Magical Girl with Demonic Time Magic-Chapter 58: Secrets

Chapter 58: Secrets
"Meow" I jump into Pentael’s lap on top of a building as she watches a monster devouring a civilian, the monster dismembering the body and devouring it quickly.
"Hexael, why are you here?" She asks me without much patience, she’s been irritated recently since she got scolded because of me.
"Don’t be so mad, you know," I say to her with a little smile.
"You were the one who used that angel’s body, why did I get the blame? You could have told the truth," She says, still too irritated.
"Yes, yes, thank you for not telling the others," I say to her with a bit of gratitude, I would have serious problems if the others found out that it was me who used the angel’s body to give it to Setsuna without Setsuna herself knowing.
I needed Setsuna’s body to be that of an angel for her to have the various angelic advantages and to make up for what was missing in her.
"Why are you here, Hexael?" Pentael asks, and I decide to tell her, because she knows I came to ask for help.
"I need a small favor from you," She looks at me with her completely black eyes while her red hair sways in the wind, honestly it’s always bizarre to stare directly into her eyes.
"What do you want?" She just asks without questioning too much, that’s why I like Pentael, even when she’s angry, she always helps me, it’s rare for demons to help each other, but she always gives me the support I need.
"You know Setsuna loves Ayane, but Ayane obviously doesn’t love Setsuna romantically, and Setsuna doesn’t want that either since she doesn’t care."
"But I want to change that, so today I affected Ayane’s dreams so that she starts to think about what it would be like to be romantically involved with Setsuna." It was funny.
Ayane’s purity makes her see a simple kiss as something absurdly intimate and embarrassing.
"And where do I fit into this?" Pentael asks me, petting my fur.
"I want you to repeat this dream for Ayane, it’s annoying to have to show up at her house every day and control every aspect of the dream, you’re better at it and can do it from a distance."
"I want Ayane to have light dreams every night, nothing exaggerated, just light contacts like touches or kisses in the dreams, but the dreams should always end before Ayane manages to experience the kiss." I’ll work with temptation and need.
If Ayane has dreams about Setsuna every night but they always end before she can experience it, she’ll start to want to experience it and at some point she might try to kiss Setsuna.
"I understand what you want...but how would that be useful to you?" Pentael asks, a little more interested now.
"Simple, what do you think happens when you put an innocent person with love and another person who is completely oblivious to limits and will do anything for the ’love’ they have?"
"...I don’t know," Pentael just says she doesn’t know as she thinks for a moment.
"What I want is simple, Pentael, I don’t want to manipulate Ayane, I want to manipulate Setsuna. If Ayane is the one seeking a romance, Setsuna will accept and follow an obvious line of dating and care."
"But that’s where I want to get to, Setsuna is obsessed with Ayane and everything that binds Setsuna is the feeling of protection for what she has at the moment."
"But if Setsuna gets out of this comfort zone, she will become ’disoriented’ about what to do, and that’s where her obsession will take over her choices." Pentael gains a diabolical smile as she quickly understands.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA" She bursts out laughing because she loves this kind of thing.
"You’re really unique, Hexael, I love your ideas, are you really going to do this to your protégé?" She asks, and I just agree, it’s necessary even if it makes Setsuna suffer.
To both of us, it’s obvious what’s going to happen. At first, a relationship between Setsuna and Ayane would be "beautiful," it would be a gentle romance full of care and protection where both would be happy.
But Setsuna is extremely unstable, even if she doesn’t notice it. If she is removed from the comfort bubble she is in, her obsession will "leak out" and she won’t know what to really do in this relationship, slowly making the relationship toxic and clingy.
Setsuna is like a sweet, slow, and potent poison. A relationship between the two will end in failure because Setsuna will become increasingly controlling, and that will make someone as gentle as Ayane feel trapped and limited.
Setsuna is like a well-organized pile of stones trapped in a box, but if it is moved from its place, it collapses. If it is taken out of the box, it also collapses, and if someone tries to mess with it too much, it also collapses.
She herself doesn’t notice that this is how she is, and I bet that everyone around her doesn’t notice it either, but to us demons, humans are easy to read, and Setsuna is clearly an unstable person in every way.
And when an unstable and limitless person decides to do something, it obviously becomes dangerous, and that’s why a romance between Setsuna and Ayane starts normally, but slowly Setsuna herself will poison this relationship with her feelings that are too heavy.
"Humans are so strange," Pentael says, understanding what will happen, but not understanding why it happens that way.
"I agree, although Setsuna’s feelings are more similar to those of us demons," I say what it seems. We demons end up being very centered on a single personal choice to follow, and we are also not very stable beings, unlike angels who are perfectly stable.
In Setsuna’s case, it is very similar to us demons, although her motivation is love, which differentiates her from demons who follow other motivations.
"I’ll help you with this, Hexael. Every night, Ayane will have sweet, incomplete dreams. I’ll love to see where the romance of these two humans will begin to collapse," Pentael says with a malicious smile.
"Yes..." I know Pentael will get angry if she finds out what my real plan is. She won’t be happy at all, in fact, she’s capable of trying to kill me, especially since I’m involving her in this.
’My goal is more important,’ I tell myself not to show the slight nervousness of being discovered.
"Thanks for the help, Pentael, it really makes it a lot easier," I say to her with a fake smile, her help will really be very good.
"It’s okay, I forgive you for getting me in trouble, at least what you’re doing is fun," She says with an innocent smile.
"But Hexael, it’s better if you’re not tricking me...you have bad habits, and my patience is limited," She speaks with a serious tone that belies the smile from before.
"Haha, don’t worry, I’m not tricking you," I say to her, jumping off her lap as she stands up.
"It better be, others are suspicious of your disappearances and reappearances," She says as she begins to fade, leaving only a body that falls to the ground.
"..."
"Tsk..." I can only click my tongue, things are going as I want, but if one of them discovers it before I’m done, I’ll have problems, but I’ve already gotten what I wanted, so I decide to go to Setsuna.
Setsuna doesn’t need to know that it’s my fault that Ayane’s dreams will be something that will guide her as I want.
In the end, Setsuna may try to get ahead of me, but I know her better than she imagines, and I have everything I need to always stay ahead of her.
’I wonder what other things I can do to accelerate...no, I must be patient.’ I should not try to accelerate things too much, just starting to influence Ayane is already risking too much.
If that angel who is with her discovers my influence, I may have problems, after all, my presence on Earth is something that almost no one knows.
This was one of the advantages of a contract with Setsuna, I was only supposed to appear in this world in about 2 years, but thanks to the time travel with Setsuna, I arrived earlier with some advantages.
That’s why I have to take advantage before other demons can reach this world, as soon as we are all gathered, all my freedom will end.
For now, I just need to worry about Pentael and that other weird one who is also on Earth, other than those two, no one else is a big problem if I’m not ratted out.
Everything is going as I want, I just have to maintain the careful pace and continue influencing Setsuna in the way I can, and I already see an opportunity, she’s trying to get stronger and for that she will necessarily have to do evil deeds.
I appear on a roof, looking at Setsuna’s house, waiting for her to come out to go to school. She’s progressing well in her daily life, so even that is interesting to observe without her knowing.
Whether her evolution in power or personal, anything extra that I obtain, I can use to slowly make her more and more suitable for my plans.
I see her leave the house, her usual empty expression as she picks up her new phone and checks the time to see if she’s not late.
I notice that she doesn’t have the bandage on her arm anymore, it seems she has recovered after it was broken in the previous fight.
’5 days...it took her 5 days, it seems the angelic body is not yet so active.’ If she was using more than her body can provide, she could activate her wings to fly and also recover from damage much faster.
She understands that she shouldn’t remove the accessory on her head, so it’s obvious that the angelic body is working perfectly, but she still can’t use it. I need to put her in situations that require those flight and recovery abilities.
By default, if we compare a magical girl’s body to a tank and an angelic body to a super-resistant and reinforced space fortress, then Setsuna’s current resistance is weak compared to how much she can withstand blows.
’But that girl...Ayane...’ I think a little about this human that Setsuna loves so much, she’s strange, she has so much magic in her body and that angel seems so interested in her.
’Could that damn angel be trying to do something similar to me?’ It’s a possibility, that angel may be trying to do with Ayane what I’m doing with Setsuna, since both are different, the methods are also different.
"I may need to keep an eye on that human...I can’t let her ruin my perfect plans," I mutter, annoyed. Ayane is a good card to corrupt Setsuna, but at the same time, it’s like a double-edged knife that can mess everything up.
’I’ll keep an eye on that human too, if that angel is also doing something similar to me, I need to be careful with my steps,’ I think as I follow the path Setsuna takes without her noticing me.