Chapter 36

For some reason, doing this made her feel incredibly relaxed.

A faint blush rose to her cheeks.

[Ultimate Invincible Super Damn Cute Paramecium!:?]

[Zerg Who Ate Delicious Food: The snake was kind of hard, and it wriggled around when Zerg grabbed it!]

Kiana Kaslana's expression froze.

She didn't think anyone would be insane enough to feed a living snake to a cute child.

Although Zerg would probably be fine after eating it, Talulah had only just met Zerg. There was no way she could have known that.

Anyone with even a shred of common sense or conscience wouldn't do such a thing.

So—

What exactly this snake was might be open to debate.

[Zerg Who Ate Delicious Food: When Zerg stuffed the snake into Zerg's mouth, the black snake was still struggling!]

[Zerg Who Ate Delicious Food: But Zerg quickly bit it until it sprayed out juice!]

[Zerg Who Ate Delicious Food: Very tasty!]

"..."

The white-haired girl lowered her head.

Her body, however, couldn't stop trembling.

"Um, Kiana, what's wrong?"

Her deskmate was confused about what was happening.

"Phew... It's nothing. I'm going to the bathroom."

Kiana flashed a broad smile.

"O-Okay..."

For some reason, the girl felt afraid.

Although the girl was smiling, she felt as though she were facing something utterly terrifying.

Golden crosses flickered faintly within her pupils.

Ignoring a certain irritating voice.

Kiana pushed open the door to one of the restroom stalls and locked it.

What came next was simple—

The righteous Shield of the People, sortie!

It was time to punish that metal-refining bastard!

[Kiana Kaslana wishes to travel to your world. Do you accept?]

This option appeared before Talulah.

"Eh?"

The girl blinked.

But after looking at the adorable Zerg, she chose to accept.

The beings in this [Dimensional Chat Group] should all be kind-hearted.

After all, Zerg had just dealt with the Deathless Black Snake that had troubled her for so long.

The others were probably the sort of people who would step forward to save the world too, right?

A deep blue portal unfolded before her.

A white-haired girl stepped out of it.

The first thing she saw upon arriving in this world was—

A horned dragon girl with one hand reaching beneath herself and the other pressing down on a tiny child's head, a suspicious blush still on her face.

Zerg, facing away from her, with Zerg's head bobbing.

That posture, those movements, that expression...

"I'll blast you to pieces, you bastard!"

The white-haired girl exploded in an instant.

There was actually someone in this world even more of a scumbag than Raiden Mei!

Doing that out in the wilderness in broad daylight, without even trying to hide it!

That woman must have tricked Zerg with words into biting the black snake!

"Ah?"

Talulah was completely dumbfounded.

No, why was there such intense hostility right from the start?

The dragon girl was baffled.

"Um, do we have some kind of grudge between us?"

Talulah asked tentatively.

"A grudge?"

Kiana Kaslana sneered.

Did laying hands on Zerg count as a grudge?

"Why don't you think about what you did earlier?"

The white-haired girl clenched her fists.

"What I did earlier..."

Talulah thought back.

Hadn't she just made Zerg eat the deathless evil god?

She had even been prepared to sacrifice herself before that.

But what did that... have to do with the girl in front of her?

Could Kiana Kaslana also be a black snake?

The dragon girl thought of a possibility.

She didn't know whether there were other black snakes, or whether black snakes had any connection to one another.

But this was the most likely explanation for the white-haired girl's hostility.

Thinking this, Talulah became guarded as well.

Ursus's evil god really wouldn't disappear so easily.

"You came because of the black snake?"

The dragon girl's hand clenched slightly.

"Heh, so you do know what you did."

Kiana Kaslana looked at her coldly.

"...Phew."

Talulah drew in a deep breath.

A second black snake had appeared.

There was actually a black snake in the [Dimensional Chat Group].

This was completely beyond her expectations.

But it seemed—

The black snakes couldn't transmit information between themselves.

Otherwise, Koschei wouldn't have been completely unaware.

But that wasn't what mattered now.

The girl before her was the second black snake.

Kiana Kaslana's own consciousness had likely already perished.

She was at the prime of her youth, yet she had died at the black snake's hands.

The dragon girl closed her eyes.

Then—

She would grant the black snake a second death.

Koschei had previously attached himself to her mind, something Talulah's Originium Arts couldn't deal with.

But the white-haired girl who had appeared now had a physical body.

The dragon girl opened her eyes.

Flames ignited with her breath.

She was the world's last red dragon.

She was a candidate for Victoria's throne, and once the heir to Duke Koschei's territory in Ursus.

But now Talulah possessed only one identity—

A fighter.

A fighter who fought against the injustices of this world.

The deathless evil god should never have existed in the first place.

Now, let fighter Talulah fight for the black snake's victims!

"Still refusing to repent!"

Seeing the flames rise around her opponent, Kiana Kaslana's anger intensified.

The other woman didn't even deny it. Instead, she acted as though it were perfectly justified.

Tricking an innocent child into biting a black snake in the wilderness... she was scum among scum!

Golden crosses emerged in her eyes.

Mysterious power filled her body.

Even if that whelp named Talulah possessed extraordinary power, it didn't matter. She, Kiana Kaslana, was the righteous Shield of the People!

"..."

The tiny Cute Bug Overlord stared blankly at the two of them.

For some reason, Talulah and Kiana Kaslana looked like they were about to fight.

But it should be fine.

The slightly full Overlord blinked.

Maybe they were playing, like Zerglings fighting each other?

[Happy Little Orca: What's happening?]

Volume One: Zergling Fight

Within the underwater city.

Unlike its previously dim state, Skadi had successfully restarted the city's lighting array.

The once-dark Ægir City was once again brilliantly illuminated.

But unlike before—