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While carrying Nanafus.h.i.+ on my back, we made our way to a local park and sat down on one of the benches.

Kudan, the insect user who killed Kazahana and Rikka's mother and took away the sisters.

The two of them have the right to know. But even if they were told about this, there's still a need for them to be cautious.

It will endanger them both, especially Kazahana.

At that time, Rikka was young, so she doesn't remember the insect user. However, that's different for Kazahana.

She remembers about the insect user as well as her mother who fought against that person and was told about her mother running away and abandoning the two sisters.

If I poorly choose my words when I tell her, then the risk of her going berserk will be pretty high.

「Calm down」

In order to track down Kudan, we have to first strengthen our fighting power.

If I'm able to do it alone, then I would. However, that's impossible. I don't have any fighting capabilities.

So I have to borrow it.

Rikka excels in physical attack and Kazahana excels in physical defense. They both hold powers that I don't, and their abilities are both essential to me.

I won't defeat Kudan just for Rikka and Kazahana. I'll defeat Kudan because that person laid their hands on "my family".

So this is "my revenge". I will do anything to have my revenge.

「Nanafus.h.i.+」

I looked beside me and called out to the trembling Nanafus.h.i.+ who was sitting next to me.

「Y-Yes♡」

She replied as she trembled. It seems like she has stopped leaking, but she is still completely red in the face.

「I plan on telling everyone this later, but I'll tell it to you first」

After saying that, I got up and stood in front of Nanafus.h.i.+ who was still sitting on the bench. I kneeled down, placed both my hands onto the ground and lowered my head.

「Wai-！？What happened to you！？」

「I want you to lend me your strength in order to achieve my revenge」

「Yyamete kudasai-su！　Please stop groveling like that！」

「I can't forgive Kudan no matter what. That person is unforgivable, and this is a personal grudge of mine, so, please. If you're fine with this head, I will lower it as much as you want me to lower it, so please lend me your strength」

「W-what are you saying?！　I was the one who brought up the topic to agitate you though！？　I am trying to use you, do you understand！？」

Nanafus.h.i.+ scurried off the bench, looking almost as if she has tumbled off of it, and got onto her knees and grabbed my shoulders as she tried to raise my head.

I felt an electrifying pain running through my shoulder.

「Ah-ahhh, gomenasai-su」

Nanafus.h.i.+ apologizes in a shaky voice.

According to what was said, Nanafus.h.i.+ was created in order to defeat Kudan and her powers were amplified after Tamamsuhi had a taste of my c.u.m.

I wonder if it's because she hasn't gotten used to her amplified strength and used too much strength when gripping my shoulder, which resulted in her ripping out a piece of meat from my shoulder.

「O-Oh my G.o.d! The blood, the blood…we go to stop the bleeding」

「Thank you Nanafus.h.i.+. You showed me my "weakness"」

「……eh？」

To my words, Nanafus.h.i.+ raised an idiotic voice.

Raising my head, I touched the throbbing wound and looked at my hand.

My hand was covered in viscous blood that was leaking out of my body.

「Look at this Nanafus.h.i.+. I can be ruined just like that. I am weak, so weak and fragile」

I murmured as I watched the blood soak into my palm.

It's easy to break my body. In addition, Rikka and the others are unable to cure wounds.

「I'll never know until I ask, so I plan on asking Tamamus.h.i.+ for help」

「Whwhat are you planning on doing？」

「Body modification. I want my body to be like Asahina's」

Forming a devilish smile, I murmured and clenched my b.l.o.o.d.y hand into a fist.

「Bbakana……」

Widening her eyes, Nanafus.h.i.+ murmured in a trembly voice as she forcefully grabs onto my arm.

「D-Do you even know what you are saying！？　For Asahina's case, it couldn't be helped！　Because if we didn't do it, then she wouldn't have even lived long enough to see the next day！　But that's different for you！　Even so, are you saying that you're willing to just throw away your humanity for it！？　You can never go back to being human again, do you know that！？」

Nanafus.h.i.+ shakes my arm and shouts desperately.

I touched Nanafus.h.i.+'s hand that was clinging onto me and held it gently.

「The range of my ability is small. So I can only use it at the frontlines. I have my own role to play and my "comrades" have theirs too. That's why I have to fulfill my duties. In order to do that, then I'll need to have a much stronger body than the one I have currently」

Saying that I looked into Nanafus.h.i.+'s green eyes. She stopped shaking my arm.

「Su-Suzuharu-sama？」

Nanafus.h.i.+ muttered my name under the moonlight.

Her eyes widening and her pet.i.te body begins to tremble.

「Y-Your eyes, no way……」

Nanafus.h.i.+ murmured in a shaky voice, and lets go of my arm that she was once grabbing onto tightly and reached out to my face. Her fingers gently touched the area below my eyes.

「G-Golden eyes……」

Golden eyes? Is there something wrong with my eyes?

「I-I've never heard such a phenomenon where the eye's on an Earth's eye wielder changing colors. What are you exactly……」

Swallowing her saliva, Nanafus.h.i.+'s fingers touched the bottom of my eyes and looked at me with shaky eyes while raising a trembly voice.

The eye color changed? My eyes changed colors?

I see.

「Well that doesn't really matter to me. It's not as if I've lost my vision」

「EH！？　What do you mean it doesn't matter！？　The color in your eyes have changed though！？　Doesn't that bother you！？」

To my words, Nanafus.h.i.+ twitched and raised her voice while looking completely disoriented.

「If it doesn't hinder my abilities then I don't really care. Leaving that aside――」

「Leaving that aside！？　Is it really ok just to leave it off to the side！？」

Seemingly as if she's completely bothered by the color of my eyes changing, Nanafus.h.i.+ hastily cut me off with her words.

I don't care about my eyes changing colors. "Eyesight" doesn't really hold much meaning to me anyway, because I have no blind spots inside my ability's range. There's no problem even if I go blind.

Ah, but if Hizuki is by my side, then the ability wouldn't work as it usually does. So I may have some problems if I lose my eyesight.

「Anyways we need to stop the bleeding！　And the color of your eye！？　AHH！　What should I do！？」

Looking as if she was about to cry, it seems like Nanafus.h.i.+ remembered that she tore a piece of meat from my shoulder and touched it, but when she looks up at me, she then remembers that the colors of my eyes have changed. It looks like she's fallen into complete panic mode.

Wasn't her processing power equivalent to a high-end computer？

「Calm down. It's ok, it's ok」

I grabbed onto Nanafus.h.i.+'s hips, lifted her up and embraced her. I gently stroked Nanafus.h.i.+'s back as I held her in my embrace while resting my head on her shoulders, whispering those words into her ears as gently as I could.

「Ha……hai……-su……♡」

Nanafus.h.i.+ who was panicking previously, completely settled down as soon as I patted her back. Losing all her strength from her body, then like a cat being scratched under the chin, she lets out a cat-like sound and went completely limp.

What an easy battle bug.

「Answering your request from before, I will gladly lend you my powers♡　If you're fine with me, then use me as much as you like♡」

Like a cat caught in catnip trap, Nanafus.h.i.+ went limp and murmured these words.

「I am trying to use you. I don't really have to right to say this, but if ever you were to help me when I ask for help, I will offer my everything to you」

「Ask away. If it's within my capabilities, then I'll do anything. I'll do anything except hurting my "comrades"」

As I answered Nanafus.h.i.+ without any hesitation, Nanafus.h.i.+ who stuck herself close to me lifted her head up.

「I have two requests. I want you to c.u.m a lot inside my master's v.a.g.i.n.a. If you do that, then I can become stronger. I could then definitely become useful to Suzuharsamsu. And the other one――」

Nanafus.h.i.+ stopped after mentioning that and laughed bitterly.

「If I die, then I would like you to take care of my master」

Those words hold the resolve to face death.

「You really like Tamamus.h.i.+ huh」

Nanafus.h.i.+ is thinking of leaving her master. Nanafus.h.i.+ is planning to sacrifice her life in order to take down Kudan. I held Nanafus.h.i.+ tightly in my embrace.

Hearing me mutter those words, Nanafus.h.i.+ who had her head up, giggled with joy, though not sure whether that was her admitting to it or not, and buried her face into my chest.

Nanafus.h.i.+ who had previously served several masters.

In order to complete her mission, she has betrayed and abandoned them. And it should have been the same case for Tamamsuhi.

However――

There is also a "family" here. Tamamus.h.i.+ and Nanafus.h.i.+ are a "family".

No matter whose opinion I listen to, I will continue to think that way.

「Leave it to me」

Murmuring that, I hugged Nanafus.h.i.+ even tighter.

Nanafus.h.i.+ also buries her face deeper into my chest and tightly holds onto my jacket with her small hands and hugged me even tighter.

When I said "leave it to me", it wasn't my reply to Nanafus.h.i.+'s requests.

I'm self-centered, just like Asahina, so I won't respond honestly to requests.

Nanafus.h.i.+, leave it to me. After when all of this is over, I'll make a place that's liveable for both you and your master who you love most. So――

You're the one who's going to look after Tamamus.h.i.+, Nanafus.h.i.+.

After sitting on the ground while hugging for quite some time, we headed back to Tamamus.h.i.+'s house.

Though she's the self-proclaimed anti-Kudan battle bug, no matter how you look at her, seeing her pulling my hand and taking small quick steps in her small stature, she's just a little loli girl.

And that little loli girl is concerned about my shoulder which has been torn to shreds. But I, who is famous for being weak and frail won't die to something like that.

Although the pain is still present, the bleeding has mostly stopped.

Besides, from here onwards, I will stop being a human anyway. I'll ask Tamamus.h.i.+ to alter my body.

I won't die. I can't afford to die. Until I make a place for everyone to live happily, I definitely won't die.

For that sake, I'll throw away my humanity.

For the sake of gaining a tenacious body that surpa.s.ses the standard human recovery speed.

The pain on my shoulder will be the last pain I will feel as a human being.

That's why I'll have to thank Nanafus.h.i.+ for making me feel like there are a thousand knives cutting into my shoulder.

Thanks to you, I've made some good memories.

Holding Nanafus.h.i.+'s hand, we took a late-night stroll back to Tamamus.h.i.+'s house.

「Tadaima1」

I called out as I opened the front door.

Involuntarily, I let out a light chuckle.

「Suzuharsama, what's wrong?」

While holding my hand, Nanafus.h.i.+ looked up, tilting her head at me and whispered in curiosity.

「No, it's no big deal」

Due to me chuckling earlier, my voice ended up being shaky when I replied.

「It feels like it's the first time for me to hear the words "tadaima" coming out from my mouth. Thinking about it somehow makes me want to laugh. Don't you think it sounds stupid?」

Since it sounded so ridiculous, I had no other choice but to lower my volume and give a smile when I answered.

「No it doesn't！ I also understand the pain of not having a place to return to. It doesn't sound stupid at all！」

Raising her voice, Nanafus.h.i.+ brought her gaze up at me, giving me a frustrated look and shook her hand off from my grasp. Taking off her sandals by just throwing them to the ground, she ran inside.

Then――

「Okaerinasai-su2！Welcome home Suzuharsama！」

As Nanafus.h.i.+ turned around, she placed both her arms out and greeted me with a face full of smiles.3

Knowing the pain of not having a home to return to, huh.

Well, she is three hundred years old. Thinking about her master, who has long gone from this world, Nanafus.h.i.+ still follows her orders and has continued to walk alone in the darkness.

I wonder how lonely she was before she met Tamamus.h.i.+.

「Ahh, tadaima」

As I laughed, I patted Nanafus.h.i.+ on the head. While having her arms still up, I grabbed both her sides and lifted her up. Then, like a baby koala, Nanafus.h.i.+ clung onto me and buried her face into my chest. I hugged Nanafus.h.i.+ tightly in return.4

「AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-！」

It was an ear-shattering scream.

It was Hizuki's voice. I wonder if something when wro――

「After when I thought you went missing…Only doing it with Nanafus.h.i.+-chan is u-n-f-i-rrrrr！」

Hizuki came flying from the living room and charged at me as she yelled these words out.

「Don't, Hizuki！This is why Suzuharsama always avoided you！」

Following her was Kazahana who jumped out from the living room and caught all the way up to Hizuki in an instant.

「Do you no understand me when I said stop, you fool！」

Kazahana shouted out and stomped her foot on the floor. I then swiftly dodged Hizuki.

Hizuki lost her balance from her attempts and stumbled towards the front door and――

「GYAFUN-」

She said "gyafun" when she collided into the front door.

「Wai-！？」

Kazahana who kicked off from the floor raised a perplexed voice mid-flight.

The next moment――

「D-Dodge! Hizuki！」

「GYAFUN-」

Kazahana's kick launched her into Hizuki who's still stuck on the door, making her squeal "gyafun" once more.

I wanted to hear Asahina say "gyafun" though……

Anyways――

「Did she die？」

Her hurting herself is one thing, but isn't Kazahana's kick a bit too dangerous?

「Tricked youu！」

「Haa？」

What was supposed to be Hizuki taking Kazahana's kick and smas.h.i.+ng into the door, Hizuki hastily turned around, showing sparkles in her black pupils and lunged at me.

Don't tell me that she avoided all of that?

The Heaven's eye huh.

Why would you want to waste the Heaven's eye for something like――

「OKAERINASAI-DESUUUUUUUUUUU！」

With a face full of smiles, Hizuki yelled at the top of her lungs and hugged me.

「I-I'm going to have a hole in my stomach……」

While looking at Hizuki hugging me with a pale blue face, Kazahana murmured as she placed both hands on her stomach.

It's no big deal for someone like you to have a hole in your stomach, is what I wanted to cut in and say, but even if she had one, there shouldn't be any problems. Let's just refrain from doing a s.h.i.+tty tsukkomi.

「Hawa♡　Motkun's eyes are golden♡　Are you changing your looks?♡　It's suuper n.o.ble-like and it's wonderful~♡」

It seems that Hizuki has noticed the colors of my eyes have changed and is squealing like a fangirl by herself with her face completely flushed.

「The color of you eye？　Oi, Hizuki！　It's not the time to be fangirling！　Isn't there something wrong with Suzuharsama's body！？」

「Eh？」

「"Eh？"　My foot, you idiot！　What do you even use the Heaven's eye for?！　Your Heaven's eye could easily tell you the reason behind Suzuharsama's eye changing colour！　Hurry up and figure it out you idiot！　For reasons like these, Suzuharsama has always avoided you, you idiot！　You, you, idioooooooooot！」

Shouting at Hizuki with all her strength, Kazahana glared at Hizuki with a red face, squeezing out all the air out from her lungs.

「Eh？　A(h)-re？　Figure it out？　A(h)-rere？」

Stunned, Hizuki looked up at me and raised a confused voice.

「I c-can't see？」

Hizuki muttered.

Hearing Hizuki's mutter, Kazahana grinds her teeth, glaring at her and tried to roar in rage.

However, due to me looking at her, she ended up opening and closing her mouth without making any sound.

It seems like she understood my thoughts when she looked into my "eyes".

Hizuki's ability is unstable, and most probably, she's yet to know that.

「W-Why can't I se――」

「There are times like these. Since you're a human, there are times when your body becomes weak due to illnesses. If you worry about it when you have one, then it will only make it worse. So don't worry about it」

While patting Hizuki on the head, who's in a disorientated state, I explained it to her with a gentle smile.

It's not good to pressure Hizuki when we don't know the solution.

「You have an amazing ability, and you have yet to awaken it. It's unusual for you to be freely using it right? It also drains a lot of energy. That's why you should just rest for now」

As I stoked Hizuki's head and using my most gentle voice, I elaborated it to her.

I can't read Hizuki's thoughts. That's why Hizuki's conflicted about deciding on whether or not to "look" into my mind.

If she "sees" what's in my head, then she'll be able to see everything that I'm thinking about. And as a result of that, it will end up pressuring Hizuki even more than she is already.

But I don't know, so I'll just have to place my bets on it. a.s.suming whether or not she's able to see things is due to her ability being unstable right now, I'll just have to place my bets on her not being able to "see".

「To-Together……」

Looking up at me, Hizuki blushed, averting her gaze in embarra.s.sment and pinched my jacket using her fingers.

「I-If you sleep together with me tonight, then I'll sleep obediently……♡」

She murmured while still having her gaze averted away from mine.

「Wakatta5. But before that, I have something I need to discuss with Tamamus.h.i.+. We'll sleep together after that, so wait for me in the living room」

After saying that to Hizuki, she blushed so hard until her ears became red and nods repet.i.tively in response.

Bringing my gaze towards Kazahana, who's already looking at my direction, I gave her a quick nod.

Listening into my conversation with Hizuki, it seems like she had a good understanding of what her ability's problem was.

「Saa6, Hizuki. Let's go back to the living room and continue our game of Babanuki」

As she smiled, Kazahana walked up to Hizuki, she brought both her hands up to Hizuki's hips and turned her around, pulling her away from me.

I wonder if it's because of my promise to Hizuki that she walked away without showing any particular resistance.

「Isn't it boring to play Babanuki with me being able to see everything？」

She asked Kazabana.

「Maa7, that may be true, but there is one time where you have "lost" though」

「That was because you were being deceptive――」

「With an opponent who has the Heaven's eye, there is a need to be "deceptive"」

Hizuki pouted from Kazahana's words, who turned her around as she guides her to the living room.

「Motkun. I'll be waiting then♡」

Just before entering the living room, Hizuki looked at me and bashfully blushed as she murmured in an almost inaudible voice, then went inside with Kazahana.