The Neutral Soul--Hozuki x Reader (Hoozuki no Reitetsu)

Chapter 14

(F/N) wandered aimlessly around the Records Department. She knew she was supposed to be working, but her thoughts were too appealing. She was flooded with thoughts of Hozuki, and how she should spend the time she had left.

The occasional Hell minion gave her an odd glance, but she ignored it, listening to the sounds of Hagei's current mental breakdown.

That was, until she heard something even more interesting.

"Hey, Karauri! Look at this!"

(F/N)'s ears perked up at the sound of Nasubi's voice. She was angry with him for spilling everything to Hakutaku, but her talk with the beast had helped with her confusion, so she didn't hold it against him. Besides, he was too adorable to kill.

"Shut up!" Karauri hissed. "We're supposed to be quiet in—hey, what's that? '(L/N) (F/N).' You don't think that's our(L/N)-san, do you?"

Wait, they found my scroll?

(F/N) had seen the scroll that held all her compiled sins before—at her judgments, and in the Records Department. She'd thought about opening it, just to see if the kings had made any notes on her. However, she'd always been too afraid, both of Hozuki and herself, to go through with it.

"Hey," Nasubi's voice piped up again, "don't you want to see what's inside?"

"Um...well..."

"You did ask her before, right? Well, if we open this, we should be able to see what she did. Let's see..."

Before the little Hell minion could unravel the scroll, (F/N) stepped out of her hiding place and put a hand over his.

"That's not necessary," she told them.

Nasubi flinched, and Karauri looked as if he was about to throw up.

"You...you were there the whole time?" Karauri screamed.

(F/N) put a finger over her lips. "Quiet. You did ask me once, didn't you? What it is that I did?" she looked around. The room was sparsely populated, but not empty. "Let's go somewhere a bit more private, and I'll give you the answer."

"That's...a lot of fish."

(F/N) nodded in response to Karauri's comment. "I suppose that's a reasonable response to entering my room."

She'd managed to walk with the boys to her room without getting caught. True, her room was only a few doors away from Hozuki's, but she'd judged it as being the best location for their secret chat.

Nasubi ran around the room, gawking at her twenty-something bettas and babbling incoherently.

(F/N) chuckled. Definitely too cute to kill.

"You can come here anytime you like to draw them," she told him. "In fact, you can take them home with you once I'm sent to Hell. I don't have anyone else to take them."

Nasubi nodded in excitement, not seeming to notice the morbid part of her statement. Karauri, however, noticed.

"You always talk as if you know for sure that you have no chance..." he commented. "Why is that?"

"Because I killed thirty-seven people while I was alive."

A tense silence fell over the room.

"You...you killedpeople?" Karauri shouted.

(F/N) rolled her eyes. "No, I'm being sent to Hell for kissing puppies and helping little old ladies across the street. OfcourseI killed people!"