Chapter 109 – A Few Moments Later
‘Stay is very angry with us right now, so let’s try to talk to him when he calms down.’
After finishing the story like that, they left ‘Stay this place’ behind and returned to their respective seats.
The reason they obediently returned to their places instead of stalking the stay as darkly as before was because stalking was actually more difficult.
A month ago, when they didn’t know what it felt like to spend their daily lives with Stay, Mir Ryuin and May Ruina have already figured out their daily lives with Stay.
After discovering the joy of spending the same amount of time in the same space as Stay, they have become no longer satisfied with things like stalking.
It was obvious that if they started stalking, they would eventually run out of patience in less than a day and rush at him and be subdued in an instant, so they chose to return to their original positions so that Stay could not be seen at all.
If you see it, you will miss it as much as you see it, and the more you miss it, the more quickly your patience will run out, so staying away from Stay was a choice that had to be made for a better reunion.
Of course, this was also a very difficult choice for them.
Until a month ago, Mir Ryuin and May Ruina had only lived a life without Stay for a week, but they were so addicted to him that they couldn’t endure it any longer and went to see him.
For those women, it was very difficult to choose a life without Stay around them, a life without Stay even in their sights.
But even that difficult task was too easy compared to never being able to meet Stay, and unlike a month ago, this wait was definitely coming to an end, so they gritted their teeth and decided to endure it. I could bear it.
And. Half a year has passed.
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The 90th ‘Vegetable People Association Social Gathering’
The meeting of three S-class awakened people who were cursed with the ‘eternal prison’ and became vegetative in the past, held once every two days, has finally celebrated its glorious 90th meeting.
The fact that the 90th meeting had already been held without any problems or problems was definitely something that the participants could laugh at and share congratulations and greetings with.
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But unfortunately, or perhaps naturally, that light atmosphere did not flow.
There is only one reason why none of the participants are smiling even though the social gathering has already reached its 90th anniversary.
“······Dain Adamas. What did you do yesterday? Where on earth and what were you doing that you disappeared for an hour and a half?”
“I didn’t do anything. I just slept at home. Why should I be suspected like this just by staying at home?”
“Dain Adamas, you are a person of interest among our members. It’s a time bomb that you don’t know when it will explode. So, as the chairman, shouldn’t you be managing it carefully?”
This meeting was only a friendly meeting in name, but in fact it was created to monitor and keep the members in check.
Although no physical conflict occurred, the countless secret battles, intrigues, and battles that took place within it were so bloody that they were more, not less, than an actual battlefield.
The general atmosphere of this meeting was at a level that did not require any further explanation, as people started biting and biting their teeth stubbornly just because they had lost contact for only 1 hour and 30 minutes.
“What Mr. Mir Ryuin said is correct. I am the president of this group, and Dain Adamas is just an ordinary member. Please have respect for the chairman, ordinary member.”
“Hmm, this is right. Dain Adamas, everything Mei Ruina says is true, so conduct your investigation faithfully. You are not innocent yet. “If there’s anything that’s a little bit off-putting, spit it all out without leaving a single seed out.”
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While the normal atmosphere of the meeting was being disrupted, Dain Adamas, who was really just resting at home and falling asleep for a moment, suddenly became a criminal, felt his frustration rising to the top of his head.
“These are real! “Why are you picking a fight with someone you don’t know after you got caught by STAY for messing around like that?”
So I couldn’t hold back and let out my frustration.
This was because the people in front of Dain Adamas were enemies that he had no need to pay attention to.
‘I made a loud noise, so I’ll start again. I have to go to the end this time too. Because I can never lose to these things in front of me.’
Dain Adamas, who expected that shouts would come and go this time as well, waited for his anger to be met and looked for an opportunity to counterattack.
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However, contrary to Dain Adamas’ expectations, there was not even a shout or a dissatisfied grumble in the conference room of the ‘Vegetable People Association Social Gathering’, and there was only heavy silence.
At the completely unexpected reaction, Dain Adamas forgot for a moment that the people in front of him were enemies that he didn’t need to pay any attention to, and began to reflect on whether he had said something wrong.
It was because the atmosphere was so heavy that Dain Adamas noticed it without even realizing it.
And soon, Dain Adamas realized what a mistake he had made.
“······Ah.”
‘I guess I brought up what happened that day.’
Even so, the incident that was so shocking and terrible that it caused trauma by being delivered directly from the farm on the same day, and the incident of that day when Mir Ryuin and May Ruina were abandoned by Stay with swear words, has grown in size and weight even more now, half a year later, and is no longer mentioned at all. It has become something that we are not even allowed to do.
A taboo that starts mutually assured destruction the moment it is brought out. That was exactly what happened that day, and now, half a year later, the memory of that day has matured even further, and its destructive power has grown tremendously.
However, since the ‘Mei Ruina disaster’ incident that occurred at the 45th meeting about 3 months ago, Dain Adamas has brought up the incident that was designated as an absolute taboo.
“······You. “You, Mr. Stay, told me to my face that you don’t treat people like people, so how can I like people like you!”
“He went in thinking he would be different from us, but in the end, as soon as he entered, he made Stay look at him with a straight face, and after being pointed out that he had made the mistake of destroying the store that Stay valued more than his life, he told me to get out of there because I didn’t want to see him. “There’s a lot to be said about a topic that’s been neglected, Dain Adamas?”
“Kuh, keuhuhuh! These things are real… Are you saying it comes out like that? “You mean let’s do it?!”
In the end, it was natural that another catastrophe like the ‘May Ruina disaster’ would occur, which only left great scars on both sides.
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“Huh, huh. Heeheeing······. Stay ceeeee… Stay ceeeee… Those people are harassing me… Please help me…”
“Uh, huh. Quickly. Stay… I miss you… “Stay, I want to be with you, not with these mentally broken women.”
“Ooh, ooh, ooh. Hmm… Ah, ah. Oh, no. There’s no way Stay would think of me like that. In the first place, all the memories of that day were copied using magic, so I keep them perfectly. I’m afraid of seeing the memories of that day again, so I haven’t seen them again, but Stay said he didn’t hate me that much. So everything they say is just baseless nonsense. I’m sure the next time I visit, I’ll definitely greet you with a smile. So, let’s hold on just a little longer. Because after patience, you can taste sweet fruit. Huh. So, when she says that Stay hates me so much that she never wants to see me again, it’s not true, it’s a lie… It has to be a lie…”
In the end, the three S-class awakeners, who had achieved mutually assured destruction once again, locked themselves in their respective corners and endlessly cried out the name of Stay, who was not here.
These three idiots couldn’t muster up the courage to go see Stay for half a year, so they gathered in this dark place, meaninglessly keeping each other in check and only getting hurt.
But today was the last day.
“Huh, huh… I, I can’t do this anymore. I don’t think I can bear it. Furthermore, I miss you so much Stay…”
In the end, today’s incident became a catalyst and someone collapsed.
“Me too, me too. I can’t do this anymore. Living like this is not living. This is not life…”
“Rather than suffer like this and die… Yes, that’s right.”
The atmosphere of a group is like dominoes, once they start to fall, it cannot be stopped by individual power.
Especially if it is a group created due to special circumstances like now.
Like dominoes, the three of them reached the limit of their patience, and headed to ‘Stay this place’ to meet Stay for the first time in half a year.
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And then I saw it.
“Boss, boss! Give this a try! “It’s my own creation, baked at home!”
“Oh, chocolate cookies? Thank you, I will eat well.”
The sight of Stay spending his daily life with a woman wearing the same apron, laughing haha.