Seventh: Volume 5 [Parts 1 to 4] by Yomu Mishima

Author:Yomu Mishima
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 57: Harem Party

Every fiber of Shannon’s being reverberated with the pain of her aching muscles. It hurt. No matter what anyone said, it hurt. But she was willing to endure the agony to reach the room before her—the one that belonged to her sister, Miranda.

Shannon knocked on the door, and the response she heard from within was enough for her to feel comfortable turning the knob and walking in.

Miranda’s desk was lined with tools of some sort, along with fragmented Demonic Stones and clay. Alongside them were a scattering of small dishes, filled with various powders. Miranda was hard at work, very carefully measuring out the components and compounding them.

Taking this in, Shannon could tell that magic had something to do with whatever her sister was doing, but the specifics were lost on her.

“What?” Miranda said, her tone a bit curt. “I don’t really want to be bothered right now.”

She’s...so cold. Shannon thought.

Before, her sister had always smiled no matter what it was she was doing, but nowadays, something had changed in her.

“Sis, do you want to kick out the other women?” Shannon asked.

She simply couldn’t help herself, especially after she’d heard her sister arguing with Sophia that morning. Lyle hadn’t seemed to realize what they’d been fighting about, but it was clear to Shannon that Boinga’d caught on.

“Kick them out?” Miranda asked, still working away. “You have me all wrong—I just want to set the record straight. I despise things being left uncertain. I mean, if that Sophia girl doesn’t even like Lyle, then is there really any need for her to be by his side? Sure, Novem’s penchant for gradually hoisting relationships onto him may irritate me, but that’s a whole other issue.”

When she puts it like that, I do agree with her on some points, Shannon thought.

The thing was, Shannon could use her eyes to read emotions, and that ability allowed her to see that her sister’s irritation hovered alongside other complex feelings. Unlike with a more simple array, however, Miranda’s emotions were too tangled for Shannon to easily identify. She couldn’t tell what her sister was truly thinking.

“B-But...Aria and Sophia look happy when they’re with Lyle, don’t they?” Shannon blurted out.

Although neither girl was blatant about it, they both actively tried to situate themselves at Lyle’s side. That alone made Shannon feel a bit sorry for them, now that Miranda was trying to drive the other women away and lay her claim on Lyle.

“Lyle isn’t the most perceptive man,” said Miranda. “Those two are well aware of that, so it’s their problem if they don’t speak up and get their feelings across. They’re like young foals, tamed at Novem’s hand.”

Shannon hung her head. I knew it—it’s that gigolo’s fault that sis is acting so distant and cold.

“Sis,” Shannon pleaded sincerely, “please go back to being the kind sister you used to be. Right now...you’re scaring me.”

Miranda’s hands paused, and she turned to look at Shannon. There was a smile on her face. The light of

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