<~> Chapter 95I thought about Silva's story. How did I feel about it? She was a self-procimed killer and food reason, she's killed thirteen people before even being assigo Fae who had an issue with her killing people in front of her.

  But as horrible as this might make me, I couldn't bring myself to judge her that harshly. I wouldn't go so far as to say she was justified in killing those people but at the very least it was uandable. Maybe I wouldn't have felt this way in my old world, or even before... that night with Mark. But what the people from that barony were doing was horrible, systematically trig people to falling into debt and being sves through it.

  I also could hardly believe Baron Norrin Morrister was a saint if part of the reason for saving Silva was as a reward for killing Baron Julian Samlin, even if he was a rival in this world's abolitionist movement. Sure he trained her to be a bodyguard but it would have been a small step from turning her into an assassin, she seemed to have the temperament for it. It wouldn't be an unreasonable leap if he was happy someone murdered a rival.

  Things were a little too plex here, a little too grey. Perhaps it's just because this world is a bit more brutal than even my own. These are people who not only have to worry about each other but monsters and dungeons all the time as well. Murder ah is a much more frequent occurrence. From what I tell, while some monsters act like animals, most actively want to kill you. Unlike my world where the animals might kill you if you mess with them too much.

  And not that this is a justification for svery but I had no idea about the eics of it either. How much of this world's ey hinges on sve bor? Would the ey colpse if svery were abolished pletely or would it be able to withstand losing that bor force? Was there svery everywhere or just in this try? There are still just too many unknowns for me to deal with right now. I wasn't a moral paragon, being the hypocrite that I am owning three sves now but if I do want to support any kind of abolitionist movement I o know more about all of it.

  "So?"

  I looked up to see Silva with a questioning look on her face.

  "So do you trust me more now? I shared my story and you've just sat there quietly ever since I finished."

  Bel ughed and smiled warmly. "She does that sometimes, gets lost in thought, thinking about bigger picture things."

  I scratched the base of my horn. "I trust you. I was trying to put together how I felt about all of that. And why... you being someone who's killed people bothers me less than I feel like it should."

  Silva studied me closely. "People... not nobles?"

  I shrugged. "Nobles are people too. I don't particurly differentiate, other than by the individual's as."

  "Huh..." Silva looked at me like I was weird. Perhaps by her standards I am.

  Torien smiled. "Yeah, Lilith's weird. She cares about some things way more than most people do, and other things much much less. I've picked up on this but Lilith has hardly any respect for nobles and eves frustrated when often being pared to one."

  I furrowed my brow. "Do I really give off the impression that I don't respect them?"

  Torien looked at me ftly. "Yes. If it wasn't obvious by other things you've said, the fact that you just called the nobles a 'them' speaks more than you would think."

  "Right..." I didn't really know how to respond.

  Silva ughed. "Well, that makes things easier for me."

  Ma her own bowl aside. "Most people revere nobles and do whatever they to gain their favor. To most people, being hired by a noble is a ticket into a more fortable life. They wouldn't dream of being disrespectful to a noble, evehere isn't one present, that way there wouldn't be any ce of offending one. While you haven't said anything... btant about what you think of nobles, you noticeably speak about them without the 'proper' respect. Especially when pared to one yourself."

  I frowned. "That sounds like it could cause problems. I might have to ask you to help me with that."

  Man looked excited. "Sure! But... perhaps ter." She g Silva.

  Silva looked bad forth betweewo of us. "Do you really not know anything about nobles in this try? I didn't think you were a fner, you don't have any kind of at."

  Torien ughed. "You don't know the half of it."

  Silva quirked an eyebrow at that. Thinking about it I probably should tell her about myself more. Things will get plicated and fusing if I'm always asking questions in front of her. Perhaps saying I'm a world traveler but leaving out the in part is for the best at the moment. Baby steps.

  I rubbed the bridge of my nose. "So here's the thing. When you say I'm a fhat couldn't be more correct. I'm a [World Traveler] and I've only been here for about a month. A bit less even because of some duhings that happened. My [World Traveler] title actually transtes everything I speak to whatever nguage the person I'm talking to is speaking. I have a separate passive ability that lets me read and write anything I speak."

  She scoffs. "That's unfair, I still don't know how to read."

  Torien perks up. "I teach you. If you want to learn of course." Man looked at her sister as if she said something crazy.

  I nodded. "That might be a good idea. But ba topic, because of this there are huge gaps in my knowledge. There are things that I simply know nothing about. Where I came from there was no monsters, no csses, no magic. I'm only able to remember bits and piey own past, most of the information I have is just what my world was like, some history, and things like that."

  Silva looked me up and down. "You've only been here less than a month? How did you get so high leveled? You're the highest level in yroup by a det amount, nearly the same level as I am."

  "Well, things havely been easy since I've gotten here but I have a... quirk of my abilities that give me quite the boost in experience." I made eye tact with Bel for a moment a an wordless aowledgement to keep our race secret for the moment. I could tell Torien and Man caught on immediately as well.

  "Still, that's quite impressive," she said with a nod.

  "So that's what I'm willing to say about myself for the moment. I might tell you a little more about everything as time goes on but this whole situation was kind of a... st minute decision on my part. I talked about it with everyone beforehand but I make the final call in the moment after what happened."

  Silva gnced around the room. "And everyone was okay with welio the group?"

  I nodded and looked around to firm. "Everyone responded positively. I jumped the gun a bit in the end but everyone said it would be a good idea before I did it."

  The rabbitgirl looked around the room and smiled probably the most genuine smile I had seen on her yet. "Thanks guys... I'm gd that you seem to like me so much."

  "So, any questions for us?" I asked.

  "Sure." Silva looked around. "Whie is your girlfriend?" she asked with a smile.

  "We're all friends!" Mimi said excitedly causio face palm.

  I cleared my throat. "Mimi, she means lovers. I uhm. Bel, Man, and Mimi."

  Silva looked around with a surprised look to the room of blushing girls. "All three?"

  She looked over at Torien and winked. "That means you're avaible then?" Causing Torien to blush brighter than I had ever seehe fident catgirl I was used to seeing pletely shut down and stared at the ground.

  I ughed, not used to seeing Torien embarrassed like this. I suppose I've never seen anyone flirt with her before either though.

  "So... how's that work anyway? I've never heard of like... a whole group all being together like that."

  Bel smiled. "We share, take turns." She looked over at Man. "Help each other when we ." Then she looked at me. "But of course, we probably wouldn't have this arra if it wasn't for Lilith. It was her idea to all love each other as a group, rather than... a different arra."

  Silva quirked her eyebrow at that. "Does that mean me joining one or all of you... isn't off the table then?"

  "That's something we certainly sider, as long as everyone in roup is okay with the arra," I said looking around at my girlfriends. "Probably not tonight though," I quickly added. "This probably isn't something we should just jump into and I think all of us... have a lot of things to process about what we've talked about."

  "Right," Silva replied with a nod. "So baore... practical things. I should probably know how all of you fight and how you expect me to fight. I don't even know all of your csses."

  I nodded. "Right, well first off. I have a hybrid build between sword fighting and magic. I mainly use a two-handed cymore or a one handed longsword. Though currently..." I looked over at Mimi. "My sword sheathe has been filled with Mimi. How was it when I used your sword fainst that Featherjack?"

  "It was a lot less scary than I thought it would be to be used as a on. Though I don't knoould feel fighting against another sword or metal."

  "So... Mimi turn into a sword then? And this is her normal form?" Silva asked.

  "Oh no! I turn into lots of things!" Mimi then stepped off her bed and turned into a familiar debra. "See!"

  "That's... something. A shapeshifter? No wonder you keep her a secret. Are you sure she's not a demon?"

  I spoke seriously. "I know for sure Mimi is not a demon. In fabsp;all of us except for Mimi have the [Demon Hunter] title.

  Silva's eyes flickered bad forth between each of us. "Well, that's ohing to worry about I suppose. Not that everyone will be happy with you running around with a shapeshifting intelligent monster all the same."

  Mimi shifted back to her normal form and sat on the bed o me. "But... I'm not a monster am I?" she asked turning to me.

  "Hmm... Teically you're not. You're a, well, you're like me. Lets leave it at that."

  "Uh huh..." Silva said lookiweewo of us. "I suppose I see some things in on but you two don't look like the same thing at all. Wait, does that mean you shapeshift too?" she asked.

  "In a much more limited form, but yes," I answered. I held out my hand and used [Succubus Shifting] to ge the color of my fur tht pink up to my elbow. "It uses Mana but I maintain at least minor ges."

  She looked at my arm with fasation. "What else you do with it?"

  "Hmmm..." I hadn't experimented with it too much yet, I wasn't sure how much I could actually ge. "Let me see." I used the ability to remove my horns, leavih a hornless sheep head.

  "Woah." Bel looked at me with uhat looks weird. I don't like it."

  "Wait! Let me touch." Silva got up and cautiously stuck her hand through where the horn would be. "Woah, that's freaky. It's really gone."

  Once she backed off I reverted my head to its normal form to the relief of Bel, she was oddly a lot more turned off by it than I would expebsp;I guess Bel likes me horny. I ged a little at my bad pun.

  Silva sed down my body until she stopped at my crotch. "So like... it..."

  "Yes." I already kly what she was getting at so I just answered holy.

  She gulped. "Good to know..."

  Saine

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