131 I missed you too
***[Catherine, Duchess]***
After Oscar-sama killed the Witchbeast, the carriage, which had stopped for a while, moved again.
All of a sudden, Catherine’s carriage is surrounded by escorts and soldiers.
As the wagon slowly moves toward the reservoir, the distance gets closer and closer, but Oscar is nowhere to be seen because of the soldiers.
‘The danger is over now and Oscar is safe, so why is everyone surrounding me like this?’
Feeling a little uneasy, I put my face out of the carriage, and the old guard came closer.
“Ma’am, do you have something to say?”
“No, it seems that the Witchbeast is dead now. Why is this…”
As Catherine looked at the soldiers everywhere, anxiously, the guards smiled.
“As the wife said, the danger is gone. However, we are just being vigilant considering the possibility that other demons still exist. There is no need to worry.”
is it.
Let’s be relieved, the strength has lost a little from the body.
“Madam, it will take some time as there is still cleanup left to do. The duke won’t be back in the carriage for a while. If you’re worried about being alone, should I call a lady-in-waiting?”
The guard, who knows that she and Anne are on good terms, asks.
Katrin’s face suddenly brightened, and the escort smiled and turned her head.
“Take your wife’s maid here.”
The carriage stopped for a moment, and Anne came quickly.
My eyes twinkle with excitement.
Her fingers were constantly moving.
Amazing, amazing, see?
The hand gestures continued.
“…”
I didn’t see it.
I saw Mr. Oscar standing still, but at one point the escorts surrounded the wagon and I couldn’t see anything.
As Anne approached the carriage, the guard opened the door.
Catherine quickly grabbed Anne’s hand and pulled her inside.
The guardsman smiled, quietly shut the carriage door, and stepped back.
“I haven’t seen it, I know. I can only see the guard’s head from here.”
Anne looked out the window and nodded.
“That’s right. I can only see the escort and the horse’s ass. But from the wagon I was in, I could barely see it, even if it was far away.
“…”
Anne frantically covered her face with the palm of her hand.
It looks like it’s hot because it’s excited.
“The duke is really amazing. Well, he doesn’t do anything, but his demonic beasts come floating up.”
I missed you.
As her shoulders drooped, Anne pulled herself together as if feeling sorry for her.
“It’s okay, ma’am. You wouldn’t have noticed anyway. The only thing I saw was the duke standing and staring at the lake. After that, the Witchbeast floated on the water on its own.”
“I still wanted to see it. How did it look like?”
“Well, I couldn’t see it in detail because it was so far away, but um, how to say, except that it looks really bizarre.
Anne tilted her head.
“Anyway, it looked really odd. It wasn’t an animal we knew.”
I was very curious.
I think it was the same for Pooh.
At first, Pooh, who stayed near Katrin, was running toward the reservoir while making a strange cry.
Puppoo, puppupu?
It may be because of the feeling, but it seems that the cry is getting more and more diverse as Pwoo gets bigger.
I don’t know if I’m growing spiritually in my own way.
The wagon rolled slowly, frustratingly, while the soldiers began searching the grass.
In the far side of the reservoir, soldiers were already wandering around and checking, and it was the same on the side of the rolling wagon.
He takes out a long spear that he rarely uses and sweeps through the grass.
The soldiers’ gaze was very savage.
He usually appears to be a different person from the smiling soldiers around him.
It was a serious face that was a bit frightening.
‘It feels like knives and arrows are pouring out of my eyes.’
It’s something I think about sometimes, but the people of the duchy worry too much.
His family was also a high-ranking aristocrat, but he was not so exceptional.
In the midst of thinking like that, it seems that the confirmation of the surroundings has been completed to some extent.
The distance between the guards, who had been densely packed in the wagon, spread loosely again.
As the wagon went near the reservoir, the figure of the water demon came into sight.
Soldiers pull the creature out of the water with a net and bring it to the ground.
My God, My God, My God, My God… My God!
A truly bizarre-looking demon appeared.
already dead though
It has protruding toes that are larger than human fingers, and has a very long tail.
At first glance, the skin looked like chestnut color, but if you look closely, it seems to be closer to dark gray.
There were dark colored patterns here and there.
Catherine held the hand of Anne, who was pushing her head against the window.
Anne looks surprised too.
Her hands were full of power.
They breathe while holding each other’s hands tightly.
“My God. What is that?”
Seeing it from a distance and seeing it up close was a completely different feeling.
Anne muttered in a whisper.
“I don’t know. It’s the first time I’ve seen anything like that.”
As Katrin said, Oscar-sama approached the Witchbeast.
‘Hey hey, it’s dangerous.’
It’s already dead, but I don’t know when it will come back to life.
no, is this correct?
It may not be, but in any case, you shouldn’t go near that monster.
What would you do if you suddenly came alive?
‘It’s dangerous.’
My heart is tight.
I don’t know why, but Mr. Oscar glanced around at the lizard for a while.
Then, as I ordered something in a low voice, the magician cut open the beast’s belly with a large knife.
It seems that the beast’s skin was too thick for the sword to enter well. It took a while.
When the lizard’s stomach finally opened, the magician put his hand inside it.
A white egg came out of the beast’s stomach.
It is long, round, white, and quite large.
It’s probably about the size of a lizard’s head.
One, two, four of those eggs… keep coming out.
“oh my god.”
Involuntarily, a small sound leaked out.
Thinking that a monster with so many eggs was hiding in the water made me so terrified.
“… from now on I will never go near water.”
Catherine whispered, and Anne spoke in a distressed voice.
“I think I’m going to throw up now.”
But don’t look away
Anne was staring at the Witchbeast.
“Look around! If there is, it’s probably buried in damp ground.”
Oscar’s voice rang out loudly.
***[Heroine Oscar]***
‘also….’
He was an egg-bearing bastard.
If it was the same time as usual, you might not have noticed.
But now, because of the wrath of the goddess, the Witchbeast is giving birth to more babies than usual.
Like the lizard demon, his stomach was bloated considerably.
After ordering a look around the reservoir, I called the person in charge of the convoy.
“I’d better stay here for the day and see if there are any eggs. Contact the lord right away about this.”
“All right.”
If there’s even one egg around here, you’ll have to carefully check the path between this reservoir and the lake for the time being.
“…”
I don’t know very much about lizards.
However, even though this monster looks similar to a lizard, it may not be exactly the same.
‘Because lizards don’t live in water.’
It may have entered the water simply to catch prey, but this creature had flesh between its toes like webbed feet.
It seems that he lives mostly in the water.
But if you see them laying eggs at the same time…
‘Hmm, I don’t know.’
I let out a small sigh.
Very little is known about demon beasts, and more so in the case of demon beasts related to water.
‘That’s why I can’t observe it while keeping it alive.’
When I suddenly looked away, I saw Catherine and Anne, who were staring at me with pale blue faces.
Both of them look like they’re about to vomit right now.
If it’s that terrible, you shouldn’t see it.
I smiled bitterly and walked towards the carriage.
As I headed there, Anne, who had seemed frozen for a moment, hurriedly got out of the carriage.
“Catherine, are you okay? If it’s painful, you better not watch this.”
“But I’m Mr. Oscar’s wife. I can’t turn a blind eye to things like this…”
His words are dignified, but in reality he is on the verge of fainting.
He frowned as if he was about to vomit and swallowed.
In the meantime, the soldiers were breaking eggs by stabbing them with spears or shaking their swords.
The egg was so hard that it seemed impossible to break it.
All of them were strengthening their strength by enchanting their weapons.
Inside was a lizard that looked just like the mother, one for each egg.
It’s not as big as you think.
Compared to the eggs, the size of the young felt very small.
And it moves alive.
It may have felt dangerous when the egg was broken.
A soldier quickly stabbed a cub that tried to escape with a spear.
A small scream rang out, and another soldier drove the spear in once more, and the baby died quickly.
“I didn’t use magic power.”
As the magician spoke quietly, the official sitting next to him nodded.
An official in the procession was squatting down and writing about the Witchbeast.
It is difficult to use ink when in a hurry while on the move, so charcoal made by burning wood is used.
I also use it occasionally, but it writes well, but I don’t like it because it breaks easily.
I don’t know why, but when the official used it, the charcoal was fine, but when I used it, it broke.
The official asked the soldier while diligently writing down the witch beast on a piece of paper with charcoal.
“Could you take that hide off? I’d like to take it to see if I can use it.”
“Let’s try.”
While the magician struggled to separate the skin of the lizard, a loud cry rang out from the soldiers who divided the area and searched the area around the reservoir.
“Here’s an egg!”
After inviting Catherine to rest in the carriage with Anne, I quietly turned away.
The egg was buried near the reservoir.
Soft soil covers the eggs.
It looks similar to the egg I saw earlier.
but.
“The eggs seem a bit small.”
Maybe there is another guy.
I thought so, but a soldier’s cry rang again from a little distance away.
“Here is a wounded witch.”
As I hurriedly headed in that direction, I saw a different Lizard Witch lying on his face, holding his breath.
Pooh was stepping on it to prevent it from escaping.
Then it’s not that I can’t run away, I just think I’ll die.
“Poo found it.”
The soldier said with a grin and tapped Pooh’s body.
It’s nice to be praised.
Pooh shook his big body and waggled his tail.
“Nice job, Pooh.”
At my words, Pooh’s tail moves around and around like a helicopter.
Hearing the laughter of the soldiers, I turned my gaze to the lizard beast.
The color is different from the previous one.
It was green and smaller than the body of the dead lizard.
“Did he fight with the one in the water? I think he attacked when he was weak from giving birth.”
The soldier pointed to his wound and said.
It seems to work just as it says.
The tough skin of the green lizard was torn here and there.
It seems that he is almost on the verge of dying.
He sometimes opened his eyes to see us, but he didn’t seem to have the energy or the will to fight.
As I nodded, the magician fired several arrows at the lizard.
It’s a close range, but as expected, a bow is the most comfortable and familiar to a magician than a spear or sword.
While the soldiers were dragging the Witchbeast out of the grass, I quietly used my body magic.
Since I consumed too much mana earlier, I can’t use it properly yet.
However, it should be fine since it doesn’t require a lot of mana to dispose of eggs.
I already cracked an egg to check what was inside, so I can kill the egg here.
“…”
No matter how much it is, killing a cub is always uncomfortable.
I took a small breath and poured weak magical energy into the egg.
The soldiers made a further check around the reservoir, but no more lizards or eggs were found.
I rested for about an hour to regain some of my mana, and then walked along the shore of the reservoir.
After conjuring up an image of an egg, it spreads magic toward the surroundings.
While walking around the reservoir like that, several sighs came out.
This time, to be safe, I killed everything that fit the image of an egg, big or small.
I heard that there are birds that do not shoot magic into the air, but lay eggs on the ground.
If it had been within the range of my magical power, even such a bird’s egg would have died.
‘I’m sorry.’
I let out a small sigh again.