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With a small head, black eyes that sparkle like black pearls, blue hair, a gently pointed nose, and plump lips… even if you take away the breast fat that has not yet fallen out and the body that has not yet grown, she was a beautiful girl with a very promising future. It almost makes you wonder how she managed to survive in the slums with such beauty.

Her name is Michelle.

It is a legendary collectible character and was very useful until the end of the main story during the gameplay, and has a very powerful buff skill. He doesn’t have any special combat abilities and only has one buff skill, but he’s so versatile that he can easily handle two people with that alone.

“Sister!”

The little boy quickly hides behind Michelle.

“Hello. Nice to meet you. Should I start by introducing myself? My name is Zanderom. Delheim de Sanderome.”

When I introduced myself, she immediately bowed her head.

“My name is Michelle. Why would a nobleman live in such a squalid place…”

“It’s no big deal. Just…because I want you?”

I wanted to immediately reach out and invite him into the training space, but unfortunately, I couldn’t take that risk in the current situation where I had no idea how the logout activation would play out.

Even if conversation doesn’t work, something can be done by using force and status.

Well, that should be left as a last resort.

“……”

Her face was colored with contempt and disgust for a moment as she must have misunderstood what I said, but she quickly changed her expression and bowed even further.

…No, now that I think about it, isn’t it a misunderstanding?

“There is no value to a lowly girl like me, so how can…””

“Hahaha. no. I think it would be very helpful, right? You can tell just by looking at that little guy’s strength.”

“……”

“It’s a superpower. Right?”

“Ugh…!”

For a split second, I could clearly see that her eyes were filled with urgency and that she was concocting a plan to overcome this situation, so I quickly grabbed her wrist.

[Characters who have come in contact with the user can be admitted to the ‘Character Development Subspace’. Would you like to let me in?]

A notification window appeared in front of my eyes, but I ignored it.

“Lee, let go of this!”

“Calm down. Because I don’t mean to cause any harm. Don’t you know just by being so kind to me?”

“…!”

It goes without saying, but the nobles of this world do not have conversation with the lowly people of these slums. If there is a goal, it can be achieved simply by commanding or using force.

Michelle, who knew this well, looked at her loosely held wrist for a moment to prevent pain, then took a deep breath as if to calm down.

“Well, what do you plan on taking me and making me do?”

“Huh? Well…it strengthens me and my colleagues when fighting monsters? There is nothing in particular. Because I just want to have you.”

As I slightly lift her chin and bring my face closer, her cheeks turn red.

Well, the effect is just as effective on my face.

“I’m sorry, but…I…can’t do that.”

“Why?”

“That’s…’

At a glance, her eyes turn to her younger brother hiding behind her.

“Aha. Is it because of your family? If that’s the case, I’ll take my family with me. I promise you a prosperous life in the name of my family.”

As she said that and held out the family seal, her eyes opened wide.

“I really am Delheim’s…”

“Did you have any doubts?”

“No! There’s no way you would do such a blasphemous thing! Just…I heard that this place and Delheim are very far away…I wonder why there are people from Delheim in a place like this…”

In the end, I guess I doubted it.

“Well, that’s possible. I understand everything. Now, will you follow me?”

“…No. Still doesn’t work.”

“Why?”

“Wait a minute. Rom. Does this woman have too many conditions? Cheeky.”

Sister Dahlia, who had pushed me away while I was trying to patiently listen to the story, stepped forward and glared sharply at Michelle.

“It seems like you don’t know your situation yet because you’re criticizing the nobleman’s words. Will you just follow along after your pathetic family gets into trouble?”

“Huh…!?”

“Who, older sister? What are you talking about?”

I was quite embarrassed and raised my voice without realizing it.

“Rom. You are too withdrawn. Where did you sell the dignity and status of nobility? I’m embarrassed to be dragged around by such a commoner. In times like this, it is necessary to press down.”

“……”

I have nothing to say.

I couldn’t have guessed because I hadn’t seen this side of me before, but it turns out that my sister was also an aristocrat.

Well, is it obvious? I’m an ordinary human being born in this world, educated and raised like that… Right now, I was thinking of that method as a last resort, so I told you everything.

“Sister. it’s okay. I hate that way.”

“Rom! You should become more aware of your noble status…!”

“Sister. I’m going to be angry.”

I didn’t mean to do that, but my voice calmed down.

“What? No, I’m trying to help you…”

“This is my job. Don’t interfere. If you touch what’s mine, I won’t forgive you, no matter how much you are my sister.”

As he spoke and grabbed the handle of the sword and spewed out life, she hesitated and backed away.

“Rom. calm down. I just…”

“Stop. Talk about this later.”

After interrupting her, I went in front of Michelle and made eye contact with her with the kindest smile I could. Her frightened eyes were shaking like a lake caught in a storm.

“I’m sorry, Michelle. I have no intention of harming you or the people around you.”

“……”

“Ugh…”

I think it would be a little difficult to remove the doubts that have already arisen with just words.

“Can you explain first? Why can’t you come with me?”

“Well, well…actually, there is a devil inside me. So…”

“…What?”

I was confused for a moment, not knowing what he was saying, but something soon occurred to me.

“Can you tell me more about that?”

“Yes? Ah, yes…”

***

A few years ago, when Michelle was much younger than she is now, she had a strange dream in which a black fog thick enough to cover the sky twisted like a rope and entered her body.

From then on, another unknown entity took up residence within Michelle, whispering unclean things, appearing in her dreams in scary forms, and sometimes even taking control of her body to commit evil deeds.

“……”

The mobile game ‘Different World Beautiful Girl Training Program’ has a system called ‘erosion’. It appears when the main story progresses to a certain extent. To put it simply, it is a system in which the spirits of demons wandering around the demon world take over the bodies of collected characters and eventually escape from the user’s fostered subspace. It’s a kind of device to further increase the difficulty of collection… There are some useful points, such as increasing the character’s stats and creating new skills, but it is mostly a system with negative effects.

“Phew…”

The Demon World, the dimension where demons live, has a structure that only expands over time because the souls of dead demons do not circulate. The expanded Demon World dimension overlaps with the middle world, and the souls of demons dwell in living things such as humans. The setting is ‘erosion’.

The demon that succeeded in eroding the demon struggles to become stronger by stealing blood and life from the humans and monsters around it… Strangely, as time passes, the demon ends up becoming stronger than when the original demon was alive. It was very tricky as it even combined the magic unique to the demon race. Well, it may be unavoidable to maintain balance with the collected characters…

The problem is that the spirit of the deceased previous Demon King descends on the body of the empire’s princess, Lyriad, and this further accelerates.

‘Blood Spear’, ‘Venom Walker’, ‘Red Line’, etc. As a result of the evil ritual of a group of black magicians who worship the former Demon King ‘Geldzen’, a hole is created in the dimension in the process of the Demon King descending on Lyriad’s body. This is because other demons also rush out as if they are being led. Therefore, it was not uncommon for collected characters to escape as the game story reached its end.

“I didn’t know that erosion would start already…but it’s so fast.”

Moreover, Lyriad, the vessel that will contain the Demon Lord, has not fallen into the hands of the warlock and is in my hands.

“Yes?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

Wait, so that means the Gerudozen already came down through the dimension and eroded someone’s body… Whose body did it enter?

“Keu…”

I feel like something is tightly twisted.

“Hey…?”

“Oh, sorry. I have something to think about for a moment… Okay then, Michelle. If I get rid of that devil, will it be mine?”

“Ah, that…”

She seemed to think about it for a moment, then looked at the little boy who played tag with her, namely her younger brother Tom, and nodded with a solemn look on her face.

“Yes. I will.”

“Okay. Well then…”

There is one item that is absolutely necessary to remove the erosion condition, but the only way to obtain it is to make it through a lot of hard work or buy it from a coin shop. But was it there? I don’t think I’ve seen it before…

“……”

When I opened the coin shop, I was completely dumbfounded for a moment.

[Ring of Erosion Transfer]

Yes, there is. At the top of the front page as if it had just been updated.

Even with the submarine patch, why is this the only one? Is there no ‘Bracelet of Erosion Seal’ or ‘Censer of Erosion Realization’?

“Ugh…”

I let out a deep sigh, trying to suppress the intense discomfort that felt like I was being played into someone’s hands.

The ‘Ring of Erosion Transfer’ is a pair of plain rings that literally transfer the demons eroding the target’s body to the target wearing the ring.

This item is mainly used to transfer erosion to other collecting characters.

However, in this case, there is a certain probability that the erosion demon will disappear.

The ‘Erosion Seal Bracelet’ is literally a bracelet that stops erosion. It is an item used to seal the erosion demon for later use in cases where the erosion demon is a rare, powerful demon of the highest level or demon lord level.

The ‘Censer of Erosion Implementation’ is an item that brings out the demons that are eroding the character’s body into reality. By fighting and killing the demons, the erosion can be completely removed.

In other words, in order to eliminate erosion safely and quickly, a ‘ccentro to realize erosion’ is needed.

In fact, there was almost no way to eliminate erosion as reliably as this. Even if you kill Michelle, the spirit of the demon within her will not disappear.

“…I can’t do it.”

If you don’t have teeth, you have no choice but to use your gums.

As I was disappointed, I purchased a pair of ‘Rings of Erosion Transfer’. The price is 10,000 coins.

“Michelle. Let’s go to your house first. Right now, I will get rid of the devil in your body.”

“Yes? Ah… right now?”

“Okay. Is there a problem?”

“No…I understand.”

She nodded with a very suspicious look on her face.

***

In the first place, ‘erosion’ is not necessarily successful. There were cases of failure with a low probability, and in the game settings, this was expressed as mental strength. If the host overcomes the demon with mental power, it can defeat the erosion.

So, one option would be to wait until Michelle wins, but that would be too much of a gamble. Moreover, since there is no ‘incense of erosion’, there is a higher possibility of losing Michelle. This means that it is unlikely to withstand erosion.

The main story itself also had many parts where the princess, Lyriad, used her mental power to fight against the former demon king, Gerudgen. Well, now that I have Lyriad and I don’t know who the Gerudozen descended on, I can’t even guess what will happen.

“What about your parents?”

“…Nothing.”

“Ah, I see. I’m sorry…”

“No. It’s okay…hehe, actually Tom is not my younger brother either.”

“…Okay.”

All of the collected characters had no family. As if it had fallen from the sky one day.

“You’re so shabby… I’m sorry.”

“What are you sorry about? Don’t apologize for something like this.”

Michelle’s house was, of course, old, shabby, shabby, and poorly built.

The interior was still relatively clean, but…no, I think it would be more appropriate to say that it was empty.

“Sit here for now.”

Rather than a bed, he sat me down on a hay bale wrapped in old cloth and handed me a ring.

“This is…?”

“Rom!?”

Michelle and her sister are very embarrassed.

“Oh, it’s not what you two think, so don’t worry. This is a kind of artifact… to get rid of the devil inside you. It’s a pair with this.”

When I showed them my share of the ring, the two women tilted their heads and looked at it closely.

“Is this…?”

“Rom. What artifact is this? No, honestly, I don’t even know what disease this woman is suffering from.”

“It’s not a disease.”

“Huh? Then what is it?”

After a brief pause, I placed my hand on Michelle’s shoulder and spoke seriously.

“Michelle. Listen carefully. There is a demon in your body now. To be exact, it is a ghost of the demon race.”

“Yes, yes…?”

“What? What are you talking about! Rom!”

“Calm down. Because it’s not that serious. Now, first put the ring on.”

Actually, it’s a bit serious. If the erosion progresses completely, the Belaine territory could be destroyed. That means the erosion occurred too early.

When I put the ring on Michelle’s index finger, the plain ring instantly sparkled dazzlingly.

“If I wear this ring from now on, the treatment will begin.”

I thought I would be okay since I had taken various elixirs and even the roots of the World Tree… but I wasn’t sure. In the game, there was only a text saying that the demon’s spirit disappeared due to mental power with a certain probability.

But I do it. To relieve the desire to collect and monopolize. To protect mine.

“…Sister. I have a favor to ask.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“If my body is controlled by a demon, kill me as quickly as possible.”

“…What!? What is that…!”

I put the ring on before I even heard what she said. The next moment, Michelle’s ring and my ring were connected by an intangible blue line, and black energy began to flow from her side.

“Pfft…!”

The ego of an unfamiliar entity invading our consciousness.

I tried to gauge its level as much as possible while fighting against its ferocious will to run wild and infect the surroundings. Because I was confident that I could easily subdue a low- or mid-level demon.

and.

Finally, all the energy came into my body.

An incredibly large and strong ego and deep-rooted presence.

A demon of at least high rank or higher… that is, 3rd rank or higher.

“…I got it.”

The next moment, my vision snapped and the lights went out.