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I sigh while looking at the forest, I been walking a lot in search of a monster that can easily kill me, for what?
Do I think it will be friends with me? Just because it didn't kill me when he saved me, It doesn't mean it wants to be friends right? Maybe it was full, so it didn't feel like eating more.
While questioning my way of thinking, I found a tree with a strange type of ice.
While the ice normally is white, this ice is complete crystal blue and doesn't seem to be melting not even under the sun.
-Ouch!
I try to remove the ice from the tree, but without gloves, the ice almost peeled my skin off.
Since the ice didn't seem like to be moving even if I used the ignition crystal. I decided to walk away.
-Waah!
But when I turn around while still looking at the crystal and walk away from the crystal, but I stepped on air and begun to roll down a cave.
-Argh!
I stop rolling down the cave when my head hits the cave walls.
While caressing my head, I tried to look around the cave, but it was too dark to see. And I can't reach for the ignition crystal in this dark. I could set my bag on fire by accidentally activating it when I reach for it.
So I begin to feel the walls, hoping that this cave is not that big and it isn't a dungeon entrance.
Suddenly, I begin to step on something like glass. I look down at the ground, trying to see what I stepped on, but a chill on my back stopped me from doing so.
I slowly turn around and see a pair of crimson eyes with a pair of black crescents in it looking at me.
I slowly back off while looking at the eyes, but I trip on my own foot and fall on my bottom, but I still back off into the wall.
Is the wolf from before? I heard that monsters tamers taught their monsters on how to understand human language, but I don't know if it's true. I never met a tamed monster ever.
But, I cannot to afford to not try.
While looking away from the monster and waving my hands in front of me, I talk in a nervous voice.
-C-can you u-understand m-me…?
I look back to where the monster supposedly is and I feel like it's no longer there. Suddenly, I hear their footsteps around me.
The second set of footsteps must be the second wolf that was together with it.
Instead, they lie down somewhere while making strange sounds to each other. I make a sound just to see if they still know that I'm there.
-Umm…?
Suddenly, the cave gets lighted up and I think that my bag just caught on fire. But I look to where the light is coming from and see that is coming from the wolf's claws.
The fire is coated around the claws of the wolf that has crescents in its eyes. Even though the fire is touching the wolf, the fire doesn't seem to be affecting the wolf.
While having a claw coated in fire, it used the free one to dismantle a Rabbit Slasher that they had with them, with some kind of magic that made the corpse float in front of it.
The job that the wolf did was, of course, bad. The fur that he left on the ground clearly had pieces of meat in it, but to dismantle a rabbit is a feat in itself.
After getting the rabbit's guts out of its body and burning it, it gives the meat to the wolf beside it.
While the smaller wolf is eating the meat, it begins to dismantle another.
I kept watching the wolf do the same process of dismantle because behind them was the exit. They were watching me, so I can't simply leave the cave, because they might think that I'm going to attack them from behind.
-…
While getting a bit hungry from watching the smaller wolf eat, the wolf suddenly offered me a raw piece of meat.
Did it notice that I was hungry? But I never ate raw meat in my entire life, can't I cook it?
I look at the meat with discomfort and then at the wolf. The wolf makes a pained expression while looking at me.
I guess the only way to think me as not a threat to them is to eat the meat raw.
Ugh… Here it goes.
I bite the meat and the taste is horrible, the taste of blood and dirt was still in it because it was badly dismantled and the taste of raw meat is horrible in itself.
While tearing up a bit, I quickly bite off a piece and force it down my throat. I take a deep breath so the meat would quickly go down my throat, but it got stuck midway, so I coughed it down my throat.
After having a few deep breaths, I look at the wolf to see if it's enough and the wolf looks happy. With the same magic that it used to give me the raw meat, it retrieved it and begun to cook it.
After cooking the meat with the fire on its claw, it gives it back to me. I tried to hold it, but it was still hot of course, but the wolf kept holding it in front of me. So I blew the food for a bit until I could hold it.
Even though it was badly dismantled, the meat was well cooked, and if it wasn't for the dirt that was still a bit there, and the muscles of the meat was cut, I would call it a C- cooking.
I don't know if the taste of the meat tasted much better because I didn't eat properly until now, or the meat was that good.
The meat filled my stomach and I kept looking at the wolf eat the rest of the meats.
I fell asleep while looking at the wolves sleeping.
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…So cold… Mom, please just let me sleep more… Stop dragging me…
…Thanks mom…
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I wake up between the wolves, the smaller wolf is sleeping on my numb legs and I'm using the bigger wolf as a pillow.
I get surprised and try to move, but the wolf behind me grabs me by the collar of my leather armor. I look behind me and it's looking at the wolf sleeping in my legs. I nod to it and it begins to wake the sleeping wolf.
When the wolf finally lets my legs free, I quickly stand up, even though the pain of my numb legs is almost making me sit down on the floor again.
I watch the wolves stretch themselves and then walk towards the exit. The big wolf looks at me, the one who's been standing on the middle of the cave while watching them leave.
Is it waiting for me?
I walk up to the wolf and it keeps staring at me. I sigh in relief after getting out of the cave.
While looking at the wolves get out of the cave, I grab the request paper in my bag and use the seal to guide me.
If there's a way to go back into the city, then I need to find that danger sign that lead me to the goblin camp.
I roll it and put it back into my bag, and think of something that might happen.
The wolves seem friendly to me for now. Maybe they can help me with my revenge, but how do I make them friendlier to me…? First, I need to get into the town, get my money and get a new bow. Armor is not a problem since it's the best armor I can ask right now.
I point my finger into the danger sign direction and look at the wolves.
The big wolf tilts its head while the other one goes back to sleep.
I expected as much…
I walk in the direction I pointed and then looked at the wolves, I make a sign for them to follow me and after the big wolf woke up the smaller one, we begun to go through the forest.
They kept staring at my back the entire walk. It was really hard to walk when there's a giant wolf that could easily kill you, staring your back.
When we got to the plain field, I felt a bit of relief. I walked up to the sign and with a small rock that was next to it, I made a line over the arrow that guided me.
I look to my right and the giant wolf is looking at what I did, it almost seemed like it understood what was written in there. But it soon lost interest in it and stared back at me.
Ah… I didn't think of it. I can't enter the town with both of them. Maybe they would buy that their collars broke because they evolved, but I'm not a monster tamer, so they wouldn't believe me for very long.
I stare at the smaller wolf that has been rolling on the grass for some reason while the big one watched.
I sit down on the grass and try to think of something.
Maybe I can make them wait for me? No… why would they wait for me to come back? Maybe I can get them inside the walls when the moon is out. No… the wall is too big to jump over and I don't know any way in other than the four main gates.
-Hm…
While I'm thinking, the big wolf gets close to me and it suddenly begins to evolve.
Surprised, I stand up while almost reaching for my bow in my back.
The wolf appears as a puppy next to me and looks at me with a confused expression by tilting its head.
It… devolved? Monsters can do that? How…?
I sit down next to it and try to pet it.
Its fur… so rough… but the ears are so good to caress.
Ah, it looks like its enjoying it. Can I put you on my lap?
I slowly approach my hand to the puppy and grab it by its chest, and slowly put it on my lap.
The wolf doesn't even resemble the puppy, because when it is big, the wolf is complete blue and the white fur resembled a full moon on its back. But when it's in this form, the wolf has the chest and belly in white fur and the drawing and crescent in its eyes are no longer there.
While I'm caressing the puppy that is on my lap, I slowly get the broken collar out of its neck. It looks at the collar for a bit and I think that it wants me to put it back, but it quickly loses interest in the collar too.
I throw the useless collar away and continue to caress it.
Suddenly, the wolf that was rolling on the grass does the same as the big wolf, transforms into a puppy, but it immediately gets on my lap.
While caressing the two puppies on my lap, I got the answer that the wolf showed me. If I show up with these puppies with me on the gate, they will think that they are pets.
I hope this works and that these wolves don't suddenly evolve back into their forms.
I gently grab the puppies and put one top of my head and held the other with my arm. The puppy on top of my head is the smaller wolf, since it seems like it wants to sleep a lot.
While holding the big wolf in puppy form in my arm, I caressed its ears with my free hand. It feels too good to stop doing that.
I slowly get up while taking take to not drop the puppy on my head. They aren't heavy for me actually. I even question myself while walking towards the gate, if I accidentally dropped them and didn't notice.
I had to make a detour towards the goblin camp so could get the goblins ears and the shaman staff. I stuffed the ears in the bag and tied the staff to my bow sheath with a piece of a vine from the goblin stairs.
After securing everything, I go towards the city gate.
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I arrive at the gate with the puppy on my head sleeping and the other looking around the entrance like a curious child.
Please don't evolve back and kill everyone, because that would be a complete full disaster.
I get the puppy on my head and hold it in my free arm and slowly drop them in front of the guard on the ground.
He didn't question about the puppies, he just wanted my ID card. So I need to get the ID card from my bag.
I show him my ID card and the guard lets me and the puppies go after he tries to pet them, but the big wolf tried to bit him so he stopped trying to pet it.
I quickly grab the puppies and walk towards the blacksmith's store and enter it.
While calling the owner, I let the puppy that I'm holding, on the ground and let the other sleep on my head.
-Excuse me! Is someone home?!
While looking at the puppy walking around the store, I walk up to the counter.
The strong man comes out of his room and gets surprised when he sees the puppies on my head and walking around the store. While still having a calm voice, he questioned me.
-So, you got the requested material?
I untie the bone daggers from my waist and put them in the counter with the request paper.
The man counted them and then grabbed the money from a drawer next to him. He placed the coins on the desk and grabbed the bone daggers.
I look at him while grabbing the money in my bag and question him.
-Which bow can I buy with three gold coins?
The silver coins are enough for a moon stay on an inn and a better bag if I sell the powder bags. So I can spend these gold coins for an upgrade and some arrows if possible.
The man opens his eyes wide and begins to grab eight bows from the chest.
I didn't care much about the other bows, because I immediately grabbed the dream bow that I drooled over when he showed me the first time.
-That's two gold coins.
I look at the man with a surprised expression and he answers my surprise with a calm voice.
-That bow's wood is maple, the almost common wood around the human kingdom. You are basically paying one gold coin and eighty for the rest of the materials in it.
I see… I guess that makes sense.
I put the two gold coins in the counter and he grabs it and puts them in his pants pocket. I look at him and question him again.
-Can you get me another sheath?
The man makes a surprised expression at my question, but he goes back into his room.
I look around me and see the puppy trying to look over the counter. I quickly grab the puppy by the chest and put it on the counter, before it transformed back into its original form just to see over the counter.
Aaah! Please don't go over the counter. No, you can't, it doesn't matter if you make that cute look at me, and I'm still scared of you, so it doesn't matter if you try to look cute for me, I still remember you growling at me.
Suddenly, the wolf that was sleeping on my head jumps from my head to the counter. But I grab it mid-air before it could hurt itself from the fall and gently drop it on the counter.
Please don't make a mess. The owner would kill me and then you would kill him.
The store owner comes back with a double leather sheath. I put my leather sheath on the counter without my bow in it, and he places his sheath beside it.
-That is… thirty… silver… coins…
He notices the puppies on his counter and keeps staring them back.
Aah! Don't stare him! He looks really irritated! Just give me the sheath please!
I quickly get twenty two silver coins out of my bag and place them on the desk. I grab the sheath and bronze coins on the desk, and stuff the bronze coins in my bag and wear the sheath around my neck with the recently brought bow and grab the puppies, and quickly leave the store while giving my apologies to the store owner.
-Thanks! I'm sorry about that!
-…
While walking towards the guild house, people kept trying to pet the puppies that I held on my arms without asking if they bit. When the people saw them bite a pretty woman's hand, nobody tried to mess with the puppies anymore.
I can't ask you to not bite them right? I'm already asking too much for you not transform back into your big form.
I enter the guild house and the reception room is a lot bigger than before. There is suddenly a lot of rooms where the wood walls where, stairs appeared from the corridors and a second from of receptionist room appeared.
The guild house was crowded, but not to the point of bumping into everyone if I took a step.
While getting closer to the front desk clerk, I and the puppies kept looking around the room and at the people.
With a happy voice, she questioned me.
-Ooh! You got yourself some pets! They are so cute! Anyway, did you finish your request?
That was a quick change of emotions…
I answer the woman with a nervous voice.
-Y-yes…
-Good, give me the request paper then.
I hold the puppies with one arm and grab the request paper from my bag with my free hand. I place the request paper on the counter and the woman claps her hand while speaking in a calm voice.
-That's great! Now, if you please let me register your pets onto your ID card.
-Eh?
Ah, this is bad! The wolves are obviously strong! If they have anyway to know their stats, then they will see their levels.
-Of course you didn't expect us to let you running around with monsters without registration, did you?
-O-Of course n-not…
-Great! Then please let the puppies on the desk and give me your ID card, and don't worry, this doesn't hurt them one bit!
I reluctantly put the puppies on the desk while they kept staring back at me, and then give the woman my ID card.
She grabs a small box from the drawer and the feather that she used on my ID card.
-Can you hold its paw? We don't want to mess with people's pets without permission.
-Y-yes…
Please don't bite me…
I slowly grab the paw of the big wolf in puppy's form. And the woman opens the box, inside it there's a small green gem in it.
-Please press its paw in the gem please.
-R-Right…
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