episode_0015

# Episode 15. If you look at it from a distance, it looks like a tsundere, but if you look up close, it looks like a kusogaki.

Tsundere.

This is the type of heroine that always appears in any field of subculture.

It is a word made by combining ‘tsun’, which means chilly, and ‘dere’, which means likeable attitude. It means a character who acts cold and cold on the outside, but has a dual nature that loves and is shy more than anyone else on the inside.

In reality, it may be considered schizophrenia unless you are a super high school level beautiful girl, but in novels and animations, it is established as an essential element that cannot be dispensed with.

It may be a character born from the delusion of otaku-filled otakus who thought that the girls who tickled them were actually interested in them, but if they were happy, it was OK, right?

Lily, who plays the role of the warrior party’s wizard, is a woman who meets all the conditions that can be considered a model of these tsundere characteristics.

Shorter than other heroines, fierce eyes, bold speech, and somewhat unfortunate breast size.

In addition, although she is usually picky, the kind and lovely side she sometimes shows only in front of people she likes further adds to the tsundere’s charm.

Yes, the important thing here is ‘only in front of people you like.’

That means… … .

“Date? There’s nothing to see compared to the capital, so what are you doing?”

“I’m busy with my research, so can you please not call me unless it’s absolutely necessary?”

“Please prepare an eye patch in advance. Because my perfect naked body is only for Ronan.”

The point is that those tsundere attributes do not apply to me.

For my man, the kind tsundere is gone, and only the damn Kusogaki bitch remains.

I’m about to get hungry… … .

I don’t have a hobby of hitting women, but when it comes to beating up women, I’m more confident than anyone else.

Even if it wasn’t pretty, I would have beaten it until it exploded… … .

Seira is a good person by nature, and although Fine is blunt due to her racial characteristics, she answers questions properly and does not show any resistance to becoming friends.

Of course, having read the original work, I know that her personality came from self-defense.

Because of his outstanding talent, he was envious and jealous of those around him from a young age, and even suffered threats of blackmail and death.

Now I know that it’s a habitual reaction from the aftermath, but being annoyed is being annoyed.

No matter how well you do here, what if the other side completely shields you?

You can’t hit it with a real shield.

“Well, it’s not that there is no strategy.”

Her weakness is defeat.

You might think that losing could be a weakness, but she absolutely hates losing.

Lily, who showed outstanding talent from a young age, entered the academy at an earlier age than others.

The professors at the academy praised and admired her talent, but it would not have looked good in the eyes of other students.

At some point, she started being bullied by her classmates.

Because she was young, small in stature, and had a weak personality, she became easy prey and became an outcast, having her things stolen, tripping, and openly talking behind her back.

There was a day when he couldn’t talk to people around him for fear of worrying his parents and professors, and every night he cried while pouring out his feelings to his pet canary.

While she was away, a group of bullies kidnapped her pet canary, summoned her to a deserted place, declared her defeat as a wizard, and demanded an apology for ignoring them.

Although it seems absolutely ridiculous now, Lily felt fearful of her classmates who expressed their jealousy and anger without filtering.

‘ruler… … Wrong… … . I’m sorry for coming forward and saying that I received little recognition for my talent… … .’

Lily, who didn’t want to see her only friend, Canary, get hurt, admitted her defeat and knelt down and apologized.

Is it cruel because it is pure?

Contrary to their promise, the group threw the canary at the stray cat they had taken in, and the canary was eaten by the cat on the spot.

After witnessing her only friend, Canary, being cruelly eaten, Lily goes wild with anger and seriously injures those present.

Afterwards, she decided that she could not survive if she was weak, so she hid her weakness with sharp eyes and a sharp tone of voice, and transformed into a personality that never admits defeat.

Although Seira also has a strong competitive spirit, she was new to the game and had a pure desire to win the game, whereas Lily is a case of a strong belief that admitting defeat means death.

It’s been 10 years now, and although I’ve met good people and neutralized a lot of the poison from that time, the strong obsession that I shouldn’t admit defeat remains.

That may be what made Lily the archmage she is today, but in some ways, it can also be seen as a huge weakness.

“A moderate desire to win brings victory, but too much is a shortcut to destruction.”

Her determination to not be defeated by anyone in magic elevated her to the position of Grand Wizard, but what about other sports?

For the sake of my plan, I acted as if I was deliberately ignoring her for a while.

Continuing from right before the major battle with Seira.

I acted as if I was intentionally ignoring her, and perhaps because my pride was hurt, I just snorted and moved on when she looked at me with a subtle look.

She is a hot-tempered person, so she gets angry easily and reacts dramatically whenever that happens.

There must have been a lot of antipathy towards me built up by now.

In this situation, if I provoke her by touching her pride, she will naturally step up to the plate I created.

As soon as you lose, it’s GAME OVER.

“Okay, then the first game is… … Should we do this?”

* * *

“Am I a dog? Tell me to come?”

Lily was on her way to Kane’s office to see him after hearing that they wanted to talk for a while for the day that was not far away.

Because the library where she often stayed was the furthest away from her office, it was a frustrating situation for her, who lacked physical strength.

Lily, who had thought about being a little kinder to Kane after her conversation with Fine a few days ago, changed her mind, saying that he was a man she couldn’t trust because of his continued rude behavior towards her.

“By the way, is Ronan asking when I will do it? Is he really hoping that I will finish the contract quickly and come to his side?! Wow, what is this, Ronan!”

As I walked, muttering to myself, I eventually reached the office.

The moment she knocked and without hearing an answer, she grabbed the doorknob of the office and was about to enter.

Someone opened the door one step ahead, and Lily almost collided with the person who was trying to get out.

“Miss, who are you… … Uh, Seira?”

When she looked up in surprise at the unexpected situation, the person in front of her was none other than Seira.

Lily found it very refreshing to see Seira, who always behaved gracefully and politely, hurriedly running out with her hair disheveled and something stuck around her mouth.

“Uh… … Lee, it’s Lily! What’s going on here?”

“It’s me, the duke called me because he had something to say… … Why are you here?”

Why is Seira, who has already kept her promise to Kane and has no further business with him, coming out of his office?

I looked at Seira, worried that she might have been forced to do something strange under the pretext of a relationship.

“Ah… … that is… … ah! We had a brief conversation about donations to the temple~ Ah… … No, instead of increasing the donations to the temple, the duke asked me to send some healing priests.”

“Mmm. Really?”

Seira’s reaction, as she explained quickly as if she was somewhat embarrassed, was somewhat unclear, but Lily just assumed it was so and moved on.

Because a good Seira has never lied to herself.

“But why is your face so red? Is it very hot inside?”

“Uh, huh?”

“And there was something around my mouth, what was that? Did you hear about a case while drinking tea?”

“Huh? Uh, uh! that’s right! While drinking milk tea, I started coughing and got some on my mouth! Ahaha… … .”

Seira quickly makes an excuse, says she was rude, and hurriedly leaves.

“Crazy, crazy!”

It seemed like he was saying something as he ran, but I couldn’t hear him clearly, so I decided not to pay any attention to him.

I guess I was embarrassed to make a mess by spilling milk tea in front of others.

With that in mind, Lily entered the room and felt uncomfortable.

‘what? here… … .’

The office where Kane was looking at documents alone had a cold atmosphere as usual.

No matter where I looked, I couldn’t see even a cup, let alone milk tea.

of course.

There was a sticky, transparent liquid left under Kane’s desk.

Lily didn’t know.