“We’re not joining the competition?” Shao asked in surprise as I started heading back to the exit of town.
I shook my head. “It won’t be for two weeks, right? I’d rather concentrate on clearing the dungeon. That’s what we ca here to do. If I focused on my own problems, it’d probably cause trouble for the prince.”
“Hmph… I could win against all of them.” Shao sniffed and crossed her arms.
“I also have no desire to put the life of soone I care about on the line. It wouldn’t be acceptable to bet any of your lives that way.”
This ti, Shao’s cheeks turned pink. “When you put it that way… were you always such a sweet talker on Earth?”
I let out a cough. “What? Earth?”
I couldn’t help but shoot her an incredulous look. How could she even suggest that I was popular? I was a bullied and unpopular kid! However, when I saw her eyes, I could see that she was being completely serious.
“I’m interested in what Deek was like on Earth.”
“Didn’t we share mories back then?”
“All the mories, they turned blurry. I can only rember feelings and things like that. It’s more like I just have a familiarity with Deek.” Her expression darkened and she shot a worried look. “Isn’t it the sa for you?”
“Ah… yes!” I lied.
I rembered her life fairly clearly, I wondered why she forgot and I didn’t. Was it because of the lore? That tattoo might have sothing to do with retaining the mories of her life.
“So, I an, I’d like to know more about Deek?”
“Like?”
“For example, what kind of na is Deek? I can’t even think what country you ca from!”
“Shao’s not exactly a Japanese na, you know.”
“You knew!”
“Ah, well, you look Japanese…” I responded quickly and then tried to change the subject again, “Well, what about you? You must have been popular with the boys.”
“I was…” She admitted it! Shao’s expression quickly turned bitter. “It caused a lot of problems. Other girls were jealous and a lot of bad rumors were spread around about . My life… I don’t want to talk about it.”
I just managed to stop myself from nodding. In truth, I understood exactly why she didn’t want to talk about it. She had a lot of frustration and anger from her previous life, and this life wasn’t much better.
“Well, if it makes you feel any better, Deek was my player na, not my real na.”
“Aw? You haven’t even told your real na!”
I stopped for a second. “The person with that na… they no longer exist. I beca my character when I ca to this world, so that old world is all in the past.”
“You don’t miss it?”
“Maybe my mother. And my cousin a bit. Generally, though, no. I left nothing behind there that I’m not happier with here. If I didn’t co here, I would have never t you. For that, I’d trade a hundred Earths…”
“Deek…” I realized Shao had stopped and was looking at with tear-soaked eyes.
“What?”
“Let’s get a hotel and make a baby.”
“Denied. The girls are waiting for us.”
“Tsk… spoilsport.”
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