If that's how harmless people feel, then I should be like Luz, not in a cage, but outside the bar, and experience the concept of "free ......" with her. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Don't bother me again, human. You're interrupting half of my dreams. I'm angry right now. 」

「…… Really?"

Luz looked at my irritated frown, and raised the one to the left of a pair of slightly curved willow eyebrows.

She was in the passage that connected the entrances to the various beast cells.

The cage held all sorts of sleeping beasts, their breath strained and the air taut, but Luz didn't care to stir and bother with a pleasant tone.

"Oh roar, that's the right time for me to come. Tell me, little black, what kind of dream did you have?"

"I don't think I'm so familiar with you that I'm woken up by you, and instead of being angry, I'm happy to share interesting stories in my dreams. Besides, it's only because I'm like you that you have a crush on me. 」

Luz's little red lips smacked, and she raised her slender index finger to swing between us in denial.

"That's half right, not just because we look similar. Another point is that we are all "special beings" in our respective races. I can prove it. If I convince you to believe it, in exchange, tell me what dreams you had, okay?"

I didn't answer, just stared silently ahead without a smile.

Luz's suspicions were ignored, and she didn't feel at ease, and in order to keep the conversation going, she muttered to herself:

"I remember I mentioned that you are a beast, and the breed is 'Beast King'. However, you are very different from the princesses you have usually seen...... Look at your own hair color. 」

I tilted my head to one side, my eyes reflecting my own dark carbon-like hair.

The black hair was shoulder-length, parted and scattered after a long time. If you look closely, the hair is stained with countless white and gray dust and mucus secreted by the remaining flesh walls.

This black hair is not at all prominent among the human group, but-

In the group of beast king women, they are outliers.

Luz explained the appearance of the ordinary beast king's daughter-

Whether it is the dusty ruins of the city at dawn or the verdant green grasslands that expand in the morning sun, as long as the princess stands alone, the soft sparkle of her hair fluttering in the wind will attract the attention of onlookers.

The "Beast King" gives the impression of being isolated in the high places of light, and is worshiped by the beasts that follow her.

- Like a "god".

In comparison, I look very ordinary, and my eyes are not vibrant, and I am always ridiculed and indifferent by Luz, similar to what people often say, walking in the gray area, deliberately staying away from the ghosts of neon and hustle and bustle.

"But, although the little black man's eyes are cold and not vibrant, there is a faint glimmer of light hidden in the pupils. It was like a sharp dagger flickering in the night light. Mmmmmm Also, I like your slender red eyes like a cat, too. Unlike the 'Beast Queens' I've seen, your eyes are not as dazzling and noble as their rubies...... It's the kind of absolute existence that you want to reach out for but can't touch. Similarly, the orange-red flames are so dim that they can be extinguished in the wind if you don't pay attention to them. The kind of burning that is faint, not extinguished, not yielding. I'm quite fascinated. 」

「…… My eyes are like flames about to be extinguished, and the black hair that the Beast King Girl shouldn't have...... None of the above elements should exist in the ordinary 'Beast King', right? I don't have the concept of the word 'Beast King'. According to you, my qualities, which are well suited to the shadows of darkness, are not at all the center of the beasts' yearning...... Those are all the characteristics that I look out of place in 'The Beast King'. Well, I'll listen to it. What about you, the humans who call themselves 'Luz Bebel', how are you different from your own race?"

"Kuroko, are you finally interested in the topic?"

No, I have no interest in her topic. If it weren't for the fact that she is not boring "tasteless" today, but has a different aroma from the past, she would like to pretend to talk and smell closer.

…… That's all.

I squinted at Luz.

She has hair that is different from that of humans. The right half of the long straight hair was white and the left half was black. On the long white side, he grabbed a small bunch of red ribbons and tied them behind his ears, and on the black side, there was a white mask with half a smiling face left.

I don't see many human beings, so naturally there are few conditions to refer to. I took the limited information I had to compare it with Luz's features, and as she said, the black and white hair was very rare.

Luz flicked her waist-length hair as I looked at her, and deliberately crouched forward facing me. The black fence between our eyes, Luz felt so strong that it didn't seem to get in the way of reaching me.

Luz's slender eyelashes were thick and neat, born into her large eyes. My pupils were as deep as ebony reflecting my silhouette.

"Little Black, I've heard the 'Beast King' who occupies the radio station and calls himself 'King of Doom' say that the birth of the princess was due to the mutation (evolution) of the humans who were fortunate enough to exist in the Black Continent after eating the name 'Pan Fruit'. So, that's why the little black man will become the 'Beast King Girl'?"

"I don't know, I don't have many memories of the past in my head. 」

"If so, what do you remember?"

Seeing that I was silent, Luz deliberately leaned her cheek to stare at me.

The eyes were full of burning anticipation, and I couldn't stand the irritability it brings, so I reluctantly followed her wishes:

"The last memory is in ...... I woke up from a deep, deep darkness, and when I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was human beings. Humans found me, and all I was brought here. If what King Ei said is correct, I was a human being before becoming a princess, and I can have a normal conversation with you without barriers, and I can explain it by understanding the common sense and language of human beings today...... Although the scope of comprehension is wide, it is determined by the amount of "knowledge" in "memory...... However, I don't have any memories of my time as a human being, and I have no memory of what I have done before, who I am, what I do, what I do, and so on. It can be said that after becoming a princess, she also becomes an existence that does not understand how she was born. Therefore, if the 'Doom King' who knows how he was born is a different breed from me, I may not be the race of the 'Beast King' you say. 」