The Main Heroines are Trying to Kill Me[On Hold]

Chapter 16: A Space In The Subconsciousness/Chapter 17: Mixed Feelings

I quietly stared at Frey, who has been lying in bed for several hours and still hasn't opened his eyes.

"Why on earth did this happen..."

When I interrogated him about yesterday's events, he suddenly collapsed while coughing up blood. What the hell is this situation?

'Frey never had a chronic illness...'

Looking back on my memories, even in the previous timeline, he had never been this sick. So what caused him to spew out blood in this timeline?

'...Could it possibly be related to what he does to me every night?'

As a result of observing him with the black magic ⟦Hidden Gaze⟧ for the past few days, I discovered that every night he would just close his eyes and concentrate for a while with his hand on my stomach.

And then, he would sigh and trudge back to his own bed with an exhausted expression on his face as he stroked the cat I had earlier possessed.

Since I'm stuck to his side all day long, I was able to observe him closely, but I didn't notice anything suspicious other than that.

So the bloodstained handprints on the dormitory bedsheet, the blood he threw up on me the last time when he attacked me and his current unconscious state since this morning, are most likely related to what he does to me every night.

If so, what does he do to me every night?

Until recently, I believed it was an unknown form of black magic.

It was because I suspected if Frey had already been the Demon King's confidant from this point on, there is a possibility he would use some method to drain the dark mana in my body to commit evil deeds, or even worse, offer it to the Demon King.

If that's the case, the reason my physical condition deteriorated so much in the previous timeline must have been because he had been doing this secretly for a long time.

Frey Raon Starlight didn't have the ability to improve my physical condition, but he did have the ability to worsen it.

After all, just like he stated before, Frey never considered me as a butler, an attendant, or even a human being... he merely thought of me as a tool.

'It should have been the case...'

This has been my guess so far. But, as a result of yesterday's events, that assumption has been shaken to its core.

Yesterday, he saved me from the demon, as he showed up in a black robe and mask.

To say he was just trying to protect his 'tool' or his personal 'dark mana' reserve would be a lie, because he even suffered a fatal wound from the sword that pierced his back.

He would never have done this if he had indeed treated me as a tool rather than a person, as he always did.

'...Besides, what was that strength?'

Frey Raon Starlight has always been weak. In the previous timeline, people called him the 'Shame of the Starlight Family' behind his back.

This is due to his inability to use ❰Stellar Mana❱ inherited from the Starlight family, his poor martial prowess, and the fact that his mana is almost non-existent.

However, such a man overpowered Isolet, who is known as the 'Second Coming of the Sword Saint'.

When I regained my senses, I only saw Isolet collapsing, but it was clear that Frey was holding his sword in reverse at that time.

In other words, he was actually capable of defeating the next Sword Saint with the reverse-edge of the sword.

".............."