It's Overwhelmingly Convenient That the Female Lead Has Darkened - Chapter 45

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A female lead gone dark is overwhelmingly convenient.
#45
At Daisy’s call, the boy with bright gray eyes turned.
“Sable Heart.”
“Call me Daisy.”
…….
Daisy watched the boy clam up like an oyster, then shrugged.
“Don’t like it? Too bad.”
“……So what’s the plan?”
Thud.
Instead of answering, she set down the bag she’d been carrying all day, and it landed with a considerable weight.
Kneeling, Daisy drew out the things she’d prepared from inside.
Rope, a Healing Potion, and…….
“……Sweet potato?”
Felix asked, his expression plainly bewildered.
“I roasted it in the fireplace myself last night.”
Daisy answered kindly.
There was no reason to be cold to someone who’d saved your life at their own cost.
“I’ve got some cabbage and jerky too, and also…….”
“Why on earth do you need any of this?”
“Because they need to be tamed.”
“What?”
“Tamed. Your wolf, I mean.”
Now Felix seemed to understand the situation.
He swept his hair back in exasperation and gnawed at his lower lip.
“Damn it, I should’ve believed what I believed…….”
His voice held the weight of self-recrimination.
He understood.
It would’ve been strange to answer “that’s a good idea” to someone proposing to tame a rabid wolf.
Daisy spoke calmly.
“I’ve heard there’s someone who actually succeeded at it.”
Though she had no intention of mentioning that someone was a mouse.
“So I’m going to try everything that can be tried.”
“Sable Heart.”
“Daisy.”
“Damn it! Fine, Daisy. This isn’t as simple as dealing with those fake monsters we saw in the Labyrinth.”
So those really were fakes!
“I can’t control my Summon by will. Once I bring out a Summon, it means I can’t put it back until it’s completely subdued.”
“I know.”
“And you still…….”
“That day, who do you think subdued the raging wolf?”
“What……?”
Felix didn’t answer Daisy’s question.
He hadn’t considered that angle.
He’d simply assumed one of the professors must have done it.
But…….
‘Shut up! Stupid wolf that won’t even recognize its own master!’
‘Ardearon! Snap out of it!’
‘So it comes to this, does it? All right then, come on.’
‘Die!’
Had there been a professor there?
As Felix groped through the fragmented memories surfacing in his mind, Daisy continued.
“Of course today will be harder than that day. Back then, I just had to knock it out, but now I have to subdue it while it’s awake.”
You can’t tame something that’s unconscious, after all.
Daisy fashioned a shape from the rope and bound it firmly as she spoke.
Felix, watching her work, asked a question.
“Where on earth did you get the rope?”
“……I know a peddler.”
‘Straud Burnum, you got any rope?’
‘How many meters do you need?’
I have no idea why the Academy would have rope in the first place.
Screech!
In that moment, a black sparrow opened its beak wide and cried out.
Felix’s gaze shifted to the sparrow perched on Daisy’s shoulder.
“You’ve summoned a Summon.”
“It came on its own.”
“A sparrow?”
“Looks like one, but it’s black.”
“At least…….”
Felix, who had opened his mouth without thinking, fell silent again.
But it wasn’t hard to guess what he was about to say.
‘At least it hasn’t gone mad.’
If he knew what this creature was capable of, he wouldn’t say that.
Daisy thought this to herself as she rose from her seat.
“I’m ready. Go on—summon it now.”
…….
Felix, regarding her with clear disapproval, was just about to summon the wolf with the resolve of letting fate decide, when—
“Wait.”
Daisy suddenly raised her hand.
Just as I thought.
Felix clicked his tongue with a soft tsk.
She was clearly afraid now that they were about to begin.
He didn’t want to condemn her for it.
Humans were fundamentally fragile creatures, after all.
He was merely irritated.
Irritated at himself for harboring hope again, knowing as he did that there was none.
“Fine. It’s late anyway. Let’s go back now…….”
“What are you talking about?”
“Weren’t you about to say we should stop?”
“Stop? We haven’t even started yet. Why would we?”
“Then just now…….”
“I just remembered I forgot to warn you.”
“Warn me?”
“Yes.”
Daisy nodded and opened her mouth with an unusually grave expression.
“You know Summons are connected, right? Well, you must know. You felt it when you passed out back then.”
…….
“The process of subduing it won’t be peaceful. In other words…….”
Felix, meeting her eyes, found himself drawing in a sharp breath without meaning to.
Her emerald eyes shone with a brilliant light.
“It means you might end up in considerable pain.”
…….
“That concludes the warning. And you—”
Daisy pointed finally at the bird perched on her shoulder and spoke.
“When I shout, you do what you did before.”
Screech!
“You understand, right? That.”
Squawk!
“Whether that means it understands or just happens to cooperate, I can’t say.”
With a helpless sigh, Daisy readied herself once more.
“Now—summon it.”
Felix nodded at her words.
They had come too far to turn back now.
Without this, as Daisy said, only Disappearance awaited him.
Shriek!
From Felix’s heart, a grey mist erupted like a bullet.
It surged outward with force, like magnets of the same pole violently repelling each other.
Within the slowly settling haze, a massive shadow found its form.
A grey wolf—built nearly as large as a horse, no matter how you looked at it.
Grrrrrowwwwl.
The gray wolf touched ground and bared its fangs at Felix.
Foamy saliva dripped from between its pointed teeth as if the creature had gone mad.
[Growl.]
The gray wolf lowered its back and drove its claws into the soft, spring-dampened earth.
It looked ready to pounce the moment Felix blinked.
[Grrrowl.]
“……Ugh.”
A gray wolf bristling with killing intent.
And a gray-eyed boy gasping in pain from the resentment a Summon should never bear.
The tension between them had reached its peak when it happened.
[Squawk.]
It was a strange sparrow’s cry—utterly devoid of tension—that shattered that very tension.
And the call proved more than enough to provoke the gray wolf.
[Yelp!]
In an instant, the gray wolf pivoted toward its new target—toward the sparrow, which was to say, toward Daisy.
“Daisy!”
“Don’t interfere!”
Felix tried to rush forward in alarm.
But Daisy’s firm refusal came first.
Facing the wolf, Daisy tensed every muscle in her body.
Finally!
She’d drilled so much she was sick of it.
Now came the real test—live combat.
Just as the gray wolf closed the distance to her face, its snout opening to reveal teeth like sharpened stakes, something changed.
Daisy’s eyes met the gray wolf’s.
And then.
Wheeeeeee…….
“…….”
“…….”
An impossible sound reached their ears.
Wait—was it actually…?
[Whimper…….]
When Felix looked up, he found the gray wolf’s ears pinned flat against its skull, its body shaking with fear as it soiled itself, its face the picture of terror.
Its massive frame curled into a trembling ball.
“…….”
“…….”
Deep silence fell among the two people, one wolf, and a sparrow.
Felix turned to look at Daisy.
It wasn’t difficult to read the question in those cold gray eyes.
‘What on earth did you do to my Summon?’
“…….”
‘Die.’
[Whimper!]
Remembering that moment, Daisy obediently lowered her gaze.
* * *
“Phew, it’s even bigger up close.”
Daisy fitted a thin rope muzzle around the gray wolf—a wolf whose sitting height exceeded her own—as she spoke.
Watching the scene, Felix reflected silently.
‘That thing seems unnecessary.’
Even though he was standing quite close, the gray wolf showed no sign of wanting to attack him.
More accurately, it seemed incapable of attacking anything at all.
Because today, the gray wolf had…….
“……met what it thinks is the Alpha.”
Daisy turned her head at Felix’s inadvertent murmur.
“Hm? What did you say?”
“…….”
Felix didn’t answer.
The word he’d spoken was too absurd even for him.
The Alpha?
Daisy Sable Heart?
It was absurd.
Of course, I knew he possessed considerable strength despite his appearance.
But he was no Alpha.
Who could possibly mistake a freshman as small as a mouse bell for one……?
[A deep, rumbling growl.]
In that moment, a menacing cry echoed from nearby.

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