The picturesque rice cakes are delicious today

Human. Male. He's taller than me, and he's more disappointed than me.

White shirt with greasy cross ties, black skinny trousers on the same color vest, then boots. There are gold ornaments with red jewels on the ears, wrists and tie knots.

And on dark red hair...... scarlet eyes.

... the person with a slightly distant appearance looked at me and the horse and was pompous.

Well, were the Heavenly Horse and the Unicorn frightened of this man?

... so I wonder if you've surrounded me and 'protected' me for now. Yeah, I do seem to be the weakest of these. I know.

"Oh...?

The man who came looked at me and approached the fountain. Beware of this, both the Heavenly Horse and the Unicorn, and the Heavenly Horse spreads its wings, and the Unicorn points its horn at the man.

"Whoa, whoa, wait a minute! Hey, no intention of attacking! No, I don't think so. Yeah..."

He found out that it would be dangerous if he got any closer to the boulder, and the person stopped on the spot... from there, he called out to me.

"Are you the Spirit of this Fountain!?

...... yeah.

"No, sir."

No!

"Huh!? What!?

"No, sir."

Busty. Tenma and the others move their feathers together to make noise.

"Hey, I can hear you...! One more time! One more time, please!

"No!

Now the unicorn walked away and started poking the red-haired man in the corner.

"Oh, shit, man, he said I'm not a bad guy! Don't follow me. Don't follow me! Because it was bad! Because I'm really sorry I stepped into your house! Excuse me! Spirit! I'll be right out!

"So no! Wait! Wait!

In the meantime, I was a little forced to scratch the Heavenly Horses and managed to get out of the fountain and solve the misunderstanding. I'm a human being.

"Huh!? Ah... Huh? Spirit, Dear......?

"It's human!

... I think I finally solved the misunderstanding. A pompous redhead and I'm tired of scratching my horse. Still restless horses......

Somehow, very, very tired.

"Oh well. Humans... No, is she a woman? I thought, but I looked like a man, and for that matter, I looked like I missed unicorns a lot...... I was like, 'This is the Spirit!' I thought so. Sorry about that."

Heavenly horses and unicorns stick around me all the time since I solved the misunderstanding. So I can't calm down inside and talk to you. The redhead and I are always talking at a distance of about two horses.

... Could the horses be afraid of strangers? Do people know each other?... a little cute to think about that. I decided to stroke them around their necks calmly.

"No, I'm surprised. The fountain where the Spirit is bathing in water with Pegasus and Unicorn, what an absolute sanctuary. I was in a hurry thinking you were accidentally lost and stuck in the sanctuary!

... sanctuary, what is it? Then the Spirit, what is it? Hey, I'm not sure about this world. Do you refer to horses and friendly people as spirits? No, I think maybe not. I think they were making a more amazing mistake.

"Fair enough. Good. If it was the Spirit, I might have been killed. Ha ha."

A spirit is apparently something that could kill people. That's a mess. I don't do that.

Or is there so much noise in this world? I'm a little scared though.... It's really a different world here.

"Oh, yeah. You forgot your name. My name is Faye Brad Redgard. He's the second son of the Redgard family. Say hello."

... and somehow, when I heard his name, I thought, again,

It's a different world here.

"So, can I ask your name?

That's what Mr. Redgard asked me, so I... worried for a moment, but I decided to answer honestly.

"Over Kiryu. Maybe from different worlds."

"... from different worlds?

"Yeah. Maybe......"

"Oh, well... wow"

Mr. Redgard has a happy face, or a chunk of curiosity, that comes stuck to me.

"I've heard rumors before. Sometimes there are people who get lost in another world. But I thought it was just a mess."

And he's got a full smile.

"Guests of different worlds! Welcome to this world! It's a pleasure to meet you!

... and when I saw it, I thought, 'Oh, this man is a good man.'

There is no basis. Maybe it's not really good to trust people this way.

But somehow. Because his curious expression, hey, resembled a teacher.

"There's plenty of land and woods elsewhere, but among them, thank God you've come to our Redgard Territory woods!

... And if this guy is a bad guy, I guess I'm in big trouble.

This guy seems to be the rightful owner of this forest... which means I'm staying on this guy's house land without permission...

Then for a while, I was questioned. [M]

What was it like in the world I was in? How can the fruit growing around this spring be so delicious, etc. How did you get past Pegasus and Unicorn (apparently about Heavenly Horse and Unicorn), etc.

... In the process of explaining around there, I felt that I could no longer hide anything, so I talked about 'being able to materialize what I painted on the picture'. Then Mr. Redgard was happy to shine his eyes at this again, and he also made a question-attack about "materializing the painting"... but honestly, this one was often unanswered because I didn't really understand it myself.

Still, Mr. Redgard didn't seem particularly concerned, he just looked at me with a scarlet glow, like a chunk of curiosity.

... Along the way, he also told me a little bit about this world.

Apparently, here, it's a different world. Yeah, well, I knew this.

And they say this is the corner of the land ruled by the Redgards. Yeah, I knew this somehow, too.

"Well, this whole area of land is like a poor lottery. The closer you are to the King's capital, the bigger the area... but no matter what, most of the territory is an undeveloped forest. Besides, it's like there's a forest in the middle of the territory. In fact, Redgard territory is just a thin circle around the woods."

That's... I don't know, as a Japanese, there's something I think. Japan is also like this... because of the mountain range in the middle of Honshu, it is a country with little agricultural land for the area.

Mr. Redgard laughed a little pranky when he heard it in a bit of a strange way.

"This forest may belong to the Spirit in the first place. Touch the wrath of the Spirit when you get it poorly. I can't open it. Whatever it is, humans may be reluctant to inadvertently slip into it. That's the kind of forest we have here.... so me and you, could it suck?

"Huh."

...... eh.

... This forest is a forest of spirits, and the spirits, when humans enter the forest, get angry...?

That means I'm... already pissed off...?

If I had solidified for a while... Mr. Redgard eventually erupted like he couldn't stand it anymore.

"Haha, joking jokes! 'Cause it's okay! No, bad, bad. Don't look like that because I'm kidding."

To see how he was, apparently, I was stunned.

... I don't know anything about this world because this one is from another world. I can't tell if it's a joke or if it's true, so I don't want you to get too confused.

"... really?

"I don't know. I don't know what the Spirit would think. You're gonna be okay, even if I can't. So much for unicorns and pegasus."

Is that really okay? I still don't really know what "Spirit" is... but somehow, I think it's like "God of the Mountains" in Japan. Then, touching that anger, well... isn't it very good?

In my case, I went into this forest... well, it's like force majeure. I was here when I realized, so I couldn't help it. I want forgiveness for that.

But Mr. Redgard probably came here himself, didn't he?

"... that, how did you get here? Is it true that you don't really want to go in the woods?

I asked because I was curious.

People who fear something called the 'Spirit' so much that they keep the woods out of the way. I don't know why I come all the way into the woods' cause the Spirit might get angry 'for no reason.

"Hmm... well, yeah, but I can't say that either. It's happening."

When I asked, Mr. Redgard took his eyebrows as eight letters, his mouth as a letter to and scratched the back of his neck... and then, softly, answered.

"They have poachers in this forest. I came looking for them."

"... poacher?

"That's right.... Apparently they're after Pegasus feathers and unicorn horns"

That's where I got upset. 'Cause all the horses, they were injured. It's like a cut, I don't care what you think. It was a lot of scratches... and there were horses with wings cut off and corners folded.

"... sounds familiar to you?

Seeing me like that, Mr. Redgard sharpened his gaze just a little bit.... This guy, he's not a bad guy, he's more of a good guy, but he's a little scary.

"... to the poacher himself, then, though not. There was an injured horse."

When I answered that, Mr. Redgard nodded with a satisfactory face.

"Complete. Oh, come on. We're good friends. Do you want to come and show me where you got hurt?... um, I'm really trusted, you"

I'm not that deep with the horses, but... okay.

"Well, I don't doubt you. Doesn't look like it. It's fine, and I don't seem to have the strength. You don't have the motivation to poach, you."

"Yeah......"

I nodded because I knew it was a word I honestly didn't want to snort, but it would definitely look like it. That's right. I'm fine, physically weak, and impatient. [M]

"Something about you, blood, fighting, you don't seem to like it"

"... yeah"

This one snorted honestly.

"Mostly, that's all I miss about Pegasus and unicorns. I have no doubt about it. I know you're a good guy, so I guess I miss these guys."

"I guess so."

"Oh. Right.... Huh? Or are you, these guys abusing you?

I don't abuse you though. I don't abuse you...... yeah.

If the horses think of me as a 'good guy' and miss me, I'm glad.

"Uh... hold on, I don't know what to do. There's no clue."

And Mr. Redgard sighed softly, saying so. Apparently, it's pretty good.

"There's only a bunch of unicorns and pegasus here, so I know you can smuggle all you want. But it's hard to hold down the actual crime scene."

Yeah. I think that's right. 'Cause poachers, I guess that's not stupid. You'll do enough to hide and do something. I don't suppose it's like coming out of a fixed place at a set time.

"... and it's getting dark."

Besides, it's dusk time. Walking in the woods becomes a bit of a difficult brightness.

"Well, I'm probably getting lost."

...... yeah.

That's... I don't know.

But sure, right? As far as I can tell by the heavenly horse riding me through the woods from above, I'm pretty much like the back of the woods here, and the 'fear the Spirit' people don't come this far behind, do they? Unless you get lost.

"... so it is."

Mr. Redgard bowed his head to me with momentum.

"It's also on the edge of something that we met here! So why don't you stay a little overnight?

... Hmmm, I can't say no.