Chapter 127: Aunty Loves Her Niece! (4)

Chapter 127: Aunty Loves Her Niece! (4)

“It’s a wolf! It has a fluffy tail!”

That was Cecily’s observation of Yan-Orvault. It must have been her first time seeing a werewolf but he certainly did have a fluffy tail.Seeing Cecily, Orvault nodded his own reaction saying, “It has been a while since I’ve seen a human child.”Then Cecily asked.

“There’s a fluffy tail but no tail or wings. Is this person a demon as well?”

It was a reasonable question.Regarding this, Cariote explained.

“Whatever it looks like, anything that lives in Pandemonium is a demon.”

It was kind of an answer.Demons referred to something like a nationality rather than an appearance or race. The king of the forest, Orvault, chuckled as if he had heard something funny.

“To us, it is you from the outside world who are the demons. You have killed countless numbers of our kind.”

“Well, that’s because the Demon King and his subordinates, you guys, started the war. You also killed countless humans.”

“Indeed, that is correct. But this land is cursed. If we cannot start a war with others and take their possessions, we will decay.”

As Orvault said, Pandemonium was too barren and couldn’t grow anything.The trees were withered and it hardly rained.

Evil karma constantly crawled through the earth like tar and mutated lifeforms, so they had to kill and kill in order to gather limited resources.

“We had no choice but to become demons.”

The werewolf ended with a chuckle.At that, Cecily snorted.

“That’s not true. Being born and growing up in a tough environment doesn’t give you the right to steal from others.”

A sound argument.Cecily must have learned well from school or her grandparents. To say that you committed a crime because of your circumstances was only an excuse, after all.There were many who sought the right solutions in spite of difficulties and that was the right thing to do.

The werewolf Orvault also agreed, “You are right, child.”But then he added something.

“However, the misfortune of those born here was too great to even consider that route. Keep still and take a look.”

Orvault hid his presence as much as possible and moved the grass aside. Then through the opening in the grass, we saw something strange.

It was like a smooth, polluted lump made of black mud. Like a slime, it wasn’t a consistent form and it was consuming a Night Rabbit.

━Kiiiiieeee—!

The slime crawled into the rabbit through its ears, nose, and mouth and settled inside its body. The rabbit twisted around for a bit then with its legs bent strangely, it staggered along.

━Kiiiiaaaa—!

I was thinking what an awful screech it was when Cecily asked.

“My goodness, what is that? It looks possessed!”

“It’s a fragment of evil, a curse that eats away at the land. Once your body is possessed, then it’s over. There are many of them all over Pandemonium. See how many there are.”

There really was a ton of slime where the werewolf’s claw was pointing. They were even at our feet.

“... Hiiik!”

Cecily panicked.The werewolf calmly rolled his feet over the slime and burst it.

Splat—

━Guuuk!

It burst like a water balloon and died.After letting out a sigh of relief, Cecily asked.

“If this disgusting creature is the problem, can’t you just get rid of it?”

“Indeed, you are a smart one. But what if it cannot be done? What if they endlessly come up from the earth? That is the case with these, continuously appearing. It has worsened these days, even.”

“How come?”

“That is this land’s judgment. It was once the territory of a splendid ancient kingdom. But it became ruins in a single day. They committed a forbidden act and it brought a curse upon everyone.”

Swish—Soon, something appeared out of the grass.It had the appearance of a child with a large flower sitting crookedly on its head like a hat.It looked about Cecily’s age, which shocked her.

‘That’s a Childrake?’

They said it was a plant.But no matter how you looked at it, it was a kid around Cecily’s age, not a plant!It was only different in that it was covered in leaves instead of wearing clothes.

“Who’s there?”

‘Ah, was I noticed?’

Cecily could feel a cold sweat on her forehead.A flower-head girl was approaching where Cecily was hidden in the grass.The slingshot aimed between its eyes also started to shake.

─Missed. Deduction.─Never get caught.

Mom’s scolding.And Astarosa’s voice giving her advice ran through her head like echoes, then Cecily finally closed her eyes.

Ping—! Shhhk—!With the sound of rubber snapping back to its original state, something flew through the air.That something collided with a thwack.

“Kyaaa!!!”

Plop—Cecily opened her eyes at the sound of a child’s shrieking and falling.Before her, was the flower-head girl, collapsed on the ground.

“... I-Is it dead?”

The slingshot was powerful.And that hit directly on the forehead so it wasn’t strange that it was dead.Cecily was feeling conflicted but she calmed her beating heart as much as possible and stepped out of the grass.

“... Uuuu.”

“I-It’s not dead!”

The flower-head girl was still alive—That fact made the hairs on her headstand.

─Make sure of it.

Astarosa’s voice echoed again in her ears.

Cecily aimed again at the forehead of the defenseless girl, but her face overlapped with the Night Rabbit that Cariote had caught earlier.

‘I need to defeat it!’’

Defeat the Childrake and get home.Cecily kept repeating that to console herself.However, Cecily wasn’t able to shoot again.

“Get that away!”

Before she knew it, the Childrake girl had opened her red eyes, glaring as she twisted Cecily’s hand.

‘W-What kind of strength...!’’

At the strong grasp, Cecily was forced to let go of the slingshot.It was a critical situation.

“F-Fuck!”

Cecily clenched her eyes shut and let out a curse.When she did, something unexpected happened.

“Fuck? What kind of word is that?”

The hand that was twisting hers was loosening its grip.When she opened her eyes, the flower-head girl was tilting her head.

“What does ‘fuck’ mean?”

Cecily didn’t know what was going on but she had to do something to survive this.

“F-Friend!”

“Friend?”

“... It means you want to be /genesisforsaken