I, Who Longs To Be A Dependent, Have Decided To Be Owned By A Yandere - Chapter 18

The one you love is someone you fight for

“Kiriyama, here, say ‘ahh.’ ”

I turned my face away as if to escape from Kinugasa, who brought the sliced apple to my mouth.

“Hey, what? Why are you sulking?”

She clings to me in a spoiled manner, but now that I know her true nature, there’s no way I’m going to accept her advances.

“Hey~ Kiriyama~”

“Silence, minion of evil. I’m thankful you found a good place to dangle me from, but there’s no doubting the fact that you deceived me.”

“I’m sorry! I really am sorry!”

If sorry was enough, yanderes wouldn’t exist.

“I’ve been made to do morning worship kneeling, offering prayers for three hours straight? I’m so tired I’m on the brink of some kind of bizarre enlightenment, damn it!”

“There’s no need to kneeling… Also, where did you sleep yesterday? That girl was freaking out in the middle of the night, saying ‘The Deity has missing!!’ You know?”

“Under the floor.”

“Huh?”

“There was a futon and an old toolkit inside that closet. So I peeled up the tatami and the floorboards and laid out the futon under the floor to sleep.”

“I’d be in trouble if I was attacked in my sleep and had my guts spilled out, wouldn’t I?”

The smile on Kinugasa’s face freezes

“You’d go that far?”

“I haven’t gone that far yet. Initially, I thought about making barricades with barbed wire and an altar, but I gave up because it seemed like it would only bring bad feelings.

I am a man who knows how to treat women with care. It’s part of the finesse of being a dependent”

“Eh, really…”

She accuses someone of kidnapping and confinement, yet she’s taken aback by my behavior.

“Hey, are you really serious about becoming that girl’s dependent? It might be strange for me to say this, but doesn’t that seem completely insane?”

“Amateur.”

As I spit out the word, Kinugasa raises a voice full of doubt,

“What do you mean?”

“First of all, the probability that she will stab me is only about thirty percent. The fact that she couldn’t stab me yesterday indicates she’s showing symptoms of hesitation. Rather, there’s a high probability that what happened yesterday was all just ‘acting.'”

“Why do you think that?”

Lowering the apple-stabbed fork, Kinugasa Maria, dressed in a revealing casual outfit, narrows her eyes slightly.

“Because she’s been ‘armed’ from the beginning.

At first, I thought she brought a knife to apotheosize me, but she was saying, ‘First, I want to purify myself with holy water.’ It’s hard to believe that she, who adheres so much to doctrine, would spill my guts without even completing the purification with holy water.

“The only time it’s permissible to bring unnecessary weapons to an audience with me, a god, is when it’s time for a gut-spilling ritual… If I hypothesize that way, then it’s normal to think that the knife was brought in ‘to threaten me.'”

“…Kiriyama, are you unexpectedly smart?”

“No, not really smart. I just feel like my brain works faster when I’m in a life-threatening situation and have no one else to rely on. Basically, it’s my survival instinct versus yandere skills at the kidnapping site.”

It could be said that this is a unique skill, permitted only to a dependent.

“Hey, Kiriyama.”

Kinugasa, with a sad look on her face, gently grasps my hand.

“According to your speculation, it was I who instructed that girl to bring it. So, her love may be twisted, but she’s not crazy enough to hurt you.”

You don’t think kidnapping and confinement is hurting someone?

“Kiriyama, do you want to get out of here? You want to, right? You never know what that girl might do.”

“No, not really.”

“There’s only one way out of here.”

Listen to this.

“Fall in love with me.”

Kinugasa, with moist eyes, desperately clings to me from the front. The soft fullness presses against my chest, enveloping my whole body in a pleasant warmth.

At that moment – I realized something.

“You… don’t tell me…”

“Kiriyama, please! I’ll take care of you with all my heart! You don’t have to love me! Just fall in love with me! Say you’re in love with me—”

The vibrating sound of an incoming call interrupts us, and Kinugasa, with a shocked expression, picks up the phone.

“Hello, what’s—eh?”

“Put it on speaker.”

Following my instruction, she switches the phone to speaker mode with trembling hands.

“Mi, Minatsuki Yui is heading your way!!”

An unfamiliar girl’s voice echoes through the room.

“That’s impossible… Our deception was perfect, wasn’t it?”

“Yes! I swear to Akira-sama! The teacher who gave Minatsuki Yui the false address is one of our comrades, there’s no way they would betray us!”

Can you please stop increasing your followers outside of my jurisdiction?

“Then, why did she find out? How!?”

“I don’t kno—”

We hear some noise, indicating a struggle of some sort, and then nothing more comes through the phone.

Kinugasa, holding her breath, clenches her right hand, trying to anticipate the next move—

“I found you.”

Minatsuki’s bold declaration comes through the phone before it cuts off.

“Ki, Kiriyama! We have to go!!”

“Hey! It’s better not to move carelessly—”

“Our location’s been compromised!! If we stay here, Minatsuki will take you away!! She hasn’t even conveyed her feelings yet!!”

In a panic, Kinugasa showing her swirling emotions and, with shaking hands, unlocks the barbed wire and padlock, pulling me outside.

“Ah!”

And then, our eyes meet with an unmanned aerial drone watching us.

“We found them!! Just as expected, bingo!!”

Through the unmanned drone that had been circling within a 25-meter radius of Yui’s last known location, Sumire spotted her target, Akira.

“But it’s too far…! I kept too much distance from Minatsuki-senpai so as not to be noticed following her…!”

Cursing under her breath, she calls Yui on her cell phone.

“Minatsuki-senpai, I found them! The location is—”

While sending the location details, Sumire is already on the move.

“While the two are fighting, I’ll snatch the onii-chan… the advantage of the third party… Wait for me, onii-chan!”

The three-way battle for Akira was drawing towards its climax.