Chapter 89: I Need an Explanation
Chapter 89: I Need an Explanation
Whats with this situation?
Awoken by the surrounding noise, the first thing that I saw was absolute chaos. On one side, old man Kent was restrained with Bind and his butler Barry was clinging on to him and crying. Meanwhile, Urania was scowling at both in utter fury and the unknown girl was endlessly apologizing while curled up behind Urania.
Whats with this situation?
I couldnt help but mutter the same words one more time. These members here arent particularly weird themselves. I already extracted the magic power clinging on old man Kent, and the butler Barry being by old man Kent is nothing out of the ordinary. While Urania should have gone to a different floor, she probably already finished dealing with them and went looking for me.
Im surprised to see that the girl is awake, but other than her fear-driven repeated apologies, she seems to be doing well. My healing of her was somewhat forceful, so I was worried about that, but it seems like there wasnt any damage to her. We must watch over her for a while to make sure of it, but, somehow, I have a hunch shell be fine.
Urania. Lily! Uwa!
In the meantime, I called Urania to ask about what happened here and, with the fury in her face suddenly gone, she dove into my chest with a relieved smile.
So youre finally awake. Sorry about that, old man Kent. It looks like I overslept. Are you al- well, you dont look alright. Would you like a Heal? Hoho, dont mind if I do. My backs quite sore, you see?
Rather than the back, the wounds he got from the magic power rampage should definitely feel worse, but old man Kent just went along with my casual tone. Ill immediately Heal up his back and all of his wounds. Still, it feels weird that old man Kent is more bothered about his back, which he didnt even particularly complain about before, instead of the pain running throughout his entire body. Huh? Is that some sort of footprint on his back?
Fuu~, amazing as usual. Say, why were you tied up? Nn, its punishme-Mo-more importantly, Miss Lily. What happened to your body?
Did I just hear Urania speaking? Before I could finish thinking, my mind froze from Barrys question. Body? My body Its just normally
Ah!?
I pictured my current appearance. I undid Human Transformation and went into succubus form. After that, I exhausted myself and, if I remember correctly, fell asleep without returning to human form. This is my true form, so theres no way that Id automatically return to human form just because I fell asleep. My current body is that of a succubus.
Ahh, well this is A wing of thin skin and a black tail The distinct features of the devils and demons heard in legends. . Dont make that grim face. We know that you arent a being of evil. Theres likely a reason for that appearance of yours.
I didnt really intend to hide it in particular, but I still have some doubts about me being a Nightmare or otherwise a Succubus. What I mean here is are Nightmares monsters? The eggs we found at the sacred mountain. Grim and Fyne seem to have concluded the roper hatched from those eggs, but Im not convinced that something born from an egg would go out of its way to parasite on bandits.
And then the mystery that is my existence. I was reincarnated into this world after dying on earth. Exactly, reincarnated. Yet despite that, instead of being born as a baby, I became the character that I once drew in the past. Since I died and became a different existence, it shouldnt be wrong to call it a reincarnation, but I have a hunch that this differs totally from a normal one. There are beings in this world born in a fully grown state. Monsters. I dont know how much mana they needed to bring forth a being like me; I have a large total of magic power and several powerful skills. I cant imagine it to be small, its likely that an amount that would break the sacred mountains ecological balance would be necessary.
Well, Im not a normal human. I wont inquire about the details. However, it would be best to avoid displaying that appearance to other people. Is that because this form would cause a problem? Its hard to deny that, but no. The issue here is the color. Color?
It seems like the color black isnt too welcomed in this country. Theres a shunning of the color black to where the term black serf existed. Its not really that much of an issue for commoners, and even among the nobles, the discrimination of black fur or hair is outwardly refuted.
However, thats only outwardly. Its widely believed that people born with the color black on their body had committed great sins in their past life. While I have no memory of doing some great sin in my past life, if Torias testimony of me earning an absurd amount of EXP from my doujins are true, then that makes me a great sinner that slew gods.1
As long as nothing like this happens again, Ill be fine. I hope so. Incidentally, about that girl, how should we handle her?
Hearing the old mans words, I turned around. Losing the cover of Uranias shadow, the girl that curled up earlier is now cowering as she crouches with her hands over her head.
- Lyly: Wait, by that you mean The ones that were going to be born? lol