The Sub-Heroine’s Butler Is a Vicious Bastard

52. scar (1)

[…] huh … Come on!]

“… ugh… ”

[Wake up! Schmitz!]

My eyes widened at Miho’s urgent cry.

I said I was going to take a nap, but I wonder if I fell into a deep sleep before I knew it.

I immediately got up and left the tent.

“Where are the enemies, from what direction…!”

[It’s not a raid. but… ]

The outside of the tent was filled with the sound of insects.

Miho took a deep breath as if to choose his words for a moment.

[Koyono, that little one… I went into that forest.]

My body moved reflexively at the word Koyono.

Let’s enter the forest as Miho guides us in the direction.

Small embers that appeared from the chest lit up the dark forest.

Shit.

Please don’t get too bad for her.

Let’s pray for it and run for a while,

From a distance, Koyono’s doll suddenly came into view.

Kneeling with his back to me, he seemed preoccupied with something.

[…] Don’t be surprised, Schmitz. Don’t be surprised, it’s soothing.]

As if knowing something, Miho said that.

It’s a voice that seems to be getting weaker and weaker.

That time when he approached Koyono feeling a strange sense of uneasiness.

“… Awesome!”

Koyono, who was showing her back to me, suddenly turned her head this way.

Black eyes wide open as if something unexpected had happened.

Following that, naturally, her arms and hands came into my eyes-

Koyono’s blood-stained wrist and sharp blade greeted me.

“Are you all right!”

Did I get hurt by something?

I immediately ran to Koyono and checked her condition.

There were no signs of a battle around.

If so, how did this wound come about?

“Were you attacked? Do you have any other wounds?”

“… … ”

“First aid… Ugh.”

Koyono is frozen as if he has not yet grasped the situation.

Even after treating the wound, she keeps trying to hide her wrist.

“Please show me. We need to check how serious it is, so we can take action…!”

“It’s okay…! Even a girl can heal on her own…!”

Something is strange.

Even her scars, which were evenly wavy.

Even she keeps trying to hide it.

Feeling strange about it, I held her in my field of vision as if snatching her wrist-

In the moonlight, her wrists were covered with scars beyond imagination.

“… What is this?”

Of course, blood was oozing from the fresh wound on his wrist.

The important thing is the scars around it.

Those scars lined up like those of a barcode,

They were huddled around her wrists as if they had been repeatedly healed.

“Since when has this been like this?”

“that… That is… ”

“I mean, since when did you harm yourself!”

A voice that surprised me.

Koyono sighed and looked at me with anxious eyes.

… When I saw that, my stomach sank.

‘… How was it in the original?’

In the game, she obviously didn’t do anything like cut her wrists.

Because there was no such mention in the game in the first place.

As usual, Koyono is one of the OP characters, so I raised her often…

The original…

‘What use is that now?’

Out of habit, I ended up playing the original song again.

Original. Original. his original.

The original work must have been ruined a long time ago while I was curing Arlott’s illness.

Why is a guy like me still crying out for the original work?

In fact, I knew the answer myself.

If you can’t do it right even in a game that has become a reality.

If you fail even in that world where you thought you were the only one confident,

Because it will be so painful that you can’t stand it.

So I tried my best to deny that this place was real.

A pulse rang in the hand that held Koyono’s wrist.

Not my pulse, but Koyono’s pulse.

The lukewarm blood flowing from my wrist, the fishy smell of blood.

They were screaming that this was all real, not a game.

“… Ball Schmitz… ”

“… sorry. I was excited… ”

I let go of her wrist and apologized profusely.

It wasn’t just that he raised his voice and got angry at Koyono.

Because I treated her again as a character and not as a person.

I remember forcibly holding a knife to her to break the quest.

Also, it reminds me of the time when I reflected my previous life on it and gave instructions.

It was all self hypocrisy.

It’s disgusting self-hypocrisy.

“… It’s not that Lord Schmitz did anything wrong. the girl… A strange habit of a girl.”

After freeing her wrist, she tried to wrap her arm in a bandage.

Since no first aid was given, the bandage begins to stain with blood.

I gently held her bandaged hand.

“Doing so can make the wound worse.”

“… … ”

“I will give you first aid.”

I got down on one knee and examined her wrist.

The remaining potion after healing Arlott’s wounds.

Pouring it out thoroughly, it covered her wound.

‘… It’s a terrible wound.’

I wrapped a bandage around her wrist and opened my mouth heavily.

“I’m sorry. For making me hold the sword, and for not knowing about this situation…”

“Ah, no. Lord Schmitz’s fault… no, absolutely…”

I’m going to go to the middle of the day, and I’m going to go to the middle of the day.

Seeing her like that makes me even more heartbroken.

Intermittently trembling shoulders and moaning as if holding back crying.

I silently listened to it, carefully wrapped the bandage, and hugged her.

“…!”

“Please let me stay like this for a while. To apologize.”

“… … ”

There are many reasons for self-injury.

Among them, the biggest reason is thought to be ‘wound from a person’

The reason why she let go of her sword and the reason she ran away from her family must have been caused by the wounds inflicted by the people around her.

The way to comfort this was simple.

It’s up to people to heal the wounds they received from people.

I thought the only thing I could do right away for this was to share my body temperature.

“Now, let’s go back to bed. It’s late at night, and monsters might come out.”

Supporting the staggering Koyono, he moved to the tent.

It took a long time to even take one step, but he moved slowly, following Koyono’s pace.

At the campsite we arrived at, Arlott was waiting for us.

“You are too late. I was worried.”

“sorry. To talk a little bit for a while.”

“… Koyono-san, are you okay?”

Arlot looks down at his worry-mixed anger, and calms it down after seeing Koyono’s condition.

It seems to have caught the strange current flowing between me and Koyono.

“It’s late, so why don’t we talk tomorrow?”

“… okay. I have to explain everything tomorrow. And Koyono-san too.”

“… sorry, sorry Nuisance… cause… ”

Koyono entered the tent with a weak voice.

It’s late at night and your emotions are running high, so you’ll need time to catch up.

I just sincerely hope that I can wake up and solve it properly.

“Whoa… ”

I let out a breath I don’t know whether it’s a sigh of relief or a sigh of frustration,

I went into the tent where Evan was sleeping and tried to close my eyes for a while.

‘You sleep well.’

Evan was peacefully sleeping soundly, whether he knew what I was thinking or not.

It was doubtful whether he would be able to make Arlott happy.

… I do not know.

With all the complex thoughts including that question, I couldn’t sleep at all.

Thoughts about Koyono, thoughts about Arlot, thoughts about Evan, thoughts about future academy life.

It all got tangled up and left a lot of worries and questions.

‘… Miho is still here.’

So I called Miho.

If we talked about it, it was likely that it would be resolved even a little bit.

[Why are you calling?]

Fortunately, Miho responded to my words.

However, no matter how much I called out to her, my mouth didn’t come out.

What do you think of Koyono, do you know that I am a possessor, what should I do when dealing with others.

Out of so many questions, I can’t quite figure out what to ask.

Miho was the first to speak.

[Koyonora is a child. Do you know who it is?]

‘… It must be a classmate. What do you mean by asking?’

It was an unexpected question.

Do you know who Koyono is?

That’s right, aren’t they classmates?

[You don’t understand what the original woman meant. I asked if you had met before entering the academy.]

‘Before entering… Are you talking?’

Have you ever met Koyono?

I was a bit vague about this.

Even though I’ve seen her a lot in games, it’s the first time I’ve seen her in real life since entering school.

However, I couldn’t help but be surprised by Miho’s next line.

Because an unexpected person came out of her mouth.

[A child named Torino Koyono… It’s the ‘silence sozer’ you went with in the ordeal.]