The Incompetent Noblewoman Marries the 'Devil of the Far East' as a Substitute Bride—Told by Her Parents to 'Die in Place of Your Sister,' She Left the House, but Her New Family Turned Out to Be Wonderful and She's Happy - Episode 1.43
munch munch
Crispy…
“Eh…?”
In front of me, there was a little girl.
A girl with a bobbed haircut, wearing a bright red kimono.
The eyes are narrow like a fox’s. The height is around 100 centimeters, give or take.
“Um, um…”
In the girl’s bobbed hair, something that looks like a cookie is being held.
He was gnawing at it with single-minded determination, like a young squirrel.
Poke poke.
“Eh…? Kya! Wh-what…? A sheep…?”
A fluffy, fuzzy sheep was right in front of me.
She bumps her head against me with a little nudge.
“munch munch.”
Poke poke.
What… what are these kids and this sheep…
“Haai Nee-san will answer for you”
Floooat… A beautiful lady descended from the sky.
The kimono is coming undone.
It’s not even at the level of just being disheveled anymore. My chest is just completely exposed.
The obi is so loose that my legs are sticking out all the way to the tops of my thighs.
“J-just a nymphomaniac…”
“Excuse me. Even though I’m your demon sister~”
“That voice I heard inside me before… was it you, sister…?”
“Yeah. That, sis♡ And then…”
Ta-da! My sister spreads her arms wide.
“The true identity of my sister is… Nue-san!”
“Nue… Nue-san… is that… mine…?”
“Y-yeah. It’s my sister, Nue-san, you know. And then—”
With a swoosh, Nue-san flies through the sky and descends to the ground.
“This little bobbed-hair one here is a Zashiki-warashi. And this sheep-like one over here is a TĹŤtetsu.”
All of them… were the youkai who granted me special powers.
But… why are all three of you… right in front of me…?
“Because this is inside the mausoleum, you see?”
“Ancestral shrine…? Mine?”
“That’s right! Your mausoleum… within the spirit sword, Arataka.”
My mausoleum… a spirit sword?
But… it’s strange.
The mausoleum was supposed to be a crystal structure, wasn’t it…?
“Ordinary mausoleums are all crystal-like, but the mausoleums of people with strong souls take the form of tools. Your soul is exceptionally strong. Therefore… it took the form of a legendary treasure.”
The legendary Noble Phantasm… the Spirit Sword, Arataka, is in my mausoleum…
“Because it uses an incredible amount of spiritual power, it usually resides within you.”
Unlike other equipment-type ability users, it seems that the reason Rei Byou is not always present is because it consumes a lot of spiritual power…
I… had other things I wanted to ask, so I’ve decided to ask.
“Is this really inside the mausoleum…?”
“Really. A mausoleum is essentially a crystallized form of the soul. In other words, this place is… kind of like your heart.”
So… it means I got to meet the youkai I’ve been keeping inside my body…
I bow my head to the three of you.
“Thank you for always lending your support. Thanks to you, we have been able to help many people.”
For example, TĹŤtetsu…-san.
Thanks to his ability to kill other abilities, we were able to grant the parasitic black-clad individuals the power to control abilities.
For example… Zashiki-warashi.
“Thanks to you, Satoru-sama didn’t die from bl00d loss, right?”
“munch munch.”
To not have died from that much bl00d loss is nothing short of a miracle.
This child… lent me their strength.
“And… Nue-san. Thanks to you, we were able to avoid the surprise attack by Suitora Suiko.”
Deeply, I bow my head to all of you.
If these people weren’t here, I would… myself, and…
“I wasn’t able to help Satoru-sama. Thank you so much…!”
Teko-teko, the Zashiki-warashi is approaching.
And then, pat them on the shoulder.
Rubbing… TĹŤtetsu-san is nuzzling against my cheek.
“It seems everyone likes you ♡ Well, it’s actually your past life and the life before that.”
The two of them are nuzzling against my cheek.
Indeed, having past lives right in front of me feels quite strange.
“Speaking of which, even I have fallen head over heels for Rei-chan~♡ From now on, I’ll be giving you my full support, no holds barred!”
Power… Nue-san’s power.
“Um, excuse me… Nue-san. Could you tell me about your special ability? It’s the imitation copy, right?”
“That’s right! But… there are conditions.”
After all, it’s not like you can copy it without limits.
“Nueno ability is to copy the abilities of the youkai it eats.”
“Devoured… a demon…?”
“Yeah. For Nue-san to do a mimicry copy, she has to devour the spiritual power of the other youkai… to be precise, she has to take a big bite out of it.”
I felt like one mystery had been solved.
The condition for imitation copying is to devour the opponent.
But, there’s no way I could eat a demon.
So… the Nue users couldn’t copy their opponent’s powers, and as a result, they were treated as useless…
“But, I was able to copy Hyakuharu-sama and Satoru-sama abilities…?”
“Of course. You… have the power to kill abilities, right?”
Could it be……?
“Mr. TĹŤtetsu power… Can he mimic the abilities of those he kills with his ability-killing technique…?”
“Exactly! Even though Nue-san’s ability doesn’t mean much on its own, when combined with TĹŤka and TĹŤtetsu, it becomes the ultimate combination where you can copy the abilities of those killed with the ability-killing power as your own!”
Preventing the opponent’s special ability directly leads to increasing our own hand, which is amazing.
“TĹŤtetsu and Nue, you need to pull these two super rare yokai to complete this unbeatable combo. Well, to begin with, having two supernatural abilities is almost impossible anyway.”
Tougetsu and Nue, the perfect match combination, is unexpectedly within me…
“This astronomical, miraculous combination exists because of your past life… because of Zashiki Warashi-chan.”
Zashiki Warashi ability is super luck.
Because I have this, I was able to get such an amazing, miracle-like combination…
“After all… everyone is amazing.”
“No, that’s not it, Rei-chan. Satoru-chan said it too, right? Just having strong power doesn’t mean anything. It only has meaning when used correctly.”
Indeed… yes, you said so.
“Your sister is really happy to have come to you. And TĹŤteki and Zashiki-warashi also think it’s great that you are in your next life form. Right?”
Uh-huh, both of them are nodding.
Somehow, even though I was praising myself, I was really happy.
“Well then! Now that we’ve gone over everything, it might be time to wake up soon.”
“Awakening…? Oh, right! What’s happening to me…?”
After the battle with Suiko, I found myself in the mausoleum.
“You were so tired after that that you fell asleep in Satoru-chan arms. It’s so hot, isn’t it?”
Whoosh, whoosh.
Zashiki-warashi is whistling and teasing.
Tougetsu-san was lying down and yawning on the spot.
“Your mausoleum consumes quite a bit of your own spiritual power when exposed. Even though you have nearly limitless spiritual power, leaving it out is dangerous. So… I rarely get to see you, but…”
“Is that so…?”
What a pity…
“But it’s okay! If we kiss again, the yin and yang will be complete, and we can take out the spirit sword♡”
Chu, chu-chu…
I can’t do that over and over again… it’s too embarrassing…
“You’re so innocent♡ Well, once we get closer, we’ll probably end up kissing so much that we’ll get bored of it. But for now, it’s fine.”
Suu… a white mist envelops the surroundings.
“Alright, see you later”
Bun bun! Zashiki-warashi waves both hands.
Tougetsu-san the glutton said, “Baa…”
I… deeply bowed my head to the three of them.
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