Chapter 9 – Lumica’s Scent

Episode 9 Rumika’s Scent

She has no memory of how she got back home.

“Oh, Camus.
Are you back
Bidding is… Camu?”

Yes, Marianne is a human and I am a demon.
The two races are at war.
Fuck you.
Yeah, I should have been patient
The enemy of my parents, the bitch who killed my brother!
I should have killed him right away!!
I should have been patient though!!

“Camu!
What’s wrong with your expression… ?
What happened?!”

The ‘saint of the sun’ is only a saint to the followers of the sun god.
To the demons, it’s no different than a demon.
A vase blows up.
Fire boils in the body.
Hee hee in front of Marianne, a fire burns inside me from laughing and falling asleep.

“Eva!
Help me!
Kamu is strange!”

“Oh, master!
I’ll prepare warm water and towels.
Rumi-sama, her master, please take off her coat.”

My body is hot from suppressing it.
I feel like I’ve become a volcano.
Suppressing my anger, I became a volcano.
Now, I feel like I’m about to burst with anger all over my body.

“Camu!
Sniff, do it!
Tears, runny nose, dirt…
You are a total mess!
Hey, did you roll on the floor?
Who did you hit?
Who is this! What a bastard!
Tell me!”

A guy like me is loyalty, cause, war…
While shouting at such a grandiose thing.
I hit my dick for 200 years to marry my ex-girlfriends!

I can’t protect my family, and I can’t even repay my enemies!
Did I live quietly in the capital of an enemy country with my own body?
I’m a coward.

But, did you endure it even with enemies in front of you?
Haha!!!
You endured it again?!?!?!?!?!?

“Come on, Camus. Lift your arm
Right, right!
Eva!
Soak a towel in hot water!
Camu, let’s lie down here for now.
Be careful, be careful.”

Fuck, fuck, fuckaaaaa!!
I’m such a pathetic piece of trash.
From soldiers to corps commanders.
From tribune to espionage.
How did you climb up?
I made a peace treaty with humans on the spot, and I tried my best to keep it.
Haha!
Are you really stupid?
I was betrayed by the enemy!
Hey~~ Isn’t there another fool like this?

Did you put up with the fact that your parents, siblings, and enemies laughed and fell in love in front of your eyes?
Haha!!
I know.
I had to put up with it.
You held up well.
That way, I can catch her saints one by one with her foothold and get rid of them.
That’s a rational, strategic decision.

But, but… Why is my heart so stuffy?

Courage!

“Aww! Kamyuu!!
Breathe! Breath!
Oh my god… !”

“Master!
I’ll go and get the doctor and the priest… “

“… No way, Eva!
That, no way!
I do CPR first… !”

My stomach boils and I’m going crazy.
What is it, my chest is stuffy.
No air…
Guess who’s pushing me
Something hard and long stirs in my mouth… ?

My heart is stuffy, ugh…
Mother, father, brother.
I’m coming… !

“Eva, go upstairs for a moment.
Please. I will treat you.”

“I’m Rumi… ?”

“Ugh… Hurry!”

“Yes… Yes!”

A hot breath enters my lungs.
What? Is it the afterlife?
It must have been a warmer and cozy place than I thought.
I am… I can’t go yet.
Revenge, it’s not over.

* * *

When I woke up, I was lying on the bed in my room.
Next to the bed, the old maid, Eva, is sleeping on her stomach.
This… I’m sorry.
Looking out the window, the full moon is shining brightly.
How long have you slept… ?

Shuck, shuck.

I barely lifted her finger and straightened Eva’s hair.

… Even the demon subordinates are not by my side.
An old human maid who knows nothing is by my side, helping me.
They don’t know that I’m trying to devour the human realm.

If she knew that, how would Eva act?

Click. Awesome…

The door is carefully opened.
A girl with blazing red hair creeps into her room on her heels.

Something subtly, no… Certainly she has shrunk in height…

“Eva…
Eva… Go in and sleep
Let’s switch with me.”

“Um…”

Eva stood up briskly.

“Excuse me…”

“”!!!””

Rumika and Eva jumped up in surprise at my voice.

“Camu! Woke up?!”

“Master, adult!”

“Thank you everyone…”

His throat cracked and his voice cracked.
Still… I want to thank the people who have been by my side.

“Camu! I’m so glad… !
You woke up in two days!”

“Master, I will prepare a warm decoction for you.
Please wait for a moment!”

Eva crashed down her steps at a speed she had never seen before.
Rumika came over and knelt down beside her bed, her hands cupping mine.

… Up close, it was clear that Rumika had gotten younger.

“Kamu, I was worried! My body is fine… ?”

“Huh… It’s okay now…
But your body has shrunk more…”

“Oh, this? Ha ha…
We’re a demon tribe, but we can’t show our bodies to the councilors and priests…
I healed with magic…
I only know the basics of healing magic.
So I ignorantly repeated basic treatment magic until I got better. What is it?
Haha!”

A girl with pigtails scratching her cheeks with her fingers in embarrassment.
It’s easy to say, but my mana must have been exhausted excessively by repeating ineffective treatments.

As a reaction peculiar to Dark Blood, the body returned to its young age.
It would be nice if it was younger, but the maximum of all stats is significantly reduced.
Not to mention the decline in physical abilities.

Being chased, in the middle of the human kingdom, wasting magic because of me…

“I’m sorry, Rumika…
Because of me…”

“What? No no no!
Follow… It’s not that I’m worried about you… !
I have to pay for the meal… !”

Suddenly, you can’t tell the difference between the color of Rumika’s face and the color of her hair.
I mean, I don’t know which one is more red.

Rumika this guy.
You think if you turn your head you won’t see the redness in your ears?

Even though she pretends to be smart, she is a foolish demon queen with her holes pierced.

“… Do you want more?
Don’t overdo it and get some rest.”

“No. Get enough sleep
I want to wake up…”

When she forced herself to stand up, Rumika dissuaded her.
I don’t even know why I wake up.
It felt like I had to get up.

The moment she stood up with both feet on the floor and took one step, two steps.

Stumble.

“… !”

Bang!

I lost her balance and fell on her knees.
Rumika hugs her.

Now it’s at a level that barely comes to my chest.

I taught
I loved,
I tried to let go
I… The girl who tried to betray…

I was hypnotized.
Tasted her body, teased her.

If she finds out about my dirty heart, what kind of expression will she make… ?

“Kamu, I can’t do it.
Let’s lie down a little longer.”

Smart.

“Master, Mr. Rumi.
I brought the decoction.”

“Come in, Eva.”

Eva stepped in at Rumi’s call.
He lays me down on the bed again and pours the decoction into my mouth little by little with a spoon.

“Thank you, Eva…
But what kind of potion is this… ?”

“Whoop whoop.
The old maid has wisdom that young people don’t know.
Don’t worry and slurp it without leaving anything behind.”

Indeed, even while taking the decoction, his energy was rapidly recovering.
The effect is astonishing.
No, isn’t this the decoction of Marianne, the ‘Saint of the Sun’, the demon version?

“It is a secret method that my grandmother taught this old man long ago.
It’s extremely difficult to get ingredients, but I randomly used a lot of herbs in the store’s warehouse.
Please understand…”

“Don’t worry.
I’m more grateful, Eva.”

Rumika looked at her as she ate the decoction with her arms crossed with a nervous face.
I let out a sigh of relief at my reaction.

I tell many things to those standing by my side.
The story of attending a bid for a vendor of restorative herbs two days ago and defeating the saboteurs (no hypnosis, just beating up thugs).
The story of being selected as a supplier.
Even the decision to visit the refugee camp with Saint Marianne a few days later.

Both Rumika and Eva showed unusually exaggerated reactions.

… Would be worried
Because I didn’t say why it was messed up.

“I want to take a bath.
Will it be okay?”

Eva and Rumika looked at each other, only to ask me if I was okay.
After nodding their heads, the two of them thought for a while and left the room to prepare the bath water.

* * *

In no time, the bath water was ready.
I was supported by Eva in preparation for her unexpected situation.

Rumika, a demon who is very strong even when she is small.
She insisted on supporting herself, but Eva held back.
It is incomprehensible by human standards that Rumika, who is absurdly small, supports me.
I can’t do that for fear of falling together.

Clack clack.

After taking the decoction, he recovered enough to move a little.
That’s interesting.
The water in the bathtub feels good.

Eva, who was supporting me, asked if I really needed to take a bath right now, but I only answered that it was absolutely necessary because I had something to organize my thoughts.

Is the faithful human maid an enemy to me because she is human?
If Eva finds out that I am a demon, how will she react?

I do not know.

Tum-beong-tum-beong.

I splash the water in the bathtub with my hand.

Who am I now
Someone’s son and brother?
But why did you hold on?
Is that the strategically right thing to do?
Is this what you need for your next revenge?
Was it really the right thing to do?

Tum-beong-tum-beong.

What should I do?
Kill Marianne right away?
Hypnotize her into a slave and use her as a tool?
To torture?
If we had attacked on the spot, would it have succeeded?
No.
What if you fail?
Opportunities don’t come twice

Would Lumica be patient?
You lost your father to the same thing as me?
Did you just put up with something bold?

I guess I’m really out of my head…
It seems that the schemer is not in the constitution.
I hold on to what has already been done, review it, regret it, and worry about it.
It’s like an indecisive guy.
Why did you become a hypnotist?

[Kamu, why don’t you turn into a wizard other than a hypnotist?]

[Why, teacher?!]

[The hypnotist… He is inevitably a schemer.
You have to be cool, cruel, and insidious.
But you are too indecisive, no, you are a warm person.]

[No no! I want to be a hypnotist!]

[Then you just learn phantom magic, why hypnotism?]

[Lol… Actually, this is a secret…
Listen to me… !
Actually (slightly) I heard the teacher worry that no one is learning hypnosis.
I’m good at hypnotism, so I’ll always be next to the prettiest teacher in the world!
… Sir, why are you crying?
What did I do wrong
Sorry…]

[… No, it’s not like that.
Thank you.
Would you like to come and hug the teacher?]

… Why do you think of the old days?
Embarrassingly
Nearly two hundred years ago…
I’m just thinking about my ex-girlfriend.
Going crazy.
Huh, I should have just been a pyromancer or an ice mage.

Smart.

“Is it Eva?
What brings you here… !”

I inadvertently turned my head to the bathroom door, gasping for breath.

“Kamu, that’s…
Isn’t it dangerous to leave a patient lying down alone in the bathroom?
What if I pass out, get up and wash up and then collapse?
So…”

Rumika came in wearing short hot pants and a white short-sleeved T-shirt from which she was not sure where she came from.
Hey…
Spilling this nosebleed is bad for your health.

“A little later, if you need me, call me… No.
Come on, Rumika.”

“Eww… Huh.”

I recommended a small chair next to the bathtub.
Rumika was so small that she could sit in the chair.
It’s so sad.

Rumika pulled her hair together and tied it up like she did the other day in her bath, revealing her slender neckline.

No matter how thick his hair is, the untied fine hairs are sprouting cotton on the nape of his neck.

Where should I start talking… ?
Even so, since he is the successor of the demon king who is over 100 years old, it seems possible enough to get life counseling.
Wouldn’t it be enough to get counseling?

“Ah, Camu!
Do you want to use a bath bomb that makes you feel good?
Eva said that there are many good things here.”

“… !!
No no no no!!
Are you okay!
I like clear water!”

Fucked, fuck!
That’s your own hypnotic elixir, idiot!
It mixed with my semen!
Don’t pour it here!!

“Huh? Don’t worry.
Eva also gave permission.
Here it is.
It is said that it is a bath powder for ‘mental stability and fatigue recovery’?”

“Wait wait wait wait!!!!
Don’t pour it, aaaaa!”

“… What.
Why are you so nasty?
It’s a waste, so let’s get rid of it.
That’s right, it mixes well.”

“…”

Damn, I don’t even have that much left… !

Perhaps Eva mixed it with the scented rose, or Rumika changed her mind and used it.
The bath salts hanging on the wall had shrunk considerably, so there were only a few left.

Eight wins!

“Eight! Good luck!”

Fuhak!

“Ah! What are you doing, kid!
It’ll remove all your makeup!!”

To get rid of the anger, I filled a basket full of bath water with bath salts and poured it over Rumika’s body.

Oh, but why are you so annoyed!
It’s poured on her body so it doesn’t splash on her face!

Why are you wearing makeup on a moonlit night in the first place?!
It’s like this kid Rumi!

“I don’t know.
I just wanted to pour it.
I want you to look cold.”

“Ugh, Ashekimyu!
Unless you’re a patient, you’re really dead to me… !!!
You must be lucky!”

Rumika jumps up, wringing out the water with her hands, wearing a wet white short-sleeved T-shirt.

… Our eyes are drawn to the colorful patterned bra that can be seen through her wet short-sleeved T-shirt.

Besides, it looks like the top of the hot pants got unbuttoned after getting hit by the water.
The elegant red panties that were revealed at first glance had a shiny cubic cubic attached to the lower part of the belly button.

The bath water dripping from the end of the wet bra is dripping to the floor.
The turbid water mixed with bath salt passed through her hot pants, soaked her panties, and ran down her white thighs to her calves.

… Wow.
And.
Wow…
I can’t stand this.

“Rumika, come in.
It’s cold.”

“… What?
What what what what?!
Hey are you crazy?
Are you insane?”

“I got wet anyway, so what should I do?
I’m here and you can’t shower.
If you stay there, you’ll catch a cold because it’s cold.
After being in the bathtub together, help me when I get up to wash.
And i’ll go first
You can wash up after that.”

“You threw water on me on purpose!!!”

“No, I don’t want to see you acting as my protector.
I sprayed it out of anger.”

“Anything over 200 years old is doing this!
Shame on you!
And do I look like such an easy girl?
Ha, true!
Even if you look at the demons wrong, you saw it very wrong!”

“… I’m so sorry I sprayed you with water…
I was wrong…
I have something I want to consult with you from the time I return that day.
Come in the bathtub… Will you listen to me… ?”

She has a very angry expression.
He looks down at me with his arms crossed.
Although the difference between her eye level didn’t show much because she was getting smaller due to her magical consumption.

“I’m really dumbfounded…
You are the only demon who treats me so rudely.
Ugh!”

“I’m really sorry…
Please.
I need you now.”

Rumika, in her wrath, rubbed her forehead and bowed her head.

“After…
OK got it.
I lost, I lost
Is it only once?
If you get better, this will never happen again!
It’s forbidden to make a pitiful face like a puppy in the rain after you’ve sprinkled it with water.
Okay?!”

“Okay.
I’ll promise.
Sorry.”

Rumika lifted her feet and walked into her bathtub with her clothes on.

Visiting… Visiting…

Her skinny ankles come into the bathtub.

Chambang.

Then she bends down and sits on my lap and leans her back against me.

Shoot it

There are two people in a narrow bathtub, so the water overflows a bit.

I was sitting cross-legged in a round bathtub.
Rumika sits on my lap, resting her back and her head on my chest.

Her red hair in a ponytail tickles my nose.

… The scent of fragrant roses permeates my nose.