Life with a Tail

Tough days are over. At last, me and Ruti were able to move around satisfactorily, so I came as close to the Great Forest as I could get my share back from work and my mood swings.

"This is the fifth one. You're doing well."

"That's a good pace. And I haven't even been in the woods, but I've been there a long time."

There is no such thing as going into the woods, but it seems a little inexplicable that there is so much prey even though there is no such thing as going in.

"Well, it's easy, isn't it good?

Without thinking deeply about it, I finished draining blood, and when I was camping, I was peeling my fur to eat one.

Ooh wow!!

I hear some ambition.

"I don't know..."

"That bothers me. Let's go for a moment."

With that said, Ruti spreads his wings and flies away. I rush after him, too.

And as I flew in the direction of the audible, I could see that something was in dispute.

"! Ruti, over there!

"I'm gonna help you!

There were a few trolls there and a pair surrounded by them.

Deciding it was an untimely situation, he punched wind exhalation from low altitude into his head without landing and dodged it with a barrel roll. Ruti annihilated the troll by shooting in an arrow of water as he sideslipped.

I still think trolls are weak...

Check for fire leaks and descend nearby.

"Are you all right?

"Oh, yeah, I'm fine. Thank you."

A pair of human men answer better. The other looks like an animal man woman. I have cat ears... I want to touch them.

"Thank you. I thought I couldn't do it anymore..."

"Thanks again. I'm Cain. Say hello."

"I'm Phil. It's a pleasure.

I'm Natsuki.

"I'm Rutimo. Call me Ruti."

We briefly introduced ourselves to each other and asked what had happened.

"Trolls would have been exterminated in large numbers during this time, wouldn't they? I didn't see it so much around here, but it was strange, so I asked for an investigation. I took it and followed the trail..."

Mass extermination seems to be something we did during this time. It was an anomaly, that...

"I investigated it all the way into the woods, and I bowled it down with the trolls when I got back. No, thank you so much."

"No. By the way, what are the findings? If you don't mind, I'd like you to tell me."

"Oh, that's good. Thanks, I think I've been running away from something. I just don't know what I've been running from."

"There were traces of something disputing heavily in the woods. As far as the traces go, it doesn't seem like a Warcraft kind, and it's a lot of scale... I was just about to go back to the report."

"That's why we're coming back to report it. Thank you for saving me. Next time, let me have lunch."

"Then we have to find something extraordinarily expensive."

Saying so with a laugh, Cain went to the city with a bitter smile when asked there.

"Shall we hunt some more and then camp?... ruti?"

When I was wondering because I didn't hear back, I was trembling and leaning down.

I peeked in to see what was going on and he was sweating weird amazing.

"Ruti? Are you ill, too?

"... Natsuki. Remember what you said and played with special training before?

"Do you remember that? You can get out of the woods in a day or two, so you've become a nori and magically exhaled all you want."

"Do you remember the place?

"Place? Sure... yeah, go that way from here..."

Wait a minute. I'm getting a bad feeling. Didn't you just say something about discovering traces of contention...

"Uh, I mean... eh? That sort of thing...?

"Maybe, but whoever drove the troll..."

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We can't stop sweating weird at each other. Okashi Inner Nandeda Rowner.

In the end I decided to stop hunting and camp because of the unspeakable air.

"Next no!

The next day, he was to return to the city immediately and receive a troll-related request from one end.

At first I was going to get rid of it without taking the request, but I stopped when I realized it would be safer for the city people to take the request and clean it up. But cleaning up a request also means getting paid... It's like a match pump and I'm very sick, but I can't help it.

That's how I ran around and all my requests were cleared up when the sun went down plenty.

"Oh, you're tired."

I went back to the union and made a report, and the union president spoke out that I was stuck at the table.

"Hey, I'm glad the ladies took it. Normally, we don't clean up this fast."

Ugh... do it for granted... awkward. I don't even have the courage to tell the truth. Ugh...

"You put it together and cleaned it up, so I just colored the reward a little bit. It's good, but eat it."

"Aligato Gozaimus..."

Stop it! Our stomachs have zero endurance!

Guilt almost ripped us off. We left the union behind.

By the way, for a while afterwards, it was just me and Ruti who freaked out every time I heard the word Troll.