My Illusion Is Survival - Chapter 33
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Chapter 33
“You have no manners at all.”
Aigres glared at the human before him with bright yellow eyes.
-Grrrrrr!
‘How dare!’
He could not tolerate the foolishness of this insignificant human who dared to block his path.
“An ill-mannered dog needs a good beating.”
-Krheooong!
Aigres, who understood human speech, thought he could no longer overlook this human’s arrogance.
‘How dare he treat me like an ill-mannered mutt!’
Even though they had been behaving quietly while waiting for that terrifying human woman, they were still Aigres.
Instinctively puffing up his muscles, Aigres lowered his head as if ready to charge at any moment.
-Grrrrlk!
‘I’ll make you regret this.’
And at that moment,
“What are you hesitating for? Come at me already.”
As soon as Ron finished speaking, the massive body kicked off the ground and leaped forward.
However.
-Krheng?!
As soon as the huge body charged forward, it fell to the ground with a thud.
This was because another one behind had bitten the tail of the friend who had jumped first.
“What’s going on all of a sudden?”
“Why are those guys acting like that?”
“Are they fighting among themselves?”
Naturally, question marks appeared above people’s faces.
But could anything be more absurd than the one who had suddenly been tripped by having his tail bitten?
-Krheooong!
‘What are you doing!’
The fallen one raised his head with an angry expression, when a familiar name happened to reach his ears.
“Lady Elpis?”
It was then that Aigres’s fur stood on end in anger.
-Kr, krheoong?
Even though he hadn’t spotted ‘that’ someone yet, the massive body hesitated and stepped back.
“Wh-why is this guy acting like this?”
“He looks scared?”
“Why?”
No matter what the stupid humans chattered about, Aigres was busy rolling his eyes looking for the owner of that name.
“Stop right there.”
-Krheooong?!
However, it would have been better not to find her at all. His whole body trembled like an aspen tree when he finally met those two eyes.
“I’m already in a very bad mood right now, you know?”
-Kr, krrung?
“And these things couldn’t wait and just had to cause trouble?”
-Krheooong!
He looked at his friend, asking for help.
But what do you know.
The other one who had stopped his friend by biting his tail was already curled up in a ball, pretending not to know anything.
A perfect betrayal.
-Krlk?! Grrrrlk!
‘How could you abandon me!’
He was truly a wise one.
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“What are you, cats? Or maybe street cats? You’re from the same feline family, is that it? How did you cause trouble in such a short time?”
-Uaaaaaeok, krhng! Puhheung!
At my scolding, Aigres made strange crying sounds while timidly protesting.
But that didn’t mean I was going to let it slide.
“What.”
-Kr, krrung! Krhng!
“Won’t you lower your eyes?”
-Krrung.
Behind the one who lowered his eyes, the other quick-witted one had already covered his eyes with both paws.
Seeing that sight, I might have found it cute enough to forgive them, but I just couldn’t do that this time.
‘We almost got screwed for real.’
Because I myself almost died because of these two.
‘If I had been just a little later, Ron would have killed me.’
This was the truth.
“I’m sorry, Ron.”
“Not at all, Miss. Rather, I should be grateful. Thanks to you, the garden is safe, isn’t it?”
Right after arriving at the garden.
The scene I discovered was Ron facing off against Aigres while holding a massive greatsword in his hand.
I soon realized the reason – I could see a small grave behind Ron.
What Ron truly wanted to protect wasn’t the garden. He had confronted Aigres to protect the grave behind him.
Even now, just thinking about that moment makes all the hair on my body stand on end.
“Really reflect on this.”
-Krung!
“Reflect even if you don’t want to. Be grateful to Ron, and be grateful to me too. Be thankful that you can continue living under this blue sky.”
Because I’m doing exactly that right now!
But perhaps lacking even this much awareness, Aigres looked completely bewildered.
“Oh, my fate.”
As I grabbed my throbbing head with a sigh, a moist nose poked my hand playfully.
“What.”
-Krung!
It was Aigres’s nose.
“That’s enough, so back off a bit.”
-Grrung!
He rubbed his head enthusiastically, apparently thinking he could win favor with cuteness, and the other one who had been playing dead also approached at some point.
I watched the two of them and finally asked with a sigh.
“Alright, alright, I get it. But why aren’t you going back and still here?”
Since I was already upset about Azel’s situation, I didn’t have the luxury to worry about Aigres too.
Still, I needed to know why they had waited for me, so I tried to pull myself together, but for some reason, their reaction was strange.
-Krung?
-Keng?
“What are those reactions about?”
Both of them looked up at me with wide eyes.
-Grrrr?
-Gruff! Grrrrk?
“…?”
The creatures seemed to be asking me this.
Were we allowed to go?
“What the…?”
Thanks to that, I couldn’t continue speaking due to my bewilderment.
“Don’t tell me you were waiting for me because you didn’t know if you could just leave?”
-Gr, gruff!
“…Are you stupid?”
When I looked at them with an expression of disbelief, the creatures suddenly started getting angry.
-Gruff! Grrrrrrk!
-Grroooooong!
“Are you kidding me? Why are you blaming me for that! You’re the ones who misunderstood!”
-Grroooooong!
-Grrrrrrrrk!
“What are you saying, really! You’re the ones who caused the accident! What are you crying about like you did something good!”
I was having a childish argument with beasts I couldn’t even communicate with, yet strangely the conversation continued.
Thanks to that, the whispers of the onlookers watching our scene also started up.
“Right now it looks like the young lady is having a conversation with the Aigres, this isn’t a dream, is it?”
“Since I’m seeing the same thing, I don’t think so.”
“…Could I do it too if I learned?”
“Would that work?”
Eventually, as the atmosphere turned into that of a marketplace, Ron stepped forward.
“For now.”
He still wore his kind smile.
“Let’s all keep it reasonable.”
However, his words didn’t match that.
“…Yes.”
Realizing my mistake belatedly, I immediately shut my mouth.
“Now that the misunderstanding is cleared up, how about we send them back? That would be better than continuing to fight here, wouldn’t it.”
Come to think of it, we were still in front of the grave.
There was a reason Ron was looking at me with eyes that said ‘you know what I mean, right?’
“R-right! I’ll send them away right now!”
“I see.”
“Yes, then right away-!”
“That’s fortunate. I was worried this old man might have to clean up directly.”
However, it was still too early to feel relieved.
“…!”
It’s us!
That clearly meant he would clean us up right before our eyes.
What else would Ron have to clean up in this garden besides useless humans and Aigres.
Cold sweat immediately ran down my spine.
“Ah! This wasn’t the time to be doing this, was it? I should go help prepare lunch!”
And I wasn’t the only one who realized that fact.
“Come to think of it, I haven’t finished organizing the display case yet! I should hurry and go, ha, ha, ha!”
“I, I’ll go with you too, friend! Oh my! So busy, so busy!”
Everyone who had been watching this place hurriedly made excuses and scattered.
Watching this, I was dumbfounded.
‘Wait, who goes to organize a display case by doing parkour up walls….’
Was surviving Ron’s grasp more important than deceiving me?
They escaped so extraordinarily that it made their previous act of being ordinary servants seem ridiculous.
Amusingly, this was the same for the Aigres as well,
-Grroooooong!
-Gruff! Grrrruff!
The two creatures’ retreating figures looked desperate, as if they were afraid I might catch them.
-Gruff?!
Crash bang!
…One of them even tripped while running away.
Thanks to that, when I came to my senses belatedly, I was already left alone.
‘…These traitorous bastards?’
I was trembling with a sense of betrayal.
But right then,
Ron said something strange.
“Finally, it’s just the two of us.”
“…Pardon?”
Did I mishear?
If I could, I wanted to respond like that.
Finally just the two of us – the more I mulled over those words, the more chilling they became.
“Do, do you have something to say?”
‘Don’t tell me the grave wasn’t okay after all?’
I glanced behind Ron, and for a moment our eyes met directly.
Grin.
At the affectionate eye-smile that immediately followed, I forced the corners of my mouth upward.
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