Chapter 138 – Consequences of Choice (2)
As promised in advance, Roosevelt did not peek into the laboratory.
Leaving the outcome of the match for later fun, they had a party in the garden, exchanging discussions about which of the two would survive.
Everyone unanimously boasted that Rize would win.
For some reason, the fight, which was thought to be won soon, did not show an end even in the morning.
Roosevel and Ron, exhausted from waiting, went to the laboratory to change their fighting style.
As soon as Rize saw Ron, she stabbed him in the stomach with the cleaver she had hidden behind his back.
It was a fast attack that I didn’t even notice.
“Keep it off..!”
Ron, with a knife stuck in his abdomen, crouched down on his knees.
Even if he looked like that, thanks to his thick subcutaneous fat, he wasn’t someone who would die from one blow.
“Shit..!”
Recalling the trauma of the past, Roosevel carefully cast magic and bound Rize’s limbs.
He needed to wake up so he wouldn’t make the same mistake again… But his eyes were blurry because of the alcohol.
“Whoa… I couldn’t believe it… I knew it would be like this.”
Roosevel sighed deeply and turned his gaze to Laysha.
“Eh…? Hehe…”
His staring eyes were full of doubt.
“I’m not here!!”
Leysha threw her cleaver away from her feet and hit her hand.
She sincerely expressed the fact that she did not plan anything with Rize and that she had nothing to do with the incident.
“I, I… Uhhh, it has nothing to do with me!! Really… Master! Really…!”
Laysha pleaded with her tears to prove her innocence, but Rize’s decisive blow was the fuse.
“Hey..!! Laysha?! What are you doing? Kill Roosevelt quickly!”
“To..?”
“If I stab Ron, you’re supposed to stab Roosevelt to death too, right?”
“Muh, what are you saying… Hehe…!”
It’s very unfortunate that I’m going to die alone like this.
The words of Rise, who was caught without killing Ron, were almost as obvious as seeing fire even without seeing it, so it was a wicked ploy to take Ray Sha as her companion.
“Hurry up! Let’s do as planned, Laysha!! What are you doing like an idiot!”
“Ah, no… Planning… Uhhh, what…”
Laysha widened her eyes and trembled her limbs.
There was no sign of bewilderment in her behavior and tone.
“Is that so, Laysha?”
“Huh!”
Laysha had a history of being beaten once.
Roosevelt, who relived her past, couldn’t trust her.
She thought that if it was real, she would punish him appropriately, and if it was fake, she would kill Rize.
“Answer me Laysha. Are you sure?”
“Ah, ah … No, no! How am I?
Anxious, Laysha lowered her head to avoid her master’s gaze, then she fell on the floor and bowed her head.
All her life she showed her willingness to obey her master while she was naked.
“It’s unfair, Master… Hehe…”
It is difficult to regain her trust once lost.
Right now, Roosevelt completely believed Rize’s words.
“I’ll ask again. Is it really Laysha?”
“No! Really no! No oh oh! Whew…”
“Tsk…”
Roosevelt clicked her tongue as if she still couldn’t believe it.
Laysha’s interrogation was an afterthought.
First of all, I cast a recovery spell on Ron, who was on the verge of fainting due to excessive bleeding.
My medical magic wasn’t very good at all, so it was best to stop the bleeding.
Ron, who had a thick layer of fat on his stomach, was able to avoid serious injury thanks to the kitchen knife avoiding vital organs.
Roosevelt sent Ron to her garden with her teleportation magic.
Rize was teleported to a room with no exit in the basement of the garden while her limbs were tightly restrained.
Punishing her was purely her job, so she decided to trust her with the aftermath.
“Well then…”
“Huh!”
Laysha belongs to her master, Roosevelt.
He stuffed both his hands into his pockets and hurried over in an arrogant posture.
“Huhhhhh”
Laysha, with her head buried in her land, could not see her master’s face.
Even without looking into her eyes, she could guess how scary the master was making, and her fear welled up.
Her vague sense of fear, the fear she could not get rid of, made Laysha’s body tremble like mad.
“Whoa…”
Roosevelt squatted at her bedside doing her naked dogeza.
“Laysha, raise your head.”
“Yes!”
She quickly uses the recoil to lift her head.
The tear-stained face had the expression of a lamb imprinted with the fear of a wolf.
“I’ll ask you one last time. Did you try to kill me too? Really?”
“Oh, no… Absolutely not! How could I kill the Master!”
Laysha’s words and actions showed her sincerity to the extent that she could not be considered a lie.
“Okay.”
I’m relieved to know that Leysha didn’t join her in her murderous plan…
But that didn’t mean her original sin was gone.
“Laysha. I’ll trust you that you didn’t try to kill me. But you did three big things.”
“Yes?”
“One is the crime of neglecting Rize’s intention to kill Ron-senpai.
“That, that’s… Hehe…! I’m sorry… I was wrong…”
“You know very well how terrifying the crime of neglect is.”
The garden wizard was a deity that pets did not dare touch.
It meant that Ron was included in the list of subjects that Laysha had to obey.
So, neglecting Rize’s plan was one of the most unforgivable crimes.
“The second is the fact that you ignored your friends. You and Lisé are friends, right? Even though you can’t help your friend, you’re hiding with your tail. I think it’s a terrible thing to lose friendship like that.”
“Yeah, but if only I had helped…!”
“If only I had helped? Tell me.”
“Ughhhhh”
If Laysha had succeeded in killing Ron by helping Rize… The next target would surely have been Roosevelt.
She joined her plan, in other words, it was no different from Laysha herself trying to kill Roosevelt.
Even if you help Rize, you become a criminal, and even if you don’t help Rize, you become a criminal…
There was no hole through which to escape.
Laysha was so unfair that she felt like going crazy.
“Laysha. Do you think the current situation is unfair?”
“Hehe! Oh, no! Why should I be unfair..!”
Laysha waved her hand pretending not to be her, unaware even in her dreams that her own emotions were revealed in her expression.
“Don’t lie. You’re in tears because you’re unfair. Whether you help Rize or help Rize, you feel unfair about being punished for committing a crime? Are you angry? Annoyed? Tell me honestly.”
“Yes…”
“Whoa, Laysha is stupid as expected. To the point of being annoying.”
Roosevelt tried to hold back a smile.
She couldn’t help but smile in the current situation.
She rubbed her hand over her lips, making a clicking sound on her tongue instead.
“Laysha. There was only one action you had to take in that situation.”
“What is it..?”
“You should have dried Rize.”
“Ah…”
She was speechless and stiff as if she had realized something.
Laysha didn’t even think about her act of [Drying Rize].
It was the mindset that Rize would not care at all about what she was doing, and that kind of complacency led to the current distrust.
Maybe she secretly wanted to kill Ron.
“Stupid Laysha. Now you know your sins, right?”
“Huh… Yes…”
Having said that, I couldn’t deny it.
“The third and last sin is not obeying my orders.”
“Yes?”
“Didn’t I tell you to kill Rize? She said what will happen to Laysha if you don’t kill her?”
“Huh… I, I… Said I was going to die…”
“You know that. Didn’t you kill Rize while remembering?”
“But! That, that!”
“What is that? Are you trying to answer me?”
Roosevelt reached out and blew her magic into the nape of Laysha’s neck.
Her leash, pressed against her skin, shrank like a long orphan, blocking her airway and suppressing her breathing.
“Kuk… Huh…!”
“If you attack me one more time, will you really kill me?”
“Keuheuk… Black…”
Laysha, unable to speak her words, nodded her head instead of answering her, pleading for her tears.
With a snap of her fingers, Roose Bell returned her leash to its normal size.
“Huh uh uh uh…!”
Leysha took a deep breath and bent her upper body.
“Laysha. You are no longer a pet. You are my property. My word is an absolute command. Don’t you still understand?”
“Ah, I know! I’m sorry! I must have forgotten! I’ll obey your orders!”
Laysha showed off her specialty, the naked doggeza, and swore her absolute obedience.
“Yeah. You’ll do that for the rest of your life. If I tell you to die, then become a fun toy that dies.”
“Yeah… I’ll become a toy for the obedient master! Just ask me to do anything!”
“Yes, yes.”
It was obedience with only words, but Laysha saying those words herself was a huge growth in itself.
Thinking that her cheeky personality had softened a little, Roosevelt smiled with emotion.
“Okay! Then Laysha.”
“Yes?”
“Because it’s a crime you committed, will you be finely punished?”
“Yes! I’ll stay calm..!”
“From now on, I will never meet Rize again. According to the original plan, Rize should have died today… I just think she died.”
“Yes!”
“Now, there will never be a game like the one played at the research lab again. You will live a life of being remodeled, trained, and punished by my side for the rest of your life. Is it good?”
“Yeah… Joe, good..!”
“Once in a while, if you listen carefully, I’ll let you see the outside.”
“Yes..!”
Leysha became a purring pet, nodding and waving her head no matter what her master said.
“So, shall we go home now?”
“Yes!”
House…
It meant a room without an exit.
The space with nothing but terrible memories has become a real home where you will be confined for the rest of your life from now on.
