![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Hmm hmm...?" |
After that, we tried many things, but none of the other kids woke up except Nara. Akihabara and Susukino are still trapped in 'a dream that is happier than reality'. |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"I don't know what's going on, but it seems really serious, neh?" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Yes it is..." |
Nara , the only one awake for the moment, explained the situation to everyone else as we all discuss what to do next. Abashiri bit her nails and glared at Nara, she's been acting strange the whole time. |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"It's really a mess.... The baa-sama I respected cuckolded my darling, and the woman I thought was my friend kidnapped my sister-in-law--" |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Eh, Abashiri-chan, you thought we were friends?" |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"I'm so glad♪ Abashiri-chan has always been salty towards me, and with the kind of salt that's rubbed in the wound too -" |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"- w, wait! I didn't kidnap anyone though, did I?" |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Oh, a real nori-tsukkomi. I haven't seen yond in a while." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"We're not doing a manzai are we, Chitose Baa-sama? I've suffered from that kind of manzai harassment(?) in my hometown--" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"You're a wolf in deer's clothing... That's why I thought you and I could get along as we're the same race - and yet... I thought we were friends, grit grit grit." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Abashiri-chan, you'll bleed if you bite your nails that hard!?" |
Conductor |
However, the question is normal. Why are Akihabara and Susukino sleeping in your room, Nara? They aren't sharing a room, are they? |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"That's right. In the SSS women's dormitories, we usually have our own rooms." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Well, Akihabara-chan said she didn't have any friends to spend Christmas Eve with, so -" |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"I understand that she's lonely because she doesn't have any friends, and I feel sorry for her, so I invited her to my room and we played together." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Akihabara-chan was always asking for her 'mama, mama', and it was very difficult♪" |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Thou art full of motherly loveth, Nara ojou. Yond's a valorous thing, thou art a very kind-hearted wench♪" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Hmph... You're the type of person who gets presents from Santa even when you're just going about your day normally... However, the crime of kidnapping a young child erases out all your good deeds..." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Like I've said I didn't kidnap her~? Susukino-chan suddenly came to play with her after midnight, something that she's scared about someone hanging around her room?" |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Oh, yond might be me t seems, I bethought I'd giveth Susukino a Purezento too, I was looking for a route of entry and so on." |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"I'm sorry, Nara, My Baa-sama sometimes wanders off like that..." |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"I'm not yond demented yet. However, it seems yond I has did cause thee ado. I apologise in advance, Nara ojou." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Oh, no no? Please don't bow down to me~?" |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"It wasn't much of a nuisance, you know. Chitose Baa-san is always righteous and does good things. I respect you♪" |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Nara ojou--" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"There you go again, scoring points like that... You wag your tail to everyone... bitch..." |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Hast hath said Nara ojou is neither a pig nor a dog, the lady is a deer." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Ahaha. What animal's ears one grows doesn't seem to have that much to do with how you live or anything like that. I'm a deer beastkin, but I usually eat meat too." |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Our animal ears and tails art simply organs for collecting spell power. T is a biological fact yond they have nothing to doth with ecology." |
Conductor |
I see. So the reason why the canine beastkin Shibuya is usually dog-like, is because she happened to be a child with that kind of personality - I guess? |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Umu. Of course, t is eke hath said yond t depends on the person's personality what kind of animal ears etc. grow. A dog-like child may has a dog-like personality - A dog-like soul." |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"It's like the saying: Which comes first, the chicken or the egg..." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Oh, yes, that reminds me of something..." |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"During the whole time I was dreaming, I thought I heard something like animal noises. But, I wonder what kind of animal sound that was?" |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"When I heard that sound, I couldn't think about anything else and I felt happy and fluffy." |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Oh... I vaguely remember it too... It didn't sound like animal noises to me, it sounded like a little child crying -" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"I think, that voice sounded vaguely like you, Baa-sama..." |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Me?" |
![Story Nara.png](/images/1/1e/Story_Nara.png) Nara |
"Ah, if you ask me, yes. Baa-sama was always calm and didn't make any kind of animal noises - It didn't immediately hit me." |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"I'm just too fusty and not energetic enow to make loud noises. So, what does yond mean? Nothing makes any sense, does t?" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"...Baa-sama, I've just had an idea." |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Could we... take a look at the 'Underworld' once...?" |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"The Underworld?" |
Conductor |
Chitose is related to a hellish otherworld called the Underworld, did you open a kind of a Gate? |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Umu. T is a different world, not unlike the afterlife, which only I can enter and leave." |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"I have also entered the Underworld a few times following Baa-sama's lead... The scenery I saw in my dreams seemed to be similar to the Underworld..." |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Maybe we were not dreaming, but only our consciousness was trapped in the Underworld..." |
Conductor |
Is that so? Wasn't everyone dreaming so happily that they no longer wanted to come back to reality? From what I've heard, the Underworld must have been a pretty spooky otherworld. |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"I understand not. But I can't just sit on mine own hands like this--" |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"T wouldn't did hurt to giveth t a try and open the gates to the Underworld." |
![Story Chitose.png](/images/1/1f/Story_Chitose.png) Chitose |
"Everyone, stand back a dram. The miasma of the Underworld shall consume hence at thy pure souls." |
Chitose clapped her hands, and opens the gate to the Underworld with a familiar gesture. |