“Why do you guys maintain going after one another’s faces so relentlessly?”

““As a result of I don’t like her face.””

Our voices overlapped. We had the identical voice, so for a second, I assumed my very own voice was echoing again to me.

I knew that we had the worst chemistry with one another. Surprisingly, we haven’t managed to kill one another but. 

Once I acquired up, I requested #2.

“The place do you intend to go after this? It’s getting darkish, do you wish to keep the evening?”

“I don’t wish to sleep in your own home.”

“Okay, you’ll be able to camp out right here and I’ll come again tomorrow.”

“Ha? Shouldn’t you usually invite company over even when you need to bow to them?”

Ah, you do wish to keep over. However she doesn’t wish to really feel like she owes me—what a hard character. 

That is the place I’ll be the grownup. I wouldn’t wish to decrease my head and say, please keep over. I ought to actually let her camp outdoors.

Then, Patrick whispered in my ear. 

“What the hell? Are you positive you wish to invite her?”

“I feel will probably be okay, #2 is friendlier than I assumed.”

“…Pleasant?”

“As a result of she didn’t use her magic in any respect.”

We exchanged a couple of blows, however we weren’t critical. If we intend to kill one another, utilizing Black Gap as the primary assault is an efficient transfer. As an alternative, she was not utilizing any weapons or magic, which meant that she was keen to have a peaceable dialogue. 

He appeared to know the purpose. 

“Ooh, I get it… after seeing that epic fistfight, I didn’t assume that far forward.”

“Epic? However neither one in every of us is bleeding?”

There shouldn’t be any blood or lasting bruises. 

We didn’t strangle one another or use another deadly assaults. Oh, and no gouged out eyeballs, both. 

Positive, I punched her with some power. Slightly style of Yumiela punch and protection. It was simply that the latter was stronger. 

After a brief whispered dialogue, #2 appeared to assume that she was being ignored. Her voice held a touch of tension in its irritation. 

“Effective! Please let me keep at your own home. You wish to hear that, proper?! Are you cheerful now?”

“You thought I would depart you right here alone… oh, are you getting used to being alone an excessive amount of? Even I wouldn’t go that far.”

“Shut up.”

#2 tried to ship one other punch. 

This time she additionally tried to realize the benefit. I flipped #2 over, trying to get a greater place. 

We stored repeating it and rolling round on the bottom, wrestling with one another. 

Similar to the heavens and earth flipped backwards and forwards, I heard Patrick’s voice.

“I’m not even gonna attempt to cease you now. Each of you might be equally at fault.”

Patrick is a bit mushy on #2, isn’t he? Shouldn’t he take my aspect, as my fiance and never #2 whom he has by no means met earlier than?

Or is it our faces? Perhaps it’s as a result of we have now the identical face, however I’m fairly positive #2’s face is true up Patrick’s alley. Although we have now the identical face… was it potential that he was being seduced with out me realizing it?

Whereas rolling round in a fistfight, we exchanged some swears.

“Cease ogling Patrick! You mekakure gothic lolita, wench!”

“Haa?! I’m not ogling at him! You suck at relationships!”

“I don’t wish to hear it from somebody who has by no means been in love earlier than.”

“You retain speaking about love, love, and love… your head is filled with flower gardens!” ((T/N: she’s utilizing an idiom right here, mainly meant happy-go-lucky.))

“Not in my head! Though I’m a maiden who appears to be like good in a flower backyard!”

“Haaa?! You actually lack expression! You make no sense, it’s sickening!”

“That goes each methods!”

“Ha! You’ll be able to’t eat bell peppers both! You may have a kiddie palate!”

“Eh, I can eat it simply advantageous… however that frilly fluttery outfit doesn’t go well with you!”

“Actually? That’s nice… your style in garments is so plain!”

The trade went on for some time.

Each #2 and I had been operating out of issues to say.

“Silly!”

“Moron!”

What am I doing right here? I questioned myself as I rolled round on the bottom. 

Neither of us mentioned something however we stopped punching one another. I can’t even keep in mind what I used to be offended about anymore. 

“…How did this occur?”

“…Ah, I forgot.”

Even she didn’t appear to recollect why we had been combating. 

We stood up, checked out one another, and nodded our heads. It felt like I used to be trying in a mirror, partly as a result of we moved concurrently. 

To check it out, I elevate my proper hand. The woman standing throughout from me rose her left hand. 

I flippantly wave my raised hand. The woman throughout from me did the identical.

““It’s a mirror.””

It’s excellent. All that was left was a ball. We want a bouncy ball and a non-bouncy ball. 

Once I appeared round to search out any alternate options, my eyes met Patrick’s, who was watching us from the aspect. 

“Are you guys getting alongside? Or not?”

“No, we aren’t.”

“Clearly.”

In accordance with frequent sense, you don’t get right into a fistfight with mates. 

The explanation why he concluded that we had been getting alongside is a thriller. Regardless of the way you take a look at it, we’re on unhealthy phrases. 

It could be not possible to get together with somebody who has the identical face. The delicate resemblance between us can also be disconcerting. Maybe she’s pondering the identical factor. Ah—that is the worst.

By the point we had been completed combating with one another, the solar had fully set. Let’s go dwelling earlier than it will get fully darkish. 

“Let’s go dwelling. Didn’t you say you had been coming?”

“Since you insisted.”

Did I say that? I assumed #2 was the one who had requested to remain over, but when I pointed it out, it will flip into one other combat so let’s not discuss it. 

“I imply, it’s not such as you don’t know the home, proper? Didn’t you used to reside there?”

“I’ve no emotional attachment to that place. I simply stayed in my room on my own, slept, awoke, and ate. Probably the most dialog I had was with my tutor from outdoors.”

“Oh—I used to really feel the identical means some time in the past. The dormitory at college was related, and I had nowhere to go.”

“…Proper, you’re Yumiela too, aren’t you?”

“Eh? That’s true, however….”

“Then, why don’t… you and I… no, it’s nothing.”

Yumiela #2 muttered and appeared in the other way. What’s past that, I questioned, however all I noticed was a darkish sky.

We headed dwelling with combined emotions. 

Since assembly #2, Patrick has been quiet, Remn stayed in my shadow and didn’t say a phrase, and #2 was in a foul temper. I’m feeling gloomy too. 

How ought to I clarify #2 after I return to the mansion? There was no means I may say that she had destroyed a world or that she was only a look-alike I met by probability. 

I additionally didn’t know if I ought to let her meet Eleanora. 

I’m being so pleasant with #2 like this as a result of she doesn’t instantly wish to trigger hassle. Issues could also be good now, however will probably be a battle the place one in every of us will die in the future. 

Though Patrick and I had been capable of come to phrases with the unhealthy ending that had already been determined from the start, I don’t assume Eleanora may settle for it. 

We walked via the streets in silence. Patrick and I walked aspect by aspect whereas #2 walked a bit behind us. 

Not many individuals crossed our path as I selected to stroll via the much less crowded streets. No one observed that I used to be there or somebody who appeared precisely like me within the dimly lit streets. 

The three of us most likely had the identical imaginative and prescient on this darkness as we did below the daylight. 

The mansion was already in sight. Hmm, I want I had taken a detour or one thing to purchase a while. I haven’t completed serious about how I’ll clarify #2 presence.

I don’t know why. Though I used to be the one who urged it, I felt that if I invited her to my home, issues would go within the improper path. With #2 whom I’ve had a comparatively peaceable interplay with, combating and mirroring one another, I’ve a sense it’s going to be irreversible. 

The one who would get damage essentially the most by it will be me, Patrick or Eleanora… or her.

We are able to nonetheless backtrack now. With the sensation of not wanting to return, I appeared on the mansion proper in entrance of me. 

Then I noticed this cute head peeking out from the yard behind the constructing. Scurrying round with its massive head, it appeared to have discovered me.

“Ryuu-kun! I’m dwelling!”

My Ryuu appears to be like cute right this moment. He was cute yesterday and he might be even cuter tomorrow.

I can’t say that I don’t wish to go dwelling and depart this lovely dragon behind. What about Yumiela #2? I’ll inform them that I picked her up across the nook. If her conduct is detrimental to Ryuu’s upbringing, then she must be eliminated instantly. 

All my worries had been blown away, leaving me to run in direction of Ryuu. It was one thing trivial to fret about. In comparison with Ryuu’s cuteness, virtually all the pieces on this planet turns into one thing insignificant. 

Ryuu additionally swept his massive wings to greet me. He simply flew over the two-story constructing to the entrance aspect of the mansion. 

Though we see one another daily, right this moment we had been collectively only a few hours in the past, however each time we see one another, he’s as blissful as if we hadn’t seen one another in years. I do my greatest to reciprocate. 

Ryuu leaned his head again and bowed his head to me. Okay, okay, I hugged Ryuu’s head as arduous as potential. Then I rubbed him below the chin. 

“Who’s being boy? In fact, it’s my child. Such boy for welcoming me dwelling! You purr like boy!”

Bliss. I reside to listen to the sound of Ryuu’s purr. I reside to see his lovely conduct. I’ll reside to rub my cheeks towards his cool scales. 

All the pieces previously, current, and future is for Ryuu. 

Whereas I used to be having fun with my therapeutic time, there have been voices behind me. I keep in mind that it was Yumiela #2, or one thing I’m unsure about. 

I may hear her and Patrick speaking. 

“What the hell did I see?”

“Oh—you’ll must get used to it.”

“How did you fall in love along with her? Are you loopy?”

“…I assume there’s one thing improper with me, too.”

I rotated, away from Ryuu, although I used to be reluctant. 

Yumiela #2 was scrutinizing at Ryuu.

Ryuu appears to have observed her and appears at me and #2 in flip, staring in marvel. I do know it will be stunning to see somebody who appears to be like the identical. 

It could appear foolish to #2, however I’m proud to introduce my son. 

“That is Ryuu. Isn’t he cute?”

“……Pleasant dragons are creepy.”

My God, what a factor to say. Once I appeared over in a panic, I noticed that Ryuu was shrinking on the considered being known as creepy by somebody who appeared identical to me. 

“Hey! That’s a imply factor to say?!”

“Oops, I’m sorry. He understands the language.”

“Ryuu-kun, don’t take heed to her. She and I aren’t the identical!”

You poor factor. He’s so unhappy. 

As I assumed, he and #2 are incompatible. I glared at her whereas patting Ryuu’s head good-naturedly. 

“My unhealthy. Your pet isn’t that unhealthy.”

“Ha?! He’s not my pet, he’s my household?!”

“…Proper, household. What does he eat? What sort of meals do you feed him?”

“Haa?! He didn’t eat fodder, he ate regular meals.”

“You’re such a ache within the ass.”

After hurting Ryuu a lot, you say I’m a ache within the ass?

The battle is inevitable. I’m gonna completely beat you up. 

I can’t maintain saying I gained’t use magic anymore. In a battle between Yumiela vs Yumiela, the primary transfer is creating the Black Gap. 

All these issues might be taken care of as soon as Yumiela #2 is gone with no hint. I gained! Chapter 3 is full!

Whereas serious about this, I heard a muffled voice from behind my again. Once I rotated, Ryuu was whimpering with unhappy eyes. 

Oh, I do know. He’s pleading to not combat due to him. 

“Sorry. Sorry for being a violent mom. You shouldn’t resolve issues with violence. Ryuu is a sort little one.”

“What am I seeing?”

The decisive battle was dropped at an finish. Thank goodness Ryuu is so candy. 

Nicely, I couldn’t maintain taking part in round with Ryuu. Once we had been about to enter the home, I heard the voice I didn’t wish to hear essentially the most. 

“Yumiela-san? I used to be apprehensive if you left so instantly, you recognize?”

Oh, no. Eleanora discovered me. 

#2, questioning the way to clarify this, she appeared uncomfortable. Oh, she is aware of, doesn’t she?

“What’s the Duke’s daughter doing right here?”

“One thing occurred that triggered Duke Hillrose to fall into spoil. You could possibly say… she’s a freeloader?”

“Haa? What do you—”

#2 tries to ask for particulars in regards to the fallen daughter, however such conversations won’t occur for some time. As soon as Eleanora appeared, all the pieces went at her tempo. 

Eleanora should have heard my voice and got here outdoors. Moderately than seeing me hiding behind Ryuu, she makes a beeline for #2.

As she acquired nearer, she observed the distinction within the garments and coiffure and—

“Wow! Good costume! Why are you carrying this? You often don’t like carrying frilly issues. Oh, your hair has grown longer since I final noticed you. It’s worthwhile to reduce it quickly.”

Oh, she hasn’t observed but.

#2 appears exasperated with Eleanora, who’s circling her to look at her gothic lolita costume. 

“Hey! You’re getting too shut, get away from me!”

“I knew you’d look good in a black costume, Yumiela-san! You look beautiful!”

“Cease it! I’m not the Yumiela you recognize!”

“I do know, I do know. I’m glad I acquired to see one other aspect of Yumiela that I didn’t know existed!”

Eleanora is just too steel-headed. 

The outburst triggered some injury to Ryuu and I spotted that he’s a really delicate little one. 

Feeling sorry for the poor woman, I tapped Eleanora on the shoulder. For the document, I’m referring to #2. 

“Hey, I’m right here.”

“Eh? Yumiela-san?”

“I’m your common Yumiela, and he or she’s… my look-alike.”

Eleanora checked out me and #2 and went silent. 

It was a spur-of-the-moment factor to say, it’s not possible—

“You do look alike! I can’t let you know aside in any respect.”

“Huh?”

Severely? You do imagine that? She’s gone past being a naive woman. 

“Good to satisfy you, Yumiela’s look-alike. I’m Eleanora. What’s your title?”

“Yumiela.”

“Woww! You may have the identical title! What a coincidence!”

Oh, I’ll have underestimated Eleanora. I swear it wasn’t sarcasm, however that woman, critically. This jogs my memory of the time after I believed in Santa Claus. The place is the innocence I had these days?

Eleanora started observing #2 once more. Making an attempt to get a greater look at midnight, their faces are virtually shut sufficient to stay collectively. 

In response, she frowned and turned away. She may have pushed her away by power if she needed to, however she let her be. 

I nonetheless imagine that #2 just isn’t that unhealthy of an individual. However she did destroy a world, didn’t she?

She glared at me with a prickly look and mentioned.

“Hey, do one thing about her!”

“Oh! Your tone is a bit totally different. Slightly dialog would go a good distance.”

“Miss Eleanora, my lookalike is having hassle.”

I grabbed Eleanora by each shoulders and pulled her again. She was sad however didn’t resist.

Nonetheless holding onto her shoulders, I pushed her in direction of the mansion. 

“Okay, let’s go inside. Sorry for not being very ready, Ryuu.”

Regardless of my reluctance to go away, I needed to half with Ryuu and go inside the home. 

Rita greeted me as quickly as I opened the door. 

“Welcome dwelling. The dinner is nearly prepared, how would you prefer it?”

“Ah—that’s the factor. Can I get an additional serving? I’ve a visitor.”

“No drawback. However a visitor?”

Rita was shocked to listen to that, it’s a uncommon sight. It’s not typically that we have now company over. I ought to broaden my circle of mates a bit extra any more. 

Shortly after, I hear a sound from behind me. Patrick and #2 appeared to have arrived as nicely. 

Rita curtsied, then appeared up earlier than stiffening when she noticed the visitor. 

“Welcome… eh? Yumiela-sama?”

“Hmm, you’re right here too. I anticipated to see a whole lot of acquainted faces. Have you ever stopped taking part in canine along with your Grasp and Mistress? Are you taking the stronger aspect?”

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#2 didn’t like Rita both. If their relationship remains to be the identical as within the early days, I don’t blame her. 

From her standpoint, I assume that Rita was somebody who merely carried out her dad and mom’ will. I’d have been the identical means if it hadn’t been for that one assassination try. 

Nevertheless it was not proper to direct that anger at her. Simply as I attempted to defend the puzzled Rita, #2 lowered the tone of her voice and continued. 

“……Sorry. It has nothing to do with you.”

Rita’s eyes wander in confusion as she is handled with malice by somebody who appears to be like precisely like me and instantly apologizes. She doesn’t know the way to reply. 

“Rita, that is our visitor. ……She’s simply somebody who appears to be like identical to me. I’d such as you to organize the visitor room.”

“For those who insist, Miss.”

“Thanks.”

There was no means she was simply somebody who resembled me, however Rita nodded obediently. Not like Eleanora, I feel she believed me though she knew I used to be mendacity since I advised her. 

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We’re shifting to the eating room for dinner. Two Yumiela’s, Patrick and Eleanora. For those who solely take a look at the names, it’s the identical as at all times. 

Whereas placing the stew in my mouth, I noticed the opposite me. She was consuming slowly with refined manners, ignoring Eleanora’s heated gaze. 

Are we not solely related in look but additionally in manners? No, I’m positive I’m extra elegant than her by a slim margin. 

Eleanora, who had been observing #2, gave her impressions. 

“This Yumiela has extra grace.”

“I’ve extra grace than her!”

“Hey, don’t make a lot noise whereas persons are consuming. Are we a gathering of barbarians?”

She is a refined woman, however she mocks me along with her smile in a vulgar method.

I can’t maintain silent when she calls me a barbarian. One other fistfight to settle the rating… oh, possibly I actually am a savage. 

Once I grit my enamel, attempting to not say something again, she says in a bored tone. 

“It has been a very long time since I’ve had heat meals.”

“What have you ever been consuming?”

“There are many meals that may be preserved.”

Some meals will be preserved for lengthy, reminiscent of military-grade preserved meals. However this world has no canned meals and poor preservation methods. The meals we eat on this world are typically unappetizing, from salty dried meat to arduous bread made with little regard for its style. 

“You need to have cooked for your self.”

“There isn’t a means I can prepare dinner. You’ll be able to’t prepare dinner both, are you able to?”

“Cooking? I can prepare dinner.”

“You’re mendacity.”

Haa—, that is the distinction between having a boyfriend and never having one. I may even prepare dinner. It’s a vital ability for a lady. 

I handled Patrick to a home-cooked meal full of affection some time in the past. Though he slept for 3 days and banned me from the kitchen, it ought to show that I can prepare dinner. 

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Inform that to #2, who assumes it’s a lie from the beginning. I despatched Patrick a look, however he instantly appeared away. 

…Huh? Eleanora didn’t get to style it, however she would have seen the completed dish. I attempted to forged a look at her, however she had already turned her face away. Why?

“…I knew you had been mendacity.”

“I’m not mendacity.”

Somebody who can’t prepare dinner checked out me with pity. 

I can prepare dinner. If it weren’t for the ban on the kitchen proper now, I’d prepare dinner her one thing. 

Through the silence, I assumed once more. She actually did destroy the world. She was dwelling alone in a world the place nobody else existed. It was too lengthy since she had a heat meal. 

The individuals who must be pitied are those that died due to her, however I can’t assist however empathize with Yumiela. 

She’s not a foul individual. No, she dedicated an enormous crime that she will’t undo, besides, she just isn’t an evil individual at coronary heart. She is aware of the distinction between proper and improper, and he or she just isn’t spreading hatred round. 

She eats her meals in silence, giving the impression that she is far more mature than I’m. 

I assumed that defeating Yumiela, who had turn into a hidden boss, could be the top of it, however we couldn’t appear to search out frequent floor.