As soon as she thought of this, the slightly dispirited little succubus immediately reappeared, making the silver-haired beauty pause for a moment in surprise.
Eh? She hadn’t canceled her transformation herself, so how…
“Your magic supply was interrupted, right? Because you just felt there was no point in transforming anymore.”
Lynn speculated from the side, making the reverted silver-haired beauty blink in amazement.
Oh… wow.
Lynn, this guy, could he possibly read minds? How could he even tell that?
Uh… or maybe she just showed everything on her face.
But, needing magic to maintain the transformation—yeah, that actually seems true. Apparently… she really can’t transform indefinitely after all.
Now, this left Keti a bit disappointed.
Of course, she didn’t actually want to stay in that pink-haired succubus form forever, but since maintaining the transformation required magic, that meant it definitely consumed magic power, and her own reserves weren’t very high to begin with.
In other words, no matter what, this newly discovered skill could only provide her with short-term help.
Still, for battle, that should be enough. The rest—Keti didn’t care much.
However…
“Relax, relax. I think my earlier guess was right. The reason you’re just a shell right now is only because you let that succubus escape. If you’d finished her off right then, little kitten, maybe you’d have gained full power by now.”
Seeing Keti look a bit down, Lynn kindly reached out and rubbed her head, comforting her like this. Who knew, after hearing that, Keti’s eyes lit up with stars, full of energy again!
… Finish her off directly? The way to absorb power is to eliminate the other party?
Keti pinched her chin. Uh… but, hadn’t she already finished off quite a few monsters in the dungeons before? If she could absorb the power of things she defeated, then—
So many dungeon bosses, especially that Augujadel from the Land of Beasts, she’d basically soloed all of those bosses, and yet, never gained any new power from them?
“No way… If that was the case, I could turn into so many dungeon mobs and bosses, wouldn’t I?”
“Yeah… Dungeons probably don’t count.” Lynn shook his head. Mainly, monsters in dungeons were usually pretty big, and not even humanoid.
Especially Augujadel, the one little kitten soloed—the size of that thing…
If little kitten could turn into him, wouldn’t she literally burst out of her own skin? The size difference from shrinking to growing, just imagining it was scary.
“I’m not sure of the exact method either. Maybe… when we catch another succubus, or some other demon, you could try it out.”
“As for who can be absorbed… hmm… by the way, little kitten, have you ever killed any humanoid, intelligent demons? Or… have you killed a person?”
Lynn asked casually again, nearly giving Keti a fright. The silver-haired beauty choked on her own spit, and only after a while did she wipe the sweat from her forehead.
Facing her nemesis’s wild questioning, she suddenly didn’t know how to answer.
N-no way.
Wasn’t this guy living in the imperial capital too? And wasn’t he just a little instructor at the magic academy?
Why did it sound like, coming from his mouth, killing people didn’t require paying with your life—like it was no big deal!
Clearly just a local little Karami, pretending to be a Brahmin.
How could she… how could she possibly have killed someone!
Phew… Don’t think just because you’re an adventurer you can go around killing people at will!
Although that kind of thing does happen easily, the silver-haired beauty was a kind soul who never intended to harm anyone.
As for demons, ah… cough cough… Well.
How should she put this?
She, she hadn’t really run into them much, and besides… in most previous battles, it was Alice and Sylvia doing most of the damage, and at most, they’d just injure or drive the demons back, rarely did they ever pursue them to the end.
If you were talking about personally killing a demon—no, she really hadn’t…
“I could never kill someone! Uh… and not a demon either, can you please watch your wording, it’s like you’re interrogating me…”
The silver-haired beauty waved her hands frantically, and Lynn could only shake his head helplessly.
“Well, then, I’m not sure either. We’ll just have to take it as it comes.”
“Mm… Yeah, let’s do that, I won’t dwell on it. It’s not like I’d ever dare to really kill someone, and demons are hard to find anyway. Let’s just consider it a temporary disguise ability for now. Still… it is pretty weird.”
Keti pondered for a moment, then turned back to her nemesis and asked, “I’ve never noticed I had such a strange ability before, why is that? Are there… others with the same thing as me? Could it be some kind of magic?”
“Hard to say, I really can’t tell. I’ve never seen it before either, but… my gut says this isn’t some magic you can learn, but more like… an innate gift? It just has really strict conditions to trigger, so… little kitten, you just never discovered it after all these years.”
“Mm.”
Keti nodded thoughtfully, her mood gradually brightening. Well, no matter what, it was her own special ability! Even Lynn had never seen anything like it, so it was a rare resource!
Besides, uh… right, the silver-haired beauty suddenly remembered something else. “Lynn, how are those two students? Hiss… When the explosion happened, they weren’t hurt, were they?”
“I’d already rescued them ahead of time, so they weren’t injured by the explosion. But… they did get plenty of other injuries, and it seems they’ve completely lost their memories from the past few days.”
“They can’t remember anything about what happened. I had people treat them that very night, then sent them home.”
Lynn’s reliable words made Keti instantly breathe a sigh of relief. Whew… That’s good, that’s good.
Otherwise, if they’d stayed missing overnight, their parents would have been worried sick.
“Honestly, little kitten, you have some nerve even bringing up that explosion! I really have to lecture you now! Hmph, you almost caused a huge disaster, you know?!”
“If I hadn’t regained my senses, we’d both be lying there with massive burns! The kind healing magic can’t even fix! Tsk… Plus, there’s another big problem!”
“Uh… Eh? Wh-what big problem…”
Watching Keti acting all serene, Lynn finally couldn’t hold back from grumbling, making the silver-haired beauty embarrassed as she hung her head, knowing she’d done wrong.
After a moment, she nervously asked again.
“That 500,000 dinar magic pouch… was burned up in the fire. All the money inside is gone, and that abandoned factory was actually Gang property. You’ll probably have to pay for it too, little kitten. So, how will you cover the cost~?”
“Eh? N-no-no… but, wasn’t that 500,000 the ransom for me? Didn’t you… give it to me directly?”
“Hm? Who said I gave it to you? That was just a prop, using real money so nobody would suspect anything. But if you don’t keep it safe… we’ll just have to assume Miss Keti pays for the loss herself~”
“What?!”