The Reincarnation Room
Stay with Me

After leaving the world of Aria the Scarlet Ammo, Ryan spent half a year in the world of The Asterisk War training.

In other words, Ryan had barely met Aria for half a year.

Shana has a similar figure to Aria in many aspects.

Therefore, Ryan inevitably thought back to the cute girl who was wayward.

Seeing Ryan's face like that, the happy expression on Shana's face started to disappear and became a little annoyed.

Shana herself understood why she was annoyed to hear it.

Because, compared to Ryan, as the Flame Haze, Shana could not fight together, eat together, and also face all enemies together.

Flame Haze almost always fought alone, unless there was a powerful Crimson Lord that required Flame Haze to cooperate. Other than such special cases, the Flame Haze had always fought alone.

It had become a common thing in this world, and Shana had also gotten used to this mindset.

However, seeing Ryan's expression filled with nostalgia and longing, Shana felt that she had lost something important, and she felt very upset by this feeling.

Moments later, Shana uttered a cool word, "The need for a Partner proves that you are not yet an adult."

Shana realizes that her anger at Ryan is groundless. However, Shana's bad mood makes her unable to control her attitude.

Instead, Ryan who saw Shana's irritated expression instead smiled warmly. "Then, doesn't that mean all Flame Haze are immature?"

"After all, inside your body, there is a Crimson Lord dwelling right? Don't you think of him as a partner?"

Shana was silent as soon as she heard it.

Alastor, who had heard Ryan and Shana's conversation, also fell silent.

Right now, in the minds of Shana and Alastor, they realized that the humans in front of them were much more savvy about the essence of the Flame Haze than they were themselves.

As the two were pondering, Ryan suddenly returned to speaking. "Okay, I've decided! If you have nowhere to go tonight, stay with me!"

"Eh?!"

Shana is shocked to hear Ryan's call to stay.

Even Alastor seems to feel very anxious that Ryan has another agenda against Shana and himself. 

Alastor asked Ryan. "Didn't you refuse us to follow you before?"

"At that time, you had indeed designated Friagne as your target. So I'd mind if you followed me. I'm afraid you'll get in my way."

"However, before you leave, you promised me not to interfere with Friagne's business."

"So, as long as you keep that promise, I'll let you stay here." 

"In addition, I know you have no place to shelter from the cold night breeze. I don't have the heart to let a girl like Shana sleep cold outside."

Ryan's persuasive words made Alastor unable to refute him.

Shana looked at Ryan as she frowned and said, "You're really a strange man."

"I don't want to hear it from you." Ryan grinned in disbelief and said, "In short, if you have nowhere to go, stay here with me. You can sleep in my bed, while I can sleep under."

"The bathroom is next to the room." Ryan pointed in one direction and said to Shana, "If you want to take a shower, we can use it right away."

Seeing Ryan arranging everything, Shana nodded her head. Shana then looked towards the pendant she was wearing.

Alastor seemed to know what Shana was thinking and immediately said, "This human is quite intelligent. Friagne is a cunning Crimson Lord. To avoid Friagne's surprise attack in the middle of the night, he asked us to stay together to stay safe."

"Well, I understand ..." Shana would not nod.

However, Shana had no intention of taking a bath. Because the Flame Haze does not need a bath.

Generally, the Flame Haze cleansed its body using the power of the Crimson Lord that was within their bodies. That power is called the Purifying Flame (Purifying Flame). 

With the Purifying Flame (Purifying Flame), the Flame Haze could remove various impurities in their bodies. In terms of efficiency this power is much more efficient than bathing.

However, Ryan destroys Shana's idea of not taking a shower.

"After taking a shower, you can sleep better. Although this method is not efficient, it is enough to help mental health. Try it first …"

Shana discovers that what Ryan is saying is perfectly logical. He then went to the bedroom to put his sword and pendant on the bed. 

After which, Shana rushed off to the bath, and took off her clothes one after another.

Taking off her clothes, Shana said in an annoyed tone, "What the hell is that human?!"

Although Shana very rarely communicates with humans, but this is the first time Shana feels pressured by a human being to be unable to dwell.

"Obviously, he was just a very arrogant human being. But why can't I do anything in front of him? this is really upsetting!"

Shana desperately wants to be able to refute all of Ryan's words. But if he did, Shana felt he would lose and fall even deeper.

"A very horrible human …"

With this kind of thinking, Shana stepped into the bathtub.

~***~

On the other hand, Ryan walked into the room to change his clothes after tidying up a few bags of melon bread that filled the table.

On top of the bed, Shana's pendant continued to emit a yellowish-red fire powder.

The pendant was actually an Artifact.

The so-called Artifacts were a tool used to express the desires of the Crimson Lord sleeping within the Flame Haze's body.

Each Flame Haze must have an artifact used as a communication medium between the Contractor and the Crimson Lord.

When a human contracts with the Crimson Lord, the human must allow the Crimson Lord to enter his body to grant him power as the Flame Haze.

However, humans are very weak creatures. Therefore, in order for the Crimson Lord to enter the body of the contractor, the Crimson Lord would have to minimize their own strength. And to do so, the Crimson Lord was silent inside the Flame Haze in a sleeping state.

Under such conditions, a sound-asleep Crimson Lord would hold a bit of its existence on the Artifact to communicate with the outside world.

And this pendant was an Artifact used to represent Alastor's will.

Therefore, even though Alastor was asleep inside Shana's body, Alastor's will remained on this pendant, and he was also able to see the outside world through this pendant.

So, when Shana takes a shower, Alastor can still talk to Ryan.

"The past two days you've eliminated many Torch, but Hunter hasn't appeared yet. What are you going to do next?"

"What am I gonna do? Of course I'll still do that!" Ryan said casually as he changed his clothes, "Torch in this city has a very important meaning for Friagne. Even if he had patience, he would definitely not remain silent when he saw the Torch he had made was diminishing."

"Sooner or later, he'll show up in front of me."

"really?" Alastor said seriously, "Is that really the City Devourer?"

"It looks like you can already guess the Crimson Lord's purpose." Ryan grinned and said, "However, he won't make it."

These words, Ryan spoke in a relaxed and confident tone.

However, precisely because of that, Ryan's words give others a sense of security and trust.

This is one of the persuasive Techniques that Ryan is a student in Aria the Scarlet Ammo's world as a student of Assault's class.

Therefore, Alastor felt comfortable with Ryan's words earlier.

"Haah~" Alastor let out a voice similar to the person who sighed and said, "You are truly a very interesting human being."

~***~

The night came so fast. In the room of Ryan's Apartment, the lights seemed to have gone out, and the atmosphere became very quiet.

Both Ryan and Shana, they have both fallen asleep. Only Shana's pendant continued to emit light as if it was exhaling.

No one knows. From outside Misaki City, there are other things that will come to this city.

Misaki City wrapped with beautiful stars in the sky, looks calm and peaceful, as if this city is a boat that will face a storm.