“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!”
Sera turned pale because of unexpected appearance of wolves. She held the ladle, which was on the pot, on her hand like a sword in tears.
“H… Hurry! Chase them away!”
Having heard Sera’s frightened voice, Nainiae turned her head to glance at Sera. Nainiae smiled awkwardly and said,
“Ah, yes…”
It seemed she was feeling uncomfortable having Riley and Sera’s gazes being aimed at her back. Nainiae broke cold sweat. She walked to right in front of the bushes and got on her knees.
‘Is there just two?’
Nainiae sat on the ground and leveled her eyes with two wolves. As if she felt something was up, she furrowed her brows.
‘This is?’
She found something she couldn’t see when the wolves were hiding in the bushes.
There were black stains on their fur.
Weary of Nainiae, the wolves completely crumpled their mouths and were growling at her. They had a lot of black stains on their fur.
“Quiet. I am not trying to hurt you.”