"You didn't need to wait so late for to return. What do you want to talk about?"
Instead of answering, she just turned around with a single sentence.
"Co in."
I followed her inside the house, closing the door behind . When she sat at the living room table, I also took a seat in front of her. There was a mont of silence with Suuru only looking at before she spoke again.
"Tila… Who are you exactly?"
So, it had co to that. It wasn't completely unexpected since I did many abnormal things in front of her.
"Can you give a bit of context?"
"You're not soone coming from another faraway do, right?"
"What makes you think so?"
She sighed.
"Too many things. Your lack of common sense despite not having issues with your mories. The water. The at. Your comings and goings. Your… mutation. Your strange knowledge. I'm so confused."
I nodded.
"Yes… You're right. First of all, I need to say sothing. I'm sorry, Suuru. I lied to you. I have no excuse."
Her eyes widened a little but she didn't look too surprised. Yet, profound sadness appeared in her eyes, telling how betrayed she was feeling.
"Why? Why did you lie to ?"
"I have no excuse."
She stood up, anger on her face.
"I don't want to hear that! Tell why!"
It wasn't in my personality to find flimsy reasons to excuse my behavior. I most often acted rationally and as such, I was ready to assu the consequences of my actions. However, if she wanted to know, I had no other choice but to tell her.
"Fine. I'll tell you everything. Sit down, it's going to be a long story. I don't know if you'll believe , though."
She sat down once more, her stare piercing through my guilt. It was the first ti I saw the ek Suuru being so mad.
"Where you do think I co from, Suuru?"
She glared at for an instant more before answering.
"I don't know. I'm confused. Nothing I can think of makes sense. I thought that maybe… you co from outside the do. But that's impossible."
"Yes, that's a logical conclusion. Unfortunately, the truth is a lot worse than that. I co from a different planet."
This ti, she was truly bewildered. But then, anger filled her expression once again.
"Don't lie, Tila! I want to hear the truth! I hate lies the most!"
"I wish it were a lie. But it's not. Look."
For the first ti since I ca to this world, I stopped concealing my sel and affinity. Anyone seeing now could estimate my rank if they wanted to. Suuru, who was starting to sit down, jumped on her feet again while pointing at , her face full of stupor.
"R-R-rank 4…! No way!"
I waited a while for her to calm down and queried.
"Can you see my affinity?"
She was still looking at with her mouth wide open. After closing it, she shook her head.
"No, I've never seen soone like you before."
"That's not surprising. My affinity is space. I'm a rank 4 spatial mage."
"T-that can't be… A spatial mage… They don't exist anymore."
"They don't exist inside the dos. But I'm here."
"But… Wait. How old are you, Tila?"
"I'm twenty."
"Don't lie! It's impossible to be rank 4 at twenty!"
In a way, she had a point. There was a reason why she asked for my age. It was hard to judge people's ages by their appearance. This was because one of the boons of ranking up was to get increased longevity. Not just a bit either. Each rank gave around ten more years of life expectancy. That was why everyone tried to rank up, on top of the ability to defend oneself better. And this was the reason why higher-ranked people had an absolute advantage over lower-ranked ones. A transcendent, for example, would be able to live two tis longer than a rank 0, or even more. If one was certain of ascending to high ranks, like I was, life took on a whole other direction. All plans beca long-term ones and short-term goals lost their importance.
The downside, or perhaps the consequence, was that people had a very long period of looking young. Age and appearance were often judged based on how a rank 0 would look at a certain age. Taking as an example, I externally looked like I was 20. In reality, I could be anything between 20 and 60 years old.
"It's true that it's probably impossible to get to rank 4 at twenty inside the dos. You wouldn't know but the concentration of sel here is less than half what it was in my world."
"How can I believe you, Tila? I can't tell the truth from the lies anymore."
"I understand. Let show you sothing else. I'm a spatial mage, right? And so, one of the first things I did after coming to this world was to check what was happening outside the dos by teleporting there."
"What!? You did what? Are you crazy, Tila?"
"Hey, calm down. Look, I'm perfectly fine, right?"
"… Is that another one of your lies? No one can survive outside the dos. There's only death there."
"Want to check? You can see for yourself."
I extended my hand in her direction. There was a mont of silence. She looked at my hand like it was poison for a long ti, slowly taking so steps away from .
"No way. I won't do it. Nope."
She was such a baby. Not that I could bla her too much since this was how people here thought about the outer world.
"Don't you trust , Suuru?"
"I… I don't trust liars."
I could tell this was more like an excuse to refuse than the true reason.
"Hahaha… No questions asked anymore!"
I teleported next to her, firmly gripped her hand, and teleported us to the outer world.
"Nooo!"
Suuru only had the ti to let out one last shout of terror before our figures disappeared from the house.
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