Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 11
Chapter 05: The easy Lizard and The easy Miko
“Where are we going?”
“It’s just right there.”
I asked to Uru “If you feel fine, would you like to go for a walk?” and taken Uru outside. With our hands tied.
Well, I lend a hand to her with the intention of just helping her get out of bed… but for some reason she wouldn’t let go of me.
Perhaps because she was in a good mood, she even started to humming a song. Is it because she is full of food or is there another reason?
Maybe it’s because she is a lizard, her hand is a little chilly, but there’s no tenseness or strength in the hand that’s being held, it’s a so natural touch that it make you feel like she don’t hold a a single evil thought.
I feel that it is meaningless to doubt this child even more.
“…Hey, Uru”
“What? Rion”
When i called her, Uru innocently looks up at me. As her pure eyes stared straight at me. I felt a prick of guilt in my heart.
So… I decided to ask her straight. While gently lifting our hands that are connected, I say.
“Even though it’s the first day I met you, you’re to me… how can I put it, I wonder why you’re being so confortable with me.”
No matter if saved her life, if it’s someone who is being meet for the first time, even if it was me that would be saved, I would be cautious to some extent.
I don’t believe that everything happens for a reason. However, I felt restless without a clear reason.
In response to my question, which seemed somewhat dripping with suspicion, without even pretending to be plotting something, Uru made her gaze wander in the air as if she was thinking for a moment, and then answered me.
“Hmm… for some reason, I can smell a nostalgic smell coming from you?”
“Nostalgic……?”
According to Uru, when she woke up, she noticed that she was sleeping in a unknown house and tried to escape in a hurry, but she was hungry and her body felt heavy and could hardly move. So she tried to ask help from the owner of the a familiar smell (I don’t want to think i am emitting a strange smell) that was right next to her?it seems that she tried to ask my help…
No, I already knew it, but I’m glad that she was not trying to attack me.
However, when it comes to a nostalgic smell from me… I wonder if Uru (and her family or clan) was raised in an environment close to the god of creation. Even looking like this i still a miko of the Creator God, and some people may be able to sense that.
If that’s the case, I feel like I can understand why my initial favorability level isn’t low, and why the grade of vigilance for me(a miko) is low.
After all, there are quite a few things that are different from the game. When i was thinking, it’s better not be trapped by the sense of prejudice from the game…
“And besides of that, the greatest reason was because you gave me a delicious meal!”
Unexpectedly the reason was because she was tempted by the food?!
……Isn’t this child too easy? It’s not something to say proudly of yourself… I’m starting to be worried about this child’s future…
The destination of the walk is the altar where the statue of the creator god is installed. There are a lot of flowers planted there, and it’s the best view of the base.
It’s also a perfect place for recuperation(?)… but that’s not what is my purpose in the first place?the real purpose is a confirmation.
It is because The God of Destruction’s servants, the monsters hate The God of Creation….
“This is……”
The stone statue of the creator god is about 1 meter long?I made it one size larger because my skill level has increased. Bigger is more effective?Uru rolled her eyes at that.
There’s no fear or hostility in that look. Does this mean that this child should be ‘white’ after all?
“It’s The Creator God. Don’t you remember The Creator God?”
“… I don’t remember, I don’t remember… but”
Uru walks around the stone statue, looking at it from front to back, head to foot, touching it, and even smelling it for some reason.
Finally, she compare it with me several times.
“It’s wearing a similar smell to Rion. Are her your parent?”
“Eh?”
At the question that goes beyound my imagination. This time, my eyes that were widened.
Is the creator god my parent? No, no, no.
It’s true that the player is a miko who has been given power by the Creator God, so the smell may be similar, but that doesn’t mean that i am real child of god… Huh?
Come to think of it, when I was transferred to another world, was my body remade by the Creator God?
A child born from normal human parents… I can’t say that i am.
…………in short?
“Could it be so… that, could be considered true…?”
“Really!”
In response to my somehow dumbfounded answer, Uru make a smile.
Then, towards the statue of the Creator.
“Rion’s parent, I am Uru! Please take care of me!”
Without even a hint of respect for God, as if saying hello to a friend’s parents, she raised her voice and spoke and at that moment?
*glows*
The stone statue of the creator god emitted a faint light that slowly drifted toward Uru.
“Umu?”
“W-What!?”
Eh, could it be the divine protection of the creator god? Apart from the miko, it seems to be given only to those who offer prayers devoutly, is it ‘that’ protection?
Did Uru just forget about it, but her the faith value have accumulated to an insane level? No, even if she does have it to that level, with a just that normal greeting?
While I was confused by the incomprehensible situation, as if to add weight to the blow, Uru spoke.
“A voice echoed in my head and spoke…’Please get along with Rion'”
“…Ehhh!?”
An oracle? You used it just tell that, are you really my mother God of creation!?
After that, I offered a prayer to the stone statue of the creator god, but there was no oracle for me. I am lonely.
Because my creative activities during this past month have been so weak she haven’t regained her strength at all, That’s why I don’t think it’s a good idea to use the precious power(oracle) to a little deal such “talk with my daughter’s first friend”…!
It feels like a precious material has been wasted and it is frustrating, but it also seems like i’m being worried about so i am a little happy…my feelings are being complicated!
“Haha, to get along, even without being told i was going to do it!…… Speaking of which, i don’t properly said it, Nice to meet you. Rion!”
“?Mn~”
While i was holding my head in drowned in mixed feelings, with a surprise attack she spoke to me, with her black hair and the golden eyes although she looked like a moon in the night sky, she gave to me a dazzling smile like the sun.
She caused unknowingly my heart to pound.
?T-that’s bad, at this pace I will be told that i am easy too!
“? What’s wrong?”
“N-no, nothing. Nice to meet you, Uru.”
Trying to maintain my composure, I deliberately coughed down.
Anyway.
It seemed like it was an oracle(greeting) that wasn’t at level of a divine protection, but The Creator God personally bothered to speak with her, so there’s no need to be cautious about Uru.
Now that the weight of my chest has been removed, the next is-
“What will Uru do now?”
“What do you mean?”
“Like, do you want to recover your lost my memory, or get back to your hometown.”
“I don’t want either.”
An unexpected answer!
I’ve never had amnesia, so I don’t know how she feel, but it doesn’t bother her?
“In the first place, even if I try to go back to my hometown, I have no memory of where that hometown is. And even if I try to regain my memory, do you know a way?”
“……Not”
Ah… that’s also true, there’s no clues… Wh-wh-why did you suddenly make such a face?
“Or perhaps… am I not allowed to stay here?”
“I-I’m sorry for make you misunderstand! You can stay as long as you like!”
I just wanted to know what she wanted, but Uru seems to imagine something else.
When she was shaking her shoulders and looking like she is about to cry, I couldn’t say no.
Well, from the beginning, I wouldn’t stop her if she wanted to leave, but if she didn’t, I wouldn’t have thought of throwing her out.
I wonder if Uru was relieved that I allowed it, she said “Is that so!” and stopped her crying face.
She really change her fellings fast, so i thought with a wry smile.
Well well, what will happen to my life in the future…