Volume 1 Chapter 20 - The Lonesome Sword’s Secret (1/2)

“Hey, uh, would you mind letting me go first?” Bella was currently being ‘embraced’ from behind by Kriss and could feel the beauty’s elasticity. Bella was somewhat overwhelmed by the feeling.

“I can’t move, my entire body feels numb; Can you help me out of the water?”

Based on her speech and actions, Bella didn’t think that Kriss was lying but this girl might be a bit too naive, telling someone that she had just met that she couldn’t move her body; if Bella had any hostile intentions towards her, Kriss would be done for.

Even Kriss herself didn’t know exactly why she told Bella the fact that she was unable to move her body, perhaps it was because she was charmed by how dashing Bella looked when she threw herself at the deep-sea serpent to save Kriss and didn’t think further about why Bella just happened to be in the right place to save her.

“Are you really unable to move?”

“Yes, can you bring me to land first? My body will recover from that monster’s poison pretty fast.”

As Kriss had personally requested her, Bella couldn’t very well say no, she turned around and picked up Kriss in a princess carry and walked towards shore. The water here was only around a meter in depth and it wasn’t very hard for Bella to move while carrying someone in her arms. Bella took advantage of this time too carefully study the beauty in her arms.

It seems that Ivy hadn’t lied to her, Kriss was indeed much more beautiful than Ivy, so much that it seemed as if the two of them weren’t even on the same level. Kriss had a devilish figure that was very well-proportioned, without a single unnecessary gram of fat. From a glance, Kriss’ height was about the same as Bella’s, as was her chest size.

Using her knowledge that she had gained as a fashion designer on Earth, Bella determined that Kriss’ body was very likely to have met the ‘golden ratio’. Within Bella’s party, even Dolores who had the best body amongst them, there was no one as decked out in the figure department as Kriss.

What made Bella unable to remove her sight from though, was Kriss’ face that was possibly the most beautiful thing that she had ever seen. For a moment, Bella even suspected that Kriss wasn’t a human, after all, Bella had never seen a human girl with violet eyes before; Dolores had mentioned before that violet irises were a trait of high-tiered demons that humans were unable to imitate.

Not all demons have violet irises, but those who had violet irises were almost definitely either a demon themselves or had some sort of close relationship to them, once such case was 【Dark Creator] Mystica, who also had beautiful violet irises.

Apart from this, Kriss’ perfect appearance gave off some sort of mysterious aura that was attracting Bella to her, the only other person on which Bella had felt something similar was Dolores. It was the kind of exotic blend of dark and light that Dolores had because she was a mix-blood of demon and angel.

However, according to all intel, Kriss was just a normal human, how did she obtain such an exotic air that should be impossible for a human to obtain?

Bella carried Kriss out of the water, which originally shouldn’t have taken very much time at all but Bella had purposely slowed down her pace greatly. She couldn’t help it, Kriss’ body that felt like top-grade silk was too addicting and she couldn’t bring herself to let Kriss go a second before she had to.

As for why Bella was walking so slowly while carrying her, Kriss didn’t feel anything wrong with it. It had been a while since she had been able to relax without any worry; after transmigrating to this world, all she had done was train her swordsmanship as well as deal with father’s incessant promotion of suitors for her.

Kriss didn’t want to get too close with anyone from this foreign world, she had already suffered too much heartache in the previous worlds that she had been to. Anyways, the suitors that her father introduced were only those that wanted her for her beauty, not have a proper and romantic relationship.

Kriss had previously overheard the female palace servants gossiping amongst themselves about how the Empire’s other princesses and noble maidens would call her a bad omen behind her back. It seems that silver hair was viewed as a sign of bad fortune by humans. Her body’s original owner had black hair but was changed when Kriss’ soul fused with her body due to some special reasons.

Even her father, the emperor, initially thought that Kriss had been cursed or possessed by a demon, and had gotten the Church of Light’s three cardinals to check. If it wasn’t for the fact that the three cardinals guaranteed that Kriss was not a demon, nor had any relationship with them, Kriss probably would have been handed over by her father to be burned at the stake by the Church.

In the three years after, Kriss broke ties with all the friends of the body’s previous owner, not wanting to be hurt anymore. In order to not be treated as an ornament, she used several of the powers that she had brought from her previous worlds to easily beat several of the empire’s renowned swordsmen.

About a year ago, Kriss single-handedly slew a powerful monster and received the title of ‘Hero’ from the Gabriel Empire(Swordsmen) and finally managed to escape the fate of becoming one of her father’s political pieces.

However, that wasn’t the end of it; the emperor, knowing that he could not force Kriss, he arranged for suitors to personally b****r her to marry them. Kriss almost went crazy dealing with the large number of them and had almost let her dark side take over. There was a deep secret hidden within Kriss’ spirit that she had not let anyone known.

In order to not repeat the tragedies of her past few lives, Kriss decided to flee. She had pretended to agree to a suitor’s invitation for an outing and purposely chose a location near the Alva duchy that was infamous for being unstable due to being a place of constant warfare between humans and beastmen, it wouldn’t be that strange for someone to go missing in this region.

As expected, the party was ambushed by evil beings of unknown origin not too far from the duchy’s capital and Kriss used the ensuing chaos to make her escape. In her rush, Kriss had not been able to take a map so she could only choose to wander the forests where no one could find her.

On her way, Kriss had run into multiple beastmen raiding parties and defeated all of them. If one were to count to the totals, her killcount since yesterday weren’t much lower than that of Bella and the others at the watchtower, having killed at least several thousand beastmen.

What happened to Kriss after was exactly what happened to Bella and the others, she was soaked in blood and had come to this river head to clean herself and hadn’t noticed her clothes drifting away with the current. When Kriss finally realized this, she looked high and low for her clothes, not noticing the stealthily approaching deep-sea serpent.

In the split second when she suddenly came face to face with the deep-sea serpent, her human instinct from her last life took over and she froze in fear; forgetting to summon her various famous blades from her ‘exclusive space’. Fortunately for her, Bella was in the right place at the right time and had spotted the serpent, or Kriss would have been in trouble.

Bella carried Kriss to a large and flat rock in the grass by the river head, the body of a deep-sea serpent lay beside it, the very same one as the one that was killed by 【Shadowless Demon] Tanpur earlier. There weren’t any visible wounds on the serpent but its serpentine eyes were open wide, as if it had not died peacefully. To Bella who knew that this serpent was smothered by Tanpur using his shadows, she could understand why this deep-sea serpent had not passed on peacefully.

Seeing the terrifying death suffered by the deep-sea serpent, Kriss was a little afraid while Bella was rather unfazed. Tanpur had controlled himself this time, all of Bella’s subordinate evil suzerains were rather sadistic in the way they killed their opponents; if Bella didn’t have a use for this serpent’s corpse, it would probably already be shredded into tiny pieces.

Bella placed Kriss on the flat rock and was about to stand up when her hand was grabbed by Kriss, who had regained a bit of strength.

“Sister, can you help me with something? I can’t find my clothes.”

“You should have arrived in this area with an adventuring party right, where are they? I’ll…”

“No, I came here alone, there’s no one else!”

Kriss straight up denied Bella’s suggestion even before she finished her sentence, it had taken her so much work to escape and it would have all been wasted if she were to return now.

Although Bella was curious as to why Kriss had denied her suggestion but decided not to ask the reason, seeing the resolve in her attitude. All Bella could to right now was for her to put on her clothes right now and go back and ask Nosha and the others to see if they have any extra clothes.

“What’s wrong, are you alright?”

Bella had just walked a short distance to retrieve her clothes and saw Kriss’ excited eyes staring at the clothes in Bella’s hands. Following her gaze, Bella discovered that Kriss’ line of sight was focused on her underwear.

This was the underwear that Bella designed herself, not Kriss’ which she had fished out of the water earlier. She couldn’t understand why Kriss was so excited, from their short amount of contact, she could determine that Kriss was a ‘softie’ and not a pervert who would fawn over underwear, unlike that naughty loli Noesha.

Kriss couldn’t hide the excitement in her heart, this was the first time that she had seen something from her homeland, Earth, in another world. Even though it was only similar in design, with different materials, but the style as definitely that of Earth’s.

“Sister, can you tell me where you got that piece of clothing?”