Chapter 33: Spirit bonds

Kindred suddenly took off her mask, blushed, and told me to do ‘that’.

When she took off her mask before, she didn’t look like a human face, but now Kindred, who has become an undeniably beautiful appearance, is saying to do ‘that’ doesn’t exist in any of the books I have researched about them.

So I inevitably have no choice but to ask Kindred what ‘that’ is.

If I make a wrong move, the meaning of ‘that’ can be perverted to something like that.

No, maybe Kindred said it with that meaning, but what for me to misinterpret that meaning.

What for would a spiritual being recommend such a thing to me?

When I asked Kindred to tell me more about ‘that’, she muttered in a very small voice.

“….Binding.”

“Yes? What binding?”

“Bonding! Soul bonding, I mean!”

I couldn’t hear it because her voice was too small, so I asked again, but she suddenly raised her voice and one of my ears went numb.

Anyway, soul bonding, is that a kind of contract that forces me to do anything by setting some kind of suppression on me?

I’ve heard that you shouldn’t guarantee from a long time ago, and that you should always think carefully about contracts, but I don’t know what to do about this.

I have to refuse if it’s a bond that is disadvantageous to me even by any chance, but I’m worried that Kindred can do it forcibly.

Maybe I’ll be left in this space that Kindred brought forever and wander without being able to escape, and become like Ahri, who is being chased by the wolf somewhere now.

While I kept having ridiculous delusions, Kindred, who was watching me blankly standing, pounded her chest with her fist as if frustrated and started explaining.

“So what is soul bonding, it’s like a necessary ritual to go back to the world you were originally in. The boundary between the real world and the spirit world has become blurred due to the Spirit Blossom Festival, so I brought you here, so you can only get out of here by bonding with the beings of the spirit world. To do that, you need to build up likeability first.”

“I understood everything, but why is the story of likeability suddenly coming out? Likeability and bonding don’t seem to have any connection. Are you really aiming for my chastity…?”

“It’s not like that!!! Originally, various conditions are needed for bonding, but raising likeability is the fastest and easiest way! Do you think I want to do such an embarrassing thing?”

Okay.

I understood everything.

So that’s why she blushed like that.

But I didn’t know the reason why she brought me to this world in the first place.

The fact that she called me here again and that she is doing soul bonding is to do something to me, but she hasn’t done anything yet.

The reason why death called me.

I must never let go of the string of tension until I know the reason.

“I might not be able to return to this world because her arrow is embedded in my knee without me even realizing it.”

“She looks so cute right now, but this could all be a tactic to make me lower my guard.”

“Ah, that’s right. There was a reason why I said let’s meet again.”

“What on earth is that. I was so scared because I didn’t know that reason all this time.”

She herself brought up the topic of the information I wanted most.

This is an opportunity.

I have to settle things with her here no matter what so that my life can be a little easier in the future.

Being called out to death from time to time is enough for once.

Kindred put her hands behind her back and slowly walked to me.

Then she stopped right in front of me, tilted her head, and looked into my eyes.

A period of confrontation continued for a while, and I was nervous about what Kindred was going to say, but she took her face to my ear.

This is… no way!

Slurp

“What.”

“As expected. This taste is… the taste from the dead!”

“Wh, what do you mean?!”

Calm down Jeon virgin man 20 years old current single mom 21 years old!

I don’t know how she noticed the fact that I had died just by licking my cheek once, but the important thing now is that Kindred may have realized about my past life.

I haven’t found a person who has memories of their past life like me since coming to this world.

This means that there is no such person other than me or that they are hiding their identity, one of the two.

If they are hiding it, it means that there is a reason for doing so, and this reason is likely due to the disadvantage when the identity is revealed.

Then there is only one action I should take.

That is to maintain consistent feigned ignorance.

Even death will not be able to look into people’s hearts.

I acted as calmly as possible and asked Kindred in reverse.

“The taste of death? Why do I have that taste?”

“I don’t know either. Are you perhaps an undead or a similar race? There has only been that in this case so far.”

Thank goodness, Kindred doesn’t seem to be able to read the story in me.

With this, Set and my slow life can be maintained.

Now, all that’s left is to build up likeability as Kindred said, finish the soul bonding, and enjoy the festival with Set for the rest of the time.

But when I actually try to raise likeability, it’s really difficult.

First of all, I don’t know what Kindred likes at all, and I don’t know how to raise it efficiently, so it may take a long time to raise likeability.

But!

Even if it’s death, if it exists in reality in human form like this, it’s clear that there are senses of the body!

And satisfying appetite, one of the three major human desires, raises satisfaction and happiness the most.

Therefore, I’m confident I can raise likeability by at least 30% if I use this magical ingredient I’ve prepared for unforeseen situations—like meeting Zoe or being attacked by her—along with the ingredients I can get here.

But this is the spirit world.

Do spirits eat something?