My Parasite Skill System

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"He deserved to die.

"He did horrible things...

"Sigh.

"And it's not just true for Sakage and his hideous self.

"Well, we all deserve to die, actually. Almost all of us, living, intelligent, and sentient creatures.

"And yet we live.

"Huh.

"And I guess if you think you do deserve it ... then you don't ... and it's even truer for yourself."

What was he on about? He must've seen I was watching him from the corner of my eye, because,

"Never mind me, O Noble Spirit," he said as he apologetically raised his lips' two fatigued corners, "I'm just speaking to myself."

Clearing his throat, he spoke loudly and distinctively,

"The bottom line is,

"You don't have to pity me, nor do you have to pity Sakage."

I didn't want to destroy Calming. By telling him Angry's sacrifice was necessary, maybe it'd have eased his mind.

He was stronger than that, though.

And me anyway, in all this? I should rather worry about myself, correct??

I mean, I wasn't out of trouble, was I, now?

After I stood up, with the shining sword I loved so much, I got up and shortened the distance between the two of us.

Shining sword was just being dragged by my foot, turning over the earth as its tip was down unsheathed.

And I walked along, up till I joined Calming. He still was looking down on Angry's corpse, standing by it.

Things were pretty much clear between the two of us. We'd talked everything out

He wouldn't attack me. I knew that. No more funny little elven tricks based on unknown runes or anything. I could just approach him normally.

Leaning forward, he picked his ineffective sword up.

"You are a noble spirit and you took over my--Our princess' body," clenching his fist onto the sword's handle, "And I…"

His fist then was to be clenched even harder upon the fragile handle of his sword.

His eyes still shot down, his sorrowful face underwent one hell of a frowning.

"The least you can allow us to have is to render herself to us."

And that'd be it.

I had to provide him with an answer.

Be it whatever. I gotta respond.

Thinking up of a suitable response for quite a long time now, I'd decided on lying.

Hmm.

Let's just act naturally.

I got this, myself.

Giving her back? Well, of course I can do it, warmly smiling and performing the best thumbs-up ever.

You can do it.

You just gotta say the words.

Come on, go ahead.

My eyes went up and tried to get a good look at his.

But they were still cast downwards.

It was tough to be Calming.

Let's just repeat a last time, 'Giving her back? Well, hmph, of course, I, the mighty noble spirit can do that, right, who do you think I am, poor elf?'

Ohh ... and I should even add something like, 'Rejoice for I officially accept your request.'

Gnn...

Here I go!

"G--G--Gi--Giving her--"

Damn. No.

"Of--Of c--Of course!"

"Is--Is everything alright, O Noble Spirit?!"

Hurriedly waving at him, and taking a step back, "O--Okay…! I won't get any closer!"

Seized by a frantic panic, he stepped back.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Meanwhile I … well.

"Argh, it's just--it's just my throat … ahem, I'm alright," regained my composure, I puffed my chest back again, and solemnly,

"Gi--Giving her back …" damnit, I couldn't be any more awkward than that, "Of--Of course I can't, err, can do that, haha hahahah … right?"

Scratching the back of my head, I was sweating like mad.

And he said nothing…

No shit.

What happened to the well-prepared super catchline I'd prepared beforehand?!

"I--I can do that, Calming, yes!"

Keeping silent, huh.

What's that mean…?!

My gosh.

Am I found out again…?

"No--Not like she's dead … or something, actually, hahah hahah … right??!"

C'mon, Calming, feedback, feedback...!

Don't just leave me without feedback...!

(Author's note: same goes for you readers, by the way; your feedback, I need it.)

My eyes were going from right to left over and over again.

And with a very much suspicious look … "--Thank you very much, O Mighty Noble Forest Spirit!!!"

Duh!

Not suspicious at all…!

Did he buy that?!

Amply bowing his happy head at me, he got to thank me again, "Thank you very much!!!"

Argh.

Sheesh.

I kinda feel bad for him, now.

But problem was resolved, it seemed.

And all this setting only got me left, still scratching my head as awkwardly as suspiciously.

The princess isn't dead.

But she is.

Let's just keep that info to myself.

She's dead.

I know she is.

Just like the others.

Any of the former hosts didn't get to live on after I'd hopped off of them.

All of them had that one thing in common.

They'd been taken over by me.

Why would she be different?

Anyway, I was safe.

And what would come after being safe?

Adventuring, of course.

Heading towards the forest's core once again, but this time about, on foot. That was our task. And we intended in getting it dealt with the sooner we could.

Showing me the direction, we got to get moving already.

But before this, maybe we should rest?

I asked him whether he needed to get some sleep before we go.

He got to sleep beforehand. It left me time to choose a weapon and play with some other random things, but it wasn't much.

Maybe did he need to sleep more?

With his usual smile he told me he was fine.

No, we shouldn't rest.

And so we left without taking a break.

Just like he and I willed.

We didn't follow up with the carriage path, though.

I waved bye-bye to our carriage, and we'd get started already.

Funnily enough, Calming did the same, heh.

We just paused there, and waved at the poor ol' carriage.

We directly cut through the forest.

My companion told me it'd be faster that way.

We only had to follow the route when we got the carriage.

Now, things were different.

And so, it'd be faster that way.

Following him, we left all the bloody corpses behind us.

The world was ahead.

And in the same good forest I'd been wandering about, here and there, sometimes within an old man's dwelling, some other times in this or that inn, or even simply on the road, we'd resume with our journey.

It was my journey.

Sometimes, the forest was dense.

It was kind of complicated to get moving at a steady pace in these times.

Calming was walking before me, and with skillfully waving arms, he'd withdraw every branch and leaves that'd be getting in my way.

We were getting by.

And some other times, the forest wasn't so dense.

I preferred that better.

In these times, we'd just be walking apart from each other.

Calming at the front, and me following him from behind.

Silence reigned in these parts of the woods.

Despite Calming's warnings, this time, it was kind of safe.

Or so it seemed to me, at least.

There was just silence, yes.

And we had time to talk, too.

"Can she hear me?"

He'd asked that question at some point.

I didn't stammer and stutter.

I was good.

And I told him she could.

Just out of the blue.

It quite caught me off-guard, so, well.

Receiving my answer, he sighed, still marching on.

Eventually, Calming told me he was sorry.

He told me my life was precious.

Following his heart was no good in such a situation, he'd told me.

And thus he had to follow his brain.

Rational facts and priorities outdid emotional ones.

One life in exchange for the safety of dozens of thousands of lives.

He tells me he cannot protect me.

And that he is very sorry for it.

--Well, since I'm not the princess, he isn't talking to me, though.

They don't have any other choices, he says.

And I just listened.

No tears flowing out of my eyes, this time about, good.

The forest wasn't so dense at all, at some point, and after discussing it, "I can handle running just fine, O Noble Spirit."

Nodding to him, we'd run from now on.

❮Head up to Foret's core with the help of your new friend and meet up with the Dryads. 0/1❯

My new friend, who was Old, I think, must've been still watching me from a distance.

Otherwise, the quest would've been changed.

And with each running step, we were getting closer and closer.

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