An enemy… Doesn’t look like it.
I sense no hostility or bloodlust. I feel like Lucky is bewildered too. All I know is…
Rumble rumble rumble…
Ah, I think this place is collapsing.
I think this facility was being supported by the big tree that just withered. Its branches and roots had encroached all over the building, and now that they have withered, the building is collapsing… Is what these creaks tell me.
“*****!?”
The fairy is saying something with a panicked expression.
It’s cute, and makes me feel warm… But I have no idea what she is saying. And we need to get out of here fast or we will be crushed to death.
But what if the pipe has collapsed already? Ahh, there’s no point thinking about it here. I’m curious about the fairy, but we really need to get out…
‘A magic beast is offering a familiar contract. Do you accept?’
I suddenly hear an electronic sound coming from my seeker device. At a time like this?
A familiar contract serves to establish a master servant relationship with a magic beast, and can be done systematically through the seeker device.
Simplifying a complex contract to the point where it can be done through the push of a button on a machine is very much a representation of these modern times, but since familiar contracts are tied to skills, I can only have one.
Familiar contracts are supposed to be rare and a result of capturing a magic beast, that take a long time to appear after feeding it and winning its trust, making it not see humans as enemies…
So is the contract with this fairy? I point at her, and she nods, so that has to be it. I can only think she’s too trusting… I don’t know what sort of magic beast this fairy is, but if someone with F rank Storage skill lets this opportunity get away, who knows when the next will come.
I should do it now that I can.
I press the yes button.
“****… Ah, **.”
I feel some sort of connection with the fairy in front of me. It’s like the connection I feel with Lucky, but not quite the same.
My connection with Lucky is direct, but with the fairy, it goes through something else… Probably my skill. That is the feeling I get.
“**…. Finally connected. Took too long.”
As the connection is made, I hear her scolding me.
“Ahh, I’m sorry. But what are you?”
“I am the fairy queen! The queen of fairies!!”
She says while puffing out her hardly plump chest.
To be honest, she comes off more like a princess to me.
“Okay. Calm down and listen. This place is collapsing!”
Yes, I know. I wanted to get away from here as fast as possible, but then you made contact with me.
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【Next time】
As everything is ending, Zenjurou will make a choice.
A new contract. A power that surpasses the world.
What did he get, as an old world’s abhorrent sins sink into the darkness?
And the fairy laughs loudly.
Cool, he gained another familiar.
Thanks for the treat.