Rir’s Ti (１)
In the Demon Forest.
I called Rir and the two of us were having a discussion.
“Listen, Rir, this ti I felt so bad about my pathetic, ugly behavior that I felt like I was so unworthy. I think I’ve beco so used to peace that my sense of danger has dulled.” (Yuuki)
“…Kuu.” (Rir)
Rir bowed his head, sounding as if he wanted to say he was sorry, making chuckle.
“Why are you apologizing? Was it because you were one step too late in coming to my rescue? Well, you are technically my guard, after all. What’s the point of being a guard if you ended up not being able to protect , so I guess you would feel bad.” (Yuuki)
I said to Rir, who had a face full of regret when I talked about his role.
“…Well, we are n. Still, I can understand why you think you’re feeling bad about yourself…” (Yuuki)
“…” (Rir)
“So, here’s the thing. We had a good ti so far. But, now, it’s ti to once again realize that we’re small fry… We’re just a bunch of weaklings… Let’s rember the feeling which we had when we first ran around in this forest, when we wanted to throw up at an unreasonably strong enemy and say ‘f**k you’. In fact, we haven’t conquered this forest yet. The top beings of this place are still out there.”
We had only conquered half of this forest.
So far, three areas had beco part of my dungeon area: the south area, the east area, and the north area, which was Lefi’s forr territory.
My dungeon area was probably larger than that of [Allysia Kingdom]… but the west area, where the strongest demons reside, was still untouched.
It had beco more important to expand outside the forest than inside the forest, so that area had been left untouched.
The demons in the forest were basically reclusive.
They seldom set foot in areas with less magical elents than those in which they currently reside.
However, this was only [seldom], and the possibility of them actually leaving the place was not zero.
In the past, we once defeated a demon from the western area that ca this way after a deadly battle.
We must not underestimate this forest.
Even though I had beco stronger among the other humanoid races, I was still not even close to Lefi’s level.
This should not be the ti for to be careless enough to actually be captured by humans.
“Rir, we are weak. We are still small fry when we look at the entire world. Although we’re no longer fighting for our survival, we still need to get stronger. We need to gain enough strength so that we would be able to return the favor, no matter what challenges may co.” (Yuuki)
“–Kuu.” (Rir)
At my words, Rir’s eyes shone with renewed fighting spirit as he nodded.
“Alright! Let’s end the serious talk here. Actually, there’s one more thing that I wanted to talk to you about.” (Yuuki)
“Kuu?” (Rir)
“You know, I already ntioned this to you on our way to the Capital, right? I know that you already have a wife, so I wanted to say hello to her…” (Yuuki)
Rir looked at with an expression that seed to be saying, “Well, shall I show you around now?”
“Oh, please do. As your master, I just wanted to say hello.” (Yuuki)
With that, I hopped on my pet’s back. We traveled for about ten minutes in the forest before we arrived at a cave.
This cave was probably two kiloters away from the entrance of my cave that was connected to the grassland area of the dungeon.
It appeared to have been cleaned up reasonably well, as if Rir and his wife had taken care of it themselves.
The grass in front of the cave was well-trodden, and the leaves on the trees overhead had been adjusted to allow sunlight to shine in.
It was a little late for this, but… when Rir was out on his own, he used to make this place his ho.
He would co out of nowhere when I called him, and to be honest, this was the first ti I’d been to this place.
And as we approached the cave, a wolf imdiately erged from inside, as if it had sensed our presence.
“Kuu!” (Rir’s Wife)
As soon as that wolf saw us – no, this one was probably directed at .
It sat down on the spot and bowed its head towards .
Na: ????
Race: Fenrir
Level: 185
I could not tell at a glance if it was a male or female wolf, but considering that it was Rir’s wife, I was convinced that it was a beautiful female wolf with beautiful fur.
Rir’s fur was fluffy, but this one’s fur was smooth and silky.
Its na was unreadable, but this did not an that my analytical skills were not working properly. It was most likely that its na could not be expressed in the language of the human species.
Perhaps it was nad in the Wolf language.
The size was about two tis smaller than Rir, and the species was Fenrir– wait, Fenrir!
…Oh, I see, his wife was a Fenrir, too.
I heard from Lefi that they were not the kind of species that would be so whimsical….
“…Rir, is your wife from this forest?” (Yuuki)
I asked, but Rir shook his head in denial.
It seed that Mrs. Fenrir ca from the outside.
As a powerful being, she had been living in an environnt similar to this area, but she lost in a struggle for survival and started to wonder, searching for new lands, and finally ended up eting Rir.
She was attracted to the Demon Forest, which was rich in magical elents.
…Defeated in a struggle for survival, huh?
Well, Rir, too, looked like a king now that he was the boss of our dungeon, but at first, he was on the run with .
Even a Fenrir, I suppose, would be defeated when facing soone stronger.
Really, I, who was only physically strong, had to work harder.
When she arrived here, her body did not have enough magical elents necessary to live as a Fenrir, and she was in a weakened state.
Well, it was quite a heavy story.
I never imagined that my own pet was having this kind of love affair in a strange place… You were a protagonist, weren’t you?
One thing I wondered, though, was when did she enter this forest?
My [map] function automatically showed strong hostile entities when they appeared around the dungeon area, so I would have noticed any being, especially one as capable as she was – unless they were demons that Rir and his Pet Army decided that they could manage on their own. In those cases, I usually let them do as they pleased and didn’t interfere.
This had happened a few tis in the past, but I was not afraid of those they have chosen to join them.
Since this had happened several tis before, it was likely that Rir’s wife, a Fenrir, was one of those cases.
When she recovered her strength, she had already beco completely committed to Rir, so the dungeon considered her one of our own, and she never showed any hostile reactions to .
I was mostly unfamiliar with demons other than our pets, and since I asked the pets along with Rir to deal with demons, they didn’t need to report about demons to as long as they were not targets that I would have to personally defeat.
I guess they were thinking of discussing it with at so point, though.
And when I had so idea of what was going on, Mrs. Fenrir quietly cried.
“Kuu.” (Rir’s Wife)
“Oh, no, no, don’t worry about it. I’m sorry that it took so long to greet you. My na is Yuki.” (Yuuki)
She had an expression that seed to be saying, “Thank you very much for coming all the way here”, and I involuntarily sat down on the floor and bowed my head.
“Kuu-u.” (Rir’s Wife)
“No, no, Rir has always been a great help to , and I’m more than grateful to have you here as well. Well, he is a key part of our defense, after all.” (Yuuki)
“Kuu, gah.” (Rir’s Wife)
“Yes, thank you very much, and as Rir’s wife, I hope we can be neighbors for a long ti to co. We’ll have my family say hello to you later.” (Yuuki)
Unlike Rir, she was not under my command, so the words didn’t enter directly into my brain as an image… but I could tell what she was trying to say.
I could sowhat understand what she was trying to imply by the sound of her voice and gestures.
Well, I guess it was because I had been with Rir for a long ti and learned how to communicate with wolves.
Also, I had asked Rir to call her by her na in greeting earlier, but it was a na that I couldn’t pronounce.
Well, I should talk to Rir later about what I should call her. If I didn’t ask him about this, I would probably end up calling her Sarah Rir or so common generic na.
…I wondered why I was so nervous while facing wolves. It was a mystery.
Could this be the dignity of a noble species, an actual wild Fenrir… my pet had already been completely imbued with the feeling of being a lowly mber of the family, after all.
With this interaction, I could sowhat understand why the beastn consider a Fenrir sacred.
“…Rir, I’m kind of sorry.” (Yuuki)
“Ku, kuu…?” (Rir)
Rir looked slightly dismayed and as if he were trying to say, “Hey, why are you apologizing now?”
Why was Rir’s hard-working personality imposed so much on his nature, unlike his wife?
T/N: Hi, everyone. So readers were asking why we are using different na from previous translator’s. We were actually using nas used by official translations.
We will be using previous translator’s nas from now. We have also updated old chapters.
Lew => Lyuu
Leila => Layla
En => Enne
Iruna => Illuna
Thanks for your ti.
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