"Ah, why’re you crying?’’ Karna asked, thinking there was no point keep gussing.
Hidimi raised her head and moved her gaze from the dead body to him.
’’ I-I... now.. I’m all alone in this world, ’’ she said in a broken voice as more tears rolled down from her eyes.
huh? Question marks appeared over his head.
"I see,’’ Karna muttered. He didn’t know how to react to this. She was crying for a totally different reason than he had thought.
’’Well, wasn’t it good to be alone, like freedom? In other words, you’re not alone. The whole world was yours,’’ Karna said.
That’s how Karna sees things, and that was true; the whole world was his. He never thought that he was alone in this world; he preferred this way compared to his last life
’’T-then will you stay with me here... m-marry me. I-I love you.’’ She said after Karna, without wasting a breath.
"...puff"
Karna burst into laughter. "...If I’m not wrong, Lady, a moment ago you were trying to eat me...’’
’’T-that only because I fell in love with you, just when I saw you. I didn’t want anyone to steal you... But you’re right. Why would you want to be with Asura? And I even tried to eat you,’’ Hidimbi said, and with every word, her expression fell more and more; she looked like the saddest soul Karna had ever seen.
"No, no, you’re taking it wrong. Love is kind of a weird word. I can’t understand that thing, but Lust, hugging each other, affection- I can understand that very much, so if you want that, I have no problem, but...’’
’’I want that..’’ Hidimi strongly nodded her head, taking two steps forward, while Karna took two steps back.
’’Hehehe, let me finish. I’m saying I can’t stay in this forest, so if you want to stay close by, you have to come along,’’ Karna said with a casual shrug.
"but, i’m a Asura,’’ Himibi said, looking worried.
Karna knew what she was worried about; if she left this forest, her powers would be halved at daytime, and humans would hunt her. Of course, normal people weren’t able to even scratch her, but she would be attacked by royals and Sagas.
Since Asuras were no good, they were pure evil; well, of course not all of them, but most of them were evil— but really, it didn’t matter to Karna.
"You didn’t worry about that. How about I make you immortal?" Karna said, clicking his fingers.
"Immortal? That’s not possible."
" Yeah, I mean almost Immortal." Karna corrected himself.
However, Hidimbi still appeared confused, but she just nodded and agreed to come with him without thinking long. To Karna, that was a bad choice to trust a stranger so easily; how easy would for him to betray her?
Thinking about it, Karna just shook his head, and a smile appeared on his lips.
Was all Arura this innocent? Karna thought, but he knew it wasn’t true; though most of them were arrogant and stupid, there were always exceptional ones.
Karna saw her turn her body size to normal, and he did the same. He just needed to think about it; all the work was done automatically.
" T-then we’re married?" Hidimbi asked, her index fingers of both hands touching each other, while a blush appeared on her cheeks.
Karna didn’t want to break her heart, but still he had to say that.
"Well, you can take as you want, but this world didn’t have normal concepts of divorce yet, so...just don’t take it as prison for life. You know you’re free. You can leave whenever you want..."
"I will never leave my husband. I would never want that! No woman ever would want that!" Hidimbi said, immediately cutting his words.
You’re dead wrong, Lady. Karna thought, but whatever. He wasn’t forcing his thoughts and beliefs on someone else.
Hidimbi turned around, facing her back toward him. She raised her hand, and soon a wooden hut appeared out of nowhere.
Karna was really amazed; it wasn’t a sword-summoning magic as he thought earlier. It was simply creation magic, or maybe summoning everything, even though it was not op but still it was very useful.
He wondered what he could do with it and whether he had copied magic all along, or could just create things that he saw her creating.
Karna randomly tried to summon a leaf to confirm his doubts. A leaf appeared in his hand.
Karna smiled. He confirmed he didn’t need to see all the things she could do with her Maya; he learned Maya itself, and now he could use it as he pleased.
Karna imagined a pen.
Huh?
The pen didn’t appear.
Why? What limit might it be? he thought
He tried some other things. He thought of a clear picture of the stone, and a stone appeared in his hand. He threw it away; He imagined a bow, and this appeared, that also he throw it away.
Then he imagined a gun; however, this time too, nothing appeared.
Why?
At last, Karna thought the limit might be what he had seen in this life. Currently, no other restriction came to his mind.
"Why didn’t you come in, husband"
"..."
Hearing Hidimbi, Karna came out of his thoughts and raised his head. He didn’t see her as the voice came from the hut. He didn’t notice when she walked in.
Was she already calling me that? Why did she even summon a hut, though?
Karna thought and glanced at the dead body at his side. Now its size had also become normal. It appeared after dying, and the maya started disappearing slowly. But it wasn’t like mana, or was it? Karna literally didn’t know how this magic system of the world worked.
Thinking about those things, Karna walked to the hut. Karna walked in and saw Hidimi.
Her little bit of clothes that covered her private parts earlier were now lying on the ground.
While she stood butt naked facing him...