Chapter 6 : Yuri-chan plays with water ! Featuring Berser-tan !

"Neee, Nagito-kun, how many times has it been already ?"

Nagito stopped brushing my hair for a moment, before answering.

"Let's see, in order, the gargoyle, the poisoned wine, the snake in the rose garden , me, a flight of stairs, falling off the window. That would be six times."

I think I heard something strange.

"What was the fourth cause of death?"

I heard a sigh behind me.

"I killed her to cause the reset, yes."

Aaah, Nagito-kun you worrywart. I was about to do it myself, you know...

But it seems Heroine is getting smarter and is avoiding dangers, so it will be harder to initiate resets.

I've determined my body can currently only survive one week and a half before showing signs of weakness.

That certainly explains the sudden death.

So the first thing he did when he discovered my condition is go kill the heroine in a panic.

It's surprisingly sweet, in a morbid way.

He might be a bit too eager to do that though.

Ah, well, she's like an insistent stalker back in Another Side, so I suppose I get it ?

Nagito-kun hates stalkers of any gender , really.

As if I'd let myself get captured by an otome heroine, of all things, I'm straight, thank you very much, despite all of Yuri!Yuri's attempts to make me 'see the light'.

The thing is she's been sniffing around in his direction. I don't know what he did, but she's suspicious now .

How troublesome, I can't let him alone without him somehow  messing up my plans, first the protection ritual that turned me into an undead and now that ...

Geez, give me a break already.

Ah, well, he's my cute, overprotective (tsun)dere boyfriend after all, so he's forgiven.

It's so weird to even think of it.

My research is advancing pretty well, I think I'll be able to find the Soul Ring soon.

The Soul Ring is an ancient, legendary-class artifact that has the ability to alter a soul.

Using that item should be able to manipulate my soul back to normal, but I have my doubts, so I'm looking for other means of doing this.

Nagito's intending to take up swordsmanship seriously, by the way, just in case, even if he has his wind magic. Half of muscle memory is memory , so even with the resets, he'll still gain something from it.

Good thing for him, he'd been getting antsy, lately.

Aaah, my hair's done. Eeeh, today's twin tails ? I guess that works ?

"Umu, you're getting good at this, Nagito-kun. So what shall we do to Heroine-chan today ?"

He chopped me lightly on the head.

"Nothing, we're avoiding her."

"Muuu, Nagito-kun, you party pooper."

He ignored what I said and remarked instead.

"You should go to the rose garden to replenish your magic energy."

Indeed. The rose garden is convenient, because there's a small pond in it, so that's ideal for someone like me. Besides, I've devised it in a way that nobody can suspect I'm doing suspicious things.

"I think I'll to that. You're off to the court, I suppose ?"

"Hm. I'll see you in an hour."

So here I am, in the rose garden, so off to collect material. I'm cutting rose flowers, they're big, white and smell really nice. Plus it goes well with my blue and white theme.

Ah, I've forgotten to take a bag. Meh, my dress will do, if I grab it halfway, it'll only show my knees and have decent storage space. Before long, it's covered on rose head s and lose petals.

O-kay ! Now to the water. I shake off my shoes at the water's edge, before putting my feet in it. As in every loop, it's nice and fresh. I discovered it on the first one, since sanitation and the likes 'conveniently' don't exist, we had to look for places with water, and this was the only one isolated enough for me.

So, yes, off to the water, pretty flowers!

I let my dress and the petals fall. The dress doesn't get wet since it only goes down to half my shin anyways. I pat the remaining petals off it before starting to assimilate those who sunk. They're nice, fragile and thin, yet very rich, so that completes my food regimen nicely...

A soft breeze rises as I do my work. Smells niceeee....

Half of the flowers are gone by now, and I'm brimming with energy ! Well, I'll consume the rest because wasting is not good.

"Hee hee."

Ah, a slip of paper in the air. Catch it or not catch it ? It looks like paperwork, so it might be important....

Ah well, whatever, I'm curious !

I snatch it off the air and start reading it.

"'Study on the Millenia flower' ehhhh, there's a translation error..."

Sigh, quest item huh ? Let me guess , powerful restorative item ? Yeeeep. So it's probably hidden there ? I guess I'll go if I have the time.

"Ah, there it... is..."

I look up and a shabby looking teenager and his group of friends ran behind them.

Aaaah, a hero party.

As a main antagonist, demilich and demon lord, I'm feeling pretty annoyed at them.

Don't judge me, if I do something, I do it well. Eeeexcept when I mess it up.

They look pretty tongue tied at the moment, but I'll forgive them.

I mean, super pretty busty loli with twintails, feet in water with roses floating everywhere, that's the typical scene for the shounen protagonist to fall in love or some sh*t like that.

Aaah, I guess it's a nice break from the constant shoujo-ness.

H-Hey, n-not nice...

You know it's true, Yuri-jo.

N-No, I m-mean, it's more jo-josei than Shoujo.

Umu, I see , my apologies then .

I-It's okay...

Ah, yes, there's wind too, damn, it really is a 'falling in love' scene.

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Poor Nagito-kun, everytime he's away, something goes wrong.

"That's yours , right ?"

Wakey wakey, I wave the paper at them while getting out of the water towards them.

The ground is grass, so that's no problem.

"Ah, er, yeah." The guy finished lamely.

How eloquent, really.

I shove it into his hand and get back to my shoes are

Curses ! I could have used my towel for the roses. Oh well.

After drying my feet, I put my shoes back on.

"I don't think you guys should be here ?"

The future Hero-baka scratched the back of his head bashfully.

"Haha, yeah, well you see, we were hired to find Oriens' true prince-OW!-"

The girl near him hit him on the side.

"Is he always this stupid ?"

I can't help but speak out. There it is, the 'join my party or become the enemy' flag.

The boy who totally will betray hero-baka to the enemy later nodded grimly.

I pity you greatly.

Ah, wait a minute.

'True prince' Does that refer to Nagito-kun?

Aaaaaah, I guess I should tie up that particular loose end ?

"Why are you looking for him here ?"

"Why should we say it to you, huh ?"

I smiled.

"Because I'm the third duchess Lilia Ambrosia Faulafee of Vernieros, and should I scream, a dozen of guards will come running and cut you down."

A gust of wind almost blew me off.

"Not if they can't hear you." Said the girl, who obviously cast the spell.

I sighed.

"This is getting troublesome. You come here, to our country, threaten a high level noble for what exactly ?"

"As we said, to find the true prince of Oriens."

"You're saying 'true prince' as if the current prince isn't one."

"No he isn't!" Started hero-baka "him and his entire family are only puppets for Mana! The true crown prince would have the family grimoire!"

So it's come down to that. I tilted my head.

"And how did you know this supposed crown prince is here ?"

They narrowed their eyes at me, oh, how scary. Not.

"You know who he is."

"Maybe yes, maybe no, you've been dancing around the question for a while, mister wannabe hero-kun~"

Well, from their words earlier, they're loyalists. Annoying... Ah, traitor-san attacked me with a sword. Slooooow....

... .

Oh , Hi berser-tan, How you doing ?

... ?

Why I'm great, thank you.

...?

It certainly seems so.

...!

Why , you're incredibly vocal today.

... .

Well, you've certainly got a point.

Let's tear off their arms and beat them to death with it.

It will be fun !

"What should I do, they won't leave, they won't tell me who sent them here... Aaah, oujisama will be upset with me if his cover is blown...Gee, the things I do for love...."

Now that got their attention...

"Wait what?"

Too bad, right now, I'm fresh out of mercy ~

I ran up to their leader and kicked downwards,he barely had enough time to block, the blow hitting his sword's blade so hard that it also hit his head and knocked him out.

Heh, moron.

I was wearing shorts underneath, so no pantyshots for you, perverts.

I then catch the traitor guy's arm and puuuuull

**pop**

out of its socket.

Scream more, will you? Thanks to your friend, nobody will hear you anyways !

Archer guy's next!

Nee, running away's useless you know ?

Since I'm so small I'll go straight to the downwards kick too.

Aaah, broke his arm.

Only the magical girl left ~

"So I guess the idiots who are screaming his location around will have to go and feed the roses, nothing personal really, but please die, tee hee ."

Free lifeforce , yay ! Not.

"Lilia-sama ?"

Booh!

"Nagito-kun, you've come to a really bad moment, I'm pretty tied up right now ~"

"Y-Your highness!"

Nagito-kun looked at me for a moment, before looking at his book and sighing.

"Go ahead and scream it louder, I think they didn't hear you in Septentrion...Lilia, stop strangling that girl with her own hair."

I pouted. Really, if you insist on having long hair, you have to be good enough for it not to be a liability.

I might act a bit sadistic lately, but I've been stressed for a while, so you can't really blame me for letting off some steam when I can... besides, Berser-tan's been looking for a while now, her urges are here and growing stronger and stronger and stronger...

"Mou... Unlike you, I don't have Heroine-killing as a way to let off steam anymore, so of course, when some idiots appear, I can't help myself, you know..."

He sighed.

"This loop is annoying me too Lilia."

"Erm.. Your highness ?"

We look at the downed party. Well, I glare at them because scaring them is fun. I might get a bit too much into my Evil persona, but right now, I don't care!

Awawaaaa....

D-Don't pet me in public, that's embarrassing...

"I guess under normal circumstances, I should apologize for her conduct, but since it was in self defense, I think I'll settle with asking who sent you guys here."

(A little while later)

Yay, time to kill the Heroine again!

...~!

Humph, wait. It is nearly time now.

Time for what, your highness?

...?

Why, for the end of this act, of course, I have grown tired of this parody and therefore shall endeavor to hold my end of the bargain.

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Uwahahaha, the end of this arc is near already !

Winter The Queen is coming UWAHAHAHAHAH*demented laugh*

6 chapter today !

More than 10k words !

My brain feel like mush .

Off to heal my soul with some kumoko.