Zynx understood, the monster she was talking about was her own reflection, but if he was to say it, then she surely won't believe him, so he said,
"Look at the lake and run toward that direction."
She followed what Zynx tell her to do.
"Ahh!!!"(Faustina)
'That's right, no matter how airhead you are, if you experience it, you will realize.'
"What happen?"(Zynx)
Zynx asked her as if he didn't know anything.
"It is following me."(Faustina)
"It is your reflection so of course, it will follow you."(Zynx)
When Faustina heard what Zynx said, she pouted her lips and said,
"Are you saying the person having a cute face like me is the monster?"
She walked toward him and pushed her face near him so that he could look at it clearly.
She didn't seem angry, so he continued to stand still and said.
"No, but…"
Without giving him a chance to speak, she said.
"Do I have a black face like this monster?"
He was about to nod but stopped when he heard her next sentence.
"Do I have long teeth like him? Or do I have hair on my face?"
'Huh, it is true that she has a black face but other trait doesn't match with her.'
He could not see anything except the reflection of Faustina, so he said,
"Can you explain it exactly what you are seeing?"
She nodded and said.
"..."
After hearing Faustina, Zynx understood it was not her reflection, but really a monster or rather a devil.
According to her description, it had a humanoid shape, a large horn on its head and fearsome facial structures.
Zynx looked at her reflection and began to ponder.
He realized, he had not seen any monster after arriving at the lake.
Although this lake contained poison, the amount of poison inside it was so little that unless the mortal realm monster consumed it for more than a month, they would not get affected by it.
But neither mortal realm nor earth realm monster was around him.
Zynx decided to bring some monster here and see what will happen but before that, he had to do something important.
He looked at real Faustina and said,
"Do you have a mirror?"
Faustina nodded and took out the full-length mirror and give that to Zynx.
He knew women would keep a small mirror with them, but a mirror with this size was going overboard.
If it was his first meeting with her, then he would have thought women of this world carry around the large mirror with them, but after knowing her he understood, it was just her.
"Do you know the use of the mirror?"
"Yes, to see the reflection."
At least she knew this, otherwise, he had to explain her from the beginning.
He pointed at the mirror and said.
"Look into it."
Faustina looked into it and become shocked.
"How did you do it?" (Faustina)
"Huh, what are you talking about?"(Zynx)
"How did you paint my face black? Is this your magic?"(Faustina)
"It was already black before you came to me."(Zynx)
Faustina looked at Zynx with the unbelieving look and about to ask more, but he stopped her.
"Don't you think you should clean yourselves? How about going behind that stone and take a bath?"
No matter how much foolish one was, she would not show her naked body to the stranger like him, so if he was to suggest it himself, then she might have a good impression of his.
"No need for that."
She dipped her finger inside the lake.
In a split-second when her finger touched the water, it began to assimilate into her wind barrier and began to circulate around her body.
After 3 rounds of circulation, water returned to the lake through the same finger.
He had put search of a monster on hold so that he would not miss her taking bath, but what was this. All she had done was just dip the finger and her whole body got cleaned.
If not for the disappearance of black dust from her face, he would not have believed that she had taken bath because there was not a single drop of water on her.
Zynx sighed,
'If the same situation has happened in my old world, then although they might become cautious when I asked them to take bath behind the water, I will have at least seen something if they are to take one, but in this world even with stronger power like this, I could not see anything.'
Since Zynx didn't get to see what he had expected to, he decided to focus on another matter.
"I will be back in a minute. You just stay put, ok?"
She nodded.
Although it was supposed to be the first time meeting with Zynx, she totally believed in him.
Zynx also found it strange but it was a good thing for him, so he didn't ask her.
…
Sometimes later, Zynx came back with 10 paralyzed monsters; 6 rats and 4 wolves.
When he was around his previous location he heard some strange noise, so he increased his pace and after arriving at his previous location he saw Faustina barking at her reflection.
"Arf-arf"
Zynx halted 20 m away from Faustina and placed those monsters on the ground.
He then carefully approached Faustina and said,
"What are you doing?"
After hearing the voice of Zynx, Faustina turned back and said,
"You came back."
"I am just trying to teach him the way to bark as speaking like a human twisted his mouth in a weird shape. Don't you think?"(Faustina)
He could not even see that devil so how could he comment on it, but he became happy when he saw her to be all right.
'Sigh, so it is like this.'
He had captured 12 monsters but one of the wolves went insane when he was 800 m away from the lake.
After going insane it became immune to paralysis, so it killed another paralyzed wolf and after that it attacked him.
Zynx could not control its movement like others, so he had to kill it.
But if Faustina went insane, there was no way for him to stop her, so he was really glad.
Since Faustina was all right, Zynx dragged those 10 monsters toward the lake.
With each step toward the lake, the monster began to go insane like before, so he had to kill the insane one.
After their death, their soul separated and flew toward the lake which got absorbed inside it.
When he arrived before the lake, only one pup (baby rat) remained.
Zynx finally came to the conclusion this lake was similar to poison fog i.e. dangerous region.
Now all he needed to do was make sure whether the cause of this was some type of treasure like poison fog or beforehand devil.
Second chapter of the last week