Extra Chapter.
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Appeasing a heartbroken yandere was never an easy task. It became even harder when they carried mental scars like Koneko, or when they were airheads like Xenovia and Irina. Even the mature Venelana started acting differently after that kiss, as if a switch inside her had flipped.
Though yanderes were not exactly right in the head to begin with.
"You really, really shouldn't do this again, senpai," Koneko said while sitting on his lap. She held a large cookie in her hand and spoke between bites as she munched on it. What happened after Yusuke was kidnapped had taken a heavy mental toll on her. She burned far too many calories during that time and barely had the appetite to eat.
"Darling~! Darling~! Darling~!" On the other hand, Irina leaned over his right shoulder, swaying slightly as her twin tail hair bounced, reflecting her joyful mood. She and Xenovia, who leaned on Yusuke's other shoulder, both accepted the situation after Yusuke and the other girls talked things through with them.
These two airheaded girls were simply relieved and happy that Yusuke was alive and completely fine. It did not matter to them that he had tricked them. In fact, they calmed down mainly not because of Yusuke's persuasion, but because their yandere minds twisted reality into something that made sense to them.
Since Yusuke was now the God they worshiped, something he did not even know himself, the two airheaded girls convinced themselves that this whole situation was simply a test from him to prove their devotion and love.
The two church girls even went so far as to start an entirely new religion devoted to Yusuke alone, and even Asia joined them. They had already begun writing their own Holy Scripture, filling it with praises dedicated to him. Compared to what they were doing, turning everything Yusuke did into a "test" of their sincere devotion was, in a strange way, quite normal.
On the other hand, Venelana did not want to compete for a place beside Yusuke at that moment. Instead, she returned to check on Rias, who was still unconscious. Venelana was already very satisfied knowing that Yusuke was safe and in the same room as her. Just being in the same space as him and sharing the same air he breathed was enough to satisfy her.
Venelana may have suffered the greatest shock among the women, but she was still someone with strong mental resilience. Rias, on the other hand, had grown spoiled. She was willful and temperamental, easily influenced, lazy, and had never truly faced a setback in her life. Not long ago, her greatest problem had been her engagement with Riser.
She was so spoiled that she carried the same disease many privileged brats had. The constant desire for people to recognize her for who she was, instead of acknowledging her powerful family. The disappointing part was that despite all those "great" aspirations, she was far too lazy to train. Instead, she ran away to Japan to enjoy otaku culture and fool around.
With such weak mental fortitude and weighed down by regret for rejecting Yusuke's offers multiple times until he was kidnapped, the moment she witnessed his death, her fragile mind broke down and shut itself off to protect what remained.
"Rias looks so pitiful. Aren't you going to do something for her?" Akeno stood beside the bed, watching Rias's pale sleeping face as she asked Yusuke.
It had been a while since Yusuke returned, but he had not bothered dealing with Rias. Instead, he spent most of his time chatting with Koneko, Irina, and Xenovia, or sometimes falling into silence as if thinking about something.
"Oh, yeah, it's about time," Yusuke suddenly looked up and replied. During this time, he had been trying to track down Grayfia. Honestly, he did not expect her to leave so quickly and easily. From what Sona told him, it seemed that Grayfia muttered something about resurrecting him before she left.
He had been trying to detect her ki signature using Instant Transmission so he could locate her and teleport to her.
Standing up, he gently moved Koneko, who had been sitting on his lap until then, and walked over to Rias.
'She looked so pitiful.' Her face was deathly pale, her eyes tightly shut, and her brows drawn together as if trapped in a terrible nightmare. Even so, it could not conceal her beauty. Her crimson red hair spread across the bed around her head, and she was dressed in the Kuoh Academy uniform. Her large chest rose and fell slightly as she breathed.
Yusuke wanted to complain. Why the hell did people still wear their school uniforms even during summer vacation? It was not only her. Sona, Murayama, Tsubaki, and the others were the same, all walking around in their Kuoh uniforms.
Sure, the uniform looked damn good on them and really showed off their figures in all the right ways, but come on. Didn't they own anything else? Anything at all? Seriously, a freaking school uniform?
Putting aside those stupid, unnecessary thoughts, Yusuke placed his hand gently over her head. A soft green light bloomed from his palm as he activated his skill, Healing Touch.
The Healing Touch ability mainly healed physical wounds and eased bodily fatigue. Rias was clearly not injured in any visible way. She was only suffering from severe mental shock. Using this skill just to wake her up felt like complete overkill.
"Hmm... Yusuke... D-don't... No... Don't die... Noooooo!!"
A few moments later, Rias's eyelids trembled before slowly opening. She suddenly sat up, her voice loud and panicked as the last word left her mouth.
Her eyes looked around in confusion until they landed on the figure sitting beside the bed.
"Yu... Yusuke...?" Her voice turned quiet and uncertain, as if she did not trust what she was seeing. She stared at him for a moment, her azure eyes wide. Her whole body jerked as if struck by electricity. Her hands flew to her mouth, fingers trembling so hard they blurred. Then, after a moment of hesitation, she moved, shooting up from the bed.
Rias threw herself forward and wrapped her arms tightly around him, pressing her face against his chest. Her body trembled as tears ran down her cheeks, her fingers clutching the back of his shirt as if he might disappear.
She had dreamt of this scene repeatedly while asleep. Yusuke would always appear before her, holding her, only to die cruelly before her again and again. It was an incredibly cruel and painful sight that tormented her soul.
It was as if Rias had finally managed to confirm that this was not another dream where he would be obliterated by her mother's attack. She could vividly sense Yusuke's strong, robust body, his scent, his warmth. She looked up and saw that warm look in his eyes, so full of love and tenderness. (No; he wasn't looking at her like that at all.)
"You're alive... you're really alive..." she said while sobbing. "I thought you died... I thought you left me..." Her arms tightened around him even more.
"P-please don't leave me... don't leave me again..." she said weakly. "I'll listen to you... I'll do whatever you say... I won't cause trouble anymore."
Her voice grew softer as she held him. She looked so pitiful that even the other girls present, who did not like her, could not help but feel pity for her. "I won't care about the other girls... I won't argue... I won't complain... just please don't leave me..."
She buried her face deeper into his chest, holding him tightly as she cried. Her arms refused to loosen, as if letting go would make him vanish again.
In the past, she could not accept or tolerate the idea of Yusuke being with other women. Every moment that passed, the thought that he lived surrounded by them, sleeping with them, going on dates, eating together, even bathing together, drove her nearly mad with jealousy.
But none of that mattered anymore. The regret that tormented her for days after Yusuke was kidnapped made all those things feel completely insignificant compared to losing the very reason for her existence, Yusuke.
"Please don't leave me again, I won't do stupid things again... I won't fight with the other girls or annoy you... I won't do stupid things again, I won't disappoint you... Please don't leave me, I can't live without you... I love you, Yusuke, I really, really, really love you..."
She dropped to her knees on the ground. Her hands slid down as she hugged his waist, staring up at him with tears flowing as she begged him desperately. Her hot tears streamed without stopping like a waterfall, soaking Yusuke's clothes.
"I promise I will do anything to make you happy. I won't make you upset again. I won't try using stupid plots to have you all to myself. If you want other girls, I'll be the first to bring them to you. I won't be jealous or envious. I'll do anything, just don't leave me."
"I only want to be by your side. I don't want much. As long as I can see you and talk to you, that's all I want."
"Please... Please..." She began to shake violently, her hands clutching tightly at his pants as tears fell onto them. Her whole body shook so badly that even Yusuke, whom she clung to, began to shake with her. "Give me a chance... please..."
During the time Yusuke was kidnapped, the regret that tormented her never gave her a moment of peace. She spent most of her days alone, blaming herself while going over everything she had done. She remembered how she plotted against Aika and Murayama, even tried to use the Fallen Angels to push Yusuke into becoming a member of her peerage, how she lied to him many times, her scheme with Grayfia, and many other petty things she carried out in secret to monitor him, steal his clothes, and more.
Even if these things were far more insignificant compared to the huge blunder she had made, even if Yusuke would not care about them even if he knew, to Rias, who was drowning in regret, they became magnified into unforgivable sins.
"I love you... I will always love you... I will love you forever... I will love you for all eternity... I will love you until the end of time... I will love you forever and ever..." Rias whispered while holding onto him like that. She kept speaking, repeating the same confession of love again and again, as if this was the only thing she could think of to prove her love for Yusuke.
"I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you..."
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