I Didn't Even Want To Live, But God Forced Me To Reincarnate! Chapter 54: Arriving At The Inn~

Dad patted Alt-nii and then continued his explanation.

"Yes. And our Transformation Oracle's got its limitation. We may be free from the risks it may pose such as shortening our life span, great exhaustion, and other things, but we can only transform into other sentient races and some few animals we are compatible with. Of course, yours and Alt's are different. So is mine. ...but somehow, we all can turn into cats just fine."

Eh? So, a cat is the default animal transformation for us? Is there a story behind that?

"…Eeh? How do I know what other animals I can turn to?"

"Well, through trials and error, Lyra~," Alt-nii seems to be very familiar with it by now.

"Is that so? T, then I should try to see if I can become a bird or not... Wait…so we can't turn into monsters using transformation oracle?" I asked.

"Well, under normal circ.u.mstances, we can't. It is still risky and hard even for us to do. But under some conditions... oh well, let's save it for later," Dad seems to be hesitant to explain further.

"Ah, Lyra, we can't turn into a werebeast or real dragon's forms… I was disappointed when I discovered this, so I think you might want to know," Alt-nii said, his eyes were cast slightly downwards.

"I see…"

Hmm, makes sense that there should be limitations to our powers. I wanted to try transforming into some monsters, though. Guess I can try some Transformation Potion in the future, if there is even any safe one…?

"Ah, thanks for the explanation, but let's go back to the original topic!" I clapped my hands. Well, originally, it was Alt-nii's topic. But he seems to forget about it, too.

"Oh, right! So, Rupert and Gale only know that we have Illusion Oracle?" Alt-nii asked his question again.

"That's right. Only a few people know about our Oracle, while the public simply knows that we are blessed with great magical power, as a magician's family. Just like how they know that the other ducal families have their own specialties," Dad explained.

That's right. I only know that about the Hartmann family back when I was Reinst Carnatia Grabberton. I know that the public understands that the royal family and the four dukes are blessed in different ways—as that's how they were able to stand at the highest hierarchy of the society, besides their past contribution in the history.

Not many have the idea about their oracles. [Oracle] is something unique and quite rare.

I fully understand Grabberton family's inherited oracle as I was a Grabberton, but I didn't expect the other ducal families to possess their own inherited oracle. I thought that it was something in Grabberton family with small chance of occurrence or inheritance (not that I inherited it, hehe!).

And yup, it's exactly Grabberton's oracle that I talked about before—the one requiring training only to control it, not to practice and make the oracle's power perfect.

Anyway, after confirming that the Hartmann also has inherited oracle, I am more convinced that each ducal family has different oracle than simply being blessed with any strong point or power.

I wonder what Oracle do the Fumitsuna and Loera family have? It's not like I can ask them directly, though… And I wonder about the royal family's oracle?

While the s.h.i.+p is getting closer to the destination, I tried to recall the facts about the royal family that I know from my interaction with Luca and about the Loera family from my interaction in the past with Nicole—and I can only speculate, but my speculation won't be verified yet.

I do take a mental note on their oddly superb qualities that might seem too strange and unusual for other normal people. Those being the blessings of their [Oracle] might answer the peculiarity.

Will I ever find out about their oracles in this life, I wonder?

The moment we stepped back to the land, we quickly moved our bodies and it's time for another carriage journey~

So, by the time we finally arrived in Sakura Inn where we will be staying, the sun's already setting. To be honest, before I even noticed it, I fell asleep in the carriage journey. I think Alt-nii also fell asleep.

We jumped down from the carriage and arrived in front of a medium-sized, fancy inn in the middle of Chinosato town. The building is quite tall—let's see, I think it consists of five floors. I can see from where I am standing that some rooms will have balcony! I sure hope that our room will have it—not that I can go out without any disguise.

After waiting for Dad and Rupert to handle the reservation at the receptionist's desk, finally, we are going up to our room~ I wonder if Mom is already there, and that we can finally be together? But how exactly are we going to do it without being found out?

Our room turned out to be at the third floor. It was a very s.p.a.cious family room, capable of containing four to five people. There are two queen-sized beds inside, separated by a small table with a lamp on top of the table.

Across the beds, there is a hologram device so we can watch any show that we want. There is also a wardrobe near the bed, available for use. On the right corner of the room, there is a door that I guess would lead us towards the bathroom.

All is looking good. There is also another wooden door that I suppose will lead us to the balcony!

Alt-nii quickly jumped towards the bed without any restraint. I quickly followed and sat down on the bed. It's fluffy!

Dad and Rupert put down two trays full of food on top of the other table provided. It must be the dining table here. It's set on the left side of the room. Since it was near dinner time when we arrived, the receptionist must have given us the choice to take in the dinner or eat at the provided restaurant on the first floor. It must be quite a ha.s.sle to get down to the first floor to eat, so maybe that's why we're bringing the food in.

Rupert and Gale once again reverted to their original forms back—wait, Dad's also reverting back? ...and so we followed, this time.

"Okay, now, it's time for moving operation!" Dad said.

"Oh, Mom's here, too?" I asked.

"Yes, let me contact her."

Dad then concentrated and called out.

"Phyllo, come out!"

And in front of him, bubbles of water formed, and a tiny turquoise seadragon appeared from amidst the bubbles. His size is around the size of Dad's palm. His blue, round eyes opened and observed his surroundings.

When he faced my way, I noticed that his yellow small horn in the middle of his head is quite sharp. His body ends in a curled up tail in front—and instead of any legs, he has two big fins similar to wings. He is floating on the air—with the help of the water bubbles surrounding him.

"That's Phyllo?"

"That's right. Phyllo, go greet the children."

Phyllo turned to look at Dad and he slightly nodded and in that instant, he swiftly moved to approach me and Altaire—his movement is similar to swimming, but he's swimming on the air!

"Nice to meet you, Phyllo!" Altaire and I smiled at the small seadragon.

"Pi piri pii!" He replied our greetings.

Ah, so Phyllo is the type of familiar that can't speak. Familiars that can speak our language fluently like Mom's Fenix usually possess more power than familiars that can't speak in our language.

"Okay, Phyllo, can you go to Ca.s.sie? She should be in the room next to ours."

"Piiii!"

What is this cute voice?!

Phyllo obeyed Dad's command and quickly ran full speed towards the wall bordering our room to the room next to ours—but wait, Phyllo, won't you just ram into the wall and got injured?