Bab 129: Root Admin Meeting IV
"I would like for you to make such a vessel for me once it becomes possible. I will leave this body to my other personality and accompany you using that new one." [Shiki] proposed.
"Well, I don't particularly mind." Jun responded.
After all, it was a proposal which he only had to follow through after his transformation so there was really no loss for himself or danger since he would only have [Shiki] hanging around after his ascension to a new level beyond hers.
He had to admit though, part of him felt a bit paranoid, wondering if [Shiki] was not actually playing him again and he making a big mistake but after thoroughly considering them matter with his super fast thought processing over and over again, Jun could not really spot any issues.
And so, he accepted [Shiki]'s proposal.
"Excellent. Then since I have all I need, I'll be going back inside until the appointed time." She simply said and, before Jun could even say anything, [Shiki]'s aura disappeared and Shiki "opened her eyes" to the World once again.
"Did I space out just now?" Shiki asked, seemingly a bit embarrassed at her perceived lapse but barely showing it. Manaka and Jun just looked at her with weird faces, wondering what to tell her.
As they were thinking on what to say however, Shiki happened to glance at a clock in the room, only to see that the time and jumped forward by a huge chunk without her noticing.
She immediately looked towards the other two people in the room for answers.
"What the hell happened?" She questioned.
Jun sighed and just bit the bullet as Manaka was just fake whistling, intent on avoiding any extra explaining work. Besides, [Shiki] had screwed her over big time so she saw no merit in explaining things to her other self for her convenience.
"Basically, you have a third personally, other than SHIKI and yourself. Well . . . she is actually the first personality and it was her and created you and SHIKI in the first place. It was also her that wanted to meet me and sort of influenced you to cooperate with Manaka to seek me out." Jun just unloaded the truth on Shiki.
"I was just talking with her now that we finally met and in those talks we came to an agreement before she absconded inside of you without even giving me a chance to speak further. Speaking of which . . ." Jun continued pointing his finger and Shiki and shooting a light into her head.
Overwhelmed by Jun's words, she couldn't even reach and just took it before even realizing what had just happened.
"That was something I meant to give the other you, a means to contact me if needed. Any questions?" Jun inquired.
Unfortunately, Jun had overloaded the system with too much information and Shiki.exe had stopped working, leaving a beautiful elegant girl just sitting there with a vacant look that Manaka rudely though wasn't much different for her usual conscious one.
"Looks like she's out of it. Let us just leave and check on her later Jun-sama." Manaka "sweetly" suggested.
Jun just looked at her with a deadpan expression, as if saying "Really?" with a rather accusatory look.
"It was just a suggestion." Manaka shrugged while excusing herself.
Meanwhile, Shiki returned to the world of the conscious living once more and so, Jun spent a good while explaining what he knew about her other self and about what they had spoken off.
Said other self, quietly slept, wholly uncaring about the matters occurring, having skillfully pushed all explaining duties onto Jun.
As it turned out, he had been played once again thought this time, it was rather harmless and he saw it coming the moment [Shiki] went away immediately after their conversation. Still, this was something he really didn't mind so he went ahead and let it happen.
After several explanations, a lot of back and forth, as well as the occasional Manaka quip that added onto the explanation while subtly insulting [Shiki], Shiki finally managed to grasp things and thought she had a lot of thinking to do, it was not really something that bothered her too much.
After all, she had lived so far without knowing of [Shiki]'s existence, never having felt her and now, in some time, this unknown existence would part from her to follow the man she had made her seek. It was a conclusion she could accept.
For Shiki who wished for a normal life, the life of a common human without any Mystery and magecraft, ridding herself of the source of the most special and Mysterious thing about her was actually quite a desirable thing.
The trio bid their short farewell, Shiki returning to her clique and Manaka swiftly deciding to follow Jun, not even bothering to say any goodbyes to her cooperators, only carelessly telling Shiki to pass on her thoughts and whatnot.
And so, for the first time in a good long while, Jun found himself seeing the light of lazy freedom at the work of the dark tunnel of actual work.
After introducing Manaka to the rest of his people, he could literally hang back and do nothing at all while waiting for his transformation to conclude. Only then would he finally be forced to work again.
Before doing that however, Jun decided to try and decide what to do in the future after his transformation with more specificity.
Though after getting Manaka into the loop of things and activating the counter intelligence methods of Domina Coronam so that [Shiki] could no longer spy on him and his girls with impunity, his main priority would be to determine how to enjoy his upcoming holidays.
After all, he had been waiting and thirsting for a break from work so why would he spend that break time thinking only about the work he would have after said break time ended.
That was not how one should enjoy holidays and so, Jun was determined in planning out a period of no work and all play.
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