Chapter 111: Ch. A8 – End of the beginning

When I finally come to, I'm strapped to an operating table, with cuffs and all. The room itself seems to be some kind of alchemical lab, dimly lit and no one else is here as far as I can see.

As if this would hold me. I just acquired [Malleable Form] a short while ago, time to already make use of it.

I turn parts of myself into water and easily slip out of the cuffs. This much is nothing anymore, really.

After getting up, I look around the room more closely.

Next to a makeshift bed in the corner of the room, is a soldier lying on the floor. [Appraise] doesn't pick him up at all, he's dead. His armor looks like one of our soldiers, so am I finally really back in my fortress? This better not be a double nightmare.

What happened here?

When I look a bit closer, I see some bitemarks on the soldier's neck. Did I do that and then got captured?

Now that I think about it, I do in fact not feel hungry anymore, so it seems at least possible.

Suddenly, I feel something poking at my back, probably a blunt weapon. Then a voice threatens me from behind, "I thought we tied you up? Well, how about you turn around slowly and don't make any sudden movements? Comply, and no one needs to get hurt, for now."

I feel like I know this voice.

"Yeah, yeah", I turn around as requested.

In front of me stands not Lucia as I expected but her blonde twin.

But before I can process that fact, she jumps at me and takes me in a hug, "Ha! Gotcha!"

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Confused I hug her back, "What is going on here? Who are you?"

She scoffs, "What? Already forgot about your wife?"

"Uh, come again?"

She ponders for a moment, "No, this would be our first time I think."

Yeah, totally a Lucia, "And without any nonsense? What's going on here?"

She lets go and scoffs, "Fine, if you insist. I'm the part that got separated from the human Lucia when you two... did it and she became a vampire. I kinda died and she brought me back, somehow. Truth be told, neither of us remotely understands what she did but, well, now I'm both your summoned spirit and also your wife. Though to avoid confusion I go by the name Eclaire now."

"Yeah, no, that sounds like unbelievable hogwash. I'd know if I was married to two women. One Lucia is already the handful..."

She smiles mischievously, "Oh, don't deny it. Search your feelings, you know it to be true."

Then she throws herself at me again and kisses me. Reflexively, I hug her back.

I feel torn. On one hand, I already have Lucia, on the other... I can feel that there is some truth to it, Eclaire seems to be exactly who Lucia was before [Undead Bait] messed with our lives. She seems to be the person I originally didn't want to lose before that accursed skill turned her into a vampire. I don't know if it is a lingering attachment thanks to [Undead Bait] or an emotional mixup because she is at least in part my Lucia and the Happily Married title does its work now, but I know that I don't want to lose Eclaire, not again...