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🕑 Added 2024-11-24 10:30:19 +0000 UTCBrain Bugs and Effective Use of Rumors [Part 3]
"Nee-sama... Can it be she is trying to... No, no, that's impossible to do, isn't it..."
William guessed what his sister was attempting and thought it would still be difficult.
However, Emma steadily progressed in her brainwashing(?) attempt on Arban.
"Yay, Uncle believes Emma! That makes Emma so happy! Emma loves Uncle sooo much!"
"!"
Arban's face brightened as he swooned over his beloved niece in a lively manner.
"Uncle, no matter what, you absolutely can't doubt Emma's words, okay?"
The foolishly grinning Arban nodded deeply. It was such an exaggerated movement that the onlookers wondered whether a dying person would be fine shaking his head up and down like that.
"Emma is [the Real Holy Maiden]!"
Arban nodded vigorously.
"Holy Maidens, you see, they can heal injuries!"
Arban nodded vigorously.
"Even Uncle's injuries can be healed!"
Arban nodded.
"Just watch, okay? Pain, pain, go awaaay!"
Arban nodded.
"See, it's healed, right?"
"………!"
Arban, who was nodding, sensed something unusual in his body and raised his upper body suddenly.
“ “Arban!” ”
“ “Uncle?!” ”
Leonard, Melsa, George, and William exclaimed.
"...the pain... is gone? Huh? I'm really(?) ...h-healed?"
Arban was surprised that his scorched body was cured in an instant.
The niece-con was saved by believing his niece's words 100 percent. His hallucinations stopped because of Emma... or perhaps she successfully overwrote it with brainwashing.
"Amazing... I've never thought my niece is the Holy Maiden. What's more, possessing extraordinary ability I have never heard of before..."
Arban trembled from joy at having a niece who was both cute and marvelous. In contrast to him, Melsa, George, and William were shaking their heads while silently muttering, 'No, that's not how it is...'
'He was indeed saved, but oh how pitiful...' They looked at him with sympathetic gazes.
"Huh? Where's Emma?"
With a jolt, Arban searched for his niece who was also his lifesaver, but she was nowhere to be seen.
"Your Majesty, please listen to me carefully. Actually, I'm a Holy Maiden."
Emma spouted lies yet again before the king.
"There! Please look at Uncle Arban! I healed him."
"E-Emma-chan did? Huh?"
"sniffle... Your Majesty doesn't believe Emma? Does Your Majesty also think of persecuting Emma, saying that Emma’s a fake?"
"Wha—! No such thing! Of course I believe in Emma-chan!"
No matter the time, Old Man Hoi Hoi was still going strong.
"Pain, pain, go awaaay!"
"I-I'm hea... healed...?"
The king touched his own head to check.
"Emma-chan... What an amazing child you are... Huh? Where did she—?!"
The king's lifesaver, Emma, was no longer by his side.
Emma moved toward Prince Edward lying on the ground.
"Your Highness, actually, I'm a Holy Maiden!"
"Holy... maiden...? Not... an... angel...?"
Edward looked up at Emma, who sparkled dazzlingly like an angel showing herself to him at the moment of his death.
"Hm? Well, either goes in this situation, I guess... I am both a Holy Maiden and an angel, so I can heal injuries. See! Your Majesty has also recovered~"
And so, Emma continued to heal the people injured by the Fire Fox's flames one after another in this manner.
As many people like to say, "The end justifies the means." The more Emma lied, the more people recovered.
The solid evidence that increasingly gathered around in a puzzling way successfully made the knights and hunters, who weren't familiar and had little contact with Emma, also believe her implicitly.
"Woah... Nee-sama... She's curing everyone on her own for real..."
Seeing the people who collapsed on the fireproof cloth got up one after another, William was surprised by how effective her sister's plan was, and at the same time, felt a little speechless.
"That girl... She deliberately tried it on people with a high chance of success first..."
'She's targeting the uncles whom she could wrap around her little finger easily (Arban, the king) first... It's a premeditated crime...' George held his forehead.
"Wataru-nii, about uncles and old men... You see, I have never wrapped them around my little finger. Everyone just willingly jumped onto my palms on their own. I did nothing but simply pull them gently with my fingertips for just a liiittle tiny bit. Once I did that, the old men who had started rolling toward me by themselves would continue to tumble closer on their own without me having to do anything. That very sight looks so lovely, don't you think?"
George shuddered when he recalled the words he heard from Minato in their past lives. Nothing looked more devilish than the smile on Minato's face as she said that.
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Author’s corner:
Serious: I won't lose! wheeze
Crisis: L-Let's give up. Just how many times do you intend to die, Serious~?!
Comedy: Well, it's been a while since the last time I worked directly on set. I guess I will just do a little warm-up first? Oh? Is this your friend, Lady Rom-Com?
Rom-Com Geeky Lady: Fufufu, I brought her with because she said she wanted to get some exercise.
Lady Horror: I came since people've been saying, "Fear... fear..." for a while now. Oh my? You guys are done already?
Comedy: Ohh, I remember. So is this what you mean by "yandere"—
Rom-Com Geeky Lady: Shhh!!!
