Monster no Goshujin-sama

Thirteen.

The next day we began to follow in Ghoul's footsteps.

Though slightly serpentine, Ghoul basically seemed to have come straight from the 'Northwest' direction.

Sometimes Fire Fang's sense of smell was still very good after the deterioration due to pseudomorphism, and the movement of the ghoul while overflowing with blood left many traces, which allowed him to follow his footprints smoothly for a few days.

When this happens, you also need to think about what happens after you actually come into contact with people.

One night, I cut out my family at the table surrounding the burning fire.

"When I come into contact with humans, I think about going with me, Lily, and then Kato. I want the rest of you to stand by."

Objections erupted from those who should or will be left behind as expected.

"What! Lord, what does that mean!

"It's dangerous, sir. Please forgive us for accompanying you."

"I don't care what you say. I won't have a choice. Unlike Lily, you don't delude yourselves into being monsters."

I also know what it's like to recruit Rose and Gabella. Even I don't want to break up with them.

But it is my consistent policy to stay down about my abilities when I come into contact with humans. The otherworlds should not reveal the power I possess more lightly than they do not know how to react to monsters, and I simply wanted to lay down my hand against the same metastasizers as I do.

Those who can then be taken will be limited to nature.

Asalina couldn't get away from my left hand, so as there was nothing more I could do, the only thing I could take was about Lily.

My thoughts around here are familiar to my relatives. Nevertheless, whether or not it is convincing is another story.

"Because the concubine will follow! Even though the Lord may be in danger, can you do so in the woods?

With much excitement, Gabella was tickling her spider legs.

I looked down at the spider's lower body.

"If you say that, you won't be able to mislead me. Or do you have any ideas?

"You just have to pull a thousand cuts from your hips! If it's just the upper body, the concubine is no different than a human being!

"... there's no way. What kind of horror movie?"

It had not been resolved in the fundamental.

Besides, the boulder white Arakune won't be able to live when he cries goodbye to his lower body either.

"But..."

Do you have a consciousness that you're saying impossible things, Gabella groaned?

She's getting emotional right now. Perhaps she can tell by her head, but she can't make a calm decision now that her blood is rising on her head.

This is going to have to take time to convince me.

When I thought of that, the refrain that was always on Gabella's white head suddenly snorted.

"Kuh!"

Until then, when he was on top of Gabella with his hands hanging steadily, he jumped out of Gabella's head with momentum.

As her gaze gathered, she jumped to Lily in a straight line as she descended to the ground. No. Would it be more right if I jumped? Dauntingly Lily takes the little body.

Azuma slipped her short hands and legs and escaped Lily's arm, sticking her face into the clothes from her jersey chest and diving straight into the clothes.

"Hey, hey, stop?

If you stay like this, you can bare through your clothes and slip off to the ground. They thought the same thing, and Lily was doing it by holding down the hem of the jersey.

Ayagi burst out of his jersey chest after a while in his baggy clothes.

The crushed eyes reflect Gabella. Gabella opened her red eyes.

"Are you telling me that the Lord is going to take his place"

When Gabella asked as bewildered, she gave up her nose to respond.

My eyes sparkle when I tell you not to leave them to me. Apparently, she means it.

"... no matter how palm-sized you give up on a boulder, you won't be able to hide under your clothes"

I was unintentionally interrupting the conversation.

In fact, the chest part of Lily's jersey, which had stopped hanging, was unnaturally fuzzy. Lily's chest is certainly rich, but it would still be impossible to delude her a little.

And I decided, but here came a backup projectile from an unexpected place.

"No. Maybe not, sir"

With that said, Lily got her hands under her clothes from the underside of her jersey.

I'll support you with one hand on your stop butt and grab your jersey hem with the other.

The smooth abdomen, the adorable umbilical dew, and even the foot of the two hills without underwear were about to peek dangerously - all of which turned into a transparent semi-liquid substance with a loss of skin tone.

"This way..."

Lily, who returned from her chest to her abdomen to the body tissue of the slime, cleverly snapped a portion of it to create a cavity, shoved a small body of yawning into it.

To the extent that it was done, I applauded my heart. This would delude the volume of abstinence under the clothes. It was the only way Lily, the Mimic Slime, could carry it. It may be slightly cramped, but it's something Ayama herself said, so she'll endure around it.

Again, he turned his crushed eyes toward Gabella.

What do you say? Garbera, who had her neck tilted, put a troubled grin on her mouth.

For this minute, apparently, she was able to regain her calm thanks to her abstention.

Standing up, Gabella walked up to the stop, turning back and stroking Lily's stomach cavity with a little rest on her head.

Stop trying to push his nose against Gabella's fingertips and start to sweeten.

On the tip of her nose like that, a droplet accidentally fell.

The surprised stop is one sneeze. I looked up to heaven.

"... rain"

In the slices of the trees I saw a cloud of colour.

It was a bad thing.

We athed Lily's sense of smell to trace Ghoul's route.

As a matter of course, the smell is shed by rain. Clues are lost. While traveling through the woods so far, of course, there have been several times when it has rained, but I have been alarmed because it hasn't been here for some time. Even so, I was just taking that into account, and I wasn't able to take any measures...

Now it's a shame to let go of the only clue I've got in the corner.

We decided to go as far as we could that day.

There were several monster encounters, all of which were easily repelled, and we rushed ahead.

Does that mean you've come so far, you've often come out with monsters you've never even heard of in colonies lately? Instead, I stopped seeing Fire Fang and Magical Puppets that I had often encountered before.

The rain began to fall in earnest around noon. This made it harder to follow Ghoul's footprints with the smell.

But by then, that wasn't a big deal anymore.

Because before that, we were discovering something interesting.

Beast paths in the woods and the footprints there.

It was a human trail.

While we were more vigilant than ever, we followed a trail half-burned in grass.

Less than a day later, we came across the same weaponry that belonged to the soldier who had succeeded in Ghoul, and the place where his remains were scattered.

Trampled bushes. Broken trees. There were obvious traces of combat left on the spot. I just couldn't find a soldier's body. Was it eaten up without a trace, or was the survival recovered... if it were the latter, would it be because of the hassle of transporting the weapons that remained?

Either way, this trail must be something humans use.

This path leads to the world in which people live.

We finally started following the definitive clues we found. Even so, stupid. I didn't honestly go down the trail.

We tried to walk side by side with the trails in the woods, basically going down into the woods. This is so we can find someone here. If you found a human, you were going to see how it went for a while and in the worst case scenario avoid contact.

In doing so, more than a week had passed since defeating Ghoul.

The sight in my eyes was still dim, minus being in the woods.

It's still early in the morning. I haven't even had breakfast.

I woke up at a time like this to hide what I was hiding, to strengthen my physical abilities by magic.

――

I was aware of the presence of magic in a vessel called Myself.

When I do that, I feel magic moving through my body.

Compared to the magical currents of Gabella, my species, it is unusual and ugly. If the magic of Gabella runs as a running stream, mine is like the mud that will be pushed away.

Still, the effect of letting magic flow through your body in this way is obvious. For example, my grip right now would even be comparable to that of a musculoskeletal big man over two metres.

Although only in the human category, muscle strength and endurance are elevated. Nevertheless, power just doesn't make sense. I needed to learn how to handle it.

"Ha!

And I stepped in, and waved a sword in one hand.

This is hard. Strengthened physical abilities can be solved if you are not always conscious, and if you are too conscious, your hands and feet can move in a rough way. The fact that the first few days I had fallen over and over just running is a memory I want to forget quickly.

Only speed could be seen there with physical strengthening. A sword ran tearing air into the slap.... Unfortunately I don't remember my arm, so I can only handle it to the point of 'getting beaten with a stick with a blade', but the murder weapon is the murder weapon. If you wield it poorly, it can be dangerous.

But the white girl with the spider in her lower body, Gabella, is ahead of me with my sword. For her, the sword I have must only be as threatening as the claw branch. As Gabella gently strayed herself, the cutting edge of the sword cut the sky in vain.

Take the spider leg thrust flying in the counterattack with the shield of your left arm around it. The ground rang roughly behind my shoes. My left arm is completely paralyzed.

"Whoa!?

While you were depriving me of consciousness, I was stuck on my feet. Fall from your back to the ground. Receiving is a lot better lately.

As I rolled down the ground with patience for my clogged breath, my spider leg stood where I had just been. Danger, it was almost over.

What a relief and shock to the chest. I was alarmed.

Gabella has eight legs, each of which moves well like an independent creature. One of the spider legs rolled out by the time difference slapped his chest hard. My lungs are crushed and my breath is exhaled. The pain and breathlessness hit me at the same time, shaking my consciousness about. He's been pushed. He's going to fall back like that.

It's hard to get back on your feet if you fall here.

"Not yet!

When I stepped on it and stayed on the spot, I paid with my sword a piercing hand rolled out unconstructively. I guess the more I try to gabella, the slower the attack will be, but the more I try, it's a sharp blow I can't prevent unless I'm focused enough to burn out my reflex nerves.

Occasionally, this attack doesn't even plunder, and every time I get Garbera's spider leg with a shield, I get a little tired on my left arm. Due to being tumbled over and poked over and over again, blunt pain nods at all ends of the body. Because if you show any gaps at all, you will, of course, eat a blow to the spider leg and be stunned. Alternatively, I might punch all the things in my stomach and get stuffy.

That has happened many times in previous training.

Because I instructed him that if he didn't do it, it wouldn't make sense.

"Ugh..."

Fatigue builds up and my legs are about to break at last.

Experience taught me that I stayed on the spot in the mood, but if I stayed like this, I would be hit by a chase.

I gave instructions to the Left Hand.

A crawl stretched from the back of his left hand - Asalina, running through the universe like a whip.

Garbera, who was about to launch a chase, lay low on the ground and avoided making this attack easier. On the contrary, it's one of those legs that extends radially wide on the ground, and it's going to pay for your feet like it always did.

Asalina's attack had given her enough room to blink. Once in a decade, good luck is unleashed and you succeed in avoiding it by skipping backwards.

Whipped to a ragged, swinging consciousness due to lack of oxygen, I again gripped the pattern of my sword, which was about to slip with sweat. Out front.

"Ha!"

Temper flashed. I shook off my sword.

As soon as I did, the feel of the sword pattern disappeared from my palms.

"... what?

They grabbed the tip of the sword and took it away.

My consciousness was blank.

"At the end of the day, my lord"

There was a slight impact on my back.

Apparently, I was pushed on the back with one of my stretched eight-legs. It is something that has been done many times before, so I was able to judge it by my senses even if I didn't see it.

My body was swimming, and that's all I get. All I had to do was get the momentum I had on the punch in.

The ground approached me with tremendous momentum. And clashes.

"Ugh!?

A missing scream between them sounded small in the still dim woods and disappeared.

The body, where the verses hurt, was pulled backwards with shriveled arms.

So I do my best. I looked up at the narrow skies of the woods and took a rough breath.

Are you all right, Lord?

In the front of me lying on my back appeared a soft beauty dripping white hair. The expression is somewhat considerate.

"There you go... ho ho, ho"

"First, breathe."

Stroking my head with loving tender hands, Gabella sat down on the spot folding eight legs.

There comes Lily, who was watching about us.

She put her lower body back into the slime as she did every night, lifting my body slightly and letting me sleep on top of it.

Lily checked her entire body and nodded contentedly after putting healing magic on me.

"Yes, it's all healed."

"Sorry every morning."

"Speaking of which, no."

Lily's upper body, growing just above my head, smiled and peered into my face.

Currently, Lily has a knee pillow on me. However, it is deformed as much as you wish.

The elasticity behind the head belongs to the girl's thighs, but at the same time it also has the feel of a lime, cold, rugged slime.

Because the slimming made her lower body wear nothing, she only made the upper part of her knee from the front seat, with the slime still on. Depending on the way you look at it, it could be a little fancy outfit.

"Hehe. Your husband is starting to be quite able to move."

"I've just fallen, and I only remember showing you the mess"

"You've fallen less often."

……

"I don't know. Jokes, jokes. Your husband is improving."

"The Lord will keep his strength. Say it's going better than I thought."

Gabella followed us as she watched us sideways. As for me, I have no choice but to laugh bitterly.

"Avoid all that for a second, even if they say so..."

I don't care what they say about being empowered, I don't have that feeling at all.

One of the sighs came out as a matter of course.

"... somehow I know how to handle magic."

Conscious of the magic that filled his whole body, even the blurry one, it moved like a messy muddy water.

It was already exciting the first time Gabella succeeded in strengthening her physical abilities due to her gestures. I felt like a bird flying in the sky. Or maybe this is how my first baby starts walking.

- Now I can fight.

I could feel my feelings getting expensive. I'm also seventeen men this year. I have a pure yearning for strength.

It was also Gabella who broke my excitement in an instant.

Combat training with her did not change her ability to strengthen herself with magic.

No matter how many swords you wave, you don't even scratch it, and you can't catch Asalina rolling out. Any excitement was meant to cool off if they just rolled on the ground with their legs hooked or their backs pressed in an obviously attenuated manner.

……

"Master, are you depressed?

Looking back at the blur and the training this morning, Lily wrapped her hands around my cheek.

I still feel good about the calm girl's temperature on her still lit body.

"Quite a snag. 'Cause I'm pretty sure you're not dressed well."

When I answer, Lily peeks into this eye. There was a laugh in that mouthpiece.

"You look happy for that."

"... sort of"

I snorted back. Although I am caught up in my lack of talent, it was true that I have been enriched these days.

Even in this world of magical strange powers, ordinary people like me can only go one step at a time. That's about all I knew originally, and it wasn't like I was seriously depressed.

I'm sure you're very fortunate in this harsh world to be able to move forward even slowly.

Besides, some people smile and watch over me. Wanting more would be a little too greedy.

"Time for breakfast"

Once I stroked Lily's cheek, I woke myself up.

As soon as I did, Lily paid for the mud on my body and dropped it. The shortage of clothing is eliminated by the entry of Gabella's family, and most of the time we are wearing white matching clothes that she has made.

I had been dirty for a long time this morning because of the bad place I fell. Thanks for this. I think I should get dressed before dinner.

With that in mind, I turned my gaze around.

Then, a white doll like a mannequin and a girl wrapped around the sheet sat next to each other in sight.

"What, Kato was awake too"

"Good morning, Senior Mashima"

As I approached him and spoke, Mr. Kato turned to this side, releasing his palm, which had been pressed against Rose's arms, and bowed his head to discipline.

She manipulates magic just like me, and slowly trains to master magic.

In her case though, it's from touching where Rose is making magic tools and feeling the magic flow.

"What do you say, progress?"

"... that's hard. I don't know what to do because I don't have the experience to feel magical."

Kato has a frowned and sinister face. Apparently, she's not doing well either.

"I can't help it. You knew the hard part from the start, didn't you?

"Yes, but it's a bit of a snag that after more than a week nothing's progressed"

"I'm similar, though."

"I think Senior Mashima can move. I've been looking at it sideways, but I can see it's moving better and better."

Is it true?... No. Probably comforting. Otherwise, it's called the Social Dictionary.

If you were as close to Lily here, you might have made a joke about "right, that's about as many times as you've fallen", but for that, we're only a little far away.

My sense of distance to Kato is like "Friends of Friends" or, for a moment, "Man Parents of Girls and Friends of Their Children".

Still, it's better than before, as long as I can talk to the public.

"Well, leave me alone... it's something I'm not used to, and Mr. Kato will have a hard time. If you need any help, don't hesitate to say it. Respond wherever possible."

"Thank you"

Even so, I... I don't know what we can do.

It's not just in a capability sense. In a temporal sense, there was a limit to what I could do to Mr. Kato.

The purpose of our contact with humans is, of course, for me to obtain supplies myself, but another is to find a place where I can entrust Kato.

We already have a trail of humans in this world. If you can come into contact with human society, in some cases it may be possible to say goodbye to Kato as he is.

It was already my decision to try to make Rose's friend Kato as convenient as possible.

I'll do what I can to repay her. That's what I was able to think right now.

"May I have a moment, sir?"

Rose called out, so I cut off my thoughts.

Move your gaze from Kato to Rose. She told her sooner.

"I want to give you something. What I was working with Gabella on before was completed last night."

"Huh! Is that true!

"Yes, can you confirm"

Yet what Rose had offered me was a carefully folded white cloth.

Spread it out and you'll see that's long-sleeved skin wear.

The creation and sewing of the cloth is at the hands of Gabella, but this is furnished with a thin armoured plate made by Rose everywhere. This is made of the example 'pseudo-Damascus steel', which can be expected to have quite a defense even if it is thin.

"That's good. More than I expected."

"I'm afraid."

This was prepared as a precaution for contact with the human world. I'm honestly delighted that it was pre-finished this way. Quickly, let's try it on.

"... should I sweat once before that"

"That would be better."

Rose turned to Lily beside me.

"So will Sister Lily be ready for a water bath? In the meantime, I will prepare the fire."

"Okay. So, Gabella helps Rose get ready... what, Gabella? What are you dodging?

Lily makes a strange face. At the end of that gaze, Gabella, with some hasty face, looked around restlessly.

"I can't see you quitting."

"Speaking of which..."

I look around too, but I don't see the little fox loving.

It has happened once in a while to my family that they would not fly away and would not be able to run away.

In that case, I'm mostly playing nearby. I think it's my job to play with children, but Gabella and others have been rubbing their minds for a long time.

"I thought I was with the Roses."

"No. I thought I was the one Sister Lily was dealing with."

"I don't know... oh?

As Lily raised her voice, the retreat and the nearby bushes made a noise.

Momentum popped up from there was a stop that just came up on the subject.

As she jumped out of the bush, she looked around restlessly.

Find me, or she'll rush over to the straight line.

"What's wrong, stop"

I ask when I stop biting at the hem of my pants and start pulling. Stop staring at me with his pants chewed.

Through the pass, her excitement is conveyed.

And I opened my eyes.

"... you found something?

Ayamu took his mouth off the fabric of the clothes he was pulling. Apparently, this is the correct answer.

Balloon Fox Abandonment is the same or better nose than Lily who can simulate Fire Fang's sense of smell. She must have discovered something while we were training.

Something.

I had a hunch. Naturally, I gave instructions in a firm voice.

"Everybody, get ready to leave. Be very vigilant around you. Stop and show us where we are."

Breakfast is behind us. As soon as we left, we started exploring the area.

Lily leads the way, right behind her. If they are good at enemy defense, they will detect the anomaly faster than anyone else.

Would you have walked like that for a few minutes?

Abandoned his legs, Lily reported in a suppressed voice.

"... Found"

At the end of her gaze is a trail in the woods that we have been walking side by side since the other day. Hiding in the shadows of the trees, I peered into the trail, too.

There was the figure of the humans we saw in a long time indeed.