"Is this the place we will stay?"
After entering the house, I heard Lirienne saying.
"Yes."
Then, answered with a simple response.
"I see."
"How do you feel?"
"… Normal?"
"Okay."
Though, it seems even for her, who had a high sensitivity to the mana, sensing the raw mana around was a bit hard on the first day.
Which was expected.
No matter how talented she is, being a two-star is a huge setback for her.
"Let's settle down."
Slowly making my way into the house, I started looking around.
'Just as in the game. The same amount of rooms, the same bathrooms. Even the training room is the same. Though, because it is not durable enough it won't be that useful.'
After looking around the rooms for a while, there was nothing else left for us to do aside from settling….
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There was a reason why Lirienne followed Callius to this place after such an abrupt encounter.
"Now, what?"
It was to seek strength, which Callius had promised her.
"What, what?"
Standing in front of Callius, she was looking at his eyes with a fierce expression.
"You said you were going to grant me strength. How are you going to do it?"
And the words that spilled from her mouth were fierce as well.
However, for such words, Callius was unfazed.
"Yes, I know I have said that."
"Then-"
"However, you need to be patient. You must have already known that strength doesn't come suddenly."
"Ha? Then, what should I do?"
She asked with a more fierce expression this time.
'This bastard tricked me. I knew I shouldn't have trusted him.'
Inside her mind, she was fuming.
"Sigh…. What are you? A child?"
In front of a girl who can't hold her emotions, Callius was also starting to fed up.
"Ha?"
"I said, you need to be patient. I didn't say, I am not going to do anything."
"…."
Hearing this, she stopped for a second.
"Right? Now, let me just finish settling. Then we will start training."
"Training?"
"Yes, training."
"If training got me stronger, I would have already been strong."
She mumbled in a low voice.
For her, who was always compared to her sister, her whole life passed with training.
Training to match the expectations of others.
Though, in the end, nothing mattered.
"This time, it will be different, don't worry."
Though seeing the resolute eyes of the boy that was saying that, she couldn't refute it.
No, the truth is she didn't want to refute….
Although she knew it was likely to be a failure again, she held a glimmer of hope.
"I hope this works…."
That was all she had to say to herself.
"It will work, though. Are you sure you are ready?"
"I am."
"We will see that."
'If you think this will be something like a bow shooting you have done so far, then you are fucking wrong. Get ready to experience hell.'
"Let's start then…."
Callius mumbled while leaving the
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Second awakening.
It is a term that is used for those who awakened their talents on their own without relying on a blessing from a god.
Which is what can define the Moon-Elf class of Lirienne.
Because in the game, it was said that this class was one of those categorized as a second awakening.
Then this brings us to the question.
How did the Lirienne in the game awaken her moon elf class?
And the answer lies in the panel I have seen with my All-Seeing Eye.
'When she killed a person for the first time in her life, the status of her class changed.'
Which meant one thing.
To awaken her class, she needed to kill more people.
Truly a befitting method for a future villainess that was designed as a killing machine of the future.
Then, there was only one thing I needed to do.
Getting quests related to killing people.
Because that was what would make Lirienne awaken.
Though it will be painful, in the end, this is also for her future, right?
'What a hypocrite.'
I thought to myself while walking on the roads of the capital.
'You are about to ruin the innocence of a girl. Turning her into a killing machine, is that really something that benefits her? Will she really be happy about this result in the end?'
Looking at the girl that was curiously looking at the people around, I thought.
Bright grey eyes that were looking at the children that were playing in the gardens of their family, with bright smiles on their faces.
"Sister, look, look what I have made?"
A brightly smiling little boy was hanging her hand, trying to get the attention of the girl that was working on the flowers in the garden.
"Hmm…. What did you do? Let me take a look."
Seeing her brother's excited expression, the girl turned her head, walking toward him.
"Look, I made a castle!"
In front of the boy, there was a castle that was made from the soil.
A castle that didn't have much to offer; it was blatantly obvious that it was the work of a child.
"Wah! It looks cool."
Though even this was what she thought, the sister that was looking at her brother with a warm smile didn't say that.
"Right? One day, when I grow up, I will own a huge castle like this."
The boy exclaimed, seeing her sister's smile.
"Wow. I am pretty sure you would."
The sister exclaimed.
/SWOOSH/
But, just as the boy was about to say something, suddenly, a wind passed down.
A wind that contained mana inside it with being strengthened by that mana.
Then what followed that wind was the castle that was made by the hands of that child crumbling to the ground.
"Ah…"
Was what the boy exclaimed.
Though that crumbled castle brought some unwanted memories.
'Innocence, huh? In the end, it doesn't matter if you don't have the strength to protect the things you want. And for this, if the thing I need to sacrifice will be the innocence of someone, then so be it.'
I thought, remembering the memory of blood spilling from the mouth of some white-haired adult...
"Let's go; we got a work to do."
While entering the adventurer's guild….
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