[Good boy.]
[I’m not… a kid anymore.]
[Hahaha. If that’s really the case, then you would’ve defeated the sacred beast on your own.]
[Kuh…Dad!]
[Oi oi, don’t give me that face. We’re gonna fight sacred beast together, but we won’t be able to cooperate if it’s like this.]
[I’m stronger now. More than you might think, Dad.]
[Sure you have a high stat. But isn’t that something you obtained from gluttony skill? There is more to that skill than you might think.]
[That is…]
[You can obtain the stats and skill of any enemy you defeated. At a glance it’s certainly a powerful skill. But it’s not without any price to pay. Fate, the mortal sin skill… do you think why and for whom those skills were originally created?]
Despite everything, I was actually nervous, this being the first time I fight alongside my dad. That caused me to respond too late to the sacred beast’ attack. I was about to be struck right on my still recovering side.
[Fate!]
[What’s wrong? Do you want to rest on the sideline with them instead?]
[Kuu…]
『Again with the fire ball magic? You really have no sense of art.』
[Wrong. It’s the mutated version.]
『Do not overuse the power of gluttony skill though.』
Shaking its body left and right, the sacred beast tried to extinguish the fire burning its body. When it realized that it didn’t work, it began burrowing into the sands.
[As if I’ll let you.]
[Freeze.]
『Not half bad, Fate! Did you really aim to do that?』
[Uu… guess so.]
[Fate, watch out for the stinger.]
[I already knew that.]
[Don’t bother attacking the tail and pincers. It could regenerate those back whenever it wants. It’s like lizard tail.]
[Be really careful with the stinger’s poison. Even a little quantity can kill someone like me.]
[Yeah, got it.]
The sacred beast tried to twist itself away, but couldn’t do so due to the encasing ice.
[How clumsy, Snow. This will be the payback from that time.]
Both the pincers and tail were shredded by the speeding shards of ice broken down by my Dad’s attack.
Strong… Moreover, Dad didn’t seem to be fighting seriously.
[Is that all… Snow?]
[Eh?]
Dad stood right next to the girl, and raised his spear.
[Appearing this young… I guess she had lost much of her original power. Once again, return to the other side.]
[Fate, what are you doing?]
[Dad…]
[You shouldn’t kill a helpless kid. I can’t just overlook this.]
Me and Dad tried to overpower each other for a while, until,
[Do what you want.]
[This kind of thing, you really are like your mom. Anyways, her name is Snow. She appeared to be resurrected by the Door to that Land, just like myself. But for some reason she lost a lot of her power, and probably turned wild because of that. That’s all there is to it. Fate… she’s still a sacred beast. Keep that in mind.]
Dad left without waiting for my answer. On his way, he stopped by to have a little talk with Roxy who was supporting Eris at the moment.
Afterward, he disappeared into the darkness of the desert.
[Fai, are you alright?]
[Yeah, I think I’m okay. How about Eris?]
[She has calmed down… but not so good overall.]
[I see.]
Roxy looked at me, then to the unconscious red haired girl. Knowing what she’s curious about, I explained about what happened to her.
[This little girl’s name is Snow. She’s the sacred beast we fought earlier, and it seems Dad’s acquaintance in the past.]
[I was also watching from a distance. But… to think that beast was originally a human. And such a little young girl as well…]
[She might look young, but that’s probably not the case. Take Myne for instance; she looks like a kid but is actually a hundred years old.]
[I’ll stay around as a watch overnight while waiting for Snow to wake up. Once we can confirm that she’s friendly, I’ll take her back into the town.]
[What if, she is not?]
[That’s… in any case, I have a feeling that things will somehow work out.]
I could also hear the astonishment in Greed’s tone when he spoke to me via 《Mind Reading》.
『As if you haven’t had enough problems as it is. That girl is the sacred beast!』
[I’ll still take responsibility.]
『You do understand the meaning of what you said just now, right?』
[Yeah… of course I understand.]
