I Blue : Reincarnated as a Cursed Crit-Based Swordwoman-Chapter 16: Interlude – Peach Colored Bystander

[???'s POV]

I was what most people would call a genius.

From the moment I was born into this world, everything was given to me.

Strength.

Intellect.

Looks.

Wealth.

Everything one could wish for.

My parents, too, were extremely proud of me—the descendant of a long line of demons who finally succeeded in keeping their cursed blood in control. The one who was the answer to the peace between humans and onis, the blessed peach-colored child holding both the strength of a monster and the heart of a human.

Ah, yes, the heart of a human indeed.

This is maybe why I never found anything that really interested me. I never had the hot blood of my kind.

Demons of wrath? What was wrath? Was there anything worthy of my anger in the world?

Everything in my world was either too easy to be interesting or too hard for me to bother trying. That's how I lived, strolling through my life without a clear objective in mind.

"Oh, valorous warriors! The chosen twelve of my beloved daughter! Our kingdom's treasures have been dispersed throughout the world and are now guarded by fearsome monsters! Go! Search the world and find them! Give back to Otogi its past glory!"

Ah...

A really simple quest for someone of my caliber. The eleven others could have left, and I alone would have been enough for that mission.

Yet, that princess, our leader, put me in the same team as those two.

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"Don't worry, Momo," she said when I complained. "Those two won't hold you down. You have worked with them before, right? So you know I chose to make them my numbers for a reason!"

Her word was absolute. No matter what I said, she was the one with the power to decide. And just like that, I was accompanied by that red-headed vixen and that calm swordsman.

At first, they annoyed me to no end. They were weak, slow, too indecisive or too eager, easily tired, distracted by stupid things like scenery or love.

Yes, those two ended up falling in love with each other, but one was too insecure to declare it while the other was too proud to admit it. And so, they had stupid disputes, made irrational choices like going their separate ways, only to end up watching each other from afar.

Truly, standing between them was... tiring...

It was tiring, but... I think somewhere down the line I—

"Now, allow us to show you the true extent of our beauty."

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When I woke up, I was in a dark cell, my limbs chained to a wall.

"... Ah... So this nightmare didn't end after all..."