Feeling the murderous aura from all directions, Kouro, who was experienced with this situation, put on a calm expression and raised his hand.
"All of you calm down, let me finish my sentences. That includes your Bunny 19C robot Bronya. "
The aura of death they were emitting quickly faded away and the Bunny 19C that was aiming its cannon at Kouro while charging also stopped its actions.
Himeko, who was choking at this time, patted her chest, making both her assets tremble.
"Cough! Cough! Why are you suddenly saying that Kouro?"
Kouro, who saw the scene only blinked and quickly cleared his throat. "Ahem! So you see, you might have noticed, the injuries I suffered earlier were from Herrscher's attack because... You know, I was taunting them. "
Ayame, who heard his words, then looked at him strangely. "Well... With your personality, it's not surprising that even I wonder how you can still live peacefully until now. "
"... " Kouro could not say that the main problem why he wanted to sleep with others was because of Herrscher Ayame.
After all, in comparison to Herrscher Mei who despite looking cold, she was still willing to listen to her true personality, in contrast to Herrscher Ayame who did things on her own.
'Wait! Does that mean if I sleep together with Mei, my safety percentage against Herrscher 'Ayame's' attacks will increase?'
Kouro began to imagine a scenario if he slept with Mei.
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"Good night, Kouro-kun. "
Mei said with a gentle smile to Kouro who was on her right side sleeping on a futon.
(Futon = is a type of traditional Japanese sleeping device.)
For your information, Mei is currently wearing plain blue pajamas.
"Good night. "
Mei turned off the table lamp beside her before pulling up the blanket and going to sleep.
Kouro also pulled up his blanket and closed his eyes to sleep.
A few hours later, in the middle of the night, The sleeping Kouro woke up.
He felt very heavy, as if he had sleep paralysis. Fortunately, his hands could still be moved.
He then turned his head to the side to see how Mei was doing.
Because it was dark, Kouro could not see clearly, but at least he could see that someone was sleeping.
Feeling relieved, Kouro then lowered his gaze towards his blanket, which somehow looked bigger than before.
He somehow felt a bad feeling from this blanket, but that feeling was quickly suppressed by his great curiosity and, as the saying goes, 'Curiosity killed the cat'.
After a few minutes of gathering courage, he opened his blanket slowly.
'Mei' with shining violet eyes was hugging his body.
As if sensing Kouro's gaze, she then raised her head and looked at him.
Her violet eyes were shining brightly with cold colors mixed in them.
Kouro quickly closed the blanket and turned his gaze upwards with a calm expression as if nothing had happened.
He looked back at Mei's bed and after looking intently he saw that the sleeping person turned out to be a bolster and pillow.
He then looked back up and without averting his gaze she with a stiff robot-like hand touched 'Mei's' head and patted it gently a few times.
Kouro did that until morning.
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This was the best scenario he could imagine.
Kouro nodded to himself after imagining this scenario, but as they say 'Reality is not as beautiful as expectations'.
So he quickly dismissed this idea.
"Hmm... So basically you want to sleep with someone else so that person can protect you from Herrscher's attacks?" Kiana said after thinking.
"You could say it like that. "
"But... with Herrscher's power, shouldn't you be dead if you make them angry?" Kallen said.
"Well, you're absolutely right. Even though I was dying at the time, at least I was still alive and kicking. "
Kouro's house had two floors with 4 bedrooms above and 3 bedrooms below and Kouro's bedroom was on the lower floor.
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Kallen, Ayame, Bronya, and Kiana's bedroom is upstairs while Himeko and Mei's bedroom is downstairs.
Kouro wanted to sleep in Himeko's room since their rooms were next to each other.
"From what Bronya understood from subject Kouro's words. Subject Kouro wanted to stay in the other room to avoid being attacked by Herrscher because subject Kouro had taunting them, is this correct?"
"Yes... That is correct. "
"Then why didn't subject Kouro just apologize to them instead of running away?" Bronya asked with a tilt of her head.
"..." Kouro looked speechless.
He probably didn't think of this idea or maybe forgot about this idea. It was because the person they were talking about was Herrscher who was capable of destroying the world.
Anyway, let alone apologize, the moment you taunting Herrscher you would have been dead, so it could be said that Kouro was a special case.
"In that case... " Kouro immediately did a dogeza to Ayame and Mei.
"I'M SORRY!"
Ayame and Mei were surprised by Kouro's direct action, "Even if you apologize to us. We don't remember what happened two days ago!"
"It's okay. Your Herrscher personalities must have seen my actions."
"If you say so... " Ayame and Mei looked at each other in confusion.
Mei's Herrscher personality who saw Kouro's actions nodded her head slightly.
As for Herrscher Ayame's personality after the stigmata that housed her were upgtade by Kouro, she was finally able to wake up for 24 hours, so she also saw Kouro's actions.
She was currently just staring at Kouro with a calm expression so there was no telling what she was thinking right now.
Kiana who had been watching then smelled something, she turned to the kitchen and twitched her nose, "This smell... Burnt odor?"
"Oh no! The dinner!" Mei who also smelled the burnt odor swiftly ran to the kitchen.
"... "
Seeing that Ayame then joked, "...Well... Looks like we might be dinner out. "
Smelling this burnt aroma, Kouro was reminded of his favorite food in his previous life, then muttered, "Ah... I want to eat pecel Lele. "
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At night, in a church in an unknown place.
The church was not very big but clean and there was no light other than the moonlight passing through the colorful flowery windows.
One of the windows shone on a woman who was kneeling and praying solemnly in the center of the altar.
The woman had light brown hair and wore a long white veil with thorns and flowers decorating the sides, she also used a thin black cloth as her shirt connected to a blue butterfly wing-shaped robe.
The woman maintained her actions for a few Hours before saying without looking back.
"What brings you here Ashborn?"
The woman's voice was soft and melodious like someone reading a bedtime story to a child.
Ashborn was seen sitting in the visitor's seat, he seemed to have been sitting there for a long time.
"Didn't you already know why I was coming here... Aponia. "
The woman who was called Aponia by Ashborn then stood up and turned to look at him.
"I won't look into someone's future so casually Ashborn... Especially after that incident."
Aponia said slowly and softly. Aponia's eyes were blue but they looked sad as if she had seen the apocalypse itself, her expression was also flat like Bronya's.
Aponia was not surprised by Ashborn's arrival because it was not his first time visiting this church.
The sad blue eyes clashed with the shining violet eyes.
Aponia then turned around and walked slowly to the confession room, Ashborn stood up and followed her.
After a few seconds they reached the confession room.
"It's been over ten years since you came here, what brings you here now?" Aponia asked.
Ashborn was silent and wore a complicated expression even though it wasn't visible because he was wearing a mask before uttering a sentence.
"...Kouro."
After he said that the atmosphere in their place instantly solidified.