"Takatsuki! Takatsuki! Help me!"
Putting the longsword he had just projected into the King's Treasure, Takatsuki looked up at Kiana, who had kicked open his door.
"Kiana, you fix the door yourself later."
"Oh no! There's no time for that! Come with me quickly!"
Kiana wasn't afraid of Takatsuki's words at all; she rushed over, pulled Takatsuki, who was sitting in the room, up from his chair, and headed towards the living room.
"What happened? Why are you so flustered?"
Takatsuki did not resist Kiana's pulling and was dragged by his right arm all the way to the living room.
In the living room, Takatsuki found that everyone else besides himself was gathered there. Mei quickly turned around when she saw Takatsuki being forcibly dragged over by Kiana.
"Takatsuki-kun, you're here. Quickly look at this child, is she a Xenos like you once mentioned?"
"A Xenos?"
Everyone else noticed Takatsuki's arrival because of Mei's words and quickly made a path. Takatsuki saw a blue-haired, green-skinned girl wrapped in a cloak sitting on the living room sofa…
No, the girl had pointed ears, a dark red magic stone on her forehead, and her fingernails were extremely sharp—no, they couldn't be called fingernails at all, but rather claws.
"Takatsuki-kun, I didn't expect what you said before to really exist, a talking monster."
Hestia also stood beside the monster girl and looked at Takatsuki.
"Of course. By the way, who brought her back?"
As soon as Takatsuki finished speaking, everyone simultaneously looked at Kiana.
It was Kiana?
Takatsuki glanced at Bell, and when the latter seemed a bit strange, he shifted his gaze, turning to Kiana.
"What exactly is the situation? No one else saw her, right?"
Hearing Takatsuki's words, Kiana immediately turned her head away, not answering.
It was Fu Hua who answered: "Lefiya of the Loki Familia and another Elf girl named Filvis know about this."
"..."
Oh no, Takatsuki knew it was bad when he heard that. Takatsuki reached out and forcibly pulled Kiana's face towards himself, speaking to Kiana word by word.
"You! Ex! Plain! Your! Self! Now!"
"Ah… that…"
Under Takatsuki's intimidation, Kiana had no choice but to explain.
In short, while Kiana was adventuring in the Dungeon with the two, on the nineteenth floor, she discovered a blue-haired girl covered in blood, being chased by monsters.
Kiana didn't think twice and rushed to rescue the girl, only to find that she was not a surface race, but a Dragonian girl with a magic stone.
Lefiya and Filvis, who arrived shortly after, also discovered this.
Kiana did not choose to attack after seeing the girl, because she saw the Dragonian girl crying out of fear. Although she was an idiot, her intuition told her that this girl was the Xenos Takatsuki had once spoken of.
"What were Lefiya and Filvis's reactions?"
The course of events was similar to Bell's situation in the original work, but with two additional outsiders, who could even be said to be a huge problem.
"As for Lefiya, she was very conflicted at the time, but she wanted to kill this little girl. However, how could me allow her to do that? The glory of the Kaslana Family is not gained by killing innocent little girls."
Then Kiana showed some strange expressions: "But Filvis's behavior was a bit odd; she stared intently at this little girl, and when Lefiya wanted to kill her, her emotions seemed to become very agitated."
"But she didn't say anything, and then me brought this little girl back with her."
"..."
Takatsuki pulled Kiana's cheeks hard to both sides: "You! This! Guy! Argh!"
Takatsuki sighed heavily: "Forget it, I'll handle this matter."
Looking at the others, Takatsuki spoke.
"I've talked about Xenos before, so you should understand. This matter needs to be kept secret, because almost everyone in Orario believes—no, it should be said that everyone in this world believes that monsters and humans are pure enemies. So if it's exposed, our the Hestia Familia will very likely face hostility from all of Orario."
"Before, because you hadn't encountered them, I didn't ask, but now it's unavoidable. I want to ask, what do you think of their existence?"
Facing Takatsuki's question, Kiana was the first to respond.
"Does that even need to be said! Although she's a different race, isn't she just like the other demi-human races in this world?"
"I share Kiana's view."
"Bronya thinks so too."
Fu Hua: "The nature of man is a mixture of good and evil; cultivate its good and it becomes a good person, cultivate its evil and it becomes an evil person."
"Uh, what does Class Monitor mean?"
Fu Hua suddenly spoke in a literary way, and Kiana couldn't understand at all.
Takatsuki had to explain: "Fu Hua means that people are divided into good and evil. The way one is raised determines the kind of person they become. Here, it should mean that even if a monster is born in the Dungeon, with proper nurturing, it can become an entity that coexists with us."
Fu Hua nodded at Takatsuki's explanation.
However, compared to the outsiders who could accept such things, Bell and Haruhime couldn't react for a moment.
But Bell was kind by nature, and looking at the frightened little girl sitting on the sofa, he simply couldn't associate her with the fierce monsters of the Dungeon.
"Bell, Haruhime, you don't need to be conflicted. Xenos are different; ordinary monsters are beings that only know slaughter and cannot coexist with us. But Xenos are different; they are beings who have gained sentience in the cycle of the Dungeon. Even the Dungeon wants to kill them, so they are only the same race as those monsters; everything else is completely different."
"Bell, even if you encounter the same monsters in the Dungeon, you don't need to hold back."
Takatsuki didn't want Bell to be led astray because of the Xenos matter. Seeing him nod as if he understood his words, Takatsuki looked at Hestia.
"Hestia-sama, you…"
"Since everyone has already made their decision, I naturally won't object! Rather than that, why don't we quickly give this child a name? We can't keep calling her 'monster'."
Hestia had a point. Kiana, who had escaped from Takatsuki's clutches, leaned over to the Dragonian girl, who clearly relied on Kiana, who had brought her back, and immediately hugged her.
"As for a name, let Kiana come up with it, since she brought her back."
"This Miss gets to name her?"
Kiana looked at the blue-haired girl in her arms: "What name do you want?"
"Name? Kiana Kaslana…"
The girl was clearly not yet articulate, and although there was some innate knowledge implied, the girl had only just been born.
"No, no, that's me's name. Let me think."
Although Kiana appeared to be deep in thought, constantly spouting strange names like Little Blue, Draggy, Cabbage, Blueberry, and other increasingly outlandish names, causing everyone around to have black lines on their foreheads, only the Dragonian girl didn't know that she was about to be given a bizarre name.
"If the idiot really can't think of anything, let's keep it simple. Kiana Kaslana, just call her Nana."
Bronya, who couldn't stand it anymore, spoke from the side.
"Nana is good, simple and easy to remember."
"Right, right, exactly."
"I think so too."
After Bronya's suggestion, everyone immediately agreed, so as to prevent Kiana from coming up with a bunch of strange names.
Thus, Takatsuki watched as the Dragonian girl, who should have been named Wiene, received the name Nana amidst laughter.