I Got Possessed, But the Monster Beast Is Adorable - Chapter 59

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#59

 

How long had I been running while ignoring the faint voices behind me?

 

When I came to my senses, the child and I had somehow reached the entrance to District 4 where the old stone wall stood.

 

If we’ve come this far, they shouldn’t be able to follow us, right?

 

I looked back the way we came and surveyed the surroundings, but fortunately there were no signs of people.

 

After the unexpected midnight chase, I finally caught my ragged breath.

 

I wonder if the child is okay…?

 

I looked at the child who was still trembling while held tightly in my arms and asked carefully.

 

“…Um, are you okay? Where’s your home? I’ll take you home.”

 

“…Hiccup.”

 

Instead of an answer to my question, only faint sobbing came from the child.

 

Oh dear, she must have been really scared… Since it’s late anyway, let’s take her to the shop.

 

“It’s late today, so sleep at my place tonight. Tomorrow I’ll report to the Security Force and take you home.”

 

The child who hadn’t been answering nodded her head obediently at those words.

 

I smiled and adjusted my hold on the small child.

 

…Those bastards. If I run into them next time, I’ll definitely give them a taste of life’s bitterness.

 

Turn them into cocoons and roll them down a cliff.

 

Turn them into earthworms and stomp on them hard.

 

Throw them as food to hungry Arachnids.

 

I took a step forward while going over various torture methods in my head.

 

Oh, the street has gotten brighter.

 

As we got closer to District 1, bright lights began illuminating our view one by one.

 

Even the air was different from the gloomy District 4 that seemed like ghosts might appear.

 

Right, places where people live should be like this.

 

Sir Aivan was definitely right that District 4 was truly the street of death.

 

The proof was that no one came out even when a girl was being kidnapped in the middle of the street.

 

Well, more precisely, they pretended not to see and not to hear.

 

I shook my head thinking about the gazes I had subtly felt from that place.

 

“Um, excuse me…”

 

Just then, a frail girl’s voice flowed into my ears.

 

“Oh, sorry. Were you suffocating?”

 

Now that the surroundings were brighter, the child seemed to finally regain her composure.

 

I gently set down the girl who had been snugly held in my arms.

 

“Th-thank you for helping me…”

 

The child put her hands together and bowed her head deeply.

 

I smiled brightly at the child and got down to her eye level.

 

“…I’m Zoe Blanc. You can call me Sister Zoe. What’s your name?”

 

“I… I’m… Bi… Bini.”

 

“Bini? Your name is as pretty as your face. Nice to meet you, Bini.”

 

When I extended my hand with a harmless flower-like smile, the hesitant Bini soon placed her small hand on mine.

 

My smile at the child’s warmth was brief, as my expression suddenly hardened.

 

There was a dark blue bruise on the back of Bini’s hand.

 

I hurriedly examined every corner of Bini’s body.

 

“…Bini, how old are you?”

 

“I, I’m… um…”

 

Bini, who had been rolling her eyes around with a flustered expression, held up eight fingers.

 

Eight years old, were eight-year-olds this small…?

 

I had seen many young children on field trips to the zoo, but Bini’s physical development was clearly different from those children.

 

A small body that looked at most five or six years old, sunken cheeks, cracked and rough lips, and countless scars that couldn’t be hidden even by clothes.

 

What all of this meant was all too clear.

 

Ah… I should have just turned them into cocoons and burned them.

 

I forced myself to suppress my naturally murderous expression and smiled brightly as I spoke to Bini.

 

“…Bini, you have some dirt on your clothes, let me brush it off for you.”

 

I hurriedly grabbed Bini and pulled out the healing handkerchief.

 

Then Bini was startled by my action and stepped back several paces.

 

“I’m f-fine…”

 

“Don’t worry, Bini. I’m just going to brush off some dirt…”

 

“I said I’m fine-! No, I don’t want to-!”

 

Bini’s hand, filled with fear, came toward my face.

 

Soon, with a slapping sound, my cheek turned red and hot.

 

“S-sorry. I’m sorry! I was wrong!”

 

“Bini, I’m fine… huh?”

 

Just as I was about to apologize, saying it was okay and that I was sorry for scaring her, the excited Bini suddenly dove into my arms with a pop! sound.

 

Thud, I fell on my bottom from the impact and looked down at Bini after regaining my senses.

 

Then…

 

“Ouch… Bi, Bini?”

 

“Huung… Please don’t send me back to that place, Sister. I was wrong…”

 

Suddenly, a small baby rabbit was shedding sorrowful tears in front of me.

 

* * *

 

“Bini, have you calmed down a bit now?”

 

“Yes… The cocoa is so delicious…”

 

“That’s good, but I wonder if rabbits should be drinking cocoa…”

 

Well, it seems too late to point out such fundamental problems…

 

I sighed while looking at the completely empty mug.

 

“It should be fine to consume. Despite how she looks, she’s not a real animal. By the way, she’s really adorable…”

 

Sir Aivan’s mouth hung open as he looked at Bini.

 

It was like the smile of a father looking at his rabbit-like child.

 

Well, that face was a bit creepy though.

 

Anyone would react like that seeing such a cute appearance.

 

I raised the corners of my mouth while watching Bini earnestly grooming herself by holding her long ears.

 

“Ahem, so Bini. Can you tell Sister why you were in that place now?”

 

“Well, that’s… as you probably noticed. My name is Bini Eloise, I’m a rabbit beastman living in the Beastman Kingdom…”

 

Beastman. A being that possesses both human and animal characteristics.

 

As Ruan had mentioned before, it seemed beastmen really did exist in this world.

 

“I see… But I heard that beastmen have their own territory where they live together separately. Isn’t that right, Sir Aivan?”

 

An independent nation not under the Empire’s rule, an island where beastmen gather to live.

 

Also known as the Beastman Kingdom.

 

I had once seen documents related to beastmen in the Library of Forbidden Books.

 

The content was as follows.

 

Hundreds of years ago in ancient times, there was supposedly a great ruler who governed the beastmen. But after that ruler suddenly disappeared, the remaining descendants joined forces to establish the current Beastman Kingdom.

 

So if that content was correct, Bini, being a rabbit beastman, should be in the Beastman Kingdom, but why was she being threatened in Bellnoir, and in the notoriously dangerous District 4 at that?

 

My brow furrowed naturally as I recalled the earlier incident.

 

“You mean the Beastman Kingdom? That’s correct. Hmm… Now that I think about it, it is a bit strange. People from the Beastman Kingdom have reclusive tendencies, so it’s uncommon for them to immigrate to the Empire.”

 

Sir Aivan rubbed his chin area as if finding it strange.

 

Then an unexpected answer came from Bini.

 

“I was… brought here against my will.”

 

“Brought here against your will, what do you mean?”

 

Bini, with her long ears drooping, began explaining what had happened while sniffling.

 

“It was about a month ago… I’ve always been curious about things, so for my birthday I begged and pleaded, and came to travel to the Empire with my family. But…”

 

The story of the small baby rabbit, Bini, was truly shocking.

 

* * *

 

“Bini, wait here with your sister for a moment. Don’t go anywhere, okay?”

 

“Okay, Mom! Oh, could you buy me some fruit skewers when you come back?”

 

“Hey, you already ate three fruit skewers earlier. Keep that up and you’ll become a pig rabbit.”

 

Bini’s older sister Winnie giggled while pointing at Bini’s chubby belly.

 

“Hey, I’m not a pig! I hate you, sister!”

 

“Winnie, Bini. Please don’t fight and stay put. Mom will be back quickly.”

 

“Yes, yes~ We got it, so hurry up and go, Mom.”

 

Bersion, the Imperial Capital.

 

Since foreigners had to obtain a visitor’s permit to enter the capital, Winnie and Bini’s mother, Livia Eloise, seated her two daughters on a bench in front of the administration office and headed to the immigration office.

 

“Sister, the Valterga Empire really is huge. Right! There’s so much to see and so much to eat… It would have been nice if Dad came with us too. Sniff…”

 

“Dad’s busy with the hunting festival. And the Beastman Kingdom is much better than the Empire, you know? The roads here are complicated and there’s not a single meadow to run around in. Ugh, it’s suffocating.”

 

It was then that the two sisters were sitting side by side, chattering away.

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