'Just be frank, will you?' Hearing Valeriana's words, which were confusing but definitely something I understood, I still said it like that to annoy her. I could feel an ominous energy in the atmosphere, though I could not hear what that skeleton was saying; she merely produced a random sound.
"Khhrkk...Khrrkhh....."
Since the moment I arrived here, even that beast had been uttering the same noise, which seemed more like a desperate plea.
After learning her backstory from Aleriana, I began to rethink my approach with her.
To be honest, I do have some idea regarding her race.
The mention of death energy from Valeriana triggered a memory of one of the clans to which one of the major characters belonged in the eighth realm—one just above this one.
