I Became the Burden of a Conscienceless Party

194 – Side Story 2. The Story After, Milia (2)

The story after that, Milia (2)

“Whoa… … . Whoa whoa whoa whoa!! Calm down! Calm down! Millia!”

“I’m very calm, Jim. This wasn’t an impulsive choice, it was a well-thought-out decision.”

“No, wait! Let’s talk, let’s talk. Let’s start with talking.”

“conversation?”

Milia tilts her head.

It was a reaction as if asking why I had to do that, so I was speechless for a moment.

“Isn’t conversation important?”

“that’s right.”

“During the journey of the warrior party, haven’t we always resolved our differences of opinion through dialogue and compromise?”

“You don’t like my proposal right now?”

“… … .”

If you ask like that, it’s really hard to answer yes.

It’s almost as if they’ll purge you if you don’t like it.

“… … Yes, for now.”

However, if you don’t reveal your true feelings here, you will end up in a kidnapping, confinement, and tentacle ending.

I’d rather die than end up like that.

“You know, Jim. Do you think saying that would make a difference?”

“… … .”

“Haven’t I always done what I wanted?”

fear.

Things I had long forgotten flashed through my mind. Millia’s numerous rampages and the response to them. The results.

“uh…….”

Come to think of it, I’ve never once convinced Milia.

I have never stopped her stubbornness until now. Didn’t she get her head cracked while talking nonsense on the magic tower, and didn’t she almost get attacked right away when she said she would keep pace with her in the demon world?

She’s basically not the type to listen to people.

“If you wanted to convince me, you should have brought Esmeralda with you.”

Her tantrums were never resolved with words, but always with violence.

He was a human who lived a life befitting the law of the jungle, more than anyone else who submitted to a force stronger than himself.

And only then did I understand that this current situation was something that Millia had been planning for a long time.

I never managed to convince her and things just fizzled out without any fundamental resolution to the problem.

Her mind, her impulsive nature.

“So listen to me, Jim. I’m sure you’ll like it.”

It has never been fixed.

***

Fortunately, none of the things I was worried about happened right away.

The plan to kidnap and imprison Milia seems to have been prepared quite a while ago, but the problem seems to be that the plan was ruined by my escape.

I was imprisoned here as per Millia’s request to wait a little longer as she needed some adjustment time.

That way, I gained some time, but I was stuck on the floor for a whole day, unable to leave the sealed area that Millia had created with her magic. The next day, Millia said that she had improved her magic, and my range of movement had increased.

Thanks to this, I was able to move around in spaces where I could live comfortably, such as in front of a bed or table.

Okay, so let’s think about it.

Is this really a good thing?

“I guess it’s fucked up.”

In just one day, the small seal magic was repaired and the range was expanded.

If you think of it as simply increasing the range, it may not seem like much, but it is not an easy problem to expand the seal through the magic circle to a room containing all kinds of objects.

Other people might not know this, but as someone who was once a wizard, I know how absurd this is.

If the magic circle is even slightly out of alignment, it won’t be able to do its job.

But how complicated would the process have been if it had been adjusted to apply to a three-dimensional space filled with a table, bed, and various books?

“A genius is a genius… … .”

A heterogeneous party of warriors.

The most talented girl besides Esmeralda.

The talent is so great that it transcends the realm of transcendence in human flesh.

Even the fact that you summoned me by mixing spatial magic and curse magic is like that.

I combined two completely unrelated magics.

How long will it take for such a genius wizard to perform the ‘magical adjustment’ he is currently performing?

“What’s more frightening is that the adjustment isn’t yet complete… … .”

Millia’s magic is simple.

It is common to deploy tentacle magic to defeat the opponent.

If I say this, it may seem like I am a biased person who only uses one type of magic, but it can be seen as the opposite.

Because it is a magic that is so complete that it can solve most situations with just that one magic.

Adjust that magic. The question is how to improve it.

“shit.”

No matter how positively I try to think, I feel like the outcome can’t be normal.

It wouldn’t be strange if they literally melted me into tentacles and made me live inside them forever.

I tried to convince him once in the past, but I’m not sure if I was really convinced.

“Because my head was broken at that time!”

I was caught again after breaking my head and telling myself to stop talking nonsense.

I thought I survived because I was persuaded to some extent, but now I am skeptical as to whether I was really persuaded.

“load.”

“… … Is the magical adjustment finished, Millia?”

They say even a tiger will come when you call it, and while I was thinking about how to deal with Millia for a while, Millia came back.

Fortunately, Milia shook her head.

“Not yet. But I think it will happen soon.”

“… … By the way, may I ask what kind of adjustment this is?”

“curious?”

For some reason, Milia smiles brightly. I know what that smile is. It’s the smile of someone who is unusually talkative when asked about something they are confident in.

An appearance that could be said to be cute, but could also be seen as crazy.

I swallowed hard and decided to open the gates of hell.

“Yes, I’m curious.”

Slowly!

The gates of hell open with my answer. Black tentacles bloom like flowers behind Milia’s back.

My stomach started to ache for a moment, but I decided to hold on.

Not yet. Not yet.

The adjustment isn’t finished yet, so it’s probably just for show.

“The luggage is too weak.”

“… … .”

Still, I never imagined that the introduction would suddenly become a personal attack.

“And now it’s even weaker than before. It’s become so fragile that it could be blown away by the wind.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

So, aren’t we trapped like this without even being able to rebel?

Since they are someone with whom you cannot communicate, persuasion is impossible.

I miss you, warrior.

I miss Esmeralda.

“This time too. You were kidnapped. How can you be so calm?”

“……yes?”

But the words that came out of Milia’s mouth were different from what I expected.

It wasn’t a personal attack or boasting, but concern for me. To be honest, I never thought that he would believe it without a single doubt, even though he made the excuse that he had been kidnapped and imprisoned.

No, it would be more correct to say that what happened after that was so shocking that I even forgot that I had made that excuse.

“I could have died.”

“Oh, no. That’s not it.”

“Jim, stop being so optimistic. People die easily.”

Millia seemed to know that humans are fragile beings.

As if he knew exactly where to touch an intricately crafted glass sculpture and it would shatter.

As a wizard and explorer, I know well about human frailty.

“So I can’t be at ease. I was safe this time, but… … .”

A gloomy expression.

Maybe I was thinking about Milia wrong.

If I think about it, it’s true that I failed to convince her, but there was never a time when she wasn’t on my side.

The most pure love.

It was because of that kind of Milia that she had locked me up like this.

Because I was kidnapped. Because I said I was being held captive.

Because I’m worried.

“So Jim, at least until you’re safe, until I’m free of worries, stay here. Then no one can bother you.”

Because when she was out of sight, she was afraid that this time she would die. It was I who pulled the bowstring because of her terrible anxiety.

That’s why she locked me up. She didn’t let me escape. But she knew that wasn’t right.

But I can’t help it, I find it hard to control my anxiety.

“So this magic will be magic you can use.”

She decided to find a way out, because she knew it wasn’t right to keep me locked up.

Millia squirmed and stroked the tentacle that had come near her.

Although it looked a bit odd, it did look like a pet.

“My ultimate goal is to empower Jim to defend himself without me.”

Milia laughed.

A faint smile bloomed above his usually expressionless face.

Her most natural smile.

With that smile she said.

“You are mine. I am yours. We will share everything.”

I felt guilty.

I couldn’t believe her love because I only saw her cross-section.

“Once the adjustment is complete and your quantum mechanics magic has reached the realm of understanding the microscopic world, you will use quantum superposition to insert these tentacles into Jim’s body.”

Quantum mechanics magic?

Micro world??

Quantum superposition???

Tentacles inside my body… … .

“……yes?”

I tilted my head, not knowing what the above meant, until the words added later brought me to my senses.

“The adjustment I’m making is to become one with the blood flowing through your veins, so that I can rip your skin and pull out my tentacles at any time.”

“Uh, that… … . Yes?”

“Yeah. Jim said that before. Don’t give too much meaning to a single body. You are the one who struggles, interacts, and expresses emotions. That’s why I decided to stop melting you into tentacles.”

I will correct it.

It wasn’t that I didn’t believe in her love.

“So I decided to melt the tentacles and put them into your body.”

It was a matter of emotion and madness, unrelated to her love.