I Got Possessed, But the Monster Beast Is Adorable - Chapter 77

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#77

Noel and I look alike…?

Of course, Noel and I had many similarities, as if we were blood-related siblings.

Neither of us could handle meat well, and our favorite food was carrots.

We were both huge animal lovers!

Even Ruby, who was wary of strangers, had been friendly with Noel from the very beginning.

“Kyuuung~ I feel so goooood…”

I watched Ruby sitting obediently on Noel’s lap, melting into a puddle of contentment.

Noel… Her petting skills are no joke.

“…Oh my, it makes me happy to hear that Zoe and I are alike.”

“Of course, your faces don’t look alike. As you can see, our Master is exceptionally beautiful.”

“Leon…”

Are you insane…? What kind of rude comment is that to make upon first meeting…?

At his outrageous words, I hurriedly shot him a sharp glare.

But this clueless tiger bastard just winked at me with an expression that said ‘I did good, right?’

Ugh, that damn brat really…

“S-sorry. Leon doesn’t have much social awareness…”

A pet’s mistakes are the owner’s mistakes.

Just as I was about to bow my head in place of that shameless tiger.

“…Your name is Leon, right?”

Noel looked at Leon and asked coldly.

Her voice had a considerable temperature difference from just moments before when she had been all smiles.

Seeing her face harden like stone, I panicked and poked Leon’s side repeatedly.

“Leon… You need to apologize quickly, right?”

But this damn tiger had no intention of listening to me.

“That’s right. What, got a problem with it?”

“L-Leon…? What kind of way of speaking is that…”

“Zoe, please step back for a moment. Leon, you really don’t know anything.”

Noel, who had been glaring at Leon with consistently cold eyes, raised her palm toward me as if telling me to stay put.

I automatically shut my mouth at her charisma.

Then the two of them stared intensely into each other’s eyes.

Somehow it seemed like sparks were flying between them.

N-Noel is really scary when she’s angry…

Leon, you bastard, hurry up and bow your head in apology!

“What don’t I know? What am I supposed to do about our Master being too exceptionally beautiful.”

Hahahaha.

I decided to call Leon ‘Princess’ from now on.

Princess, short for ‘Terrifying Mouth Princess.’

The moment he finally drove the wedge of cutting ties.

Noel, flushed red and blue with anger, shot up from her seat and shouted loudly.

“Zoe isn’t just at a level where you can say she’s exceptionally beautiful! You stupid tiger!”

Wh… what did she say?

Having expected a spectacular display of colorful profanity, I stared at Noel with a dumbfounded expression.

Then Noel began a passionate speech, her brown hair flowing.

“Listen carefully! Our Zoe’s beauty isn’t just any beauty. This is the greatest masterpiece that God completed after a thousand years of working on it once a year while burning with artistic passion! Truly a face that God poured all his devotion into! Do you understand?!”

Oh… my God.

If there had been a flattery contest, she would have easily won first place with such incredible skill.

Are you watching, Sophia? Are you listening, Fiona? This is your complete defeat.

And Leon, you too…

Leon, rendered speechless by Noel’s SSS-level flattery skills, finally declared his defeat.

“…You’re right. Sorry, Noel.”

“Good, as long as you understand.”

Today’s victor Noel straightened her disheveled clothes with a refreshed expression.

Then she pulled over the chair that had been sprawled on the floor and sat back down.

At the same time, the gazes of everyone in the restaurant focused in this direction.

No, more precisely, on my face.

[<System> Warning! Due to excessive pressure, the ‘Stage Fright’ debuff has been applied.]

Ah… I want to go home. I’m scared.

“Kyaaaah-! It’s a monster-!”

Just when I wanted to hide in a mouse hole.

Suddenly, a sharp scream echoed from outside.

“Wh-what was that sound?”

“Hmm, it sounded like a human scream?”

“Who doesn’t know that! Let’s go out and see quickly. Ah, Noel! Noel, it might be dangerous, so stay inside the restaurant!”

“…Be careful.”

I nodded to her and hurriedly rushed outside.

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“Why, why are you doing this, uwaaah-!”

“Uwaaang-! Mommy, Daddy-!”

Village residents attacking each other and the crying of a young child who had lost their parents’ hands.

The streets of Elderin, a small village that served as a crossroads connecting the Empire and the Beastman Kingdom, were truly a scene of chaos.

Zoe quickly dodged the village residents who had been surrounding her, trying to catch her, and asked.

“Ugh, it seems like people are being controlled?”

“Yeah, Master. In front!”

Leon’s words that the village people seemed to be controlled by something made sense.

Zoe nodded while looking at a resident who was twisting their body around with a panicked expression.

“My, my body, why is it like this. It’s moving on its own…!”

“Ugh, I’m sorry. Please stay unconscious for a moment!”

“Ueok-!”

Zoe struck hard at the back of the neck of the man rushing toward her.

Then, with a death cry, the man’s body collapsed with a thud.

“Phew… Done… Leon, Ruby! Behind!”

Just as she was catching her breath, a man from behind was closing the distance toward Leon and Ruby at a terrifying speed.

His appearance, with his pitch-black mouth gaping wide as if to swallow them both whole, was reminiscent of a fully bloomed flower bud.

“Uh, what is this!”

“Kyu-!”

At my urgent cry, Ruby and Leon barely rolled their bodies to the side, avoiding the man’s attack.

Then the failed hunter’s gaze pierced toward Zoe.

‘That man… isn’t he that Pervert I saw at the restaurant earlier…?’

Zoe rubbed her eyes and stared at the man’s face again.

He was definitely the Pervert who had been bothering Noel at the restaurant, but his current appearance was somehow abnormal.

Empty pupils, a large pitch-black mouth, and sharp teeth.

Even green thorny vines covering his entire body.

Zoe felt her hair stand on end and got goosebumps at his appearance that didn’t seem human at all.

“E-everyone run away-! My body is strange!”

“Uwaaah-!”

What the hell happened to everyone!

Witnessing this inexplicable strange phenomenon before her eyes, Zoe firmly grasped her sanity that seemed about to snap.

As long as she was staying in this village, she couldn’t just leave things as they were.

Zoe began to quickly rack her brain while surveying her surroundings.

If the villagers were really being controlled by something as Leon said, finding the cause had to come first.

“Leon, if you have any guesses, tell me…!”

“Ugh, get out of the way, you things! Master, look ahead!”

Just as I was about to move toward Leon, the Angry Man who had been standing still with his eyes rolled back suddenly lunged at Zoe.

Panicked, Zoe hastily shot silver spider webs wildly at the man.

The man’s body became wrapped in Arachnesia’s sturdy and tough silver spider webs, soon turning into a giant cocoon.

“Got it, his movement stopped…!”

Just when I felt relieved that the man struggling inside the cocoon had stopped moving.

“Kraaak-!”

The plant stems covering his body pierced through the cocoon in an instant.

The man burst out and collapsed on the floor with a thud, then staggered as he got back up.

…Is that really the same man from before?

The staggering man’s body was twisting grotesquely like a ball-jointed doll.

Zoe watched the monster-like man intently, deep in thought.

‘Should I shoot fire? Or maybe Attica…?’

The situation wasn’t suitable for using large-scale magic here. The villagers were densely packed, so there was a high chance they’d get caught up in it.

While I was pondering how to handle this situation, the Angry Man soon straightened his spine and began muttering something.

“Nutrients… I need nutrients…”

The man stretched out his limply elongated neck and began looking around in all directions.

“Huaaang- Mommy…”

Meanwhile, he spotted a boy who had lost his parents in the chaos and was crouched in a corner, trembling with fear at a distance.

The man’s eyes gleamed brightly as he found an easier target.

“Nutrients… found.”

The man, rolling his bloodshot eyes around, instantly charged toward that boy.

“K-kid, get away!”

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