Chapter 60
“Th-this is Theticia’s desire. Humans are beings that move by desire. D-didn’t you want to become a good scholar like me……. N-no, a better scholar than me?”
Her light blue eyes opened roundly, then soon fell into deep thought. Levia’s question disturbed Theticia’s quiet inner self.
“I want to become a good scholar. But……. that is only a method, it is not my purpose.”
What Theticia wanted to know while observing the animals and plants living in various environments was the treatment method for this chronic illness. If she had knowledge as profound as Levia’s, she might be able to find the cause and treatment of the disease even faster.
If it were before, she would have grabbed Levia’s hand instantly.
The image of Asmod got caught like a snagging stone in her heart, making it so she couldn’t move forward.
“I’ve received too much from Lord Asmod. I don’t want to betray Lord Asmod for my own good.”
“I-it’s not betrayal. It is reasonable. E-even human knights change their masters after making an oath of loyalty.”
Hearing it like that, it felt even more like a betrayal to take Levia’s hand now.
She didn’t want to betray Asmod just to choose the fast path to curing her illness.
‘Above all……. Lord Asmod is the first person I’ve ever properly made friends with.’
Even though it was a relationship formed by a contract, Asmod was the first one she could look clearly in the face and talk to. She didn’t feel like throwing away such a person according to her own profit.
— “I am the only one who can take lust from you, Theticia. That is why you are precious.”
Theticia was not thick-skinned enough to chase her own private greed even after hearing such a story.
‘……Besides, I even took Lord Asmod’s virginity.’
A virginity he had kept for a full hundred years. While hiding words she couldn’t possibly say out loud, Theticia briefly organized her thoughts.
“Lord Asmod only has me.”
It was a bit embarrassing, but this should be enough of an answer.
Even if Levia filled this greenhouse with every plant and demonic beast in the world. This was a nonsensical story from the start.
However, it didn’t seem to work very well on Levia.
“……I d-don’t understand.”
From Levia’s face that looked like it would cry, the gloom vanished instantly and a cold light spread. As he gripped his hand, the plants that were in his hand scattered without a trace like spores.
“I-it was a b-best condition.”
From the whispering voice, a chilly killing intent dripped. Even his speech habit of fumbling with his bangs became clear in an instant. Theticia, cowering at the terrifying energy, hurriedly waved her hands.
“C-couldn’t there be various ways, like talking to Lord Asmod and visiting Lord Levia periodically? I also really liked talking with Lord Levia.”
“No, if it’s n-not mine. I am n-not satisfied with someone else’s.”
His palm, where the bone joints protruded, stuck onto his pale face. The thorny thickets that were wriggling out fell to the floor with a wet, splashing sound.
“As expected, it’s b-better to make you into a doll. Th-then you wouldn’t r-refuse talking with me at any time.”
At the threat that he would make a person into a doll, Theticia’s face turned deathly pale.
The thorny thickets that had multiplied stickily opened wide like a flower around Levia.
“Wait a minute……, Haaah!”
Without any time to stop him, the thorny thickets rained down toward Theticia like the claws of a secretary bird. Theticia began to run while letting out a scream.
“Lord Levia, wait, let’s talk for a moment……!”
Looking back while running with all her strength, Levia’s body was floating in the air. Thick thorny thickets pursued Theticia while moving like spider legs.
“Aaaah!”
If she was caught, she would die. No, even if she didn’t die, she might be trapped in the greenhouse and have to do eternal conversation like an automaton.
God, Demons, Lord Asmod, Glacia, Jess! Theticia ran while calling every name she knew.
Theticia, running along the glass wall, believed in only one thing.
‘Since he said I wouldn’t be able to open the door, it means there is a door at least!’
She had to die after trying something; she couldn’t just be caught and die like this. And if she was caught here and became a doll.
‘If I disappear, Lord Asmod has to sleep in an empty room alone again!’
Asmod had met someone to take lust from after a hundred years; isn’t that too pitiful? She hadn’t even fulfilled Asmod’s contract to take lust until he was satisfied.
“Stop, Th-Theticia. You can’t r-run away.”
Vines wrapped around her wrist and the thicket snatched her ankle. There were many times she shook them off and almost fell, but fortunately, Levia was not fast.
Theticia’s eyes opened wide while she was running desperately. The structure protruding from the glass wall of the greenhouse was definitely a door.
“Ha, hah……, the door……!”
Theticia, who had run, stopped in front of the door as if sliding. Her whole body was soaked in sweat and her breath was up to the tip of her throat. Her small hand hit the glass door with a smack.
Theticia could understand Levia’s words that she wouldn’t be able to open the door.
“……There’s no handle.”
Her eyes, which had been hopeful, lost their light and turned pitch black.
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