The Dual Swordsman Who Lost Both Arms On Stream to Save His Doomed Party Gets Exiled—Then the Heroines Go Yandere

Chapter 25: The Onmyoji Heroine’s Service

――――【Alicia’s Perspective】

Fwooooosh♪

The silver train car gleamed dully in the darkness. The moment I saw the metro lights, I let out a deep sigh of relief. The train passed right in front of me and then vanished into the dark again.

Leaving Amiro Soma and Sarashina Yuki behind, the rest of us had safely returned to the metro management area that led from the dungeon to the surface.

“Thank you, Hinata Nezha… Thanks to you, we made it back safely. When they expelled you, I couldn’t do anything to help… So why are you still so kind to me? It doesn’t make sense…”

I couldn’t hold back my feelings for him and ended up calling him by his first name. I really wished I could jump into his arms like Arisugawa Lemon does, but if he got the wrong idea about me… Just thinking about it made my legs freeze up.

“Mikado… No, all three of you protected me more than enough. Look!”

Hinata Nezha smiled at me, then showed me the paired swords—male and female—that had belonged to his father.

Normally, taking them outside school grounds except for dungeon exploration required complicated permission. After he lost both arms, he said he no longer needed them and asked us to hold onto them until the right person came along.

But there was no way anyone like that existed!

【Flashback】

After Hinata left Twilight Academy, on my days off I would perform the purification ritual for the swords at the training grounds.

Rooooaaarrr.

A huge amount of water poured down from the waterfall mouth. No other sound reached me. Even though the roar was deafening, my mind grew clearer. The training grounds were a harsh rocky area like a sacred ascetic site, and the massive flow of water poured into the pool below.

I set up a barrier so I would know right away if anyone came, then placed my removed blazer on a flat, table-like rock where I had spread a sheet.

I undid the buttons of my blouse one by one. If… if the day ever came when Hinata and I… I would take off my clothes like this…

No, I can’t think about that now. Focus, focus… My father taught me that purification performed by a virgin is the purest. I must not harbor impure thoughts.

When I lowered the zipper of my skirt, it dropped straight to the ground.

Even though I had set a barrier, if anyone saw me completely naked or secretly filmed me, my life would be over. I definitely had no exhibitionist interests, but since it was a ritual, I had to be fully nude outdoors.

When I unhooked my bra, my breasts were exposed. Even though I had been eating less because I kept thinking about Hinata, they somehow felt like they had gotten bigger…

I bent one knee to take off my panties, but my socks and ribbon tie were still on. Kakehi Misato once brought an adult magazine for men and told Arisugawa Lemon and me, “Guys love this kind of look!”

Even though I knew no one was watching, I was so embarrassed that I covered my breasts and crotch with my arms and hands. Would Hinata like seeing me completely naked but still wearing the ribbon tie and socks? If so, I might have to endure the embarrassment.

Once I was completely bare, I put on the white ritual garment.

When you cut down monsters, the swords naturally absorb their tainted blood. That not only dulls the edge but also causes the blades to carry a curse debuff that slowly torments the wielder without them realizing it.

I began the ritual to dispel the curse.

I had been saved by Hinata, yet I couldn’t defend him and let Amiro drive him out of school. I was so sinful…

Holding the Black Emperor that I had taken from its cloth wrapping, I slowly stepped barefoot into the pool, moving as quietly as possible. The winter-cold water stabbed my feet like blades. The chill shot straight to my brain, and a sharp pain ran through my temples as if I had gulped down shaved ice all at once.

Still, I endured the cold and pain and waded in up to my waist. Carefully watching my footing, I moved under the waterfall. A huge volume of water crashed down on me without mercy.

“Hah, hah, hah…”

Just withstanding the water pressure from a fall of roughly a hundred meters was enough to make me gasp for breath. On top of that, the flowing water made breathing difficult. Even as my breathing grew ragged, the winter water stole my body heat before I could warm up.

But the hardships Hinata had endured were far greater than this.

With freezing hands, I carefully wiped the moisture from the Black Emperor’s sharp blade. They said a sword forged from a rare dungeon drop wouldn’t rust from mere water, and it really didn’t.

I applied camellia oil from home, finished caring for it, and then started the purification for the other blade, the Ice Empress.

I was completely exhausted by the time I finished the Ice Empress. I could only keep going because I believed the day would come when Hinata would return for the paired swords.

This wouldn’t atone for my sin, but if I didn’t do it, my heart felt like it would tear apart.

Later, Amiro once tried to touch the paired swords half in play. I had taken the Black Emperor out of the locker where it was stored for inspection, and when I turned around, he was right behind me.

I was so startled that before I knew it, I was gripping the Black Emperor’s sheath tightly. In contrast to me, Amiro said something childish.

“Let’s try a test cut right now! I went out of my way to ask that guy to lend them to me, but he never did even once. Anyway, even if it was forged from a lost item drop, it’s just a poor guy’s toy. It probably doesn’t even cut well, but Kaiser here will use it for you.”

Amiro reached for the Black Emperor, but I shifted my hips and avoided his hand.

“Don’t touch his swords! I won’t let you lay even one finger on them. These aren’t things filthy hands like yours should touch.”

“Huh!? As my fiancée, you’re going to defy me, your fiancé?”

Amiro roughly slammed his hand against the locker and glared at me. When I refused to meet his eyes, he raised his other fist.

“You think I won’t hit you just because I’m your fiancé? Big mistake! I’ll teach you right now who the master is!”

To break off the engagement, I needed proof of domestic violence… I steeled myself to take the blow when—

“Stop it! Alicia is the one Hinata entrusted with their care. You don’t get to touch them so casually.”

“That’s right! That’s right! They’re very important to Natakun.”

Kakehi Misato and Arisugawa Lemon came running to help. Kakehi grabbed Amiro’s fist, and Arisugawa grabbed his belt to hold him back.

Amiro forcibly shook them off.

“When did you two start taking Nezha’s side? Have you forgotten I’m the party leader?”

“It’s the opposite. Hinata was the one holding this party together.”

“Hah? Nezha only ever stirred up the monsters a bit. Misato, have your eyes rotted along with being a slut?”

“Shut up!”

Kakehi started to lift her leg to kick him, then lowered it again…

“Whoa!? Teacher, Kakehi’s trying to hit me!”

“Ku…”

If she simply refused to follow Amiro’s orders, it might still be within tolerance, but if she actually struck him, she could easily be expelled too.

Seeing that Kakehi couldn’t raise a hand, Amiro hurled awful insults at her, calling her a slut and a bitch. Kakehi could only clench her teeth and endure it. It was so horrible that I hid my hand behind my back, ready to slap Amiro across the cheek with all my strength, when…

“U-Um… What’s going on?”

“Oh, it’s Yuki! I was just teasing them a little. They’re all so boring. Come hang out with me, Yuki.”

“Uh, we have class soon…”

“Who cares about that. If you want, I can teach you myself.”

Sarashina Yuki had come by, and the two of them disappeared somewhere together.

After they left the locker room, I let out a deep sigh. When we stepped out into the hallway, a crowd of students had already gathered, apparently having heard the commotion.

Kakehi’s face was slightly red as she looked at me.

“Alicia… That was a bit too sexy, don’t you think?”

“Yeah, yeah, Aririn’s super naughty.”

“Eh? What?”

In my determination to protect Hinata’s keepsakes, I had been hugging the black-sheathed Black Emperor to my chest. I only noticed then that the sheath had slipped perfectly into my cleavage, and my upper arms were pressing my breasts against it. The boys who saw it bent forward slightly and started running down the hall one after another.

“Kyaa! Don’t look at me with those perverted eyes!”

―――――――――Afterword――――――――――

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