Kapitel 10: Arc 1 - Chapter 3: Stranger, Witch and Cat (2/3)
"By the looks of her, I'd like to call her Valarfin." He wouldn't mind naming her after himself, but the smell made him grimace again. He was not used to such smells and could not stand them.
Then he came up with an idea to lessen the impact. He opened his bag, took out his deodorant and pointed it at Rie.
"What's that?" Rie was curiously examining Yu's item from the future. Yu started spraying it on Rie without saying anything. Even if the deodorant was for men, Rie shouldn't have the right to complain in the current situation.
"What? What? What is this? It's cold! What are you doing?" Rie danced to avoid the deodorant. Rie's reaction made Yu's lips curl up in glee.
"It's to suppress the smell of sweat, but it also suppresses other odors." He sprayed it on himself to show Rie that deodorant wasn't harmful. "If your magical powers don't work to eliminate the smell, be quiet and let me spray this on you. Don't worry, it's not poisonous. I guess, I hope."
"I guess and I hope are definitely words that diminish your credibility." Rie bowed her head and accepted Yu's deodorant. As she spun around, Yu poured half of the remaining deodorant in the bottle on her.
"It has a strong odor." Rie was glad the bad smell was gone, but she didn't seem to like it either. "It's also masculine,"
As it is a men's deodorant, it would normally leave a masculine smell on the person sprayed.
"Normally you spray a little and leave it on, but I used a lot to get rid of the smell. Anyway, it's better than before."
With the odor problem overcome, Rie looked much better. If she could get the blood and sweat off her clothes, she would look even better.
"By the way, I saw a little girl here."
The little girl she saw was a tiny version of Rie. Her white hair was tied back like Rie's and she had big red eyes just like Rie. What distinguished her from Rie was that her ears were not on the side of her head, but on the top of her head, shaped like cat ears, and she had a tail.
"Maybe it's her sister."
"Neko? She's healing a comrade of ours up ahead."
"Isn't Neko a bit of a lazy name?" he said and though. "And also why you choose Japanese names in a western-looking country?"
From what Yu had seen of anime, the word meant cat in Japanese, and Neko seemed to have been given that name just because she was half cat. "And where did you learn the Japanese words?"
"I may have put the first one I thought of, but I don't understand your lazy comment."
"What do you mean with first thought of? Names are-" He looked at Rie with questioning eyes.
"It's not your place to comment on the name my mother chose for me, you stupid creature."
He turned around and saw the cat-eared girl pointing her finger and snarling. She looked the way he remembered her, with cat ears and red eyes. Her tail was wagging behind her.
"Mother?" He'd just been insulted in a way he wasn't used to, but Yu hung on one word instead of the insult.
"Of course, Rie is as beautiful as one would expect from the main female character of a fantasy story. And with her white hair, she is an S+ rated waifu. She has a lovely voice and probably smells good on a normal day. Such a woman would have many suitors, and it wouldn't be surprising if one of them was successful."
Yu looked at Rie's fingers in disappointment. There were several rings on her fingers and one of them could have been a wedding ring.
"Neko, at least try to be nice to people you've just met, how many times do I have to tell you?"
"But mother, he didn't even thank thee for wasting the Blessing on him. I told thee it was a bad idea to revive him, he's the rude one! You! Stupid creature, what are you laughing at?"
The daughter's serious tone towards her mother amused and made Yu chuckle sarcastically. Noticing the giggles, Neko angrily turned her eyes to Yu.
"Why do you call your mommy like that? It looks so weird and funny."
"You! I speak that way because my mother is the only being who deserves respect! It is not your place to question superior beings!"
Her cheeks puffed up in anger as she raised her voice and yelled at Yu, sweetening the girl and making Yu laugh even more. Yu's laughter made the girl a little more angry.
"And you have a bad smell, let's spray it on you too."
When he realized that Neko smelled too, he started spraying the deodorant on her without saying anything. The girl ran after her mother, screaming like a cat.
"It's okay, Mr. Valarfin used it on me too. It covers the smell of sewage."
"Sewage? What kind of people are you..." Neko's clothes looked clean, so he couldn't understand why she smelled. Yu must have fallen into a sewage system. "What are you doing in a sewer?"
She hesitantly allowed Yu to spray deodorant on her after getting confirmation from her mother that it was okay.
"You seem like decent people, what are you doing in a sewer?"
"None of your business." Neko's answer hit Yu's face like a hard rock.
"I think it is my business because I'm involved in some way by your deadly mistake. But if you don't want to answer that, there are a few more questions I'd like to ask. First, what is this thing called the Blessing and what does it have to do with me coming back to life?"
The Blessing sounded cool, how great it would be if he could get a special power!
"A really stupid creature, what an ignorance."
Yu's right eye twitched. The cat-eared girl was becoming too much, no one had spoken to him with that much disrespectfully in ten years.
Yu Valarfin had excellent grades in high school. He was confident in his general knowledge. Even if he was useless in this world, he could play the instruments perfectly and he had an athletic body with his wonderfully handsome face. He was a genius, and it made him angry to be called stupid.
"Do you know what witches are?" Rie interrupted before Yu could retort to Neko and start a fight.
Rie's face turned serious and her voice sounded agitated. Yu knew what witches were, but the witches Yu knew were just pretty girls from anime. He didn't know anything about witches in this world.
"As far as I know they are sweet beings, I don't know what witches are like in the stories here."
"S-sweet? We don't often get comments like that..."
Yu had guessed that Rie was a witch when she mentioned witches, but he hadn't given his answer to impress her, witches were indeed sweet in the shows he watched.
Rie blushed at Yu's answer, and ignoring the blood on her, she became very sweet. Yu felt proud, sensing that Rie was starting to think well of him. Neko was stunned by her mother's reaction.
"Dude, stop. She is a married woman. What I am doing?"
He felt sorry for all the things he had thought.
"Blessings are special powers created by Azer the Storm God. When a female has the Blessing, it turns her into a witch. I am a witch with two Blessings."
After she finished, she looked at Yu's face to gauge his reaction. She was curious to see how he would react.
There was no such thing as a 'real' witch in history, and those who were accused of being witches were usually ordinary people who were burned by the Inquisition. As far as Rie could tell from their reactions, witches were not liked here either.
"Even though she killed me, she doesn't seem like a bad person."
"The Virgo Blessing gives its users a chance at a new life when they die. It can also be used to revive another deceased person at the user's request. Using Virgo Blessing is a bit… Complicated and Neko was angry that I used on you."
"I wouldn't use it on a stranger I don't know." Yu was pleased that Rie was spending right on Yu instead of keeping it for herself. "I mean, I'm already happy to be alive, but this makes it a little more meaningful."
Rie flushed and continued, explaining Yu's revival and Neko's words in this way.
"The other Blessing I have is the Orion Blessing. The Orion Blessing allows me to see invisible things. I can't do things like see through walls, but I can see ghosts and the spirit in people's bodies. That's partly why I revived you. Maybe if someone else, someone with a darker soul, had been in your place, I wouldn't have resurrected him. But I wouldn't have had the heart to kill an innocent like you and leave you. Your soul is more than pure, you look like a newborn baby. You must be a very good person Yu Valarfin. Be proud of it!"
"Am I a very good person?" Yu smiled as if she was joking. What he heard surprised him more than anything he had ever seen, so much so that his mouth hung open to show all his teeth.
"Mother, I'm sorry to say that thee may be wrong. This creature does not look like a good person."
Neko was absolutely right. Yu was arrogant, jealous and selfish. He couldn't possibly be a sinless spirit. It was impossible for his soul to remain pure when even Yu was constantly blaming himself.
"Neko, shame on you!"
As Rie again told her daughter to behave, Yu tried to understand why his soul was described in such a pure way.
The first possible reason was that he had gotten a new soul from coming to a new world. "I can't be me if my soul is changing!" He panicked at the thought, then came up with a new idea that would make his first theory more plausible. "I didn't have a soul when I was in my world, and when I crossed over here, I got a soul according to the rules of this world, and since I haven't had enough time to pollute my soul, which is only an hour old, it seems to be as clean as Rie said."
So Rie, who portrayed Yu thinking that he was a very good person, did it in vain, as Neko said.
"I will keep this to myself and not talk about it."
He couldn't prove that his theory was true, but he was going to accept it as true and not tell Rie that she had made a mistake.
"So the second question is, why were you harassing me?"
"I wasn't harassing you!"
Yu put his hands to his own chest while Rie turned her head away, avoiding eye contact.
"You impudent life form! How dare you talk to my mother like that?"
"If I had looked at your mother's breast while she was unconscious, I would have been a perverted stalker and killed by her husband. I think when she did the same to me, it could be clearly called harassment."
Yu's logic was simple and clear, this is what equality between men and women looks like.
"First of all, I am not married and I have never had a husband. Since I created Neko, I take on the role of mother."
"Oh... So..." A mischievous smile appeared on Yu's lips. The way was clear.
"And since she gave a detailed explanation, she obviously likes me. Haha! Even if we just met and I show up in a mess, I'm me. I'm successful, I'm sporty, I'm handsome, I'm charismatic, I'm talented, I have all the qualities a woman needs to be attracted to me. I'm perfect." Yu's mind rapidly started fantasizing Rie. "Oh god! Good god! Lovely god! Thank you a lot! She is a witch and people of this world seems hates the witches. Probably she never thought she was cute or something because they hated her for being a witch! Is not it? The perfect beautiful anime girl? She will onto me because I gave her my attention and probably my attention is the first attention she ever got! God, sometimes I love you more than you thought. I promise I will be a good person for you God! Just give me my perfectly absolutely wonderfully incredibly perfect waifu!"
Neko's voise awakened him from his daydreams. "If you think you can come between me and my mother, you're so wrong."
Sensing Yu's intentions, the cat girl straightened her tail and looked like a predator ready to kill. If things turned out like Yu's fantasy in his short time, he would have to deal with this girl.
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