Scarlet

I think back to my interactions with her before realizing that I do kind of treat her like a little sister.

Huh.

Good thing it’s impossible for her to be a changeling in disguise or something, since she’s the daughter of Blue and clearly has his inherent skills. And changelings can’t have inherent skills.

Even Tar confirmed it almost right away after meeting her when he mentioned the smell changelings have that she clearly doesn’t have. A smell that can’t be covered up.

Which reminds me that I still haven’t seen the councilwoman since that day despite how long it’s been… makes me wonder if she’s avoiding me or something.

You wouldn’t have anything to do with that, would you Tar?

He doesn’t say anything.

Yep. That councilwoman is absolutely a changeling.

Which is terrifying considering that she’s a councilwoman.

Oh, right. Back to the topic of the conversation.

I hear Tar snort in amusement.

It’s good that there aren’t any changelings on campus. Although I don’t know how they’d even get on campus in the first place.

But what about the orphans that went missing from Rothwell City? I remember Belle mentioning hearing Sage talk to Allen about that at some point.

I wasn’t sure why he wouldn’t tell me about it, since I was the one who found them in the first place, but if they really were changelings…

So were they?

Tar doesn’t answer.

Well, shit. Now I’m beginning to wonder just who my biological father really is if he can get so many Class III changelings to come to Earth just to protect me.

Or maybe one of the Demon Lords just owes him a favor? Because generally only the Demon Lords or the Demon King from what I’ve learned in class can actually order around the changelings who are on Earth.

Something they learned from a changeling they’d captured before.

I really can’t see a Knight of Humanity having a kid with a Demon Lord, so he’s out automatically. Plus, from what Tar has told me, and what I’ve learned in class about the demon nobility, it would be a massive faux pas for a demon noble to have a child with a human. And that would go doubly for the Demon Lord. Especially since the blood lycan Demon Lord is the Demon King’s son, and the Demon King hates humans enough to want them to go extinct.

Then there’s the fact that I’ve heard that White in particular hated demons, so why on Earth would she get together with a Demon Lord? That also makes it strange that she had a kid with a demon in the first place, but I guess it’s possible that she just fell in love with a single demon of the clan and that was that.

And the option that she didn’t have me willingly is off the table as well, since White is almost as powerful as a Demon Lord, and even if they tried taking her genes by force through science or something, she would be able to erase them from existence even from another world if what I’ve heard of her is accurate. So no matter what, it’d be impossible for her to have a child unless she wanted too.

“Actually, contractors find it very difficult to have a child in the first place, and they can only have one if they want one as well,” Tar answers, further ruling out that possibility entirely.

Which is very much a relief for me.

Then there’s the Class V Fracture Allen said was coming next year…

I shake my head at the thought.

No use worrying about that now. It’s not going to happen for almost half a year at least.

I let out a sigh.

That whole conversation was mentally exhausting.

“You’re tellin’ me…” Tar mutters, making the corner of my lips quirk up slightly.

Come to think of it, I should ask Allen where my last name actually came from. Since he never said if that part of what he’d told me all those years ago was actually true or not.

I wonder if Asger is actually my biological mother or father’s name?

Then again, if I remember correctly, the blood lycans have a rather complex naming system according to the demonology class. Something about having five names, with the fifth being their ranking in the pack, the fourth being a separator name, the third being their mother’s last name, and the second being their father’s last name.

Way too complicated.

But I guess it’s probably safe to say that I don’t have my father’s last name. Which makes me wonder just what White’s last name is?

The Knight herself – the most likely person to be my biological mother – is too mysterious. No one knows her actual name, since that along with most of the other identifying information people knew about her since she completely removed them from every recorded document and video and basically anything else in the world. Even everyone’s minds.

So there’s no real way for me to know right now.

The woman is practically the definition of the word mysterious on the internet.

Which leads me to wondering why exactly she had me with a demon, and why she dumped me at an orphanage. Not to mention why she purposefully made my life even worse by making that exact contract with Allen.

It all just makes no sense to me in the slightest.

I let out a loud groan, making Tar shift for a few seconds on my lap before I flop down on the bed again, the tanuki not moving from my lap surprisingly. Not that it really matters.

A few minutes pass in silence with the only noise being that of the music I can hear a couple suites over and the casual conversation I can hear in a suite across from the mansion. Oh, and another conversation from the cafeteria. And some more-

“So it’s not silent,” Tar mutters, sounding drowsy.

Okay, maybe not. But it’s silent in this room at least.

I lie down on my bed for a few more minutes, pondering over the subject of White and getting absolutely nowhere before pausing as I think about the catalyst.

Could the thing possibly have unlocked some new skills? I didn’t check before because I absolutely need to focus on upgrading my skills, but if I’ve gotten any more legendary skills… then maybe I can take those when I get the Skill Points.

I open my skills store with a faint smile on my face, only to freeze at the first thing I see.

What?