Chapter 102: If such coincidences are impossible, then it is an inevitability and thus is not my fault.
As I returned to my room, armorless Armored Pres-san also followed after me, so I sat her down on the bed, right next to me. There is no deep meaning to why I chose the bed. Though there might be meaning not so deep. Anyway, I just want to talk.
Since she can't talk that well, for now, I use this chance for a sort of rehabilitation and discuss various things with her. We barely know anything about each other, but there is no need to rush. She finally got out to the light, to a place with lots of people.
She must want to chat, that's why we talk, using it as a practice. Though she still mostly replies by nodding or shaking her head, she is trying to use words as well. For now, she is quite laconic, with Yes,Un-der-stoodsort of replies, but she is doing her best to speak.
She seems to be quite delighted with me patting her on the head as she does that, so I for now hold back from touching her in the other places. She finally reached a bright place, so turning off the lights in the room wouldn't be good. I'm doing my best as well, you know?
I'm holding back with all I have.
The first thing we discussed was the future, and to be more precise Taming.
She is not a monster anymore. It's strange for a person to be tamed by another person, so it should be lifted. A person shouldn't be bound by a skill meant to control monsters The bitches aside, they probably aren't even humans? So the skill classified them as monsters.
Which is reasonable considering how scary they are. Or rather, I can't lift it? It apparently can't be arbitrarily canceled by the tamer?
I told her that she is free, that she can remove the taming and do what she couldn't do until now, go where she couldn't, return where she was unable to, do whatever her heart tells her.
I told her that she can do whatever she wants, and explained that even without taming on her I'd help her out with anything. I did. But she shook her head with tears welling up in her eyes? Looking me right in the eyes she frantically repeated I-don't-want-to.
I thought that she probably didn't understand me, and tried to go over it again, over and over, but she kept shaking her head no matter how many times I do it?
Since it seemed like she was about to really burst into tears I askedThen, let's leave things as they are until you'd want to cancel it on your own?, to which she energetically nodded with a smile.
She was alone all this time, there must be no one she knows left in this world. So she probably wants some sort of connection with someone, even if it comes from something as terrible asTaming.
So it's fine if things stay this way for a bit more. It might be not fine in terms of my Affection Rating, but I'm pretty sure that at this point it is so low that it won't budge from something so trivial. And even if it were to fall, chances are it is already at rock bottom, so it must be okay.
Can this be called okay, though?
The next question was why she resigned from being a skeleton. Can you even resign from that? Even if you do, would you return to being human because of that? But Armored Pres-san actually has a splendid record of resigning from the posts of Dungeon Emperor, Lich, No Life King, and Dullahan.
About getting garbage skills.
About living in the cave on my own.
About my first fight.
How I ate nothing but mushrooms.
How the geeks and gobs were annoying by making noise in the middle of the night.
How I started fighting with the staff.
How I joined up with the girls and had to live in the tent.
How we wandered through the forest, trying to reach the town.
About our life in the town after we finally found it.DiiScver w storis on no//e()/lbin(.)c/o/m
About the ground stomping trend among the local nobles.
About how stupid the idiots are.
And the story of how I didn't die when I was heading for death.
How I then went to the dungeon, fell down, and met her. About everyone. I told her everything.
Talking about it like this makes it sound like all of it happened a long time ago. It's only been a month, but without me noticing, it now felt like something that happened years ago.
For some reason, she appeared angry when I spoke about Whatever-kun. Crying, but angry. This reminds me, when I came back the girls also were angry and crying. I feel like they are always angry at me?
But since everyone is smiling now and we even got 1 extra person, it's fine, right? Or rather, I'm not to blame here?
And as it got late we gradually grew tired of talking So after doing the deed, we went to sleep. After going at it to the point of complete exhaustion. No, I mean, I'm a highschool boy? What did you expect?