When I opened my eyes again my perspective had changed to that of only a foot high as my size had shrunk greatly
When I looked at the beautiful black fur I melted inside at how soft it was, the appearance I had now was extremely cute and I felt like I never wanted to become an ugly human again
Unfortunately as I became smaller my physical strength had decreased, but thanks to the Blessing of Elari talent my Xin arts had increased greatly
"mm, where am I?"
I suddenly heard a quiet feminine voice ringing in my head, when I turned around I saw the rabbit waking up, after a moment I realized that we both had the One Mind talent and could communicate telepathically
"you're in Black Marsh in the Lin Empire"
I replied the same way through my thoughts, the little rabbit had beautiful eyes that sparkled like drops of dew
"Lin Empire? What about Altitia?! I have to go back, Mother, s-she's... "
Suddenly she burst into tears upon remembering what happened, when I asked her what why she was crying she said she had come from an underground world of Altitia
"when the earthquake happened the beasts had went berserk and attacked the Elari race, we have been living in harmony for thousands of years with the beasts, and now our world was devastated... But, who are you? What are you doing in the surface world? Did you also escape from Altitia? Did my parents send you here to rescue me?"
She wiped her tears after explaining and asked me
"no, I'm not from Altitia, I've been living in the Lin empire this whole time, I'm actually not an Elari"
I said while scratching my head embarrassingly, I didn't know why I was feeling so bashful, maybe it was because I was in a rabbit's body and they were naturally timid
"that's not possible! You're a pure blood Elari like me, I can tell you have the blessings of the Elari!"
She denied my words and called me a lier so blatantly that it had ticked my nerves, I was an Apprentice Jin, Xin, and healer, if people actually knew about this, the amount of respect I'd have received would be... Well I'd most likely get stuffed in some dungeon and experimented on
"Hmph, is that how you repay me for saving your life? By calling me a lier? Are all Elari so ungrateful?"
She looked down at the bite mark on before saying
"you're a Drui!? But, your kind have disappeared for hundreds of years since the calamity!"
"as I said, I'm not an Elari, I'm human"
After I said that I transformed back into by human appearance while stylishly putting my clothes back on before I had finished transforming
"huh? So you do know how to wear clothes? I thought you were from the Barba tribe"
When she said this I realized she had been wearing clothes this entire time, I had not payed attention as they were made of leaves that were stitched together
When I realized that I had been standing naked in front of her this entire time in Elari form I felt my face turn red and wanted to crawl into tree hollow
"how did you end up here? It's dangerous in the Black Marsh"
I said as I sat down and holding my legs in a depressed manner
"my parents had set up a teleportation array, I was supposed to escape Altitia and be sent south of this swamp in a forest where the rest of us had escaped as refugees, but because the teleportation array was damaged in a beast attack the course had been changed and I ended up here"
She explained, but I stopped listening after I heard teleportation, this was something extremely advanced that the Lin Empire had been working on for centuries and had little progress