75 – 75. Alone

Rika was stunned.

“Is he really out of his mind?”

The quiet cat, who had climbed onto the stove first and snatched a treat, now acted as if to prevent Jane from liking Roxer.

The red-haired madman had indeed caused a scene.

It was a baffling incident, twisted with an astonishing twist and justification, making it hard to say anything about it.

“Annoying.”

Thanks to that, Rika, fuming with anger, sat on top of Roxer and gulped down her drink fiercely through a straw.

As if her insides were burning and in need of cooling, she downed an icy smoothie to the point where her head felt numb.

“Ugh….”

“I knew it would be like this.”

Soon after, perhaps because Roxer had recently taken care of Rika, or maybe out of concern that this human might get hurt again, he pampered her.

“Hah, are we really going to be kidnapped and live together like this?”

Of course, Jane watched with a strange look on her face, keeping her distance from Roxer.

Usually, physical contact between a boyfriend and a girlfriend was almost taboo.

Jane roughly knew this through various media.

That’s why she was paying attention to the unusual closeness that had been sticking out every time.

“Feels weird…. Something is off….”

And there were things that bothered her more than this.

Clearly, despite Roxer having Camilla as his girlfriend, they were quite close.

“But if Roxer has Camilla as his girlfriend, why is he with Rika…? And why does Rika know but still…?”

That’s why Jane became even more perplexed.

“Ugh…. Camilla’s move did have an effect! It did have an effect!”

Rika, by preventing Jane from getting too close to Roxer, seemed to be setting the stage for various scenarios.

Seeing Rika burying her face in Roxer’s chest, Jane felt a strange pang in her heart.

“…..”

Unaware of Jane’s gaze fixed on him, Roxer wondered what the girl was up to.

“By the way, Jane, why aren’t you wearing what I bought for you?”

Roxer took the initiative.

Not knowing why the girls were behaving this way ultimately meant not knowing what would happen if they did take action.

So, Roxer, who acted first, nonchalantly shrunk back and asked Jane.

“Eek!?”

Rika lightly nibbled on Roxer’s chest with her small teeth.

Looking up at him from Roxer’s arms with red eyes flashing like a small beast, Rika.

As Roxer’s gaze shifted away from Jane, she opened her mouth feeling an inexplicable pain.

“It’s, it’s embarrassing to wear that outfit!!”

Jane somehow managed to force those words out.

He approached Rox with an odd sense of distance and shouted,

“It’s too embarrassing! That outfit!! But… then.”

Then he realized something.

“Why did you compliment me and buy me such a pretty dress while dating Camilla…?”

A rather sharp question.

One could say it was a woman’s intuition, but Jane, who hadn’t experienced the strange intuition women possess in their lives, felt the sharpness of a woman’s touch for the first time.

Jane’s unusual expression, as if she might discover something.

“What’s wrong with my eyes?”

Rica, sensing this, guarded Jane’s wide eyes in Rox’s arms.

Like a cat stealthily burrowing into its owner’s embrace, Rox subtly delved into Jane’s arms.

“You used to wear it well back then.”

Whether he said it or not, Rox questioned Jane about why she wasn’t wearing the clingy dress he had bought for her.

Seeing Jane’s natural expression, a sudden rumor about Rox came to Jane’s mind.

“I heard he used to really brighten up the girls…”

Rumors created by Rox during his turbulent stalker days before being possessed by Rox.

Among them, the memory of liking several people surfaced.

“He doesn’t seem like that kind of guy…”

Jane looked at Rox with a cautious expression.

Although she had only seen dating through the media or information and couldn’t really empathize, could it be that women are born with jealousy?

“Could it really be true?”

Jane, feeling uncharacteristically annoyed, pursed her lips.

“?”

As Jane’s previously unseen expressions poured out multiple times in an instant, Rox was slightly taken aback.

Particularly, he had seen cheeks puffing, but when Jane’s cheeks puffed slightly, it was novel in many ways.

In other words, he had hit the jackpot in terms of entertainment.

“Why are you suddenly acting all pouty like that?”

Being completely addicted to her heartbeat, Rox, like a moth to a flame, approached Jane, who was slightly closer.

More precisely, while holding Rica, who could ignite at any moment in his arms, he approached Jane.

“…”

Rica, held in Rox’s arms, glared at Jane with a look that seemed to ask, “What is this kid doing holding me now?”

That gaze was like being pricked with a needle, making Rox realize he had to figure it out.

“I’m not pouting.”

Jane, who had always been confident, couldn’t miss such a rare sight.

Even jealousy seemed awkward and clumsy, as Jane’s expression subtly twisted.

As Rox approached, she swiftly turned her head, pretending otherwise.

Like peeling an onion, every time a new reaction emerged, Rox found it amusing…

“Cough!?”

…No, tears almost welled up like someone peeling an onion.

Rica’s fist-like punches landed on Rox’s side.

Jane turned her head back towards Roxer.

Jane, who always felt a bit uncomfortable when Rica was mean to Roxer, for some reason, felt a sense of relief deep inside.

Roxer’s heart felt cold at Jane’s smile that seemed somehow fake.

Up until now, Roxer had been following him well, learning from him in his own way. But seeing him slightly amused by Roxer’s suffering…

“J-Jane, please help me!”

Roxer asked for Jane’s help almost as if denying it.

But Jane replied, “Ask your girlfriend for help.”

With a hint of annoyance in her tone, Jane turned away swiftly.

“Camilla, this guy!? Is she aiming to break me and Jane up!?”

Feeling the situation taking a sharp turn, Roxer scolded Rica first.

It was the first time Jane rebelled against Roxer and felt jealousy.

“What did I just say?!”

Confused about what she had just said, Jane didn’t know what to do.

Meanwhile, Camilla, a bit away from where Roxer could hear, explained everything to Erin and Ciel.

“…Impressive, truly impressive.”

Erin, about to say something, suppressed her words and actions with a frustrated expression.

Lately, Roxer had been on her mind, and there were various things happening, making the atmosphere between them slightly tense.

Feeling overwhelmed and unable to speak, she gave up and had a slightly defeated look.

With Rica and Jane, the two beasts, unknowingly bearing down, Camilla instinctively kept her distance a little more.

Camilla, unsure why she was being told this, responded, “I don’t really care.”

Erin, seeming indifferent, glared at Camilla slightly.

Camilla sat at the table, holding her own hand lightly with an awkward smile.

Was it a negative feeling towards deceiving herself and acting for the one she liked, Jane? Or was it because she did something she didn’t mean to?

In this oddly unsettling situation, she forced a smile, trying to appear apologetic.

Erin, not quite liking that smile, sat down and tapped the ground lightly with her foot.

As a strange undercurrent flowed between the two, Siel, with silver hair covering her golden eyes, read something from both of them.

As a tank, it was enough to have high defense, but knowing where the opponent was attacking, what intentions they had, and what powers they were using made defending even easier.

She was good at reading others’ psychology and currents, being a tank herself.

“If I make even a slight mistake in my words, they might say something…”

Majo, considering igniting a spark between them but then thinking it might lead to a party split, refrained, thinking, “No, if I mess up, it could lead to a split in the party, distancing me from Roxer!”

The party itself could potentially split apart, decreasing the chance of facing Rockser.

Quietly sipping her drink with a straw, she spoke up.

“It doesn’t matter to me, so… I guess it’s fine, right?”

Naturally, she forced the outcome based on Erin’s actions.

Erin, whose pupils slightly dilated at those words, let out a snort.

As another twisted relationship began to form somehow,

“What’s up, little troublemaker? What kind of talk made you come back so late!?”

Rockser, who was being grilled by Rica, quickly shifted the topic, pretending to know Erin at the table.

“Hey!! What’s with the womanizer act!!!”

Immediately, as if something had happened to him as well, he yelled with a twisted mouth.

If men had overheard, they might have thought it was just a fight.

“A womanizer…?”

To women like Rica, who opened their eyes sharply, it sounded like an unjust cry of a woman.

Rockser felt a shiver run down his spine under Rica’s gaze, which she still firmly held.

‘Surely, they planned this party to use it as a way to catch the thief guild!!’

And now realizing they had entered enemy territory to strike.

“Let’s go home.”

Rockser, truly yearning to go home, spoke candidly.

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