Episode 74
Chapter 16 Reunion and Encounter (6)
The little boy hiding behind my legs climbed up to my shoulder.
I almost threw the kid away, but I wiped my surprised heart.
“I will tell you the blue house!”
In the meantime, the little boy was pushing his claim.
‘Blue… … .’
It must mean the color of Rashar’s hair, right?
I don’t know what kind of relationship she and this kid have.
‘Let’s use this as an excuse and step out.’
Thanks to that unexpected connection, I think I can avoid getting involved with Hesserma.
“Hut!”
“hmm?”
But Hesserma’s reaction is very strange.
When I saw the little boy riding on my body, I immediately swallowed in vain.
On top of that, he even muttered something meaningful.
“Of course… … .”
“Why is that?”
But when I asked the question, there was no answer.
I’m just looking at the kid on my shoulder with a hard face.
It’s not a problem that’s important enough to dig out, let’s jump in this gap.
“Thank you for the suggestion, but I think we can go separately.”
I declined his offer.
“ah! Now, wait a minute. If you’re going, I’d rather have my carriage, both of you… … .”
Hesserma, who was a little more persistent in recommending him, suddenly stepped back in surprise.
It was because the little boy who had perched on my shoulder lowered his fangs at him.
I was as surprised as Hesserma at the sudden thing.
However, it was impossible to stay still, as the little boy started screaming and swarming.
“I know, I will teach you! You are out!”
Shortly after, the soft hair touched his neck. It was a little boy’s tail.
I didn’t like it because I felt like I was somehow caught in a noose.
I said as I untied the tail from my neck.
“I see. Anyway, nice to meet you again. See you next time… … .”
“That way, that way. Quickly!”
“Hey, hey! Don’t pull your hair!”
I don’t think it was intentional, but because of the kid’s grumpiness, not the grumpiness, I was able to turn around after saying hello to Hesserma.
* * *
To be honest, I didn’t expect this situation until I left Hesserma.
“Miss Velta, long time no see.”
“huh!”
However, the kid, who didn’t intend to come down after going up on the shoulder, just replied brightly.
It was an elderly gentleman who greeted him.
-It’s called Chentler, who serves Lady Lashar.
With his gray hair swept clean and wearing half-moon-shaped glasses, he was calm throughout.
Even when he saw me with my little boy on my shoulder and my hair gone, he wasn’t upset at all.
“By the way, he said he was looking for Lady Lashar.”
On the other hand, I, exhausted from wrestling with the kid all the way here, exhaled a breath close to lamentation and answered.
“… … yes.”
The reason I spoke to the kid in the first place was to ask for directions to the resistance headquarters.
But somehow he accompanied me to the headquarters, and now he came with me to Rashar’s mansion.
At first, I also tried to send the child back. I just wanted to avoid being treated as a kidnapper.
But me who wants to pull it down and the kid who doesn’t want to come down.
After a few scuffles, I was the one who declared giving up.
How fast this guy is, the catcher slipped away.
In the process, the guy’s fingernails scratched and the scars increased.
‘This is different from normal humans, right?’
I expected it from the way it looked and ran at a speed that I could barely catch up with.
The little boy’s strength and reflexes far exceeded human standards.
If I keep arguing, it will only increase the scars on my face.
‘I never brought it. This guy followed me.’
Later, if the little boy’s guardian says anything, he will insist on it with a straight face.
Even for that, the child shouldn’t get hurt even by the tip of a hair.
In the end, I had no choice but to neglect it instead of forcibly pulling it down.
When I calmed down, the little boy grabbed me by the neck with his legs.
Thanks to this, I came all the way here with a child on my thirsty horse.
Arriving at Rashar’s mansion with a little kid in my head, I pondered over the words of the old gentleman.
‘A young lady… … .’
Surely not only Rashar, but this kid was also called that?
“Hee hee, let me come to you!”
What is the identity of this little boy who wraps his legs around my neck and grabs and pulls my hair?
What are you doing that the guard guarding this huge mansion opened the door without verifying my identity?
How does Chentler, who serves Rashar, know him?
“May I ask for your name?”
“… … This is K.”
“ah.”
When he answered in a tired voice, the old gentleman’s eyes widened slightly.
What that means is clear.
“Do you know me?”
“It’s just that I heard the story lightly.”
She said it was Rashar’s house, so it seems she was talking about me.
Thanks to the little boy, I think I came here well.
“Sorry, the lady is currently at the headquarters… … .”
The problem is that Rashar isn’t even here.
“If you don’t have an urgent schedule, how about waiting? I will contact you via telegram.”
Shall we say fortunate among misfortunes? It seems that there is a means of contact.
‘Where is this?’
It’s not like going round and round, it’s just that I don’t have to wander around looking for Lashar anymore, but I’m just waiting.
There was also an intention to rest while waiting for her.
I was tired from being bullied by the kid all the way here.
“Then thank you.”
Centler, who bowed his head politely, turned slightly and said.
“I have kept the guest standing for too long. Please go upstairs first, and I will guide you to the drawing room.”
I had just stepped on the stairs in the center of the hall after him.
I felt the little boy sitting on my shoulder jump up.
“The smell of chocolate!”
Then, before he could react, he shot out.
It was to the point that my body staggered for a moment because he pushed me to stand up.
But it didn’t feel bad at all.
‘at las!’
Having regained my freedom, I messed with my hair.
My scalp was itchy from pulling too hard and for too long.
It was complicated to see the hair that fell every time I rubbed my hair.
‘If I had been held on to it, I would have lost 100 percent.’
I couldn’t swallow a sigh and let it out, and I heard Chentler’s unique soft voice.
“It’s like making chocolate in a restaurant. It’s Lady Belta’s favorite snack.”
My expression became grim.
I could accept the existence of chocolate in this world without much difficulty.
As long as people live, it is natural for Jujeonburi to develop.
But it was kind of surprising that the kid could eat it.
‘I thought I was more like a beast… … .’
Isn’t caffeine poisonous to dogs and cats?
Even chocolate contains caffeine.
If you think about it that way, you shouldn’t even eat that kid who looks like a cat, but I guess that’s not the case.
“This is a cautionary tale to tell to someone who has suffered, but please don’t think too badly of Miss Velta.”
How did I interpret the fact that I was looking in the direction where the little boy had disappeared? Gentler, who had turned halfway toward me, spoke calmly.
“Maybe it was because he liked Kei.”
“It’s not childish enough to jump out at me just because I was scratched by a kid.”
I didn’t mean to get angry by jumping up and down with a slight injury.
It’s just that the little boy’s behavior I saw today bothered me.
“Still, I think I have to learn the scary things in the world. He follows a stranger he saw for the first time today, and that causes trouble.”
I brought it and saw it, and I’m glad it’s at the house of someone I know.
If I had a bad heart and even kidnapped, why would I rush after someone I don’t know?
Chantler said something because he seemed to know that kid.
“Anyway, beastmen are naturally timid and curious, so this happens often.”
I could hear the story of a little boy who had only vaguely guessed.
“It’s only natural that beastmen are born with powerful bodies.”
Right after, Centler began to climb the stairs, winking as if he were going to start again.
The stairs leading from the spacious hall to the second floor split into two sides along the way.
Zentler turned to one of the stairs leading east.
I followed him, chewing on the words I just heard.
‘Being a prisoner.’
I don’t mean any documents or hunters I know.
‘If it’s the number of beasts, it can be interpreted literally.’
Thinking of the kid’s appearance, that seemed the most plausible.
As the conversation started, I decided to ask a few more questions.
“What is his true identity?”
Are you being treated like a lady and walking around the mansion as you please? Or is there another reason?
When I asked for a long time, the answer came back quickly.
“She’s the youngest daughter of Horpe, the king of the beasts this time.”
The words that came out of Chentler’s mouth were so colorful that I was speechless.
‘The king’s youngest daughter.’
The process of meeting the little boy and getting here passed through my mind.
In terms of people, it’s like royalty, but walking around alone wasn’t enough, so you willingly followed strangers?
“Is it okay for a kid like that to go around alone? If anything happens… … .”
“I must be prepared to die for all my relatives.”
Chentler laughed softly and replied in a light tone.
His story that followed was a bit shocking.
“It is not true that there are people who abduct children of sub-species and engage in illegal human trafficking. It must be being done secretly somewhere.”
However, it is very rare to trade among them.
The moment his identity is discovered, even his family members will be brutally murdered and their bodies will be displayed.
Not only the person concerned, but also the criminal’s direct parents, children, and collateral relatives can be subject to retaliation just because they lived in a neighbor’s house and were close.
Leaders and military leaders of each country say they do not take issue with the massacre as long as there is clear evidence of human trafficking.
He was the master of dispatching beastmen to the frontline, especially to the area where the battle was the fiercest.
“her.”
To be honest, it was a little shocking.
It was also a reminder that this world was based on a monarchy and caste system.
‘If such a retaliatory massacre had occurred on Earth, all kinds of human rights groups would have rushed and protested.’
However, this is not Earth, so things that are possible exist.
I had to accept it.
While I was lost in my own serious thoughts, Chentler’s story continued.
“Perhaps because they are faithful to their instincts, the beastmen tend to leave their children free.”
In particular, beasts and beasts have such a tendency.
“I was afraid of an upcoming accident, so I had the mindset that if I tied my child up and raised him, how would he become a beast?”
Is it similar to how a lion pushes its child off a cliff?
“In the first place, it is difficult to become dangerous in most things because their physical abilities far exceed those of humans.”
Only four years old, that little boy’s greedy power alone can blow up a sturdy human head.
A cold sweat formed on my back there.