‘This sound?’
Riley, who had his eyes closed, perked up his ears because of the sound. To detect the ones responsible for the roar, Riley widened his senses.
The sound was coming from the left side of the group. Fortunately, it didn’t look like there were many of them.
‘About two?’
Urururung…
The roar could be heard again.
“This… This sound is… It can’t be?”
Sera had been preparing the stew after getting the vegetables prepared. Having heard the beastly roar coming from the bushes on the left, Sera flinched her shoulders.
“Could they be… wolves?”
It seemed Nainiae also noticed the sounds. She mumbled in low voice and steadily gazed toward the bush.
“N… Nainiae. I think there must be wolves? This smell is definitely…”
It seemed she was right. After a few crackling sounds coming from beyond the bush, they noticed sharp eyes unique to the wolves.
“Hiiiik?!”
Sera turned pale after finding the wolves’ eyes. Riley, who was pretending to be asleep with his eyes closed, narrowly opened them and got up from Nainiae’s lap.
“Do wolves here not have any sense of fear?”
Riley’s eyes, which were drenched in exhaustion, started to glare at the wolves beyond the bushes.
‘I need to kill them.’
The wolves growled toward them again. Facing the wolves, Riley also started to grind his teeth.
He got annoyed about the fact that his rest was interrupted. Also, he thought an incident like this will repeat again later if he didn’t kill them.
‘If I kill them…’
Riley had memories of a time when sparing the lives of things snarling with bare fangs lead to bloodshed. To not repeat the mistake he made in his past life, he was about to move his hand toward his waist. However, his wrist was tightly grabbed by someone.
“Young Master.”
“…?”
The hand was a horrid looking hand that was missing two fingers.
It was Nainiae’s hand.
Although it looked horrible, the hand holding his wrist felt warm. Perhaps that was the reason?
Riley’s eyes shook for a moment.
“There is no need to kill them.”
Nainiae stared at Riley and said that. Riley fiddled with the fingers that were headed to his waist.
“If I don’t kill them, these bastards will come again…”
“Young Master.”
Nainiae called Riley again.
“These children are not humans.”
Unlike Riley, who thought the wolves growling at them from beyond the bushes should be killed, Nainiae was saying… he should let them live.
“If I tell them in words, they will definitely understand.”
She said to talk to them in words.
Finding it to be ridiculous, Riley opened his mouth.
“…”
Riley wondered if she knew humans and wolves backwards. It was such an absurd response.
“You seem to be…”
As if he was trying to tell Nainiae to cut the nonsense, he shook off Nainiae’s hand and tried to draw his sword. Nainiae got up from her seat.
“Young Master.”
She called Riley again.
“Drawing sword every time incidents like this happens and causing bloodshed… That is… That’s not what you want, right?”
Having heard Nainiae, Riley’s eyes shook big again.
It was because he couldn’t find an answer for that question right away.
To avoid annoying businesses, the kind he experienced in his past, to pre-emptively extinguish things that could lead to problems later, Riley had been swinging his sword without hesitation. This was a path that was clearly different from his past.
“Please sit and rest.”
Nainiae raised her right hand on Riley’s shoulder and pressed down lightly to get Riley to sit down. She then walked toward the bush where the growling sounds could be heard.
“N… Nainiae!”