Asuna couldn't sense the fluctuations of magic, but Negi could. The moment he spoke, though, he drew Asuna's attention back to himself...
Tch! What a naïve little brat!
Where Asuna couldn't see, Evangeline gave him a dark smile. Negi, who had seen that expression in full, couldn't help shuddering. Too... too utterly heartless! She was still using Asuna!!
"You're still trying to slander Evangeline!?" Just as expected, Asuna immediately erupted in anger, brandishing the wand she had 'confiscated' from Negi. "I have never seen anyone so shameless and brazen!!!"
Negi was so anxious he was nearly crying!!
Especially when he saw Evangeline, wearing that dark smile, secretly opening her little mouth to reveal her tiny fangs as she moved toward Nodoka's neck behind Asuna's back. He had to do something!
"Actually! Evangeline is my accomplice!!"
I'm fucking brilliant!!
Seeing Asuna's startled expression, and Evangeline stopping mid-motion with a touch of astonishment on her face, Negi let out a long breath. He was practically admiring his own cleverness.
"Are you an idiot?"
Asuna looked down at Negi, sitting on the ground, with the gaze one would use on an intellectually disabled child.
Fuck, this wasn't how the script was supposed to go!
Why was it that those false-accusation scenes he'd read about in books before were completely useless when he tried them!?
And what was Evangeline's mouth saying? Oh! She was talking. Judging from her lips, she was saying—young man?
"I'm telling the truth! I only did that to distract you, so Evangeline would have a chance to suck her blood..."
Asuna pulled a face and turned back for a look. Evangeline's face really was close to Nodoka's. "I... I just wanted to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, to wake Miyazaki up quickly and prove his ugly true colors."
What a shameless