Chapter 71 – The Truth
“You..”
Is this the real Lumia?
What should I say?
She tried to calm her confused head somehow, but she couldn’t and all she could do was open her mouth.
Rumia looked at me like that and smiled.
“You can clearly see what they are thinking.”
“…”
As she walked around me and said that, she held out her hand to me.
“You probably have a lot of things you want to say.. That’s the same for me.”
“Are you… Really Rumia?”
“If you ask me if you are the owner of the body you are doing right now, yes.”
That’s right too.
I’m not sure why I appeared in this place, but looking at the so-called image world, it seemed clear that I had really stolen the body of her girl named Rumia.
It was almost certain that it was intact in my body.
“Sorry..”
“Huh?”
“I took your body…”
I didn’t steal it to steal it.
One day, when she opened her eyes, she had just become this body.
But even so, it didn’t change that in the end I took the body of one of her people, Rumia, so I had to apologize to her.
I approached her and bowed her head.
“…”
She just looked down at me.
After looking down for a long time, she suddenly gave a puff and laughed.
What happened..?
Why are you laughing all of a sudden?
I looked up at her with her confused expression.
“Really… You made me this far when I barely felt any emotions… You’re amazing too.”
When Rumia said that, she let out a sigh.
Then, when I snapped my fingers saying that it would be difficult to talk about here, I wondered if the surrounding environment had changed, and before I knew it, I was in a large garden.
They say it’s an image world, so can you change even this at will?
I stuck out my tongue.
“Ruler. You can have a seat Because it seems like we have a lot to talk about.”
What are you talking about?
I looked down at the chair.
I don’t know what to talk about, but it probably wasn’t a good story.
Well, the only thing to say to the person who stole his body would be to ask why he stole his body.
“You are more in awe than I thought.”
“…”
“To put it bluntly, it is true that you took my body.”
“…”
I thought so.
I bowed my head.
He didn’t have the confidence to meet Rumia and her eyes.
With Rumia’s body stolen, she tricked the hero by saying that she would survive somehow, and she eventually came to this front to receive her punishment.
It is unfair.
I’m really sorry
I didn’t come here because I wanted to, so why the hell am I being punished..?
Why the hell did you bring me here, who was living a quiet life, and made me live with this kind of guilt?
He sighed and told me that he was unhappy that I was feeling unfair with my head down.
“I know it’s confusing, but I’d like you to listen to the story. I never said a word to you to take responsibility.”
Oh.. Was it..?
Come to think of it, if I had been really angry at being taken away from me, I would have been angry with me as soon as I met you, and I would not have welcomed me.
If so, is there really another reason?
“Now it seems that you have the heart to listen properly.”
“Are you the one who called me..?”
“I can’t believe it, because I was living a really good life and then I was taken away by you.”
“Then why the hell…”
“Thank you.”
Thank you..?
I looked at Rumia with a confused expression.
But Rumia was just giving me a meaningless smile.
What the hell is this
I don’t understand a thing what he’s saying.
“This is your image world, but it is also my image world. You and I are one.”
“…”
“So thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to escape.”
Out..?
Rumia said that and pointed behind her.
I looked behind me as if possessed by him and inhaled.
Great darkness.
Darkness was there.
“Don’t you think something is strange? Why on earth does something like that exist here?”
“…”
“And… You know, I couldn’t speak and couldn’t hear with my ears, right?”
“That, it was… It was…”
But I could talk and hear sounds.
I thought that was weird, but…
“It’s a fact I couldn’t reveal to the hero. It didn’t happen in this place, but I’m sorry for the hero. I am..”
“Ah..”
Is it because of my feelings that I can’t keep up with the conversation?
I looked at Rumia with a dumbfounded expression.
“Since I came here, I’ve been watching your actions… I’ve been reading your memories. There are many interesting stories.”
“What, what… Wait a minute, what?!”
Did you see all of that?
If not then…
“Oh, I guess you noticed. We all know what tastes are. Unexpectedly, my taste was a little… No, it looked a lot dangerous…”
“Ah, ah, no, please don’t say that..!”
Please don’t say more
Rumia giggled as I bowed her head and begged.
It’s obviously cute, but why does it look like a reaper to me..
“It’s a bit long to explain, but I hope you listen to it because it’s important. I won’t interfere with your date with the hero.”
“Hey, a date…”
Not this..
“That… Aren’t you disgusting?”
“What?”
“I…But I was a man…”
“What are you talking about? Why are you a man?”
“..?”
“Look at your body now.”
Yes I reflexively looked down.
It was Rumia wearing the clothes worn by Cecilia and Ruril just before.
“What..?”
Looking back, it was like that.
If this place were really the world of images, I should have looked like the person I was when I was a man.
However, my current appearance was Rumia’s.
“To say it again, you are definitely a woman right down to your soul. Well, even if he was a man in his previous life, he has already been mixed with me… Since he was mixed with me, a child of a star, of course, his soul level is lower than mine, so he is in a state where he is no different from being eaten by me. Gender has no choice but to follow me.”
“Ah.. Uh uh.. Uh..”
“There is nothing strange about being attracted to a hero. It’s only natural to be attracted to such a handsome man. Even I, who was watching, was thrilled.”
Was it..?
So I, who was a man, to the warrior..?
I turned my head with a shy expression.
I couldn’t bear to meet her eyes.
“I’m sorry about you. I didn’t bring you here, and I didn’t come because you wanted to come. Because I handed over the subject of consciousness to you.”
“Ah..”
“This is the greatest atonement I can make. I’m really sorry.”
Rumia said that and bowed her head to me.
Atonement.
Why would she atone for her sins?
As far as I can see, she did nothing wrong.
“I don’t need to atone… This is nobody’s fault.”
I felt like I had a glimpse of why she could talk and hear, and her secret about Rumia.
So I could be sure.
That she did nothing wrong.
“Yeah… If you think so, I’d be extremely grateful.”
Rumia said that and smiled at her.
“I want to talk to you a little more, but… Go now.”
“Uh..?”
“I’ll be blocking that here… You just have to have a fun date with the hero.”
“But… But…”
Why
Like this, she didn’t want to part with her.
A little more… I want to talk a little more properly.
“Rumia..!”
“You haven’t been paying attention to me until now, but now you’re looking for me? Puhhh.”
Rumia smiled and approached me.
I looked up at her with her sad expression.
“You really cry.. More than me..”
“…”
“Don’t worry… Eat rice cakes with the dragon.”
“What, what what…!”
No, what is he talking about in this situation..!
“You know that? A way to subdue the demon lord.”
“Ah..”
How to subdue the Demon King.
I knew very well
“And don’t make a fuss like you’ll never see me again. It’s not like I can’t meet you. Thanks for coming this far, it’s easier to interfere.”
“What is that…”
“See you again.”
Rumia said that and smiled at her.
Before long, the world flickered.
“…”
As soon as I opened my eyes, what I saw was the body and face of the hero.
He was sweeping my hair while cutting me on his leg.
“Did you have a good conversation?”
“…”
I opened my mouth to speak as usual.
Naturally, no words came out.
It was because of the semi-permanent anti-voice magic.
I suddenly understood why I hadn’t told the hero that I could speak.
It was embarrassing to reveal that I could speak.
‘Just… Let’s say that when you get pregnant, you’ll be able to talk..’
Yeah that would be better
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