Chapter 9: The reunion wasn’t so great. At least for me

Three meals a day and all food, clothing, and shelter are guaranteed, you don’t even have to earn money, and you can live your whole life being cared for by a beautiful woman. It’s not bad to proceed with the confinement route like this.

Isn’t it happiness to be locked up by a woman you like and live with her forever, the system whispers, smiling as if it were someone else’s business.

I gave the system, which was constantly whispering, a cold look.

It seems that this system has not learned how to properly engage and disengage. It caused a lot of trouble when I was possessed by the previous game, and it doesn’t seem to have changed much this time either.

I don’t know if the system itself knows that I want to beat it up every time it does that.

It probably doesn’t know.

If it did, it wouldn’t have done this. Maybe it’s doing this because I can’t hit it. It was a problem whether I could hit it or not, since I didn’t even know if it had a physical body.

I’ve always wondered.

Who is the person who created the system that kidnapped me twice from Earth and never showed its face?

There’s no way such a systematic system could have suddenly appeared. I glared at the flickering quest window in front of me, then looked away.

That wasn’t important right now. A fruitless staring contest with the system is just a waste of time.

I looked at Leticia, who was shining dangerously.

Leticia, who looked up at me with a face that told me to answer quickly, was beautiful enough to be considered attractive even by the same woman.

Yes, she was beautiful.

Except that her eyes were burning with madness and obsession.

It’s true that it’s scary to face such eyes head-on. My hands were damp with sweat.

It should be called instinctive fear.

In terms of specs, the body I’m wearing now, Charlotte, wouldn’t be inferior to Leticia. If I fight now, I’m sure to lose, but I won’t be overwhelmingly defeated without even being able to fight.

I can hold on for a while.

Even though my stats are trash, I’ve been in the game for three years.

In those three years, neither long nor short, I fought on the battlefield and learned various tricks from those called geniuses, regardless of stats, and took away the skills they had accumulated.

However, seeing her unusual spirit and the vast amount of mana emanating from her whole body, fear came before fighting spirit.

I feel like I’ll be crushed by her spirit alone.

‘She’s gotten stronger than when I last saw her in the hero’s party.’

I can’t win. Attacking is death.

Leticia doesn’t say it in words. She’s showing it with her actions. Don’t try to be clever. I don’t know how strong you are, but if you attack, you’ll have to be prepared to die.

Of course, that was the right way.

Sometimes, among those who responded to the summoning magic, there were cases where they judged that the master who summoned them was weaker than themselves and killed them. Even if a constraint is imposed, if the master who summoned is lower in rank than the summoned creature, it is useless. Such people are often killed by the summoned creature.

Therefore, it’s not necessarily a bad thing to take the initiative from the beginning.

As a bad example, sometimes foolish humans who summon demons and want a contract try to control the demons, but are killed by the proud demons.

Perverts. I frowned with one eyebrow, recalling them.

In the middle of the imperial capital, a crazy nobleman summoned a demon, and people died like mayflies, causing a commotion.

To that extent, the game I was previously possessed by was an apocalypse world on the verge of doom.

The sequel is an academy love comedy where the younger sister of the previous work’s female protagonist appears as the female protagonist. No, it’s an R-rated romance, so how can I not be stressed?

Whether this kind of game sequel came out or not, even if I wanted to see Leticia or other members of the hero’s party, I shouldn’t have played it.

“Huh? Aren’t you going to answer?”

I was at a loss for words at Leticia’s actions, who came closer without fear and now gently stroked my chin with her hand.

Was this a game to make me feel the position of being summoned? It’s not a good feeling to have to kneel down like a pet.

‘It’s like a master who tames a ferocious beast is making it cute.’

I let out a groan at the feeling that the genre was changing again.

What should I do? If I tell the truth, the confinement route is confirmed. If I don’t say it and let it go, I’m afraid I’ll be interrogated for picking up unnecessary gossip. However, if I say that I’m a hybrid with human blood mixed in, I can see the ending where I’ll be dissected alive in this place, regardless of my wish.

That’s more terrible than the confinement route. At least I’ll be alive in confinement. Dissection can kill you if you’re not careful.

“…By the way, the more I look at you, the more curious you are. I wonder if it’s because you’re a legendary demon,

huh? Answer me.”

I’m dying to know. Leticia, with a smile that stimulates the hearts of men, poked the fangs that protruded from between her lips with her fingers and urged her to answer.

I don’t know what’s so strange.

Unlike me, who made a face that didn’t understand the meaning, she looked at my face with a look of a sorceress full of academic curiosity, and added.

“If you can’t grant my wish, I hope you’ll let me dissect you later.”

I’ll revise it.

No matter what, I don’t want to meet my end by being dissected by someone I love.

I made a disgusted face at the moment of Leticia’s persistent gaze, who was talking about theory, saying that I didn’t look like a human or a pure-blood demon, as if looking at a curious creature.

“You’re the first human to ever say they want to dissect me.”

“What an old-fashioned confession. Did you fall in love because I’m the first? What a pity. I’m sorry, but I already have someone I love.”

“It’s the same for me. I’m already taken.”

“Oh. I’d like to ask who that is… but I don’t have time. So, getting back on topic, if I make a wish to you, can you

bring a living being from another world?”

Even just the soul is fine. I’ll make an artificial body and put it in there. I looked at Leticia, who was saying such gruesome words casually, with a completely disgusted expression.

I wonder if she’s thinking of making a homunculus (little man) that I’ve only seen in novels or movies and putting my soul in it.

The power to kill or save lives is regarded as the power of God by the people of this era, and it is sacred, so if you do it

recklessly, the church will not stand still. It was an area of taboo that could even threaten her life if she made a mistake.

‘She must know that. She hasn’t been caught yet.’

If she had been caught long ago, even if the saintess, Chloe, would protect her as a friend, there would be a limit.

She wouldn’t be able to be here.

Practically, the person who governs and manipulates the church was not the saintess, but the archbishop. I remember that that person hated people who committed taboos terribly.

It was a little daunting when the entire knight order was mobilized to cooperate with the emperor to erase the count family, which was known to have contracted with the demons.

Not that it’s scary. Even if the knights come in droves, Leticia will win.

Besides, she is the eldest daughter of the Lisyantus family, called the King of the North. She is also the next heir. I don’t know what the current succession structure is, but if nothing happens, she is still the heir or has a high probability of becoming the head of the family.

If I had known this, I would have read the game settings carefully, I regretted, and then a choice window appeared in front of me again.

[Choose one of the choices and say it.]

[1. I’m not a demon who grants wishes, I’m a half-wit. In the first place, I can’t bring living beings from other worlds. Even if it’s just the soul.]

[2. Demons aren’t your all-purpose errand boys. You’re just a mere human to a being called a god who created demons. Aren’t you too arrogant? Do you want to die, huh?]

[3. A demon that grants wishes? What kind of nonsense is that? That’s just a false illusion created by humans.]

Three choices, just like last time. Still, there are more choices to choose from than last time.

Number 1 is the safest. Number 2 is like shouting “Hey, you punk!” in a Japanese Yankee manga, so I’ll pass.

Number 3 is fine, but number 1 is the safest.

Then, I guess number 1 is better. I clicked on the choice as if waving my hand in the air, and the words automatically came out.

“I’m not a demon who grants wishes, I’m a half-wit. In the first place, I can’t bring living beings from other worlds.

Even if it’s just the soul.”

Even after saying it out loud, I was nervous in my heart, not knowing what I would hear, but Leticia’s reaction was lukewarm. Leticia, with hollow eyes, as if she hadn’t expected much, said.

“That’s boring.”

Just one word. Leticia, who I thought would at least give me a disappointed look, spoke as if it were nothing.

“That’s why you shouldn’t expect from people.”

So it was a half-wit, not a demon. Leticia’s gaze met mine.

“A half-wit is a hybrid between a human and a demon?”

“…You’re so quick-witted… Yes, as you guessed, I’m a hybrid of a demon and a human.”

“A child born of a forbidden love between a human and a demon. Hybrids are rare, even if you’re not a legendary demon, you’re curious in your own way.”

So it’s a hybrid that popped out of the demon summoning. Moreover, a half-demon with a tattoo on its face that circulates mana for the first time. In many ways, it was a race that could not help but arouse Leticia’s interest.

“It’s still fun.”

Leticia raised the corners of her lips with an expression that said it was interesting.

“The appearance is human, but the magic is close to that of a demon. It seems that the blood of a pure-blood demon flows thicker than that of a human. At least you wouldn’t have been discriminated against in the demon realm.”

That’s correct.

Charlotte inherited the blood of her demon mother more thickly than her human father, so she was able to live without discrimination in the demon realm.

There seem to have been guys who cursed behind her back, but when I looked at her memories, it seemed that Charlotte had personally made those guys into minced meat. Charlotte was also a demon with a temper, unlike what I saw in the prologue story.

It’s ironic. A guy who was betrayed by his own mother was saved by his mother’s power.

So I felt a little sympathy for her, thinking that she was begging to die by her mother’s hand, even if she had to die in the end. It was just a little. I made a sullen expression for a moment, thinking of the real Charlotte, and then returned to my original expressionless face.

And I asked.

“So what are you going to do now? I know that it’s taboo for humans to summon demons.”

Not to mention summoning the demons that demons worship as gods. If caught, it’s the death penalty. At the very least, if caught, it would be confinement in a tower. But Leticia’s reaction was quite different.

“It’s okay if I don’t get caught. I haven’t fallen, and this is the first time I’ve summoned a demon like you.”

“That’s.”

That’s true. But the fact that it’s the death penalty if caught doesn’t change. Leticia, who was looking at me, who had been silent for a moment, continued to speak with a smiling face.

“You really don’t know anything about the world, do you?”

“…What?”

“The newly appointed Demon King wants a truce with humans. I don’t know if that’s true, but if it’s true, unprecedented peace will come.”

Leticia, who said with a nonchalant expression as I opened my mouth wide, turned around.

“There are forces that oppose it. But that’s none of your business. And you were summoned by me anyway, so you have nowhere to go now, do you?”

Leticia, smiling with a meaningful expression. I don’t know what it means. I don’t know, but why am I so anxious? As Leticia said, I had nowhere to go, so I obediently followed her words.

“…That’s true, but.”

“I welcome a summoned creature who can communicate well. You look like a human, so I can just say that I brought you from the north to be my maid.”

“Who is whose maid? You really have a death wish…”

“…You want to die and go to the goddess’s embrace?”

If you say so. Leticia, who says she can make you go to heaven, is smiling, but her eyes are not smiling. I had no choice but to silently nod to Leticia, who showed her fist as if to go smoothly.

Scary, scary.

I wonder if all the ash-gray-haired female protagonists have a temper.

There was no way to beat Leticia, who would be at all stats max level, with these stats. It’s better to obey obediently than to be beaten and dragged.

“Good girl. Follow me obediently, okay?”

It’s completely like treating a pet. I sighed inwardly.

It’s a hybrid with the blood of a demon mixed in, even if it’s rotten.

I don’t know if it’s right to treat a super strong half-demon who inherited the blood of a pure-blood vampire as a pet.

I thought I was caught badly, and followed Leticia, who was moving her steps clack clack, following the sound of her shoes.

With the intention of checking the status window and skill window while going. This is how my turbulent life as Leticia’s s*ave…… I mean, maid began.

[You have cleared the quest.]

I glanced at the quest window that was written briefly, frowned, and looked away.