Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: The Wayward Journey Volume 6 by Akita Yoshinobu

Author:Akita, Yoshinobu [Akita, Yoshinobu]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter V: The Sound of Footsteps After Twilight

The sky bled blue and descended to meet them.

First, the trees and plants started to darken.

And then, the night began.

By the time they came back to the manor, it was night.

They opened the gate and entered the front yard.

“You’re back awfully late,” came a voice from next to the gate. Orphen looked at her, unsurprised by her sudden comment.

It was as he predicted. Or perhaps it was better to say that he knew she was going to be there, waiting, as a general rule.

He faced her.

“Azalie...”

Orphen watched as she made small, halted movements as they stood concealed in the darkness. And then he realized with a sigh that she wanted to get closer to him, but was restraining herself.

Then she suddenly stopped moving altogether, as if distracted by something.

“Are you sleeping properly? You look a bit tired. I can see how hunched over your shoulders are.”

He heard her question, but ignored it.

“Why have you slithered out from underneath your rock, Azalie? What do you want?” He said, not looking at her.

“No particular reason, really. You said you had a room ready for me here, didn’t you?”

“Azalie—” He warned her in an unamused tone. Her light expression didn’t change until she doubled over in snorting laughter from her nose.

“If you’re so insistent on making me your monster under the bed, you’re going to lose to Wall Kahlen, you know.”

“...Huh?” Orphen replied to her, blinking and confused. There wasn’t much light coming from the house, as there were only a few people living there and no servants that served them. There was only one lit room, and it gave the house a haunted vibe.

So one could say that it was pure coincidence that the light from a small gas lamp happened to illuminate her brown eyes as she stood in the deepening shadows of the night.

Azalie continued to speak, her eyes the only two bright spots in the darkness.

“Let’s go to the courtyard.”

The courtyard of Leticia’s property was sandwiched between the two main wings of the buildings. It was several times larger than the front yard. It was also used as a playground, with benches and a manmade pond, making it a good place to rest.

In a sense, this was the center of the property, the beating heart of the house.

“Light,” Azalie muttered, and a white phosphorescent flame appeared over the pond, sparkling brilliantly. Orphen watched as the rays of light played along the surface of the water, the light slowly melting into darkness.

She walked ahead, and turned around. The black combat robes she wore seemed to make her smaller than she usually appeared.

Or maybe because I always thought of her as tall when I was a kid, and that isn’t really squaring with reality , Orphen thought to himself.

Then Azalie spoke to him.

“If you keep saying stuff like this, people may misconstrue what you’re trying to tell me, you know. It sounds like you’re almost envious.”

“On the way home from the hospital, I took a little side trip.

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