A Righteous Female Knight Never Compromises!-Chapter 11 : This riddle person seems like a little devil
{Chapter 11} This riddle person seems like a little devil?
Tonight, Anna thought she wouldn't be able to sleep.
Just like yesterday, she was alone, just like yesterday, she was bored, and just like yesterday, she used every novel she had already read to the point of losing interest to pass the time.
Anna thought she would have to rely on the drowsiness brought by simulation... Although yesterday it was more the fatigue after a good time that helped her fall asleep.
“...But it seems I've already fallen asleep.”
In a haze, Anna had no memory of falling asleep, and she even remembered the moment before she appeared here.
At that moment, she was staring at the screen, waiting for the simulation to refresh.
But the next second, she was already here, making Anna wonder if she had fallen under some illusion or if the simulator had updated with something new...
“So, where exactly is this?”
A gray haze, like mist, like water, as if she were at the center of the earth, as if she were in the universe.
Although her whole body seemed to be wrapped in something, she could move freely.
“Am I dreaming now?”
If she were really dreaming, then being this lucid, so lucid as to doubt whether she was dreaming... she had experienced this once before.
Then, Anna suddenly felt a sense of suffocation—
The next second, it was the familiar street again... the street she had lived on for a few days, where her memory was no longer blurry.
“Big sister, you're here again.”
A familiar golden-haired little girl appeared before Anna like a phantom, wearing the same smile she had seen before.
Anna was very familiar with the golden-haired girl before her... as familiar as she was with herself.
After all, that golden-haired girl looked exactly like her when she was a child, or as that person had said... she is me.
“So... Anna, can you tell me where this is?”
After a moment of silence, Anna asked this question to the “Anna” before her.
“Here? This is my home!”
“Anna” points to the house next to her... the house Anna was currently living in.
“Across the street is Helga's house!”
Then, “Anna” pointed to the house across the street.
“...Never mind.”
Anna felt both amused and exasperated, as this wasn't what she wanted to ask.
“You're really going to put a little girl on the spot like that?”
A familiar female voice suddenly appeared behind Anna, causing her to jump and shrink to the side.
But, Anna's shoulder was soon touched by a hand, and she felt as if her body was fixed in place, unmoving.
“Don't be so nervous.” The person's voice was so familiar, even though it was only the second time she had heard it, it still made Anna feel a sense of sadness and nostalgia.
“I won't hurt you.”
The person was still like mist, dispersing and condensing, then “facing” her.
The reason for the quotation marks was because when Anna looked at her, she always felt they weren't face to face, as if she was observing the person's side profile, or the back of the person holding a parasol.
“So... where is this?”
After noticing that the golden-haired loli “Anna” had disappeared, Anna asked her question again.
“Here? This is your dream.”
“...Can dreams be this lucid?” Anna found it hard to believe.
“Of course, I am a master of dreams, making you have a lucid dream is quite easy.” As she spoke, her tone seemed to carry a sense of pride.
This little bit of pride made Anna feel that the person before her wasn't so strange... at least the image of the riddle-spewing enigma from last time had lessened considerably.
“You said last time...” Anna recalled, “'Having learned part of Garland's past, it's time for you to embark on your journey. At the most critical moment, you will remember everything, and I will meet you again.'... With that said, I have even more questions to ask.”
“Is it about Garland? Or about me?”
“...Both, can you answer?”
“Sorry, I can't.” The person said, “showing” a sly smile.
...Anna was wondering if she saw it, felt it, smelled it... or heard it?
Some senses shouldn't be able to perceive a “smile,” but Anna's senses were telling her brain that she had “perceived” a “smile.”
This is really spooky... or is the person in front of me really a ghost?
“...Are you messing with me?”
“Sorry, sorry, but I have some small 'restrictions,' if I told you, it would be harmful to both of us, and I don't want to do something that's a total loss.” She clasped her hands together, speaking in an apologetic tone, then immediately “looked” at Anna.
“But, I can tell you some little secrets about your ancestors.”
“...Little secrets?”
“Want to know how your ancestor, 'William the Savior,' fell in love with an elf?”
“...No.”
This wouldn't help me know why I'm being hunted, and my intuition didn't tell me that this would help me know why I'm being hunted, so why should I know...
“Ah, Anna is so boring.” She seemed disappointed, but her tone didn't carry any disappointment, “But since you're here, why not listen to me tell the story?”
“...No, wouldn't that be a waste of time?”
“How is it a waste? You're in a sleeping state now, aren't you having trouble sleeping?” She laughed, “Let me see... it's actually because no one is around to do some physical exercise with you, Anna, you've become like this...”
“Shut up!” It's one thing to think about those bad things, but for her to say it out loud is something else!
“You, can you read my mind!?”
“I don't have that ability, I can only smell the scent of your desires.” She covered her mouth and giggled, the laughter making Anna feel nostalgic but also inexplicably irritated.
“No way, no way? Anna, are you really getting angry? Anna is so irritable now, not cute at all!”
...This kind of provocation immediately made Anna think of the little brats she encountered while serving as a border knight in the past six months, who loved to provoke others.
Those brats also liked to use this tone to provoke others, and once they provoked her, she used the “tell the parents” move to put those brats in their place.
Looking at the silhouette-like figure before her, although mysterious, her petite figure made Anna's mouth twitch.
I thought she was mysterious before, but from the way she's acting now, she's just a little brat!
Chapter 11 : This riddle person seems like a little devil
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