Souen no Historia
Story 19 - Souji VS Testarossa
Author
十本スイ
十本スイ
Translator
Endo
Edited by
GhostlyEditor
The smile Femme had until now became stiff from Yoyo’s
words. Seeing that reaction, Yoyo grinned and gained her conviction.
“It is like that after all.”
“What is?”
“Fufu, if you have grown senile then you shouldn’t have
reacted a little while ago.”
“............ You, didn’t anyone say you have a bad
personality?”
“I think it is not as bad as yours, you know?”
Femme gritted her teeth.
“You, haven’t you understood your situation? You don’t have
your freedom now, right? Depending on what I feel-.”
Step step, she
approached Yoyo with loud footsteps. She retrieved a knife from her breast
pocket and held it against Yoyo’s neck.
“Like this, you will immediately die, you know?”
“...... can you do it?”
“What did you say?”
“You have an objective. I was kidnapped because of that
objective. That’s also why you restricted my movements. If you were a bandit, I
might have been killed, sold, or made into his plaything. However you are
different. There should be a reason that if I die you will be troubled. At the
very least, you can’t kill me right now. Did I guess correctly?”
Because Yoyo said so
with indifference, Femme’s face flushed nervously and the knife in her hand
trembled.
“E-Even if I can’t kill you, it is possible to beat you.
Shall I do that? Mind your words if you don’t want a wound that can never be
healed!”
Femme thought that Yoyo would at least shows a frightened
expression but,
“I see, then do it.”
Because of the unexpected reply, Femme face became distorted
in her surprise.
“I-I am not joking, I will really do it! You shouldn’t want such
a wound because you’re also a woman!”
Disregarding the glaring Femme’s statement, Yoyo calmly opened
her mouth.
“It is so. But let me say one thing.”
“Wh-What!”
“If you even put a scratch on me then….”
“Then, then what?”
“...... think that your life will be ended there.”
“W-What-...... kh!?”
At that time, the maid that accompanying Femme appeared and,
“...... a guest.”
She only muttered that. When Femme heard that, she put the
knife back in her breast pocket and she grinned.
“I have been waiting………… Souji Alkasha.”
She tuned around and in front of her was a tail-coat
wearing, red-haired boy in a slight bow.
“I have come to pick you up, Yoyo-ojousama.”
Souji, set foot into the ruins of the church, discovered
that Yoyo was lying down on the altar and her body was restrained with rope. He
was relieved because she seemed to be safe.
“Please let me introduce myself first. I am the butler who
serves Yoyo Yatsugi Crowtail-ojousama, Souji Alkasha.”
The one who answered him was the girl who called herself as
Dresoj. She was a beautiful girl with a different charm compared to Yoyo. The
girl raised her silver hair with her hand and smiled.
“I am Femme D. Dresoj. The maid here is Testarossa.”
Next to Femme, the expressionless woman with light blue hair
bowed slightly.
“This ends the formalities. Well then, I want you return
Ojou-sama.”
He diligently said that with a smile and,
“I don’t mind, however there is a condition.”
He already expected that. There are no kidnappers who don’t have
demands. If it was not related to money and goods, Souji had guessed that it
was related to him.
Perhaps he was called because he unknowingly created
resented between them. He thought she was going to demand his life, and he into
her eyes.
“I wonder what kind of condition it is.”
He will hear her for now. However Femme immediately declared
something that surprised him.
“I want you to become mine!”
His thoughts froze for a moment.
Just now, what did she
said? He tried to run her words once more through his head. I want you to become mine? If it is just as
the words mean, she wants me to serve her.
In truth, he had thought he was the cause of this matter, he
just never thought it’d be for such a reason. He had guessed that the kidnapper
at the very least was someone who resented him.
Even Yoyo who was lying down had her mouth agape as she
watched them. She never expected that kind of objective.
“...... for confirmation, are you telling me to serve you?”
“That is right! A noble existence like mine is the only one
suitable for an existence like yours!”
Though her chest flatness would not lose to Yoyo, she
displayed a satisfied expression that might be either because of her great
confident or because of the declaration just now.
“...... don’t tell me, did you kidnap Ojou-sama just to gain
the upper hand and smooth out the negotiation?”
“That is right! It is as you just said as I was not sure if
you will accept it.”
“No no, even if I say I am going to serve you here, no other
people could prove it. So I’ll quickly betray you.”
“Fufufu, I already prepared for that.”
Femme took out a black, cylindrical object from her breast
pocket. Smiling suspiciously, she opened the cylinder’s lid and a rolled up
paper removed from inside.
“Do you know what this is?”
She unrolled the paper and shown it to him.
“Blood Oath…”
“Oh my, though I didn’t ask you, it is as you said.”
Though it was Yoyo who answered, Femme lightly nodded in
confirmation.
“I see, a Blood Oath huh. A.k.a Blood Covenant. A
catastrophe is said to befall the one who put his seal on that if he doesn’t
adhere to what’s written on it.”
“It is so, this is originally used to sign a contract
between mechanical dolls (automata) and the puppeteer, but of course it can be
used between humans. Even though I said that, this thing is rare and very
expensive.”
“Certainly, an excellent doll was said to have feelings.
That is a magic tool that was made to prevent dolls with feelings from betraying
their masters huh.”
“Fufufu, how amazing. To know that much even though there
aren’t many of it on the market, it make me want you more and more.”
“Though I am honored by it, in short you are saying that I
must put a blood seal on that if I want to rescue Ojou-sama, right?”
“That is so.”
“I refuse.”
“............ then, is it okay for me to do as I like to
this woman?”
She took out the knife, and was ready to stab Yoyo in the
chest.
“That will be a trouble. However, I advise you that it will
be better to stop.”
“Can I hear your reason?”
“Ee, that person is my master after all.”
“......?”
“If you even put a scratch on her….”
Souji’s smile vanished, he narrowed his eyes as he coldly
glared at her and,
“I will annihilate you, okay?”
A clear killing intent gushed out from Souji. Femme who met
that, “U…,” held her breath. Testarossa completely entered battle mode.
However, even as her mind and body were exhausted from being
bathed in killing intent, Femme was still smiling.
“I want you! You are as just good as expected! Testa!”
Femme called out to Testa, Testarossa lifted her skirt and
she took out two big black lustrous objects that were equipped on her thighs,
then she held them in her hands.
(Dual-gun? Their forms, magic guns huh….)
They had much smaller muzzles compared to normal guns. Just
as their name said, they were loaded with magic power and shot bullets made of
condensed magic power. Their firepower depended on how much magic power was supplied,
but they were tricky to wield due to the ability to rapid-fire.
“Just deprive him of his movement!”
“... Acknowledged.”
Testarossa narrowed her eyes just like a hawk’s and she
pointed the guns at him. Souji promptly jumped sideways from his location, and
he was hidden in the shadows of the rows of chairs.
The magic bullets destroyed chairs, and punctured the wall.
They packed considerable power. If his defenseless self was hit by those, he
would literally be unable to move.
(Well then, I wonder how I shall proceed….)
Souji murmured that in his mind was as if he was organizing
documents.
- “Floated a smile” appears so often that I wish I knew what the author meant by it. I’m just going to assume it means he smiled. ↩
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