131. The Market
“As an existence between life and death, I can see many things you can’t…”
“Have you ever seen the Dragon King’s expression?”
Serra asked.
Reina almost laughed.
How could she not know Calysia’s expressions?
Every day, she stared at her body with lecherous eyes. That little dummy, her soul was almost snatched away by her.
This question was like a rhetorical one…
But just as Reina was about to blurt out an answer, she suddenly understood Serra’s meaning.
—The Calysia that Serra saw was definitely different from the one she saw.
During this time, Reina had only seen the Dragon King who was in front of her… but Reina knew very well what a cold existence Calysia was in front of others.
She let out a speechless laugh, not knowing what to say.
“Did Master cry behind my back?”
“…”
Serra didn’t say anything, but it was as if she were nodding.
Reina felt a heavy blow to her heart. The more she didn’t answer this question, the more her heart ached. Ah.
Reina should know these things better than anyone.
This was also why she had to find out the truth of the world. It seemed that as long as she crossed this threshold, all problems would be solved.
But even after so long, Reina felt that the recovery of her memory was still a long way off. To understand the truth, she still had a long way to go.
“She didn’t cry. I think… she might cry when she’s not in front of you, because that’s meaningless.”
Hearing these words, Reina didn’t feel relieved, but rather a little more worried.
“Master can’t live without me. Otherwise, she will become very cold, as if she has lost her emotions. I know that the only one who can fill her emotions is me… so I will also protect her.”
“After all, the person involved is always confused. Perhaps even she herself doesn’t know that after leaving you, her emotions will change.”
Serra chuckled wryly:
“We are all like this. When you look back, you will find how ignorant and naive you were…”
Reina felt that she was saying Calysia was a dummy.
Although she agreed with her completely, when these words were said by someone else, it felt very strange, as if her own rights had been taken away.
So, she said with some anger, “No one is more excellent than Master. You’ve gone a bit too far.”
But Serra just smiled mysteriously and shook her head.
“Goddess, have you ever thought that the truth and the world you imagine might be the opposite?”
“What do you mean?”
“…For example, you often say ‘I can’t live without the Dragon King,’ but you mean ‘the Dragon King can’t live without me’?”
“Are you kidding me?”
She felt as if the roles had been reversed, but she didn’t know how to refute… If it was about having children, it was indeed difficult to leave her master.
She shook her head and didn’t answer anything.
She would find a way to make Calysia happy, instead of relying on the power of others.
“By the way, Serra…”
“You’re not peeping on us all the time, are you?”
After comforting herself for a while, her mood improved a lot, and she said half-jokingly.
“The world I see and the world you see are different, Goddess.”
Serra smiled again.
“Strictly speaking, the world everyone sees is different.”
“The world a bat sees and the world a kitten sees are completely different. For example, only a few people can perceive my existence… it’s the same. And I just find you when necessary.”
Reina roughly understood.
Serra could probably only see a part of the world. Perhaps she didn’t even know she was in a forest, in Whitesburg… For her, time and space might not even exist.
Reina somewhat understood what “between life and death” meant.
When the world lost its meaning to her, she would also lose her meaning to the entire world.
“So, Goddess, is there any information you want to know?”
Serra smiled gently.
“Forget about sending you to investigate… but I still want to know as much as possible about everything in this world.”
“What a greedy goddess~”
What was touching was that Serra didn’t hide anything anymore, but told her everything:
“The Pope is a person full of hatred for the Goddess of Light. His purpose is to erase the existence of the Goddess of Light. He firmly believes that the goddess is under the Dragon King… and now, he wants to erase even [Light].”
“Why does he have so much hatred for me?”
“Because…”
Serra paused for a moment.
“Because he’s not someone who wants to be bound by rules.”
“What did he do for the power of the Goddess of Light?”
“He just didn’t expect that you still exist in this world… The reason he can’t understand is because he has already lost everything…”
…
After bidding farewell to Serra, Reina changed her voice, appearance, and even her aura and scent, which could affect judgment, completely into another person…
She transformed into a half-orc cat girl, less than 150 centimeters tall.
She wore a somewhat old-fashioned dress, also to blend in with others…
Now that her Light level had increased to 70, this kind of thing was much easier.
After confirming that her identity as the Goddess of Light would not be exposed, she went to the nearby half-orc market to browse.
Here, it wasn’t much different from the markets that still existed in the human world. It seemed that because of the similar culture, Reina didn’t find any obvious differences, except that the main food was mostly meat, so those fried, steamed, and boiled meat delicacies were also a major feature of the half-orc market.
Reina didn’t buy much.
It wasn’t that her desire to consume was too low.
It was that she didn’t know what to bring back for Calysia.
Just around the corner, she saw a little cat girl carrying a huge package, finding an empty stall and spreading it out, carefully taking out the small ornaments from the package one by one and arranging them. Only then did she become interested… Looking at these handicrafts, Reina discovered that the value of an item didn’t seem to come solely from money…
“Little kitten, little kitten, do you want two?” the cat girl said to Reina with a smile.
Reina was about to complain, “Aren’t you smaller than me?” but then she remembered that her Light Clone was indeed smaller than the other, so she just nodded and pretended to be shy.
“Yes, sister, I’ll pay after I’ve chosen.”
After the cat girl finished speaking, the cat girl seemed a little embarrassed… Only then did Reina notice that the other was wrapped in a thick coat and a tattered cotton-padded jacket, her nose a little red as if she had a cold… Compared to her, her own attire was indeed quite well-off.
Reina was a little interested in the small shells woven from yarn and the Q-version small fish heads. She bought them back, just right for Calysia…
And here, she also collected many strange small stones containing minerals. Although they couldn’t compare to the dazzling brilliance of real agate and crystal, they had been carefully polished into the shape of pebbles, like a night sky sealed in stone.
The so-called treasures were actually just products of time.
Just as she was about to choose a few of her favorite trinkets, a figure appeared beside her without a sound.
Reina looked up and saw—it was Calysia!
Master?
Why is she here?!
“These, I’ll take them all.”
Calysia said, pointing at the stall, as if she hadn’t seen Reina at all.
