At the Northern Fort

"Woodbalm, Kugarg..."

"Hmm? What?

A black leopard landed on Woodbaum's back the moment Woodbaum glanced at me with his little neck.

"Wow!?"

But Woodbaum, who had not noticed any signs of Kugarg, suddenly lifted his forelegs wide and hissed, surprised at the object that had descended on his back.

Kugarg rolled down to the ground and my body, for some reason...

"What... Huh!?"

Suddenly I thought the ground was booming, and it was rising as it was.

"Mill!"

Beyond the back of a ship-eyed knight, the ascent stopped at a height of three to four meters, but there were green leaves flourishing around me and I couldn't see the view around me. There are thin branches through my legs and under my stomach that support my body.

... Is this a tree?

Apparently, at the moment Woodbaum was surprised, a tree grew from my feet.

A gentle peek below reveals that, although the trees grow straight from the ground, the three trunks are intertwined and stretched as they draw spirals. It's a slightly unusual form of tree.

"Ha, ha..."

I wasn't on a thick branch, so my feet were unstable, and when I moved too much, I was going to fall.

"Milphy!"

Kugarg was distracted by Woodbaum the first time I met him, but as soon as he found out I was on a tree, he climbed up. Still good at climbing trees.

But you came to me shaking branches, okay, but Kugarg alone was difficult to rescue me. You seem to be trying to bite and pull after my neck, but it doesn't really change the size of my body, so it doesn't go well.

"Stay, stay, Kugarg. My legs are caught in the branches."

Kugarg nevertheless pulled even gluttonously, trying to do something with his force moves.

However, when the leopard and the fox were struggling in the midst of the sagging and bushy leaves, the branches, which could no longer withstand their weight, finally made a pounding sound and broke.

"Ah..."

Falling! I was already falling with Kugarg when I thought, sewing the gap between the branches, scattering the bulk and the leaves, falling upside down to the ground.

"Mill!"

Through dense areas of branches and leaves, though, the knights were waiting for us to receive them.

A ship-eyed knight, who had identified the most accurate place to fall, catches us before he crashes to the ground.

"Wow, that way!

Looks like Woodbaum was trying to pick us up on his back, too, but he was waiting for us in a misplaced place, so he rushed over here. I wonder if it's natural.

"I'm sorry, I think I used my powers in surprise. Are you okay?"

Woodbaum in the figure of a deer said, peeking into me and Kugarg in the arms of a ship-eyed knight. He then eats shabby as he takes the leaves on our hair with his mouth.

"Yeah, no problem."

I answered as they ate the leaves on my head. Oh, don't even put it in your mouth.

Looking around, Tina and Lecca are also horrified to see this one. And when Mr. Rekka took a small folded piece of paper out of his pocket, he looked at Kugarg and

"You're the child of the Spirit of Fire... The caveat is," If you're stuck around for a long time and the mill looks hot, pull it away. "

and groaning, previewing his response to Kugarg. That's the spiritual material I was receiving from Mr. Branch Leader.

and the chief of the branch who was informed there also came.

"A deer..."

Mr. Branch Leader looks at Woodbaum while wearing an ice mask to make his cheeks slightly reddish. The joy of more animals is seeping out.

I introduced Mr. Branch Leader and Kugarg to Woodbaum again to explain the situation.

As a result, Mr. Branch Leader nodded and allowed Woodbaum to stay. It's not bad for humans to sell favors to spirits, is it?

"Good. Nice to meet you. Don't worry too much about me, you can do your job as usual."

I think I'd be quite concerned if the deer were neat on the property, but I think I heard Woodbaum say it. Especially if Mr. Branch Leader is going to have a disturbing day.

"Are you out of your hair because of your illness?

Kugarg asked, descending from the knight's arm of the ship's eye and turning vigilantly around Woodbaum. Kugarg likes to be beautiful, so he's tough on fur messes and dirt.

Sure, the short woodbaum hair is dirty as dull everywhere, it's shiny and pasty, it's bouncing in weird places like me waking up. Given the hairstyle when I was a person, it seems like the area around my forehead is a crease from the beginning.

"It is. I used to have prettier hair."

When Woodbaum said softly, Rekka, who was listening to the conversation, offered reluctantly.

"Um, Spirit, if you don't mind, shall I wipe your body?

"You can also brush"

It was Tina who went on to speak. Woodbaum answers with a gentle glance at his brown eyes.

"Thank you. I can't believe you're being nice to humans. I don't know if that'll make it pretty, but I think I'll do you a favor."

Okay, hold on a second.

Mr. Lecca bowed carefully and then went with Mr. Tina to pick up towels, hot water and brushes.

And when I'm ready, I'll work with the other knights to clean up Woodbaum.

"Wow, that tickles there, hehe"

Woodbaum initially twisted himself by treading his feet twitchy or pulling a short tail, but then it seemed to get used to it.

"It might feel pretty good"

"Isn't it?

Teena says as she combs (and) woodbaum hair with a large brush for horses. And I was distracted, too, and had a knight with empty hands brushing me with a personal brush.

When I can stroke my head or back with a brush, I stretch my four legs as I belly up on the lawn, stretching out like a rice cake. When I'm done with my back, I'm turned upside down, and now I'm on a tummy course.

Kugarg doesn't seem to like being touched by others very much yet, and he's getting himself hairy.

I've been watching everyone who touches me and Woodbaum with an enviable look from earlier on, but you know that reason will be decimated when you have to brush yourself, you can't move out of the circle while chewing on Gigi and his back teeth.

Said Rekka, who was wiping Woodbaum's body hard with a wet towel as she felt Mr. Branch Leader's black aura from behind but pretended everyone didn't notice.

"It's hard to get dirt off you,"

Woodbaum's bristles never came clean, no matter how much everyone wiped or brushed them. Still bossy, dull.

"Yeah, I figured if I didn't get my powers back myself, it wouldn't look pretty."

Woodbaum said unfortunately, now he smiled and went on like this.

"But it felt good to have you wipe your body. Thank you very much."

Then somehow, but I felt that the hair disturbance had only subsided a little. Were you all nice and energized?

There is no longer an atmosphere of weariness, and the expression is bright, although she still looks tired.

"Good for you. If you stay here for a while, you'll be fine."

I said that relaxed as I lay on my back and my stomach brushed by the knight with my eyes.

Woodbaum nodded, "Yeah,"

"... but Mirfiria may be a little too forgiving to human beings"

And they laughed.