Ulu and the wagon were running together, covering the raw parts of the low length grass.
"Was it around here?
The tacket on Ulu's back shouted at the wagon.
"That's right. I think it was around here that protected Hippoglyph before."
Caron on the podium pulls the rope and stops the carriage. Along with that, Ulu slowed down his speed and cut his legs around the wagon.
"And... It was around here that I picked up the tacket."
Brigitta sits next to Karon and says with a nostalgic sound.
This is the Caritas Reserve in the west. That's the meadow where Taketo fell off the plane on a business trip abroad.
A pleasant breeze blows from the mountains, passing between the tukets, drawing wave-like ripples on the grasslands.
"Taketo, I wonder why I was here."
Chante, who was riding in front of the tacket as usual, shouted strangely, holding a hat that was about to be carried by the wind.
"Come on, why not?"
I don't really know myself. I fell off the plane and I was here when I found out. I don't know why I came to this world, and I don't know the reason or the cause. I wonder if it happened to fall into a dimensional gap or something.
"If Chante and the others hadn't come after the poachers, they might have been dead."
"Gu...."
Karon pushes me into pain.
If Chante and the others hadn't come to this meadow at work.
If Hippoglyph, who was the target of the poacher at that time, hadn't run toward the tacket.
I wonder what happened to me.
Wandering around in a strange place, "Dear Lord," without ever meeting anyone, he might have gone down like Karon said.
The Takets came here this time to spontaneously return the wounded Hypoglyph. I haven't been to this sanctuary in months, but it's been hours since I got inside. I once again felt the breadth of this place.
There is no doubt that it is a miraculous chance of meeting someone by chance in such a vast area. Maybe, still, you've run out of luck in your life? Still, after saving her life, the Goddess of Fortune will behave like this because she has been blessed with her companions. As Ulu slipped down to the meadow in a facedown position, the tacket thought so.
Meanwhile, when Karon moved to the carriage platform, he shook Clinston, who was lying tightly there, by hand.
"Here we are."
"Ugh... you're finally here?
Clinston rises secretly. Since entering the reserve, I've been running on road-less roads that haven't been maintained, so I've been completely horse-dragged by the shakes.
My face is pale... but I don't know how far Criston has gone because he's always been a beast.
"... I regret that I forgot to take the antiintoxicant herbs."
As soon as Chante descends from Ulu, she rushes towards Criston.
"Clinston, are you okay? You want some water?
"That's right... but if you drink it now, you're going to throw up again, so let's just calm down a bit."
Though Clinston managed to wake up his upper body, he groaned tightly against the edge of the carrier.
As they gazed at each other, the tacket turned around behind the wagon. A wheeled cage is towed at the rear of the wagon. Within the cage, Hippoglyphs were becoming more carefree.
That's the Hypoglyph that the poachers were chasing when Taketo first came here.
Hippoglyph looked at the tucket and said with joy, "Cui!" she cried. Good, I don't think I'm going to get sick or anything like that without being swayed by a carriage.
Remove the key from the bag and call out to the still embraced Clinston.
"Can I open it now?
"Wait a minute, please. See if there are any animals around that could be the enemy of Hippoglyph....."
Well, then I'm already doing it.
The weak voice of Criston was covered in Brigitta's voice, who had just stood on the podium and looked around with binoculars.
"I don't see any creatures like that. Foxes and bobcats may lurk in the shadows of the grass, but the hippoglyphs won't be any obstacle?
In Brigitta's words, Hippoglyph said, "Cui!" she cried sharply.
"And... You can see a bunch of hippoglyphs in there."
"Ah, then I knew it too. You've been talking about us for a while."
The tacket had no binoculars, so I looked far away while blocking the sun with my hands.
The naked eye is too far away to see clearly, but I can see a few small black dots moving around a little.
"Let me see..."
Brigitta gives her binoculars to Criston, who stretches out her hand softly.
Criston placed his binoculars firmly on the edge of the carrier.
"I don't know... uh, uh, uh... oh, here it is. I'm sure of it. That's...
Hippoglyph's herd. I don't know if this hippoglyph is the original herd. I thought you came to sniff the smell and see how it went. "
"Is it okay if I let you go here?
Clinston nodded to the question of the tacket.
"Yes, I don't think Hippoglyph will attack us because he is a fierce and generous Demon Beast with a sense of territory. If they're interested, they might even let us in instead of the original herd. Otherwise, you will leave on your own. If it had been a herd, it wouldn't have been any luckier."
"Because. I'll say goodbye to you now."
Reaching out from the cage and stroking Hippoglyph's face, Hippoglyph made a sweet voice. He scratched his neck and then opened the lock and the door of the cage.
"Come on, you can leave now."
When the tacket leaves the cage, Hippoglyph slips out with a little vigilance. I stopped for a while and looked around, but from a distance I said, "Cui!" A short and sharp voice flew in.
I heard it from that herd.
Hypoglyphs reacted to that call and stared at a distant herd.
I was still a little wary, but I stood down from the cage to the meadow.
"Let me have a last check."
As Criston slipped out of the carrier and approached Hippoglyph, he observed his entire body.
"Yeah, you look healthy. There's no sign of tiredness in the long journey of the carriage."
The most tired man on a long journey in the carriage was Clinston, but even he, whose eyes were about to return Hippoglyph to the wild, was alive and shining.
I think the happiest moment of my career is when I return a protected beast to where I used to live.
Again, "Cui!" A voice flew from the crowd. After all, it sounded like he was calling.
The voice invited Hippoglyph to kick Totto and the grass toward the herd, but after a few steps he stopped and turned around.
Bye. Don't get caught this time!
When the tacket sounds like that, the hippoglyph returns to the tackle and the tacket. Then, I began to bite the hair of the bamboo shoots with a sweet bite.
"Stay. You're not coming back this way, are you?
Cui!
A tall and energetic voice. After rubbing his face against the tacket and making it sweet, he ran off again in the grasslands. Then he stopped and looked back, and stopped and looked back, but eventually he ran towards the flock.
"Yeah, it looks like we got caught up in a crowd."
That's what Clinston told me, looking through his binoculars from above the wagon. The eyes of the tacket now look only like black grains that look as if the grasslands were flat.
Good for you, Hypo-chan
In Chante's words, Taketo nodded.
I'm really glad I got back to where I was.
No matter how much they are taken care of in the Magic Biological Sanctuary, there is no better place for them to live than their natural habitat.
While gazing at the grasslands where the Hippoglyphs had gone, a small black thing passed over the tackets.
"Oh, is this from King's Landing?
When Karon raised his left arm, the small object flew toward Karon at a different angle to the sharp angle. And as it flickers down, it hangs upside down on Karon's arm.
It was Karon's bat.
Karon takes the letter from the small cylinder the bat has on his leg and looks through it.
"Is this an emergency call?
Brigitta asked, but Karon silently handed her the finished letter. And I put my hand on my chin and thought a little bit about it, and then I called out the name of Clinston.
"Hmm? What is it?
"I'm sorry, but could you get this wagon back to King's Landing?"
"Well, I don't mind."
"And Chante. I need to hurry, so I'd like Clinston to take Ulu back to King's Landing, okay?
Chante's sharp tone blinked her eyes.
"Uh-huh. If it were Clinston, I'd be fine because I'm used to it...."
"What about Karon and the others?
When Criston asked, Karon put his glasses on his finger belly. And then he looks at the tackles.
"The commander has instructed us to proceed directly to the Philippine port city. They have a boat there."
"Ship?"
Karon continues to say "yes" to the tacket that he answered without realizing what was going on.
"Mount Taurus on Taurus seems to have erupted. The next mission is to rescue Reiki, the rare beast that lives there, before the lava covers the island."
It was kind of a tough job again.