Herscherik (Reincarnated Prince Series)

The owner of the fruit shop, who received the price for the goods delivered in a certain town, noticed a fuss. The location is a relatively large town close to the border with the Felbork military. From Wangdu, it's a place that takes two weeks one way by carriage.

But leaving his wife and newborn daughter in the king's capital, he let the horse rush to arrive two days earlier than planned. Even though he was usually unfathomable, he was even more applauded for his lack of affection and stern face, and he was fortunate to have put the fee up on the price from a business partner who had misremembered his fear.

I can get home faster than going because I don't have any luggage. When I was thinking of buying a souvenir for more money, I rushed away in a hurry.

(... Something wrong?

It is a town with a very large population even if it does not reach the Wang capital. He concluded in himself that the rubbing would happen quite a bit, and his husband hurried back to his carriage.

And when I tried to move the carriage, I heard things coming from the empty carriage. My husband goes up to the carriage with one sigh. A wildcat, or maybe a kid got in with a prank, that's what I thought. But look into the carriage and breathe into the two shades hidden in the shade of an empty crate.

One is a red-haired woman. He had a coal-fired coat with feathers and a seeping look of fatigue, but his dark eyes had a strong light. The rugged sharp glance of the young man who shelters the woman behind her back shoots at her husband. The young man with deep blue hair had a coal coat, just like the woman, but it wasn't the young man his husband noticed, but the thing that grew out of his back.

"…… Beastman, you say it's a clan?

A man reacts with a pickle to a word leaked from his silent husband. There was a small but sharp knife in his hand. My voice echoes as if to water the tension between the two who can't move poorly.

"Somebody!

So my husband takes action as if he was tied to gold. When you grab the camp blanket that was reflexively placed in the carriage, spread and hide the men and women.

"Never, don't move.

Without waiting for their words, my husband turned his back and put his face out of the carriage.

That giant blocks the sight of the two humans who came in the uniform of policing just as they were trying to peek into the carriage. The two policemen turned a little hard on the big man who appeared from the carriage, but immediately after coughing up, they asked him if he had seen the suspicious person while pretending to be flat.

There were as many men and women in the back of her husband's brain as she had just done, but she never leaked to her expression because of her natural indifference. When I shook my head sideways, the alarmists were pushed by my husband's force and left the scene to escape.

My husband left the carriage unsaid and asked the two of them what was going on when they got out of town. But they didn't talk much, and my husband couldn't pursue it well because he was a lousy talker. It was just easy to predict that I came from the military.

The Ferbork Army, east of the continent, is a country dominated by humans, but also inhabited by a few but also by beasts and subpeoples. But most of the Beast subtribes were not as a people, and most of them were slaves, with some exceptions.

The military is a rapidly growing country that has captured the surrounding small and medium-sized countries with its force, but the people of the captured countries pay high taxes and become the people of the military or slaves. Some of the countries taken in were ruled by the Beast Subtribe. Taxes on the Beastman Subtribe are set higher than on humans, and most cannot pay taxes, and the Beastman Subtribe in the occupied country is a statute that is forced into slavery.

It is not infrequent that we cannot withstand the repression of the military and that the Beasts flee the country. It's just that if you go south, you often go to the Lustian Federation, which is ruled by the Beasts and Subtribes. There should have been no escapees to the kingdom of Gracis who refused entry to other races.

Except for the youth in front of me.

"I couldn't leave them alone.

To Hershelik, who listens to his poor mouth without pinching it, said the master of the fruit shop.

In the end, my husband could neither protrude them into alarm nor abandon them.

If it was him a few years ago, he might have abandoned him for his own sake. But when I met a toddler in front of me who was only moving for the sake of others, I felt comfortable taking care of him. I wish I was the only one, I was ashamed of that idea. And there's another reason.

"... I draw the blood of the Beastmen too.

"Eh?"

More than earlier Hershelik opened his eyes to the confession of the fruit shop's master.

Hershelik looked reflexively at the master of the fruit shop from top to bottom, but he was human no matter where he looked from.

"My great-grandfather was a Bear of the Beast Clan (Kumabito).

"Kumabito?"

My husband goes on to say to Hershelik, who tilts his neck. Because there is little literature in this country about other races, he was not studying.

Says there are also species in the Beast tribe, and they call the Beast tribe with the appearance and abilities of bears the Bears, and those with the wings of birds like the youth the Birds (Trivito).

"The odds are also low between humans and the Beastman tribe, but the child can. The figure becomes a mother's race, but sometimes her abilities are taken over. I was a beast tribe. Grandpa Zeng's physique and arm power have returned to me... in this country, those who at a glance understand me as beasts cannot live.

If he's right, Hershelik thinks there may be more humans in the city well than you can imagine drawing the blood of an animal tribe with a human appearance.

There are differences with humans, such as life expectancy and ability, but it would be possible to hide them unless self-declared. Hershelik now because if her husband hadn't revealed himself to me, the perception was that he was a "powerful man with a big body".

My husband complained that he was superior to him when he tried to leave them, and if he felt it was beneficial to help me once, he came back to the capital to avoid people.

Because if I could help them, I thought he was the only one.

So, my husband keeps saying.

"I just have to rely on the prince...... sorry.

It was for a moment that Hershelik thought to him with his mouth shut and his head lowered.

"I understand your husband's story. Give me your head...... I'll take care of it later.

Hershelik says to him, who, as usual, has been silent.

What I thought about is not the choice to help or not. The option of abandoning someone in Hershelik did not originally exist. The idea was how to help them.

While working out future measures in my head, I try to smile to reassure my husband, who is wrinkling more between my eyebrows than usual.

"Thank you, sir, for trusting me to talk to you.

Hershelik was carelessly pleased that he had revealed his secret. If you hide the Beast Clan, and your birth secrets suck, it becomes a felony. Yet Hershelik was delighted that he trusted himself.

Now a voice other than your husband arrived in Hershelik's ear that I wondered what to do.

"I'm sorry I'm talking to you.

It was a woman's voice. Since there is only one woman in this room, Hershelik turns his gaze to the red-haired woman.

Having received Hershelik's gaze, she leaves one step ahead. Her red hair shook and she had a soft expression that kept smiling, but her dark eyes looked to shoot through Hershelik.

"Why were you trying to help us?

Words came out of her that I couldn't think of in the position to get help. But Hershelik did not accuse him, but leaned his neck against her question.

"Why?

"We are suspicious from wherever we come from. I may disguise myself as a coincidence and avenge you. And it shouldn't be in your interest to help us.

Hershelik leaks a bitter smile at her best words. It was easy to predict that if there was an overprotective butler on this occasion, she would say it like she did. He is overprotective and worrying about himself, and more of a profitable personality. I'm sure he would have affirmed that "you don't have to risk it yourself".

"Right.

Hershelik agrees with her words. Then I felt her smile on my face a little strong.

"Then why is that?

Her continued words with a smile on her face and the dark eyes directed had the color of vigilance. Looking into his eyes, Hershelik was satisfied.

(Is she trying her best to live?

Hershelik is convinced that the first calm atmosphere was trying to discern.

Even if they didn't say anything, they would definitely have come from the military, as your husband said. On top of that, the youth is a beast tribe. It was also understandable that we could not easily trust the human beings of this country. If you trust them badly and they betray you, they are life-threatening. It just equals they don't have a choice in this country. So she smiles and tries to identify where she can afford to go in order to explore her own helpful path at all.

(Quite the gall sitter.

Hershelik likes her for living in death, not long after she meets him. And even to the young man who has full confidence in that girlfriend. Otherwise, you will not be able to expose your wings as a testament to the Beasts.

(Well, they won't believe me easily.

Trust is not something you can do right away. Hershelik couldn't tell them how arrogant he was to trust himself, not long after he knew him. So Hershelik decided to be foolish and honest, rather than delude himself with a small hand.

"Because my husbands helped me. Do you need any other reason than that?

Her smile collapsed for a moment in Hershelik's words, which she also said as a matter of course. But as soon as he returns his expression, he further asks.

"But under the laws of this country…………"

"Surely the laws of this country are unreasonable and harsh for all of the Beastmen.

blocking her words, Hershelik says.

"But not all of the laws are right.

The law is to be observed. I also understand that Hershelik. However, Hershelik also recognizes that the law is conveniently made by humans.

Times, organizations, people… it is the law that changes in various elements. I don't think Hershelik is absolutely right about the law that changes.

Besides, I wondered why this country was so exclusive to other races.

(Would you like to check the area as well...)

I can't help but look into it if you care, Hershelik. Because it sinks into the abyss of thought, I couldn't notice how she was observing it.