200 – Joint Evaluation (4)⚝
They walked on two legs, but they did not look human-like. It feels more interesting than disgusting, and there is definitely a clear boundary between humans and beastmen.
“Isn’t that a bit pathetic?”
As Ain laughed, the guide sighed.
“It’s just my preference, but please respect it.”
─What is that voice?
I was surprised because he looked so serious. She’s a funny woman. If you’re going to do this, don’t even pretend to be friendly. As I giggled, Ain held out his fist to me. I bumped into her too, she said to her receptionist.
“Hey, just speak comfortably.”
“Why are you speaking informally?”
“Because they are royalty.”
“If you are the royal family, I would be the princess of the beastmen.”
“You’re crossing the line.”
Hoyit──The receptionist was surprised when someone asked if he would come to his senses if he lost his job. When I tell her that she is indeed a royal, she asks me to show her something to prove my identity. Ain took out a piece of paper from her arms. It is a pardon guaranteed by the royal family.
“Do what you do.”
Ain indifferently ordered the woman who was shaking her hands.
“Don’t act cheerful, just lead the way as usual.”
“I’m comfortable with that too.”
As we looked together, the receptionist nodded her head. They are not kind to each other, so there is no need to try to be nice to them. When I asked if I could see the proper seal if I went further here, he seemed annoyed but explained it well.
“Just now, they are at level 7 or 8, so they are no different from animals. They can’t understand human speech, and because they sometimes walk on two feet, they are classified as beastmen. Anyway, if you go inside, there are guys that look like real people.”
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Suin says that the s*xual shame that humans feel does not exist or is very vague. Living together is possible only at level 2 or 3, and level 6 and above are so wild that they only understand words but cannot be tamed. On the other hand, levels 4 and 5 are created by subhumans, but their vocal organs are less developed, making communication difficult.
“You mean we can communicate from level 3?”
“Yes, he can speak well, but his voice is very unique.”
“Yangmul, when I think about it.”
Suddenly, Ain stopped, so I stepped on her foot. Then, without saying a word, he stuck his fist in my back.
“Ahh, are you crazy?”
“When I think about it, I feel so angry!”
He kept hitting me, so I blocked him with my forearm, and he criticized me for being worse than an animal.
“f*ck you, you’re level 9. “You damn beast!”
“No, why are you hitting me?”
The blood of the beast flows even more in your blood. The guide tells you not to criticize the beastman again with a straight face. Not knowing why I was being beaten, I continued to mumble, and when I saw Ain’s cheeks turn red, I finally remembered something from before.
“Hey, that was an accident!”
“Asshole, do you get in an accident every time?”
I complained that life itself was a series of accidents, so I protested and asked if I thought it was good.
“You crazy bastard, then would I have been happy?”
“No, I forgot everything, but it must have been nice to see that you still remembered!”
When I tried to kick, the guide was startled and ran away. They criticized me by saying that they were more beast-like than beastmen, so I decided to end it at this point, so they quickly landed two kicks on my body and stopped.
“Be good?”
“I forgot everything.”
“f*ck, I didn’t even remember it until I just saw it.”
“Both of you, please stop.”
We spoke at the same time when the guide stopped us.
“Is it your preference?”
“Please respect it, right?”
Her face was distorting every moment, and when she laughed happily, Ain held out her fist again. She has forgotten everything now, so she quickly turns around and goes. She nodded, wondering what she was going to do with seeing more of those imbeciles.
Afterwards, when we went to the place where the 4th and 5th level beasts lived, we saw a dwelling that looked like a hut. He doesn’t speak English, but he understands what is being said. Therefore, Ain shouted when he was told that he should lower his voice from now on.
“Hey, you bastards?”
“Please.”
“I said I understood all that!”
Gwaaeaeek──
One of the group guarding the hut cried. Then the beastmen came rushing out and looked at us. Looking at the guide sweating profusely, I realized that this woman was in a fierce mood today.
“What the heck?”
Among the many, the entity that resembled the most human spoke.
“That is the name that beastmen call humans.”
When she was told that she would ignore him if he didn’t react, she grabbed Ain’s arm. She immediately kicked me out and said she was annoyed, so I persuaded her to stop causing trouble and turn around quietly. Because she didn’t want to pay a lot of money and get kicked out.
“Let go!”
“If you let go, stop.”
“Is it my heart?”
As we confronted each other, the guide scolded us, saying that animals do not struggle like we do.
“But do beastmen also have the concept of family?”
When we stopped arguing and went into the depths of Sarifah Forest, the guide answered with all signs of annoyance.
“Yes.”
In particular, there are many elk that are close to sub-humans, so they managed to form a family. According to the classification table, beastmen exist from stages 1 to 8, but in reality, no individual has reached stage 1, and stage 2 is the most developed individual.
“Is there a difference?”
“The ears and tail are different.”
Specifically, the first stage has ears that resemble human ears, but the second stage has animal ears sticking out on both sides of the top of the head. Therefore, although they are superior in terms of hearing, their hair is rough and dull. The presence or absence of a tail is also the main difference between the two, but after listening carefully, I heard that the first stage only has traces, while the second stage is missing.
“What is the name of an influential family?”
“They call it pedigree, but gelatin is the most popular one now.”
“Foot, it’s called gelatin.”
“Didn’t I say ridicule is prohibited?”
“Hoit──!”
If you look at the immediate silence, power is the greatest.
“The beastmen inherit their mother’s name.”
According to the explanation, there is a clear difference between beasts and beasts. In an average animal, the offspring born from one individual tend to have uniform characteristics. When we have children, it’s like they share human characteristics. However, even if animals are born from the same litter, their characteristics are very different.
“So, when individuals close to humans are repeatedly bred, they end up possessing properties close to level 2 or 3.”
The beasts you will meet now are mostly divided based on gelatin.
“Baby, why are you showing so much interest?”
Ain looked at me with a strange look, so I denied it.
“He’s capable enough to be used in war.”
“You say there are so few of them in history?”
“Anyway, since I’m here, I want to find out about this and that.”
“Baby, now even the animals are greedy. “Was two not enough?”
I frowned openly.
“Hey, there’s really a limit to what I can tolerate.”
When I glared at him with a look of genuine anger, Ain did not give in and glared at me.
“What should I do?”
“Even if others don’t know, don’t mock your side.”
“Baby, I’ll do whatever I want!”
“What would you think if I said that to Maybelle?”
He said he would kill me, so I asked him if he could guess how I was feeling. He clenched his fists, so I told him to hit me if he wanted to and to please stop disrespecting his colleagues. It’s true that Kite and Rosa are incompetent, but they haven’t done anything wrong to deserve to be called beasts.
“Baby, you f*cking take sides with your females.”
“I won’t tell you to apologize.”
“Who can do it?”
“Don’t do that again. Neither of you have ever cursed at me.”
─Of course, he didn’t seem to like you.
“Okay, bastard.”
“You two, please lower your voice now.”
From here, it is the 2nd and 3rd level residential areas. From here on out, be careful what you say, as these entities are capable of communication as well as independent thinking. If they feel that they have been insulted, they may come rushing in due to their nature as animals that are good at uniting, so they cannot take responsibility for themselves. I said yes and looked at Ain. He pouts his lips and remains silent.
“First of all, we should say hello to the Gelatin family.”
I followed him and entered a place where huts were set up one after another. When I saw them cooking with a pot on the stove, they were even cooking a meal. I looked at what was being boiled, and it was boiling with a lot of grass and salt.
“Fruit and salt are good gifts for prisoners.”
Ain was upset that he would be charged for this later.
“I paid in full, what kind of bullsh*t are you talking about?”
“I’ll pay for it, so let’s not waste our energy on something like this.”
The guide entered the small cabin. There were walls, but it was an open structure on all sides. There is nothing called a door anywhere. Judging from the clinking sounds coming from inside, it seemed like there was definitely a conversation going on.
“Now, let’s say hello.”
As soon as the guide came out, prisoners wearing clothes came rushing out from between the temporary walls.
“The bastards are here?”
“Gwaaek──!”
“Franz, tell me not to do that in front of people.”
The pronunciation is subtly muffled. I wonder what it is, even though it resembles a human, I feel a sense of discomfort that is hard to explain. I bowed silently and looked at their ears and tails. That alone didn’t explain the subtle sense of difference, so I stared at his face. The pupils are different. The pupil and iris were distinct, with almost no white, and only black and gray.
“Gella, you are the best at magic among us.”
“Mom, I don’t like smelling b*tches.”
“If you ask me to eat even the fruit, then I will use all of it.”
“Ha…… “Am I some kind of helper to these bastards?”
I was secretly surprised. I asked the guide if the same was true for Ain and if that was a beast. She shrugged her shoulders and answered that the Gelatin family had the language and thinking skills to get along well with humans.
“Of course, there are problems in the details.”
The guide whispered and pointed to a cabin with open space on all sides.
“Elks are claustrophobic and go crazy when they go indoors.”
In addition, they are sensitive to light, and when they see a torch lit at night, they tend to run without looking back or forth. Even though his pronunciation was slurred, I was told that it was generally possible to communicate as long as I didn’t use difficult vocabulary, so I tried to have a conversation with him.
“Gella?”
“Oh, you idiot.”
“What are you talking about so rudely?”
“He spoke informally first. Are you saying you treat the bastards with courtesy?”
Mom criticizes her, saying she doesn’t know anything, so everyone takes Gella’s side. I don’t know the situation, but it seems like her daughter is the one who knows human society well. When I apologized for my rudeness, she waved her hand and told me not to use difficult words. Her fingernails are all black. I noticed that her palms were also shiny and smooth, so I felt like the texture would be special when I touched them.
“I am Deman from Heoden.”
As I slowly pronounced each character, Gella’s ears perked up. The pupils are large and the eyelashes are lush. It was beautiful yet foreign. I may have felt it even more because it was the first time in my life that I saw a prisoner.
“For a bastard, you’re kind, aren’t you?”
“Gella!”
“Should I roast that whole thing and throw it away?”
Ain wanted to start a fight with her, so I stepped forward.
“I want to know more about the culture of the beasts. Can we have a conversation?”
The guide looked at me with curious eyes. She said as Gella plucked a handful of grass from the floor and chewed on it.
“If you buy me blueberries, I’ll play with you.”
This elk is openly belittling.