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Remember Me, Hilda?
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Chapter 3
#Gathering Allies#
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PRANG!
A small blonde girl panted furiously. The water was flowing and the sharp pieces of the huge vase were scattered everywhere. The blonde boy stood in front of her, unmoved. Not even a single emotion was shown on his face.
"Hilda, Hilda, and Hilda! Only her! What's so great about her?" the girl shouted, she clenched her fists until her knuckles turned white and she trembled because of it.
The boy narrowed his eye on her, "Yolda…" he muttered.
Calming down, Yolda raised her head up and face the boy directly. Her scowl was deep as anger was still remaining on her face.
Turning around, the boy muttered, "Unlike you and me, she…"
From the side, Yolda could see a faint smile forming on the boy's lips.
"…she never did anything out of hatred…"
Suddenly, Yolda opened her eyes, sweat all over her body. She got up and looked around the room. She was sleeping on the couch. She could see Satura and En sleeping on the carpet in front of the TV. They must've overslept after being up all night playing games.
She turned to the other side and saw Isabella sleeping on the other couch.
Yolda got up from the couch and walked towards the kitchen to get some drink to cool herself. She gulped down the drink in one gulp and slammed the glass on the table, gripping it tight.
She gritted her teeth, "Someone like Hilda should just die…"
The blonde felt something wet on her gloved hand afterwards and realized that she was crying. She bit her lip and tried to be as soundless as possible, "Then, why do I have to cry over her?" she whimpered, her palm covering her mouth.
She heard a groan and she quickly wiped away her tears.
"Yolda…?"
The blonde turned away and smiled, "Good morning, Lord En… "
The said person rubbed his eyes and yawned.
"Oh, my… You must be staying up late again last night, aren't you? Let's take a bath to refresh…" Yolda faked a smile and slowly pushed the young lord to the bathroom.
Meanwhile…
"So…" the white-haired teen messaged his temple in frustration. "You're saying that you want to search for the culprit who hid or possibly killed Hilda?" he asked.
"Yep!"
"Are you even sure you know where the culprit is?" Aoi asked while sweatdropping.
"No idea, sir!"
Furuichi and Aoi stared at him with pitying gaze before they turned to face each other and sigh.
"Alright, that aside. We would need Alaindelon or Yolda to be able to go to the Demon World, right? How do you think we should convince them?" Furuichi asked a question which snapped Oga back to reality.
The demons never agreed to let them know what happened to Hilda. He couldn't think of anything that could convince them to help him go to the Demon World.
"Dabuh, dah!" Baby Beel cooed.
"Wait a minute, Baby Beel. I need to actually think every once in a while…" Oga muttered while frowning, drowning himself into a deep thought.
The green-haired baby pouted and began to cry loudly, causing electricity to ran through every inch of Oga's body, shocking him.
"What's your problem!" Oga shouted at the baby.
"DAH!" Baby Beel showed him a silver pendant.
Oga's eyes widened when he saw the pendant. Furuichi and Aoi leaned in to examine the pendant and they immediately notice whose property it is.
"That's!" the duo pointed at the pendant.
"…Hilda's pendant…" Oga muttered.
Aoi grabbed the pendant and examined it thoroughly before she opened it and gaped in shock. The two guys peeked from behind her and their jaws almost landed on the ground.
"Wh-wh-who is this?" Aoi couldn't stop her trembling finger when she pointed on the picture inside the pendant.
"Hilda-san has an illegitimate child?" Furuichi gasped.
It was a picture of a small boy who looks just like Hilda, except his bangs were covering his right eye instead of the left. He had the same emerald eye as Hilda.
"D-don't jump into conclusions yet! This might be her little brother!" Aoi denied, considering she had always been misunderstood by people who thinks Kouta is her child instead of her little brother.
"Does she even have one?" Oga raised an eyebrow.
"Let's assume she has…" Aoi muttered.
'She can't face the reality!' Furuichi mentally shouted but quickly regain his composure. "Let's just ask Yolda about it if we meet her…"
"Can we even talk to her? Even if we don't say it out loud, all of us know that we're on a cold war with the demons now, right?" Aoi sighed.
"That old man didn't come home yesterday too…" Furuichi tapped his chin thoughtfully, referring to Alaindelon.
Oga's lips formed an 'o' as he pointed out his index finger, "What about Lamia? You know? She's like, all over Hilda, right? Do you think she can help us?"
"She's not a dimensional demon, idiot! And I don't even think that she's still here…" Furuichi shot him a glare.
"We have to try and gather some allies first if we can't ask the person directly right? We have to search for her first before we stated that she's not here anymore…" Oga folded his arms and nodded to himself, mimicked by Beel.
"GEH! I've never thought you would say something so genius like that, Oga!" Furuichi jerked away with a very horrified expression.
Aoi placed her fingers on her lips to suppress a giggle. "I'll ask Red Tail to lend a hand in finding Lamia. I'm sure she's still somewhere in this town…" the dark-haired girl suggested as she stood up and walked towards the door.
Suddenly, Oga stood up and followed her.
"Oga?" Aoi asked.
"Let me go with you…"
"May I ask why?"
"I want to search for Lamia too."
Aoi chuckled, "Don't worry. You can leave that to me and Red Tail…"
Oga shook his head, "I just didn't feel right if I'm not searching too. By the way, we'll leave the problem of convincing Alaindelon to Furuichi…"
"WHAT? ME?"
"G'luck!"
And with that, Oga closed the door, leaving the dumbfounded Furuichi and the responsibility of convincing Alaindelon behind.
Furuichi slammed his head on the table.
"What? Searching for Lami-tan?" Yuka asked.
Aoi answered with a single nod, "Can you guys help me?"
The members of Red Tail looked at the others. Yuka scratched her hair and chuckled. "Well, you see, nee-san. It's not like I don't want to help you or anything like that, but…"
Aoi raised an eyebrow, "But?"
"…Lami-tan has been staying at my place for three days now…"
"WHAT? Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"B-but, you just asked me!"
Aoi let out a sigh, relieved to hear that Lamia is still here in this town. The next thing she has to do after finding Lamia, which is convincing her to corporate with them in order to find the culprit who hid or possibly killed Hilda.
The petite pink-haired girl sat in the corner of the room, hugging her legs together and burying her head on her knees.
"What? Hilda? She's dead…"
Feeling her body stiffened as she remembered those words, Lamia tightened the grip around her legs. Her throat was dry because she was crying for the whole three days.
"Hilda nee-sama…" she muttered, gripping harder at the fabric of her white coat. "Why? Why does that illness have to take your life away?" she sobbed. "Even though I promised. I promised that I'll make the medicine that'll surely cure your illness… Why can't you wait for a little more while…?"
Flashback
"Lamia…?"
She nodded, "Um! Lamia! I come in the stead of Doctor Furcas! Nice to meet you, Hildegarde!" the petite girl offered a hand to the older blonde who is lying on her huge bed.
Hilda shook her hand, "Just Hilda is okay. By the way, Lamia is the name of that legendary female demon, right? What a marvelous name…" the blonde asked excitedly.
Putting a hand behind her head, Lamia chuckled, "No way. I'm not that great… And you're older than me, so I'll call you Hilda nee-sama instead…"
The blonde nodded while smiling.
The petite girl reached a box on the small table and took out her equipment. She also took out some medicines and some hypodermic needles. She arranged it on the small table beside Hilda's bed happily before she noticed the changes on the blonde's expression.
"Hilda nee-sama?"
Hilda snapped and shook her head, "Wh-what?" she asked nervously.
"Don't tell me you're afraid of medicines and shots?"
"It's not like that! Just… I think I've been clinging into this medical equipment for as long as I live. Do you think someday I can just live freely like everyone?"
"Hilda nee-sama…" Lamia muttered.
"You know? I…" Hilda looked at the ceiling of her bedroom, "…I promised someone that I'll become a Demon Maid someday. I promised him that I'll be one of the top elite Demon Maids like my mother was…"
There was an awkward silence before Lamia finally smiled, "Don't worry, Hilda nee-sama! I promise I'll make a medicine for you so that you can reach your dream!"
End of flashback
'Hilda nee-sama changed after she entered the Demon Maid Academy. She became healthier and she even fulfilled her dream. I've almost forgotten about her illness. I never thought that she'll die because of it…' Lamia thought to herself. She regretted it. She regretted why she never continue her attempt to make that medicine. If she made it, Hilda won't have to die in that way.
"It's all… my fault…" she hiccupped.
Someone opened the door of the room and Lamia raised her head up to see who is the person. Her eyes widened because of shock.
"Ha? Illness?" Aoi asked.
"Yes, nee-san. Lami-tan kept repeating things like Oga-chi's wifey died because of an illness or something, but she never really wanted to tell me about it…" Yuka muttered, resting her palms behind her head as she walked.
"Illness, huh…?" the dark-haired girl patted her chin in a thoughtful way. She turned to face the person walking beside her, "How do you think about it, Oga? What's with this 'Hilda died because of an illness' condition? Then how about the letter and her pendant that she left behind?"
"I think…"
"You think…?"
"I think my head might explode because of this, so can you take care of the thinking part? I'll take care of the fighting part for you by the way…"
Aoi sweatdropped, "I don't need that…" she muttered.
"We're here!" Yuka exclaimed.
Oga and Aoi stopped their pace and stood in front of the house.
"Do you think Lamia-chan would want to corporate with us?" Aoi gulped, she couldn't deny that she's nervous.
"Oi, Baby Beel! Don't touch that! It'll contaminate your hands!" Oga whined when he saw Baby Beel playing with a cricket.
"Show some tension, you!" Aoi shouted.
They entered the house afterwards and were quite surprised to see Furuichi, Alaindelon, and Lamia in the living room, sitting on the couch.
"Furuichi-kun!" Aoi exclaimed in surprise.
Furuichi got up from the couch and turned around with a face that was beautified by 150%. He smiled and chuckled in a very elegant manner as if he is a child of an aristocrat. "Do you know, Kunieda-senpai? This Furuichi Takayuki has gathered a number of very useful information that'll surely satisfy you guys…" he said, still smiling elegantly.
"What is it?" Aoi raised an eyebrow.
"From what I asked Alaindelon about Hilda-san, he answered that Hilda-san died without a reason. While from Lamia, I found out that she said Hilda-san died because of an illness. Just what can we pick out of these two different hypothesis?" Furuichi asked while pushing up his imaginary glasses.
"Umm… Nothing?"
"FALSE!" Furuichi pointed at the former leader of Red Tail as she jumped in surprise.
"F.Y.I. Kunieda-senpai, all we can get from this is that Hilda-san's death isn't confirmed yet and that there's something going on in the Demon World that makes Alaindelon and Lamia got different information from each other!" the white-haired teen exclaimed.
"Ooh! As expected from Furuichi-kun!" Aoi clapped her hands.
"Hilda is dead for God's sake. How many times have I repeated this again? Why can't you quietly accept that fact?"
Hearing the chilling voice, all of them turned to the direction of the voice. They could find a certain blonde wet nurse standing at the doorway of the room, her hands on her hips and her lips twitched in annoyance.
"Yolda!" they gaped.
"Bunch of fools…" Yolda glared.
~To be continued~
*yawn*
I'm writing this in the middle of the night so I'm so sorry if it's not that good. Anyway, I'm having less fun when I'm writing this chapter. I can't wait to write for the next chapter! XD
Anyway, any of you watch 'Nisemonogatari'? I mean, I just LOVE the opening songs of that anime! And there's a new opening song titled 'Platinum Disco' now! I really want it! X3
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