Pochi flapped his wings to prevent himself from falling into the summoning gate that was trying to pull this side in.
“Hey, I’m falling!”
But Alice was different; she was able to fly because of the power of the spirits, but one by one, the weak-willed spirits that were attracted to her were sucked into the summoning gate, trying to drag her along with them.
Weak-willed spirits gather around the [beloved child] unconditionally, and Alice could not control such spirits.
The advanced spirits endured, so they hadn’t fallen yet, but Alice couldn’t escape from this place if things continue like this. …Not with that person in her arms.
“I’m sorry, I’ll be happy for you, Camile-sama!”
Alice easily threw away Camille, who was weighing her down, and tried to escape by herself.
“Pochi!”
[I got it!]
Pochi chased Cam as he fell into the hole…
“Cam!”
“…Ca…rol!”
I picked him up before he fell completely into the hole, and we hugged each other tightly, as if to make sure that the other person was real.
“Cam…”
“Carol…”
[I’m falling! Do sothing!]
I nodded deeply as a cry of plea ca from Pochi, who was about to fall into the hole.
“Of course. I’ll end it here.”
Alice…I may not understand you, but there was no one who knew you as well as I did.
Charin…
“Ha, it’s money!”
Alice, who was about to make her lighthearted escape, turned around at the sound of the coins touching each other.
Alice’s eyes changed color as the money stored in my [bag] – the 100 million silver coins that still remained – gushed out of my fingers.
“It’s money, it’s money!”
As Alice frantically collected the scattered silver coins, I dropped all the gold coins and jewels I had earned so far into the hole as well, and Alice followed them to the hole.
“Money! Money!”
“What…is that…?”
Cam lets out a dry, horrified sound at the sight.
Alice’s appearance changed little by little. The sound of her voice changed slightly, and the color of her skin also changed little by little. The place that was connected to the end of that hole is–
“That’s the fairy realm.”
Not the shallows where Grandmother Celia was, but the deepest, closest to the spirit world, the place overflowing with the most primordial spirit power.
Even though the fairy realm was a shallow place close to the material world, if a person were to spend a long ti exposed to its spiritual power, a weak-willed person would turn into a monster, and even a strong-willed person would turn into a subhuman.
What if it was in the innermost and most concentrated place of spiritual power…?
“Money! Money!”
We gulped with blue faces as Alice’s skin tone turned golden like her hair, her face widened to the side, her eyes and mouth enlarging, her belly protruded, and her limbs thinned.
“”…””
[Uwaaah…]
“Croak, croak.”
The voice was already no longer human, and even the soul was transford, a shiny ball-like object – probably [beloved child’s magical tool] – was ejected and crumbled away as if weathered by being bathed in spiritual power.
Alice beca a completely upright frog-like figure, and went deeper into the hole, picking up the scattered silver and gold coins and throwing them into her large mouth, and the mont she was out of sight, the summoning gate was closed.
“…A Gold Frog, huh?”
I think I saw sothing like that in an old movie.
If she beca a monster like that, her intelligence would be as low as a goblin’s, and it would be impossible for Alice to beco a human again.
Even if it was to get rid of the magical tool, the beloved child, I would hate to die becoming like that.
“…Ah.”
“Oops.”
Cam held up as I almost slipped off Pochi, having lost most of my magic and strength, and looked at with slightly moist eyes, straight from up close.
“Welco back…Carol.”
“Yeah…I’m ho, Cam…”
I suddenly felt… embarrassed.
“Um…is Cam okay?”
“Yeah… I’m fine. Speaking of which, the pain in my body is subsiding…”
“…”
I looked closer and Cam’s ears seem to be a little more pointed. …Co to think of it, Cam had about one-eighth Elven blood in him.
Perhaps the elf blood was awakened by the effects of what I just did. When I ntioned this, he smiled and hugged , his eyes squinting.
“Then, I can live longer and stay by Carol’s side all the ti, so it’s not a problem.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Well, that’s true… but I was still a little embarrassed.
“Well then, shall we go ho, Carol?”
“Yeah… back to where we belong.”
The Great Spirits, having completed their roles, flew around us as if dancing and returned to their places. We, too, would be going ho. Where we belong.
[…]
As we gazed at each other saying this, Pochi, who had taken care of himself, was fidgeting silently, as if he had no idea what was going on.
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