Reincarnated Without a Body

chapter 17.5: Is it it, she or they?

I have seen a lot of weird shit in the 10 years since Master bought us. But none of them were anywhere near as interesting as this latest investment of his.

"Creak!" The carriages came to a stop.

Finally, we are back! I'm tired of sleeping on the hard floor of the carriage and doing nothing all day. I jump out of the carriage and walk to the locked passenger's door. Babi came from the carriage behind us and take the rein from An. An come to my side and unlocked the door.

"Come out." An said to our passenger while giving it a polite, cautious smile.

Is it it, she or they? Hmm... I don't really know. Why? Because our passenger is a two headed girl!

"Please wear this." An gave... them a cloak and cover their heads with its hood. I'll just use plural for this creature.

"Jing." An gestured me to help them get down from this high carriage.

We both offered a hand to help this tiny, one hundred gold coin creature get down, but the right head has her chin down and is staring at the ground while the left head just look over us at the tall, magnificent cathedral behind us. They totally ignored our extended hand and jump down on their own without problem.

The heck... This specially reinforced carriage is higher than normal. Its higher than their whole body. But this little girl with two heads on its shoulder just jump down without any hesitation. I'm impressed that their tiny legs didn't buckled down.

An gently put a hand on their shoulder. They flinched but that's it. They stand put. We've heard from the slavers that this little bugger was quick on its feet like a cockroach and we might have trouble catching them if they ran away. But ehh, no way this piece of abstract art can run faster than us. An just worries too much.

Master and Kanan walk past us and head into the cathedral. We followed behind them with the two headed girl between us. The rest of the crew took the carriages to the back of the cathedral.

"Hey.. um... Can you walk a bit faster?" An ask softly.

This supposedly fast like cockroach kiddo is walking too slowly, Master already disappear into the building. I suppose we are going to meet the old geezer. Best not make him wait long.

"But...  We are tired..." Both of the heads answered. Both me and An turned our heads towards them.

Sometimes when we talk to them, both of the heads answered simultaneously, at exactly same speed and tone with the exact same words. It give me goosebumps whenever that happen and make me wonder if the two heads actually share a mind. But apart from those rare situation, the two heads are very different from each other.

"Here, let me carry you then." An reach out for the little girl.

"Don't wanna." the left head answered right away. They pushed his hands away while picking up the pace.

Yeah, the two heads are very different. Like right here. Only the left head talked while the right head was looking at the floor again. From what I've seen, right head is very timid. It doesn't talk much and get scared easily.

While the left is basically the opposite of right.

It can talk normally with us, and the way it talk is tomboyish. It also always look calm and collected. And whenever the right head is scared, the left will be consoling it. Acting like the older sibling even though they have the same body.

We walk into the cathedral and goes through the big main hall when we saw Kanan holding the door of one of the VIP room. We escort the little two headed girl towards him.

Master is inside, sitting at the table in the middle of the room. He's angrily chewing down a snack served by a sister.

"What's up?" I ask Kanan seeing how angry Master looks.

"The sister said the Bishop is not here right now."

"Did you forgot to make an appointment?" I whisper to Kanan.

"No I did not. " Kanan shrugged. "The old goat probably doesn't want to have anything with this, so he ran away." Kanan's eyes moved towards the two headed girl.

"Bring them to her room." Master ordered the sister. He left through the back door. Probably going to fetch his 'merchandise'.

"This way please." The sister lead us upstair all the way to the fifth floor.

Really? They're going to be staying in this room? There's only one bedroom on this floor. And it's luxurious as hell. Shit I'm jealous. The sister and the brat went into the room and closed the door.

"You guard first." An said while yawning.

He went downstairs to one of the guest room. He was the one on the rein the whole day today while I sleep through the day. So he get to rest first.

I stand by the door, guarding this one hundred gold coins investment. I doubt anyone know about them or the their price. So I'm only here to prevent them from escaping, and to make sure they don't somehow die.

Not long after, the sister came out, lock the door and handed me the key. I took the opportunity and hold her hand as she gave me the key.

"Hi beauty, how about you accompany me for a bit? Lets.."

"I'm sorry, but I still have work to do. The priest is waiting for me downstairs." She reject me before I could even finish my sentence.

Tch. Damn this woman playing hard to get.

Night has fallen and it's gotten quiet.

"Lea... I can't sleep.. I wanna hear a story.. " Now that it's gotten quiet, I can hear them talking to each other.

"Alright. I'll tell the story of the Savior of our people."

And that night, I listened to the most detailed, yet incomplete story of the Savior.

Hmm... Depending on where you are from, the story might change a bit, but I've never heard any version as bad as theirs. Not even the version I heard from a merchant from the southern kingdom were as different as theirs.

A while past midnight, An show up. He looks tired.

"You're late." I complained.

"Yeah, sorry." He replied short and sat on the floor right at the door.

I handed the key to him. "You should stand."

"Don't worry. Master is probably busy right now. He's not going to walk up here." An replied with a grin.

I walk to the guestroom downstairs. Why does he look worse off after resting? My question were answered when I opened the door.

One of the woman Master bought at the slavery is sleeping on the bed, naked and tired. That f***er. No wonder he's tired. A smile creep across my face.