LV999 Villager - Chapter 11.2

Pack (01/02)

NT: My impressions of this chapter? DAMN. Just that, DAMN
NT2 (A few (many) days ago): Yeah, honestly, I have no excuses for the delay this time … I just wasn’t in the mood to start earlier. I could have done it, definitely, but I didn’t … oh well, it doesn’t matter. Errrm, how is everything here? Meh, no changes. Protests here, demonstrations over there, and classes canceled everywhere. Besides that… nothing. And me? I’m fine, happily locked in my room.
NT3 (At the present time): I’m really, really sorry for the delay. I was really busy with some personal matters, and I ended up in a horrible place isolated from everything for a while … but well, I’m finally free … more or less.

「Alice-sama …!」

「Ah, Menou」

Menou appeared from the right side of the hall while Alice was looking the outside.

「What a relief… I thought I had been sent to a different place than Alice-sama was sent」

「I had also begun to worry Menou… By the way, Menou, there is something that bothers me」

Alice, after noticing some irregularity with Menou, approached him with a curious look. Then, she stare at Menou.

「Is-Is there something on my face?」

「Something is different… but what? I feel something is missing」

Menou was wearing the same gray tunic and pants that matched the rest of his clothes that he had been wearing when they went to see the Dark Dragon. There was nothing particularly different in how it looked. The only thing missing was the hat he used to wear to hide his horns.

「… You have no horns!」

Alice, who looked at Menou from top to bottom, finally realized what he was missing. Menou’s horn, which had always been covered by his hat, was gone.

After Alice pointed out that, Menou muttered, 「I don’t have my horns?」, While touching his head, then, after checking his head a few times, he finally said,「My horns… I don’t have ‘em!?」, surprised.

「It’s absurd… I don’t have the horns that the Demon King praised!? Impossible, Alice-sama, you don’t have your horn either!?」

At that moment, Alice noticed that she was not using the cloth that suppressed her magical power. Normally, it should be under the ribbon with which she used to decorate her hair, covering the horns that grew behind her head, however, no matter how much she looked in her bright red hair, she couldn’t find her horns.

「I-I don’t have my horns!」

The moment she realized that she didn’t have her horns, Alice, unlike Menou, didn’t feel depressed, on the contrary, she couldn’t help smiling while jumping for joy.

Alice was extremely happy that her horns, which were what defined her as a Demon, have disappeared, on the other hand, Menou couldn’t help but get depressed, thinking that Alice’s joy was because she didn’t like being a Demon—,

「Now nobody can criticize me if I marry Kagami-san!」

However, the words Alice said made it very clear that the reason for her joy was completely different, which made Menou smile while muttering 「Indeed」.

「But, ​​Menou, without your horns you seem like a nobleman. Also, I don’t think we are going to look very different since we always keep them hidden with the fabric 」

「A nobleman… I have felt a little uncomfortable calling me that since almost all of them are a bunch of vulgar people, but I will take it with as a compliment. And besides, if I look like a noble, then you look like the daughter of a rich merchants… no, maybe an angel? No… I could even consider you a true goddess」

「Menou, are you feeling well?」

After checking that Menou didn’t seem to feel bad, Alice let out a sigh as she started walking to the left side of the hall, however, immediately after, she stopped.

「But what is this place? We are definitely in the Next Stage, but… why do we wake up here?」

「I wouldn’t know how to answer you. I really don’t know why we were in that room. In addition, we do not know where the rest is… I wonder where they will be」

The pair continued walking down the hall for a few minutes, but the only thing they came across was with numerous doors, the same as those that led to the room from which they left, but none of them seemed to be an exit. Bored by the fact that they found nothing different, no matter when they walked down the hall, Alice began to look outside through the window.

Suddenly, as if noticing something, Alice stopped, then laid her hand on the glass and began to look outside.

「What do you think… about this?」

「I don’t know how to express it in words. I had never seen anything like this. Everything, those steel boxes, the strange carriages, those vehicles that move through the sky and even the atmosphere of the city is something completely unknown to me」

「So why do you have that expression on your face?」

「… It’s just that, although I’ve never seen anything like this before, I somehow feel that I know what it is. Those vehicles, and it’s even the city environment… I feel like I’ve seen them somewhere before… it’s a strange feeling」

「I see, so that’s the way you perceive this world… Wonderful」

「… Menou?」

Alice, feeling something strange in Menou’s response, quickly turned around. However, Menou was nowhere to be found, and in his place was a thin man, dressed in a white coat, who was watching her with a smile on his face.

Half of the man’s face was covered by her long asymmetrical black hair, and although he was enveloped by a suspicious aura, his gaze was really calm. For that reason, Alice was unable to read his intentions, which made her be even more alert than normal.

「It is natural that you feel that way. After all this place is also Japan, it is the country where you live and the origin of Hexaldoria 」

Then, the thin man casually spoke the name of a certain country that was supposedly just a myth, which should not exist.

NT: Here a little summary… Previously, in Volume 1, it was said that the territory where Hexaldoria is located was part of a country called Japan, which was destroyed, like all other countries in the rest of the world, when The Monsters appeared.
NT2: I don’t know why, but I couldn’t help thinking about matrix while translating this chapter … I mean… just think about it, it seems like… but it’s different, but, but… damn, here is a lot of things to think about… besides… “the origin of Hexaldoria”… the way he said it seemed… odd
NT3: As always, if you find something weird, whatever, just tell me in the comments