4 – Sosa (4)

The clothes Lillia promised were clothes, but they weren’t. I don’t know what I’m talking about, but anyway, it’s true.

The clothes she gave me were cloth. The name of some clothes or brand name does not mean fabric, it is real fabric. The raw material that needs to be cut and woven into clothes.

When you ask for bread, it is like giving wheat. As a protest, let’s shoot a sharp gaze at the back of Lillia’s head. An embarrassing answer came back.

“…… You can’t help it. I need clothes right now, but I only have women’s clothes.”

But that is also true. Even if you force yourself to wear clothes that don’t fit in, you go from being an ordinary naked person to an ordinary pervert.

It’s not even one or two years of living as a beggar. This isn’t the first time I’ve used scraps of cloth as clothes, so I skillfully wrapped the cloth around my body while thinking I was going to draw.

I don’t know if Innis and Lilia were out of consideration for me or their own point of view, but they turned around so they wouldn’t see my try-on.

“Are you done?”

“Yes.”

When the rustling of cloth stopped, Lilia still looked at me with a sullen look. Innis was averting my gaze even after turning slightly disrespectfully.

“Oh, you wear it better than I thought.”

Lilia admired me. However, there was no emotion whatsoever in her voice. She was just reciting what she saw and thought. She wasn’t particularly pretentious or sarcastic, so I passed it on without much emotion.

“Still, you have to act like a human. Lilia, please.”

“Ehh… okay. Innis, if it wasn’t your request, you wouldn’t have done it?”

At Innis’ request, Lilia raised her wand. She then stirred the air around her with her staff. As if conducting her wind as an instrument, a moderate trajectory was drawn in the air.

Then the cloth fluttered and was enveloped in light. A piece of clothing that looked like an ancient Greek slave’s costume has become a common shirt and shorts.

“Now, it looks a bit like clothes. The fabric area was a little small, so I made it with shorts, and this is also a great consideration. Know?”

I can’t even imagine at my level how much advanced technology went into this one spell. After making the cloth automatically measure the area wrapped around the body, dye and cut the cloth, turn the cloth into metal with alchemy…….

I thought her head would burn just thinking about it, so I decided to stop being curious about the principle. Still, it was strange, so I looked around my clothes. Even if it is a ready-made product, it is reliable quality clothes.

As soon as I seemed satisfied with the clothes, Ennis immediately started introducing herself.

“Then let me introduce myself. I am Innis from the 13th Division of the Tsushima Special Police.”

Tsushima Special Police. My heart fluttered strangely when a group I had only seen in novels resonated through the mouth of a member of the group. It must be that I really felt like I was inside [The Nun Butterfly].

The magic of the Tsushima Special Police is not the magic of magic. It is a group that opposes those who literally walk the devil’s path, including devil worshipers, blood magic, monsters, and even the devil himself.

I do not belong to any particular country nor do I support any particular religion. A group of insanely good intentions focused only on killing demons.

A group that I saw fit but not fit for Innis.

“Are you familiar with me? Now tell me your name.”

Lilia lightly passed the self-introduction and immediately turned to me. Of course she was introduced. Member of the Witch Association, her name is Lilia. She already knows very well.

Innis sent her piercing gaze at her, but Lilia didn’t care about her and still cast an inorganic gaze at me.

‘That’s on purpose.’

I deliberately chose only words and actions that would irritate Innis in order to attract attention. Lilia is close to perfect in terms of ability, but she is a character who has such childlike childishness everywhere. A strange admiration welled up inside her when the reality matched the interpretation of her character that her friend had told her before.

But that admiration was short-lived, and it seemed that the two would continue their fight from before, so I immediately started introducing myself.

“My name is Eva.”

A mercenary in the past.

“Affiliation is…… , No.”

Now I am a stranger.

Also a monster.

After my words, silence fell in the woods. The eyes that looked closely at each other shone fiercely even under the sunlight. As the sun moved and the shadows of the trees covered the group with no common affiliation, it was unexpectedly Lilia who broke the leaden silence.

“Come to think of it, where did you find out my name? Seeing as they walked around without clothes, they seemed close to savages when they were friendly.”

I answered her question without any change in expression. Of course there was tension underneath. Was it a failure to call you by name from the first meeting? I was so surprised that I spit out the name without a filter in my head.

As a result, doubts began to sprout in her eyes.

“I read it in the newspaper before.”

“Newspaper? Have you read any newspapers?”

“Where is the money for that? Someone threw it away or stole it from time to time.”

Lilia moved her steps slowly while looking at me. The stopped group finally started walking.

“Aha, then why didn’t you have any clothes before?”

“Because I was captured by bandits somewhere. I lost all of my clothes. After barely escaping and walking like crazy, here it is.”

“Hmm… I see.”

Lilia’s eye color is quite unusual. She is based on blue, and harmoniously mixes gold, black, purple, and sky blue, which resemble the wings of a butterfly. The colors of her gorgeous eyes seemed to fly around in the royal flower garden.

But when those elegant eyes caught her suspicions, a feeling of poison-poisoned discomfort began to spread through her body.

“… Hey, it’s unpleasant to feel like you’re being interrogated.”

“That’s right, it’s an interrogation. First of all, it’s because I’m an unknown person. You have to be careful.”

Lilia gave a meaningful smile. She smiles at me for the first time after meeting her, but there is no rational attraction at all.

“Lilia… Didn’t push it too hard…….”

“By the way.”

Innis tried to interrupt our conversation, but mine was louder and her words were buried under the dirt.

“Hey, but why are you talking half-heartedly? Annoying people.”

My words were louder because my emotions were thicker. Rudeness always gets on my nerves. His short speech, which had not bothered him until now, was unpleasant, like a thorn in his throat.

Everyone’s horse is dead. The inside of the mouth that saved the horse was quiet as if it had become a grave for the horse. A silence that was more bitter than before fell coldly. He choked on his breath, as if something thicker had mixed in the air.

“Oh.”

Lilia looked at me like she was judging me.

“I apologize for using informal language. But now you are also very rude. Know?”

Inis complained about my rudeness.

I wondered if I had started a fight too out of the blue, so I said in a softer voice than before.

“And again, shouldn’t we tell you where we are going? That’s how I’m going to cooperate with you. Are you honestly scared? I met a bandit and took all my clothes. Someone you don’t know asks to go with you.”

“Ah… ….”

When I asked this, Innis smiled lightly. It was a benevolent look, as if looking at a junior, but I think my younger appearance played a part in creating this attitude.

Yes, I guess. It must look like a child forcibly sticking to a dignified attitude to hide his timidity.

“I will tell you that.”

Just like yourself.

“First of all, why did we come….”

“Because there was a scary monster here recently?”

Lilia cut off Innis’ words once again. This was not done out of childish feelings such as jealousy or monopolization of attention.

“I came out to investigate. I was wondering if you might have seen something, so I asked to accompany you.”

Thorough information control. In order not to let any useless information leak into me, not to make Innis’ mistakes.

I got angry at the thought that under that oddly friendly tone, that damned personality was lurking. I’ve already seen those cold, inorganic eyes, but if you change your tone now, what do you think will change?

‘Crazy b*tch.’

Well, that’s what Lilia is, a professional woman. This socialized sociopath. It is very impressive that he immediately changes his tone as soon as he is offended by his casual speech.

“Aha, that’s right.”

I also responded to her by changing her expression to her smile.

“By the way… Iva, you know what?”

And this was the second failure.

“The monster I was talking about earlier.”

I’ve been so calm up until now.

“They were originally human.”

Oh sh*t. How did you know that

“…… That is scary.”

A forest near the activity radius of Subject 86, a man without clothes. A man who knows the civilization in the quiet forest where even insect-like creatures disappeared for fear of the fire at that time.

While he has the appearance of being in his mid-teens, he is calm while being interrogated, and does not tremble even in front of witches and the Tsushima Special Police. There is no sign of surprise even though there was a word called a monster.

I’m sure even I doubt it.

“… Lilia. No way?”

Innis muttered softly, and Lilia reached her hand toward her wand holder in her stocking.

There was already confidence in her eyes, not doubt. And seeing her actions, I was convinced too.

As expected, you’ve come to exterminate me. That nasty monster is annoying, so you’re about to step on it.

‘You’re trying to kill me!’

I gritted my teeth. Anger rose up. Even though I am saddened by my current situation, saddened by the way I have to be angry at the person who dressed me, and saddened by the situation where I have to punch a person I once liked, I am angry. Anger has always been a mixture of many emotions.

What will come out of that cane this time to torment me? Fire like last time? No, they might try to use ice to necroze the cells themselves. Or you could just bind me and immediately use 【Sunset】 through Ennis again.

It doesn’t matter what it is.

I bent my knees slightly, keeping my sight of the girls who were characters in the novel, now my enemies. The distance is at least a few meters from each other.

‘It is possible.’

【Overplay】.

What kind of ability is this? Is it just a greedy and stupid ability to regenerate beyond one’s own body, an ugly ability that only makes the body ugly and is not easy to kill?

The answer is ‘no’.

The reason why he became a hideous monster that only stretched his body was because he was unconscious. Just as I don’t know if I’m snoring or grinding my teeth if I’m unconscious, my body can’t stop me from screaming if I’m not conscious.

But not me.

I can manipulate this playback. The regeneration can be stopped with a stigma, or the regenerated part can be destroyed. And this [Over-regeneration] Is not just a recovery of the injured area, but a reorganization of the body through the expansion and excessive regeneration of the body organs. The speed at which the body’s hormones and organs function can also be manipulated one by one.

What does this mean?

Severing the muscle fibers in my body and regenerating the strengthened muscle fibers compresses the muscles dozens of times as much as normal people.

“It is possible!!!”

– BANG!!!

As Lilia held her staff in her hand, a roar hit her ears as I ran away. The ground where I was standing was hollow, as if a cannon had been fired there, and by the time the girls came to their senses, everything had already gone as I had aimed for.

My body, which is dozens of times stronger than a normal person’s, had enough speed to grab a girl nearby and put my hand on her throat.

“Don’t move.”

Come on, since I possessed a villain, I will do something like a villain. If I create a situation where I have no choice but to do such a thing, if the witches and the elite bastards of the police threaten my life, I will do it.

“… Take that hand off.”

“I heard your magic is so great?”

This time, Lillia gritted her teeth. I looked at the girl in front of me and grinned.

“Would you like to compete with me?”

“Get your hands off of it, you damn bastard!!!!!!”

I was on the brink of a fight until just now, so why are you worried? Because i can’t be honest

“Let’s compete to see which is faster between your magic and breaking this friend’s neck.”

Innis glared at me like he was going to kill me. Lillia’s wand fell around her, looking miserable. With her hands restrained and her hands placed on her neck, Lilia looked at her with pity.

Operation, hostage taking.

Success.

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