Shadow Monarch: Heroines Could Hear My Thoughts?!

Chapter 142- Are You Cheating!

The praises continued as the group kept praying to their lord, the shadow monarch. Their cold and stoic fronts fell apart as they kept doing that.

The only one that didn't do such a thing was the bulky guy in the middle. The tears on his face didn't stop, for even a second. His mind didn't seem to be calming down even under the continuous prayers of his peers.

'I can't…' He said to himself as the memory of what he saw at that moment filled his whole vision again.

No matter how much he reasoned with himself to start praying like them, his mouth wouldn't open to speaking like them. A seed of doubt had taken root inside his heart yet he didn't know how or why.

But, when he noticed that they were glaring at him through their prayers, he coughed and then started pretending to pray like them. His mind, however, was still occupied by something completely different.

'Is there something wrong going on?' He reckoned.

All his life, he thought the shadow monarch way is the true path to the peak and he devoted himself to such a thing and did everything in his power to become the ideal follower of the shadow monarch cult.

Every mission he took was for a purpose and one purpose only, that is to be able to spread the power of the cult and restore the glory of the shadow monarch.

His death was never meant to be his end… It was merely the beginning of something much bigger. As for what that thing is? Even they didn't know.

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"U-Ugh…" Rin's eyes parted open slowly as he sucked in the light of the day. The rays of the sun penetrated through the window and hit him right in the face making him squint visibly.

'Mmm, there is something on top of me?' He thought as he tried to turn around. Being fully covered, he couldn't see what it was.

Moving his lazy hands, he pulled up the cover.

"Huh?"

Much to his surprise, a small girl was sleeping on top of him with her thumb in her mouth and a small teddy bear next to her.

"Sorophi? What is she doing here?" He wondered as he quickly pushed her to the side and tried to wake up.

"Rin! Wake up! It's alrea-" At that moment, a voice echoed in the room as the door opened. Aria walked inside with a bright smile on her face. In her hand was a tray of what seemed to be a breakfast she prepared.

*BREAK*

The tray fell and all the pots and plates on it broke into pieces. In front of her, Rin was on top of a small girl with his hand on her shoulder and the other on her waist.

"Huh? Aria?" Rin was very confused at the sudden appearance of his sister.

The latter didn't reply as she stared wide-eyed at the scene.

"M-My brother…. MY BROTHER IS A INTO SMALL GIRLS!!" She shouted.

"Wait, what?! I'm not!"

"W-W-W-What is the meaning of that, then?! What is a litt-" As aria was speaking, her eyes looked closer at the girl.

She then squinted her eyes.

"Her face is familiar." She murmured before she shook her head and glared at Rin.

"Ok, calm down, and let me explain." He said as he tried to leave the bed.

However, much to his bad luck, Sorophi didn't seem to be keen on the idea of him leaving the bed. Pulling him, he was yanked back to the bed and hugged.

'Why does this feel like it's a common occurrence at this point?!' Rin thought as he tried to get out of her grasp.

At this point, Rin seemed to always end up with a girl in his bed whenever he went to sleep. It happened many times with Aria, once with Elise and once with Sorophi. He didn't even know if this was some kind of curse he was struck by at some point and it was getting even worse every time.

"Let me go." He said as he tried to wake Sorophi up.

"It seems that you two are already more than close enough to cuddle to sleep." A cold voice made him look up.

"Wait, Aria… I didn't really do anything." He said with a small smile that even he wasn't convinced of.

'I should've expected such a thing to happen considering how bizarre this girl is.'

"I see… So you did something."

"Huh?"

"You need punishment," Aria said sternly.

"No! This is stupid! I don't deserve a punishment. Besides, punishment for what?"

"F-For…" Aria's tongue twisted as she found herself lost in what to say.

She couldn't just say 'Because you are cheating on me' since he was merely her brother and it will only make her look even weirder. She also can't say because he 'slept with someone else other than her' as she had no right to stop him.

"Because… Because you deserve it!!" She said at the end with a blush of embarrassment. She wanted the ground to open and eat, never to appear again.

The matter was somehow turned in favor of Rin instead of hers. She was going to do something about the matter but instead found herself making excuses like a small child.

"Mmm…" As they were like that, Sorophi seemingly rose from her position, revealing her small body that would only shock people if they heard it belonged to an 18-year-old girl. ｆ𝓇𝘦ℯ𝙬𝑒𝐛n𝐨νe𝙡.c𝑜𝗺

"Good morning…" She said as she rubbed her eyes and then fell on Rin's chest again, basking in the warmth of the sun. Her eyes were half open, half closed.

"It was fun… Rin is energetic." She murmured as she rubbed her face on his shirt.

"Huh?! Oi, Sorophi, don't things that could be easily misunderstood." He said.

"I did nothing, Aria. It's not how it looks."

"Y-You… get bonked!!"

*BONK*

Using what seemed to be a newspaper she had, she rolled it into a small stick and hit him in the head.

"That doesn't hurt but it's still so stupid!" Rin complained as he rubbed the place where the newspaper hit him.

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"Hmph!"

"Come on, Aria. I already explained what happened."

"And I am still angry. How can you be so defenseless when a top 10- Ranker is around you?! They are extremely dangerous."

"I didn't put my guard down. I had nothing to do even if I was alert. She was following me everywhere." He said as he rubbed his head with a sigh.

Rin knew that Sorophi could be nothing like what she is showing right now and he was still wary of her even if he treated her friendly. However, even if he wanted to do something to try and get her to stay away from him, he won't be able to do so. The sheer difference between them in power makes him merely an easy target of interest for Sorophi.

Hell, she easily entered his dorm room and slept on his bed without him noticing at all. Killing him wasn't hard either.

"Sigh… You are such a trouble magnet."

"I heard that many times," Rin said as he tried to finish his breakfast.

"How did she even take inte-" Before Aria could finish her words, she squinted her eyes at the child that was dipping her spoon into a bowl of cereal at the moment, eating silently, not even caring for the conversation occurring between Rin and Aria.

Her looks and demeanor now were so far away from the image of sheer power and insanity that both Rin and Aria had pictured her as. She just looked like a harmless, extremely adorable girl, no more than that.

'Can she also… hear his thoughts.' Aria thought.

The idea seemed plausible since she was already aware that a specific number of girls could also hear his thoughts. However, for Aria, this power was still mysterious. Not only does it not work sometimes and sometimes it does, but it also can only allow her to hear one sentence at a time or maybe a full string of thoughts at other times.

She had tried to understand what triggers this but no matter what she did or theorized, she can't find a common point that she could link between them all.

'She seems to also be interested in Rin because of this power. Damn it! Every bitch is after my Rin! How dare they?!' Frustration rose in Aria's heart as she imagined evil women trying to seduce her dear brother and take him away from her.

'It's unforgivable!'

Aria wasn't someone to allow anyone to touch her precious Rin. Rin was hers and hers alone and no one shall try and even get a small piece of him. The only way they could try and have a chance with Rin is over her dead corpse.

(A//N: Yandere Aria is on the move :) )

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