Are You Sure Our Empire's Knight Order Captain is a Yandere? - Chapter 14

Everyone went up to congratulate Jingong Yue on becoming the Gambling Empress. The bright, lively atmosphere over there was a sharp contrast to the gloom here…
“I concede.”
I put down the cards, pulled my white gloves back on, turned, and quickly left this painful place.
Waaah, my gold coins!
This is great. A three-month unpaid leave… what on earth am I supposed to eat?
Grass?
Just as I was fretting over dinner and my bleak future, my radar picked up an unknown signal…
… A stunner? Where? Where?
Alright, I know a load of people think I’m an idiot for looking for a beautiful girl when I’ve got nothing to eat, but honestly, I… I’m nineteen now!
Been single for nineteen years, too!
Ding ding ding ding, target detected, thirty paces away.
Long black straight hair… Loli figure… Short skirt… Black tights…
Heh heh heh.
My ideal type!
Hmm?
A Knight Order uniform! Is she one of the Knights?
“Oi, gorgeous member of the Knight Order! Might I have the honor of joining you for a cuppa?”
“What do you want?”
The stunner turned her head, and she froze, and so did I.
She’s definitely a stunner, ha ha ha.
“Jingong Ye, what are you doing here?”
“Huh? I was about to ask you! Don’t you have work?” Jingong Ye looked at me with an expression that suggested I was an imbecile, asking in astonishment.
“Me? I’m… unemployed. Ha ha.” I tried hard to ignore the bitterness in my mouth.
“You’re unemployed? Humph, serves you right, doesn’t it? If I were your boss, seeing your lazy work ethic, I’d kick you out too!”
The contempt in Jingong Ye’s eyes ratcheted up another notch.
Excuse me, are you looking at a pig, miss?
I saved your life, you know, and for the past three years, I’ve practically poured my heart out for you.
Wuwuwuwu, at least treat me like a human being!
There’s no helping it. Since I’m being looked down on this badly, I can only bring out my ultimate killer move.
“The Rencio-Duo Style, Secret Martial Art: Kneeling with the Might of a Thousand Armies!”
“Lady Jingong Ye, would you be generous enough to spare a mere pauper a few gold coins?”
“Oh? Asking for a loan? Why on earth should I, the Brigade Commander, lend you any?”
My forehead pressed against the cold flagstones, I answered respectfully, “Because… because…”
Blast it, why should Jingong Ye lend me money?
Thinking about it, I might be pushing it a bit. She gives me a free room to live in, and now I’m shamelessly running over here to borrow money…
“Sometimes, I just think I’m too kind-hearted,” Jingong Ye said, shaking her head as she pulled a pouch of gold coins from her cloak.
“Brancion!”
“Present!”
“I have an urgent commission from the Knight Order here. Can you help me out?”
A Knight Order commission? Something like tackling a few bandits?
Clink clink clink
As if seeing through my hesitation, Jingong Ye “casually” rattled the money pouch in her hand.
“Report, Commander! I can help!” I caught the money pouch Jingong Ye tossed up and down.
Anyway, the commissions are probably dead easy, right?
If I ever learn a time-based forbidden spell, I’d go back five minutes, no matter the cost, and give my clueless past self a good slap across the face.
“Thank you, my Lady!”
“Don’t mention it!” Jingong Ye pursed her lips and giggled sweetly, a mischievous glint in her eye. “That’s your wage, you know!”
“Eh?”
Hearing the crucial word, I bounced up from the stone pavement in shock. “Wage?”
The payment you get after doing a job is called a wage, isn’t it?
“Mmm-hmm,” Jingong Ye nodded and carried on,
“The last time the Knight Order went on a reconnaissance mission, they accidentally ran into the Demon Clan and got battered pretty badly. As the Commander, I want to find someone with a decent grasp of martial arts to train the Knights.”
“So?” My voice might have accidentally gone up eight octaves. I had a very bad, very bad feeling about this…
Responding to my shrill query, a sweet smile spread across Jingong Ye’s small face.
This smile… I was privileged enough to have seen it once before.
That was three years ago, on Jingong Ye’s fifteenth birthday. When I woke up, Jingong Ye had this exact smile, a smile that made a strange, happy feeling bubble up in my heart.
Then I got dragged into the wooden cabin and was clatter-clatter-thump-thump-ouched. That’s what happened.
The sweeter the loli smiles, the scarier she is. Truly. I’ve experienced it firsthand.
“It’s simply splendid that Mr. Brancion is willing to accept this commission without fear of hardship!”
Ha ha ha, as the saying goes, never accept a request from a beautiful girl.
I don’t want to touch this mess with a barge pole!
I’ve already got the cash. “Sorry, I’ve got a prior engagement in a moment…”
I quickly greased my soles, ready to scarper.
“Sister, a naughty lad is bullying me, trying to run off with my money!”
At that exact moment, a powerful blast of wind smashed me, knocking me flat onto the flagstones.
Waaah~~~~ Oof~~~~~
I instinctively tried to get up, but a gracefully contoured little leg, encased in white tights, landed on my side, and a sultry voice came from above my head.
“Ah, Lanlan, don’t run away!”
This is bad, incredibly bad. I was just thinking how normal she was back at the gambling den; had she finally been cured?
Turns out she just hadn’t had an episode yet?
The owner of the sultry voice, Jingong Yue, licked her lips excitedly, a sick smile plastered on her face.
“Do you want to escape from your Sister that much?”
“That’s not what good boys do, is it?”
“A naughty lad must accept his Sister’s loving punishment, you see!”
Ouch! It hurts so much, my stomach!
I’m about to be trodden right through! You blithering fool! Stop it, now!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The sound of a whip tearing through the air jolted back my consciousness, which was about to fade from the extreme pain.
Wait, a whip?
I opened my eyes, and Jingong Yue still wore that sick smile, but now a leather whip had appeared in her slender hand.
“Heh heh heh, Lanlan~~ Sister loves you the most!”
“Aah-st!” Jingong Yue’s words were accompanied by a crack of the whip on my body, her sickening confession delivered one lash at a time.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Jingong Ye has already signed a contract with this madwoman, this Demon Bl00d with maxed-out Yandere stats, and my mission is complete, so why am I still being whipped every day just like before?
Someone, anyone, tell me why!
And I hope the person who tells me is a cute little girl.