Chapter 348 – #3-20.5 Face to Face, Traitor Ririzawa and Fairy Peanut (1)
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‘Here… Is… ?’
Fairy Peanut came to his senses with a faint consciousness.
As she slowly stood up, the thin blanket covering her body fell down.
She was lying on the bed. The surrounding view is blocked by a curtain.
Peanut slowly recalled the situation he was in.
What happened before she fell asleep?
Apparently, he followed the signs of Cookie and Dan-ae and sneaked into this ‘Factory’, and then he was caught sneaking in, and… And…
“… “I have to run away.”
He recalled. Everything came to mind.
We have to run away from here quickly. If he is captured here, he will live his whole life as a sex plaything for the lowly Mekrak. The people who are more precious than anything, neither cookies nor cliffs, will no longer be available… !
It was when Peanut hurriedly put away the blanket and tried to get up.
Good luck-
“Are you awake?”
The curtain was drawn, and someone was revealed.
A tall, dark-skinned woman wearing glasses. Wearing her white coat makes her look like a doctor or scientist. In addition, her ears are slightly pointed, indicating that she is not a human from Earth.
Peanut hurriedly covered her body with her arms, pointing her free hand towards the woman. But as expected, she can’t use her magic.
‘I can’t use magic, but… !’
There is nothing around her that could be used as a weapon. However, he does not have any martial arts skills. But that doesn’t mean she can give up. Either throw her body away and tackle her, or find an opportunity and run away –
“Stop. Stop. Wait. “Don’t get excited.”
“… ?”
“Please calm down. Why didn’t they restrain her arms and legs? “I’m on your side, fairy.”
When Lyriza raised her hands and said that, Peanut did not let down her guard and just took back her outstretched hands.
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Fairy Peanut was captured, and the monster soldier who captured her thoroughly enjoyed molesting her body and immediately reported it to her superiors.
What was fortunate for her was that Factory Manager Moku trusted Liliza and handed over most of her authority to her, and that Liliza had modified some of her reporting lines so that she had to go to him without the factory director’s knowledge.
Thanks to this, the fact of Fairy Peanut’s intrusion was passed over without the Moku factory manager being informed.
… To begin with, Factory Manager Moku is currently so engrossed in Cookie and Kay that he has even neglected the research he is into. Even if he found out about the new fairy’s invasion, he may not have reacted surprisingly well.
Anyway.
Regardless of the actual reaction of the factory manager, the bottom line is that only Lyriza knows about Peanuts. Additionally, the soldier who subdued Peanut also had his head slightly remodeled so that he could not think of Peanut, so there would be no such thing as an emergency.
“I have a sweet snack. Do you want to eat it?”
“… Yes.”
Peanut nodded his head, not yet letting his guard down.
Peanut was now able to use magic again. The reason he couldn’t use magic a little while ago was because of the bracelet on his arm, and Lyriza immediately removed the bracelet after reassuring Peanut. The only place where magic could not be used in the entire space was the very floor where Peanut was violated by the soldier.
If you do anything suspicious, I will pierce it or burn it down at any time.
Lyriza gestures while receiving Peanut’s gaze, which gives off such an atmosphere. Then, the assistant robot that had been placed in the lab came carrying a dessert on a tray.
“Fairies don’t have to eat, but they like eating dessert, right? Since Cookie likes it, I gave an order to always prepare famous or delicious desserts.”
Even after Liriza was captured and hypnotized, the order was not revoked, and when she noticed, there were a lot of desserts piled up in the refrigerator. Things that are spoiled and unedible are discarded from time to time, but since new deserts are added in, the refrigerator is never empty.
Although Peanut was wary of something being poisonous, he couldn’t resist the temptation of the seemingly delicious dessert and ended up chomping it into his mouth.
And I quickly became addicted to the sweetness that filled my mouth. Whatever it is, the vigilance disappears in an instant.
Liliza rested her chin for a moment and looked at Peanut.
The desserts placed on the tray are disappearing one by one in real time.
“Thank you~! “It was delicious!!”
And after eating all the desert, Peanut’s eyes became bright, as if asking when on earth he had been wary of Lyriza. Those eyes are filled with trust and a naive desire to see if there will be more dessert.
Lyriza chuckled at the very easy-to-understand reaction and gestured again. And the robot, following Lyriza’s orders, brought dessert again. Peanut cheered with joy.
“First, listen to the story while you eat. I guess I don’t have much time.”
“Yes, yes. I’ll listen. But you don’t have time?”
“That’s right. “I will explain, including that.”
Peanut was half focused on the dessert, half of the time listening to Liliza.
Lyriza revealed that she had fallen into the hands of Factory Manager Moku. It was discovered that she was in cahoots with Cookie, and she was forced to undergo hypnosis surgery.
After undergoing hypnotic modification, he became a puppet of the Moku factory manager, and eventually handed over Cookie, who had been cooperating with him, and Black, the contract magical girl, into his own hands.
“But aren’t you sane now? “You helped me.”
“… It was a fluke.”
However, it did not end with Lyriza being hypnotized.
She had previously prepared several devices in case of an emergency. Even if she was hypnotized, we prepared a vaccine program that would bring her back to sanity. After she was hypnotized, she calculated what she would do or where she would move and secretly hid it within reach. 〉
As a result, her vaccine program safely settled on her, returning Lyriza to her original state.
The only problem is that it took longer than expected for her to contact the antivirus program, so she betrayed and handed over the cookies, and most of all, it is currently impossible for her to completely remove the hypnosis program installed on her.
Factory Manager Moku repeatedly improved the hypnosis program implanted in her using Liliza’s knowledge, and even with Liliza’s knowledge, he judged that it would be impossible to completely remove this improved program.
So, for now, she is making a compromise by ‘bringing back some of her time to sanity.’
Previously, 10 minutes a day was enough to come to my senses, but now it has increased to about half a day.
However, in order to avoid being discovered by ‘myself in a hypnotic state’, I have to recollect as many memories as the gaps created during the time I returned to my senses. So, it is not a good idea to change your personality for too long.
“Even if I came to my senses, it was a big deal. Moku: Because that person wanted to keep me by his side.”
With so little time to herself, there was nothing she could do to bring herself back to her senses. On the contrary, she was always anxious that the fact would be discovered and that the antivirus program secretly hidden in her head would be removed.
Fortunately, I wasn’t caught, and on the contrary, I was able to stand by Factory Manager Moku and subtly interfere with his choices and decisions.
And now, thanks to focusing on Kay and Cookie in many ways, Lyriza has gained some freedom.
We have gained enough leeway to carry out behind-the-scenes work to overcome the current situation…
“―This is my situation for now.”
“… It’s complicated. “It must have been difficult.”
“I don’t think something like this will be difficult. Because I was born that way, my life was a series of irrationality. “Thanks to you, I still think it’s not that bad, in that I have the knowledge and power to do anything.”
To Peanut’s words of admiration, Lyriza simply replies calmly.
First, Ririja explained the circumstances leading up to her present.
The next thing to explain is what to do from now on. And also about Cookie and the captured magical girls.
“But before that… What is the fairy’s purpose?”
“Huh?”
“Cookie, you were talking about balance or something. I didn’t quite understand it, but I could understand the reason. But what about Peanut? Why are you trying to rescue Cookie and the magical girls? “Why did you come here?”
That goes without saying.
“To save the cliff. “My contract is a magical girl.”
“… “Is the relationship between a fairy and a magical girl really that close?”
“Me and the cliff are special.”
Peanut put the fork in her mouth and shrugged her shoulders.
That’s why Peanut joined Cookie in the first place. In order to save Dan-ae, she had to deal with a lot of things that were more complicated than she thought, and most of them were problems that could be solved by helping Cookie.
There seemed to be no lies in Peanut’s words. Lyriza looked at Peanut’s face one more time, as if examining her authenticity, and then quickly turned her gaze away.
“All right. Then, Mr. Peanut, are you going to go rescue the magical girl Danae again?”
“I’d like to.”
I want to do that. However, remembering what happened a little while ago, Peanut felt a little depressed. She thought that as long as she had fairy magic, destroying a facility like this would be a piece of cake.
However, the facilities here were more elaborate than expected, and even anti-fairy devices were provided.
Peanut looked at Liliza with her eyes filled with sudden anticipation.
If she was this girl, maybe she would.
But Lyriza shook her head, as if betraying those expectations.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can help you with that.”
“To… ? “No?”
“Yes. Really.”
No matter how much authority she was given, if Lyriza helped her to that extent, somehow a trace would remain. She will definitely be caught by the Moku factory manager as well. Even more so if she escapes the cliff.
The biggest thing is that she doesn’t have much time left to plan one thing or another. She will soon return to her ‘hypnotic personality’. She can only roughly predict when she will return to her senses.
Therefore, it is impossible to help the cliff escape now. Even if you escape the cliff, that’s only Peanut’s goal, and it won’t end everything.
“So, I have a suggestion.”
There is not enough time, energy, everything.
But to counter him, whenever Lyriza came to her senses, she sowed her seed.
She thought she didn’t have enough hands to reap the seeds, but she happened to have just the right talent… She appeared before her eyes like this.
“Maybe only a fairy can do it… Please help us and save everyone.”
“If things go well, you will also have the opportunity to save the magical girl you want to save.”
Lyriza suggested with a solemn expression.
In an atmosphere that was more serious than expected, Peanut, who had been eating dessert without thinking, straightened his back with cream or cake smeared around his mouth.
… Still, there is not enough tension… Is it really okay to believe in a fairy like this? Lyriza became a little anxious.
