──Onii-sama?
There was something that felt out of place. There was too many to count with both hands.
However, things that could have opened up the distance of the heart with the other person without noticing them, there were a lot more of those.
Rem repeated herself.
「In any case, it’s impossible……I can’t imagine anything else except the fact that magic was used.」
「There might be the fact that she didn’t like something.」
Rem started to ask questions to Diablo who was lying down.
「Do you truly think that Shera’s speech and conduct weren’t strange? Can you absolutely assert that her thoughts weren’t coerced by magic?」
He couldn’t assert it.
However, there shouldn’t be that kind of magic. He had memorized every magic and treasure introduced in the MMORPG Cross Reverie. He had even cleared all of the Story Events.
「There are……several, treasures that can manipulate other people.」
「Eh!?」
Rem made him rise up.
「But, it wasn’t a flute……even the manipulated NPCs, you can tell them apart more clearly, and they would make clumsy speech and conduct……」
「……What are you talking about?」
「To think that in this world, there was something that could make them converse so normally……」
「……Isn’t it possible that there might be. Elves are said to be the ones closest to the Divine Beings, and have inherited the most of the Divine Beings’ treasures. This might be rude but……It wouldn’t be strange for them to have treasures that not even you, Diablo, know of.」
「That’s just cheating too much……」
──Cheating too much?
If it were in the game, it would destroy the balance.
It would be criticized as a shitty scenario.
However, this world, it was different from the game. Could he assert that it really didn’t exist?
Shera was manipulated with magic──when he tried to reach that conclusion, the failures of the past beat his head. His heart hurt.
“Self-convenient misconstructions”
“Wretched delusions of a guy that was cast away”
“Obstinate regrets”
──How disgusting.
It had pierced his heart more than enough already.
At the time he was summoned to this world, not just appearance and abilities, it would have been better if even the innermost depths of his heart had become the Demon King Diablo.
Not just him acting like a Demon King.
He himself was nothing but a simple gamer. Chasing after her after getting rejected, only to get rejected even more, he had enough.
The willpower to get up didn’t appear.
「……I……will respect her intention.」
Rem breathed a sigh.
Maybe he disappointed her. That might be fine as well. Surely, even Rem, someday, she’ll leave on her own. That was something that would happen before long.
She stood up from the bed.
「……I, believe in Shera. Even if it wasn’t magic, there’s no mistake it’s just hesitation in her heart!」
──Why does she go so far for her? Even though being rejected again would only make it a deeper pain.
It was mysterious.
Rem stared at him.
And then, as if she were trying to digest it, she talked.
「It’s because I’m, Shera’s, companion.」