dmims Chapter 207: Third (2)
Chapter 207: Third (2)
“... master.”
“yes?”
silver blaze just stared at adler with a vacant gaze. the intense heat and desire that had accumulated within her during the time she had been unconscious, rushed all at once and overwhelmed her.
“why... are you here?”
with the last vestiges of patience and will she could muster, she asked adler the question as rationally as possible. he only smiled at her in turn, his eyes curving into crescents.
“i came to see you.”
“... ah.”
adler whispered softly, inching his head closer with a gentle voice.
“go, please go.”
“... huh?”
“get away... from me. master.”
that gesture from adler made blaze momentarily lose grip on her fainting rationality. she had to close her eyes shut to hold on to her sanity desperately.
“why?”
“i... i am now a target of the kkk. i don’t know when or where i’ll be threatened, and i don’t want to be a burden to you any longer.”
adler suppressed a chuckle and caressed her ears at her reply.
- thump, thump, thump, thump...
“i told you... to stay away, didn’t i...?”
“i don’t want to.”
“uh... if you keep this up... you’ll be in danger too. so, please...”
his playful expression made blaze’s body twitch uncontrollably as she desperately tried to stop him from coming closer.
“... i took care of the kkk.”
“what?”
however, an unbelievable piece of good news froze her momentarily.
“did you think i would leave an organisation that targeted my subordinate alone?”
“but... the kkk is a huge secretive organisation, right?”
“... yes, they did have considerable influence and structure.”
after a moment of stunned silence, she murmured with a trembling voice. a nonchalant reply was adler’s answer to her.
“the ordinary members number in the tens of thousands, and there are over a hundred at the executive level i think?”
“yes, that’s right! those guys won’t go down without a fight...”
“... so i killed them all.”
at the chilling words he uttered, silver blaze’s eyes widened in shock.
“those executives should be fish food by now. it’s only a matter of time before the members are arrested too.”
“ah...”
“so, don’t worry.”
shifting his gaze to face her, adler took both of blaze’s hands firmly in his own and continued,
“as long as you are my subordinate, no danger can reach you.”
“.........”
“and that’s why i’ll have to ask...”
adler glanced at her still vacant face and whispered softly.
“... you’ll continue to stay by my side, right?”
at that very moment, the last thread of silver blaze’s rationality snapped.
“blaze?”
however, oblivious to this, adler quietly sat in her bed and gazed at her with a tilted head.
- swoosh...
“what are you doing?”
silently, she reached out with both hands to grab both of my arms, causing adler to ask with a smile.
“master.”
“... huh?”
but just a few seconds later,
- squeaaaaak...
“... what the...?”
adler found himself pinned under silver blaze as she abruptly pushed him down with tremendous force.
“um... blaze.”
“........”
“don’t you think you are going too far with the joke...?”
“that’s why...”
suddenly a crisp sound filled the room, and blaze’s eyes glowing golden with endless affection, slowly started closing shut.
“please... consume me... whole, i beg...”
- thud...!
blaze, unable to finish her sentence, slumped weakly over adler’s body.
“... that was close.”
“ah...?”
stunned momentarily at the sight, adler was startled awake from his daze at the familiar voice entering his ears, prompting him to lift his head in its direction.
“i don’t want to sound racist, but i wouldn’t recommend being in a closed space with a beastkin in heat.”
“inspector lestrade!”
“especially not someone like you, isaac adler.”
adler, pleased to see the ever-reliable inspector, shouted in relief. inspector lestrade, who had just knocked silver blaze unconscious, added while slipping on a white glove.
“... let her rest a bit more, and let’s head out.”
“eh?”
“i have something important to discuss with you.”
momentarily, it almost seemed that her eyes bore a faint resemblance to silver blaze’s earlier golden orbs.
“... what is it?”
adler, his mind still scattered from almost being raped by his beloved subordinate, failed to notice that resemblance, however. obediently, he followed behind the inspector and his saviour.
.
.
.
.
.
having been saved from a dire fate by the inspector’s intervention during her hospital visit, the rest of my day was spent by her side.
although we were just a couple for show, we still needed to deceive the public every now and then. not to mention, the inspector had requested me to spend it with her and i was glad to follow along.
well, it wasn’t like we did anything grand.
we just linked arms and went to some cafes, watched plays, shopped for dresses that i thought suited her perfectly, and strolled through some parks. before we knew it, the sun had gone beyond the horizon, enveloping the world in a blanket of darkness.
“excuse me, inspector.”
“........”
“thank you for saving me this morning.”
as we sat on a park bench, still keeping our arms linked, i began recalling this morning’s events.
“but please don’t misunderstand. blaze is really a good kid; it’s just the mating season’s fault. you know it’s instinctual for the beastkin...”
“... i wonder if it’s really just because of the mating season.”
she responded with a stoic expression, turning her head to the side.
“if linking arms is too much, you don’t have to do it since there’s no one watching now. you must’ve had a hard day playing pretend for so long.”
“i like it, so it’s fine.”
“uh... o-okay then.”
her eyes, unlike a few days ago, were once again pure white; her natural colour.
... i must have seen it wrong at the time.
i didn’t really understand why she acted that way when i pretended to have lost my memory, but it was quite easy to know that she did not like me one bit.
that’s a relief...
thinking about my plans for the future, i felt relieved by that knowledge. still, the knowledge also brought with it a lingering pain in my heart.
“what was it that you wanted to say, then?”
“......?”
“... you said you had something important to tell me this morning?”
a troubled smile lingered on my lips as i thought about the matter. soon, i decided to change my line of thought and casually brought up what the officer had mentioned in the morning.
“it’s nothing big, but i would like to make a suggestion regarding our marital status.”
“... what is it?”
the calm reply she gave me just stunned me into silence.
“let’s have a baby.”
“excuse me?”
“a baby between you and me.”
and then, there was an eerie silence between us, seemingly stretching into eternity.