Chapter 42 (2/2)

You have an extensive knowledge, daughter of an alchee seems to have surpassed yours』

“Uu……that’s correct”

In the e cheat had been defeated

No, rather, it was not even a cheat if it got instkilled

It was just e

If I thought about it carefully, it ood that there was a bath in this world as well

Without it, the problem would fail

It ht that the penalty for cheating was made with the sensibility of a monster

I secretly thanked the ancient technology in my mind

Without knowingcheerfully pointed at esture

『Well then, now it’s my turn!

It is so to death

No ic was, no doctor can heal it

But this disease will make people and beasts happy

Is this probleirls?』

What should I do, I didn’t understand it at all

Was it not ‘despair’,

not ‘despair’, if ere talking about deadly disease?

But it was uncertain whether ‘despair’ made people and beasts happy

Besides, ‘easy for little girls’?

It became more and more mismatched with the answer ‘despair’

This was troubling……

No hts returned to ‘answer: despair’

Mywith my ability to solve this riddle

Eventually, I couldn’t think of any other answer after going around in circles

This was not good, well, it was better than not answering at all

I openedso

“……Despair?”

『Oh my~, you finally made a mistake! Too bad!

The answer is ‘love’

I thought it was too easy~』

Palug expressed her joy exaggeratingly

However, her face suddenly became clouded

『Hm? Wait a minute, ‘despair’? Huh? Why did such an answer come out?』

“Eh……, is ‘love’ so you can be happy with?”

『Eh……?』

“While I a in love in a fiction—a drama……”

Palug widened her eyes, her mouth was half-way opened, and with an expression that looked like a goldfish

She took several steps back with that expression

Eh? By any chance, did Palug move away from me?

“Can falling in love really makes you happy? It seems to be troublesome, and it will be painful if the other person didn’t love you back, right?”

Palug stepped even further away

So a pitiful child

『I do not deny that there is such a dark side

It is because the decease of loved ones could also lead people to death

But, nevertheless, don’t you feel happy when you fall in love?

Look, what I’hten with a ‘kyuuun~’ when you around that person, and when you think about them, you became excited

Since I was born, I have fallen in love about thousands of times, but I was happy each time』

“……!”

It was in four digits nu love affairs

I was happy if it was in a gaa, or novel, but

I was seriously scared of love

Most of all, the feeling of refusal was terrible because I had been caught up in such feelings by other people

『……I wonder if you are too young to talk about love……you are not even a ten years old

But, what do you mean?

To feel that ‘despair’ is a happy thing, just what the heck happened……what kind of life are you living even though you are not even a ten years old?』

No, I didn’t think ‘despair’ was a happy thing, but I couldn’t think of anything else

I atte words, I withdrew the words that had coue

『……This isthe question I will think of an alternative

of an alternative problem』

Soe

However, I appreciated Palug’s condolences

『Cannot do anything, but can do anything

Does not help with anything, butelse

The existence itself is a blessing, bringing salvation and happiness to those in contact

However, not everyone wants it

Who is it?』

I exa

This tiht about it a little and quickly arrived at the answer

The scripture stated that He was o

But, in reality He did not do anything

The existence Hi salvation and happiness

But the choice of whether to believe or not was left to each person

The ansas surely ‘God’

It was a problem that seemed to match perfectly with ‘God’

“The answer is God, isn’t it?”

Palug made a face

『Sorry

That was pretty good, but it’s not the answer

If it is God, He will help people even just a little

The correct answer of this riddle, is a baby』

“Uh……!”

This was bad

Because there was a God’s er, God had to be exist

If even one of the miracles conveyed in the folklores or scripture was true, it would not ’ and ‘does not help with anything’

Besides, ‘baby’ was a perfect match for these conditions

『Ufufufu You finally et one third of your body』

“W-wait a minute”

『Nope~ Because I have been kept waiting for a while』

The arht crimson

It was lighter than the nails of fla that

She brandished her lit up arm and aimed it at me

Due to the bright light, I closed my eyes

『Yep, nice work』

After a while, with the pleased sound of Palug as the signal, I opened my eyes

There was no pain

It seeed, scratched, nor bitten

(That’s good, I’ eaten yet……truly, I don’t want to be eaten alive!)

Just to be sure, I touched all over my body and checked

Yup, I was fine

I had all s, there was no place that I couldn’t move

There was nothing bleeding

I could feel both eyes, my nose, and my ears too—

—fluff

(Eh? ‘Fluff’……?)

As I was touchingout of place

So was attached on soinally

I hurriedly took out a s

Nothing was lost

However, there were extra things added

They were in a golden color si in front of me

However, ’s were a round lion-type

On my head, they moved with a twitch

There were cat ears growing on top of my head