I would only later learn that the shepherd boy must have been awake and seen my transformation, as a legend was formed around this encounter. A beautiful naked woman carrying an animal's hide visiting a lonely shepherd and spending the night with him, then running away just before dawn and using the hide to change into a wolf in the sunlight.

What do you mean, spend the night? As in, sexually? No such thing happened! But beautiful, huh? Not handsome? Beautiful... hah- I'm not happy to hear that at all! So praise me more... ehehehe.

Incidentally, there's also a continuation, which I must have missed, and only heard of much later. The shepherd followed my tracks and found a pile of bones clearly belonging to a canine animal near a river. Since it was so clean, but also fresh, he thought I must have shed them, too. Well, I did shed them, but they weren't mine. The tracks disappeared in the river, so he assumed I had turned into yet another something and swam away. In reality, I was washed away a little downstream and thought I would drown... but that doesn't make for a good legend.

I'm walking in the direction where the sun came up from. I messed up! I should have asked the shepherd boy for directions to the next town or something. But I already walked pretty far, and I was even washed away by a river since I underestimated its depth and slipped. I don't want to experience that again. Well, it's only been a day, I still have a thousand more before the deadline to return home comes around.

For now, I'll just enjoy the lease on a new life, even if it's in a world filled with dangers and unknown things. Being born the child of the demon lord should come with its own perks when I get back to her eventually. If we're at war with the humans, I'll just have to find a way to end the war. I mean, we're all people, aren't we?

Oh, there's a village. No walls, only one street, a collection of a few houses. I actually see some people working on the fields surrounding the houses. They look like normal humans, all with hair in shades of blond and light brown. Those look like pumpkins, and that's... wheat? So they have things I recognize in this world, too. For now, let's go and see if my appearance will cause suspicion.

What am I thinking? Of course, I'll cause suspicion, I'm naked, aside from the leather sheet. At least my hair can be turned back to normal, and just in case, I color it blond. I make my eyes blue, or at least I will them to be, but I'm not sure if it happened since I have no mirror. Now, I can only wrap myself into the linen sheets from my backpack. At least they look more normal than leather, I think. Actually, is this a sewing set? But I can't sew at all, so there's not really a point, I guess. I can only try.

"Look at that girl, she's in rags."

"Did something happen to her? Her clothes look like she was attacked..."

I can hear you... Your pitiful gazes and words of suspicion hurt my heart. I did my best, you know? I mean, ever since coming here, this is the first time I'm properly wearing something one could - with a lot of goodwill - identify as clothes. If I was in the wild, I'd walk around in my birthday suit. That's how desensitized I've become, especially considering I'm actually a monster with a completely different appearance.

"Hey, are you alright?" A good looking young man asks me. Before, I would have felt nervous, being talked to by a handsome boy. Maybe I'm being affected by what I've become? I'm indifferent to being approached by him with a concerned expression.

"I'm fine." I say flatly. Wait, if I talk like this, I won't be able to get any information. Playing on my vulnerability and female charm, I should be able to get men to do things for me. Ah, this thought wouldn't even have crossed my mind before, but it just came to me naturally. How did this happen?

"You don't look fine. You're in rags and don't look like you have any belongings on you. Were you robbed by highwaymen?"

Leave me alone about my clothes already! And my belongings are inside my body, but I can't let anyone know. Actually, coming into a town without any belongings and then suddenly having some might cause misunderstandings, so I'll have to keep them inside. Alright, I'll play the damsel in distress and act as if I've been robbed blind.

"Actually... yes, all my belongings have been stolen. I managed to escape in the night." I don't think I'm a good actress, but saying it with an empty expression should be good enough? I sustained some trauma and lost my emotions. That's the story I'll go with.

"I see. Poor girl... My name is Rolan. Come with me. I'll give you a warm meal and a change of clothes at least."

Score!