Before the Strategy

After finishing the grilled meat Ciri had made, Joshua sat beneath the World Tree's shade with Ciri, feeling a little tired.

"I remember Beauty and the Demon was tagged as romance. So does a horror movie mean a film that makes people feel afraid?"

Ciri looked up at the silver-white leaves drifting down from above, chatting with Joshua about trivial matters as she digested her food.

"Hmm... speaking of which..."

Joshua turned to look at the Spellcaster girl beside him. Perhaps because Ciri had recently been reading the Nolan Fashion Magazine written by the Dark Elves.

Her style had gradually changed from practical leather armor and Spellcaster robes into something more suited to a girl.

Today, she wore shorts and white thigh-high socks... Joshua had been too busy dealing with those High Elves earlier to notice what Ciri was wearing.

It was only now that Joshua noticed Ciri's outfit, one that might tempt a certain kind of person into committing a crime.

"W-what is it?"

The moment Ciri sensed Joshua's gaze, she instinctively covered the strip of skin exposed between her thigh-high socks and shorts with her hand.

She still did not seem accustomed to this girlish style of clothing.

"Ciri, what kind of movie would count as horror to you?"

Joshua cleared his throat and raised a more serious topic.

Unlike on Earth, where things like ghosts and monsters existed only in human imagination, the undead were real in this world. There was even a profession known as necromancer.

Most horror movies Joshua knew used ghosts and monsters to create an atmosphere of terror.

"For me..."

"Try imagining a scene that would frighten you," Joshua added.

"When I get home at night and find out that the last bit of food in the kitchen has been eaten by rats!