I Got Possessed, But the Monster Beast Is Adorable - Chapter 15

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#15

The man opened his eyes exactly three days later.

For some reason I couldn’t understand, as soon as the man opened his eyes, he bombarded me with a barrage of questions.

“Do you really not remember?”

“So, what memories? I told you I fainted because of you! And the reason you haven’t transformed into a demon beast for three days is… this legendary weapon… anyway, because this Artika here absorbed the magic.”

“That doesn’t make sense either. That’s just an ordinary watering can. …Though it does look a bit unusual.”

The man added in a faint voice.

Excuse me, our Artika isn’t just a watering can.

Artika, cover your ears.

I quietly reached out and placed both palms against Artika’s round body.

“Our Artika isn’t just an ordinary watering can… ha, anyway! I was unconscious. There’s no one here but us.”

“That can’t be. You definitely looked like a young lady, but you weren’t a young lady.”

What kind of Ruby-like nonsense is that…

The man kept grabbing me and interrogating me, insisting that I was me, but I had become someone else who wasn’t me.

He must have gone crazy after becoming a demon beast.

Otherwise… there couldn’t be anyone else here, and there’s no way I could exist as me who’s me but not me…!

Ugh, I’m getting confused just talking about it.

“Haa, I’m telling you it really wasn’t me! And can’t you stop with all that ‘young lady’ stuff? It’s embarrassing.”

“I’m only calling a young lady a young lady, so what should I call you then?”

“Just call me Zoe. Come on, try it. Zo-e.”

“I respectfully decline. I cannot call a noble young lady I’ve barely met by her name, young lady.”

The man shook his head vigorously, citing etiquette in response to my suggestion.

Ugh, this person is really stubborn. Such a stickler.

“…Haa, look. I didn’t want to say this much. I’m actually from a fallen noble family, you know?”

“A fallen… noble family?”

“Yes! Don’t you know what fallen means? My family went completely bankrupt! Hahaha! I don’t want to recite the tragic story of my family’s misfortunes that would bring tears to your eyes, so just call me Zoe.”

“…Well, um, understood. Zoe.”

When I got angry at the title that was too embarrassing for a K-Korean, the man reluctantly responded.

I looked intently at the man who was coughing awkwardly and asked.

“What about you?”

At my question, the man stared at me without answering.

“Your name. What should I call you?”

“Ah, my name… you mean.”

After bombarding me with questions until my ears were sore, I glanced sharply at the man whose answer was dragging on even for such a simple question.

Then the man, who had been nervously moving only his lips with an anxious expression, opened his mouth with difficulty.

“Ruan… it is.”

Hah, who does he think he’s fooling.

I stared at the man for a moment at the obviously fake-sounding name.

Just from his talk about noble etiquette and his sculpture-like face, I could tell at once that Ruan was a high-ranking noble.

Despite that, the fact that he gave a fake name…

Is he a male protagonist character with secrets unknown to others?

You know, like in romance novels.

Like an illegitimate child of the Imperial Family unknown to the world, or the leader of a Dark Guild.

The kind who gets close to the female protagonist while hiding his identity.

That’s right, that must be it.

As expected, the renewed Animal Park 2 must have added a romance novel-like story.

Having finished that thought, I continued speaking with a much more generous expression.

“Ruan, you say? Well then. I’ll call you Ruan!”

“…Ah, yes.”

I smiled brightly while looking at Ruan, who had a somewhat reluctant expression.

Ha! Sorry, but I’ve already figured out your identity!

“Anyway, I owe Zoe a great debt. I will properly compensate you for this later. Well then, I’ll be going now…”

“Wait a minute, Ruan!”

I hurriedly grabbed Ruan as he tried to leave the house.

Then Ruan looked at me quietly with eyes that seemed to ask why.

Oh, he’s definitely handsome, but…

“Ruan, are you perhaps, surely… just trying to run away?”

You can’t just run away, mister.

“Yes, yes? Run away, you say. I have unavoidable circumstances so it’s difficult right now, but I will definitely compensate you later…!”

At my words, Ruan answered frantically, waving his hands.

Protagonist or whatever, you’re just going to run away after turning the house into such a mess…?

Haha, not a chance.

“Ruan, I didn’t want to say this much. Could you turn your head and look around once?”

Ruan hurriedly turned his head this way and that at my hollow gaze.

Broken furniture everywhere and cracks splitting the walls. The roof that had completely collapsed and even had holes punched through it.

Seeing this devastating scene, Ruan seemed to be at a loss for words for a moment.

“Did I do that?”

I silently nodded my head.

“…Haa. I’m truly sorry, Zoe.”

Ruan had a genuinely apologetic look in his eyes, but if apologies solved everything, why would we have laws and police?

I looked at Ruan and continued speaking in a pitiful tone.

“Ruan, do you know? This house… is the only inheritance my parents left me when they passed away.”

At my words, Ruan seemed flustered and tried to reattach the leg of a broken chair.

But would doing that fix what’s broken?

Even I, a cleaning master, had struggled like hell for three whole days, but there was nothing I could do about the already destroyed house.

Everything I touched only broke more…

Thud-

As one chair leg fell helplessly to the floor, Ruan’s lost eyes turned toward me again.

“I, I’ll somehow get you the exact same design. Of course, I’ll also give you adequate compensation money, and also…”

“Forget the compensation money. Ruan. If you’re really sorry to me, can you do everything I tell you to do?”

I asked Ruan with a quite solemn expression.

Then Ruan swallowed hard and answered.

“Anything, I’ll do everything Zoe tells me to do.”

“Good. Then follow me. Right now.”

I gestured to Ruan with a determined expression.

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