My second go at life // Orsted x oc (Mushoku Tensei)

After dinner, Rudeus was just yelling numbers at the dog making me push him over since it seemed like he was bullying him.

"What are you doing?" I asked him.

"Training him," Rudeus explained.

"By yelling? Look at Erbis." I pointed at Eris, and the dog tilted his head at my mistake and I frowned while Rudeus laughed a little. 'Seriously a dog realised my mistake...' I mumbled in my mind, so I don't make another mistake.

Rudeus laughed nervously and then was shocked to see Eris was teaching Tona and Tersena how to speak our language. 'Eris of all people is teaching a language! She does her teacher proud!' Rudeus cried in his mind and the dog was confused as I was ready to cry again.

"Tona, it's time for your bedtime," Gyes informed her. "Lady Eris, thank you for being a friend to my daughter. Is she troubling you?"

"Not at all! Tona's a good girl!" Eris exclaimed.

"I'm certain that ring is a mark of the Doldia tribe, where did you get it?" He asked her.

"Ghis!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah, Ghislaine gave it to me on my tenth birthday!" Eris bragged.

"Ghislaine?" Gyes whispered.

I immediately noticed the change of atmosphere while Eris didn't. "That's right! Ghislaine's part of the Doldia tribe, too, right?!" Eris looked at us.

"It completely slipped my mind," Rudeus mumbled. "Do you know anything about her? She's about this tall and looks just like you."

"Am I deaf?" I asked after a while.

"No sadly," Rudeus answered confirming its awkward silence.

"Ah, awkward...She didn't speak of family." I added. "Not good?"

"So, she's still alive. I figured she was dead in a ditch somewhere." Gyes groaned. It sounds like he wished for her to be dead for a second hurting me that someone so nice could hate Ghislaine like that.

"Wait a moment, did something really happen between you and her?" Rudeus asked.

"She abandoned the Doldia's duty to guard the forest and the Sacred Beast." He explained. "She fled and...she is a disgrace to our people."

Gyes pulled Tona with him. "We are leaving," Gyes spoke up in Beast God language, so she could understand.

"Dad! Ow! That hurts, meow!" Tona yelled.

"Eris!" Rudeus shouted when she ran after him, and I followed.

The rain didn't help, but I tried my best to send wind magic their way to hear them. "Who- thin- you!" Eris yelled. I saw she was out of breath, and I put my hand on her arm.

Eris looked at me and then grinned. "Ghislai-aster! I re-than anyone!" I got none of that, but Eris was crying, so I hugged her as she kept yelling.

I think she was praising Ghislaine. She does love her more than anyone and must be worried that she could be dead so him saying hopefully she's dead somewhere must have hurt her a lot.

Gyes seemed to be saying something to. Rudeus came over and seemed to be trying to get Eris to back down. 'She's upset, he looks down on Ghislaine.' Rudeus explained to me in his mind.

Eris pulled me in closer and hugged Rudeus to.

I just watched them both as they talked and I think I got it. "Ghis lovely!" I exclaimed and Eris nodded. "But Ghis isn't the same Ghis for all, but she doesn't deserve death! No one does!"