When people are exposed to overwhelming prolonged stress or deep trauma, I learned how they can experience significant regression, either mental or emotional, also known as mental infantilization.

This causes that, although physically there are no evident changes, in the mental sphere the story is completely different, causing behavior, way of interacting with others, and speech to become much simpler.

Do you want an example?

Well, they use short, basic phrases with a more reduced vocabulary, while normally speaking in the third person to refer to themselves or others, and their voice tone usually becomes higher pitched, similar to that of a small child.

I already know you're asking yourselves: why am I saying all this?

Well, that's...

"Are you calmer now?"

".... Yes... Rima is okay..."

Because I'm currently with someone in that condition right now...

But first of all, perhaps you're wondering: who is Rima?

Well, don't worry, dear reader, I'm here to explain!

You see, Rima is that mysterious girl who appeared before me asking if I was normal, only to then start crying after hearing my exemplary answer.

So, for the past 30 full minutes, I desperately tried to calm her down, giving her some ice cream (belonging to Echidna) and slowly comforting her while carefully using my {"art of relaxing massage"} technique, until she finally stopped crying.

".... Sniff... Sniff... Rima is embarrassed..."

... Only to discover her precarious mental state, in which, at least emotionally speaking, it's as if she had regressed to a preschool age.

But physically speaking, isn't she a small child?

Well, that's the thing. While it's true that "physically" she has the appearance, size, and even behavior of a small child, the reality is that she is older than me, being between 17-18 years old despite her young age Apparent.

And as you might have deduced from Rima's current state, asking her about what happened took a good while, but at least I got answers that helped me clarify what happened in this city after hearing her story, or the reason for her current mental state.

.... But after hearing her whole story, I don't know whether to say she was lucky to have been able to dodge the curse's effect, or on the contrary, had the terrible luck of being the only person in this entire city to have maintained her sanity.

"You really did a good job."

"Mmmmm.... Rub more..."

"But I still have one question, why were you here?"

Actually, that's what I'm most curious about Rima right now, because from what I could understand from our conversation, she's more the type of person who, due to her current situation, ended up locking herself in a state of extreme weakness where the outside world seemed too scary, appearing extremely threatening to her. That's why it seemed very strange to me that she was out here.

However, I wasn't ready for the answer she gave...

"... Rima is here... To visit daddy..."

"... For daddy? Are you referring to him?"

I said, pointing to the naked man running at full speed, pretending to be a locomotive while rubbing his groin in the distance.

"Yes... That's... Or was daddy..."

"....."

I made a grave mistake by asking, and the atmosphere became depressing again!

I must change the subject now!!

"Well... Ahem... Is your mom at least in better condition?"

"... Mom... She... Is a cat now..."

".... A cat?"

"... By this time... She must be naked... Purring... In the church of breasts..."

"........"

".... Rima's old friend... Her name is Ilana... She is the saint... From there..."

"......"

.... Okay, you don't need to tell me, dear readers, because after all, I myself am aware of my mistake.

I definitely screwed up!!

Damn it!!

Now I can't ignore this!!

Haaa... I hope that when I get home, I've already thought of a convincing excuse to convince mom (possessed) not to use the chains again.

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