“Do you have no memories, Tina?”
“Hm, yes. I don’t remember anything from before meeting you. I don’t know if your memories overwrote them, or if there were no memories to begin with. What language did I speak? I’m sorry, it seems everything relating to language has been overwritten. But I think me being the Fairy queen… Is true.”
Says Tina when I ask her why she was in a place like that, as we return to the Yoshikawa Gate.
She is speaking perfect Japanese, but it appears she picked that up from my memories and it was burned into her.
It also seems she learned knowledge about Earth, so my privacy is completely Dempsey’d when I form a contract with a familiar. It probably works the same way with Lucky as well.
Well, it’s not like I have been leading a life I can’t show others.
“I was thinking you might know about otherworlders, but if it was that easy to understand, others would have learned about them already.”
“Other world… Unfortunately, I’ve been tainted by you, so I dunno. I know all about you though.”
“Ah, really?”
That won’t get you anything.
That said, I got nine mana jewels today, thirty-six knives, one four-armed doll, one doll armor set, and to top it all off, I have the fairy queen with me as a familiar. This was very productive.
One ruins location was destroyed, but it can’t be helped. It was always going to happen after Tina woke up, so it would have happened sooner or later.
With that in mind, I want to make my way out, but I see a commotion in front of the Yoshikawa Gate. There are association employees and seekers, so I wonder what happened.
“Ooh, you’re back too. And you look unharmed.”
“Yes. Did something happen?”
“Ah, something… Are you saying you didn’t notice? There was a tremor in the dungeon. There’s a chance something collapsed, so we’re checking up on the seekers that entered the dungeon. You should have received a notification on your seeker device.”
“Notification? Ah, I did.”
I have it on silent mode because magic beasts might hear it, but there really is a warning.
“A tremor… Hm…”
“Hm? Do you know anything about it?”
Asks the employee as I tilt my head. Know about it? It was probably the collapse of the ruins. How should I approach this? Depending on how I explain it, I might get yelled at again.
“Isn’t he talking about the ruins, Zenjurou?”
Tina just came out and said. Oh well, I was going to report it anyway. Not to mention the footage recorded by the seeker device, so I think it should be explained when I present it. Hm? Everyone’s eyes… Are on Tina.
“Did that fairy talk?”
“What is the meaning of this?”
“A magic beast? No way…”
It seems everyone is looking at Tina like she is strange.
“Hum… What?”
“Excuse me, is this fairy your familiar?”
“Yes. The circumstances of our encounter are most likely what led to the tremor. I formed a contract with her there.”
“I see… Encounter. I see.”
“Yes, precisely.”
I nod with a smile.
If I get flustered, lose my cool, get scared, or be too modest, it might be bad. Being bold is surprisingly a good way to avoid being seen as a problem.
See? The employees are all nodding. And they are surrounding me and taking me through the Yoshikawa Gate to ask me some questions. Like a suspect being taken by the police…
Well, I didn’t do anything wrong. I will be all right. Won’t I?
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With just six degrees, the world screamed, and a woman’s peace will be taken away.
That was not a crime, and therefore, there will be no punishment. But it was enough to attract the eyes of the world.
An intelligent being. A miracle resulting from taboo.
A great spell (als magna) was carried out.
Thanks for the treat.