As soon as I reincarnated in another world, a monster appeared in front of me.
This was disastrous, since I was reincarnated as a monster you could call the weakest, but after being one step away from being killed all too soon, my luck turned.
“Kyuu.”
Right now, I’m not in a cold forest, I’m in a warm room in a royal castle. There’s no danger of me being killed here.
“…Ahh…”
That said, my position isn’t perfect.
I think as I watch the girl in front of me, my savior Princess Reve, sigh deeply.
“(It looks like the country isn’t doing so well.)”
The language spoken here isn’t Japanese or English, but I can understand it perfectly.
They also don’t write in Japanese or English either, but I can read everything.
“…Fufu, it might be hard to even scrape together money for your feed.”
I’m with Reve in the office where she works, and there are various documents about the state of the country in front of me.
“Kyuu.”
Looking at the documents, it’s all about how the situation is desperate. They can’t stop the flux of people out of the country, their trade deficit keeps increasing, without foreign support, a little depression might cause a famine…
“Ah, don’t worry, I’ll make sure you have food, Noa.”
“…”
The situation is bad enough that I feel bad about getting food.
Ah, by the way, my name is now Noa. It even appears in the status screen.
“Kyuu.”
Not that it really matters.
Being named by Reve is a little exciting, but her problems are more important.
Hn… Maybe I should step outside and collect some information.
I can’t just stay here snugly as a pet snake. I should learn more.
“Ah, Noa!?”
There’s nothing binding me. I’m not in a cage or anything, I’m just on Reve’s shoulders.
I can go for a stroll away from here.
With that settled, I jump down from her shoulders and use the Run Away skill to jump out of the office.
■■■■■
It’s been about three hours since I left.
“Geez Princess Reve, how could you let a snake run away?”
“Uu… I’m sorry. It was sitting still the whole time…”
I’m pretty much done gathering information.
“That said, I also could not catch it.”
As I did, the beast girl, Kanna, ran after me to catch me, but I’m really small.
I used this small size to escape from someone whose stats are overwhelmingly higher than mine.
“Kyuu.”
I also learned that things are much worse than I thought.
I figured this country was very small and that it has nothing. The terrible truth is that Reve is the only royalty that can carry it.
The king of this country is bedridden because of an illness, and Reve is his only child. They have zero relatives.
Reve is the only royalty in this country, which means only she can approach the throne with her father bedridden.
Reve’s mother, who seems like she would be ideal to take power under these conditions, is a simple villager. Not someone who can do anything about this.
I saw her relaxing and drinking black tea.
“Noa… You can’t do that… If you run from me… There’s lots of dangers outside.”
“Kyuu.”
This girl looking at me and worrying about me looks even younger than I was in my previous life, but she has a country on her shoulders.
And I want to repay her.
“(…There has to be something I can.)”
“…!?”
Wonderful resolve, beautiful resolve.
Reve, who picked me up and looks after me, is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside… I want to support her from the bottom of my heart.
“(I can’t be ungrateful.)”
I have a debt I can never fully repay.
Without Reve, I’d be dead. Thankfully, I have something I can do to repay her.
The title in my stats, Dragon Egg.
《Dragon Egg》
《A title given to those capable of evolution. The limits of evolution have been removed. Where will the cunning dragon fall?》
Is what Appraisal tells me.
This title means I have infinite possibilities.
“(I’ll definitely get stronger. And I’ll become something that can support Reve.)”
This is my resolve, as someone who was reborn into this world as a weak snake. My reason for living.
“(You keep referring to Princess Reve in a vulgar casual way…? And you really are intelligent.)
“…Kyuu!?”
Noa, who picked me up and looks after me, is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside…
Reve*