Chapter 30 Pocket Finger Claw Knife (2)
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It's nice that you're stronger but can you please try to use that strength to activate your brain? I was trying to help you here.
You were feeling me up! Stop putting yourself as a victim—I'm the one who's traumatised here!
Sorry, Honestly, I hate myself. Why can't I just speak what I'm thinking? What am I afraid of--What can he do? Then, I remembered his red eyes. On second thoughts, nevermind.
Tie this around your thigh. He gave me the pocket finger claw knife with a leather sheath. I'll be honest, I wasn't being purposefully stupid anymore. I didn't know how to do it. I mean, it had buttons and weird angles—They seemed to make no sense. Heck, ever a pocket finger claw knife with a leather sheath is drunk nowadays. I looked at lord Akagi with a pleading look.
If you kick me this time, I will kick you back.
You don't hit women! You're supposed to be a feminist.
I am a different kind of feminist. I am a bad feminist
He was close, really close. Then, he looked down as he fixed the pocket finger claw knife with a leather sheath on my thigh and buttoned it up. I realised I was wearing it upside down. The knife hung a bit loose on the sheath. After he was done, I jumped back. It heard a clatter under my skirt.
What do you think? I asked.
You got nice thighs.
That's not what I asked. But well, wasn't I happy. Nice work, thighs! But why do I need this?
For making a pact. When you go to the blank space, you can take the knife out from the leather sheath and wear it like a ring on your thumb, wear it on your left thumb
Well, I'm a lefty so it's fine. After that, when I walked, I heard the click-clack of my heels and the clatter of the knife. Lord Akagi walked beside me. I told him that I knew what Lict was. Melissa had told me about everything. He just nodded his head. Was he angry at Melissa? I made an evil grin and jumped before him.
I'm better at keeping secrets than her.
You surely are. I'm pretty sure nobody will ever know that I touched your thighs.
Wait—Does that make me a hoe? What?! What have I become, no!
I'm not a hoe!
I never called you that.
Yes but— I didn't know what to say so I pouted.
So, why this hatred towards Melissa?
Because she is bad.
And why is she bad?
Because you like her.
Girl, I hit her on every possible occasion I can. Do you boil your eyes before putting them on every morning? Nevermind, after this point, I was getting roasted. Then, I remembered something.
Lord Akagi, if Lict is a demon, will I become one too?
You don't pay attention to your classes, do you? What? I do! I'm the best student you can have. Oh wait—Maybe that's why I don't exist for you, How many times have I told you that demigods are purification vessels?
Then why was Lict's old demigod possessed? He was a purification vessel.
That's He paused for a while, That's a good question.
I was scared. So, we couldn't be sure that I won't be affected? Lict, what the bloody hell? Why did you drag me into all this? If you think I can help you--I can't. I'm not a fangxiangshi. All I can do is feel sorry for you.
How is Lict now? I asked as we reached the stairs. I was behind Lord Akagi. He had already climbed a few stairs. But upon hearing my question, he paused.
Not completely a demon yet. He turned towards me, That seal has grown weak in all these years. It's been almost two thousand years. On every lunar eclipse, the seal grows loose as the demon it holds increases in power. Demons grow stronger during a lunar eclipse.
I know that,
But this time, it might be the last chance the demons need to split the seal once and for all.
Can't we ask Lady Ivsana for her help again? I asked.
Can you contact a god?
There must be some prayers.
Prayers? Do you think gods come to you from prayers? No, honey. You have to do everything yourself. If you wait for divine intervention, it'll be too late. Depend on yourself Vierne, not on gods. Don't forget, they are ones because of whom Lict is suffering. If he didn't get the curse, he could have fought that demon. But now, you have to fight him.
I looked into his eyes, You know, sometimes, I don't know why, but I think that it was a conspiracy.
Why would any god plan a conspiracy against a gatekeeper?
Why wouldn't they? He was smart and he was making new rules whereas gods have this habit of doing everything as they please. They don't like rules.
But then, why would they harm Lict?
Because if they wouldn't, he would eventually find out about everything. Lord Akagi seemed to be lost in thought after that. I wasn't really sure about what I had just said but I felt that what I was doing was right.
I have to go to Purgatory. Only that can tell me what happened. I said.
There's only one way to do that.
To become a gatekeeper.
Yes.
Alright then, I will become a gatekeeper. Everyone assumed demons were bad, but what about gods? Are they any good? Or have we been fooled to worship them? I will become a gatekeeper.
And even if I can't, I have to.
-To be continued
