refreshed body and slowly came out of the bathroom with a comfortable mind. Fortunately, Jemma had also brought me new clothes to change into, so with deep gratitude in my heart, I adjusted my dry skin and clothes little by little, then walked outside absentmindedly. “···· Lady Karia!” “Huh?” As soon as I finished bathing and came out, I saw several attendants approaching me from somewhere. When I quietly looked at them, they approached me quickly with slightly anxious faces and said to me, “We heard some rather dangerous news···· We really wanted to tell you.” These three attendants had become quite close with me besides Jemma. Although they weren’t subordinates serving me, what did that matter. I just wanted to become friends with these attendants who communicated well and acted adorably. And these attendants were the kids who had indirectly helped calm me down little by little even when I was rampaging. Saying it like this made me embarrassed that I couldn’t easily calm down despite having so many kids who helped me. The attendants filling the empty space of family had its limits ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠after all. Even so, there was nothing I could do. So when I saw those attendants who liked and followed me looking so urgent as they wanted to tell me something, I immediately stopped walking and faced the attendants, and the attendants lowered their voices and said, “News has come that a major war will soon begin···” “We overheard Lady Cartoria talking about it while cleaning the room···.” I focused on the attendants’ story with a momentarily hardened face and asked, “··· Tia, I mean the Demon King?” asking about Tia’s whereabouts. “It seems she went up to the surface early in the morning and is preparing with the executives, but we don’t know the details···” After bowing my head in thanks to the attendants who had relayed such important information without hesitation, “Thank you. Then I have things to prepare too··· I’ll go ahead.” I finally understood roughly how the situation was flowing. Why Tia had woken up early in the morning and disappeared from my side. I was about to leave that place immediately. However. “Lady Karia····!” “····” When one of the attendants called me, I turned my head again and saw the three attendants worrying about me with the same expression, “You must stay safe···· You have to be careful.” I felt my heart tremble a little. So I tried to answer casually so they wouldn’t worry, but “You all, take care too.” For some reason, a bitter smile formed. With those words, I turned my head sharply and headed to the room. Tap, tap—— According to what she had said about wearing the designated robe when Tia had to go to the surface alone in the future, I needed to find that robe. And the reason I had to find it was because right now, if humanity had finished preparing for war, I too had to move quickly. Because I was purely human, without even Clairvoyance. To watch their state, grasp the situation of the war, and seize the best moment for me to step forward, I had to gather all the information I could collect and stand at the very top of this war myself. My ideal ultimately ended with the war’s conclusion, but that didn’t mean I had superhuman abilities to stop a war that was already happening. So for this war, I had no choice but to support Tia, who would become the Demon King. I still needed the Demon King’s shadow, and I couldn’t let Tia fall yet. Of course, that didn’t mean I thought Tia would fall. No matter how many annoying things she had done to me and how much she lowered her guard in front of me, I knew it came from her feelings of love for me. Because I vividly remembered her true Demon King appearance. Even so, the reason I was urgently trying to go to the surface was for just one thing. Because I couldn’t let her become immersed in slaughter. Right now, beside her who had decided to lower herself and accept even pain, there was a need for the most ideal existence to stop her more than ever. An idealist was needed. An existence to plant the seed of ideals once again in the Demon King’s personality that had thrown off all the shackles of the chain of pain and been liberated. To help her recognize the most appropriate time for her to step forward herself. To help her be certain of that moment, assisting from her side. Yeah. The Demon King had said it, that existence like Haze was needed. I had to become that existence. Tap—— Like that, I arrived straight at the room. After that, without hesitation, I flung open the door and entered, and even though not much time had passed, I felt slightly pleased that Jemma’s skill hadn’t gone anywhere upon seeing the perfectly clean state of the room, but I couldn’t let myself be too swayed by such feelings. As everyone on the surface was moving busily, I too had to become busy. If war was right around the corner, that’s how it had to be. Sluuurp—— Like that, I found the robe deep under the closet. It was an ordinary yet stylish robe that looked like white cloth had been patched onto a plain black background, but for some reason it gave off a mystical aura, so without doubting it, I immediately put on the robe and left the room. Heading to the surface, to prepare for war together. As an idealist. “····” Tap, tap—— I strode forward without hesitation, searching for the stairs leading to the surface. It was protected by magic in most situations, but I had heard that wearing this robe would let me find it. I walked straight toward it without caring whether it was open or closed. After quickly passing through the familiar corridor and occasionally entering passages I had gone through with the Demon King, “···” Though it had clearly been blocked by a wall, for some reason a certain space that looked half-transparent came into view, and realizing this was the ability of the robe the Demon King had given me, Sluuurp—— After pulling the hood attached to the robe deep over my head, I lightly stepped through that semi-transparent wall. “····” Then the wall, as if it had never existed in the first place, began to blur and disappear as soon as I touched and passed through it, and after I looked at it curiously for a moment before starting to stride up the stairs to the surface, “···” The higher I climbed those circular stairs, the more I realized that the early morning sunlight was shining down on those circular stairs. Of course, the sunlight hitting me after so long made me squint and shrink back a little, but I was somewhat moved that the small covering attached to the robe’s hood blocked the sunlight quite well. To take care of even such details, it wasn’t like the Demon King at all. However, such feelings didn’t last long. Tap—— As soon as I first set foot on the surface again like that, what came into view were the very busy surface attendants and Cartoria leading her subordinates with a very serious face. Chrislis walking quickly somewhere with a solemn face. In the distance, even Kibotos with a mature face teaching something while pointing somewhere on the castle wall with Jemma. Right now. The fact that it was a really important time had seeped into my bones, chilling me to the core. Tap, tap—— After watching those scenes for a moment near the stairs, I immediately blended in among the busy attendants while wearing the robe and began searching for Tia. Starting from the logistics warehouse and war warehouse where war preparations were in full swing, the barracks where troops were gathered, the training ground, the executive meeting room, and even the private room the Demon King used when staying on the surface, I searched everywhere. However. “····” Nowhere. That kid didn’t exist. For some reason, as if that kid had never been here, as if she had completely disappeared, not even a trace remained. Even though in this vast surface Demon King’s castle, even in the castle that was extremely busy with war preparations, how thoroughly could I search? Even enduring that, she was nowhere to be seen. And asking the attendants around me was also difficult because they were all busy, and wearing the robe made it feel like no one noticed my existence, so I couldn’t even try. Taking off the robe would bring back memories of being severely punished for not keeping a promise, and besides, who knew what might happen from taking off the robe. Of course, maybe nothing would happen. But in a situation like now, every single trivial action had to be done carefully. It was a lesson learned from experiencing multiple battlefields, a kind of know-how. “·····” Even so, after wandering around the Demon King’s castle a little more, I eventually stopped wandering and took a short breather in the Demon King’s private room I had found earlier. Sluuurp—— After entering there and taking off the hood, while freeing my hair that had been pressed down by the hood for a moment, “··· Is this Tia’s space alone.” Since I couldn’t find her right now anyway, and she might return here after some time, I decided to spend some time here for now and began looking around the room little by little. “····” The interior was similar overall to the underground room, but how should I put it. Unlike the underground room, the surface room was a bit more Demon King-like, should I say crude and rough. Even though it was well organized, for some reason it felt messy, so realizing even the room was truly Demon King-like, I chuckled a little, but Sluuurp—— Like in the underground room, on the desk placed in one corner of the room, “···· This is.” I discovered traces of not-so-old bloodstains remaining, and “Surely···· No.” I felt an ominous thought slowly rising for a moment, but soon shook my head and trusted Tia. After all, it wasn’t that large a bloodstain, and at this level, it might just have been nosebleed from fatigue. I briefly turned my head and checked elsewhere. “···” Then I discovered that the bookshelf was filled with documents organizing the human world, journals evaluating and studying their strategies and tactics, and books recording and organizing all their observed behavioral patterns, and it was definitely different from the underground room which only had books about the demon race. “···” On impulse, I picked up one of the books stacked high on the desk. “···· Beings from Beyond the Heavens?” Inside the notebook I picked up were records written in a language I could recognize, along with Tia’s opinions, and “··· Celestial Beings.” About the existence called Celestial Beings written there, I looked closely. However, the notebook seemed to have been used by Tia simply for organizing thoughts, so the content was disorganized and completely jumbled, making it impossible to understand what she wanted to write. However. “···· Another race.” For some reason, I received another ominous feeling from Tia’s traces of having drawn large emphasis marks several times on the Celestial Beings, the race from beyond the heavens written in that notebook. “···· Let’s remember this.” After deciding to remember the existence called Celestial Beings, I tried to check elsewhere again. However, while looking around the room like that. Click—— “···· Lady Karia?” For some reason, Cartoria came to Tia’s room and found me. “Why are you here····?” I was slightly flustered, but soon realizing from Cartoria’s appearance of putting down documents written on the desk that she was working, “I came to see Tia.” I spoke ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠to Cartoria in a slightly solemn voice. Then Cartoria made a dark expression for a moment and gave a short answer, “She’ll be a little late.” After that, “For now, please go down. I’ll tell her that Lady Karia is looking for her——” She immediately reached out her hand as if to send me back underground, but “Wait.” I lightly avoided Cartoria’s hand and said, “I came to meet Tia.” Not just coming to meet Tia out of simple curiosity about this situation, but to properly convey that I had come to find Tia for a more certain reason. Then Cartoria looked at me like that for a moment and said, “···· Understood. I’ll tell the Demon King as soon as she returns.” Because she was properly treating me as the Demon King’s companion. After sending Cartoria back with a hand gesture, from those words I figured out Tia’s whereabouts, which had been mentioned even slightly, that Tia wasn’t in this castle right now. Cartoria immediately closed the door again and ran busily somewhere to prepare for war, but after those words, since Tia wasn’t in the castle anyway, I thought there was nothing I could do right now, so “Haa···” Letting out a slightly frustrated sigh, I flopped down on the bed. “···” Even so, feeling the same soft fluffiness as the underground one, and the perfectly identical rebound, I realized that this kid’s bed preference was really firm, and for some reason that was a little amusing, so “····” While smiling, I adjusted the bed a little, but “···· Tia.” Why? The anxiety that kept rushing from deep in my chest into my head just wouldn’t go away. The small bloodstains that seemed to have been spilled here not long ago. The Demon King who left the castle during war preparations. The worry about Tia that kept bothering me and wouldn’t leave wouldn’t disappear. Eventually, I couldn’t stay still even in the room, then wandered outside again for a moment, and not long after returned to the room again, but still Tia didn’t return. So even when noon came and meal time had completely passed, without thinking about being hungry at all, I kept worrying only about Tia’s condition, and “····” Around the time that had lasted for about seven hours. Only then did I suddenly realize. “·······” Was I originally someone who thought about Tia like this? Why was I thinking about Tia so much when I knew better than anyone about the Demon King’s powerful military force. Even though there was no need to, why couldn’t I let go of my worry for her. Right now, was I in love with Tia? At least for now. I realized the fact that I was genuinely worried about her. However, even if I was alone loving her in the place where she had disappeared, Tia ultimately didn’t return until the sun set and night deepened, and eventually, while I was lying on Tia’s bed still wearing the robe, trying to close my eyes for a very brief moment, “Master, at least for sleeping, please go down····” I could see Jemma, with a serious face like our first meeting, coming to find me and earnestly requesting, and after looking at Jemma like that for a moment, “··· It’s fine. Don’t worry about me and finish the work you have to do.” I spoke as if indifferent. “This is the work I must do, Master.” Jemma looked at me with the most solemn face of anyone. “····· Tia needs me.” However, even so, I had to be by Tia’s side. No. Perhaps Tia needed me. “I need that kid too.” In this anxious situation where it felt like war could break out at any moment, it felt like I could feel a little relieved if I could at least see that kid’s intact appearance. And just as I needed that kid in this way, that kid would surely need me too. Perhaps she needed me even more than I did. That kid ignored all her emotions other than simple things like anger or joy whenever she did something, so no matter what she needed, if she didn’t say it, no one would know. So. I decided to stay here until the end. Fortunately, Jemma didn’t refuse my will and accepted it, Sluuurp—— except that she allowed it on the premise that she would remain in my arms instead. I willingly hugged Jemma, who had transformed into a rabbit form and entered my arms, with my whole body, and with a small whisper of thanks, for a very brief, very brief moment, I tried to close my eyes. Because I had poured all my energy into worrying about that kid all day, there was no choice. So. So I quietly closed my eyes, still worried about what state that kid was in right now, and worried about how this war would turn out, but what happened? Was it because I was too tired? Not even realizing I had fallen asleep, while still being anxious in the swamp of continuing worry, Sluuurp—— From behind my back as I lay on my side hugging Jemma, who had transformed into a rabbit on the bed, I felt a hand approaching, and when I started to open my eyes for a moment, “···· Haa···” I heard her familiar voice letting out a trembling breath for some reason. That kid, as if she had just arrived here, flopped down on the bed and began hugging me. “···· Tia.” When I called Tia’s name in a voice that had sunk as much as possible without being able to shake off my drowsiness, “······ Haaa···” Tia, who had only been letting out rough breaths, immediately hugged me tightly from behind and said, “···· It’s a little cold····” At that moment, for some reason, I discovered Tia’s hands, whose fingertips were trembling terribly. “What happened····?” When I turned my head slightly flustered and tried to look at Tia, “You don’t have to worry····” That kid rather used one hand to caress my face so I couldn’t turn around, making me stay lying down, so I flusteredly held that kid’s not-cold hands even more strongly. However. “···· Why did you come up···” At Tia’s voice asking me in a still slightly trembling voice, “You gave me this and told me to come ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠up when you needed me, didn’t you.” When I answered with a slight faint smile, that kid grabbed my shoulder tightly across from my waist to my chest and said, “Yeah, that’s right···” When I warmly squeezed and held that kid’s arm, “····” That kid, who had been quietly hugging me and letting out a labored exhale, not long after hugged me even more strongly and said, “····· Thank you, Karia.” At that kid’s voice, “If you’re having a hard time, just sleep.” Thinking that she must have had a problem from being subjected to such severe overwork, I rubbed that kid’s palm that was holding my cheek so I couldn’t turn my head a little so I could feel it better, and lightly kissed that palm. “·····” After that, Tia, who hugged me more comfortably and adjusted her posture, pressed her lips against my nape and said, “I··· will protect you.” She made a vow to me. Only then did I feel it. Seeing that kid uttering such words herself, only then did I realize it. Tia, who saw Haze in me, was vowing to absolutely protect me, and everyone on the surface was busily moving supplies. Even so, Kibotos, who was usually full of playfulness, had an extremely scary face unlike any other time, and without closing her Clairvoyance even for a moment. Jemma had stopped saying “hop hop” that she always uttered like a greeting, and was assisting me more seriously than ever. Cartoria, who had been like a close friend, was treating me as if I were in the position of the Demon King’s companion. I realized. “I too···· will do that.” This would be like that day. Yeah, it would be a war as fierce and painful as that day. “And if you’re cold, tell me anytime, wait in a place I can find you···· I’ll come personally to wrap you in a blanket.” Of course, naturally, I also knew that day would come someday. It had come much faster than I thought. Even so. “Is that···· so··.” If I was going to move forward for my ideals, there would always be things I had to give up. To move forward, I always had to leave something behind. Because until this war, the Demon King ultimately had to win. If they, humanity, were truly coming to sweep away the Demon King’s castle. If that was why these people were preparing so diligently. This time, for this time only, I was going to become a hero of the demon race. Because it was still too early for someone as weak as me to achieve peace. However. Why had I been trusting Tia like that? Why did I trust her? Sluuurp—— That morning too, I woke up alone, and in the room where even Jemma had left, I rubbed my eyes in my sleep and raised my body. However. Such hands of mine were stained with bright red bloodstains, and “····” The moment I realized it wasn’t something that had flowed from me, when I turned around thinking “surely not,” on the spot where Tia had been lying, an unbelievable amount of bright red bloodstains were rampant. “··· Tia——” I immediately kicked open the door and ran out. “Tiaaa———!!” However. Boom———! The air raid had already begun long ago.