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After Illness-san quickly finished shopping, the two of us looked around the night market together.
At a store with a Daemon-looking shopkeeper, they were selling âskewered skewersâ instead of just calling it skewers. As for why they skewered their skewersâŠâŠ Was it just something invented by the Daemon Lord Nia-san? Or perhaps, is skewering just something popular among the Daemons? Hmmm, I donât know.
There were also vampire-like shopkeepers around. Itâs true that vampires feel like theyâre nocturnal or that they dislike daylightâŠâŠ but Noir-san doesnât seem to be like that at all.
[Illness-san, do vampires dislike sunlight?]
[Sunliiiiight? They certainly are nocturnaaaaal, so they probably donât like the glare of strong sunliiiiight.]
[FumuâŠâŠ Then, what about half-vampires?]
It isnât like the vampiresâ weakness was sunlight as I imagined, and it was simply that they spent most of their time in the dark and are a bit uncomfortable under the bright light.
[Half-vampires are a special caaaaase. They may inherit the nature of the other half of their bloooood, so they are often not nocturnaaaaal.]
[I see, just like how Luna-sanâs mother, Noir-san, also usually goes out during the daytime.]
I asked Illness-san a little later, to which she said that half- and quarter-breeds are quite special, and sometimes, they inherit a jumble of various characteristics of their parents, and there were also times when such aspects lean towards one side.
Dr. Vier also mentioned before how itâs difficult to examine half- and quarter-breeds, and there must be many specialized and difficult aspects regarding this.
As we were moving around while I had such thoughts in mind, Illness-san suddenly turned her attention to one of the stores. The area where we were now was past the foodstuffs area, an area with a rather miscellaneous variety of items.
What Illness-san was looking atâŠâŠ was a tall type of grass that shines with a pale light.
[I saw something nostalgic sooooooâŠâŠ]
[Yeeees. Itâs called the Moonlight Graaaaaass, and it has the property of glowing faintly at night.]
After saying this, Illness-san bought a piece of Moonlight Grass and started walking slowly, holding it in her hand. She was walking next to me with a nostalgic look on her face, and while Iâm wondering how I should talk to her, I heard her muttering to herself.
[âŠâŠI was born and raised in a plaaaaace where a lot of grass used to groooooow.]
[The place Illness-san is born and raisedâŠâŠ your hometown has a lot of grass around?]
[I wondeeeeer? Would it be correct to call it my hometooooown? Iâm a unique species of Demoooooon, so I was born looking like thiiiiiis, and I wasnât raised in a village or a toooooown.]
As I listened to Illness-san words, I realized that I certainly knew very little about her past. I had heard from Frea-san that Illness-san used to travel around the Demon Realm of the past, helping people she met, but I donât know what it was like back then, and I know about the events after that, when she became a maid in Symphonia Kingdom.
Thinking about this again, Illness-san may be a rather mysterious person.
[Many unique species of Demooooons are born with a certain amount of poweeeeer, so people like meeee have no problems keeping our liiiiiiives. That goes especially for meeee, for several thousand years after I was booooorn, all I did was train myseeeelf.]
[Why did you decide to just train yourself?]
[Iâm not suuuuure. I suppose itâs more liiiike, my hunch told me to do thaaaat? I didnât have anything I wanted to accompliiiiish, nor did I have a purpose in miiiiind. I just vaguely thouuuuuught that I would need it in the futuuuuuure?]
[You certainly mentioned how you donât really know who you are. Especially the motives of your actions, I feel that many of them are just random.]
As Illness-san said this with a smile, she seemed to be having fun.
[Itâs appropriate to describe the past me as emptyyyyy. I donât think I had anything I wanted to dooooo, or anything I wanted to haaaaave.]
[âŠâŠIf you said it was âpastâ you, that means that isnât the case now, right?]
[Thatâs riiiiight. Iâve become so selfish that I have many things I want to do nooooow. Kuhihi, I canât help doing all these thiiiiings that itâs quite troubliiiiing.]
[Thatâs not true. I think itâs rather nice to have something you want to do. I think Illness-san can show this side of you more.]
Frankly speaking, I feel more like Illness-san stands at the opposite end of the spectrum of selfishness, so I would rather she be more selfish.
I mean, I would like that since I would be able to thank Illness-san for all the care she has given me on a daily basis.
[âŠâŠKuhihi, in that caaaase, do you mind if I say one selfish thiiiiing?]
[Eh? Ah, yes. Of course, if itâs something I can help, you can always tell me.]
[Iâve seen a lot of the life of the nobilityyyyyy, so I was slightly yearning after iiiiiiitâŠâŠ I donât mind if itâs just for appearanceâs saaaaake, so if you donât miiiiind, would you be my escort for a biiiiiit?]
Saying this with a smile, Illness-san held out her hand to me. How should I say thisâŠâŠ Her smile, which was even softer than usual, was so beautiful that I couldnât help but be fascinated.
[âŠâŠIf youâre alright with me, then gladly.]
Saying this, thinking that Illness-san really is far from being selfish, I took her offered hand and started to walk forward, gently holding Illness-sanâs hand.