Chapter 1899: Ship Party ㉔

Chapter 1899: Ship Party 24

After leaving Anne-san under Tre-san and Raz-san's care, I move on, thinking about who I should greet next. Since I have finished visiting the places that should be my priority for now, I feel that from here on, I should really just talk to anyone who catches my eye.

However, I would really like to greet everyone at least once, so let's keep in mind who I have already finished greeting.

As I was walking along thinking about this, I suddenly noticed someone I didn't recognize. No, what I could see here was just her back, but I couldn't quite remember who she was.

Thereupon, almost as soon as I stopped, the person turned around, and I involuntarily held my breath. Is this that so-called asymmetry? She had a distinctive hairstyle, her slightly bluish-white hair had different lengths on each side, the right side cut short and the left side had a semi-long cut, drawing my attention, but what surprised me even more were her eyes.

I don't know how to describe it, but it's like there is no light behind her red eyes...... With eyes completely devoid of light, coupled with her Noh mask-like expression, there was this peculiar creepiness to her.

It was unlike Illness-san's unfocused eyes, her eyes truly had no gloss to her, like they were just dry, hardened, blood-colored hue...... It makes me think of the word emptiness in my mind.

(T/N: Noh mask)

[Ohh! Isn't this the host!?]

[ ! ? ]

And then I was even more surprised. The mysterious figure looked at me and greeted me with a bright, bouncy voice...... but her expression didn't move at all. her mouth was indeed moving a bit, but other than that, not even her eyebrows moved a twitch. And yet, for her voice to be incredibly cheerful, the dissonance was just incredibly intense.

[Well, it's quite the honor to meet you.]

[Ah, errr......]

[......Ahh, I'm sorry. We haven't introduced each other yet. You may already know this, but I'm Miyama Kaito.]

[Tahaa~~ Sorry about that, slipped out of my mind too. We've been chatting for quite a while, but I haven't even told you my name. I'm Jane Doe, it would be great if you would remember my name...... Kaito-sama.]

[I'm in your care. Errr, may I call you Jane-san?]

[Of course, you can call me Jane or My Honey, whatever you like!]

[T- Then, Jane-san...... Are you a noble?]

[Oh my, what discerning eyes...... Tahaa~~ It must be overflowing, isn't it!? That so-called high-class aura!]

[Ah, no, I just thought that because you have a surname......]

[Ah~~ I see, it's because of that...... Uwahh, I really said things like high class...... How embarrassing...... Um, I'm sorry. That just now was out, so please erase it from your memory!]

Jane-san, with her hands on her cheeks, shook her head and spoke in a strained voice as if she was embarrassed...... but as usual, her eyebrows hadn't even made a single twitch at all.

And although her emotions are easy to tell by the tone of her voice, I couldn't sense any emotion from her with my Sympathy Magic...... Perhaps just like Zwei-san, she's not letting any of her magic power leak out at all.

Looking at it that way, it's also possible that she's quite a formidable person...... What a mysterious person.

<Afterword>

Serious-senpai : [Jane Doe is the temporary name given to unidentified female corpses...... Sympathy Magic doesn't work on her, she refers Kaito not as "カイト" like the others but "快人", and she has the name of an unidentified corpse "Jane Doe"...... She's too suspicious.]