binnovel Chapter 143 Is this considered a date invitation? - S01E06
Chapter 143 Is this considered a date invitation? - S01E06
...To be honest, you're not really that good at this kind of thing.
The dragon girl stood at the door of the dark study with her hands behind her back.
You stare silently at the red head with its ears standing high on top.
After a long, long silence, you closed your eyes as if you couldn't bear to face it.
You probably still need some time to think about what to do next.
For example, what should I say to Alastor, and how should I ask him out?
"..."
The dragon girl's dark, straight, silent shadow stood quietly in the crimson corridor, like an unclaimed black sword.
The pale skin of the Eastern sinner faintly glowed with a moon-white light.
The excessive whiteness made her face look both sickly and fragile.
The dragon girl, with her eyes closed, looked troubled, as if she had been struggling with her thoughts for a long time.
But then a rustling sound, as if trying to shoo someone away, rang out... and she suddenly opened her eyes.
The vertical pupils, symbolizing a wild beast, suddenly shone from the darkness, like brilliant gold burning in the night.
"Oh~ what wind blew our perfect inn chef here?"
The owner of the red head asked slowly and deliberately—
However, interrogative sentences without a question mark can only be rhetorical questions or sarcastic remarks.
"..."
When an old acquaintance makes a cryptic remark, your eyebrow twitches imperceptibly.
Although Alastor didn't turn his head towards you, you heard him shaking his newspaper.
Is the fairy castle no longer fun? Or has playing house lost its appeal for you?
"I thought things at the inn were already keeping you busy enough!"
The voice of the broadcasting devil sounded flippant and disdainful, arrogantly infuriating.
But what really surprises you is that Alastor seems to have never treated you this way before...
Your eyes widened.
Or rather, you've never seen him with this kind of mood while talking to you—
He's actually unhappy?
……
But what is he unhappy about?
Your heart is filled with extremely complicated feelings, and you even find it somewhat ridiculous.
The dragon girl stood still, not understanding what the other party was dissatisfied with.
Out of curiosity, your long tail unconsciously curled up in the air.
Under the corridor lights, her snake-like scales gleamed with a dangerous metallic sheen.
A look of confusion flashed across the face of the sinner from the East.
'Is he really angry because you don't remember that he was the one who saved you?'
Or does remembering this event have some special significance for him?
You can't help but think that.
Although Alastor has been "out of the inn" for the past few days, you actually know that before the afternoon...
This old gentleman simply stayed in the inn's study.
You have no idea what he's doing.
However, Alastor no longer shows up to join the commotion when everyone is arguing, as he used to.
...but he would still rush back right before mealtime.
To be honest, you don't seem to care about the possibility that Alastor doesn't want to see you.
After all, your "survival in hell" task list doesn't include having to maintain a good relationship with Alastor on a daily basis.
But Shirley seems quite bothered by the tense atmosphere between you and Alastor. So you have to do something to make amends…
At least find out what exactly happened between you and that radio devil.
……but!
Although you are more considerate of Shirley's feelings most of the time, you still maintain your own bottom line!
Unfortunately, you don't feel anything is wrong with yourself right now.
This means that Alastor did not take advantage of the situation...
So, you might really just need to figure out how things got to this point between you and him.
But you really can't understand why a demon with Alastor's personality would care about this so much that it would even make him feel bad.
...It's really hard to understand.
Standing there, unable to find an answer no matter how much you thought about it, you shook your head.
"Alastor, Shirley and Vicky are going to heaven today, but Angel and the others are planning to go out for a walk..."
As if she had just gone through a difficult internal struggle, the dragon girl hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"I also have to go out today—but I was thinking... well, I was wondering if you'd like to come with me?"
"..."
……
'Are you crazy? You actually invited the broadcasting demon to go out with you?'
Almost immediately after saying that, the Eastern Sinner rubbed his temples with both hands, regretting it.
The sinner, sitting on the luxurious European sofa, didn't even turn his head when you revealed the whereabouts of everyone in the inn.
He seemed completely indifferent to the lives or deaths of others.
But when you extend the invitation, you notice that Wendigo, who was originally calm, suddenly twitches the tip of his ear.
You see him turn his head 180 degrees without warning, just like the prelude to an evil spirit's attack in all horror movies.
"Hmph...so..."
The voice of the broadcast demon, gazing at you, blurred for a moment with an ambiguous meaning.
He narrowed his eyes dangerously, as if scrutinizing someone.
"Does this count as a date invitation?"
Two eerie crescent moons, blood-red in color, flickered with a chilling light in the darkness on the demon's face.
—It sounded like the gradual decay of shrubs and the cannibalistic curse crawling through the void.
You see Wendigo's antlers slowly growing upwards.
With eerie and ambiguous words, blood-stained flowers silently and invisibly bloomed in the air, both beautiful and strange.
You feel like you can even hallucinate the screams of men and women, and the sound of thick blood pooling on the ground.
...The shadows of strange symbols floated slowly behind the broadcasting demon.
Although the broadcasting demon didn't show much "aggression," this time, like all the demons in the inn, you sensed the sinner lord's annoyance and rage.
However, it was different from ordinary anger.
Alastor's displeasure likely stemmed from not understanding why he was angry about the matter.
His dissatisfaction was more like that of someone who firmly believed he wouldn't make a mistake, scattering his subtle annoyance into the air—
This could make others feel uneasy.
They're usually annoying, but when they get upset, they completely disregard everyone else's well-being.
Although you made a questionable mistake first, you still don't really like Alastor's almost displaced form of passive-aggressive violence.
Why am I suddenly being so childish at a time like this?
He clearly finds this kind of amusement unpleasant even in himself.
He clearly doesn't care about most people.
"...Whatever, that's fine, I regret it."
Perhaps because he disliked the attitude of a certain sinner lord, the Eastern sinner, who showed no mercy to the other party, casually uttered these words.
The dragon girl relaxed her shoulders simply and frankly, turning her head away decisively as if she had given up on something.
You didn't look at Alastor a second time because his capriciousness really annoyed you.
Based on their probing and sarcastic remarks, you wouldn't even sit down at the negotiating table with the devil.
At worst, you can just tell Shirley that you've already contacted Alastor.
Although doing this will definitely not yield good results... it is the best solution to just let it drag on like this.
After being reborn, the messes around you seem to multiply one after another, and you don't have time to appease a difficult gentleman.
The dragon girl pinched her brow, feeling a headache coming on.
"Judging from your state, perhaps what our little princess asked for is not without reason."
Just after you took two steps, you felt a dark shadow suddenly appear behind you.
A tall, thin shadow rises eerily from behind you, like a withered scarecrow in a wheat field suddenly opening its eyes.
"...What did you say? What did Shirley confess?"
Unbeknownst to you, your brow furrowed deeply as you replied to that sentence... The entire demon seemed visibly concerned about what the sinner lord was saying.
Wendigo, unsurprised by your reaction, was holding his cane with both hands, looking quite relaxed.
Seeing that the dragon girl, who had just turned away resolutely with an attitude of severing ties, was now practically ready to pry open his mouth and ask him for an explanation, Alastor was no longer in a hurry.
He first slowly raised one eyebrow, then deliberately remained silent for a moment before slowly speaking:
"Oh... what is it? What else could it be? Of course, it's all the trouble you've caused, my lady~?"