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Phew, we really had done a bunch of things just a few hours ago. We slew Elderlight, we killed aristocrats after humiliating them, we spooked the entire kingdom, and more!
And we even rescued some slaves, but just as many as we could possibly find. There were so many it left me perplexed. Just how normalized was this sick practice? I was getting tired of this cliché, but this world apparently didn’t.
After the entire thing, we escaped rather swiftly, but the soldiers followed us as much as they could. I was surprised by how many soldiers a small duchy had, but we did the kill and undead tactic of simply killing them and making them into undead, sending them back to the new squadrons right behind them.
What we did was a very big, disrespectful action. After all, killing important figures without a care in the world really felt nice, but I guess not many would take this kindly… I guess we could be something like terrorists, to an extent.
But we just did it anyway and then escaped. Now, I planned to get back to the Goblins and then pick them up and run away farther from their territory, in a place we could settle down and build up a small village for everyone. Maybe a small kingdom? Who knows?
I do still plan to continue my revenge, but it can take its time—no need to rush it as much as I would have wanted. There’s always time for us to do other things, but we’ll take care of the important things first, such as helping the slaves and the goblins.
Just when I thought I could relax for now and evolve on the way there, I was assaulted by Partner, who was needy for attention.
“Master!”
As I was holing myself inside a caravan, Partner rushed inside and dashed towards me.
“Partner? I am about to evolve….” I said.
“Sorry… But you said you were going to carry me!” She shouted.
“I did?!” I asked.
“Y-You did! You said you were going to carry me after everything ended….” She muttered while blushing.
“Carrying? But why would I do such a thing without reason? There’s no point in doing that-”
However, I was greeted by Partner’s puppy eyes, and as they were too sad, it almost broke my heart to see them.
“F-Fine…”
I held her body with my arms as if she were like my princess or something…
“You’re happy now?” I sighed while looking down at her.
“Hehe… Yeah… Let’s cuddle together….” She muttered as she hugged me back and threw me into the bed, where she jumped over me and began to hug me and rub her face onto my chest…
I guess she’s not going to let me evolve…
She was cuddling with me as if I had never given her affection before. She was already a few months old, but this girl felt like a very needy daughter at this point.
Come to think of it. I remember she used to be a skeleton… right, my own skeleton. And that time, when she evolved into a black skeleton, she looked super cool.
However, after that, she ended up evolving into a Zombie of sorts and then into this vampiric ghoul. What an interesting evolution tree… I could say she’s quite an amazing girl.
And now she’s all mellow with me, and her body had grown so mature too! Way too sudden! And I think she might look a bit how I used to look before when I was alive… maybe… To be honest, I am not too sure.
“Come on, Partner, I want to evolve….” I sighed.
“But Master, I want to spend… more time with you….” She said.
“But we always spend time together, don’t we?” I wondered.
“Not like this!” She shouted.
“Geez, you’ve grown way too mature too. I thought you had the mind of a toddler, but you can even speak eloquently now… Was your soul really just a mass of phantoms originally?” I muttered.
“I don’t remember, but… When I was born, the thing I knew was that you were my Master and that I had to follow Master everywhere….” Said Partner.
“I see… Perhaps you developed a more complex mind with each evolution, though being with us has probably helped you develop too….” I said.
“I love talking… with everyone! I can learn… a lot!” She said.
“Hm, indeed, you’ve learned a big couple of words with everyone. That time we spent with the goblins was also important… You’ve grown so big, my cute little Partner….” I sighed.
“Hehe… it’s all thanks to Master… I am working hard for you….” She said.
“I can tell… How about I upgrade your spear later on? I doubt I have any knack for forging, but maybe we could ask someone around the settlement of Goblins. There were some talented crafters… and if not, I think I could even create a specialized Undead weapon through forging,” I said.
“Ooh… I would love to… T-Thank you, Master… It… really… means a lot!”
Partner sometimes had a hard time speaking, but she still mainly spoke eloquently at this point. With some stuff that she sometimes struggles to say.
“I am happy that you’re happy then, dearie… You’re my first partner in this world, hence your name… Though I’ve realized it might be a bit simplistic… don’t you want a new name?” I asked her.
“Partner is good! Because I am master’s partner… it is a special name….” She said as she rubbed her face onto my chest, as we rested over a bed made of leather and hay.
“Alright then, Partner is Partner then,” I said.
Partner slowly got closer to me as she hugged me tightly.
“Master, can we stay like this forever?” she asked.
“Fufu, you’re sure a spoiled girl, aren’t you? Fine, let’s stay like this for a little bit,” I said.
“Master…”
“Hm?”
“Did you do anything weird with that dragon?”
Suddenly, Partner looked at me while pouting.
“Huh? Well… No, nothing happened. I stopped him before he went out of control,” I said.
“S-So he really tried to assault you!” She said angrily.
“Well, something like that… Don’t get angry with him….” I sighed.
“M-Master…!”
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