“W-what, what is that thing?!”
“Run aw- ARGH!”
“Please, sp-spare me!”
=Hmm hm hmm~! Yup yup, seems like it’s all going well~!=
Mhmm, letting my corpse-minions do all the work for me was definitely the right idea! Alright, since everything’s going well up here, let’s hurry on down and get the distractions out of the way so that I can enjoy my meal!
=Excuse me, captured people~! You’re all being freed now~! Welcome to Mellily’s evacuation party~!=
…Did that sound enthusiastic enough? I hope it did. If I don’t try to fake some enthusiasm right now, I might just give up and leave these guys down here! To tell the truth, I’ve done this too many times in a row already, and now the whole ‘Rescuing the poor ensved humans!’ shtick is kinda getting a little boring to me. Almost makes me feel a teensy bit bad how tedious this is beginning to feel, so hurry up and leave everybody so I can get to the good part, please!
[Well, you aren’t covered in blood this time, so perhaps it’ll go differently than the others did.]
Oh yeah, that’s a good point!
At the very least I won’t have to worry about it being all noisy and stuff this time, right?
“Are… Are we really being saved?”
“Do you think it’s true?”
“Even if it’s not, do we really have a choice…?”
Yeah yeah, I’ve heard all this crap a ton of times before~. Quit your babbling and get those feet moving already!
=Hey, listen up! You’re leaving here today whether you want to or not! Locate your nearest exit and get the hell out of here!=
Even though I’m pretty weak in this form compared to what I really look like, I’m still plenty strong enough to break the shabby locks in this pce with a quick smack. Honestly, if they didn’t starve these people the way that they do, I wonder if they’d be able to easily break them too. Oh, speaking of-
=Near the stairs out of here will be a pile of food from the kitchen and a bunch of pretty little purple flowers. If you’re hurt, eat one of the petals, and you’ll be right as rain again, promise!=
“What? Can it be true?”
“Food?!”
“Ah, there’s someone gravely injured over here! Please help!”
Why are you looking at me? I freed you and gave you the supplies to get out of here, didn’t I? There’s like forty of you here, figure out how to work together or something! Jeez, this is why you humans keep-
“Thank you, Miss! Thank you for this benevolence! We’ll never forget you!”
“Blessings unto you, Miss! May the Spirit give you unending protection!”
“I’ll pass this story down onto the future generations, Miss! Thank you so much for rescuing us!”
Ehhh, okay~... Maybe the humans aren’t so bad, you know? I guess I was just grumpy because my other attempts at releasing them mostly ended with a lot of screaming and panic, but this batch of humans seems pretty cool actually!
Stop trying to touch me though~!
Didn’t you see what I did to those locks~?
Wow, look at them, they aren’t even flooding out of the entrance and hurting each other like they did the other times, either; They’re actually pretty darn orderly, all things considered. I guess it was a good idea to come down here first before I got all big and ate everyone. I’ve figured out the secret to getting big and small already, but it’s kinda difficult to do right after I’ve stuffed myself, and I kept tearing up my clothes and leaving a mess everywhere, which really didn’t help to keep the humans calm enough to leave-
Oh wait, I’m forgetting something!
=Hey, don’t try to look around or loot the pce before you go! Just make sure you guys bee-line it to the exit, okay? I promise you’re not gonna like what you see or what happens to you if you don’t~!=
…Mhmm, yup! Look at them all hurrying to get out of here now! Thaaat’s more like what I’m used to!
Welp, I better follow them all out, then. I’ve got one st big dinner waiting for me~!
~~~
Oh man… I’ve really been busy. Too busy!
I really didn’t think taking down those svers would take so much time!
If I’m being honest, I let myself have too much fun eating everyone, and now I’m a bit worried about how many days went by! Don’t get me wrong, taking down five fortresses in a week is a pretty great feat, at least in my book. But the fact that it means that Til’s been in the Fire Territory for a-whole-nother week all by himself is actually really freaking bad!!!
What am I gonna do if he’s already dead because I took too long?!
Stupid stupid Mellily!!!
…Well, but it’s good that I got to eat so much beforehand at least, even if I let myself get a bit carried away. Going into enemy territory without enough resources would have definitely been a bad idea. Wouldn’t want both of us to get killed because I wasn’t properly prepared, right…?
Ugh, I really hope Til’s okay…!
I was totally unlucky by the way, and none of the svers seemed to have seen Till pass by them, so I have absolutely no clue which direction he’s headed in… And since every lizardman I met seemed to assume I was either a human or had something to do with the fire elves, none of them were very forthcoming with the actual fire elf tribe’s location. I looked reeeeally carefully for any maps they might have had in their strongholds, especially since I messed up that first one, but all of them were just maps of the nearby area or the lizardman nds, and not a single one of them showed all of the Fire territory!
I knew this stupid pce was primitive, but come on! Why are they so underdeveloped?!
Or maybe I’m just the idiot here, and there’s some taboo in their nds about knowing where everything is. It wouldn’t be all that surprising I guess, seeing how all the lizardmen who ended up thinking I was reted to the fire elves immediately looked like they ate a lemon. Maybe the different tribes in the Fire territory don’t really get along…? Or maybe that’s not quite it, since they didn’t outright attack me and tried to show some hospitality. But they certainly seem like they don’t trust each other fully, that’s for sure!
Eh, I guess it’s bound to happen when there’s so many different sentient races in one pce. It’s a bit odd to me though, after seeing all the different animal people in the Wind territory working together without any differences. Is it because they were all belled as the same thing by the Wind spirit? I guess the Fire Spirit’s creations are all different races with different names, after all…
Still, wouldn’t it at least make sense to make a map with everyone on it so that people can know where to avoid…? Wouldn’t that make sense?!
Ugh, whatever, I guess this just means that I’m gonna have to go in there blind! No pressure or anything, I’m sure I can just wander around as fast as I can and quickly find Til, right? I’m sure if I at least get somewhere in the right vicinity, then the Forest Spirit will-
[Oh, were you not aware, child?]
Huh? Was I not aware of what?
[I won’t be able to help you much in the Fire’s nds. We’ll barely even be able to communicate. I tried to inform you of this before, but-]
WHAT?! Why the hell not?!
[Well, it’s not my jurisdiction. You’re my direct creation, so perhaps I could lend you a bit of direction every now and then, but with you being that far away, I don’t believe-]
What the heck! But didn’t you speak to me just fine while I was in the Wind territory?!
[To be fair, that was technically my nd from the beginning, so there wasn’t very much interference-]
Oh come on! And you’re just telling me about this now?! Why wouldn’t you have told me earlier?!
[...Will you allow me to speak now-?]
So you’re saying you’re going to be of absolutely no help to me while I’m in the most dangerous pce of my life?!
[... … …]
Why aren’t you responding?!
[Oh, is it my turn to speak now?]
Of course it is! Gosh, for being a Spirit or whatever, you’re so-!
[I’m sure you’ll be fine, Mellily. You’re tenacious and resourceful, just like you were created to be. And even if I’m not there, you’ll never be truly alone.]
Yeah, I guess that's true… And I doubt you would have been much help over there anyways, huh?
[...I know you’re just trying to reassure yourself here, but that was quite-]
Alright fine! I get it! I’ll go! You don’t have to persuade me anymore!
[...]
It’s pnt of love and justice time! There’s no way I can fail on this!!!
