Scarlet
Along the way, I cant help but think about the girl, the councilwoman, and changelings in general.
The creatures are brutally powerful, to put it in simple terms. The weakest changeling is at least Class III, and there is no way to tell them apart from other humans as their disguise is almost always perfect. In acting I an. Their shapeshifting is perfect.
Thanks to this very, few changelings are caught until its too late, after theyve already killed who knows how many people and leveled up quite a bit from it.
I knew there was one way to identify a changeling, but until now, I didnt know what. But if what Tar said is true, then their scent is probably the way people manage to do it.
How does that work though? Because most Guardians have senses far stronger than the average human if what youve told is true.
Changelings have a special skill that hides their scent from regular senses, making it so most humans Guardian or not cant sll them, Tar says, sounding kind of like hes picking his words incredibly carefully with how slowly hes speaking. Demons most of the ti do not have mundane senses because one of the most common etched skills in the beginning are perception based skills, leading to most demons having magic enhanced senses.
Interesting. Although why would perception based skills be so often etched?
Tar answers this rather quickly, clearly no longer being careful about his words, There are a lot of demons on Tartarus, and there are little to no laws beyond the treatnt of the royal family and whatever the Demon King says. So if you think Earth is a scary place to live these days, you should try living in Tartarus as a regular demon.
My eyebrows climb at that.
Really?
Yes, he quickly answers. Far more demons die on Tartarus on a yearly basis than on Earth. Several tis as many, in fact.
Holy shit.
I continue walking through the hall, soon reaching the stairs where I first t the girl and beginning to make my way into the hall leading to where she is.
Thats brutal. But also, how can there be so many demons? From my understanding, the dication and healthcare on average for Earth has drastically increased thanks to magic, and a lot of the diseases were removed. But at the sa ti, far more people started dying since the Demonic Assaults due to demons. So if what I rember from class in high school is correct, over eighty million people die per year, with most of them being from Fractures.
Although this is with a birth rate of about ninety or so million people a year, aning the population is still growing. Although only because the governnt is requiring non-Guardians to have at least one child each. Whether through artificial birth simply taking the genes from the parents or actually having a child. A rather unfair law, but one that is probably necessary for the human race to not start declining in population again like it did at the start of the Demonic Assaults.
But if several tis as many demons die on Tartarus a year, just how
My thoughts are interrupted when I reach the room where the kid is, only to find her just sitting next to the window staring out of it.
Youll probably learn this in class at so point, but Tartarus as a planet is nearly a dozen tis larger than Earth, and its population is over a hundred tis as large, with even more births per year, Tar comnts as I look at the girl. Although around sixty or seventy percent of that population is made up of non-sapient demons. Mostly spawn.
Thats kind of frightening.
I frown as I look at the girl. She really does seem human if not for her very strange attitude and actions. And the only demon that can shapeshift into a human and hide its identify is a changeling, and apparently if Im to take Tars hints the way I think theyre ant shes not a changeling.
So I guess shes just a kid with so emotional trauma? Or just so sort of emotional ntal disorder?
I could also just be entirely off the mark here and shes just like .
After a few seconds, the girl turns to look at before seemingly brightening up a tiny bit.
How can you tell? Tar asks, seemingly confused.
Her face relaxed ever so slightly, and her eyes widened a tiny bit as well.
Tar doesnt say anything for a few seconds as the girl begins walking over to before he eventually asks, You can tell because she makes the sa expressions as you, right?
My eyebrow twitches slightly.
Shut up.
The girl tilts her head a little and frowns slightly as she asks, Is sothing wrong?
This makes the tanuki actually break out into laughter for what must be the first ti since Ive t him as he practically shouts in my head, And she can read you too! This is perfect! Absolutely perfect!
And now I cant tell if I should be mad at him or shocked by this developnt of an emotional outburst from him.
In the end though I decide on being mad at him.
Shut up.
Which just makes him laugh harder. So I ignore him to answer the girl, No. Then I walk further into the room, closing the door behind and finding a chair to sit in for the mont.
The girl looks between and the door before walking up to and sitting on my lap? Wait, what?
Tar stops laughing as he says, Looks like she really is still like a kid in so ways.
Uh, what are you doing? I decide to ask out loud, but the girl just stares at before lying down against and seemingly trying to fall asleep. No, no, no, please dont do that. I cant exactly fight if youre like this, and I am going to have to fight whenever demons co around.
She cracks her eyes which were lazily closing open for a second and mutters, You can hear them from here and wake up when you do Then she closes them again and sohow falls asleep in an instant while sitting on my lap and leaning against .
What the fuck is going on? And she knows about my hearing too. I know its rather common knowledge by now on the internet that I can hear well, seeing as Ive never really bothered hiding it, but to use that against just to let her sleep on my lap?
Youre dealing with a kid that doesnt apparently give a shit about how you feel. Thats whats going on. Tar answers my question rather bluntly. Just comfort her. You noticed that she relaxed when you ca in, so she was probably frightened and just doesnt show it, or really any emotions well, judging by what we've seen of her so far. Kind of like a certain wolf eared girl I know.
I narrow my eyes at the air in front of , hoping that the tanuki is there in the in between place he goes to.
Shut up.
But I put my hand on her back in what Im hoping is a comforting manner, just rubbing it back and forth as gently as I can.
I hope more demons reach this floor soon so I can wake her up without feeling bad
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