The Spirit Queen(2).

"... Are you probably knocking your head somewhere or something?"

"... Eh?"

Hearing Riot's reply, the woman was taken aback and blinked her eyes a few times with a dumb face.

Sighing slightly, Riot also put the bowl of soup in front of the woman and then said.

"... Well, maybe your head just had a little trouble because of hunger, huh."

When Riot uttered that, a small rumbling began to be heard from the woman's belly. Unable to restrain her embarrassment, the woman also began to eat the warm soup in silence, with her bright red face.

... Of course not.

While watching the woman eat his homemade soup, Riot began to squint his eyes.

I'm playing dumb to divert the topic. However, what the heck is this? How could she know the strange condition of my body now?

Since knowing his extremely high detection ability before, the first thing Riot tried was to analyze his body condition. At first, Riot didn't find any strangeness that happened to his body, but after he got the strange red tattoo, Riot began to feel as if something was constantly sucking something from him. If it were just that, Riot probably wouldn't worry too much. However, unfortunately, this also has a terrible effect, such as reducing Riot's life span, continuously.

"... It's delicious!"

At that time, Riot's musings were interrupted by the excited exclamation of the woman, who seemed to be quite enjoying his homemade soup. Changing his expression back, Riot also replied to the woman with his usually calm expression.

"... Really? I just made it out with some leftover meat and mushrooms, though."

Hearing Riot's words, the woman also began to shake her head while saying with a serious face.

"However, it is still very delicious for me! I didn't expect that humans always eat such delicious food! What an enviability!"

She said that as if she wasn't truly a human being... This woman... She once said just now that she was a Spirit Queen of this world, right? Hmm...

"... What's the matter? You look at me like that..." However, in the end, Riot's musings were again interrupted by the woman who seemed to be aware of Riot's sharp gaze at her. Blushing slightly, the woman also asked to Riot that.

Hm, just thinking about it won't change anything, 'I guess.

Stopping his thoughts, Riot changed his expression back, "It's okay, I just remember that we don't even know each other's names yet. Nice to meet you, my name is 'Riot'. I accidentally found you in a cave in the forest before." Saying that, Riot also stretched his hand towards the woman.

Finally realizing that it was also because of Riot's remarks, the woman also made a surprised face for a moment there before taking Riot's hand and retorting by introducing herself.

"A-ah, right! My name is 'Rielfeilm'. As I have said before, I am a Spirit Queen!"

After that, Riot and the woman who refers to herself as 'Rielfeilm the Spirit Queen' start talking about something that may not be at all important, and without realizing it, Riot's soup runs out before long. Saying that he would put his dirty bowl first into the kitchen, Riot went out of the room.

Soon, Riot finally arrived at the kitchen and put the dirty bowl where he usually washed all his cutlery.

However, Riot didn't immediately return to the room where the woman was. Leaning against the wooden wall of his house, Riot began to cross his arms, trying to sort out all the information he got from Rielfeilm.

Although all they did was just have a casual conversation, Riot had completely gotten quite a lot of information from analyzing Rielfeilm's movements, the air around her, Rielfeilm's way of speaking and point of view, to a few other small things.

And, the things that Riot is aware of about Rielfeilm are:

-First, Rielfeilm is not a human being.

-Secondly, Rielfeilm has a lot of life experience. It's exactly much until Riot isn't sure how long she's lived.

-Third, Rielfeilm has an aura quite similar to the red balls of light that had previously entered his right hand before.

-And Fourth, Rielfeilm seems to know the strange state of Riot's current body, and may even know how to get rid of it.

After successfully sorting through all the information, Riot began to reopen his eyes, "Well, I think I'd better just ask this directly to the person."

Deciding on that, Riot returned to the room where Rielfeilm was.

***

Sitting next to the bed where Rielfeilm was lying, Riot immediately asked what had been holding his mind since Riot first met her.

"... Who exactly are you, Rielfeilm?"

"Hm?"

Hearing Riot's question, Rielfeilm just tilted her head at first. However, soon she understood the true meaning of Riot's question, and finally began to make a smile full of elegance until it almost felt divine. In addition, an aura of many different colors began to envelop the room, with Rielfeilm as the center. Staring right into Riot's eyes, she finally said who she honestly is, as well as the reason why she was able to find out Riot's current condition.

As she had said repeatedly before, she was honestly a 'Spirit Queen' figure who controlled and ruled all the elements of the world. However, due to some past conflicts, Rielfeilm seems to have lost a lot of her power, and even her position as a world leader has been snatched away by others. As a result of this, the world's climate has become a mess, because all the spirits that originally controlled it have lost their leader figure.

Afterward, Rielfeilm also began to explain that the red balls of light that had entered Riot's right hand were certainly the remains of the fire spirits that used to serve her. And, to remain in this world even though it's inside Riot's right hand, the fire spirits start sucking Riot's magic power. But, because Riot doesn't have enough magic power, Riot's life energy is also sucked in, causing a reduction in the rest of Riot's life.

"But! There is one way to get rid of a condition that should have been a grace but instead felt more like a curse!" Turning her elegant smile into a playful smile, Rielfeilm said that to Riot while blinking one of her eyes.

Soon, she also continued.

"You just need to..."

*Gulp*

With an expression that looked a little nervous, Riot was waiting for Rielfeilm's next words.

"... Let me get into your body too!"

"... What?"