Wolf Beast Man, Linka.
The girl, characterized by triangular ears and gray hair aligned as much as her shoulders, was my friend before leaving the kingdom of the Beast Man.
I haven't seen my face in two years. Reunion with friends.
That was cut off by the arrow that Linka unleashed on Usat.
At first glance, I knew I had no intention of killing.
Only two arrows to cause injury and disruption to the hand. While Usat panicked and everyone was confused, he would have used his handsome feet as a wolf beast to try to take me out.
But unfortunately, the person Linca aimed at was not normal.
Even if I don't convey the contents of my prediction, I'm a Usat with such extraordinary reflex nerves that I'm critical of it and avoid arrows. I can easily grab an arrow.
From what I know, "Oh, I can finally make it this far..." I'm more surprised than surprised, but from Linca, who doesn't know anything, I really don't know why.
When Usat countered me with a healing magic bullet and heard her scream of terror, realizing that the raider was Linka, I immediately understood that it was for me that I attacked Usat.
I thought I should talk to her right away to solve the misunderstanding and asked Usat, the fastest legged, to catch her.
... I did, but...
"A, Amako... are you sure you're okay?"
Usat seems to have worked too hard than I had in mind.
After that introduction, I was on my way to the hideout where she lived, the source of Linka's guide.
The truth is, I could have gone directly to the country where my mother lives, but I decided that it would be better to go to the hiding place first and gather information.
"It's human. And he's a healing wizard, right? Whatever your physical abilities are, you don't have dangerous abilities."
"A healing wizard throws a magic bullet at me!? And it splits and gets golden... in the first place, it's like magic at the point of catching up with me the beast man..."
……
Split up and tied up? What? I don't know that.
Usato, did you make another move?
"Ha..."
Believing Usat could catch a werewolf beast running through the woods, I'd have asked... I didn't think I'd plant trauma this far.
But Linka is worse on this matter.
"But isn't Linka going to attack you all of a sudden? From the edge, I don't think I look like I'm being caught."
"'Cause I can't think of any reason why humans act with beasts other than being caught..."
Indeed, Linka is also right.
I can only think of a bad reason why humans and beastmen are acting together.
Well, this may have just seemed like the realm of the Beast Man, from Linka's point of view, forcing him, letting him guide the way to the land of the Beast Man.
"But..."
A subtle glance at the back and a look at Usato and the others following me and Linka.
Mr. Ark is pulling the horse unchanged, but Usat was putting Nair on his shoulder and talking to Burlin.
"Burlin, hey, should I appeal to kindness more?"
"Gru."
"Ha ha, you say funny things"
"Guhu."
"I'm sorry I haven't been able to help you lately."
It's pathetic that Usato is so struck that he has a natural conversation with Burlin.
Burlin seems a little annoyed, but not happy.
"B, I'm having a conversation with Blue Grizzly ooh...!?"
But what the opposite is supposed to incite fear......
... No, I don't like that Usat remains misunderstood either.
"I've been looking for a healing wizard who can help my mother ever since I left the kingdom of the Beast."
"... Were you?"
"Yeah, I think it's bad that I left without saying anything to you. But I didn't have time to stay long."
After my mother fell, the circumstances surrounding me were clearly about to change.
Feeling something different about it, I flew out of the kingdom of the Beast Man. Of course, there was an aim to find a healing wizard who could help her mother, but there was also an aim to protect herself.
"I wasn't sure because I was still small either... but the grownups were a little scared then. Amako's gone, so I know I'll panic. In fact, I panicked too... but I didn't even think there was someone angry"
……
Maybe something was about to happen the time my mother fell.
I almost got caught up in that, but I didn't have to manage to. In that sense, I may have been right to leave the kingdom of the Beast Man.
"I've seen a lot of places since I left the kingdom of the Beast Man. Not that I had pleasant memories, but I also made friends with the Beast Man. Besides, the last time I visited the kingdom of Ringle, it was full of people who made me better than the Beastman."
Satsuki to Kyaw's sister and brother to Kirija, who became friends in Lukvis.
In the kingdom of Ringle, Mr. Salla and a lot of people have lived about me for two years.
Although the journey from the kingdom of the beast man was a streak of hard things, the encounter since flowing into the kingdom of Ringle was, for me, a most important memory.
"So I met Usat"
"With him?"
"A lot has happened since then."
We showed Usat a future in which Suzune and Kazuki would die and let him avoid the worst.
Then, in the name of consideration, I asked Usato to help my mother... and it came true and I went on a journey.
Then it was rough ahead, but I told Linka, so there was really a lot going on, although there was no need to explain it.
"But this way, I could return to my mother's hometown."
With Usat, I might be able to cure my mother.
Moreover, his healing magic awoke to the strengthening of the lineage after a battle in Miarak.
I can almost certainly cure an injury or if it's caused by a disease...
"Linka."
"Hmm?"
"Mom's gonna be okay, right?... alive, right?"
The month of two years seems long and short.
If you're in the sanctuary of the beasts, I can assure you it's okay, but unforeseen things don't always happen.
Something's happened to my mother - if she's dead... I have no more reason to be here.
Topics I have avoided asking unconsciously.
Linka gave me a reassuring smile as she gave me an uneasy look to see for herself.
Amako's mother is alive! I haven't woken up to the boulder yet... "
"... that's all I need to know."
Good.... really good.
Neither what I have done nor my journey with Usat has been meaningless.
"Amako had a tough two years, too."
"How was Linka?"
It's getting a little dark, so let's change the subject.
I wonder what Linka was doing while I was gone.
"Hmm? I guess I felt like I was practicing hunting in earnest when my father told me to move from my home country to hiding. I knew it was my home country, so it was loud around me. Do it, be polite, or be gorgeous because you're a girl."
"You don't look the most gorgeous or anything to Linka."
"Ugh, shut up! I know myself!?"
I laugh at her for turning her face bright red, too.
Right, does Linka live in hiding now?
I've only seen her father a few times, but I remember being close to her mother.
I have no recollection of what that person was like.
"Amako hasn't changed her height at all!"
"What?"
"Oh, I'm sorry..."
be touched by their own complex and give them a glimpse.
He should have been about the same height two years ago. Yet this daughter has grown for the first time in only two years.
What is this irrationality when I barely grew tall?
Where did my growing season go?
"Amako, you're starting to have such scary eyes. I was so nervous."
"Maybe it's Usat's influence"
"That's a bad influence..."
Linka sees Usat with frightened eyes.
With that gaze, Usat drops his shoulder with a bitter laugh.
Sorry, Usato. Instead of solving the misunderstanding, I made it worse.
"Oh, it's time to get to the safe house. Just wait outside because I'll talk to the elders!"
Ha, when I looked up, there were deep cluttered woods in front of me and such narrow beast paths that I could not tell without punishing my eyes.
Apparently, we've even arrived near the hiding place where Linca lives while we're talking.
Usat's impressions are more problematic, but the question is whether the beasts living in hiding will accept Usat.
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By the guidance of Linka, we were taken to the woods where the trees flourished.
I don't think there's a settlement next door. It's a deep forest, but Linca went into the woods by herself after she instructed us to wait here.
"When it comes to hiding... Kirikha and the others are from hiding too."
"Yeah. Right. But I don't think you live here, do you? 'Cause they say there's a lot of hiding places."
Three people: Kirija, Kyaw and Satsuki.
Sister brother and one girl of the beast man who took care of him in Lukvis.
Still, it's only been a little while, but I wonder if those three are doing well.
"Kirija? Who's that?"
"These are the beasts I took care of in Lucvis before I met you."
"Hmm, Beast Man at Magic Instruction School. Normally, I'd be surprised if you thought it was Usato."
What do you think I am?
Well, I left you a little wary when I first met you, but at the end of the day, I was going to crack it pretty good. Why don't we go back to the kingdom of Ringle and see him again when he's settled?
"Amako, how was your conversation with your first friend in a while?"
"I was as good as ever"
Before Amako flew out of the kingdom of the Beastman, the girl she was friends with, Linka.
He seemed to be talking to that kid on the road so far, but I'm glad he seemed to get along.
... but I don't feel bad about me for some reason.
"From behind, you felt like sisters."
"... is that what you're trying to say, I'm smaller?"
Shit, I stepped on some kind of mine.
We seemed close enough to see the sisters - it should connect to...
Awkward to Amako, who looks at me with her jito eyes, Nair over my shoulder pointed at Amako with her wings and started laughing.
"Pup! Speaking of which, you were fourteen! Instead, you're a chick!"
……
"I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I knew you were small! Well, wouldn't it be a little while before we grow up? I can't guarantee it's gonna grow, but hey!"
……
Amako's eyes are sitting still, but are you okay?
No, Nair did.
Nair, who bought me a brilliant spearhead of anger, is captured in a way that is eagled by Amako's outstretched hand as he leaps.
"Kehafu!?"
"Never, never forgive"
"Hi, ah, Usat, help, yaaaaaa!?"
Oh, the faceless Amako grabbed Nair and started swinging.
Nair asks me for help, but I don't care what you think about that, she's the one who stirred it up, so let her go.
While you two are getting along, let's talk to Alk about the future.
"Mr. Alk. If we don't go into hiding, are we out in the wild?"
"You will. Considering the relationship between the beast man and man, it is impossible to do so."
If so, let's have Amako put us in hiding just for the worst.
If it's possible, it would be better if Nair would come with us.
... I'm anxious that you won't get into a fight, like what's going on in front of you right now, but you have to be patient because it's possible that me and Mr. Alk won't be able to get in.
"... here, Amako and we are in the opposite position."
"Yes."
Just as in the realm in which man dwells, the beast man has to have narrow shoulder thoughts, in the realm in which the beast man dwells, man will have the same feelings.
I haven't really gotten involved with the beasts living here yet, but I was feeling unusually uncomfortable.
"... I wonder if you know what Amako feels like"
How much, lonely and painful she has been to advance in the realm of man by herself.
I haven't understood everything yet, but I feel like I've learned one end of the pain.
"Usato"
When I'm feeling strange, Amako, who was swinging Nair, calls my name.
To that voice, me and Mr. Alc felt a strange feeling around us.
"This is surrounded... right?"
"Yes, quite a few, but please do not direct hostility"
Multiple signs surrounding us at some point.
Perhaps you're setting your aim with an arrow or something, and you don't come close with a constant distance.
You could get attacked without a question, but what?
If it's about bow and arrow, I can intercept it with Mr. Ark, but what action should I take afterwards?
Will we all be powerless with a healing punch and take it to a state where we can talk?
Or do you stir it up with a healing magic bullet and then carry everyone away from the scene?
"What are you gonna do, Usat? You're going to be attacked unilaterally."
"I know, though. Let's wait for them to come out first."
Soon Nair, back on my shoulder, wraps a subtle curse of restraint around my fist.
Two figures emerged from the back of the forest where Linka disappeared when he set up an interception posture.
One of the shadows was Linka, who earlier headed into hiding.
The other was an old male beast man who stored his mustaches.
"You're welcome, I'm sorry. How many minutes is this unprecedented situation? Let me set up a weapon as a precaution."
The old man turns his gaze to one of us who doesn't break his guard, and finally looks at Amako and rounds his eyes.
"Apparently, what Linka was saying is true. I couldn't believe it..."
"I didn't believe you!?"
Linka is shocked by the momentum that the old man's words are likely to have an pseudo-tone called Gobi.
"Suddenly Amako is said to have returned with humans and Blue Grizzlies, and where is the one who believes immediately. I thought it was another prank against Nong."
"I told you not this time!"
"How many times do you think the word fooled you?" My sweet grandson stopped my heart. It's not even a joke! "
Uh, so you're saying that Linka was a werewolf girl, not a werewolf boy?
Again, the old man with his face on this side gives instructions to those surrounding him to put his weapons away.
"Ever since we met at a very young age, Amako. He's the head of this hiding place, and he's the grandfather of this runaway daughter."
Linka's grandfather, if you look closely, his ears and tail are similar to those of a wolf, just like Linka's.
"I have a lot to ask you, but let me show you to Noona's residence first."
"Uh, Usato and the others..."
"Of course, let's bring in the people there."
Mr. Kagari smiled softly to reassure Amako of his anxious expression.
... In the meantime, it's good to have been avoided a futile dispute.
While we were relieved by the current situation, we were invited to the residence and hiding place of Mr. Kagari and Linka's guide.