その夜、僕はゆっくりと眼を覚ました。見覚えのある天井を見ると、恐らくグランディールで取った宿の一室なんだろう。
首を動かして横を見ると、隣のベッドにリーシェちゃんが寝ていた。火を灯した照明がまだ明るく部屋を照らしているのを考えれば、多分まだ就寝する様な時間では無いんだろう。
僕は上体を起こそうとして―――出来なかった。
身体が動かない。そこで何があったのかを段々と思い出して、寝ぼけた頭は一気に覚醒した。
「っ!? レイラちゃん......!」
そうだ、あの後使徒っていう少女が来てレイラちゃんを殺そうとしてたんだ。
まさか、気絶したのか僕は。もしかしてもうレイラちゃんは......!
「呼んだ? きつね君」
「は......ぁ......レイラちゃん......」
「うん、レイラちゃんだよぉ♪ うふふうふふふ、眼が覚めた?」
「......はぁ......良かった、もしかしたらレイラちゃんが殺されたかと思った」
僕の呼び掛けに、レイラちゃんが顔を出した。どうやら部屋の中には居たようで、身体を起こせなかったから視界に入らなかったようだ。
すると、僕は少し安心したのか大きく息を吐いた。身体が動かないのは多分、戦いの中で無茶して身体を動かしたから、怪我以上に肉体への負荷が残ってるんだと思う。少し休めばまた動けるようになるだろう。
そう思いながら、レイラちゃんを見た。首を傾げるレイラちゃんだが、夜なのに発情してないとは珍しい。
とそこで、レイラちゃんが僕の顔に手を伸ばしてくるのが―――
実際にはレイラちゃんの手はまだ伸びて来ていない。なのに僕には次の瞬間レイラちゃんが僕の顔に手を伸ばしてくる光景が見えたのだ。
そして、その光景は現実となり、レイラちゃんの手が僕に伸びてきた。
「......左眼、見えてる?」
左眼が見えている。右眼を閉じても視界が黒く塗りつぶされていない。どういうことだ?
「うん、あの後あの白い子どっか行っちゃったんだけど......お詫びにってきつね君の左眼を治してくれたんだ」
「あの子が......でもどうやって?」
「えーと―――」
僕が左眼を治した経緯を聞くと、レイラちゃんは小難しそうな表情を浮かべながらも、その時の状況を説明してくれた。
「無駄な負傷を負わせてしまった謝罪と、お詫びです。よろしいですか?」
その言葉に頷いたレイラは、使徒であるステラの指示に従って桔音の左眼の修復を手伝うことになった。
ステラはどうやら無から何かを創り出すことは出来ないらしく、人間である桔音の眼球を作りだすにはそれなりの素材が必要らしい。といっても、ソレはモノでは無く、眼球のベースとなる情報と眼球分の人肉が必要なのだ。
さしあたり、彼女はレイラにこう言った。
「この少年と同年代の人間はいますか? 私や
まず、人間の眼球を作りだすに当たって彼女はベースとなる情報を求めた。レイラは慌てて誰かいないかと頭を捻る。そこで浮かんだのは、偶然にもリーシェだった。
「この子! この子きつね君と同じくらいの歳だよ! 多分!」
倒れているリーシェを乱暴に抱えて連れてくると、ステラはリーシェの瞼を開いて左眼の眼球をじっと見つめて、何か構造を把握しようと情報収集していた。
そして、数分そうしていると、一つ息を吐いてリーシェの瞼を元に戻す。今度は桔音の左眼の部分に手を当てて、なにやら白い光を吹き掛けた。
「何をしたの?」
「傷口を消毒しただけです。この傷は大分時間が経ってますから、このまま修復した場合病気になってしまう可能性もありますので」
ステラの無表情で淡々とした説明に、レイラは良く分からないけどそうなんだろうと頷いた。
「後は眼球を作る為の人肉が必要なのですが......」
「あ、じゃあ私の肉を使ってよ......ッッ......痛ぅ......はい......」
ステラが眼球を作る為に必要な人肉を要求したのだが、レイラは自分の腹部の肉を引き千切ってステラに差し出した。肉の欠けた部分からは血が溢れ、レイラもその激痛に手で抑えていた。
確かに、レイラは『赤い夜』の
』展開」
祈る様な姿勢を取った彼女がそう言うと、白い光がドーム状に広がって、三人を包み込む。
「情報収束、肉体投影、適合処理、―――この者に聖なる癒しを与えたまえ」
そして一際輝かしい光を放ち、なにやら呪文を唱えたステラ。その手の向ける先は桔音の左眼であり、彼女の手と桔音の左眼の間でレイラの肉片が変貌していく。
その肉片は白くなり、球体状に形を変える。そして、眼球だと分かる程に変化した後、その一部が翡翠色の虹彩へと色を変え、内部構造をリーシェから採取した情報を基に組み上げていく。
光が収束し、その眼球はまるで生きているかのように生命の鼓動を感じさせた。
「―――接合」
ステラが短く唱えると、桔音の左眼の穴に創りだされた眼球がぴったり収まった。
そして、眼球がなかったことで若干瞼を開閉する筋力が衰えていたのだが、眼球が戻ってきたことによって『臨死体験』がその力を発揮する。疲労は残るが、その筋力は桔音のステータスに応じてその力を取り戻して行った。
そして、ステラの身体から光が消え、ドーム状に広がった光の空間も消えた。
「修復、完了......おそらくこれで大丈夫かと思います。少年が起きて、見えていないようであっても、無いよりは肉体のバランスや平衡感覚など、大分マシになると思います」
「うん......ありがとう」
「それでは、私は勇者を追うので......失礼します」
そして治療は完了し、桔音の左眼が完治したことでステラは直ぐにその場を後にした。レイラは桔音を抱きかかえ、ついでとばかりにリーシェも抱えて宿へと戻って行ったのだ。
「......なるほどね......なんとか生き延びたってことか」
話を聞いて、なんとか何も失わずに済んだことを理解する。なんとかなった、か。少し安心した。
て、あれ? リーシェちゃんの眼をベースにして、レイラちゃんの肉片を素材に、僕の左眼を作ったの?
それってヤバいんじゃないの? 僕の左眼大丈夫? なんかブラックな化け物染みたモノになってないよね?
そう思って、とりあえずステータスを覗いてみた。
◇ステータス◇
名前:薙刀桔音
性別:男 Lv1
筋力:40
体力:1050
耐性:1420
敏捷:1000
魔力:950
はいおかしい。色々変化してる。
まず最初に、称号の『魔族を魅了した者』が『魔族に愛された者』に変化してる。なんだこれ、レイラちゃんの匙加減じゃないか。好感度上がっちゃったのかな。
次に『痛覚無効』と『直感』のレベルが急上昇だよ。勇者と使徒との戦いでどんだけ経験値得たんだ僕は。ステータスもとうとう4桁突入だよ。
更に言えば予想通り『先見の魔眼』手に入れちゃってるよ! しかもレベル高い! そしてレイラちゃんの肉片使ったせいか『瘴気操作』に加えて瘴気関連のスキルまで習得しちゃってるじゃないか!
そして3つ目の固有スキルが覚醒しちゃってるんだけど。『初心渡り』ってなんだ、全く想像付かないんだけど。使徒ちゃんとの戦いでぼんやりと凄い力を使った様な覚えはあるけれど、ぼんやりだから全然分からない。
でもまぁ、此処まで色々と変化がありましたけれど、僕にとって得なことばかりだからいいよ。
でもなんで僕のレベルが1に戻ってるんだ! ステータスは上がってるけどレベル1に戻るなんてどういうことだ? まさか使徒との戦いでかなり無茶したからレベル下がっちゃった? あの時は命燃やしてた気がするからなぁ......あり得る......まぁステータスが上がってるから良いとしよう。
「大幅レベルアップしたなぁ、僕も......まぁちょっと特異な方向へ行っちゃったみたいだけど......」
レイラちゃんが首を傾げているので、とりあえず『瘴気操作』というスキルを試してみることにした。手の平を出して、レイラちゃんの使っている瘴気をイメージしてみる。
すると、レイラちゃんより出せる瘴気がかなり少ないが、バスケットボール位の瘴気が出せた。とりあえずそれで、レイラちゃんに作ってもらったあのナイフと同じものを作ってみた。
「おお、武器代浮いた」
「あれ? きつね君それって私と同じ?」
「ああうん、レイラちゃんの肉片使ったから僕も多少瘴気が使えるようになったみたいだ」
「へぇ......うふふうふふふ......お揃い♪ 嬉しいな嬉しいなぁ♪ 胸がドキドキする......♡」
顔を赤くするレイラちゃん。発情しているようではないけれど、心底嬉しそうに顔を綻ばせる様子は、中々可愛らしかった。
瘴気を操作することで武器を作れるようになったし、壊れる心配もないし、壊れても再構成すれば何度でも使えるし、結構得したかもしれない。それに、レイラちゃんは僕の左眼の為に自分の身体を―――あ、そうだった。
「レイラちゃん」
「ん、なぁに?」
「僕の為に身体の一部を差し出してくれたんだよね? ありがとう」
お礼は言わないとね。幾ら僕のストーカーだからって、左眼を奪った張本人だからって、僕の為に自分の身体を差し出してくれたのだから。
僕が頭を下げてそう言うと、レイラちゃんは何も言わない。不思議に思って頭をあげると、そこには、
「え......な......そ、そんな......別に違うもん......お礼なんて......」
顔を真っ赤にして口に手をやるレイラちゃんがいた。
僕にお礼を言われたのが予想外だったのか、それともお礼を言われること自体慣れていないのか、それは分からないけれど、彼女はどうやら照れている様だった。こんな彼女はちょっと新鮮で面白い。
「う、うん......どういたしまして」
少ししどろもどろになりながらも、落ち着いた後レイラちゃんはそう言った。しおらしい彼女はどうも調子が狂うけれど、発情している状態の彼女とは違って微笑ましい物がある。
そんな彼女だったからだろうか、僕は自然と感謝の気持ちを抱くことが出来た。
「ああ、そういえば今日はまだキスしてなかったよね。お礼に2回してもいいよ?」
「え? 本当!?」
だからちょっとしたお礼を上げることにした。まぁ彼女にはこれが一番喜ばしいだろう。もう何度もキスされてるし、前々からキスで感染しないか不安だったけど瘴気に耐性も出来たみたいだし、これ位のご褒美があっても良い筈だ。
「それじゃあ早速♡ ちゅー♡」
「はいはい」
彼女が嬉しそうに唇を尖らせるので、僕も眼を閉じて構えた。
けれど、いつまで経っても彼女の唇は僕の唇には触れて来なかった。
怪訝に思い、僕は眼を開ける。すると、そこにレイラちゃんの姿は無かった。ただ、部屋の扉が開きっぱなしになっているのが見えた。
That night, I slowly open my eyes. When I see the familiar ceiling, perhaps I'm inside the inn we rented at Grandile Kingdom.
When I turn my neck, I can see Rishe-chan sleeping on the neighboring bed. Considering the brightness of the fire that illuminates the room, it looks like now isn't the time where people usually go sleep yet.
I try to straighten up my body, but... I can't.
I can't move my body. There, I gradually recall what happened today, and my half asleep head immediately awaken right away.
"!? Leila-chan...!"
That's right, there was a girl who called herself as an apostle who was intending to kill Leila-chan.
Did I fall unconscious? Could it be, Leila-chan's already...!
"Are you calling me? Kitsune-kun."
"Ha... Leila-chan...."
"Yup, Leila-chan indeed, ufufufu, have you awoken?"
"...haa... thanks god, I thought that perhaps you've been killed by her."
When I call her name, Leila-chan suddenly shows herself up. Seems like she was inside the room, but since I couldn't move my body, I couldn't see that she was there.
And then, perhaps I'm slightly relieved that makes me let out a sigh of relief. The reason I can't move my body is perhaps because I excessively moved my body when I fought Stella, which led to not only injured, my body was also overtaxed.
Thinking so, I look at Leila-chan. Leila-chan inclines her head, however, it's surely night already but, it's sure rare for her to not in her horny state.
There, I can 'see' Leila-chan extends her hand toward my face.
Actually, currently Leila-chan hasn't extended her hand just yet. And yet, I can see the scene where she'll soon extends her hand toward my face.
And then, that scene finally turns into reality, Leila-chan extends her hand toward me.
"...my left eye, it can see?"
My left eye can see. Even when I close my right eye, my field of vision isn't turner into black. Just what is it supposed to mean?
"Umm, after that that white girl went somewhere, but... as an apology, she fixed your left eye."
"She did? But how?"
"Umm...."
When I ask her about the detail regarding the restoation of my left eye, even while showing such a bothered face, Leila-chan still explains what happened back then to me.
"Take it as an apology for giving such unnecessary injuries. May I?"
When Leila nodded to her word, it'd been decided that the apostle, Stella, would help them to restore Kitsune's left eye.
It appears that Stella couldn't make something out of nowhere, that was why she needed some materials to make an eyeball for Kitsune. Nevertheless, not the eye itself, she only needed some informations and some flesh as the base for the soon to be made eye.
And so, she asked Leila who was beside her.
"Is there anyone here who's around the same age with this boy? Since my or your (demon) eyes are different from human's, so I can't collect any informations about human's eye from either of it."
Firstly, she sought for some informations regarding human's eye. Leila flusteredly pondered about whether was there any such a person or not. There, the one floated inside her head was unexpectedly Trisha.
"This girl! This girl is about the same age as Kitsune-kun! Perhaps!"
When Leila roughly held and brought Trishe to her, Stella opened Trisha's left eyelid and stared fixedly at the eyeball, as if understanding the structure and any informations about it.
And then, after several seconds passed, she let out a sigh once and closed Trisha's eyelid back. This time she placed her hand atop Kitsune's hollow left eye and exerted out some light white upon it.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm just disinfecting his wound. This wound has existed for quite a while, so if I restored his eye as it is, there's a possibility that some kind of disease might arise from it later."
At Stella's flat and plain explanation, Leila didn't particularly undertand what that meant but she nodded in thought that perhaps that was really the case otherwise.
"Lastly, I need some flesh to make the eye, but...."
"Ah, then just use my flesh... ah... it hurts... here it is...."
When Stella said that she needed some flesh, Leila immediately torn off some flesh from her own abdomen, and presented it to her. Blood was flowing out from the wound, and Leila pinned down the pain with her hand.
Surely, Leila's body had been turned into demon's body by the "Red Night"'s miasma (virus), but it was originally human's body, so there was no reason for it to be unable to be used as the material.
"I'm starting-- {Sanctuary} expand."
When she took a praying-like stance and said so, white light spreaded and wrapped the three of them. Leila was slightly feeling unwell, but she endured it.
"Applying information, projecting body, checking compability,... bestow sacred healing upon this person."
Thus, the light turned remarkably brighter, where Stella was reciting some kind of incantation. Stella moved her hand and placed Leila's flesh in Kitsune's left eye.
The flesh was turning white, and the shape was turning globe. And then, when it'd turned into remarkably eye-like, a part of it turned into a jade green iris, since the base structure information was Trisha's eye.
The light converged, and the eye, it pulsated as if finally coming to life. On the opposite side of the iris, optical nerve was growing and enxtending toward the inner part of Kitsune's eye. And then, responding to Stella's light, Kitsune's left inner eye was wriggling, the torn off optical nerve was remade anew and connected to the extending nerve from the eyeball.
"...merging."
When Stella shortly said so, the just made eyeball finally and pefectly rested still in Kitsune's left eye.
And then, the muscles to open and close the eyelid had somewhat weakened even since the disappearance of the eyeball, however because of the reappearance of the eyeball, its power was restored by "Near-death experience". The fatigue was still there, but the strength had been restored according to Kitsune's status.
The light disappeared from Stella's body, and the spreaded light also vanished.
"Restoration, complete... with this I think he should be fine by now. When this boy awaken later, even if in the end this eye couldn't see, at least his proportion balance's become better than when he's without it, so I think it's still good for him."
"Umm... thank you."
"Well then, I have to chase after the hero, so... please excuse me."
After finishing the tratment, and Kitsune's eye had been completely restored, Stella immediately left. Leila held Kitsune, as well as the lying down Trisha next to them, and returned to the inn.
"...I see... that means we somehow survived through it huh."
Listening to her, I more or less understand that this case ended without me losing anything. Somehow it was ended up fine, huh. I'm relieved a bit.
Hmm, wait? My left eye was made using Rishe-chan's eye as the base, and Leila-chan's flesh as the material?
Doesn't that sound a bit dangerous? Is my left eye going to be alright? It won't turn into some kind of dangerous monster, right?
Thinking so, for now let's check my own status first.
*Status*
Name                        : Naginata Kitsune
Gender                     : Male Lv. 1
Strength                   : 40
Stamina                    : 1050
Resistance               : 1420
Agility                       : 1000
Magic Power          : 950
Yup, it sure is strange. It's changed in a lot of ways.
First, the {One who fascinates demon} title turned into {One who's loved by demon} . The hell is it? Does this title have something to do with Leila-chan? Did her affection points reach a higher level, I wonder?
Next, {Pain Nullification) } {Intuition }  have leveled up. Just how much experience points I got from fighting the hero and the apostle, I wonder? Even some my stats value have finally reached four digits number.
Then, I obtained {Demon eye of foresight} ! Moreover its level is quite high! Also, perhaps thanks to Leila-chan's flesh, I even obtained miasma oriented skills along with {Miasma Manipulation} !
And then, my third innate skill is something that awakened at the previous battle, but... just what is this{Re: Origin}  supposed to mean? I really can't imagine it at all. I do feel like I unconsciously got some crazy amount of power when I was fighting with apostle-chan, but exactly because it happened unconsciously so I don't understand it at all.
But, well, there sure are changes here and there, but since all of it are good for me so it's fine and all, though.
But, just why the hell my level's returned to level 1! My statuses increased by my level decreased, just what happened here? Could it be, because I overtaxed my body when I fought the apostle, my level got burnt out? I do feel like at that time I burned up my own life, after all... sounds plausible... but, my status are overall increasd so it's fine and all, though.
"Looks like I leveled up quite a lot, huh... well, seems like I have treaded on a hell of peculiar route as well, though...."
Leila-chan inclines her head in wonder, so I decide to try and check on {Miasma Manipulation}  skill. Extending my hand, I imagine the miasma that's usually used by Leila-chan.
And then, it's clearly fewer than Leila-chan's, but around a baskeball-big miasma appears at my hand. With that, I try to make a knife, similarly like the one I got from Leila-chan before.
"Oh, it turns into weapon."
"Hmm? Kitsune-kun, isn't that ability similar like mine?"
"Ah, umm, thanks to your flesh that was made into my left eye, seems like I also can pretty much manipulate miasma now."
"Hee... ufufufu... we're matching... how nice, how delightful, it makes my heart thumps faster...."
Leila-chan's face blushes. It doesn't looks like she's in heat, and looking at her who is smiling expressing her happiness from the bottom of her heart, she looks somewhat adorable.
With this now I can make my own weapon by transforming the miasma, and there's no need to worry about it to be broken, and even if it ends up broken, I can just make it again, quite a convenient skill. Also, to make my left eye, Leila-chan did... ah, that's right.
"Leila-chan."
"Hmm, what is it?"
"You rendered a part of your body for my sake, didn't you? Thank you."
I oviously have to thank her, right? Even if she's my damn stalker, even she was the very one who took my left eye, she still did render a part of her body for my sake, ater all.
When I bow my head and say so, Leila-chan doesn't utter a word. When I curiously raise my head, there....
"Eh... ah... umm... that... that's not it... there's no need to...."
I can see Leila-chan's face flushing red, and she covers her mouth with her hand when saying so.
Perhaps she's never expected to receive a gratitude from me, or perhaps she simply isn't used to receive gratitudes, well I don't which one's the real case, but nonetheless, seems like she's embarrassed upon receiving it. This state of her is kinda fresh and amusing.
"Umm... you are welcome."
Even while slightly flustered, after calming herself down, Leila-chan says so. Looking at her to be so meek sure is kinda strange, but different from her horny state, I find it quite charming.
But perhaps it's exactly because she's at this state that I can naturally express my gratitude to her.
"Ah, come to think of it, today we haven't kissed yet, right? As my thanks, we can do it twice if you want to, how's it?"
"Eh? Really!?"
That's why I decide to give her a bit token of gratitude. Well, as far as she's concerned, perhaps this is the best token possible for her, though. We've kissed many times already, before I was kinda worried that I might be infected by the virus through the kiss, but now since it appears that I've obtained some resistance toward the virus, so even if I give this much of reward, it should be okay.
"Then, without further ado, *chu~*"
"'kay, 'kay."
She delightfully protrudes her lips, so I close my eyes and prepare myself.
However, no matter how long I wait, her lips's never landed on my lips.
Puzzled, I open my eyes. And then, I can't see Leila-chan's presence anywhere, and I can only see the room's door that's somehow already opened wide.
I Kinda Came to Another World, but Where’s the Way Home?
【書籍化】異世界来ちゃったけど帰り道何処？
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