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<"Are you feeling better now?">

"Haa~.... Yep... much better..."

<"I told you the desserts would be necessary">

"And they were... They really were..."

Well, dear readers, you might be wondering what's happening?

But don't worry, I'll tell you!

Ahem... You see, as you remember, I was heading confidently to make the last delivery (though a bit late) of the day to successfully finish my first job.

However, when I arrived at the agreed address and rang the doorbell in a good mood, waiting in front of the door after hearing a response from inside, that's when the world decided to give me another one of its stupid reality checks straight to the face.

Do you know what greeted me when I opened that door?

Well, an almost naked pregnant woman wearing a yellowish towel with her body covered in perverted tattoos!

Here, as any sane person would do, I decided to analyze her reaction by staring at her for a moment, which allowed me to discover that she didn't feel any shame, while, on the contrary, she kept fixing her gaze on my crotch.

This kind of reaction allowed me to know that she wasn't a mere pervert who enjoyed doing these kinds of things (maybe?) and that her behavior must be due to some anomaly.

Why are you sure?

Well, that's because throughout my (short) life in this world, I've encountered all kinds of people to the point of understanding to a certain degree some reactions to identify to a certain extent the source of others' perversion.

Do you want to know how?

Well, I'll tell you!

So, to begin, let's talk about the most common and easiest to deduce in this world, and that is...

Erotic trainings!

Erotic trainings, dear reader, are those usual scenes where someone finds a person's weakness and then proceeds to blackmail them with it, leading them down the path of depravity and corruption, or in simpler words:

It's the typical rape training trope that appears in stories!

You know, the one where a heroine is subjected to all sorts of things that slowly undermine her morale until she falls into a perverted state, ending up choosing pleasure above all else.

How common is it for this to happen?

Well, much more than I want to admit!!

.... But at least this type of situation usually doesn't involve any supernatural elements (in most cases), which makes it quite easy to resolve if you receive help from someone else in time.

So if these kinds of situations were categorized like in a game, this would undoubtedly be the one with the "easy" level term!

In my experience, I know that if she were a victim of that kind of situation, she would have at least shown a reaction to being seen, whether positive or negative, depending on how "trained" she was.

But her reaction was one of "normalcy," which means it's at least unlikely she's in that scenario!

Which leads us to the next option, and that is that she's something else pretending to be human.

If this were the case, it would explain such a strange appearance, since creatures pretending to be human are usually quite ignorant about things like a sense of shame or or what is considered basic common sense for others.

Examples of these cases are aliens that parasitize other humans, shapeshifters, and any non-human thing that can adopt a human form to camouflage or similar.

By the way, Echidna would fall into this category when taking human form!

Ahem... But let's continue where we left off, please.

To recognize these types of cases, one only needs to notice abnormal behaviors that betray their inexperience in acting human, although, of course, like Echidna, there are cases that are accustomed to the human form and can go unnoticed to some extent.

But isn't the human form Echidna's original appearance?

Excellent question!!

And to answer, let me remind you that Echidna was sealed for a long time, saving energy by maintaining a snake form, and even now maintains that form due to being weakened, which is why she ended up getting more used to this form than her original one, or in simple words:

She's out of shape when it comes to being human!

So, now that I've explained that, I'll proceed to say why the woman didn't fit into that category either, and you see, the answer is simple in this case, and that is that Echidna didn't react or inform me about her.

Which means she's at least a normal human!

Therefore, she doesn't count as a threat according to Echidna's criteria, and and thus all dangerous options are ruled out, which leaves us with situations to which Echidna doesn't react due to her indifference towards unrelated humans.

So that leaves us with the typical options of "possession drug," "skin medicine," or "brainwashing application" that I'm already used to.

.... Isn't this too much trouble?

I think so too!!

So, whatever one of these three options it is, I know it will eventually be problematic, so I simply put my palm on my face and asked Echidna to painlessly put her to sleep to think about what to do.

.... Although I must admit that receiving this kind of blow after letting out my frustrations down there actually left me a little, just a little, affected, on the verge of falling into a momentary depression.

But that's where all the desserts came in!!

So, to lift my spirits, I ate each and every one of them and then, with the excess sugar in my system, organized this ruined apartment!

And now, with the place cleaner, I had to decide what to do with this woman's current situation, since I obviously couldn't leave her as she was.

I mean, if she's possessed, then upon being freed, it's very likely she'll choose suicide, or on the contrary, if her case is that she was brainwashed, then depending on the orders left, it might be impossible to help her...

"If only there were a way to know if she's possessed..."

<"I can tell you this woman isn't possessed">

"Uh... How do you know...?"

<"When I bit her to put her to sleep, I was able to get some information about her, like the fact that she has a 'girl' in her womb">

"You can do that?!"

<"Of course I can, after all, in ancient times I was revered as a symbol of fertility">

"....."

Now that I think about it, that would explain why Echidna is so obsessed with increasing the number of "concubines" all the time...

"Well, that solves one mystery, but we still have to take care of her and what to do with her current situation."

Honestly, it's worrying to leave her alone knowing she has a baby in her womb, and even more so because of all those "debt envelopes" that were scattered around when I cleaned the place.

<"Why don't you just hire her as a maid?">

"But Sara and I already take care of the cleaning."

<"There are many other jobs she can do besides cleaning, plus you need help with your growing work addiction">

"......."