"Come on, get in?

Although prompted by Chante, who straddles around the neck of Ulu lying down, Taketo hesitated.

(Eh... are you riding this giant dog?

Despite lying down, Ulu's back is much taller than the back of the tacket. And this is how you get up and run, right? Honestly... I'm pretty scared. It wasn't altitude phobia, but it wasn't altogether fine.

When Ulu slightly moved his neck and jumped something like a cow's foot caught in his mouth, he pounded it into his mouth. The sound of chewing is echoing.

(No, no, no, no...)

Now that Ulu just moved his neck a little, Chante's body was shaking quite a bit across his neck!? It wasn't so depressing, but if I hadn't caught him, it would have looked dangerous!? With that in mind, I sweat cold in my heart.

"Look, it's okay. Ulu, you're so grown-up.

Chante smiled brightly and reached out to us.

"Uh-huh...."

I couldn't feel the "adult" smell of the bones that were crushed, but as long as I didn't ride this, my schedule wouldn't go any further today, so I had no choice but to get closer to Ulu and put my hand on his big body.

I was looking at the place where Chante was going up earlier, so I'll try to do the same with a good look. Grasp Ulu's long hair and climb up onto his lying fat forefoot, from there to his back. She pulled her hand and pulled it up as she got closer to Chante. Straddle behind her while being guided by her hands.

"Hold on tight."

Where are you? Where do I get it!?

Without knowing where to support him, Ulu stood up with Chante's words as a cue.

"Hya, hya!!!

Ulu shook his back as he stood up. The tacket was about to fall and hugged Chante's thin back in a hurry. Chante, however, raised her right hand cheerfully without any particular concern.

"Come on, let's go to the Magic Biological Sanctuary!

"Hyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."

Ulu rushes gently toward the forest. If you don't shake it off your back, the tacket desperately hugs Chante's thin body, but the scream leaks out of your mouth. Because it was an open mouth, I chewed my tongue as much as I could on the big jump.

(My tongue hurts....)

A little half crying and shaking on Ulu's back for an hour, he arrived in a place like a square open behind a deep forest.

Because I was distracted by the pain in my tongue, I was certain that the fear of being on the back of Ulu rushing through the woods while avoiding the trees was fairly diminished, so let's do it. After getting off Ulu's back, the tacket raised his hand and slightly stretched out and glanced out at the square.

The square was filled with a number of fences, large and small, and inside each fence there was something like a hut. I heard there are a lot of protected beasts here, but I wonder if there are still many beasts pulled into the hut because of the high sun. I only found white horses with horns and feathers and bright red lizards on the rocks.

and capture something like a horse that runs away at the edge of your vision. When I looked at you, I saw the head of a familiar eagle. That's the Hippoglyph I met in the meadow.

"Ah, that's him!

Running toward the fence where Hippoglyph was, Taketo stepped out with his hands and feet on it. Hippoglyph also noticed us, and when he turned to the unique sharp eyes of the prey, he shouted and winged. It is painful to have a white bandage wrapped around my stomach, but besides feeling fine, a smile spreads to the face of the tacket.

"At that time, Thanks! Thanks for not stepping on me."

I didn't know if Taketo's words had made sense, but Hypoglyphs responded to Taketo's words by cui! And the other cried sharply.

At that time, there is a deaf voice from behind.

"That hippoglyph. Eat your food well. You look very well. I'm a little worried that my injury will heal too late. I'll return it to that sanctuary when it's healed."

Taketo looks back from the fence with his feet down to the voice of a slender young man.

There was a dog with brown furry ears who stood with two feet and was slightly shorter than a tacket in a light tea tuna like a work suit.

"Nice to meet you. I'm a keeper here at the Magic Biological Refuge, I'm called Clinton! You're the newcomer in the matrix that Chante mentioned earlier. Nice to meet you!"

(I wonder what this guy is of the same type as Karon. In the meantime... you're a person, right? Except for the hair and ears, and the face is like a dog)

A tacket that somehow grips back the hand that was offered, while being deceitful. Criston's hand had five fingers, just like a tacket, but the back of his hand was covered with short brown hair that was the same as his face. I don't have a lot of hair in my palm, but I think I've been working on something until recently, and there's still some dirt on my hand that hasn't dried up yet. In addition to the thought of gripping, the skin is stiff, and it is also gripped back with a strong force. I felt frankly that it was the hands of someone who worked very well.

Then Taketo hears back the words that bothered him.

"Matrix?"

"Ah, about the Magic Beast Poaching Control Officer. I heard that the poachers began to call it by acronym, but sometime it settled down.

"Heh...."

When I was talking to Clinston about that, I saw silver hair bouncing off his back. Chante.

"Hippoglyph, how are you?

In Chante's words, Taketo nods.

"Oh, I'm relieved. When the injury is healed, you're going to put it back where it was?

"Yeah, basically. This is where we will temporarily keep the beast until we can protect it and return it to its original location. Some monsters are going to end up living here in Sumika."

Chante added that in a sad tone.

I think so in my heart, too. Smuggled animals protected in that world,

Basically, it was normal to leave it in a zoo or something. Do not return to the original habitat. Individuals passing through other areas during smuggling come into contact with various pathogens in the process. Returning the individual to its original habitat could lead to a pandemic by bringing in pathogens from other areas.

So smuggled animals spend their lives away from home. I can't go home again.

I don't know how much the world knows about pathogens, and I don't know if the beasts have different levels of risk of pathogen infection than normal creatures, but I was a little happy to hear that they returned it to its original habitat. After all, no place is easier for living creatures than the original habitat. Because I think that's the best way to get it back.

When I was thinking about it, I suddenly had my hair pulled from behind.

"Hmm, what!?

Looking back, the head of Hippoglyph's big eagle, "Me," was right in front of me. At the same time, I am eating the hair of the tacket with interest.

"The color of your hair. It's so black, I guess they mistook it for the leaves of their favorite plants. No, Hippo. Even if you eat this, it's not delicious.

Christon talks to Hippoglyph.

"Ugh... I want to take care of my hair because it's genetically delicate whether I'm going to bald or not in the future..."

My mother's relatives are fuzzy even at an older age, but my father's relatives have a lot of hair loss, so I may be a little worried about their age.

However, regardless of the feeling of the tackle, Hippoglyph now bit the tackle's hair from the front.

No, rather than biting him, he's kind of hammering his head. There is no pain.

Is that it?

Strangely enough, I heard Clinston's giggling voice.

"Well, it's like a sweet bite. You liked it."

Cui, affirm that word! Hypoglyphs rang.

I see. I hope you get better and get back to where you came from. "

That said, when the Taketo strokes Hippoglyph's neck with his fingers, Hippoglyph cues again at a perfect time, as if he knew what we're saying! and rang.

And there it is. I can see a long man running towards us.

A man with black skin, black hair and golden eyes. From that smooth black hair, you can see the black and round beast-like ears peeking. Clothes like light grey uniforms looked familiar somewhere.

As he approached the tackles, he repositioned his glasses with his nervous hands as he raised and lowered his shoulders and breathed. It is a type of glasses that catches the nose.

"Chante, I knew you were here. The commander wants to see you. I want you to go to the scene in a hurry."

"A rush case? Okay, I'll be right back. Ulu!"

As soon as she reached her mouth and called out to the forest, Ulu rushed out of the forest and lay down in front of Chante.

"Come on, Taketo. Hurry up, too. It's your first job, right?

The guy I just met called me by his name and said, "Huh? Ah, yes," he replied in a neat and vague manner. He looked at me and leaned his neck, but nodded as if he was convinced of something.

"I saw you yesterday, too. It's me. I'm Karon. I was veterinized yesterday after hard work."

The word "karon" reminds me of the man with the black panther's head that I saw last night at the Magic Beast Poaching Control Office. Speaking of which, the clothes you're wearing are the same as The Karon. I also have glasses on my nose. That means....

"... eh, yeah!? The same guy with the black leopard's head!?

"We are a species called Beasts. So is Clinston. Wasn't there a beast in your world? Oops, more than that. Please come quickly. I will return to the royal palace in Ulu."

"Ah... uhh, yeah"

And Shanthi, and Karon, and the three of the tukeths, came back hastily to the royal palace, riding in Ur. Running faster, Ulu's back shakes much more than it did when it went, and the tacket clings to Karon's back, sitting in front of him again without biting his tongue.