I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? (WN)

The texture of the Snow Snake is thick and unique. If I could force myself to metaphor, would it be close to the gray layer between the salmon body and the skin? There is little odor and the taste is lighter.... No, I've never actually eaten salmon.

"Mmm, yummy no..."

Unexpectedly, a mepheline sipped the juice in such a way groaned chewy.

I am adding herbs that I have picked for a quick flavor change. This herb has a citrusy aroma and refreshing acidity. All right, let's split it a little...

Vanita, who was letting Mefri and I come and go with her gaze like she was in trouble with Mefri in her hand, mouthed to the juice like she had decided to do with Mefri's words.

"!!... Ooh, yummy..."

Don't you have to whine so much? If it is not delicious, will it be deliberately bought and cooked?

Snow snakes are delicious. It is an excellent ingredient that can be eaten in excess of badly cooked rabbit meat. Well, I'm sure snake food isn't very common.

"Mefri, can I have some herbs?"

Have the herbs split from Mefri. Even to Vanita, who was watching it, Mefri hesitated to offer herbs.

I purposefully juiced it because I intended to tell Vanita how delicious the snake was. I suppose you thought it would make no sense if you tried the herbaceous flavor.

"Oh, thank you"

Vanita, who received it, let her gaze back and forth several times between herbs and Mefri to get lost. That's how I talk to Mefri like I've decided to.

"... hey, where Mefri grew up, snake, were you eating? Always?"

To Vanita's question as if to look for a thread for conversation, Mefri turned to me for a moment, and a gaze like that.

No, I have trouble being seen with those eyes. Neither do I know where Mefri came from.

I didn't even know what Mefri grew up in. It's even unclear if she's really Lindar with a light black skin color.

When I first brought him here, I asked Mefri exactly what kind of life he had lived so far. But I still don't know the details.

What I learned was that she was being tapped into the art of getting away through the woods and mountains by operatives learning how to use magic as much as possible.

Answering Vanita's question herself, Mefri began to reply to Pompous and Vanita, as if she had noticed.

"I don't know if anyone else was eating it. But I'm always hungry... because snakes were the easiest meat to take"

Compared to rabbits, birds, etc., it's certainly easy to capture snakes as long as you find them. I used to look for snakes for the same reason.

"I've been eating other meats lately... but I think snakes taste better, I do"

"... well"

Vanita nods at first sight. Well, sure, Mefri's past isn't something you can ask in a very light-hearted way.

"What about Vanita?

"Huh?"

"What was Vanita eating?"

It was a question of concern. Now Vanita's in for a moment. That was a surprise that I didn't expect to be questioned by Mefri, which was a little exaggerated.

It's gone, but Vanita still has something to hide from me.

I haven't asked you again because I missed the time, but is that why he still doesn't want to talk about himself much?

"Oh, I... you know, studying manners, kind of cooking, to remember..."

I convince Vanita to say, oh, she was eating quite a sumptuous meal.

I was always hungry, and it would be terribly hard to tell Mefri right after I confessed.

Creepy silence is about to fall.

... the snow snake around the corner doesn't taste good.

"Maybe the opposite will happen in the future."

I had no choice, so I pinched my mouth. Huh? Explain lightly to the two people who tilt their necks in alignment.

"I'm still thinking about how you guys are going to spend your lives in the future, but I'm likely to welcome you as a member of the Lords' Hall. Especially Mefri, you. In order to welcome them, they will be given the necessary training to help them. Mefri, who already has the knowledge and experience of hunting, may learn to educate me. Instead, Vanita might be trained by the leadership for something."

Vanita and Mefli look at each other like they're surprised at each other. As such, he immediately dropped his gaze on the jaw in his hand.

... Well, this is the place.

Though both are likely to remain on hand, I am not going to bring Mefri and Vanita and their former slave children together on the boulder.

But we can't leave each other in a situation that keeps them scared of each other more than living in the same place.

Originally, children were collected from completely fragmented places. That's why the emotions between Mefri and Vanita and the others were complicated.

There is no hatred or resentment, even if there is fear that I might have been killed.

Under that circumstance, it was certain that Mefri was going to take them to where they were. At that point, Vanita said that the other children had no trust in Arxia anyway, and many of them therefore voluntarily followed Mefri, who let them escape from the prison.

It wasn't all driven by fear of Mefri.

I'm not going to say tame as if nothing happened.

I just need you to communicate with me as little as you need.

Unfortunately, when it comes to Vanita Individual and Mefri, it is good to assume that that minimum line has been achieved once and for all. Even if there was now awkward silence lying in between. What happens in the future is a matter for both of us.

After the snow melts, the river flows. It is not clear to me whether the river will become a valley or fertile.

... Somehow this spring has been all about something between someone and someone else.

I didn't know I'd be in a position to keep up the good work of my buddies.

Back then, when I was looking for snakes like every day, I didn't even think about it.