Poor Cornered Purple-Skinned Rat

"EIIAAHHH!!"

A horrified scream, full of sheer disgust, echoed through the forest, reaching even Shye, who was inside the cave.

"A RAT!! THERE'S A HUGE PURPLE, SCRAWNY RAT HIDING IN THE VOID!!" the titled mage fell on her butt, pointing at the empty space in front of her.

Emily Ashford, also known as Thunder Lily in Deltra, only had one thing she was scared of, and it was not death but rats.

She absolutely despised rats due to a trauma when she was young.

Thus, anything that remotely resembled a rat morphs into one in her head, and in this case, Nookie indeed somewhat looked like an overgrown, bipedaled, purple, scrawny rat.

"Y-You dare call me a rat?!" Nookie protested, its voice echoing from the void.

Almost immediately, the party's scout lunged at the source of the voice, stabbing at the void with his purple-glowing katar.

"Sh*t!" cursed the little necrollin. "You'll pay for what you just said, dumb woman!"