After defeating the wyvern, the townspeople began showering with attention and praise, which was fine at first, but after a few days it got a bit too overwhelming for .
People would just stop whatever they were doing to approach and give stuff as a thanks for saving the town. Again, it was fine at first, but when it was hundreds of people, it was just too much.
So, while people in town cald down, I decided to stay at my house in the forest. Now that the town had tons of adventurers that ca to venture into the forest, I had to hide the entrance to my tree house with the giant roots using nature magic.
'Not a single adventurer has managed to make it here yet, but it's probably just a matter of ti...' I thought.
It was kind of annoying to move the roots around every ti I wanted to leave or enter my ho, but there was no other choice, and eventually, I got used to it.
One morning, Yoru and I went out hunting while Vespera visited her cave to tend to her webs.
As we walked, we took care of a few different monsters that got in our way while exploring. Truthfully, we killed a whole lot more than our usual amount. I supposed that the wyvern had altered so of the monsters in the area, so we stayed out hunting until the evening, when I teleported us back to the house.
Later that sa evening, I was getting the outside bathtub ready for us to take a dip after a long day of hunting when I noticed that Yoru was acting strange.
He crawled into a ball and started growling, but it wasn't an angry growl. It was different from any sound he had ever made.
"Hey Yoru, are you okay!?" I yelled nervously as I ran over to him.
"Wait, careful!" said Vespera, who was helping fill the tub.
"You shouldn't touch him when that's happening to him."
"When what is happening!?" I asked again with a preoccupied tone.
"Look, inspect him!"
I inspected Yoru in the middle of his struggle, and got this:
"Huh? Evolving!?"
"Looks like Yoru has gotten much stronger ever since he beca your familiar..." Vespera explained, saying that all beasts were capable of evolving when they got stronger, and beasts that ford familiar contracts were much more likely to evolve since their masters shared their strength with them.
"So, when I get stronger, he does too?"
"That's right, that goes for too!" said Vespera.
Just as I was going to inspect Vespera to see if I noticed any changes, we got interrupted by the voice of a young guy.
["Master!"]
"Huh? Who said that?" The guy's voice seed to be inside my head.
["Master! It's , right here!"] said the mysterious voice again, ringing in my head.
When I looked around, I noticed that Yoru wasn't struggling anymore. In fact, he looked a little bigger, and the blue markings on his body were glowing.
"Yoru?" I asked.
["Yes! It's !"] said Yoru inside my head.
"Wh-WHAAAAT!?"
"Y-Yoru? How are you talking to !?"
["It was the evolution! Looks like I've gained new skills!"]
I was so shocked that I almost couldn't bring myself to inspect Yoru, but I did it anyway.
"Woah, he really did get two new skills... and his MP is double what it was when he was a puppy!"
"Yoru, you are aweso!" I exclaid as I started petting him.
He wagged his tail from side to side, then explained his new skills to :
"Telepathy" was the skill that he was using to communicate with . So, he couldn't speak out loud, but he was able to send his thoughts to anyone he wanted.
'You could scare the shit out of soone with that power...' I thought.
"Moon Buff" was apparently a skill that all moonwolves would learn eventually as they grew up. In this world, there were two moons in the sky, a big one and a small one.
Anyti that the big moon was a full moon, Yoru would be able to use this skill which could supposedly make him ten tis stronger than usual.
It all looked great, but honestly, I was still shocked I could talk to him. When I looked at Vespera, she seed to be pretty calm compared to .
"How are you not as surprised as ?"
"Eh?" said Vespera with a raised eyebrow. "I've always been able to talk to him. I can use telepathy too, you know?"
"Wh-What!? I didn't know that!"
[Look!] I could hear Vespera's voice in my head now.
[I can use it too. All Legendary Beasts can, but why would I do that if I can speak?]
'Ah, makes sense... Yoru can't speak, so relying on telepathy would be more natural to him...'
"Wow, you really are amazing too, Vespera," I said with genuine admiration for both of my familiars.
Vespera giggled. "Right!?"
I took that mont to inspect her, too, since it had been so ti, and they both clearly got stronger in the past two years.
'Hmm, seems like her growth is slower than Yoru's, but that probably has to do with the fact that she is already a Legendary Beast... Although, when the hell did she learn martial arts?' I thought.
"Umm, Vespera? I see your MP grew a little, but when did you learn that new skill?"
Vespera gave a blushed smile, which was quite rare for her. "I... Learned it from you..."
"Huh? From ? How? When?"
"W-Well..." Vespera continued, and she explained to what she had been doing in her free ti for the past two years.
Apparently, she had seen my martial arts skill while I was fighting so monsters, and she really liked the idea of being able to fight without having to use her spider legs.
Before, any ti that a fight got physical, Vespera would pull out her long spider legs and defeat their opponents with them. But now, she was able to stay in her human form unless the monster she was fighting was powerful enough to defend against it.
She had spent the last two years copying my moves and practicing them in secret whenever I was sleeping.
"That's... Actually impressive..."
That sa evening, while we were taking a bath, I asked Yoru how he got to the forest since moonwolves were not ant to live around this area.
Seed like Vespera had asked him the sa question a few years ago. But his answer was the sa.
["I'm not sure..."]
What he did know was that before arriving at the forest, his parents were fighting a monster called "Salamandra," and when the three of them began escaping the monster, they suddenly found themselves in this completely different forest.
It was a day later that the goblins found the wounded wolves and trapped them, ending their life.
'If I had been faster and more experienced, I would have been able to save Yoru's parents...'
"I'm sorry, Yoru..."
[Master! You must not burden yourself with their death. If it wasn't for you, I would have perished along with them a long ti ago. Even if we don't know the reason, I have believed all this ti that I was sent to this forest to et you!]
It felt nice to have Yoru console with actual words this ti.
'We did eliminate all the goblins in the forest... But that monster, 'Salamandra'... Hmmm...'
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