Hayasaka Ai: "@Megumi Kato, you're not standing behind me right now, are you?"
Megumi Kato: "I'm at home."
After confirming that, Hayasaka Ai finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But she still couldn't shake the eerie feeling.
Her thoughts began to race.
"So there are not only superhumans like Rei Ao at school..."
Ever since joining this mysterious chat group, it felt like her entire worldview had been completely overturned.
Yatogami Tohka: "You guys... are you humans?"
Tohru: "I'm a dragon. A real dragon."
Frieren: "Elves are a type of human too... right?"
Sui: "Emm... I think you're just a pure elf."
Frieren: "But humans and elves can have children together. Doesn't that mean we're the same kind of life form?"
Thinking about it like that, it actually made sense.
Misaka Mikoto: "Emmm, you guys are going to scare the new people away, talking about dragons and elves."
Hayasaka Ai: "Are you joking? Or are you role-playing?"
How did this suddenly go from science fiction to pure fantasy?
Rei Ao: "Hayasaka Ai, calm down."
Rei Ao: "They're neither joking nor role-playing. Tohru is indeed a dragon—and she's our family's dragon maid."
Rei Ao: "In the future, the group may even welcome more non-human beings. It's good to get used to it early."
She opened her mouth but couldn't find the words.
She really wanted to complain about having a giant dragon maid…
Because apparently, dragons actually exist in this world!
What could be more shocking than that?
No wonder that dragon girl called Tohru said she could burn her to ashes with just one breath.
Thinking about it, Hayasaka Ai felt like she had narrowly escaped death.
Luckily, she had never shown any ill will towards Rei Ao.
Otherwise, either "invisible girl" Megumi Kato or "dragon girl" Tohru could have easily finished her off.
One could silently slit her throat.
The other could incinerate her into dust.
Yatogami Tohka: "Elves? @Frieren, @Sui, are you also elves?"
Frieren: "Oh? Looks like the new girl is also an elf."
Yomogawa Ayame: "Looks like another elf has joined the chat."
Rei Ao: "No, what she calls 'elf' is different from what you think."
Blizzard from Hell: "What's the difference?"
Rei Ao: "Sui and Frieren are traditional elves with pointy ears."
Rei Ao: "But Yatogami Tohka and the elves from her world are special beings who possess unique powers. Most of them are actually transformed from humans."
Yatogami Tohka: "You're saying… Elves are transformed from humans? How can that be?"
Rei Ao: "I'm simply stating a fact."
Rei Ao: "Most of the elves in your world were once humans who fused with Spirit Crystals. You, however, are a pure elf born from a Spirit Crystal."
To be more precise, they were created by the Spirit of Origin, Mio Takamiya.
Yatogami Tohka: "..."
Stella: "I don't understand what you're all talking about."
Shiba Miyuki: "It's probably terminology from Tohka's world. It's normal if you don't get it."
Rei Ao: "Forget it, let's not get too deep into that now. @Yatogami Tohka, where are you right now?"
Yatogami Tohka: "…Neighboring World."
Rei Ao paused in thought.
The Neighboring World.
It was the casual domain of the Spirit of Origin, Mio Takamiya.
A dimension layered over reality, where spirits originated.
The Neighboring World covered the entire Earth.
Spirits normally stayed in the Neighboring World and entered a dormant state.
When a spirit transferred to the Neighboring World, they would naturally fall asleep.
They would only awaken when summoned to the real world—causing devastating Spacequakes.
Thus, by right, spirits in the Neighboring World should be asleep.
Rei Ao: "Why are you still able to think?"
Yatogami Tohka: "I don't know…"
Yatogami Tohka: "After suddenly entering this strange place, my mind just became active again."
Erika: "Newbie originally couldn't think at all?"
Rei Ao: "Simply put, she's trapped in a place that 'seals' spirits."
Yotsuya Miko: "...Seal?!'"
Sakurajima Mai: "Did something bad happen to the newbie?"
Misaka Mikoto: "Do you need help?"
Yatogami Tohka: "..."
Yatogami Tohka felt confused.
Yatogami Tohka: "Aren't humans supposed to hate spirits?"
Kasuga Hijiri: "We don't know the human-spirit relationship in your world, but in ours, you're just beings from another realm. Why would we hate you?"
Aihara Enju: "Um, why do spirits get hated by humans?"
Rei Ao: "Because spirits randomly materialize from the Neighboring World into the human world—and their appearance causes Spacequakes."
Rei Ao: "Just imagine Spacequakes as large-scale earthquakes."
Hayasaka Ai: "Just appearing alone can cause earthquakes?! That's…"
Thinking about it carefully, it was horrifying.
An unpredictable disaster, anywhere, anytime.
Even worse than natural earthquakes that could at least be somewhat predicted.
Busujima Saeko: "No wonder humans would hate spirits—even if it's not their fault."
Yatogami Tohka: "…I don't understand. Why?"
Why would spirits bring disaster to humans?
Why were they forcibly transferred into the human world?
Frieren: "Rei Ao, you should know why, right?"
Yatogami Tohka: "You know?"
Rei Ao: "Because the one who created the spirits—the Spirit of Origin made it happen deliberately."
Elf and Spirit are the same in Chinese…
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