Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

"... just give me a minute. But there's a mirror around here..."

That's what Lorraine says and starts fishing around.

She also seems to have the edge of a woman, like a mirror, even where she's just indifferent.

And

"Look, look... no, it may not be accurate that it's off..."

I looked in the mirror Lorraine gave me before me, and it did show my face there, with the mask changing position.

No, the position of the mask is nowhere.

- The shape of the mask is changing.

The mask, which should have covered the entire face, now covers only the upper half, and the mouth is in a sticky state.

Besides.

"... but"

Lorraine nodded when I said that in a blurry voice,

"Oh, right. A lot has happened and I'm annoyed... Lent. You're looking different."

That's what I said.

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Afterwards, I checked a lot, and my appearance had changed considerably.

Of course, the shape of the mask has changed, not least.

When I took off my robe and looked at my body, there was still something like it was dead, but it was also coming out where it looked healthy.

Do you know what it feels like to be dead like a bug in your lifetime?

Even if I show my body to people, there are many old wounds, which might do.

Well, that's too much scratch for you, they might say, but they won't tell you instantly that you're the corpse-eating ghost Ghoul.

The face......

As for the lower half, which is no longer masked, it is the same as the body.

Still, you say it's more monstrous than your body, or it looks like a corpse-eating ghost, Ghoul.

Some parts look healthy, but the most important mouth area is pretty terrible.

Gum prolapse or... a skeletal sensation?

Sounds like you have to hide this... something you can't handle.

That's what you think.

"... oh, hey!

Lorraine raised her voice like that.

I was wondering what was going on, and in the mirror, the mask that was hiding the top half of my face moved to melt, this time covering the entire face.

As usual, it is a skeletal mask.

... What do you mean?

"... Lent, that mask, it doesn't seem like you're just cursed, does it?

That's what Lorraine said with an intriguing gaze.

Indeed, a mask making such a strange move would not be just a mask.

Well, it doesn't seem like it's just a mask at the time you're cursed.

While Lorraine observed the mask,

"... now that the shape of that mask has changed, what have you done?

I've asked, so I said I thought, "I don't think you can gum out, I don't know what I can do about it.

Then,

"Hmm. You mean it changed according to your will? … a willful tool. That's unusual."

Willful tools

It is a very special inorganic object, such as a weapon that chooses its owner for itself, typical of the Devil's Sword, etc.

Often discovered in the labyrinth, it is said to be difficult to make in modern times, which, at the same time as it is rare, is often a specialty.

Lorraine says I'm wearing it or not.

But according to Lina, I bought this for a couple of copper coins.

Wouldn't it be too cheap to make anything a willy tool?

Yes, tell Lorraine,

"I was cursed. It's likely that I just wanted to let go and it was that pricing. Or… it is possible that the mask has the power to manipulate a person's consciousness…"

and say creepy things.

There is no other way to be cursed and not come off, but not manipulated to consciousness.

Because even I've become strange.

I want you to at least let me move of your own free will.

That said, from the time I put this on until now, when they say it was all based on my will... I also find it quite suspicious.

Lorraine attacked me.

Lorraine continues her observation of the mask.

"... that I changed shape according to your will... I thought maybe it would come off already?

That's what they said to me like I thought, and I thought, well, I'll think about coming off again.

But the mask didn't look like it was coming off.

"Can I try to pull it?

"Ah......"

As Lorraine declared, pulling with both ends of the mask still doesn't leave, as stuck.

Lorraine won't be weak.

Sure, he won't have more power than a man, but now he's also the end of an adventurer.

I'd rather be physically fit than normal.

I mean, the mask still won't stick to me and leave.

"You can't. Again, will you try to remember to change shape?

Nod and think about the shape of the mask in your head.

Then again, the mask changed to cover only the upper half of his face.

"In other shapes?

I tried everything I was told, and what became clear was that the mask roughly changes to three shapes in all.

It's a shape that covers the whole thing, the top half of the face, and the bottom half of each.

Nothing else could be done, but basically nothing else seemed possible, enough to change the decor and pattern.

"… I can change the shape, but will it never come off? That's a delicate result. Well, isn't that bad? Whatever, your face is still near the undead."

That's what Lorraine says and nods.

In fact, what she's saying is right, and it'll be hard to expose people to the bottom half of my face.

If the body also shows the whole thing, it is still strange that it is moving.

Anyway, it's not just a scratch, it's obvious that some parts of the bone are visible.

It is strange that there is no blood.

However, hiding those places would be much better than ever.

If you look pussy, you look human enough, because that's what you look like.

Besides...

"... isn't that right?

"Ah. You're largely fluent... not even a little uncomfortable, but is it a matter of getting used to it?

"I don't know... but you're really making it easier to talk"

This is very gratifying.

But then suddenly I wondered why... Oh, I thought.

"Did you, Shin, Shin?"

Lorraine nodded, too, when I groaned so blurred at my current state of affairs.

"That's probably the thing. Because you've been fighting demons in the labyrinth."

He also told Lorraine to go to the labyrinth of the water moon.

That would be why I'm guessing.

But I lean my neck against this.

"That's... I wonder. I really wanted to be something... but when it did, I put something on it, a little bit of garlic, because I was..."

"... By comparison, you're at least evolving after coming home to this house, so you're not like before... you've evolved to exist because you defeated me or something?

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."

"Right. Rather enough to say I knocked him down. And then... oh, did you mouth my blood and meat? Maybe that's what caused it, huh?

And, Lorraine mouths an amazing theory.

As I opened my eyes, she said,

"No, it's not even that much of a clap talk. Seeing you now... rather than a corpse-eating ghost (ghoul), it resembles a corpse ghost (shiki) who is supposedly a member of a vampire's family. A demon further down the lower vampire (Lesser Vampire)..."