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Act 2-15 : After Party
The next day, in the early hours of the morning.
Rena’s eyes snapped open, she had slept quite well last night, but when she started waking up, she felt that someone was sleeping on top of her. She bewilderedly looked at the person on top of her, only to find a black haired man soundly sleeping.
It was the Dark Knight, Kuroki.
What was even more baffling was that both of them were completely naked.
「Fuee, Kuroki… eh, why?」
Rena was really surprised as she tried to recall what happened last night, she felt as if her memories of last night were fuzzy. However, they gradually came back to her. Once one fragment appeared in her mind, the others followed suit, and Renas wide open eyes got even wider in shock.
（EH?! LIES?! NO WAY?!）
Even though she wanted to believe and convince herself that what happened last night was but a dream, the tingling pain around her waist brought her back to reality.
（I, the Goddess who was unsullied ever since my birth, turning into a bitch in heat?!）
Pulling her hair and silently screaming in frustration, Rena looked again at the sleeping Kuroki, who still dared to soundly sleep on her. When her gaze locked onto his peaceful face, she couldn’t help but feel affection along with irritation towards him.
（Is the love potion still affecting me? No… I guess it isn’t affecting me anymore. Then, are these my… true feelings for him? Oh no… I have to wake him up ASAP.）
Rena shook Kuroki’s shoulders and slapped his face to wake him up.
「WAKE UP, KUROKI!!」
「FUEEH?」
Kuroki woke up as he let out an idiotic voice. It seems his mind was still muddled from just waking up.
Realising his state, Rena suddenly pulled Kuroki’s face towards her own.
「K-KUROKI, L-LOOK INTO MY EYES!!」
「A-WUAAAAAAAAH?!!!!!」
Kuroki, who had yet to reorganize his thoughts, just obediently followed Rena’s order to look into her eyes. As his eyes matched with her beautiful ones, he could see them shining like the resplendent sun. That shine in her eyes then entered his body through his sleepy eyes, and coursed through his entire body.
（Memory erasing… magic?）
Though Kuroki knew what kind of magic she was trying to use on him, he couldn’t react in time.
「P-P-P-PPPPPPPPPLEASE FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFORGET ALL THAT HAPPENED LAST NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!」
Rena was completely flustered right now.
Kuroki, who was completely caught off guard, couldn’t put up any resistance either.
「FUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!」
Though he heard Rena’s cries as his consciousness slowly drifted off, Kuroki couldn’t do anything about that either. His urge to comfort her was washed away by complete darkness.
◆Black Haired Sage; Chiyuki
Chiyuki was welcoming a rare visitor who came in the morning.
The one who came to visit had a pair of wings on her back.
They were what the humans of this world called angels.
The angel race rarely came down to the human realm. That’s why having an angel as a guest was a rare occasion indeed.
To be exact, this angel woke Chiyuki up when she was still in her dreamland.
「Sorry for disturbing you so early in the morning, Chiyuki.」
And yet, the tone she used was as if she didn’t feel sorry at all.
The angel race was a race of beautiful people with wings on their back, but Chiyuki couldn’t bring herself to like them due to their haughty manner and the way they looked down on humans.
「Oh, whatever… so is something the matter, Nier?」
Though she was still sleepy, she had no choice but to play along since this matter seemed to be extremely important.
Nier was the female angel who served as the captain of Rena’s Valkyrie. They met once before in the past.
This was only her second time meeting Nier, and it was still an extremely annoying experience.
（I wonder what happened now?）
When she heard the commotion around the mansion, she realized that the angel’s descent had caused quite a commotion. Chiyuki really wished that that arrogant angel could at least hide herself properly when she descended into the human world because, the result of her not covering her trace properly was the commotion outside the mansion. Chiyuki sighed in frustration as she pressed her throbbing temples.
「Is Rena-sama visiting this place?」
Nier asked with an interrogating tone.
「Eh, Rena? Why?」
「The truth is, Rena-sama hasn’t contacted us since yesterday. I thought she came to see you guys, but…」
Nier replied with a troubled voice.
「Rena isn’t going to come to this place you know. She didn’t mention it to us at all. 」
Nier’s face paled upon hearing Chiyuki’s reply.
「No way, then where is Rena-sama? And what happened to her?」
Nier’s voice was trembling.
（It seems a lot of things are going around in her head right now. I mean, what’s the big deal about this? Rena isn’t a child anymore.）
Chiyuki was rather irritated since Nier disturbed her sleep for such a trivial matter.
「IF WE DON’T LOOK FOR HER I–!!!」
「Uhm… Nier?」
Just as Chiyuki tried to appease the flustered Nier, they suddenly felt powerful magic appearing outside. They both hurriedly looked through the window towards the direction of that powerful magic and saw a pale shining body floating in the air.
「RENA-SAMA!!!」
When Nier shouted her master’s name, that glimmering body had already flown toward Elios’ direction.
「W-WE’RE GOING TO CHASE AFTER RENA-SAMA! CHIYUKI, I’LL LEAVE THE AFTERMATH TO YOU!!!」
After leaving those words behind, Nier leaped out from the window to chase after her Goddess..
「What the hell is happening here?」
The one who was left in the room, Chiyuki, was left dumbfounded by herself.
◆Dark Knight; Kuroki
The morning of the next day.
Kuroki woke up from his deep sleep by himself.
（Eh? Why does my left cheek hurt?）
Touching his throbbing cheek, Kuroki hadn’t realized yet that there was a red colored, maple leaf-like handprint on his left cheek. Too bad there wasn’t a mirror in his room to see it.
（Nevertheless, why am I sleeping here? Do I actually toss around in my sleep?）
Kuroki found himself sleeping on the floor throughout the whole night. He tried to recall what happened last night to figure out how he ended up on the floor.
「EH!! WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?!!」
He recalled nothing, NOTHING AT ALL.
「The last thing I remember is… Rena suddenly kissing me. And then… I have no memories of what happened after that…」
Kuroki recalled the scene when Rena’s beautiful face approached him to kiss him. He writhed in agony upon recalling that memory. He couldn’t believe that he let himself do nothing after such a golden opportunity
（Did she force feed me sleeping drugs when she kissed me? Rather, what did she do to me when I was sleeping?）
Though Kuroki did his best to recall what happened after the kiss, he recalled absolutely nothing.
（I have no idea what she did to me, but for some reason, the memory of her beautiful face just won’t leave my mind. Seriously, just what in the hell happened last night?）
Then he noticed that Rena’s figure had long since left his room.
「DAMMI~~~T!!! WHY CAN’T I REMEMBER ANYTHI~~NG!!!」
Kuroki rolled on the floor with deep frustration.
Then, as he was rolling, his body suddenly bumped into something.
「Uhm?」
When he took a look at it, it turned out to be a small bottle.
「What is this?」
It was only a small, empty bottle. He guessed that the entire content had already been spilled on the floor.
（Did Rena drop this bottle?）
Though he could feel that the content of the bottle was some sort of magic drug, Kuroki had no idea what kind of drug it was since the entire content had already been spilled.
（Just what in the hell is that Rena trying to do to me.）
In the end, he couldn’t find anything else even after he scoured the entire room.
When he looked around, he found out that his room was a mess.
「Oh crap… I have idea what happened last night but… she didn’t seem to even remember to tidy up the room before she left.」
When he was in the middle of cleaning his bed sheets with magic, his hand touched two objects.
The first object was crumpled.
When he tried to spread it out, he found out that the surface area of the first object was quite small.
Upon seeing the unfolded first object, Kuroki realized that the first object’s form resembled a certain thing.
「… Let’s keep this object with me for the time being.」
For some reason, Kuroki instinctively felt that he had to keep that object.
The other one was a metallic object.
Kuroki took a closer look at it.
It was an ornament with a black gem embedded in its center.
「Is this some sort of necklace?」
Kuroki kept that necklace too since he thought that necklace might be related to the thing that happened last night.