I have reached the second floor of the dungeon, there is a trace of battle here. I feel a huge amount of ominous mana come from the room me and Hina found.
??? effect of lust is activated.
-Don't go, Farah. There is no chance of winning against that "thing." (Hale)
-Eh? (Farah)
It's the voice of other me (Hale).
-There is no way that I can't recognize this kind of mana. I'm sure Hina has been taken as its host. (Hale)
-It's one of the worst things you want to fight against, Farah. Just give up on saving her. (Hale)
-I don't want to give up yet, Hale. I must give it a try. (Farah)
I try going to Hina's place, but my body is not listening to me:
-It's useless, I also have control over our body. My priority is keeping you safe and sound. Not to put you in danger by trying to save a person you just met. (Hale)
I bite my lips; I can feel the blood come out of my mouth:
-I will save Hina. I know I'm naive, but I don't want to give up on saving her! (Farah)
I and hale are fighting over the control of our body. Our body start bleeding due to the fight between Hale and me.
-Stop, you are hurting yourself. (Hale)
-It's nothing, comparing to Hina's pain. She's down there alone and no one helps her. (Farah)
-Hah, I would help you...(Hale)
-Really? (Farah)
-But once it becomes too dangerous, you must find a way to escape, all right? (Hale)
-Okay! (Farah)
>Hale offers her part of power with you.
"Do you want to accept??? of conquest?".
-Take my offer, Farah. (Hale)
I immediately accept the power Hale gives me without any hesitation.
>Title received: ??? of conquest
Generate "Conquest" skill and??? skill
>Skill received:
Ex-skill: Conquest (Temporary)
Dominated the chosen target for a short time
Other functions are locked
Usage: Two times
-You only have two chances, Farah. This skill can stop that "thing" from controlling Hina's mind. How you can use it to save Hina is depends on yourself. (Hale)
-Thanks, Hale. (Farah)
-Save the thanks until you successful saving her. (Hale)
I immediately run to the room where Hina is. Inside the room, I can see Hina standing and not doing anything. However, her appearance has changed a lot. Her eyes and hairs have changed into black.
-Hina! (Farah)
However, she is not responding to my call. When I try touching Hina, my hand disappears when it comes in contact with the space around her.
-Idiot! (Hale)
-EH? (Farah)
I don't feel any pain but my hand is gone now.
+Active Neo Human trait regeneration
My hand slowly return to normal.
-Are you an idiot Farah, why are you try reaching out to her without dealing with the "thing" inside her? (Hale)
-I don't see anything else aside from Hina, Hale. (Farah)
-Try using magic to attack her. (Hale)
-Wind lance~✩(Farah)
I summon a wind lance and attack Hina. Some kind of black liquid is formed from Hina's back swallows the wind lance.
-What is that? (Farah)
-It's the "thing," I told you about. You only have two chances to use conquest on it. (Hale)
Hina starts moving toward me. She looks at me as a kind of prey. The black liquid moves forward and tries to swallow me.
-Dodge it! (Hale)
I immediately retreat far from the black liquid attack range.
-So the liquid is the one eating my hand? (Farah)
-No, it's space around Hina. The space around her has been distorted and formed into a kind of barrier to protect Hina. (Hale)
I use nanomachine to create the smoke around me. The black liquid does not hesitate and attack even when I'm right in the smoke. Take this chance, I go to Hina's back. I tried jumping into the place where black liquid grows out from Hina's body.
-Are you an idiot? You won't be able to pass her space barrier. (Hale)
However, I easily slip through the barrier created by Hina and stand next to her.
-So the place where black liquid grows out is unaffected by space disorder. A smart move, Farah! (Hale)
The black liquid tried to go back and defend Hina, but it's too late.
-Conquest! (Farah)
Target has been affected by conquest. "Seed???" can't move for 2 minutes. Temporary release mind control on host "Hina"
-What will we do now, Hale? (Farah)
-... Use emotion magic. (Hale)
-Ehhh?(Farah)
-Do it! (Hale)
I can see many black particles come out from Hina's body. I tried using emotion magic and touch those particles. I slowly lose my consciousness.
The next time I open my eye and am sitting beside a little girl with ash hair. She is looking at the lake as if she is waiting for something. I tried to reach out to her and ask:
-Hina, is that you? (Farah)
The girl slowly turns her head and looks at me then turns back to the lake.
-I want to save you. (Farah)
The little girl coldly answers:
-Save me? From what? (Hina)
-You are being taken over by the black liquid, Hina. So I came here and save you. (Farah)
The little girl points at the lake and asked:
-Do you mean those black liquid? (Hina)
I looked again at the lake. The water in the lake has turned into a black liquid. Hina turns to me and asked:
-Why do you want to save me? (Hina)
-I...I don't want you to be alone and sad. (Farah)
-Weird, then do you know my name? (Hina)
-Is your name Hina? (Farah)
The little girl starts laughing like crazy, her voice becomes more and more creepy.
-You don't even know my name and you tell me that you will save me? (Hina)
Blood started coming out of Hina's eye:
-You don't know me! Get out of my sight! (Hina)
With Hina's shouting, My consciousness slowly returns to normal. I notice I still am standing next to Hina. The black liquid starts moving again and attacking me. I tried forming a mana shield to defend against the attack. However, the shield is broken when it comes in contract with the black liquid and hits my body. The impact is strong enough to make my body hit right into the wall.
-You only have one chance left, Farah. (Hale)
-She tells me I don't know her...(Farah)
-How about give up on saving her? (Hale)
-No way! (Farah)
I have a smile on the face.
-It may be a short time since I meet her, and I don't even know her much, but I want to save her no matter what. (Farah)
-Why? (Hale)
My face becomes red for a moment.
-Maybe... because I love her? (Farah)
-I thought you already love Hana? (Hale)
-...(Farah)
-It's greedy for you to love two people at the same time. But I will help you achieve your purpose. (Hale)
-Thanks, Hale. (Farah)
-...(Hale)
>Condition achieved:
These skills can perform fusion by using lust's skill.
+Emotion magic.
+Magic Operation
+Language skill
>You received one memory fragment (Hina).
As a side effect of emotion magic, for 5 minutes, the user can't move and dive into the memory fragment.
I think Hale is my least favourite part of the story. He just don't feel to fit all that smoothly with the rest. Like he's a draft concept that should have stayed draft.
Well you would see her more since she is a very important character in the story though
-Are you an idiot Farah, don't try reaching out to her without dealing with the "thing" inside her? (Hale)
into: -Are you an idiot Farah, don't try reaching out to her without dealing with the "thing" inside her! (Hale)
or: -Are you an idiot Farah, why are you try reaching out to her without dealing with the "thing" inside her? (Hale)
Thanks, I think that the later sound fit the context. Lemme fix it
Love?...ugh... That painful to read.
What that? "cuz I love her" ? Eww....
Why do I have the urge of wanting this end in a tragedy??... I hope she lose?.. Of course I know she won't, cuz plot armour plot armour!!....... Maybe I'm just bitter lol
It's romance for you. Sadly, Mc with plot amour can beat everything
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What is the height and apparent age of the version of Hotaru that Farah saw inside Hina's mind?
Thanks for the chapter
This Hina is 7 years old and around 110 cm
@Madeus If little Hina wasn't out of her mind and aggressive, Farah would be tempted to sit Hina-chan on her lap, hug her and give her headpats, right?
Yes, they will be so cute. It's rare to see someone smaller than Farah so she can pamper.
@Madeus Yes, they would undoubtedly be adorable!
Would these pampering include a kiss? If so how would little Hina react to that?
Now that I stopped to think about it, does this childish mental image of herself mean that Hina hasn't grown mentally since she lost her grandmother or that the seed made her mind regress?
@Gin0001 I won't spoil but there will be some sweet scene of them today.
Little Hina represents the current Hina mentality. Her mind has regress due to the loss of both grandmother and grandfather. Current now is just want to escape from the reality.
And the lake she is watching represent the deepest wish in her mind.
@Madeus With the emotion magic, would it be possible for Farah to enter the dreams of others and manipulate the dream just like a dream demon?
@Gin0001 She only is able to interact with the subconscious of others. She won't be able to manipulate it.
@Madeus
It's rare to see someone smaller than Farah so she can pamper.
What do you think of the idea, that on some of the planets have a race whose average height of adults is shorter than that of Farah and on top of that they look like children from the point of view of other races?
I ended up thinking about it when I found some images of girls from the Harvin race of Granblue Fantasy and in case you don't know the average height of the adult harvins is 90 cm.
For example this cutie here below.
https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/7828158
https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/24111405
https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/7025028
https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/6850049
https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/23008925
This is Nio, she is a suitable adult of 20 years and is 84 cm tall.
Farah would love to pamper a cutie like her, right?
@Gin0001 Yup she is likely to pamper her.
I will likely let Farah meet one person later on.
It's rare to see Farah on the offensive side.
@Madeus I will look forward to it.
Is being small really such a big drawback to taking the offensive side in a relationship? I've seen some loli characters that could make bigger girls go limp and shiver like a pudding with relative ease.
Did you already have this planned before I suggested it, by any chance?
@Gin0001 She is submissive due to Farah's characteristics inherited from events in the past.
I can only give you a hint Farah and Hale F are 2 sides of the same coin.
And for your question that I planed Aya will be the one to go submissive if you put her together Farah despite her Tsun. You will know why since I will release her interlude today
@Madeus I had suspected this connection between Farah and Hale F since before and I was curious about what caused them to split up. And what Farah would look like if they reintegrate together.
@Gin0001 I won't spoil now since it due to their heavy past and one of the reasons they lost their eyes. I don't plan that they will reintegrate together but hmm can't spoil again.