Chapter 11

“This is my first time ever hearing about that kind of ability.”

“Think about it carefully. You probably don’t remember because you lost your memories.”

“I may not remember things well but I’m pretty sure no such ability exists.”

“Urgh, I’ve never been in this kind of situation before. Even when I was with my sister.”

As far as I know, Knox didn’t have the ability to attract monsters. By the way, how were we going to get past that black crowd of gllyluses.

Facing each other, we made a silent promise to keep quiet. However, we couldn’t just stay at the abandoned house to kill time.

Knox will turn into a child when the sun rises. I don’t know when Knox’s cycle started but I’m sure that today was not the end of it. Even if I was wrong and today was the end of his cycle, I could not stay here just believing in an assumption.

There may be an abundance of herbs here, but there was no food nor drinking water. Unlike my house, the abandoned house did not have a well.

“What do you think about staying here for a day?”

“No.”

I shook my head firmly.

“If we just stay here and wait, we would be losing our stamina. So, we have to get out of here now.”

“Do you have a plan?”

At that moment, Knox grabbed his sword. But no matter how good he was at the sword; he would find it hard to handle that many monsters without his memories.

Scanning the garden carefully, I saw something hidden inside the fence. I ran quickly and looked at the red flowers.

“Knox, do you remember me talking about the poisonous plants in the forest? This was what I was talking about, Tethes!”

I exclaimed as I pointed at the flowers to Knox who ran after me. Next to the red flowers, lay the remnants of the exploded fruits.

“When the Tethes’ fruit bursts, the liquids and gases it releases are poisonous to both humans and monsters.”

“More poisonous than the powder that you threw?”

“Yup. Even if the effects are temporary, the poison is real. Don’t get too close. It explodes upon touch.”

“How do you plan on using it?”

After pondering over it, I asked carefully.

“Can you remove the fruit from the branches without touching it?”

The faster he swung his sword, the faster the fruit would break off from its branch. Let alone a sword, I found it difficult to even cut leaves from plants without my hands shaking.

… Knox is turning into a child again?

It was my first time seeing him change. He gradually grew smaller before stopping to the size of a child, his clothes looked like a quilt on his body. Before I noticed I was staring at a small child who was breathing in huffs.

I looked at my hand.

“I have been holding his hand for a while now… No way.”

With my trembling hands, I grabbed his as I watched the sleeping child still breathing harshly.

T-the heck. There was nothing wrong.

Relieved, I removed my hand.

The light from the sun seemed a bit dim today. That was strange. Why didn’t he change immediately after the sun rose? A long time had passed since it first became morning…

At the sight of the laying child, I muttered.

“… What’s going on?”

Why did he become a child only after morning had come?