I Didn't Even Want To Live, But God Forced Me To Reincarnate! Chapter 60: Chinosato City (3)

I was somehow attracted to that clear voice—not to mention that she spoke quite loudly. Her voice rings like a clear bell. I think she will be a good singer in the future!

I glanced at the source of the voice—a girl who's around Alt-nii's age. Her light green hair is a bit long and it's kinda wavy. The hairpin that she wore kept her hair from falling to her eyes.

But that also exposed... her slightly pointed ears. I glanced at the other person next to her—her father, out of sheer curiosity.

My hypothesis was right. Her father also has pointy ears—and the father's ears seem to be longer and more pointed than the girl.

"Well, the doctor instructed your mother to change her medicine."

"Heee... so, will she finally get better with this medicine?"

"Let's just pray so, Fiona. I want to believe that she would get better." The father gently patted the green-haired girl's head.

"Okay, hey, can we visit the pastry shop on our way home? Let's buy Mom some cherry pies!"

"That's fine, but you actually want to buy your favorite cinnamon roll there, right?"

"Oof!!" The little girl quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

Busted!

"Haha, alright, alright. One cinnamon roll for naughty little Fiona, and some cherry pies for Mom and Dad, then."

"Yaaayyy! Thank you, Dad!" She raised her hands in happiness.

"Eh, elven descent?"

I can hear the auntie besides me slightly whisper to her friend.

"Ah, yeah, I know that family. The mother opens up a flower shop near my house, I know her, she's a human originally from Chinosato. Maybe that's why they are living here."

"Hee, it's so rare to see elven descent here. I wonder if it's not a harsh living condition for them? I mean, some may pick on that girl, especially those naughty children. I am worried especially for that girl's future."

"..."

The same condition as how Oni descents are treated in the Western area.

Guess it's confirmed that the East and West are really polar opposite, I mean—in terms of culture, too?

...could it really be that it was a contributing factor to my bullying as Reinst?

So, this time... it could be different...

As I'm Lyra, and I live in East Area... and I can also do Light magic...

But, I know... Dark magic is also a.s.sociated with the darkness of one's mind, of one's heart—and if one is not careful, they might get corrupted by its power.

Besides, I don't really like the nature of Dark magic itself, most of its spells are manipulative. They manipulate other people's mental condition, like inducing fear to them, and such.

Still, Mom said that I might need to train my Dark magic, even if it's for a bit... Maybe... maybe that's why she let me saw all those things with Dark magic, in order to help me develop a neutral view towards it.

That's seriously a good strategy. I feel calmer upon seeing how they treated Dark magic users here. Though it isn't enough to erase all my fear and insecurities, at least it's rea.s.suring.

I closed my eyes for a little bit, to send my thought to G.o.d---though I don't know if that little light would be able to hear my thoughts.

G.o.d... I wonder why are you giving me something that I don't like at all? I think it's useless to give me something like this... It's quite bothersome, even. It's wasted on me, don't you think so?

When the part-elf girl and her father were about to leave the store as they have finished their purchase, the part-elf girl seemed to notice me staring at her and she glanced back at me with her emerald eyes and slightly smiled.

I was surprised at her sudden ambush—I mean, smile, and awkwardly replied her smile.

Although she is still young, perhaps due to her elf lineage that manifests quite strongly, I can see that she has the aura that screams, "beautiful!!".

Being (little) part-elf myself, I may have inherited several characteristics of elves, for example, the case with my magic power, but I don't think the elf characteristics manifest quite strongly in me and Altaire.

My mom's doll-like beauty might partly be due to her stronger elf blood, but even my mom has lost the pointy ears characteristic of an elf, causing her to look more like a human.

In the evening after we shopped at the medicine store, we finally decided to go back to the inn.

Immediately afterward, Mom and Meredea went out, heading towards the Chinosato Magic a.s.sociation. After all, they are here for work—come to think about it, what about Dad, Gale, and Rupert? Now that we are all gathering in one room, I think I should ask them about it.

"Dad, what about your work?" I asked—he couldn't have forgotten about it, right?

"Don't worry, Phyllo is keeping a watch on the harbor where the illegal trafficking will take place—so far he hasn't seen any suspicious activity, so for now, we'll be under our disguises and take turns to patrol and uncover the other illegal trades, such as black markets."

"Heee, I see. Seems like it's quite a roundabout way, eh, we can't really face the criminals head on right from the start?" Alt-nii asked.

"Well, if you were to face them head on, they would be hiding their crimes very well, so we have to lead them on with our disguises and then strike them once they're vulnerable—and they won't be able to escape that way!" Gale answered.

That explains why Dad couldn't just come here as himself to patrol... They would be alert and Dad wouldn't see anything.

"Alright, then I'll be going this evening," Rupert said, as he quickly cast a spell that changed his appearance to be Ruby again.

"Be careful."

"Take care, Rupert!"

As Rupert in his beautiful disguise left the room, he slightly looked at us and smiled. Uwaa—n.o.body would suspect that he is actually a man that way, right?

It can be quite risky for Rupert himself, right?