"You are not human." (Curtis)
Curtis, who was insulted by the girl, spat out each word through clenched teeth.
The girl, who still had a large sword stuck in her chest, looked at Curtis as if he were an idiot.
"Of course I'm human, right? I don't have horns, and my blood is red. You see, miraculously, I can still talk, but I was stabbed in the heart, so I'm going to die soon. Ah, my life was short. All I have left are memories."
Then, the girl looked at the sword that was still stuck in her chest and rested her head on it as if it were a pillow.
"Phew, I'm finally getting tired. I guess the final moment has come. ...Those two brothers, please report to the lord that I was killed by this light blue-haired guy. Yeah. Ah... the running light..."
After saying those words, the girl was silent for a while, but then spoke again.
"...Wow, it's taking a while ....It's exhausting to look back on 300 years. I guess I'm talking too much... Pipipipipi."
The girl let out a voice that sounded like a bird's cry, lifted her head from the sword she was carrying, and pointed at the sword stuck in her chest.
"Hey, I've already lost a lot of blood, so I should be dead. So, could you please pull out this sword for me?"
However, seeing that Curtis, who seemed to be holding the sword with all his might, didn't answer a single word, she asked as if she had just thought of something.
"Huh? Isn't it coming off? I guess rigor mortis has finally started. Ah, that means I'm completely dead. Yes, death is confirmed. And the murderer is ready..."
Then, the girl took a big step back, took a step back, and slyly pulled the sword out of her body.
At the same time, Curtis, with a sword in his hand, jumped back.
The sword that had been acting as a stopper came loose, and blood began to overflow from the girl's left chest.
However, its color quickly changed from red to black.
When the girl casually wiped her chest with one hand, a thick black liquid sticked to her palm.
Seeing that color, the girl's lips curled into a grin.
"Ah, it seems like the blood has changed color since it's been a while since I was bitten. Pip, pip, the blood is pitch black, it's like I'm not human."
Then, she started laughing out loud.
"Pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, pip…"
Sensing something ominous in that strange laughter, the three of them took another step back and widened the distance between them.
Seeing this, the girl continued to laugh even more.
"Pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, pip…"
The girl let out a laugh as she tightly grabbed the hole in her chest, and surprisingly, the wound quickly closed up.
The girl happily looked down at her covered chest and rubbed the black liquid on her hand onto her cheek.
"Pipi, pipi, don't worry about my laughter. The family I lived in at the beginning was shitty, so I killed them all in three seconds, but I stayed in that house for a while. All the humans were killed, so the only thing left in the house was the pet birds. So, what about 'Until 100 Souls of Triplets'?"
The girl licked the black liquid from her hand.
"When I was first learning words, I was with a bird, so I started laughing like a bird. Pipipipipi, that's why everyone calls me 'Bird Imitation'. That's right. It's easy, isn't it?"
The girl looked up, and the black part of her eyes widened.
The whites of her eyes were almost gone, and it felt strange as she deviated from the standard of a human face.
As a result, a chill ran down the spines of the three people who saw the girl.
Green muttered the words he saw in the forbidden book, conscious of his heart that was beating rapidly.
"A bird imitator? Are you...a 'Bird Imitator of Two Crests'? One of the demons who disappeared when the Demon King was sealed away?" (Green)
The girl narrowed her eyes and smiled like a cat facing milk.
"...That's a great answer. It's an honor to be called correctly even though you haven't appeared in 300 years."
Author's Note
Thank you for always reading!
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