I Got Possessed, But the Monster Beast Is Adorable - Chapter 37

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#37

I stared intently at Valentino, who was glaring at the man with murderous black eyes.

As expected, his memories seemed confused due to dream manipulation, and if what Valentino just said was true, the man was a terrible villain who abused and abandoned a small mouse.

That wasn’t all. As if Valentino’s words were a signal flare, the animals began to chime in one by one.

-Valentino’s right, meow! My butler also forced me into water even though I hate it, meow! Ugh, what a demonic butler, meow.

-Caw! My owner broke my wing! Now I can’t even fly anymore! Caw!

-Humans are bad. They only torment us, quack quack!

-That’s right… They said they loved me, that they’d stay with me forever… but they abandoned me.

The animals were suffering terribly from these false memories.

To think their happy memories with their owners had been twisted into such painful ones…

I found myself tearing up as I thought of Lulu.

Lulu, the panda I was in charge of at Ecoland, had suffered severe abuse from birth. Because of that, Lulu was thoroughly wary and afraid of me—no, of humans in general—from the very beginning.

Patchy missing fur and dermatitis. A scratched nose. Cut whiskers.

The way she would get excited and roll around on the ground whenever I just raised my hand…

If I had been Lulu, I too would have hated and resented humans enough to want to tear them apart immediately.

That’s how badly Lulu’s body and heart were wounded back then.

That’s why I didn’t rush and waited for Lulu to open her heart and accept me on her own. As time gradually passed like that, Lulu slowly opened her heart to me, and now she’s become my precious friend and family.

The time I spent with Lulu was great happiness for me. But if Lulu were trapped in manipulated memories and suffering like the other children here… just imagining it feels like my heart would be torn apart.

“Valentino. And everyone.”

When I gathered everyone’s attention with a serious tone, all the animals’ gazes focused on me.

“Your owners didn’t abandon you. Even now, they’re worried about you and desperately searching for you.”

-But they did abandon me! My owner must hate me!

“What are you talking about? There’s no way they could hate such lovable children like you. Think carefully, were your owners really like that? Did they torment and abuse you? Doesn’t something seem strange?”

At my words, the chattering animals fell quiet as if lost in thought.

I looked at the confused animals and continued speaking calmly.

“You’re all just having your memories manipulated by Lunatice right now. There’s no owner in this world who doesn’t love their pet, who is like their everything.”

-Then… our owners didn’t abandon us? That was all a lie…?

“Yes. Of course. Didn’t you have happy memories with your owners? I’m sure you did.”

-Ah, I did, woof! Even when it was raining really hard outside, they took me for a walk, woof! I was so, so happy then, woof!

-…Come to think of it. Since I love cheese so much, they got me giant cheese from somewhere, oink.

-That lazy butler who would just sprawl out and sleep all the time when coming home stayed up all night watching over me when I was sick, meow.

Starting with Buddy, the animals began chattering excitedly about their memories with their owners.

“That’s right. Your owners love you so much they could give up their lives for you.”

Because I love Lulu and Ruby. And all the demons I’ve tamed. I could gladly sacrifice my life for them.

Probably, those children’s owners feel the same as I do.

-That’s right, woof! My owner would pet me every day saying ‘Buddy, I love you most in the world,’ woof! I don’t really know what it means, but somehow hearing those words made me feel really good too, woof!

-They would always make lisping sounds at me while pushing their smelly lips at me, meow. It was annoying so I blocked them with my paw, meow.

-I got all of that, oink. It was annoying so I bit them, but they said even the bite marks were cute, oink. Hopeless, oink. But it’s strange, oink. Why had I forgotten all this until now, oink?

When Valentino muttered questioningly, the animals began agreeing one after another.

-That’s true, quack. My owner never tormented me, quack. Rather, my owner saved me from the humans who were tormenting me, quack!

-My wing was broken when an eagle attacked me, caw. My owner brought me in and treated me. Why did I think my owner broke it, caw?

Good. The animals are starting to notice the errors in their memories!

Just as I was about to drive the final nail home for the animals.

“What are you doing right now?”

Lunatice looked over the animals whose memories had returned with a cold expression, then shifted his gaze to me.

“…Zoe, don’t tell me it was you?”

Lunatice’s pupils, narrowed with anger, glinted fiercely as they looked at me.

It was a threatening gaze that would have made an ordinary human scream and run away, but I remained completely unshaken and continued speaking calmly while looking at Lunatice.

“Lunatice. Return the animals’ memories to normal. Who are you to drive a wedge between owners and animals?”

“Ha, don’t make me laugh! What do you know? I told them so clearly not to trust humans… It seems everyone needs re-education.”

As Lunatice muttered while looking at the animals, a brilliant flash began emanating from the moon symbol embedded in Lunatice’s forehead.

“Everyone fall asleep. Never wake up again. From now on, you’ll live in happy dreams.”

With those words, the animals collapsed to the floor one by one.

Damn, we were almost there!

“Same goes for you, Zoe.”

When Lunatice gestured, the passage leading outside that had been open until just before was sealed, creating a perfect sealed room.

Since he couldn’t control me with dreams, it seemed he was trying to trap me in this space entirely.

At this rate, the animals might be trapped in Lunatice’s dreams forever.

Finally, just as I was about to summon Artica to tame Lunatice.

CRASH!

Suddenly there was a loud noise and cracks appeared in the wall, then a huge hole burst open in the middle of the wall.

And from outside the hole, a familiar silhouette revealed itself.

“Zoe, I’ve come to rescue you.”

“I’m here too, Zoe! Kyuu!”

Ruan, whose neat black hair was completely disheveled, and Ruby, who had regained her original size, spoke while looking at me.

“Ruan, Ruby! You came to rescue me!”

“Who are you people again! How did you find this place?”

Lunatice glared at the intruders who had invaded his space without permission, baring his long, sharp fangs.

Ruan, who had been glaring at Lunatice with equally cold eyes, shifted his gaze to me behind Lunatice.

“Really, I can’t take my eyes off Zoe for even a moment.”

Ruan, having confirmed my safety, muttered in a relieved, calm tone.

Soon Ruan readjusted his grip on the sword he was holding and walked toward Lunatice with deliberate steps.

“I’ll subjugate you right now.”

Ruan’s brightly glowing purple eyes were full of murderous intent. He looked ready to swing that sharp sword and slice off Lunatice’s head immediately.

Wait, wait. That won’t do?!

“R-Ruan. Wait a moment. You can’t cut him! That cat is!”

“This time, it’s no use trying to stop me.”

Ruan firmly cut off my words and pressed the sharp tip of his sword to Lunatice’s throat.

Not to be outdone, Lunatice’s vertically slit pupils glared fiercely at Ruan.

“To think humans discovered this place. I’ll kill you for the animals’ safety.”

No, wait a minute. The cat we were looking for is Lunatice!

“That human… you won’t be able to stop him? When we were searching for the dungeon, he was so stubborn. He grabbed me and threatened me! Telling me to find Zoe quickly! I was the one who was really worried about Zoe!”

Ruby, covered in dirt, spoke to me as if lamenting. It seemed finding this place had been quite difficult.

“Kyuu… It was hard because various scents were mixed together, but I finally found Zoe! I did well, right Zoe?! I’m more useful than that stubborn human, right?!”

“Yes. Well done, our Ruby.”

I praised Ruby for her hard work, then turned my head toward Ruan again.

“Ruan. Wait a moment. I’m fine, I’m safe! And that’s the cat Sophia was looking for!”

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