45 45"External story: Jack and the Wonderful Bean Tree 1" (1/2)

Hey, guys. What's up.

My name is Jack. I'm a jack-o-lantern demon.

My brother Keogh grew me the first demon to have a personality like this.

Kyou's brother is a really great guy. He grew many other monsters and was recognized by many people. He competed in the world's biggest cooking competition and was even recognized by the goddess and became a hero.

However, this time it's a personal story that has nothing to do with that.

It's a story about the time line before you met the goddess and before you participated in the big cooking competition.

Well, this is a side story.

But don't you think it's important to have supporting characters who sometimes play the main role to make the story more colorful?

Maybe my story will be connected someday, or maybe it will be forgotten.

I'm going to tell you a story with that kind of hope and anxiety.

It was a few months ago.

That day I was going for a walk, as usual, and wandered deep into the woods.

That's when I found her.

She seemed to have gotten caught by a tree root and fell to the ground, holding a basket of small mushrooms in her hand.

But what caught my attention was the pack of wolves surrounding her, the killer wolves.

This one looks like it was apparently attacked.

Well, it's a coincidence that we met here. As my brother usually says, ”It's better to help than not help”.

I immediately let magic power build up around me, and from it, ghostly flames are born, shooting one after another at the wolves surrounding the woman.

It's a ghost flare, or shall we call it a ghostly flame?

Anyway, those countless ghost flares hit the wolves. The wolves that noticed us and tried to counterattack immediately were fed our flames as well, and the ones that charged were repelled by our boastful pumpkin head.

Soon, the wolves realized our strength and fled one by one into the depths of the forest.

Huh? It's only a dangerous F-rated monster. These are not my enemies, an E-rated one.

After confirming that the wolves are gone, I once again call out to the fallen woman.

Are you alright, sweetheart?

Oh, thank you. ...... I don't know who you are, but you're a lifesaver.

I felt a strange feeling when the woman stood up, as if to thank the person, but when she stood up and turned to me, I realized why.

The woman was meditating.

She wasn't meditating out of fear.

Perhaps she is blind. The next line comes from the woman and convinces me of that.

”I'm sorry, looking like this. I'm sorry that I couldn't see the face of the person who saved me.

”No, no, don't worry about it. I don't have a face for you to see. I'd be disillusioned if I saw you.

No, that's not true. I don't judge people by their looks.

The woman smiles at you, but we're already out of her league.

Anyway, that's a lot of stuff around here. I'll walk you to your house if you like.

”Eh, but I'm not going to bother you with that ......

”Don't worry about it. I don't have anything else to do anyway. It's just a coincidence.