Ore no Osananajimi wa Joshikousei de Yuusha Chapter 23

I ran down the hallway and went down the stairs.

Worrying about that, I pushed my way into a large room.

Fortunately, I was able to spot Lady Demy immediately.
A maid was waiting on her and she was just about to go back to the room.

“Lady Demy!”

“I’m stumped. This boy becomes like this when I’m not around”

“Y, you really get along with each other”

“Yes. Please excuse me”
The maid gave a bow and went back where she came.

“….. Yuuki-san. Did something happen?”

She seems to notice something’s amiss from the way I looked.

Doesn’t look like they did anything to her….
“Let’s get back to the room and I’ll talk”

——…….

Once we’re back in the room, Arina was still appraising the monster, and Mist was sitting on the bed near the other two, looking worried.

“I’m glad. Ojousama is fine too, right”

“This….. what happened here?”
Borrowed as it is, Lady Demy was wide-eyed in surprise seeing her room full of people.

“Sorry for the ruckus. I’ll explain”

Blah blah yadda yadda.

Lady Demy scowled on the part about the bath, but she shuddered hearing what happened afterwards and made a dark expression.

“Yes. While we haven’t examined the matter about the spies, it turned into something big. …. Arina. Did you find out something about this?”

Arina took a flower with a strong stem from a vase, poked the slug and said.

“Huuuh!? It’s really an ero-monster!?”

“I see….. ……. ……”

“So it’s really an ero-monster isn’t it!!”
“Yes, it’s an ero-tentacle-monster!!”

“What the hell, stop that”

“…….. No, wait”

There’s something stuck in my mind.

“Lady Demy. You said this residence doesn’t have gardeners, didn’t you. Mist, is that true?”

“Gardeners are usually male, aren’t they?”
Mist thought about it, and nodded in affirmation.

“Now that you mention it”

“There are no men in the kitchens. Also, there are no old maids. Right, Mist-san?”

Which means this residence….

“So that was really…”

“Because they can seal mine and Arina’s mouths with the magic core parasite, isn’t it? They won’t have a problem even if the monsters and the rebellion plan is found out. As for Yuuki-san…. um…”

They can kill me, right?
It was obviously clear which one is easier to manage between knights attached to an organization and someone with no clear origins like me.

I see, it all makes sense.

…. Is that really true….

“No, that’s wrong. Didn’t Lady Demy say this in the coach?”

[If they knew I’ll be coming, anyone would hide the evidence]

“It’s weirder that they don’t hide evidence when there’s a visitor coming, right? They’ll get suspected if they deliberately turn her away”

Mind control monsters that only work on girls.

And Lady Demy coming into the middle of all this.

—which means, this is.

“Yuu-kun…”

“T, this might be because Arina is…. an idiot, but…. It feels like Yuu-kun is going to say something scary”

Please let this be the idiot’s delusion.
If this is true, then we have ‘lost’ from the beginning.

But looking at the situation up to now, I can’t think of anything other than this….

My anxiety caught Princess and Mist’s attention.

“Yes. Wait…. YUUKI-SAN!”

“Please listen closely. The person these parasites are made for, is probably Princess Rosé—you yourself”
“Eh….”

Princess Rosé was caught off guard.

“This parasite was made in order to manipulate princess Rosé, and you nonchalantly came here to get this parasite implanted in you”

Princess Rosé raised her voice in objection.

“Then, why is it that Princess had to come here?”

“That’s probably a rumor this residence’s people spread. Didn’t the knights explain this before? The King can’t afford not to dispatch you to this residence. That’s why they spread the rumors”

“The people here are too good. ‘Nobody can talk about whatever happens here from now on’. They only employed young girls so that even if there are witnesses to these incidents and experiments, they can be dealt with by silencing them using the parasites they made with the experiments. … probably …. all the maids in the residence have been implanted with these so that they’d be free to move at any time”

Lady Demy covered her mouth in shock.

“No, to even go that far…”

“Just who did and why would they want to manipulate my mind…?”
“I don’t have a conclusive thoughts as to why but I know who would. There is one like that, right? Someone who’s in a hurry to make your heart his own…”

SLAM!!

Then suddenly, the door was opened wide.

“STOP RIGHT THERE, YOU BRUTE!!”

Tris’ loud voice resounded.

I was about to answer her but looks like I was one move too late.

Chapter end