Chapter 131 – Sister Alice
What is she doing here? But instead of questioning it, Menew just felt a sense of relief as he sighed.
After waiting for him to calm down, she sat next to him. Just as she had talked to him in the first town.
However, he could not tell her that he had been reincarnated. He could not tell her that he was not born from the womb.
He knew this from the beginning, of course. Seker had told him that.
He just hadn’t really thought about it until now.
It was because he wasn’t human, that he had such a status.
That he could use such magic.
Because he wasn’t human…he was able to start again at Level 1.
“It’s fine.”
She said, back straight and looking forward.
“Do you remember, Mr. Menew? When you were unable to accept your own ability. How did you overcome that?”
He remembered it clearly. He looked at the Hero records and learned that there were divine beasts and high-ranking monsters.
There were plenty of creatures that surpassed him in this world.
It made his spirit soar. He wanted to meet them. And he had done just that. At least, he had met the spirits known as divine beasts.
“And so it is fine. You should just be yourself, Mr. Menew.”
At this point, not being born human should not be a problem.
Menew was able to do what he wanted. He traveled with friends and met creatures he wanted to meet.
That was not the road of a monster.
It was not Apep’s, it was Menew’s.
Just as he thought this, the darkness…the anger, the gloom and doubts…evaporated.
“…Sister. Your timing is too good.”
Menew was half-crying as he smiled at her. She had now turned her head towards him and laughed.
“It is God’s guidance as well. Once every year, I come here to Ramsteris in order to offer my prayers. It is the head church, after all.”
“I see. Will you be here long?”
“Yes. Of course, I will not be out here most of the time. There is a separate prayer room. Besides…”
She paused there and turned around.
There was a door that was slightly opened, and they could see Ralph’s long hair. He was terrible at hiding.
“Mr. Menew. You are capable of walking on your own now. And even if you get lost, you have friends who will help you. After I have prayed here for some time, I will go back to waiting for your return in that town. And I hope to hear lots of stories about your adventures.”
Menew wiped the tears from his eyes and offered his hand with a smile.
“Yes, it’s a promise. I’ll have amazing adventures that I can tell you about. So, goodbye for now. We’ll see each other again.”
“Indeed, we will.”
After shaking hands, Menew ran back to the others.
“Sorry to keep you waiting!”
Back to his usual self, he grabbed Ralph’s shoulder and laughed at Totto and Mofusen. The three, who had been worried about him, now sighed with relief.
As Menew would not take his arm off of his shoulder, Ralph had to finally grab Menew’s heads and peel him off. And then he frowned like he always did and hit Menew in the back of the head.
Of course, it did not hurt, and Menew felt warm inside.
Totto was trying to make him eat some of the sweets he had taken with him, and Mofusen chuckled as if nothing had happened.
Stan moved from Totto to Menew’s shoulder, and his heart felt the warmth of Mr. Wal and Kanon.
‘It’s fine.’
He heard the sister’s words.
(Yes. I am me. Not Apep. Not a monster. Not a spirit. Not human either. I am me.)
There were things he could do because he wasn’t normal.
Drawing. To depict life.
He was a monster who drew. That hadn’t changed since his previous life.
However, in this moment, his friends.
He wanted to draw them.
“He-hey. When we return to the inn, can I draw you all?”
“What’s this all of a sudden?”
“Of course!”
“As long as you make me handsome. Ahahaa–!”
Mofusen laughed so much that his teeth fell out.
(I am a being who draws. Nothing more or less. I don’t mind being a monster, as long as they are with me.)
The sun was starting to set.
And the plain stone buildings were bathed in red light.
Like that, they laughed, talked and walked together.
It was a beautiful sight. Menew proud that he could think that.
That was why she had said that it would be fine.
He wanted to have more adventures in order to surprise her.
With everyone.
Menew raised his hand over his eyes and smiled. He stayed a few steps behind the others in order to watch.
If he got lost, then he just had to go back. To what he wanted to do, to the thing that made and raised him.
His heart was filled with expectation and pride.