novelzi Chapter 120
Chapter 120
High Elf Nature
Mara-san and I went around, talking to the High Elves, and they all seemed to snap out of it quickly. As expected of High Elves, how efficient.@@@@
Those who realized what had happened started explaining it to the others, and since their numbers were small, everyone had regained their senses in no time. I’m glad.
“Ah, how cute... a new life.”
“I wonder if it’ll slightly prolong our existence?”
By the way, everyone had readily accepted me. It even felt like I was being welcomed. And I’m afraid to ask just how much this “slightly” they’re talking about is.
“...Maybe we didn’t need to hide her so desperately, with this reaction. ...No, we were under mental interference, it might have reached Schelmelhorn sooner, this was probably for the best.”
Mara-san muttered this, lost in thought, her hand on her chin.
“B-But my Father-shama’s the Demon Lord. He’s not a High Elf, you know...?”
Everyone was welcoming me so warmly that I decided to confess. They were surprised to hear that my father was the Demon Lord. Th-That’s right...
“But High Elves can be born even if they’re half-breeds!”
“...Eh?”
But their reasons for being surprised were different from what I’d expected. Apparently, they’d believed that half-breeds would be born as Elves. And so, to protect their species, the High Elves from long ago had forbidden interactions with other races and had even cast a curse.
But I’m definitely a High Elf. They said they could feel it, just by looking at me. I could sense it too, vaguely.
And so, it seemed like everyone was most surprised by the fact that I was a High Elf. “Everything we believed in... it was all a lie!?”, right? It’s like finding out that Santa Claus doesn’t exist. Or maybe not.
“That being said, our incredibly low birthrate hasn’t changed...”
“To simply live, in harmony with nature, until the end. That’s our sole purpose.”
Apparently, those who weren’t interested in the outside world still hold this belief. No matter what anyone does, they’re not even interested. It was true that they emanated almost no human presence, as if they were one with nature.
Those who wanted to spend the rest of their lives in the outside world, on the other hand, they had their own will. Mara-san said that maybe those with the purest blood, who’d only ever interacted with their own kind, were the former, and those who were a little different were the latter. Or maybe it’s the other way around, we have no way of knowing.
“I’ve developed desires. I’m a High Elf who has sinned, in a way. I’ve grown tired of these seemingly eternal lives.”
She murmured, “Would it be inappropriate to say that I envy Yennaliearl, a little?” And then she, and the other High Elves who shared her opinion, lowered their eyes.
“...You can all do as you please, but first, we have to do something about that. Think about that, later.”
Gil-san said this after a moment of silence. That’s right, the patriarch and the Demon King were still fighting!
“I thought it was going to be an all-out war with the High Elves, so I guess we’ve avoided the worst-case scenario.”
“An all-out war?”
We then finally explained why we were here, and what we were prepared to do. We should have told them sooner!
“...I see. But even if that were the case, we don’t have the power to fight, you know?”
Mara-san said that they could defend themselves, so we wouldn’t be able to eliminate them, but that’s about it. Apparently there were only two who were suited for offense, the patriarch and Yenna-san. It’s a parent and child thing, I thought, randomly.
“Hmm, so that means there’s no one here who can...”
Gil-san trailed off, and Mara-san, picking up on his words, answered bluntly:
“There isn’t. Unless those two decide to stop fighting, or until there’s a winner.”
It seemed like this situation was even more serious than we thought...! F-Fa-Faaather...!