Chapter 19
"Whhachaaaaa!"
"Ouch, that hurts!?"
Translator : PolterGlast
"Demon,"
Lotus stated firmly. I hadn't misheard. I opened and closed my mouth, facing
Lotus. My eyes were definitely red now, and on top of that, I had wings on my
back. Yep, a demon. What the heck?
I hurriedly turned off
the Flight skill, so the wings disappeared immediately, but it was definitely
too late now.
Occasionally, faint
moonlight fell from between the clouds in the sky. And streetlights were dotted
along the road. They weren't the convenient kind that turned on by themselves
at night; as evening approached, a man with a ladder would light each one
individually. So there weren't many, but unfortunately, there was a single
streetlight right in front of Harapeko-tei, illuminating us.
It might have been
nothing to the townspeople, but it was a job I had no memory of from my
previous life or from Eldorado's village upbringing. The sight of the man
opening the glass and lighting the fire with a creaking sound was so
interesting that I had excitedly watched it cheek to cheek with Ichi and the
others, but now I resented it. It was clearly illuminating my slutty style. My
cleavage was amazing. No, that wasn't the problem. Well, that was also a huge
problem, but "Fueh..." I shivered.
"Buehkushuu!!!"
After a powerful
sneeze, I paused and then gasped. When I lowered my gaze, Lotus's two swords
were hanging at his waist as usual. Oof, the turn of events was so much that I
felt like escaping reality. A demon was staring at a soldier, saying hello.
Honestly, it was the worst kind of pinch. Just, why did it come to this?
――――There's no way they
could see my eye color, so it's okay, it's okay.
Why did I think such a
flag-like thing? My hit face was throbbing, and honestly, I felt like crying,
but I couldn't.
"A-are you...
alright...?"
In fact, Lotus also
looked very bewildered. Of course. He looked up and saw a strange woman on the
roof. He must have thought, "What the heck is that?" and then she
suddenly fell from the sky. Without the Flight skill, it would have been a
hair's breadth away from a major accident. Or rather, does someone normally
fall face-first?
While a whirlwind of
self-disgust and sadness swirled within me, Lotus extended his large hand
towards me. He was only slightly taller than average, but his palm was quite
large. Perhaps because he handled swords, his hand was hard, and I was startled
as I was pulled up, slowly standing.
"Eh, ah, thank
y..."
I stopped there,
realizing. I was a demon. Lotus was a soldier.
It was a world where
evil was immediately slain, even more so than monsters! I acted before I
thought.
"Howatchaa!"
"O-ow, that
hurt!?"
El repaid kindness
with treachery!
I struck the side of
Lotus's wrist with the best knife-hand strike I could manage.
My feelings of sincere
apology clashed with the urgent need to escape, and with a bizarre movement of
taking a backstep while shouting, "I am terribly, terribly sorry!!!"
I raised both hands and threatened him with a "Shaa!" The blanket I
had retrieved flapped wildly in the wind. This was bad.
Realizing that the
atmosphere was about to become very strange, I lowered my threatening stance
and met his gaze. Only the cold kept hitting my body, making me shiver. I had
terrible goosebumps. I wanted to reduce the surface area of my skin.
"You..."
Lotus started to say
something. That's when it happened. "El~~~!" Ichi and the others
shouted in a voice only I could hear, above my head. Since my Tamer skill had
also leveled up, I could understand what they wanted to say without even looking
at their faces. It would be terrible if they could see not only me but even
Ichi and the others. They had been dimly glowing on the roof, but they wisely
suppressed their light, and I checked their status. They were properly under
illusion. Okay.
I'm fine, so hide!
Even if they could
hear Ichi and the others' voices, would they be able to hear mine? When I
strongly wished it in my heart, they disappeared from the roof as if startled.
Good. Now I faced Lotus. I didn't have time for this. "Yeah!" I psyched
myself up and ran. "Ah!" Lotus exclaimed in surprise. Behind me was
Harapeko-tei. But there was no way I could just go straight back. So, as if
colliding with Lotus, I dashed with all my might into the alleyway behind him.
If I was about to be
caught, I'd use the pillbug strategy. While rolling, I would disappear for a
moment with an illusion. Since the disappearance was only for a moment, there
was a possibility that my original child form would be seen, but I had no
choice but to take a gamble! But surprisingly, I slipped through easily.
Suppressing the urge to look back with relief, I kept running. I had to escape
far, far away. Far enough that Lotus couldn't catch up.
――――That day, a rumor
spread quietly through the town that a slut had appeared.
A woman with blonde
hair down to her waist, wearing a bodycon outfit, apparently ran through the
town at an incredible speed, clutching a blanket in one hand. From a distance,
her face couldn't be seen clearly, but her desperate state was obvious. And then,
in the blink of an eye, she disappeared.
Of course, that was
me. I wanted to die.
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