Part 4
“Damn it, remember this!”
“T-This can’t be right… Y-You are cheating! No mistake!!”
Hyoro and Jaga screaming.
“Yes, yes, it’s already night, so be quiet.”
I grabbed them both by the neck and threw them down the hallway.
“Wait! Play the game one last time!”
“I’m not satisfied! We can’t end the day on a losing note!”
“I’m sorry, but I have no use for people who don’t have money. Good luck with your repayments.”
With a slam, I forcefully closed the door and locked it.
“Why …… after all that cheating practice.”
“Impossible. Are you saying that everything has failed?”
“How is that possible?”
“But that’s the least I can say……”
“Damn. I’ll borrow again at Mitsugoshi.”
I hear voices whispering on the other side of the door.
Of course, I destroyed all the cheating. And if the other party comes at me with cheating, I have the right to cheat back.
I gathered up the stack of bills on the table and smiled.
“Hyoro and Jaga are my new piggy bank. Thank you Mitsugoshi revolving payment.”
Money flows from Mitsugoshi Bank to Hyoro and Jaga, and I collect it.
This is the survival of the fittest.
“Fuhn fuhn fu~hn.”
Humming a random tune, I put a wad of bills into the military fund box.
I call out to the other side of the window.
“I’m sorry to keep you waiting, Zeta. You can come in.”
Then, without a sound, a golden-haired beastwoman appeared.
“Happy Birthday, Master”
“Hmm? Ah, I see. I turned sixteen.”
When I realized it, the date seemed to have changed. Today is my birthday.
“Happy birthday”
“Thank you.”
I’m not really happy about it.
In this way, one year of the planned 600-year lifespan is reduced.
How short life is, even though I haven’t reached the height yet as “The Eminence in Shadow”.
“Does Master hate birthdays?”
“I don’t like it. Because the time I have left in my life is decreasing.”
“I know, that feeling.”
Zeta loosened up and let out a small laugh. It was a natural smile, unusual for her.
“Life is too short to achieve our goals.”
“Nn. I understand.”
She also agreed.
Then she looks at me with a serious face.
“I’ve come here tonight mainly because I have something important to tell you.”
“Fumu.”
Are you talking about money?
Zeta has taken care of me, so I might be willing to lend her a thousand zeny or so.
“Master wants “eternal life”, right”
“Of course.”
I answered immediately.
With eternal life, when people forget about me a hundred years from now, I will appear again, and ‘Don’t tell me, he is that legendary’ …… I can play that as many times as I want. As long as I live, I can reset “The Eminence in Shadow” play forever.
I plan to live six hundred years with my magic power, but it is still not enough to enjoy life.
I want to live forever as I am. Ah~, God, please create a system to buy the lives of those who don’t want to live long.
“I know how Master feels.”
“Umu.”
“So that’s why I was making the move.”
“Umu?”
“Do you remember the day we first met?”
“Umu.”
I think it was a rainy day.
“It was a cold, snowy day.”
So it was a snowy day.
“I got demon-possession and learned about the ugliness of people.”
“Umu.”
“And I was thinking. Of the people who have trapped us. Of this stupid world.”
She said and made a cold look.
From the first time I met Zeta, she does this eye at a random moments. This is pretty cool, and I have secretly imitated it myself.
“People repeat their mistakes. Over and over again, without ever getting tired of it, and the world remains foolish and unchanged.”
“Umu.”
“I thought it was okay to die. Even if I died, the world would be no different. If I lived, the world would still be the same. But when I met Master, I realized I had something to do——”
Then Zeta began to tell an old story.
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