I Can Speak with Animals and Demons

The next morning. Yak and I are still walking in the middle of a little warm and foggy.

Thanks to its proximity to the forest of illusions, it has become surrounded by large trees.

Zero light from the leaves of the trees paints a variety of patterns at your feet. It lasted as far back as inviting him to the back of the woods. Although the scene is mild, it is likely to be lost when it is similarly surrounded and poorly off the road.

By the way, every time Yak gets tired, he rides my shoulder and head, and it seems a lot easier because he's relaxed.

Now it's enough to sit on the backpack and leak the stretch.

I take people's food while I tell them to show me this guy, and I say I can do whatever I want.

If you're an animal living in the wild, I want you to bring me one of these delicious fruits.

At first, he's taught me the hard way to encounter demons, and he's taught me the easy way to walk, so I seem to do the least I can do.

"Phew, I'm still sleepy"

It is something that cannot be interpreted.

Even if I send a serious gaze, Yak doesn't care to stretch again and pillow his tail.

"All you have to do is keep going straight, so if something happens, wake me up."

And immediately, Yak began to sleep.

I slept a lot yesterday and you still go to sleep?

I walked forward with my legs thinking about how I would beat up my sleeping yak.

Then walk for a while. When the sun rose high.

Changes appeared before our eyes as we walked toward the great trees that soared high above us.

When I say change, I see the same natural scenery with trees in front of me, but this one is obviously a demographic.

A small shrine set aside by the road. There sits an oddly shaped figure made of stone. Whether someone made an offering there, a circle of beautiful white flowers, and a glass of nuts and basins of water.

Would someone have built it to wish you a safe journey?

Or I don't know if it was built by animals or by humans who seem to live here like the mayor of Rosac said.

I was hesitant to touch that with some sacred atmosphere, so I offered you one green hooga nut for now and put my hands together.

I don't know what it's like here in custom, but I'll pay my respects when I can.

Then I'll circle around the shrine and see if there's anything there.

but I didn't find anything particularly strange except for one point.

Now, if I say something happened, something happened, should I wake up the guy snoring on my backpack?

Yak did say it would just keep going like this.

It seems that they will then reach the human settlement, but no one has arrived there. Will I then return to the same place as the adventurer man said?

Straight ahead, but a strange phenomenon that will bring you back on the same path. I'd like to experience it anyway.

In what way will it return to the same path?

I don't want to know what principle it is. I don't think I understand, but for now, I'm going to walk under the tree normally.

"............... I'm really back"

As I walked from the temple toward the great tree, I saw the temple again and groaned.

Didn't a similar temple go ahead? I thought so, but the round hooga nuts I provided just now were on the temple.

Yes, I was supposed to move forward after the temple, but I came back.

I guess this phenomenon has never brought humans together before.

We all have no idea what kind of phenomenon this is, but it was exactly what the adventurer said.

I'll check the perimeter, but there's no sign of demons or animals at all. There are also no lines, such as demonic work or plants, that possess hallucinogenic abilities as assumptions.

Return to the temple and head back to the great tree just in case.

Now make sure you check around and walk so you don't overlook anything.

But still, I came back to the temple.

Now I tried to run through it, but I come back to the temple again.

... I see. I certainly can't move on with this. It's also convincing for many to give up.

I'm asleep on my backpack for now, pulling Yak's beard and letting it go.

It hurts! Beard, my beard. Ahhhh!

The mustache that has become like rubber strikes Yak's cheek hard.

Yak, struck by sharp pain, shouts a distressed voice as if he had fallen off my back backpack and hit his body.

"What the hell! You hit him in the back!

"No, you have a hip or something. Hey, I don't know."

"Ha ah!? If you look at my beautiful slender body, you'll soon find out where my ass is. '

I don't know, it was a little too much, but it would be subtle if they told me if I could tell right away.

I don't think I can tell a bit how far my butt is or my hips are.

"By the way, does it fit that there is a human settlement at the end of this temple?

Ask Yak, who protests by putting his fingernails up against me in my pants. Stop it, your pants will tear.

'Oh? Sure, you're right. If we keep going straight, we'll have a weird house or something.'

"But you should come back here even if you go straight."

'Huh? That's no way. You let me in for the rest of the day?

"So why don't you come and have a look?

"Well, I hope so."

Even with a disgruntled voice for a moment, Yak honestly headed back.

While Yak was headed back, he came back for lunch.

Did I not come back here like I did? Did I move on?

"Ah! Leave me alone and eat my own meal!

Yak looked at me and suddenly approached me.

Being stormed like this is cumbersome, so I throw a slice of dried meat into the air.

"To. Meat. Ah!

Then Yak switched his target to you and jumped to the dried meat dancing in the air and stuck it in his mouth.

... Well, this is what animals do to me.

I just want to say something like that, but I don't say it because I remember being slapped for saying it while I was breading Honeybird in the city of Aether.

Because it's simple, you don't know what's coming. Animals have no law or order at all. No common sense, no mercy. It might be the most troublesome thing to turn to an enemy in a way. Better than demons.

Because of that, I got grounded in Honeybird and got a very painful gaze from the people in the city.

"So, how was it?

'I thought you put it in. I've been checking with humans and homey guys, too, right?

When I asked, Yak answered with his cheeks full of dried meat.

If I didn't hear the words, it would be a sight where I could feel cute or swallowed.

But when I say what I think right now, I say drink it and then talk.

After all, do you let animals in?

Was it because you were so close to me that you couldn't get in even with what I was carrying earlier?

"But I can't let you in, can I?"

"Ugh."

Drinking dried meat, Yak makes a fool of himself.

I'm so angry when this guy speaks up like that.

"It's true. Get on my back. So if we move on, we'll come back here."

'Cause if I'm lying, I'm gonna get all the dried meat already, right?

"If it were true, I wouldn't give you another slice of dried meat, would I?

To Yak, who goes up to my shoulder and laughs, I smile and say so.

"Is that it? Um?

Yak giving a dumb voice.

Me and Yak walked straight for Daiki. Then he returned to the temple again. Unlike when Yak returned, the temple visible ahead is proof of this.

"See?

'Ugh, that's bullshit! It's a mistake, isn't it?

Yak shakes his neck as a bum in such a way as to be incredible.

But many trees and shrines spread before our eyes. Earlier, only a large tree of a slightly different size emerged.

"When Yak went to the back, there was a shrine?

"Yes, no, there wasn't."

"See? This is why humans call this forest the Forest of Fantasy."

"I see."

Yak nodded with a strange voice when I explained it to him.

"So the bet is that I win, so there's no dried meat."

That's not true! At least one more slice!

"I'm sorry to hear that from you."

I had no choice but to give him the dried meat because in the end Yak would summon me to shabby on my back.

This guy might lead us to the demon's lair or something.

In the meantime, I'll keep you in a good mood with one piece of dried meat.

'I know you're coming back at the place, but what are you going to do? Doesn't make sense that you can't move on, does it?

Yak said something unusual and special.

Surely no matter how far we go, we shall never reach beneath the great tree forever.

We can do all sorts of other experiments, but then it's night time, and I can't do it anyway.

The adventurers who have done so far will be trying everything.

"Sure. I can't do it like this."

'Is there some way?

"I have a hint. It's written in the temple there."

"Temple?"

When I point to the shrine and say off, Yak approaches it and confirms the shrine.

Come on, if you step into a sacred shrine, you'll be punished.

"Hmm? It does say something weird, but you're the guy I've never seen. '

Yak glanced at the letter written at the foot of the little stone statue and groaned so.

"Yeah, I don't know what the letter is, but it's not the common language we usually use."

Yes, that letter was not the one we humans used.

Something I could read because I had the ability to understand all my languages.

Yes, this is a completely different letter.

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Letter from Julia to Jed

This is Julia. I heard from my mother and she didn't have to mess with this... No, I took the brush because I thought I had to ask her.

Jed, you've been doing some very interesting things in the city of Aether lately. I didn't hear directly from the trio of adventurers because I had a job as a lord's deputy, but my mother told me.

What the hell happened to the idea of giving Honeybird a dungeon?

I guess I can't literally get my head up because Honeybird is her? Jed, you looked so cute and you were such a freak. Being my sister, I also hold my belly unexpectedly...... surprised.

Yeah, I can't even speak anymore. If this is a misunderstanding, you should come back to the Mansion early. My mother would love that.

Please come back with Gillion at any rate. That's funny too... he said it was a big deal and he was coming back to the mansion once.

Brother, be friendly and let your father be friendly and angry with you.

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Jed.

This letter is also managed by the aunt of the Inn.