My mother's love song

In Rhode's opinion, Orange was an extremely abnormal woman even among magicians.

It is really hard to imagine her going to the pharmacy to buy cold medicine or see a doctor. In fact, after Orange caught a cold, she closed the office and hid in her room to sleep all day.

This is not difficult to understand. If Rhodes caught a cold, he would be so ashamed that he would never let his woman and mother know.

After seeing him and Fujino bringing fruit to see the doctor, Orange's first words were

"I don't have any antibodies to fight this year's cold, so I can't help myself if I get sick. Compared to this, Rhodes, do you want to be my familiar?"

"..."

Rhode responded with a questioning look to the female magician who was lazily lying on the bed in the corner and looking at him expectantly.

Normally, Orange is too fierce and serious, making it hard for people to remember that she is a beauty.

However, she looked calm and beautiful even with a severe cold, like a completely different person, and even made Rhode feel a kind of sympathy for her that he could only have for pitiful young ladies like Fujino and Arizuma.

Looking at the patient on the bed, the boy said sympathetically, "Orange. Are you having a fever that has damaged your brain?"

"Not at all."

After catching a cold, Orange's pronunciation became lazier and softer than usual, which hit Rhodes' strike zone, making people like him more.

"So you want me to fight Qingzi on your behalf?" Rhodes asked again.

"Hahaha, how is that possible?"

Orange chuckled and picked up the glasses beside the pillow, probably trying to use them to regain his sleepy consciousness.

Orange stared at him with a sharp look from behind the flat lenses and said.

"I'm not that greedy. I don't want all of you, but a part of you."

The young man frowned slightly: "Part?"

"Rod, let's make a deal.

I can help you repair your damaged body. As a reward, I hope you can let part of your body (one of the pillars) sign a contract with me."

"I see."

Rhodes understood what she meant. Did Orange hope to get one of the seven heads and ten horns?

Among the world's top magicians, Aozaki Touko is also one of the few who believes in the supremacy of familiars.

Unlike most magicians who focus on their own practice and treat their familiars as cheap props, Aozaki Touko pursues excellent familiars.

"A magician doesn't need to be very strong, as long as he has the strongest familiar." She once said this.

As a top magician, Orange naturally hopes to obtain the strongest and most outstanding familiar.

At this point, even the fantasies of the Age of Gods cannot be satisfied. This woman actually wants to use the monster He as a familiar. I really want to open this guy's head and see the structure inside.

Rhodes noticed the leather suitcase quietly placed in the corner of the room, making a strong presence.

Keeping the monster He in a box?

"I reject."

Faced with the eager eyes, Rhodes refused without much thought.

"If you feel that the conditions I offer are not enough, I am willing to offer all my property, including all my collections, knowledge and patents.

Oh, by the way, from now on I can work for you for free."

Chengzi said this with a serious look on her face, as if everything she had just said was just a piece of external stuff that could be thrown away at will.

"No." Rhodes still quickly refused.

"I don't think you can repair the carcass of the Beast of Apocalypse, and I don't need it anyway.

More importantly, I don’t want to.”

"Why? Is it because being a human's familiar is extremely shameful to you? Even if it's just your sibling?"

Orange didn't seem surprised by the rejection and sat up on the bed mumbling.

"Ah."

Rhodes nodded: "If I were to say anything, I would also take this into consideration.

Another point is that if I really did that, I would feel like I was betraying Aoko and Yuzu."

Aoko once used magic for Rhodes' selfish desires.

Yuzu shared with Rod the fairytale familiar that her mother had passed down to her.

They were the most important and beloved women to Rhodes, but he had never given them anything other than love and genetic material.

Now, he was suddenly asked to establish a relationship with Chengzi that surpassed that between Qingzi and Yuzu...

No matter what, Rod couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart.

The female magician laughed heartily: "Hahahahaha, as expected of you, your ideas are quite worldly.

It's not because of profit but because it's emotionally inexplicable. It's really... vulgar to the point of being simplistic.

Ah~ah~so dazzling~~~~!

Compared to me, who has already given up my human identity for magic and grudges, you, Lord Rod, are too dazzling~"

Stop making fun of me, Rod said with a smile.

"I'm really sorry that I can't think and empathize with you magicians."

"Humph."

Orange's tone becomes gentler when she puts on glasses, and today she has a cold, which makes her words more intimate.

"However, this sincerity is hard to dislike.

Entrusting your clone to another woman... well, in a sense, it is indeed a betrayal to your wife."

"It's good that you understand. Let's just pretend that today's topic never happened."

Rhodes carefully moved Fujino's head to the sofa pillow, stood up and said, "I'll go make porridge for you. You haven't eaten anything today.

Lie down right there and don't smoke secretly when I'm not around."

"Then I'll raise the stakes. I'll make you an offer you can't refuse."

Orange suddenly called out to the boy who was walking towards the kitchen.

"It's not about the money, Orange. It's about this...eh?"

Rhodes said as he turned his head.

Then he saw the lazy beauty sitting on the bed, unbuttoning her thin shirt.

"……what you do?"

Rhodes frowned as he watched her unbutton her shirt, revealing her orange lace bra.

"Don't do anything silly. Your fever is really too high. I'll ask Fujino to go downstairs and buy you some antipyretic medicine."

"Rod"

Chengzi placed her slender jade hand on her chest, stared into his eyes, and said word by word: "Sign a contract with me, and I will offer you my soul."

Since she was going to make a deal with a being beyond humanity, the Devil, it was only natural that she should offer her soul, her expression said.

Just like the last words Faust said to Mephisto in "Faust", time seemed to have stopped.

"........."

Rhodes was silent.

Being stared at by Aozaki Touko's beautiful warm eyes, the boy revealed a subtle expression.

He knew very well that there were actually more than a thousand magic eyes buried in Orange's eyeballs.

That heretical thing was not innate, but something she acquired through transformation.

Just creating a magic eye within a magic eye is extremely extraordinary.

Moreover, Orange also reflects them and continuously copies them to control the magic power. The chaotic magic will not go crazy. This is no longer something that can be described as crazy.

Create a magic eye within the magic eye and create a mirror image within the eyeball.

"She actually produces so much magic, the mystery of the last escape route for mankind, indiscriminately. This woman can no longer be called a magus."

Youzhu once made such a comment.

Now, Rod recognized this again.

“…You are really crazy.”

"Thanks for the compliment."

Aozaki Touko smiled.

Rhodes sighed: "First, I want to know the reason."

Why on earth are you so obsessed with my clone?

Aozaki Touko now has a powerful enough army of familiars.

Beo, a mysterious being with 3000 years of history, is a magic killer. In modern society, it is a dimensionality reduction attack. Even without considering magic special attacks, its direct combat power is at the level of a heroic spirit.

In addition to Beo, Orange also has the monster in the box as its ultimate killer.

The thing that killed the magician Aruba in "Kara no Kyoukai" in seconds can be considered a lower-level replacement for the beast. In terms of magical power alone, it can even rival the Holy Spear Lungomenyard.

Unless aliens attack, there is nothing in this era that can threaten her.

"If you just want a familiar to protect yourself, you are more than enough. Aozaki Touko, why do you want my power?"

If a reasonable explanation could not be given, Rhodes would never accept it.

"No, that's not right. I don't want to get the beast just because it is very powerful." Orange raised his eyebrows.

Rhodes asked curiously: "Then what are you doing this for?"

Orange said childishly, "Yes. If I had to say, I wanted to get it because it suits my aesthetic taste very well."

"Is that why?"

"That's all."

"……snort."

It's barely a qualified answer.

If what she desired was the power of Beast, Rhode would have turned around and left without saying a word.

He paused and said, "I have one condition."

Reading the possibility from the boy's expression, the magician immediately perked up, sat up straight with his hands on his ankles, and pursed his lips to signal him to continue.

Rod walked towards the bed.

He came up to Orange and placed a finger on the center of the woman's chest.

"You must prove to me that you are worthy of being the master of the demon beast He."

"Haha, in fact, that's what I thought from the beginning."

Orange raised the corner of his mouth and replied with a joking expression: "Just keep the child in my body.

Instead of storing the familiar somewhere, it is kept in a container called Aozaki Orange."

"..."

Rhodes' expression changed, and he said coldly: "You will die.

I don't think you can survive. The puppet you created is perfect but only human.

By then, it is not just the body that will be polluted, but also the soul and spirit."

"It has nothing to do with puppets, right? What you actually want to say is, 'With your mere mortal consciousness, can you control the beast in your body?'"

Facing Orange's question, Rhodes did not deny it.

In fact, that's what he thought.

To him, the only humans who could have the power to rise above their animal nature were Aiga, Nero, and Morgan.

Although it was only one-seventh of animality, he didn't think that an ordinary human like Aozaki Touko could accept it and not be affected by it.