D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad Chapter 2311 Something Something Loss Meme

--- Kat ---

"That’s a wall right?" Kat could hardly believe what she was seeing. Thick barked trees grew together in a long line that took up a huge part of the back of the greenhouse. There was enough to block the walkways, and clearly defensive plants had been placed around the wall that reached all the way up to the ceiling.

"Yes Kat, that’s a wall... a well defended one at that," confirmed Appoline.

"And we’re just ’dealing with a monster’ according to Amaranth," snarked Kat. Appoline gave her another confirming nod. "Well... what do we want to do about this? I can probably break it down and Lily can probably chop through it... but would that be seen as aggressive? I mean... that’s clearly an intentionally built wall right?"

"We could knock?" considered Appoline. "I mean... if you don’t just want to attack..."

"Might as well," Kat agreed and walked up to the wall. Several vines and plants shifted as if readying to attack Kat but they didn’t strike yet. She was clearly walking slowly, or perhaps she just hadn’t triggered their defensive instincts. Once Kat was at the wall, she knocked on it and waited.

For a while nothing happened, but after about three minutes the ground next to her started to shift a bit, which was reason enough to wait. It was slow going and took another handful of minutes but eventually a flower bloomed with large petals. It was almost the size of Kat’s head. It vaguely resembled a megaphone. For good reason, Kat would soon find out.

"Hello? Can you hear me?" a voice echoed from the flower.

"Yes?" Kat said slowly. "Can you hear me?"

"Yes I can! My name is Rose... and I’d guess you’re here to attack me or something? But why did you knock?" mumbled Rose.

"Because something weird is going on with Amaranth," said Kat before adding silently.

"Oh! That’s great you picked up on that! See, Amaranth is a body stealing evil meany! She took my body and then I was trapped here in hers. I’m stuck here now and I can’t really go anywhere. I want my body back you know! And my house!" whined Rose.

Kat carefully kept the frown of her face. She couldn’t see any lies... which... hmm... *

Kat felt Lily give a shrug over the link and had to avoid sighing out loud. "So, not that I’d be unwilling to help you... but how can I do any of that? How did you even swap bodies in the first place?" asked Kat.

"Um... I don’t know?" said Rose, lying for the first time so far. Which was nice in that it confirmed lying didn’t work over a distance... less so because Kat had no idea why you’d even lie about something like that. Why hide it?

"Ok... then how would you expect us to transform you back?" Kat asked instead of calling Rose out.

"That... hmm... I see the issue..." mumbled Rose. "But surely you can beat her up for me?"

"I could do that... but why should I?" Kat shot back.

"I’ll... give you stuff?" Rose said unsure.

"Right... but what makes you feel like it’s right for us to do that?" asked Kat.

"She took my house!" Rose insisted, "And my body! Is that not important enough?"

Kat shrugged, "Not sure. Did you like your old body?"

"Um... what?" queried Rose.

"Well, did you like your old body? You don’t seem that keen on getting it back..." Kat offered slowly.

"It’s the principal of the thing!" insisted Rose. "It’s better than the one I’m using right now anyway!"

"So... new question Rose. What sort of proof do you want that we beat up Amaranth? Because if we fought you because she asked we could probably take your body back to her as proof, but if you just want us to beat her up I wouldn’t need to do that,"

"Well... um... hmm... why can’t you bring her body along? Wait no, it’s my body! I’m just not in it right now!" insisted Rose.

With that decided they wrapped the conversation up and dragged Appoline back to the entrance. Kat took them back there at full speed, using the path Appoline had lead them through the first time. It didn’t take too long as such soon they were outside and Kat took them all up into the air again. It took longer to explain to Appoline what they’d talked about then it did to leave.

Appoline just shrugged at the end, "If we’re leaving I’m certainly stealing some ingredients just so you know."

"At this point I’m fine with that I think," sighed Kat. *