Chapter 183

Chapter 183

67. The Central Continent and A Difficult Guest.

—Davey, if elves treat you as their enemy, some humans will treat you the same.

People struggled with accepting the happiness of their own families, let alone strangers. If elves suddenly appeared and treated Davey as the enemy, it wouldn’t be strange if others hopped onto the bandwagon and did the same.

“They won’t be able to do anything just yet.”

—They won’t?

“Yeah.”

The curses that the Death Lord had taught Davey were to combat and defend against other curses, and Davey had no intentions of letting all of those lessons go to waste. For the dozens of curses that he had cast, it would take at least a few months to a year to break them.

He hadn’t used their curses out of irritation but out of the expectation that he would have conflict with the elves someday. As such, he didn’t think it was a good idea to just take bold action right from the start.

“Anyway, what do you think?”

—About what?

“The fact that there are people trying to bring you back to life.”

Perserque looked at Davey with a bitter expression.

—I don’t know. Feels like that was the only truth that the World Tree said.

Perserque, who was speaking calmly, suddenly looked at Davey with wide eyes.

-Wait... Davey! If I can come back to life!

“...”

Perserque still hadn’t given up on the Transcendence’s Demise.

—Davey! Just leave this for now! I will find a body and come back to life for sure!

Perserque was completely motivated, but Davey wondered if the unknown beings who were trying to resurrect her would place some limitations on her revival. He muttered, “We’ll see.”

—I will come back to life! I have no intentions of entering Nirvana before having that beautiful staff in my hands!!

“All right, all right.”

It was a relief that news of the horrifying incident had not reached the territory.

As the night deepened, Davey looked down at the lively streets that were still in a celebratory and festive mood from the window. Then, he walked over to the small room on the quiet, upper floor.

“...”

In the room was a woman silently lying on the bed. Her sky-blue eyes shone.

“This is the first time that we are meeting like this, right?” Davey asked.

“How long...have you known this?” Aina asked quietly.

Davey shrugged indifferently. “From the moment I saw you.”

“...” Aina looked up at Davey in silence. She found that answer thoroughly ridiculous.

She was definitely an adult elf in terms of age, but she still looked like a child due to her short height.

“First, thank you for saving me.”

“Yeah, you should be. You can consider yourself to be in my debt.”

“They are separate matters,” Aina coldly criticized Davey, then her eyes widened as she realized something. She blurted out, “Then, what you said before about not liking elves?!”

“Of course, I did it on purpose.”

“You fraud!”

It was quite funny that Aina, who was quite cold and emotionless, was showing this much emotion, but Davey did not say anything about that. He simply commented, “Who are you going to blame? It’s your fault for falling for it. And besides, I didn’t lie.”

It was true that Davey still did not like elves. He had accepted the elves of the Moon Forest because they were a little more open at least, but he still did not view the old, rigid, pointy ears favorably.

“...How did you figure it out? The artifact that changes one’s appearance...”

“I know because I can see through it.”

“That... You said that to me when you first saw me.”

Sometimes, to build toward the big picture, Davey had to take some questionable and small actions.

The headstones were empty and nameless. It was nothing but a cross made out of sticks being stuck onto the ground. Burying the bodies and then covering them up was also as easy as breathing to Spirit King Gnoass, so it was no difficult or long task at all.

It was quite amusing to see Aina’s shocked expression when she realized that Davey was contracted to Gnoass afterwards.

“Twinkle twinkle wittle staar!”

“H~ How I wonder what you are!”

Davey watched the two children show off their talents in amusement.

The children stood side by side and bent their knees together while shaking their hands. They were performing a simple song and dance Davey had taught them. It seemed that the girls found it interesting enough to practice and show it to Davey, who found the performance so cute that he wanted to bite their cheeks.

“Aw, so cute! Why are you so cute?” Davey sincerely hugged the two girls.

The girls giggled in delight and burrowed even deeper into Davey’s chest.

“Rinne, where is Myuu?”

“Rinne... Three people, too difficult a task... Require additional...pay...” Rinne, who was declaring a strike while limply lying on the floor, raised her head slightly and said, “Reporting that Myuu is working with Elf Yuria.”

“All right. I’ll take them today, so rest well.”

“Rinne... Appreciates the rest.” Rinne looked quite peaceful as she quietly closed her eyes as if she had fallen asleep.

Rinne sometimes chose to sleep like humans when she had to cool off her body that had overheated from too much movement. Thanks to that, she looked more like another species with wings and a halo floating on their head rather than a golem.

After the incident with Elder Condae, Yuria was taking extra care of Myuu. It could be said that she was overdoing it. She seemed to be trying to give Myuu all the love that she hadn’t been giving all at once, especially since she had the chance to do that now. Of course, considering what she had done so far, Davey wondered if that was the only reason.

“Red Ribbon and Blue Ribbon, where do you want to go with Daddy today?”

“T–The Food Market!”

“Delicious food! Um, um! A place with a lot of it!” The girls replied instantly. They were interested in the food market at the festival’s human section.

“Then, shall we go?”

“Yeah! Yeah!”

“Kyah!”

The girls rubbed their cheeks against Davey in a good mood.

“I like Dada!”

“Blue Ribbon likes Daddy more!”

The girls were seemingly competing against each other. Although they were swords in their true forms, they developed and grew just like other children. Thinking about that, Davey wondered what it would be like to have a mother figure who would comfort them and help guide them in the right way. The children did call Perserque ‘Mommy’, but she was just a spirit. The only person Davey could think of was...

—Of course, the only lady who would match your type seems to be that cute princess from the Lyndis Empire.

‘What about you?’

—Hey! I have no interest in a man who is more than a thousand years younger than me.

Perserque was not interested? Davey scoffed and stared directly at her.

‘You. We’ll see if you really are resurrected like the World Tree said.’

—Ha. Do you think I will be afraid of you?

‘I’ll let you borrow the Transcendence’s Demise.’

—Of course, my type is someone like you. Of course.

Davey wondered why Perserque was so easily bribed... Then, he chuckled.

“Dada! You like Red Ribbon?”

“Yes, I like both Red Ribbon and Blue Ribbon.”

“Th–Then, kiss Red Ribbon on the ch–cheek!”

Just when Davey was about to smile at how the children innocently and openly expressed their love...

“D... Dad?”

Davey heard an unfamiliar voice that expressed bewilderment.

“Hm?” Davey momentarily froze before turning toward the voice.

There was a shocked little girl who was all dressed up. She stood in place with a tense face. Her fox ears on top of her teal-colored hair perked up like she was nervous; perhaps she was quite surprised by Davey.