Demon Noble Girl ~Story of a Careless Demon~

Volume 1 ; Chapter 1: I Became a Cat

I could see a scene within the light.

It's like... the time back when I was a child, submerged under the pool and looking up toward the sky... I saw a scenery that gave me a vague nostalgic feeling.

The scenery flows along and changes.

Like an old film, the blurry scenes continued to be replaced, one by one.

A man holding [My] small hands.... A woman, holding [Me] in her arms.... Boys and girls that were even a little bigger than [Me].

From the window of a bus, I saw large buildings and small stores drifting by.

From inside of a train, I saw a seemingly never ending railroad and townscape.

The scenes continued to change, and [I] had grown bigger and was attending a school with other children wearing the same uniform.

Chatting with friends, exchanging texts late into the night.... Sitting together with siblings on the sofa, watching a borrowed movie. Our parents returning home, and everyone enjoying a meal together.

This scene full of happiness abruptly turned [White].

White walls, white floor, and lying on top of the white bed under the same white colored sheets, what was reflected in [my] eyes was the pure white ceiling....

The shaking hands that were lifted up were as thin as the withered branches of a tree.

The scenes continuously shifted, but that white world remained....and amidst the broken and hoarse sound of someone crying.... [My] world slowly went black.

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Was I... seeing a dream?

Somehow, the dream felt nostalgic...and distant.

I wonder...where is this place?　I can't see a thing, it's as if a dim... mist is hanging over me. It feels just like staring into the sun with my eyes closed... oh, maybe I should just open my eyes.

When I thought about lifting my eyelids, the scene of my surroundings jumped into my field of vision.

What I saw wasn't a grass-covered plain, nor the interior of a room, but instead, there was nothing but an emptiness that spread everywhere; cracked earth as far as the eyes could see and a plain dark sky.

Simply put, there was nothing but rough gray earth, not even a weed in sight. An empty world.

"..............."

The atmosphere would have been complete if a cold wind was to blow dead, withered leaves across my vision at the moment. I wonder if that describes what I'm feeling right now.

Leaving that aside... I wonder, how am I seeing all of this...?

I don't remember opening my eyes. When I concentrate, I'm seem to be able to see in all directions at the same time. Of course, that includes seeing myself....

"..................!?"

I unintentionally let out a scream...or I tried, but my voice wouldn't come out.

After all... I have no mouth.... Not to mention a mouth, I don't even have a body.

R-right...I've calmed down a little.

By the way, when I said I had no body, that was just a bit incorrect. As proof of that, even now the form of my body is responding to my fluctuating emotions; scattering and undulating.

Something like a gassy, misty, light brown-ish aggregation...that's me.

Haha... I want to laugh. Although it's nothing to laugh at.