Yunyun x Reader (God's Blessing For This Poor Lonely Girl!)

Chapter 38: Keeper of the Stars

By now, it was evening again.

Many hours earlier, Kazuma, Megumin, Darkness, and Aqua had boarded a single, lone carriage set out by the village to garner supplies to tide them over until the damages could be assessed, clean up had, and rebuilding could begin. While the Party of four were simply hitching a ride back to Axel, this of course left Yunyun and YN back at the village themselves.

Professing his desire to help and participate in the recovery efforts, YN was instructed rather to 'keep Yunyun from helping too.'

While for YN, this reasoning was under the guise he was still a guest here in the Crimson Demon Village. And as for Yunyun, nobody wished to make one of the two who had saved the village and exhausted herself now trifle with its clean up.

More or less shoo'd off for the time-being, the two were left only to walk around the perimeter of the village where damage was ultimately minimal, except for the loss of the Mysterious Facility.

It wasn't long before the two had circled back around to the stone ruins that displayed, —until last night, the undecipherable text on the back of it. Re-reading it again just to make sure he remembered all the details correctly from how Kazuma recounted it, just from the way YN looked back at her, Yunyun could tell there was some rather sensitive information on it.

"Hey, Yunyun."

Slightly perking up with the sudden address in a tone that carried a heavy weight, Yunyun could only meekly respond with a stuttered "Y-Yes."

"I uhh... I think I got a lot to tell you. And to also tell you the truth, I don't know how you're going to take this, but it would be wrong of me not only as your friend to keep this from you, but also simply out of common decency.

Taking a step closer, Yunyun nodded.

"I'll listen to whatever it is. W-We can determine how to feel about it t-together."

Wanting to smile her optimism, YN had to regrettably shake his head.

"I'm afraid this is one topic I can't really be involved in with how you take it. But, what I can do, is support you no matter what."

Thoroughly intrigued now, Yunyun let YN begin, watching as he traced his fingers across the foreign text as he explained each part.

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Now fully understanding why it was that Aqua had felt the need to apologize, as if somehow involved in this, Yunyun understood, and even more so, did she now see why it was that Kazuma held his hands over Megumin's ears.

In truth, after hearing all this, Yunyun felt the smallest bit of jealousy over Megumin's ignorance now. All that had been revealed left the poor girl feeling rather odd now. It was an emotion she couldn't quite describe, but with all she had learned, it did leave her feeling at least partially transcendental compared to everything else that had come from this world, and not YN's own.

Hearing of this 'researcher' who had been brought here by Aqua hundreds of years ago, granting him his unique powers, Yunyun felt nearly overwhelmed. This 'head researcher' had managed to get his fingers in nearly everything from the mage-killer, to the railgun, to the oddities YN recognized from his world that were here in the Crimson Demon village, and even was the one responsible for the Mobile Fortress Destroyer's creation.

With all that though, the fact that he too had created the Crimson Demons using his own powers, left Yunyun in her current state she found herself in.

Learning that one's entire race, from their very beginning, were specifically created from a series of science experiments, and that their very traits that made them who they were, were genetically selected to be this way, left the poor girl utterly unable to know how to feel.