"No," I laughed. "I'm from the Rewi era." I stretched my back on the chair. "It's nowhere near Norse, and for all we know, Norse Mythology is fake, made up. We don't know if it happened."
"Then how do you know about it?" Sora tilted her head. "If it's so far off from your history."
"Well, I studied up a lot on Mythologies."
Mythologies were my favorite thing. I studied them even after I dropped out of school.
"So that's how you knew about Elves? And what about Vampires?" Rubellia asked. "You didn't seem surprised when you found out Torappu was one."
"Well, in my world, vampires originated from a place called Eastern Europe, it's folklore, meaning it's fake. They aren't real. But there are movies and video games about them. Same with Elves."
"Movies? Games?" Han made a confused face.
"Long story, I won't talk about those." I said.
"So, you played these...Games, with Elves and Vampires?" Patora asked.
"Yeah. The Elves were always portrayed as beautiful and power beings. Just like they are hear. Vampires were blood sucking monsters. Though some idiot created this series about Vampires and love. Then again, most the games I played with Elves an Vampires were dating sims..."
"...Dating... Sims?"
Crap, did I say that out loud?
"What's that?" Rubellia asked, intrigued.
"Well..., It's were you get to pick a girlfriend, but it's all fake. It's not a real girl."
"And you played them with Elves and Vampires?" Sora narrowed her eyes.
"Elves, Vampires, regular girls, cat girls. I did them all."
Best to be honest about it.
"Cat girls? So the cursed Beast-kin are known of in that world too?" Sora sneered.
"Hey, don't call them that," I said with a scowl. "They aren't cursed, not the ones from my world, nor this one. I mean, I can't use magic either, so am I also cursed?"
"But that's different. You're not from this wo—"
"Do you think everyone else would agree with that?" I interjected. "If we told the state about me, wouldn't they most likely say I was a cursed being or something? They may even try to kill me."
She fell silent.
"Look, it's cool. Just don't judge people off of what you hear. You all think I'm cool, and you didn't even know I wasn't from this world until three days ago. So maybe if you met one of these Beast-kin and didn't treat them rudely, you may think they, too, are cool."
"Egh. You sound like an old man giving us wisdom. In fact, now that I think about it, you've always sounded like an old man."
"She's right. You complain like an old man. Like when we were in Torappu's office and you blamed the government. That's something an old man would do."
Sora and Han both jumped at the chance to call me an old man, making me cringe.
"I mean, I was twenty-eight in my world, not seventeen." I shrugged.
"So you really are an old man!" Sora exclaimed.
"Ngh! No!" I expostulated. "Twenty-eight isn't old! I may say things that sound old, but it's really just how I th—stop looking at me like that!" She was giving me a sad look, the one you give to people when they try and say they're innocent but are actually guilty.
"Whatever you say," she rolled her eyes.
"Tch. Well, if you want to keep calling me an old man, then I guess I can call you a gerontophilic."
"A what?"
"Heh, it's someone who's only sexually attracted to the elderly."
"Huhhh! That's definitely not me! And if it was, we'd all be gui—don't you give me that same look I gave you!" She huffed. "Fine then, if that's the case, I guess that makes you a lolicon!"
"Huh! Definitely not!"
"No, if you are an old man, you are a lolicon," Patora chimed in from where she was sitting.
"How? To be a lolicon I'd have to be sexually attracted to younger girls," I asserted.
"Well, the way ya look at our bodies, it's clear ya fin' an interest in us," Ellie remarked. "Or are ya sayin' we ain' sexually attractive?" All the girls looked at me.
"Hey, y'all said it; I'm just an old man, and I just see y'all as kids...Hey, what are you doing? No! Stay away! Han, help me!" The girls were all trying to strangle me as I reached for him.
"Hey, come on girls, relax. I don't think he meant it, he just said it because he doesn't want to be branded a lolicon." Han said calmly. At that the girls stopped trying to kill me and went back to how they were.
"Thank you," I said, rubbing my neck.
So... Is that true?" Rubellia asked.
"What?"
"That you only see us as kids? Is that why you don't do anything with us? Why you don't make any moves even though we make it well clear that we wouldn't mind if you did." As she spook her hands had clenched into fists.
Well...I guess that's part of it. I may be seventeen in this world, but my brain is technically still twenty-eight. And it'd be weird to make any moves on kids. I imagine stuff, b-but that's completely different! I actually blame these bodies hormones for that.
"Uh... I don't know what you mean by that. You never did anything to make it clear," I tried avoiding the question.
"What!" Seems it worked, seeing as how all the girls yelled in sync.
"I literally put my breasts in your face, several times!" Sora exclaimed. "And I kissed you!"
"Yeah, I rubbed myself on you t—wait, you kissed him?!" Rubellia shifted her gaze from me to Sora.
"I kissed you too," Patora pouted. "And I even asked you to marry me."
"Y-yeah, but that's..."
"You kissed him too!" Sora and Rubellia interjected in sync as they looked at Patora.
The girls started bickering back and forth, except Ellie, who sighed as she stood up.