Chapter 190: Hair (1/2)

“Mo Na and I just explored that side so you two can just take the other side, since you’re both alright now. Make sure to watch your surroundings, also, if you find some Red Lotuses, just harvest them.” Not wishing to spend anymore time on the issue of Mo Na’s comatose state, I sent No.3 and Big 4 away on scouting duty.

“Master, how about one of us stay behind instead, I’m afraid that something might happen while we’re gone.”

“It’s fine, I doubt anything dangerous will happen. Weren’t you two lying there helpless just now while Mo Na and I were off foraging? Nothing happened then so it should be alright now as well. Besides, you guys are just scouting the nearby areas, there’s no need to explore too far.”

“…Understood, Master.”

Having been rejected, No. 3 didn’t seem to react too badly to it. Perhaps even he himself didn’t expect the suggestion to be accepted.

Watching the two of them leave, I then carried little Mo Na off to a nearby stone pillar.

‘Sigh, exactly what’s going on with the little scamp? Why did the grimoire enter her body? I still don’t know the answers to all that, neither do I know when is she going to wake up.’

Like that, Mo Na slept the better part of the day away. By the time she woke up, I found a new marking on her forehead. It was a tattoo in the shape of a black, swirling mass of gas, about the the size of a soybean. Its outer swirl was faint in color and got progressively darker as it reached the center.

“Mama, Mo Na just had a dream, there was a book chasing Mo Na all day. Mo Na was scared at first but then she wasn’t. That book even played with Mo Na, it was so fun!”

Upon waking up, the first thing this daughter of mine did was to horse around while hugging my neck. She continued recounting all the fun she had in her dreams, completely oblivious to how worried I was because of her fainting spell, even the fruits we picked went untouched because of that.

I brought the little scamp to eye level and carefully inspected her. Thankfully, other than that marking on her forehead, there was nothing else that changed. Even so, I wanted to make sure so I asked: “As long as you’re awake…by the way, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”

“Nope, Mo Na feels great.” She batted her big, lovely eyes before giving me a confused look: “Mama, your face looks weird, did something happen?”

“Nothing, it’s just that you scared Papa a little by fainting just now.” Patting her little noggin, I handed a Red Lotus to her. “I bet Mo Na is hungry now, have some.”

“Yay!” She happily snatched the Red Lotus from my outstretched palm and gobbled it down, finishing it in a few bites. Having finished the fruit, her body suddenly grew hot and her face turned significantly redder than usual: “So full, sooo full, Mama, Mo Na’s feel a little hot right now.”

“Hot?” ‘Come to think of it, since the Red Lotus is like a supplement of sorts, isn’t it kind of bad to feed someone the size of an infant, basically a giant ginseng packed into a red fruit? Is that what’s happening to her right now? Because she was barely a day old, she couldn’t accept such a massive surge of nourishment?’

In the midst of my panicked thoughts, Mo Na’s breathless panting suddenly interjected themselves into the conversation: “Mama, Mo Na isn’t feeling that hot anymore but her think box is feeling kind of itchy.”

‘Think box? I guess she meant her head.’

As she said, her head was undergoing a strange reaction at the moment. Before eating that fruit, her head was perfectly shiny and devoid of hair, now however, I could see a full head of purple hair growing out of her scalp at a speed visible to the naked eye, till her hair finally reached her shoulders.

“Ahh, is that hair? Mama, look, Mo Na has hair!” Grabbing the hair on her shoulder, Mo Na excitedly hopped around. “Mama, is Mo Na’s hair pretty?”

“Of course it is, honey.” ‘Of course, my daughter’s hair was pretty, was there ever any doubt there?’ Like that, I inexplicably felt a sense of pride well within me. However, that was mercilessly cast down by her next statement.

Fingers pointed at my head in excitement, as if she had discovered a whole new world by herself: “Mama, look, you’re bald!”

“…”

‘That hurt so bad…maybe I shouldn’t bring up the matter of hair anymore…’

After that, I questioned her on what happened while she was unconscious, to which she responded: “There’s a ton of new things in my head.”

“New things?” I asked, surprised by what I heard. “Exactly what kind of things?”

“Many many things, one of them is really simple too, it’s a magic to move bones.”

‘A magic to move bones? That’s probably the summon skeleton spell. Nothing out of the ordinary so far…the fact that she learned something new like that after the grimoire inserted itself into her, was within expectations.’

“You must be talking about summoning magic, other than that, what else did you learn?”

“Hmm, there’s also a magic to wake up the dead but those who wake up will become smelly and disgusting, Mo Na doesn’t like that.”

‘Hmm, that should be the summon zombie spell, judging by that look on her face, I doubt she likes it much.’

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“That’s the summon zombie spell, don’t worry, Papa hates it too, anything else?”

“Yeah, a lot lot more. There’s one to create a long spear, a shield and a wall. Also, there’s a magic to make people slow, stupid…and one more that can create a whole ton of thingies, so fun!” She flung her arms wide open to show exactly how many things she learnt before finally saying, in a slightly rueful tone: “But Mo Na doesn’t like that smelly wake up spell, everything else is great!”