Author: Ryusui
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2121hw/56/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA
Once we enter the forest, we deliberately leave the road and head deeper in. The medicinal herbs we’re gathering this time can apparently be gathered in a relatively deep part of the forest.
Even so, it’s my first time entering a forest other than the Spirit Forest, but it’s really peaceful. In the Spirit Forest, if I walked this unguarded, there are definitely magic beasts that would attack. Well, because there are magic beasts like that, I don’t have trouble with meals, though.
A peaceful, quiet forest. I’m a little happy and look around. A pretty forest. Feels good.
‘Looking around Rita-chan’
‘Kind of fidgety and excited, matches how she looks’
‘Cute’
You don’t have to say extra things. And the people behind me are somehow super smiling too. Like looking at something heartwarming. Super embarrassing.
I deliberately drop the people behind from my awareness and wander, and I hear the sound of something running from deeper in the forest. Frank and them notice right away too, and Kaynes comes out in front of me.
“Probably Forest Wolves. Number is three. What do we do?”
“Not a threat or anything… Just right for Rita-chan’s first real fight, right.”
“That’s right. Then, Rita-chan. Come beside me. You can attack safely with magic from here.”
Forest Wolves. Really big wolves that are in the Spirit Forest too. If they can say it’s not a threat, Frank and them are stronger than I expected… ah, they came out. The wolves came out, but…
“Tiny!”
‘Tiny!’
‘They’re tiny, oi!’
‘No good, her sense is paralyzed by the Spirit Forest ones lol’
No because they’re really small. And they have quite little mana too. Eh, what is this kid, super cute! Waa! Super cute! I want to mofumofu! Mofumofu!
‘Rita-chan’s eyes are sparkling like crazy lol’
‘That’s a girl who spotted a puppy or a kitten lol’
‘Her left hand is twitching like crazy lol’
Because! Super cute! Small! Mofumofu!
The small cute wolves are growling a little ways away, maybe wary of us. That’s cute too.
“Ri-Rita-chan? You can attack, okay?”
“Ooi, missy, what’s wrong?”
Frank and Kaynes are waiting for me. But I can’t attack. I don’t want to. I want to take them home. Mofumofu.
“Mm. I’m taking them home.”
“Eh.”
All three are dumbfounded, but is it that mysterious. They’re small fluffy cute wolves.
‘You keep saying small small but they regularly have about husky size’
‘Well your comparison, Rita-chan, is those in the Spirit Forest, you know?’
‘Those are about the size of a large car…’
Even the same kind is totally different by place. I get now why Mireille was surprised too.
And so. I quickly go out in front of the two and walk toward the wolves.
“Wai, Rita-chan!?”
“Oi that’s dangerous!”
Mm. Fine fine.
And so, here, don.
“Hih.”
A short scream from behind, from Pearl.
What I did is something like intimidation. I just slammed a little large mana at the wolves. Of course taking this does almost no damage.
They should get it by instinct, though. And they did get it.
The tiny cute fluffy wolves tremble and drop to the ground on the spot. And they don’t move anymore. They’re just trembling. Hmm… I’m starting to feel like I did something a little pitiful.
But for now I can touch them, right. Okay, I’ll touch. I’ll mofumofu.
“Hey, that, what’s going on…?”
“Don’t ask me…”
Even when I get close, the wolves still don’t move. Without holding back, I try touching a wolf’s body. Mofumofu… mofu… Hmm…
“It’s coarse…”
‘lol’
‘Figures lololol’
‘They’re wild lol’
Muu… Very, very unsatisfied. I was imagining more mofumofu.
No, but thinking about it maybe it was natural. Because when I hunted Forest Wolves in the Spirit Forest for food, they weren’t that mofumofu either. I feel like they were pretty coarse. Or rather I feel like they were pretty stiff.
But I want to mofumofu the mofumofu. Muu…
“Okay. I decided.”
I pet the wolf in front of me, and then I say.
“You’re a pack, right. Take me to the boss?”
The wolf twitches. To the wolf who timidly raises its face, I say with a smile.
