Chapter 39: Artemis

  "Ah!" Yūki looked at me in surprise.

  Zero turned around, I don't know if he heard Yuki's voice or mine.

  A strand of leisurely dropping sword, idle catching. "Swish——" unsheathing.

  "I don't allow you to look at others." Zero raised his gun and blocked him.

  The sword cut deeply into Zero's skin, and fresh blood seeped out onto his clothes, blooming large flowers. "As expected, a borrowed body isn't very useful; it'll take some time for the wound to heal." While idle, he also received a slight injury, and handed the sword over to Ichi.

  "Yuuki, you're still spacing out at a time like this." Hands reached out towards Yuuki's slender and pale neck. Yuuki snapped back to attention, drew out the Hunting Goddess, and swung it at me. A sinister glint flashed in her eyes, her movements swift and decisive, as if she wanted to send me to another world right away.

  "This is the hunting goddess, huh." I lightly jumped back, curiously grasping it with my hand. To me, this was just a stick, even if it was for fighting vampires. However, due to its owner's ability issues, in my eyes she was just wildly swinging a broken stick. As I held it, a faint blue spark flashed by, giving off an electric feel. It seemed that indeed the problem lay with its owner's abilities; otherwise, this should have been a pretty great hunting tool.

  I snatched the hunting goddess away, and because I had a problem with my light attribute, the electric current sensation gradually disappeared. "......Kurenai, Kurenai you are......a vampire?" Yuuki looked at me with a stunned expression, her eyes still filled with intense jealousy. Yuuki, what are you jealous of? Are you jealous that I possess eternal life, an immortal existence?

  "Hey, Yuuki, did you just try to kill me? Why do you always look at me with that gaze? Do I owe you something?" As I leaned in close to her face, the metal rod in my hand suddenly transformed into a silver scythe for some reason. My eyes were emitting a faint red glow in the darkness, and I seemed like a god of death, about to snatch away the pitiful life before me.

  I watched as her terrified face contorted, resentment and jealousy merging into a toxic venom that shot out of her eyes. I looked down at the scythe in my hand with a nonchalant expression, muttering to myself. "I remember now, your name is Artemis. It was something mom prepared for me when I was young, a symbol of the Blood Clan Princess... and it seems brother has one too." The childish tone turned ominous, and the air was filled with the scent of death.

  "Kurenai, stop!" Kyoran appeared from the stairs.

  "Xu, xue chang!" Yu Ji's face turned into a deep sense of grievance, with crystal tears hanging on her face, looking as if I had done something to her.

  "You saw it, huh." Looking at Jiao Gege walking down the stairs, since he had seen it, there was no choice but to lay one's cards on the table. With a expressionless face, he threw the sickle in his hand to the ground. "Clang——"

  "Ah!" He pulled Yuki in front of him, and a white light hovered above her head. Unlike the Stellar Chain's memory erasure, I used "Erase Memory Alice", which was different from simply wiping away memories. The memories I erased would be gone forever, never to be recalled again.

  "Don't worry, I just erased her memories of me. You can delete the rest yourself." He tossed Yuki, who had fallen asleep, onto Sora's body and turned to walk towards the door. "Sora, you really are more protective of Yuki, aren't you? Don't worry, after I leave, I'll make sure God replaces her with a pure soul. Even if I'm not by your side, I won't let you be with this kind of woman. You have to change souls."

  "Kurenai, wait." Akira called out from behind me.

  "After the dance party that day, I will leave and won't bother you again." Sighing to herself, it's all right, after all, my purpose was to make Xuan Ge happy. Even if I don't leave now, there will come a day when I have to leave anyway. And after the dance party, I will disappear from your life forever.

  "I clearly didn't say that, so why do you always silently disappear from my life?" Because he had turned his back, I couldn't see his face, but his voice was filled with anger, sadness and fear.

  "What exactly do you want to say?" Turning around impatiently, we're talking about two completely different things, and I've already returned his precious Yuuki to him. What more does he want? Does he want me to leave right now?

  "............I knew you were my sister." His body stiffened, when did he realize it? He couldn't have realized it.

  "...... Ah, you knew. When did you realize it?" With his emotions suppressed and calm, he looked up at Kaito, who was hugging Yuuki in his arms.

  "On the first day we met, I was shocked by your appearance and had doubts. When I sent you to the bedroom while you were sleeping, you muttered 'brother' in your dream, and after that, I was convinced." His eyes still looked melancholic and sorrowful like they did when he was young, as if the pain of a heartbreaking sadness had been etched into his heart and eyes forever. It's only natural to say so, after all, he is the ancestor, and he must have gone through many things.

  "I see, if I had known that earlier, I wouldn't have been so close to my brother. No, if I had known that earlier, I wouldn't have come to Kuro no Gakuen at all." "Yes, but thinking about it now, being able to change Onii-sama's fate and meeting you, I still think it was great that I came here."

  "Sebastian, would you please have a good talk with me and my brother? I have other things to attend to, so I hope we can settle everything at once." He felt a surge of joy in his heart, thinking that Sebastian had arrived just in time, and it was perfect timing.

  "Yes, my lord." Sebas' scarlet eyes narrowed as he raised his voice to a slightly louder degree. "So, Juran Kusu, after you send this young lady back, we'll have a good talk, won't we?"

  "Idle, are you done yet?" As soon as he stepped through the door, he smelled a strong bloody smell, then saw Zero lying in a pool of blood and Idle injured. "Idle, you got the body you borrowed hurt, aren't you being too irresponsible?"

  "This borrowed body is no good, let Sakura help me treat it later." The black thread stared at her, am I only useful when it's time for treatment?

  "Alright, alright, take him back to his room then." Glancing at Rei, if he's left here any longer, he'll bleed out and die.