Editing Amaryllis in the Ice Country:Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 3===

“Hey, if you’re going to do anything strange to me, I’m not going to forgive you.”

“Don’t say that. Just watch.”

“Hey, I said not to touch anywhere strange.”

I pinch the itchy hand of his. “Ow!” and he yells in much exaggerated pain.

“So…”

I look up at him,

“W-what’s this important thing…now?’

The one who called me out through the emergency wireless communicator is Eisbahn.

—It’s something important. Please come by.

Normally, I wouldn’t be fooled by his sweet talk. But ever since the ‘duet’ during that Prayer Festival, my stance towards him isn’t as hard as before.

“It’s this, this.”

He picks up something with his finger. It’s a microchip the size of a little finger nail.

“…A high-end memory chip?”

“Yeah. Some valuable data inside. I want to watch it with you.”

“…”

“What is it?”

“Ah, no, it’s nothing.”

I feel a little distraught, listless for a while. I am not hoping for something, but what’s he planning, asking a young maiden out to ‘watch an interesting video’ together. I’m not a child anymore. No, I didn’t have any hopes.

“Now then, put it into the replay set.”

“Wait. Isn’t this our masters’…!?”

Eisbahn slowly pulls out something. It’s the Poly Screen I saw before.

“Did you bring it out!?”

“Just a little while and nobody will no.”

“You idiot. We can’t do this. Chief forbid us from going to that place.”

With regards to that room we found three weeks ago—the ‘Secret Room’, Chief’s orders are that no uninvolved people are to enter. ‘We’ll investigate this a little more’, it’s because of this reason that we have yet to disclose its existence to the ordinary people.

“Hehe, the more you say no, the more I want to.”

“No means no…anyway, this thing.”

I stare at the microchip.

“Is this the one with the perverted images?”

“There’ll be a strip model resembling you showing up.”

“Are your Mind Circuits rotten or something?”

I stamp on Eisbahn’s foot “I’m going back!”, and storm off. I really am an idiot to be hoping for any romantic works.

“Hey, wait! I’m joking, joking!” He hastily grabs my shoulder, “I haven’t watched the content! Anyway, you’ll regret not watching it! It contains our masters’ secret!”

“…Really?”

I stop in my tracks, and turn around.

“…R-right.”

“Then why are you looking away?”

“Ah, you see.” He shows the microchip. “I took this from the ‘top secret’ cabinet’, so it definitely contains that.”

“Not some top secret lewd video?”

“It’s possible.”

“I’m going back.”

“Wait wait wait Amaryllis!”

With a cheesy voice, he calls out to me.

“It’s because of me that you manage to win the ‘Grand Prix’ at the festival, right?”

“Uuu…”

Faced with his words, I falter a little.

“I didn’t see what’s inside This microchip has some strange additional encryption. It’s not too late to go back if it’s some lewds, so please. Okay, okay?”

“Hmm…really?”

“Really really.”

“…Got it.”

To be honest, I really am interested in the content of the chip. There’s also the ‘top secret’ part on it, which piques my curiosity further.

“But we have to decrypt it, right?”

“Got to ask Viscaria.”

“I see, only Viscaria can do…eh?”

I look at him, “…hm? Where are you looking?” Eisbahn grins away.

“I say, did you call me out…just to call Viscaria out?”

“Well, if I ask her directly, there’s no way Viscaria will come out, right? But if it’s you, it’s a different matter.”

“…I’m just a sideshow, right?”

I glare at him, utterly peeved as I am today.

“Hehehe, I’m quite the smart one…oof!”

I punch the face of the blond, and yell,

“I’m going back after all!”