Time ticked by quickly and soon a few hours seemed to pass and she finally seemed to have gotten enough food, her belly swelled up slightly and she burped after she completely devoured the dishes in front her and swept them clean .
She was still quite guarded and wary of any unexpected situation, but it seem that after she took the first bite, she already had accepted her fate, thinking that even if the food was poisoned, then it might be fine to finally gave in if only for this one last time, perhaps .
Seeing her like this and recalling how helpless was she a few hours ago, I couldn't help but clench my fists on the table and my aura flared up slightly, this happened midway her feasting and she jumped out of her seat shocked and frightened .
I calmed myself and her down and whether it was because of the food or her trust in me increasing, either way it was a good thing, she just lowered her head and came sitting back down, I apologized for startling her just now and couldn't help but wonder what reaction might these guys outside be showing if they were to witness this .
Tay could very much wear a gruesome expression on her face and her resentment towards the human girl would only increase even more, something that I truly didn't want to see happening, regardless of this, I also couldn't help but notice that my intimidating aura had increased in term of strength and effectiveness by at least a few folds .
Just now, I felt that I can literally erase the whole family Mansion using my Mental Strength, the area I can cover now had also become much larger, it's not ridiculous enough to engulf the whole city yet, but covering a quarter of it shouldn't be an issue .
This was already ridiculously strong in itself, but I couldn't help but wonder what might have caused such a mutation, the chapter I finished had details regarding this happening, but the distance I can cover that was mentioned in the chapter was one tenth of what I actually have .
A crazy idea suddenly hit me and I couldn't help but shake my head at it, not because it was usless, but because it could be a quite the ridiculous thought, so for now. I should just focus on the issue at hand and leave this whole matter to a more proper time for contemplation .
After she finished her plates, she burped and seeing me staring at her intensively, she frown a little and a blush appeared on her face as she glared at me and said :
Wh...at ? .
Her voice was still hoarse, it seem that as the doctor said, she will still need some bit of time to full finish recuperating, at least without infusing Mana into her body, but to ask her permission to do that with how much wary was she currently of me, I can't see this happening one bit .
" Nothing at all, you don't need to push yourself too hard if you don't want to, I came here to check on you and make sure that you are well and will survive .
Her body shook and I couldn't help but wonder what was going on with her when suddenly tears began to roll down on her cheeks and once again her hoarse voice sounded once again saying while she cowered into a corner in the room :
So you too is just lik..e.. him, he too....did say...the exact same thing .
After hearing what she has to say, I almost couldn't help but want to slap myself for saying something like this, understanding where her logic came from, I was able to clearly understand that she misunderstood me once again for being a subordinate to Devo .
Yes, there was no doubt that Devo was the one who told her similar thing before, but both me and her were just implicated with misunderstanding each other words and the intentions behind them, her more than me .
She is thinking that I want to sacrifice her exactly like Devo and so nothing had changed for her, the one who held her captive was the only thing that have changed, but the situation and her fate were still heading to the same near end .
That's why she was currently cowering back and curling around herself like a ball, all out of fear and indignation and she had every right to be acting like this, but I didn't want her to continue living in such confused state any longer, I said :
" Believe it or not, but I swear that now that you are here, not to mention Devo, even if that damned prince Blazan came personally to ask me to hand you over, I will kill him right where he stood, I don't know whether this will calm you or make you completely lose your senses, but I'm Sakurai Ryuu .
" You know the one who had been summoned to this world with you back then and was found to be blessless and completely useless, the one who was rumoured to be quite the delinquent back in our previous world .
" The one who kept getting in trouble with the principal and his lousy son and older brother, it's difficult to accept I know, but this is truly me .
She looked at me with complete confusion, but I couldn't bring myself to blame her, how could I, I didn't even recognize myself anymore when I look in the mirror, I once tried to recall how I looked before all these weird changes hit me and found that I wasn't able to .
Luckily, after I had finished the first chapter of the Mind Nourishing Method, my brain felt like getting a sudden reboot and I was now able to recall anything that ever happened to me selectively and without any issue, so I manage to recall how I looked before becoming this devilishly handsome red haired guy .
So her being confused about everything that was going on was very much okay to me, I already anticipated this much, but at least my words made her react slightly and whether was it from shock, confusion or even hatred, she stopped shuddering and curling around herself .
She raised her head and looked at me looking quite bewildered and said :
You,... you are crazy, how in the world could you be him, who put you up for this, whoever he was, he is lying and thanks to that, I can tell that you are trying to confuse me with a sinister purpose on your mind .
I expected her to be denying it directly from the start, but I didn't expect that she would be so triggered by me saying this and it would actually backfire on me like this, she screamed the last part out loud and I was able to see that her throat was hurting even more now, but the hatred that had taken over her face and eyes weren't one that belonged to someone who was in doubt of what he was saying .
Seeing her like this, I couldn't help but want to ask her about what was going on, the second I stood up, she surprised me with a fork suddenly appeared in her tired hand and she wasn't even pointing it at me, but at herself, this was the first time I saw her becoming so agitated as she said :
He was not a delinquent, he was just a good person whose life had just deteriorated suddenly and had left him with nothing but pieces of what he once was and had .
He once had saved me from a bully and paid the price of getting a few stitches in the back of his head, just because he saw me get bullied, he didn't ask for my gratitude, he didn't ask me for anything in return for his help and what suffering he had to go through, he won't even know that he was my hero or me being that girl he saved .
I won't accept you badmouthing him in my presence, no matter what, even after he lost his parents he had a nice smile that can always calm people down and give them a sense of relief, I lov... adored him for that, even when he kept getting pushed back by everyone else, he wasn't a menace nor a delinquent to those around him .
He just accepted that this was how the world treated him and adapted to his circumstances, since you dare make fun of him, I will end myself now and reunite with him, better be by my own hands instead of yours .
As she finished saying this, she did actually pressed the fork closer to her neck and seemed to be dead serious about ending her life, but no matter how hard she tried to press the fork forward, the fork stayed in place as if something was preventing her from going any forward .
What are you doing, let me go .
She was suddenly raised up in the air as if she didn't weight anything at all, she actually didn't weight much of a feather to me, I sat her down on a chair in front of me and removed the table completely using Mental Power, she was screaming than before but seeing the expression on my face seemed to have made her calm down a bit .
I was blushing, like actually blushing from embarrassment, this was the second time I had heard someone talk about me like this and with such passion, Hana was the first one to say something similar to me .
But contrary to the incident with Hana, I hadn't have the slightest idea about the incident spoken by Sora in front of me, but as if her words had made me recall something, something that I had forgotten about since quite a long time .
Before Hana, there was another incident that had marked me as a troublemaker when I was a little bit younger, in my memories I was beaten to the ground by a fat kid my age holding a brick in his hand .
And my hands were fixed in place by two kids, accomplices of that fat kid, but I wasn't even staring in their direction, instead I was gesturing with my freed fingers to a girl with ponytails and big glasses that one of the frames of it was empty .
I was telling her to hurry and go, while completely covered in blood, this happened many years ago and it seem that I didn't want to recall that particular incident before today, or maybe all the hammering on my head was that brick ended up doing some damage to my brain, who knows .
These words of praise made me rethink of who I was before, at least recall the good parts, to think that the silly girl I have helped that day was a classmate who kept close eye on me ever since and who held me in such a high regard, I couldn't help feel my face burning up slightly .
Hey, what's wrong with you, even if I die, I won't let you come near me .
I saw that for some reason she suddenly raised her hands and crossed them together above her chest, while hatred spewed out of her eyes, seeing her guarded gesture, I become aware of her misunderstanding of my intentions, so I said while raising my hand in resignation :
" I had already sworn to do you no harm, in fact if you allowed me to show you something that might confirm my identity to you, even though this is very difficult to imagine happening from your perspective, I would still say that you would be both shocked and surprised at what I will show you, for the good or worse, this is up to you, what do you say .
She squinted her eyes at me and the distance between us was less than a a few centimeters, so every muscle twitch on her face was clearly visible to me, this was enough to make me aware of her actually thinking about it .
Even though I believed that haste make waste, I still wanted to give her one slight push and completely let her decide what she was going to do on the spot, I said :
" You said that he had a smile that gave people a sense of relief, I hope you can do me a favor and see if I still have it, I hadn't smiled sincerely since a long time, so you it might be a bit rusty, is this how I used to smile ? .
Trying my best to stimulate my old smile back when I was a human to appear, I closed my eyes and felt my jaw move, then I felt like something had been thrown into my embrace, opening my eyes, I found Sora holding me in a bit comical hug, since I had completely dwarfed her in size .
It's you, it's really you, Ryuu-san, you really are Ryuu-san, but h.... .
Seeing that she was suddenly acting like this, I understand that my gamble had worked, to think that I would be redeemed by a smile that I had almost forgot how to make, touching her head with my finger and instantly a stream of memories appeared on her mind, images and scenes of what led me into arriving here and how things become like this .
All my adventures in this land and how things were currently going, how I get transformed into a Demon, failling to find a way to get back, arriving to this city, meeting Lido, everything that had happened to me for the past few months .
After ending the memory transmission, I saw her grip on me tightened even more, but her eyes were still foggy and uncertainly, she was still processing all the information I had given her, seeing her like that, I start arranging a barrier of Mana Stones around us, taking advantage of the situation to make her recover in one full sweep .
If before I had finished the first chapter of the Mind Nourishing Method, I would have called for any of those outside to come and help her recover her Mana, but now I can do it completely without anyone's help .
I had full confidence in converging the Mana Stones into pure Mana for her to absorb, crushing the shimmering Mana Stones, burst of Mana like wisps appeared around me, I tried to move them with my mind and soon those wisps began to sunk into her body, she seemed to be welcoming a very good feeling as she even closed her eyes and seem starting to enjoy feeling revitalized .
This process continued for dozens of times, before she finally opened her eyes and she had a complete transformation compared to what she was like before, like a caterpillar transforming into butterfly, but the girl in front of me was transforming more into a DRAGON !!!! .