But the senior fell in love with the maid

“That magical girl is truly pitiful,” a handsome young man who appeared to be about seventeen or eighteen adjusted his white shirt and sighed helplessly.

“To run into such a scumbag, her heart must be shattered.”

“This explains why she was so furious with that Cheng senior and even resorted to violence,” said a magical girl standing next to him, a couple of heads shorter.

She wore casual Japanese schoolgirl uniform and had long, wavy black hair, while operating something on her phone.

“But, thinking about it, I wonder what I should do if you ever became such a scumbug like him.”

“First, that day will never come, my master,” he said with a faint smile, touching the collar around his neck.

He leaned down and gently massaged her shoulders.

“Second, if your loyal pet ever loses his conscience and has an affair, please don’t hesitate to kill me.

After all, I would have lost the right to be loved by my master.”

“How ruthless, but I like it,” the girl chuckled, flicking the long rope attached to the collar around his neck.

“Once you’re fully recovered down there, I’ll pamper you properly.”

“It’s alright, Master, don’t worry about my body.

After all, the sole purpose of my existence is to be your toy—by the way, you seem to have taken a lot of pictures of that magical girl. Is there a specific reason?”

“You don’t know, but she was a major figure who stirred up storms during the war, the object of admiration for all of us magical girls!” the girl said, her eyes turning into stars as she held her phone to her chest.

“I never expected to meet her at the hospital today. I can’t pass up such a good opportunity.

Once things calm down over there, I’ll go up and ask for a photo together.”

“Yes, my master, as you command.”

For some reason, a trace of…jealousy…surfaced in the young man’s heart.

He quickly dismissed this subtle emotion: ‘What am I thinking? She’s a girl, not a guy. I’m just being presumptuous.’

As Anjete began to wail, Kim Erise reached out and pulled her into her arms, cradling her as she leaned back, gently stroking Anjete’s fine, soft brown hair as a sign of comfort.

Then, she suddenly felt a wave of despair emanating from the loli in her arms, and it seemed on the verge of erupting.

‘Damn, is it the Soul Gem…’

‘No, stay calm, stay calm.’

“Cry, cry as much as you want, Anjete,” the red-haired girl comforted in the gentlest tone as she held her tighter.

“Don’t hold it in, don’t wrong yourself, just vent it all out.

No matter who betrays you, who abandons you in this world, your Leader will always be with you, your pillar, your safe haven, the home you can always rely on.”

She was ready: once the despair value exceeded the critical point, she would immediately shatter the other party’s Soul Gem and kill her, to prevent causing big trouble here.

Fortunately, perhaps the hug and comfort had an effect.

In any case, the despair aura stopped expanding when it was very close to the critical point and began to gradually shrink.

Kim Erise, relieved, looked up at the boy who had stood up from his seat, at a loss, and said, chewing on her lollipop stick,

“If you have anything to explain about what she just said, say it now.”

“That…” the ordinary human, Cheng, who couldn’t sense the despair aura, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, then slowly said,

“I, I did do something very excessive, I’m sorry to her…

Actually, I always thought of Anjete as a younger sister.

Even when she was being ostracized, I couldn’t stand seeing others bullying her, so I stood up for her.

She really is a very, very good child, much better than my real sister, who takes advantage of me all day long.

I guess, the reason I was so good to her might have been because I wanted to have a truly well-behaved and cute younger sister? There was definitely some selfishness in it…”

“Okay, this is still normal so far, continue.”

““After the war ended, I fell into complete despair, living idly with my family in the Back District, ready to spend the rest of my life that way. I never thought I’d see her again.

I could tell that Anjete had fallen in love with me and wanted to date me, but I really only saw her as a younger sister and had no further intentions.

I originally wanted to politely decline, but when my parents and elders at home found out about this, they cried and begged me to date Anjete, so that we could use this as an opportunity to latch onto the magical girl’s thigh and enter the Front District to enjoy a better life.”

“So you agreed to your family’s request, right?”

“Yes…” Cheng’s head was buried even lower, looking like he wanted to burrow straight into his chest.

“I tried my best to cooperate with her on dates, hoping that feelings would develop over time, but I found that I really didn’t have any romantic thoughts.

You might think it’s absurd, but if you go on a date with someone you don’t like, the more beautiful, the more outstanding, the better she is to you, the more it deepens the pain in your heart, making you feel like an unpardonable villain, toying with the heart of a pure girl.

I told my family about my inner troubles, hoping to find an opportunity to confess and end everything, but they accused me of being ungrateful for the benefits and said that if anything went wrong and implicated the family, they would sever all ties with me and even curse me for life.

As time went on, I felt like a noose was tightening around my neck.

Every time I saw Anjete trying her best to use all sorts of methods and create romance to make me happy, that invisible noose would tighten a little, making it impossible for me to breathe, feeling like I would suffocate to death at any moment.

I started to self-harm, using a knife to cut my skin little by little to vent,” here, Cheng rolled up his sleeve, revealing the shocking and irregular scratches on his arm, “and began to plan to simply die at a suitable time, until I met Marina.”

“True love, right?” Kim Erise, holding the still-crying Anjete, interjected.

“Yes, we not only hit it off from the start, but as we continued to have more private exchanges and conversations, we found that we were increasingly compatible, practically soulmates.”

Putting his sleeve back down, the boy sniffled, tightly clutching his black short hair:

“It wasn’t until I met Marina that I experienced what love is for the first time. That night, I called Marina to the basement, originally just wanting to chat and hug, but who knew that once we hugged, we would be so immersed in each other that we couldn’t separate, and then we started kissing each other, taking off each other’s clothes, and then Anjete caught us.

Now, we’re at the hospital because Anjete slapped Marina and sent her flying into the wall, knocking out several teeth and passing out. I wanted the hospital to wake her up so I could properly question her face to face.”

Having finally finished explaining the whole story, Cheng took a deep breath and slumped back into his seat.

Anjete, on the other hand, stood blankly on the chair, hugging her fluffy Dragon plushie without saying a word.

“If everything you said is true,” Kim Erise chewed up the lollipop that hadn’t melted yet and swallowed it in one gulp, “then you, who were threatened by your family, do have your own difficulties, which is understandable, but you didn’t choose to refuse and continued to date her, which means you are also at fault.”

“I know, I know very well,” the boy said softly.

“I’m saying all this not to defend myself or find excuses, but to let Anjete understand the whole story, so that when she hates me, she knows how to hate.”

He removed the bandage from his head and threw it aside, letting the blood that had barely dried on his forehead tear open again and flow out.

“I am a sinner, a selfish person, someone who used a girl’s love for the sake of his family’s life.

I took her first time, I broke Anjete’s heart, I have no right to beg for her forgiveness.

I’m ready to be killed or sliced up, I just hope you can spare Marina.

After all, she was dragged into this by me, an innocent bystander—of course, if she chooses not to let it go, then I’ll accept it too, since all this is my own fault.”

“At least, in my opinion, you, who are so honest and take on all the responsibility, are nobler than many pieces of trash I’ve seen who don’t know what it means to repent even in death,”

Kim Erise said, gently patting the back of the loli who had gone from crying to sobbing, feeling no despair aura.

She nodded slightly and replied, “But as an outsider, all I can do is offer my own evaluation of this matter.

How to resolve it specifically depends on the victim’s thoughts. I have no right to interfere in your private affairs.”

“You go,” Anjete in her arms finally spoke, but her voice was no longer as childish as before, but hoarse like a dying old woman.

“You and Marina, both of you, go, go pursue your happiness and love.

I’ll cover her medical expenses, but from now on, you and your family are not to appear in front of me again.”

“Understandable, but unforgivable, so leaving it at that and disappearing from each other’s lives forever is indeed the best choice.” the red-haired girl nodded, commenting.

“Waaah… Leader is so cool, really so cool waaah…”

The magical girl with long black wavy hair in the distance put away the long sword she had taken out of her pocket, holding her phone with one hand and covering her mouth with the other, desperately taking pictures.

Watching Kim Erise chewing on the lollipop with a transcendent and unperturbed attitude, take control of the situation, she felt her heart pounding:

“To be so calm even in such a dangerous and terrible situation where something could happen at any moment, and even successfully eliminate the despair in that loli’s heart, ah I’m dead–I wish I was the one being held in the Leader’s arms, I wish it was me aaaaah…”

And the black lines on the young man’s face next to her were so dense, and he couldn’t say it out loud, and had to suppress the jealousy rising in his heart: ‘Calm down, calm down, take a deep breath, take a deep breath, she’s a woman, she’s a woman…’

“I understand, thank you for not killing me,” Cheng, who stood up, bowed deeply to Anjete.

“Then, farewell, Tiểu Thiết, I sincerely wish you find someone who truly loves you in the future.”

Then he re-applied the bandage to the wound on his forehead and left silently.

As for whether he went to see Marina on the sickbed, went home to pack his things, or something else, it was no longer important.

“Actually…” Anjete, who was being held in her arms, stopped sobbing and said softly,

“I tossed and turned all night yesterday and felt that, to be honest, my gratitude to senior might be greater than my love for him.

The reason I tried so hard to date him was just to repay him for protecting and taking care of me when I was regarded as a witch.

Maybe, I had a crush on him, but not to the point of falling in love.”

With a slight smile, Kim Erise gently stroked the other’s brown hair with her fingers:

“As long as you can let go, no longer be sad, no longer despair, then this matter can be forgotten. Treat it as a stepping stone on the road to growth.

There are still very long and long roads waiting for you to explore and discover–by the way, can I ask what wish you made to the Spirit Dragon?”

“Um, it’s just that I hope to spend my life happily with the person I love.”

‘I see, so that explains the despair earlier.’

First, the wish: in such a big Back District, she ‘coincidentally’ found her beloved senior and started dating him.

It is said that love makes people fall, so since Anjete feels happy–even if only on the surface–the wish has also been fulfilled.

And when she later discovers that everything is not what it seems, happiness naturally no longer exists, and the heart will be filled with the sadness brought about by heartbreak.

At this time, what needs to be done is to amplify and bring out the despair in her heart, so that this loli can be corrupted and die after realizing that she has completely lost her happiness, so as not to violate the condition of ‘spending her life happily’.

Wishes, wishes, seemingly beautiful, but in fact full of traps and curses.

So, no matter what, I can’t let Anjete sign a contract!

Speaking of which, since she can still stabilize and suppress despair now, it means that the wish is still being fulfilled, which means…

“In that case, tell me the name of the person you truly love,” Kim Erise patted Anjete’s shoulder, who had already stabilized.

“I will help you and the other party get together within my ability and continue to fulfill your wish.”

Light began to appear in the loli’s eyes:

“Really, really?”

“Of course,” she pointed to herself with her thumb triumphantly, even the lollipop stick in her mouth cocked up to the sky,

“According to you, I am always your Leader, and also the object you can always choose to trust. Since you like someone, you have to act boldly and pursue them, don’t be so shy like you are now, there’s nothing to be afraid of…”

The red-haired girl never finished this sentence.

Because the other party walked straight up, stood on tiptoe, and gently kissed her lips.

“I like you, Leader, I liked you a long, long time ago, but it was temporarily buried in my heart because of Cheng’s existence, and I only realized it now.”

After a half-minute kiss, Anjete held Kim Erise’s already frozen face with her small hands affectionately, her eyes flickering with tears that she didn’t know if they were from before or just newly born.

Taking a deep breath, she mustered all her courage and shouted loudly:

“Please, please go out with me!”