What if Tooru and the other’s come searching for them and they don’t get enough time…..? How will it be possible to wait until the effect of the Subjugation magic ends, before being found out…..?
「………………」
「Now you have probably understood the merits of having the both of us here…… Alright, let’s quickly find a safe place to hide, and then we should both unleash our strongest attack towards each other…….」
「Wa…..Wait!」
Kirika held out her white hand as she stopped Palmyra. Her black eyes were averted away from Palmyra slightly as it trembles faintly.
「Bu, but……The Princess is at another place and those girls who were captured by the Dark Elves, what do we do about them? If by any chance that they need our fighting potential and was in a predicament….!」
「…..What’s this? Why are you still worrying about something like that nojya!」
Palmyra frustrated and angry voice resounded.
「Listen up, I can still understand you worrying about that Princess. However, the other enslaved girls were enemies with you the day that you met, aren’t they the people you should hate along with the Slavemancer?!」
「Th-that’s true…But…..!」
To Kirika who was still hesitating, Palmyra continued to raise her voice. It was like she saved up all her frustrations and was releasing it all out on Kirika.
「To begin with I am already fed up with this, they called me “Paru-chan” and was making fun of the fact that I was a fourth rank noble aristocrat………Moreover, they were acting as if they were close to me, it’s disgusting!」
「Eh? Is that how you really feel…..I’m sorry, I thought that you quite enjoyed it….」
「Of-of course it’s not like that! It’s definitely not the case!」
The Goth loli demoness was swinging her hands around and frantically trying to protest. After a little while longer, she realized her disgraceful behavior and she panicked as she began to blush and clear her throat.
「Gohon…….An-anyways, if we let this chance get away, there may never be another chance again! Think about this carefully, Princess Knight! If it’s you, I thought that you would understand my feelings in this matter and help each other out…..!」
「Palmyra…..」
Her red pupils were tearing up, and it indicated how she had been toyed around with to his heart’s content and the humiliation she received. No, rather than just the fact that certain things were done to her…..Kirika suddenly felt that she realized Palmyra’s real “motives” in the matter.
Her position in the party and being mixed with humans. That is….in itself probably something that she detested more than Kirika would ever understand. She herself was different from the humans, and she had this kind of pride of being above humans for hundreds of years as one of the feared demonic race, and perhaps this experience was a completely shocking one for her.
Being forced to adjust to the lifestyle placed on her by the Slavemancer……..She feels that if she doesn’t escape his grasp, she will truly lose her real self. She would change to someone who was close to the humans she despised, that was the “fear” that Palmyra felt. That’s the reason Palmyra desperately tried to resist the control of the Enslavement magic….This is what Kirika predicted.
(That feeling……I think that I can relate, to it)
Kirika was also faintly conscious of that part of her which changed whether she wanted to or not. This was because…..of the fact that she was near the man called Tooru. That arrogant, perverted, unprecedentedly devious man. They were being influenced by him.
(I…am….)
Is it because of his influence? That I hesitated before, even though a chance to escape was in front of me? The fact that I was worried about the Princess was a naturally thing……..of course I also had goodwill towards Nina and the others and these two were both facts. However, having a feeling that there may be another “Reason”, was this perhaps all just in my head?