You were extra hungry, or the food on the table quickly disappeared. In the end, I put out some extra skewers for Daniela, but they still flattened me right away.

"It was a treat......!

"My lord. Well, my belly is swollen too... can I ask you something?

Mishka leaning her neck really hard. Yes, sweetie.

"I wonder why a little kid like you was deep in a tree sea like this. Look, even though it's an ice and snow season, there's a lot of danger besides demons, right?

Holes hidden in the snow. Temperature below freezing. Suddenly falling snow. Shipwreck. Near the demon's nest without realizing it. And people thinking bad things.

Why did you come to such a tree sea without saving such danger?

"Ah... yes, actually..."

Then I heard about Mishka.

She said she was a settlement kid a little way from here. They don't even have a lot of them... but they have quite a few beastmen living there.

"That's like you... uh... cat?

"Yes, it's a cat"

"Is there a lot of beasts in that cat?

"Right, it's a cat beast colony"

In that cat-beast settlement, Mishka lived in a family of four: her mother, her father, and her sister.

One day, when I was spending quite a bit of time without liberty, my mother got sick. It's a rare disease in settlements, but they say the fatality rate of the disease is high. The chief of the settlement said a cup of tea fried with tree sea flowers blooming during the ice and snow season would cure it.

But the sea of trees is a dangerous place. There's no such thing as a demon. Still, Mishka wished her father to go looking for her. But there's no way I'm going to get a permit from my father or anything, and Mishka has been in her mother's care the whole time.

"... your father goes into the woods every day looking for flowers. But I couldn't find it... so I wanted to find flowers for my father and mother... ask my sister about your mother and go to the woods..."

"So, I came looking for you alone, and he said I was lost"

"... Yes"

A sick mother and a father who searches every day for flowers in a tree sea to help his mother. My younger sister than this one will also be full of anxiety. I want to help those three. Mishka went into the woods with all her heart. You can cry. Beautiful family love.

"Hey, Daniela."

"What the hell, Asagi"

Yes, I ask Daniela, but Daniela smiles when she says nothing. But I speak. [M] Implementing what you say is the key trick to making life better.

"Find flowers"

"What...!

To that proclamation, Mishka is surprised to pin her cat ears.

"That's what I thought the rabbit would say."

"Can't you?

"If you weren't going to tell me, I would have told you."

It's a quick journey. I can't stay on foot. But if there's someone in trouble in front of me, I can't help you as a human being.

Self satisfied. Only the person in front of you can help. But I want to do what I can.

"That's why I want to help you find flowers... okay?

"Oh, thank you......! Thanks!

Mishka lowers her head with tears in her eyes. Daniela strokes its soft hair and cat ears. I'd like to stroke it too... But Daniela's eyes didn't allow it. No-touch was the gentleman's hobby.

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It's already sundown today, so let's start moving tomorrow, so Mishka gave me a break in the tent.

"Daniela can rest, too."

"Really? Sorry."

"Fine."

Daniela is the only one who can put the magic of the Wind Attribute into the Wind Demon Stone, the ship's power source. I get more breaks, but I want to work hard at night or so because I keep them working all the time.

I search the area with the "Eye of the Divine Wolf", adding firewood so that the burning fire never stops. The purpose is Mishka, the adults in the search and the flowers that work against the disease.

"Sure... Was the name of the flower" Ijiris "

It seems that the flowers of Ijilis are red flowers that can be clearly seen even in the snow. Then I'm going to be able to find it in the moonlight at night to some extent.

Sometimes, I even looked far away in "The Eye of the Divine Wolf", de-skilled and watched the burning, paying attention to my surroundings in "Sign Sensing".

"... yes, let's see the opposite shore too"

I've been looking all over the back of the woods, so I decided to take a look at the other side of here for a change of mood.

"Hmm... I knew it was a tree sea over there"

The trees are just as messy here. There are no demons or animals. The ice and snow forest has no footprints at all and is very mysterious. The blue snow illuminated by the moonlight is fantastic enough to watch forever, and The Eye keeps moving ahead.

Along the way, I remembered after fighting Queens Night Goblin. I didn't get a very far view then.

So what now?

"There's no burden at all."

You can tell me it's completely healed. At that time, it was certainly not possible to use it more than 1 km away for a long time. I think it's probably because I strained my eyes and optic nerve quite a bit, so maybe it's a good idea that I stopped using it.

I'm relieved. I'm moving on. But the flowers of Igilis were not blooming anywhere. Maybe it's not in this direction.

"What about the deep side...... no, before that"

You've seen it a little too long. We need to see what's going on with the incineration and what's going on around here. Looking for flowers is important, but watching is also a job.

And I lift my face unskilled. [M]

There was an image of a man who shook up a scythe.

"Nuuung!!!

I couldn't turn my head for a moment, but I held the white knife I had placed on the ground aggressively with a man's hanging voice and lowered to the rear with "Legs of the Divine Wolf". The chair I have been sitting in is cut into two pieces. [M]

"My chair!

"You...!!

Does a man have any grudges against me, he looks mad? I observed how the man confronted me while quietly pulling out the white knife.

Big tweezer in the hand. Your body is a muscle mucky macho man. Hot air is coming out of the body surface, but maybe I've been forced to cross the line. Was the bee scratched out by the sound of a bonfire or river... unconscious.

And raise your gaze and look at the man's face. It's a face I don't know. I'm handsome, but I don't know a handsome guy with such a bearded, wild taste.

"Hmm... the Beast Man?

……

There was an ear over its head. Mishka and I look like the same cat ears....... hmm? Same as you, Mishka?

"Maybe you know Mishka?

"... I can smell Mishka from here. And you know Mishka. You're the one who caught it!!

"No, it's a misunderstanding. Instead, protect..."

"No questions asked!!!

A man jumping in with the instantaneous power of a cat. A white knife prevents the swung down, but it cannot be swung away by the force produced by a thick limb like a lion.

"Gu, no..."

"I'll chop off your limbs and let you spit out where Mishka is......!

"Mishka, then... where...!

"I'm not dying......!!

What you're saying and doing is fucked up! I can't help it like this. If only you could at least listen to me......!

"Father!"

The voice sounded like an angel singing to me. It's Mishka's voice. Apparently, I've been waking up with this noise.

Mishka, who came out of her tent when she did her gaze, and Daniela, with her bow, were beside her. I mean... your father?

"Mishka!

"Father, stop! He didn't do anything!

A man was staring at Mishka with his eyes open as if he had even seen a ghost. I didn't miss that gap. I shake up the white knife. From the hand of the man, Daniela shot through the floating onion into the universe and bounced it into the back of the forest.

"Gu......"

Mishka's father stands up and stares at me. I know very well that Mishka's desire to believe her words is mixed with her suspicions about humans. I should break this place. [M]

"Well, let's just talk about it, shall we?

Let's talk first. With the white knife in my sheath, I offered my hand to my father-in-law.