"What... is a Corpse Infant?"
Though they had no idea what kind of monster Ciri was talking about, the two girls still sensed something eerie from the term.
"It is a monster born from abandoned infants who were never buried. At night, they leave their nests and lurk beside pregnant women's beds, draining the life force of both mother and child. Once the woman is too weak to resist, it drinks her blood until both mother and child are dead."
"There... there should be some way to solve this, right?"
By the time she had heard half of it, Lis had already clasped her hands in prayer, though she had no idea what to do. On the Semurian Continent, things like ghosts only appeared rarely, and most of those cases were not real. As a squire of the Star Cup Knight Order, Lis had plenty of combat experience, but her usual enemies were either evildoers or Demon Beasts that ravaged and attacked civilians.
When it came to cursed monsters like this, Lis truly had no idea what to do—perhaps holy magic might work on it?
"There is one way to lift the curse."
Fortunately, although Ciri was only a novice Witcher, she had received plenty of Witcher training, including studying records of every monster on this continent. Ciri had complained that it was practically torturous training, but rote learning really could work wonders at times.
"According to an ancient legend, if you bury the Corpse Infant beneath the threshold of the family home, it will transform into a Household Spirit that protects the house and watches over the family."
"What kind of logic is that...?"
After hearing Ciri's explanation, Lis was completely baffled. She genuinely could not understand why burying a Corpse Infant beneath a household threshold would lift its