I Got Possessed, But the Monster Beast Is Adorable - Chapter 34

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#34

 

“…Oh, h-hello? What’s your name?”

 

-Me? I’m ‘Buddy.’ My owner named me Buddy, woof.

 

“I see… Nice to meet you, Buddy. I’m Zoe Blanc.”

 

-Zoe Blanc! Woof! Please take care of me from now on, woof!

 

‘So, so cute….’

 

Looking at Buddy with his gentle eyes, I couldn’t help but grin widely. If I weren’t in this form, I would have immediately hugged that fluffy puppy and kissed him.

 

Get it together, Zoe Blanc. From the looks of it, these guys must have been kidnapped by a pet kidnapper. Oh, could that mouse possibly be the one the fruit skewer merchant was raising?

 

I looked at the palm-sized cute gray mouse.

 

-What are you looking at, squeak! Look away, squeak!

 

Hmm, his face is cute, but his personality seems a bit prickly.

 

I obediently looked away and turned my head to carefully observe the animals in this place.

 

The animals here were playing with dolls scattered around or resting inside wooden boxes. On one side, hamsters were rattling around on wooden wheels, and on the other side, a calico cat was scratching rough tree roots.

 

Looking at this space that was truly like an animal playground, I was filled with doubt.

 

‘I thought the kidnapper abducted them to torment the animals, but was I wrong?’

 

Besides that, there was no way a kidnapper would bring animals into a dangerous dungeon. Especially a B-rank dungeon at that.

 

The more I thought about it, the stranger it seemed. Most of all, I could still vividly feel the sensation of sharp fangs that had bitten my nape when I was falling.

 

Thud, thud.

 

Just then, heavy footsteps were approaching this space.

 

I tensed up and listened carefully to the footsteps. At this moment, my instincts were telling me that the owner of these footsteps was the kidnapper.

 

“What, you’re already awake?”

 

The owner of the footsteps finally appeared and casually spoke to me.

 

That’s, that’s a boy, isn’t it?

 

The boy stood there blankly, looking down at me.

 

“You, who are you?”

 

There was no particular answer from the boy.

 

I quickly scanned up and down the boy who appeared to be about six or seven years old.

 

The boy had hair that was half white and half black, with whiskers on his cheeks. He had cat ears on top of his head, and even a sleek tail attached to his bottom.

 

This alone already put him outside the realm of ordinary, but the most peculiar thing was his eye color. The boy’s left eye was sky blue, his right eye was amber. In other words, he had heterochromia.

 

Plus, there was even a cute choker with a silver bell on a red string around his neck.

 

So this appearance was more like a….

 

“You’re definitely a cat…?”

 

“I’m not a cat, I’m Lunatice.”

 

Dungeon, Lunatis’ Hideout. This kid was the owner of the dungeon.

 

* * *

 

“So… you’re saying you kidnapped all these animals?”

 

“I didn’t kidnap them, I protected them.”

 

“Protected them, from whom?”

 

“From whom else. From bad humans.”

 

So, the beginning of the incident according to Lunatice was like this.

 

At some point, animals began disappearing from the village one by one, and the smell of blood from those missing animals filled the village. So Lunatice thought this was humans’ doing, and from then on brought the animals that village people were raising here to protect them.

 

“Even so, that’s not right. That’s the doing of one bad human, not all the village people being bad. From the village people’s perspective, it’s the same as having their beloved pets kidnapped. And those kids must miss their owners too, right?”

 

“Do you trust humans? Humans get bored easily. It’s easy for them to love something, and easy for them to get sick of it too.”

 

As Lunatice said this, a blazing anger flashed in his heterochromatic eyes for a moment, but somehow he also looked sad.

 

I suddenly had this thought. ‘Could Lunatice possibly be that cat who met Sophia?’ I wondered.

 

It matched perfectly with the appearance of the cat Sophia had described. Even the choker with the bell that Sophia said she had given as a gift.

 

“Um… you, by any chance….”

 

“Anyway, you have to live here from now on too. It’s dangerous outside. Here, look at this.”

 

The place Lunatice pointed to with his small hand was his own forehead. On Lunatice’s forehead was carved a moon (☾) symbol. As I stared at it as if entranced, drowsiness suddenly rushed over me like crazy.

 

“Why, why is this happening… I’m suddenly so sleepy….”

 

“When you wake up, you’ll want to live here too.”

 

Lunatice said this while grinning. With that sight as the last thing I saw, I fell into a deep slumber.

 

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‘Where is… this place.’

 

I stood tall in an unfamiliar place with a completely bewildered expression.

 

I was definitely having a conversation with Lunatice inside the dungeon, so why did I suddenly lose consciousness?

 

At that moment, the moon symbol that had been clearly imprinted on Lunatice’s forehead flashed through my mind.

 

‘That moon symbol… wasn’t it an ordinary mark? And why did I suddenly return to my original body?’

 

I shook off the thoughts drilling into my head and turned to look around.

 

Swoosh. The sound of crashing waves reached my ears, and I felt the soft texture of sand under my feet.

 

I could immediately tell where this place was.

 

“It’s the sea…?”

 

I stared at the blue sea spread out before me with vacant eyes. Sunlight created gentle sparkles dancing on the water, and waves rippled softly. It was a scenery as beautiful as a painting.

 

But somehow this scenery I was looking at felt unrealistic. I even had a strange sense of déjà vu.

 

In that confusing moment, someone appeared.

 

It was some girl wearing a flowing white dress.

 

‘…Who is that child?’

 

I stared intently at that girl’s face, which seemed somehow familiar. But strangely, I couldn’t see the girl’s face.

 

To be more precise, it looked blurry as if only her face had a blur filter applied to it.

 

Then, the girl who had been standing quietly opened her lips.

 

“Hello? I’m @@@. What’s your name?”

 

“What, what did you say?”

 

I made rabbit eyes in surprise at the girl’s unclear words and asked back.

 

But the girl ignored me and continued the conversation one-sidedly.

 

“Huh? What’s wrong? Are you hurt somewhere? Eek, look at all this blood! Mom! Dad!”

 

The girl suddenly sat down and shouted loudly as if calling for help. I looked at where the girl’s gaze was focused and was startled.

 

“…Who exactly are you talking to?”

 

I carefully asked the question in a trembling voice, but as expected, there was no answer.

 

“Oh, sorry. For startling you….”

 

“Hey…! Wait, don’t run away!”

 

I began to get goosebumps watching the girl continue her one-sided conversation with thin air. No matter how much I looked around, there were only the girl and me in this place.

 

“It’s okay…. I won’t hurt you.”

 

The girl spread out her small palm and gently patted the air.

 

At this point, I was really getting scared.

 

What kind of situation is this exactly? Don’t tell me it’s one of those ‘only good people can see it’ things? Damn, it’s even more eerie because I can’t see the face.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

I just blinked once, but suddenly the location changed.

 

This place, where the subtle scent of freshly baked bread wafted, was inside a cozy and warm ordinary home.

 

The girl was sitting naturally on the living room sofa in comfortable wood-tone colors as if she was familiar with it. Looking closely, the girl was holding white bandages in her hands.

 

“Wait there for just a moment?”

 

The girl who had been unrolling the bandages turned her body completely to the right and wrapped the bandages around thin air.

 

“There, done. You must have been scared, but you endured it well.”

 

It was still an eerie sight, but strangely, her voice was calm and gentle.

 

For some reason I didn’t understand, the girl seemed unable to see me or sense my presence. I was just unilaterally observing the girl’s actions as if watching a movie on screen.

 

“Don’t worry now, I’ll protect you from now on.”

 

It was a somehow familiar line. I rolled my eyes around, feeling like I might know who this girl was.

 

‘That child… who exactly was she?’

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