Twisted Beginning (Part 3)
Twisted Beginning (Part 3)
Lili often spent her time in the forest to avoid the villagers.
A place filled with rough wildflowers.
Lili had Yeppi sitting on her lap as they chatted.
"Kya kya kya! Serves her right!"
"It felt really satisfying, didn't it? Putting Melanie in her place."
"Of course! Melanie must have killed countless kobolds!"
Yeppi seemed overjoyed about the time she had stomped all over the stomach of the injured and fallen Melanie.
It was revenge for how Melanie had mercilessly slaughtered Yeppi's kin.
"Humans and demonkin can definitely coexist peacefully. It's just that there are too many bad people like Melanie right now, so it's not possible."
"That's right! But she got a taste of her own medicine from a strong demonkin this time, so she won't dare act up again!"
"......Well. That girl doesn't know the meaning of giving up."
"Hey, Lili......."
"Hm?"
Yeppi looked at Lili cautiously, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke.
"If the peaceful era we hope for ever comes...... would you marry me......?"
"Whaaat? Ahahaha!"
Yeppi had a very serious attitude, but Lili just laughed as if she thought it was a joke.
What a naive kobold.
But a marriage proposal isn't child's play.
When she was little, Lili too would sometimes lightly talk about getting married, just like Yeppi.
'When I grow up, I'm going to marry Melanie! So don't go holding hands with anyone else!'
'What......? That's so unreasonable!'
There was a time when she and Melanie were that close.
......No, she doesn't remember that?
"Ugh!"
"Lili? Are you okay? What's wrong?"
A headache, sharp enough to pierce her mind, made Lili grab her head in agony.
Seeing this, Yeppi got off Lili's lap and reached out toward her, but——
Shunk!
"Ggeuk?"
——she could only freeze as she watched a blade protrude from her own chest.
Lili's expression also twisted into one of horror at the sight.
And with eyes filled with hatred, she glared at the figure behind Yeppi.
"Melanie! What is the meaning of this!"
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry......!"
Disgustingly, Melanie was crying as if this wasn't a situation she wanted.
What kind of attitude is that after she's the one who attacked?
"Gyaaaaaaaaaaah——!!!!"
"Aak!"
Yeppi began to let out a scream that echoed throughout the entire forest.
Lili screamed as she felt a splitting, intense pain surge through her already aching head.
She couldn't understand how such a loud sound could come from the small body of a kobold.
"Ye, Yeppi...... wait...... I'll save you......!"
The harmony between humans and demonkin isn't a far-fetched dream.
She couldn't just let Melanie trample that beautiful dream——
My father was conscripted into the war against the demonkin and all contact was lost.
My mother went to look for him and never returned.
I hated the demonkin.
I resolved to become a knight who kills demonkin.
But then one day, out of the blue, I started wanting to reconcile with the demonkin.
——Doesn't that seem weird?
"Ugh, no, my parents passed away from illness......?"
"Lili......?"
Melanie looked worried about her childhood friend, who was muttering to herself in agony.
But the voice of the goddess echoing in Melanie's head didn't give her the leisure for that.
[What are you doing? That kobold is still alive, isn't it? Finish it off quickly.]
'No, something's wrong! Its heart was pierced, so why isn't it dying......?!'
"Gyaaaaaaaaaaah——!!!!"
Melanie also didn't have time to think that she didn't want to kill Yeppi anymore.
If she couldn't stop Yeppi's screaming, it felt like her eardrums would burst.
And it might have attracted the attention of other demonkin in the forest.
It was already an irreversible situation.
She had to quickly finish off Yeppi and get Lili out of here.
"Dammit......! Just! Why! Won't! You! Die!"
Melanie gripped her sword firmly with both hands and brought it down on Yeppi's neck again and again and again.
Yeppi's unnaturally sturdy neck wouldn't sever completely, and an unnatural amount of blood gushed out like a fountain.
"Why doesn't anyone like me! I'm this cute and adorable! I'm a witty design that fits the modern generation's sense!"
"What are you talking about......! You just look like a fucking ugly little zombie......!"
"What's so good about a dark, dreary worldview where everyone just kills and gets killed! A bright story where everyone gets along is much better!"
"Don't assume others will find what you find fun! Don't just rewrite other people's stories......!"
"Gyaaaaaaaaaah——!!!!"
Thump!
"......Kahak?!"
Feeling a disgusting pressure in her lower abdomen, Melanie looked down.
Yeppi's grotesquely swollen fist was embedded in her stomach.
She hadn't noticed Yeppi's attack because of the skull-rattling scream.
"Diiiiiiiiiiie——!!!!"
"Keuhuk......!"
Yeppi swung her large arm and sent Melanie flying.
Melanie, who tumbled across the ground several times, tried to get up immediately, but her strength gave out and she collapsed again.
"Cough......! Ugh......!"
Blood gushed from her mouth.
With trembling hands, she clutched her white stomach, now stained crimson.
It seemed her internal organs were badly damaged from that single blow.
[Why are you struggling so much against a single kobold!]
'Ugh...... How is that thing a kobold......?'
"You barbaric non-virgin bitch! I'll kill you!"
Yeppi, holding her dangling head with one hand, swung her massively transformed arm threateningly as she approached.
It was no longer a form that could be called a kobold.
[The Distortion is growing stronger. Get up and grab your sword, quickly!]
"Cough......! Haa, haa......!"
Coughing up blood, Melanie looked at her sword, which had fallen at Yeppi's feet.
If she could just manage to slash one more time, that ugly monster's head would probably be completely severed.
Then, someone's hand picked up Melanie's sword.
Schlick.
"Ggaak?"
That someone, with a refined and clean motion, cut off Yeppi's head.
Yeppi's face rolled across the ground with a desolate expression.
"Wh, why, Lili......? We're, friends......?"
The dying monster's gaze looked at Lili, who was holding the sword, and spoke.
Melanie was also looking at her childhood friend with an expression of disbelief.
"I never had a monster like you as a friend."
Lili answered in a cold voice.
Yeppi, now separated into body and head, flickered like black smoke and then dissipated as if scattered by the wind.
As if she had never existed in the first place.
[Ooh! I can feel the Distortion fading. Killing that kobold was indeed the correct answer!]
'What do you mean, the correct answer......! Can't you see Lili's condition......?!'
"......Huh, huh? What did I just do?"
Lili dropped the sword from her trembling, shuddering hands.
Her eyes seemed to be smiling brightly, but her hollow pupils were shedding sorrowful tears.
"Did I kill my friend? No? How could I be friends with a demonkin? Ahaha? I killed the demonkin to protect my friend, right?"
Lili's creaking demeanor was like that of a broken doll.
"Melanie, I'm sorry? You liked me, right? I hate you so much, I can't stand it?"
'It's clear that problems arose from trying to force the story to change......!'
[What's the big deal about one little girl losing her mind?]
Melanie's anger surged at the Demon God Luxuria's dismissive tone.
But her weak self couldn't defy Luxuria, and appealing to emotions would be useless.
Melanie suppressed her anger and thought rationally.
'You said you wanted to revert to the original story! In the original story, she's supposed to hold my hand and go on an adventure!'
[Hmm. Then it would be best to create a form as close to that as possible.]
'How do you plan to do that! Because of me, she killed her precious friend, there's no way she'd forgive me......!'
[Anyway, all we need to do is make her develop feelings for you, right? This Demon God Luxuria will take a hand in it.]
'What......? Don't tell me you're going to force yourself on her and control her like you did to me?! No! If you lay a hand on Lili, I'll never forgi...'
[Just watch quietly.]
"Oh......?"
Lili let out a strange gasp and stared at Melanie.
For some reason, her face was growing redder by the minute, and her gaze had melted into a sticky, lustful one.
"Melanie...... I...... my body is so hot......♥"
"Li, Lili......?"
"Haa, haa......♥"
The way Lili's chest rose and fell with her heated breaths was unsettling.
She began to approach Melanie, discarding her outer garments one by one.
"Kyaak! Lili! Why are you taking your clothes off!"
"When I look at you, Melanie, I get so hot I can't stand it......♥"
"Stop saying weird things and put your clothes back o...... huh......?"
Melanie's pupils shook as if an earthquake had hit them.
Because when Lili discarded her lower garments as well, a sight too unbelievable to accept as reality unfolded.
The thing standing erect at Lili's groin was chaos itself.
It was as if Lili's confused mental state, where she could no longer distinguish reality from non-reality, had manifested externally.
Swollen into a form more monstrous than the creature she had just killed, it twitched with a grotesque vitality.
Like a drooling, brain-damaged fool, pre-ejaculate dripped drop by drop from the urethral opening.
"Li, Lili, you, that thing......?"
"Melanie......♥ I feel really strange today......♥ Can you...... help me......?♥"