Sword Art Online ALICIZATION- Reversal

Chapter 48- A Long Story

Leafa walked over to the 'Orc'. She smiled at Lilpilin. "Thanks for helping me." She said as she extended out her hand. Lilpilin looked up at her and hesitantly took her hand. "Y-you... th-thank you." Lilpilin told her and Leafa shook her head. "There's no need to thank me for doing the right thing." She then looked around, and back at him. "So, mind telling me where we are?" Leafa asked. "You actually don't know what this place is? It's the Dark Territory." Leafa put on her chestplate while listening to him. "The Dark Territory, huh? I guess I entered this world in the wrong spot." She mused. "Did you say, "enter this world"?" Lilpilin questioned.

Leafa looked at him, nodding. "Yeah, what about it?" She asked curiously. "Th-then you're... you are..." Lilpilin bowed to her, putting his head to the rocky ground. "Pl-please forgive me, your holiness!" He said, pleading to her. "I beg of you, don't take my life for disrespecting you! I didn't know you were a divine being!" Leafa just blinked and covered her mouth while giggling. "Lilpilin, calm down. I'm nit going to hurt you.  I might look like a Goddess but I'm not." She smiled and carefully lifted him to his feet. "No need to bow to me or give me special treatment."

"O-okay..." Lilpilin said. Leafa looked at the man, noticing his eye. "You lost your eye... hold on, let me help you." She kneeled down to be closer to his height. She remembered what the RATH employees told her about the Underworld and it's magic. "System Call. Generate Luminous Element. Restore lost organ, adhere." She chanted and healed his eye, carefully getting the blood out of it. "There, open it, please?" She requested and he did so, finding out that he could see out of his right eye again. 

"Sorry, I didn't want you to lose your eye..." Leafa said sadly, puzzling the Orc. "Why? Why are you being nice to me?" Lilpilin asked. "Why wouldn't I be? You've done nothing to hurt me, so what reason to I have to treat you with contempt?" Leafa asked him in return. He stared once again before shouting, "Because I'm an Orc! Because I'm not human, because I'm different!" Leafa lightly slapped him with the back of her hand, "IDIOT!" She yelled. "Don't talk like you're any different from me! We're the same, we have the same emotions, the same wants and needs! And acting like you aren't human just because you look different is stupid! Don't talk like an idiot!" She scolded him, leaning with her hands on her hips. 

Lilpilin rubbed his cheek and just stared at her, finding no answer. Leafa soon looked away and crossed her arms. "Thought so." She huffed. Lilpilin spoke after a long silence. "You actually think I'm human, don't you..." He questioned and she instantly spun to face him. "Of course I do! We both have souls, we have emotions and we make our own choices, we're humans. Same as any other creature with sentience." She told him kindly, using sentience which was a word she recently learned as a defining characteristic of what a human is. "Besides, you chose to save me, a monster wouldn't have cared. Only a human could make the choice you did, you're a human too!" She said sweetly, Lilpilin nodded slowly. "Okay, I believe you..."

Leafa smiled and looked around. "Let's find a place to sit down while we talk, okay Mr Lilpilin?" She requested and he nodded. "So then, can you tell me about what's happening? Who was that woman and why was she being so mean to you? And what else is going on in this world?" She asked him, and he sighed. "It's a long story..."