While Saito is out buying out to Japan, he thinks of the red leaves while eating the rice balls with a toy.
I wondered if I would be safe now.
There is no man in this world right now who would protect himself.
Of course they will be back soon, but in the meantime unknown people from anywhere will be attacking them and coming to hunt themselves down.
I think as I finish eating the first rice balls and hands on the second.
But apparently, though this strange place is a constant contention, I thought so when there is a measure of breadth that accepts me as a monster.
What I recall are other humans who praised me when I became an adventurer, and humans called beasts with characteristics similar to my own in ears, tails, etc.
They recognized and accepted themselves as one person who should be in the world who knew no one anywhere.
Then the cowardly monster came to the conclusion that maybe this world is safer than before.
I feel like another whole new day awaits me, unlike the days when the art of living has been a repetition of fleeing, hiding, and fleeing again.
"Hmm. If there's one thing here, isn't it bad to enjoy a new day?"
I don't intend to break up with the man who saved and helped me, the great-great-gracious rice balls (oko), but I wondered if I could enjoy my free time as long as I could until that one returned, and yes, the red leaves swelled my chest to my expectations.
If you decide so, act quickly.
I still have some rice balls for eating and some brand-new rice balls, I don't hide myself when I say I'm alone in a human town, I don't even hide my ears and tails, I walk endlessly down the road to go.
The town was fresh.
There are many people in the outdoor shop selling fruits and bottles with liquids that have a slight sense of demonic power, as well as weapons that have never been seen in Japan.
In addition to that, are my tails that have become two tails rare, the beasts who sometimes say "Heavenly Species" and be kind to me?
At first I was wary of thinking there was something behind the kindness, but nothing to talk about, these two-tailed tails were the object of faith for them.
Really, that's just it.
"Mm-hmm. Something about this world is a lot easier for Non to spend. When the Rice Ball Man returns, I have to thank him very much."
Go down the road again, eating shabby fruit instead of rice balls, recommended by the familiar beast man.
Looks like he came to an unpopular place when he was going that way or this way or flirting.
This unpopular place has a little bad air.
Signs and air-sensitive, cowardly monsters immediately understand the traits of this place.
It seems dangerous here, maybe we should turn back.
But when I thought so and tried to turn back, suddenly, the area became noisy.
"Wait here, kid!
"Who waits, you maniac! You guys are gonna get it for life!
"Brother, I can't run anymore, I can't run!
"Liz!? Hey, hold on, Liz! We're almost out in the middle of nowhere, and if we get there, they can't come after us either!
Red leaves, who are good at reading the air, understood the situation in an instant.
He said he was targeting children like unaccompanied orphans and that a big man was trying to grab his brothers and sisters for some purpose.
I remember looking at them.
Far back in the day, in the book (originally), I was chased by humans and fled.
And at the same time that her mother, the Nine Tails, was caught and sealed by the humans, she was sealed the same way, and spent a long day with suffering.
Once a coward monster, Red Leaf wanted to help those brothers and sisters.
Of course I'm not thinking about coming in and fighting for help or anything like that.
Even if I say that I am now a two-tailed and gained strength, I am at best an amateur in battle.
Besides, even if you beat that human being, the story won't end there.
Humans are creatures that act as herds.
If you defeat that man, the next person may show up and come to your enemies.
Given that risk, he seems to take the option of "fighting" just to get away on purpose and so on.
When it comes to running away, the red leaves are professional, superior, and there is no such thing as going out to the right.
It was before breakfast, such as deceiving the eyes of that giant man.
"Which, it's been a long time since I've even used witchcraft."
Immediately use witchcraft to create a space of illusion around you.
It's such an illusion of perception inhibition, with a path to the left that I thought was to the right and makes me think I was going diagonally if I thought I was going forward.
But as it is, those brothers and sisters will be illusioned together, and lost in the way.
Seems like a very good technique at first glance, but unlike when I lived alone, I recognize the challenges ahead of me when it is difficult to specify the scope of effect.
"Yeah!? The road has turned to a ghoul, brother!?
"Damn, what's going on!
Looks like the two of them don't know the way anymore and started going right and left with the crowd grabbing them.
"Look, kid, over here. If Noon leads us, we'll know exactly where we're going, so we'll hold hands."
"What, a beast girl?
"Oh, who are you! Could it be his people!? You're trying to trick us!
My sister seems to have just purely questioned me, but my brother is more alert or doesn't take my hands inside.
Perhaps it's because my sister's health is already at its limit, plus she's malnourished because she didn't usually eat good food.
My brother hides it on his back to shelter his sister.
I don't know the details, but I can tell by the red leaves, which were on the verge of starving to death when they came out of the seal, they are hard.
But it stinks and tires to maintain illusion forever, so I just decided to take the two of you away.
"Mmm, I can't help it. Then I'll give you two this rice balls, so why don't you cheer me up?
Divide the rice balls, which already have only one left, in half and hand them to their brothers and sisters respectively.
My brother swallows his first bite of food in a long time, and my sister puts it right in her mouth if she was hungry and couldn't stand it.
Then the change suddenly appeared.
…… Wow, that's amazing. This! Brother, I'm full in one bite!
"Huh!? Ugh, you're lying... Ugh!!
The rice balls in the convenience store (120 yen including tax) recovered two significantly reduced health momentarily and then added a little fat to the lean body.
It is an unusual and unthinkable phenomenon, but I accept change without thinking too deeply about whether this is the case because the red leaves are different worlds.
If Saito finds out, "I knew it was an unusual effect," he would think deeply against previous examples.
"Is this getting your strength back on track? Now, let's get out of this illusion, so you can take the hand of Noon."
"Oh, oh..."
Too relieved to take his brother and his energetic, wolf-style sister and leave the scene.
And when I went back the way I had come for a while and followed the road to the original boulevard, there was already nowhere to be seen grabbing people.
"Don't worry, I'll live free. And if you have any problems again, you should talk to the Beast Man. Yeah. They have a warm personality, so if you treat them gently, they return them with kindness. Even if it's a little difficult, if you give me the name of a two-tailed red leaf, you'll listen to me."
"Duh, why are you doing this to us?
"What, whimsical and nasty. Whimsical. See you later."
That's all I'm saying, I'll just say I did what I had to do, and I'll leave the place behind.
At the end of the day, I thought I heard a "thank you" from my brother and sister, but the monster blended into town to find the outdoor area again without any particular concern...
Later, these two brothers and sisters were hired to work as beasts running one restaurant, and sooner or later the restaurant would be lined up with a product called "Momiji's Rice Ball," which is another story.