Chapter 42 - The Race of Beautiful People (2/2)

It’s actually the whole head that would be released, but…

I’ll just say that I will release her “mouth” here.

I declared as such so that I could control the way our conversation goes.

[But… Try anything funny, and I’ll use my skill on you again. I’ll also make sure that such movements have some appropriate punishments prepared for them. Are we clear?]

I guess this should do for now.

The other party should now have thought that I would use my “paralysis skill” on her again.

However, it is actually impossible to stack the same

skill in a row.

Well, it’s not like I told any lie to her.

After all, I will just my other skill <Sleep> on her if she tries anything strange.

However, I can’t really talk with someone when they’re sleeping…

That’s why, I would avoid using <Sleep> if possible.

Well, I could just make her sleep, then bind her with some rope but— let’s just leave that for later if I she doesn’t cooperate.

Pigimaru’s staying silent.

It’s as if it had completely read the air and kept its breath.

I was impressed by its spontaneous act…

Or rather, I feel like Pigimaru had been getting smarter.

It took a few moments, but the woman have finally replied.

[Yes.]

I tapped the gauge that was floating near her head and tapped the Partial Release (Head) tag that appeared next to it.

The way of changing the display works the same way as the other cancellation options of my skills.

Kasha…

After partially releasing her paralysis, I took a bit of distance away from her just in case.

The woman just stared at me blankly.

[—I can… finally talk… like normal…]

[The only part you can move is your mouth. I’m sorry, but I still don’t trust you. There’s a lot of people that I have met before I got in here. That’s why, I can’t easily trust a stranger.]

[No— It’s not wrong for you to be vigilant against strangers. It’s just how a traveler like you would naturally think.]

She said no sudden insults.

Is this just how she normally is?

I could hear her clear voice filled with determination.

If someone like a pure knight exists, he might be someone like this.

I observed her again.

With the way she looks, I think you could even say she could make money with just her appearance.

I took a glance at the yellow gauge.

I noticed one thing just now.

It may be because I haven’t partially released those four-people just now, that’s why I haven’t really noticed it and it made me really uncomfortable now that I did.

It’s probably because there’s no one other than me who can see the gauge.

They’re not aware of this gauge.

In other words, they can’t guess that there should be a time limit on my skill if they can’t see the slowly decreasing gauge.

If I were to use my skill on someone who had never been targeted before, maybe I could just fool them and tell them that the effect is permanent?

[There is one thing that I want to ask before I would answer your questions.]

[I’d answer it depending on what your question is.]

[Did you meet a four-person group earlier?]

[I met them.]

[Where are they?]

[I killed them.]

[……eh? You killed them?

[Did I do anything wrong? They look like sh*t who can never change, and with the way their conversation went earlier, I think that these four were actually chasing you.]

[Ah— No… It’s not that you did anything wrong. It’s true that they were really chasing after me. It’s just that…]

The woman looks at me as if she’s ascertaining if I’m telling the truth.

[The White Walker… Don’t tell me, with just you alone? Or are there perhaps, some of your friends nearby?]

[…I have one friend nearby. I’ve gotten rid of them along with my friend. It’s just that, I don’t intend to show my friend to you.]

I’m not lying about this either.

Certainly, there is one more person “lurking” in here.

I’ll just let her think that I have a friend nearby who she can’t see.

This should also be an effective means of blocking her way just in case she ever intends to move.

Anyway, for those four people to actually have a great reputation…

Well, those four were not on this woman’s side.

It’s enough that I know this now.

Thanks to that, it became easier for me to talk to her.

After all, it’d be harder to talk to her if I had actually killed her friends…

[………….]

Though I said that, I still can’t trust this woman yet.

For example, this woman isn’t even showing her “eyes”.

I’ve heard before that you could tell if someone is telling the truth through his eyes more than through what he speak.

Did she hide her eyes so that others couldn’t see through her lies?

That’s what I thought…

Kasha…

–when that veil that was covering her eyes slid upwards.

What a nice timing.

I don’t think… that she’s been reading my mind.

I observe the appearance of the woman again now that the areas where that veil has covered before was being revealed.

She have neatly arranged double eyelids.

Her beautiful set of eyelashes are really elegant.

She also have quite an intriguing, pale blue eyes.

I wonder if I’ve ever seen eyes as clear as hers before.

The cover in her face was completely removed and I could now clearly see her face.

She’s what you would undoubtedly call a beauty.

Though, she had this mysterious beauty that’s made her be disconnected from the average people.

When I looked at her, only “that race” came on to my mind.

In the literary creations that could be seen nowadays, they are often depicted as beings who have a slender figure along with beauty that surpass all the others.

Their race was commonly called referred to as “Elves”.

However, she doesn’t have that “part” of her which symbolizes them the most.

Right…

[……….]

The woman’s ears that had been revealed after her veil was removed, is undoubtedly from a human.