>>6097543“No, Earth doesn’t have them! I mean, it’s pretty cool, but I keep having to remind myself I’ll have to get used to this world. Remind myself that I haven’t even graduated High School and my job now involves talking with real-life slimes. He was pretty nice too! A Stranger, of course, since I was interrogating him, but it hasn’t fully set in yet.”
“You get used to it,” Asher calls out with a deadpan face and is promptly ignored.
“Anyway, after you left, I went to the Cathedral and gave the Changeling and man to the priestesses before I was escorted to some dungeon that’s apparently under the Church because that’s normal. A couple of inquisitors said my insights about Earth might help with a few interrogations of captured Strangers. Apparently, every arsonist group had at least one, and a few were captured or killed. I didn’t get much out of most, but I learned today my sword makes it so torture doesn’t phase me, so that’s cool, I guess,” Her inflection makes you believe she thinks that’s anything but cool.
“Ah,” However, you aren’t socially adept enough to know what to say to comfort(?) her.
“Mhm, yeah, the only one I gained anything from was from a Japanese man, the slime, who willingly handed himself over to the Inquisition. Said he was a double agent to help us out, and we just didn’t know it yet, he apparently went along with the arson plot to sneak into the Stranger meeting, and after he completed the burning of a manor, he said he made sure everyone evacuated beforehand I didn’t ask how but the claim was verified, he was told the location of the meeting for Stranger recruits.”
“Why would someone do all that? What does a Stranger have to gain? None of that makes sense.” You question.
“It didn’t at first. I’m not sure it does now. But he claimed to be a part of the ‘League of Heroic Monsters,’ a group of Strangers who’ve been brought to this world as monsters yet have the same goals I first did. To be a hero.”
“But that doesn’t fully explain why any of them would willingly work with the Inquisition. They could be killed by any passing adventurer or guard simply for being monsters, must less for being Strangers.”
“Well, he said the group has been around for a while, a few years at least while living in hiding, and that once they were approached by a ‘stereotypical villain character,’ they decided now was the time to change things. They did that by having a member go undercover before snitching to the Inquisition with valuable information in hopes of being given a pardon.”
“Were they?”
“Depends on how tomorrow goes, that’s when the meeting is by the way. I’m going too since I’m clearly a Stranger and can definitely sneak in as a supposed member of his league.”
“But you’re not a monster?”
“From this point forward, I’m a pretty vampire girl.”
“Whatever, I’m going to go to that meeting with you.”
“Okay, I’ll wake you up when we have to go.”
“That’s it?” You question.
“Yeah, why?”
