The Hero Who Became a Monster Girl Will Never Fall to Evil

The greatest luck in a person’s life is to discover their mission in the middle of their life, when they are still in their ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) prime.

What is regrettable is that most people bustle through their whole lives, suffer countless setbacks and hardships, and still do not know what they are suited to do.

Beneath the collapsed ice pit, Vieya suddenly asked, “How long have you been doing this?”

“Ever since I left the Hero Squad.”

Aurora closed her eyes, as if recalling. “We were a seven-person squad. The captain and vice-captain went missing; only I and four other good-for-nothings were left. If we did not find our own way out, we could only wait to die.”

“...What about them?” Vieya paused. From what she remembered, Aurora was the one in the old Hero Squad who made the most trouble and loved pranks.

When pushed, Lilian and the others would gang up and stuff Aurora into a sack and beat her.

Although they were always fighting and bickering, the squad’s atmosphere had been lively.

“I do not know. We all went our separate ways. They walked their sunny roads; I walked my single-plank bridge.” Aurora’s tone sank a little. “After the squad disbanded, we hardly contacted one another... No!” She suddenly became alert and turned to Vieya. “The sky is about to fall—why are you asking about this now?”

What a sight!

Your teammates are out there facing life-and-death torture, and you still have the leisure to slowly care about gossip that does not concern you!

In Aurora’s imagination, the white-haired girl of justice—upon learning their organization had prepared thoroughly for this operation and was determined to wipe out the ark—would be thrown into chaos, panic, and rush back to the ice surface, eager to help her companions out of the life-or-death crisis!

As they say, haste makes mistakes.

If the white-haired girl panicked and exposed herself, Aurora could take advantage of the gap and seek a chance to turn the tables, hee hee.

But...

“Aren’t they your friends? Aren’t you at all anxious?”

“Shut up. I am thinking. How to eliminate you as an unstable factor—imprison, induce sleep, or give obedience drugs... pick one.” Vieya said calmly.

“Please no, I have actually been very good and obedient!” Aurora raised her hands in surrender.

“You cannot kill the miller’s donkey after the grinding is done! I already told you everything you need to know!”

She hung her head, wounded and pitiful like a captured rooster after a defeat, but inside she counted the moments until the ice would collapse completely.

“If I must choose, can I go find a place to sleep myself? I promise I will not cause trouble. You know my home; I am scared.”

“Really? I do not believe you.”

“I would have to be insane to mess with someone who knows my actual home address!”

Aurora spoke with the earnestness of someone taking an oath.

Suddenly!

A block of ice dozens of meters across collapsed from the ceiling and struck between the two of them, violently separating them.

At the same time!

The ice under their feet split open, and falling ice and boulders plunged into the pool like a rain of stones.

“Bleh bleh bleh, I was actually lying to you just now~”

Aurora’s face changed in an instant. After talking that long, she was sure that as long as she did not fall into the other’s hands, her sister would be fine.

That stinking white hair might be mean, but she was not the kind of villain who did everything evil.

Seizing the moment, Aurora leapt into the pool like a fish returning to the sea and vanished in an instant.

After a long while.

The collapse at the top of the ice pit grew increasingly severe, but below it fell silent; apart from the rumbling there was no extra sound.

Everything was so pure.

Vieya watched the pool slammed by ice and stone, and softly asked, “Mirage demon, this time should be enough, right? Is the psychological suggestion on Aurora completed?”

“It is enough... this psychological suggestion has been reinforced repeatedly; it should last about one shíchen. It will automatically dissipate after she escapes along the hidden current. Even if she decides to come back after escaping, she will not make it in time.”

“Good.”

Vieya exhaled lightly. Her body gradually liquefied; although she maintained a human shape, her whole body became a liquid sky-blue like a wild slime.

A slime girl can expand her body; as long as she has sufficient mana support, she can become a giant and stand on the earth.

This was Vieya’s first attempt to use the monster-girl trait while also using the Hero’s power.

A monsterized slime girl bolstered by the Hero’s power is invincible.

“You... you are not human? You are a monster girl?”

The pearl-sized mirage demon gasped in shock; it had never imagined that such a powerful human would in fact be a monster girl in disguise.

Monster girls—whether on the demon side or the human side—are treated as the lowest existences. On this land that reveres strength, weakness is original sin.

And monster-girl races are many and mixed—cat-ear girls, dog-ear girls, lizard girls, and so on—different groups rarely unite.

Weak and disunited; even gods cannot save them.

Most crucially, monster girls possess intelligence, but limited intelligence; their brains are dull. Many adult monster girls are not as clever as a ten-year-old human child.

How sweet, how sweet.

With such intellect, even a juvenile mirage demon would laugh.

“Hahaha... hic.”

“What are you laughing at?”

“I laugh at my low intellect, for having eyes but not seeing! Only because you exposed your identity do I get to catch a glimpse of your elegant mystery and power!”

Under Vieya’s blade-sharp gaze, the mirage demon was both sensible and sincere.

“If you want to live, then do exactly as I say.”

Vieya extended a finger and dripped a drop of slime onto the mirage demon; the sky-blue viscous droplet quickly enveloped the pearl-sized mirage demon completely.

“As long as the slime remains, no matter how far apart we are, in a single thought I can decide your life or death.” Vieya exaggerated, speaking with a bluff that was hard to tell true from false—after all, the mirage demon could not tell.

She constantly felt that something unsettling lurked on the ice; that feeling made her skin crawl despite herself.

Logically, nothing on this land should be able to threaten her... so where did this groundless unease come from?

This world was like a cursed stage; everyone was a marionette, helplessly moving toward the predetermined ending.

Vieya felt a slight headache, as if her brain were protesting after overindulging in drink.

Heh, it seems I will have to quit drinking in the future... after all, I have a daughter now; I cannot keep setting a bad example.

Some responsibilities must be borne alone.

Shaking her head, Vieya refocused on the immediate problem; various fragments of thought filled her mind at an explosive pace.

She began to use her authority power to balance the crazily colliding fragments in her head. Strange, strange...

“Are you... are you all right?” the mirage demon asked cautiously.

Vieya did not respond. In a daze she remembered the “script,” as if the fate of every living being on this land were written in that script.

And she...

Seemed to have seen that script somewhere—hmm?

Why do I not remember?

Vieya pondered for a long time. For now she could not summon Flaviel to talk.

She took a deep breath and calmed herself.

Your daughter is still waiting for you.

Vieya closed her eyes to rest for a moment, then reopened them and returned to her usual composure.

“Later we will go out together. You will need to disguise yourself as another me, and follow all my orders.”

“Me?” the mirage demon blinked.