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“Wait a moment! I know how to speak!”

“Liberné. Stop.”

At my command, Liberné immediately stopped.

“Heh, pushing a sword out of the blue. Humans do love violence after all.”

Seeing Liberné stop, it gave a cute smile.

“What are you? A monster or a human?”

“Curious about who I am?”

When I asked, it playfully leaned its upper body forward with a hint of mystery.

However, within the loose collar, a tremendously heavy and large sternum was revealed.

“You’re curious. Didn’t you follow us not long ago?”

“Hoong, quite observant, aren’t you?”

“You openly lurk around and spy on us without us noticing, isn’t that strange? So, what are you? A mutant monster?”

“Huh? Mutant?! No way!”

As it showed its temper and kicked the ground, its chest heaved heavily.

“I am Brasha. The one and only half-goblin created by the great Doctor!”

The great Doctor?

Suddenly, a thought crossed my mind.

The mad Doctor, the first boss slain by the original protagonist Alaina in Leanso Village.

He conducted insane experiments breeding humans and monsters to create new species.

Could it be that’s what it’s referring to?

“Hmm, really? Why did you come here? To seek revenge?”

“Revenge? Am I crazy? After seeing goblins slaughter, would I seek revenge? I’m not as foolish as I seem, you know?”

Even though it looks foolish.

“I didn’t say that. But… what about those pigs?”

“These are the pigs you lost back then.”

Five pigs came along with the half-goblin.

Back then, we bought twenty pigs in Odeline City and lost five when we encountered goblins.

The numbers match, but I’m not sure if these are the same pigs from back then.

“Evidence?”

“Here.”

The half-goblin turned a pig around to show its back.

There were faint black paint marks on its back. It was a scent marker.

To avoid attacks from monsters, they deliberately marked them.

Could these be the pigs from back then…?

“You need the pigs, right?”

“Yes. Thanks for bringing them. Give them back.”

“Just make one promise before that.”

The half-goblin raised a finger.

“If you return the pigs, accept me.”

“What?”

“Accept me.”

“Where?”

“Where else! Your village!”

“Our village…? Are you talking about this place? Why all of a sudden?”

“We’ll accept, will you agree?!”

“I can’t blindly promise without knowing your intentions for coming to the village.”

Liberné, who had been silent until now, spoke up heavily.

Startled by Liberné’s voice, the half-goblin took a step back.

Perhaps because it saw the goblins literally grind the goblins into a pulp, it looked quite terrifying.

“The Archangel is a noble person. If you return the pigs, they will surely respond to your kindness.”

Liberné’s words carried a strong sense of trust.

Alternating between looking at Liberné and me, the half-goblin spoke up.

“No changing your mind later, okay?”

“There won’t be, goblin.”

“It’s not goblin, it’s half-goblin?”

The retorted half-goblin cleared its throat and adjusted its collar.

“Now, line up!”

“What’s that? Are you crazy? Giving orders to pigs… Ahhh!!”

Whispering Mirella screamed.

The five pigs moved in unison and lined up?!

“Hehe, how’s that?”

“Talking to pigs? Is that possible?”

“Of course! The great Doctor made me that way!”

“Explain that in more detail. Well, first, send the pigs over here.”

“Alright, they should return to their master.”

At the half-goblin’s words, the pigs grunted and walked towards us at a steady pace, maintaining a certain distance.

Mirael’s eyes bulged at the sight.

“That’s really fascinating.”

“Hehe, listens well,” chuckled the half-goblin as he watched the pigs snuffling around.

“Oppa oppa. I’ve never seen anything like that before. A green human? Mixed with goblins there? What kind of things are out there?”

Mirael whispered.

“That’s true…”

“What are you going to do? Will you really accept it?”

“The Archangel promised to keep his word.”

Liberonne replied on my behalf.

A half-goblin with the ability to communicate with pigs…

“For now, follow me. Let’s have a chat.”

Pushing aside the knights, we headed to the store with the half-goblin.

Five pigs were also with us.

The pigs lined up neatly and followed behind the half-goblin. Truly amazing, that.

Arriving at the store, the curious half-goblin looked around inside.

“What are all these?”

“Healing potions. Drink them to gain strength or apply them to heal wounds.”

“Oh, there are such things? Ah, right. What’s your name?”

“Jack.”

“A very common name.”

“Right. You said your name was Brasha, right? What about you? Are you one of the mad doctor’s experiments from Leanso Village Manor?”

“Mad doctor? He is a great doctor!”

“Yeah, yeah. Anyway. As far as I know, that doctor specializes in creating entirely new things by mixing different races. Are you also like that?”

“Yes. I am a hybrid of goblins, humans, and pigs.”

“Pigs…? So, you can communicate with pigs because of that?”

This is amazing again. That doctor is truly insane, isn’t he?

“But why did you come all the way here?”

“The lab was destroyed.”

Brasha replied in a slightly subdued voice.

“A few months ago, some crazy woman suddenly barged into the lab, killed the doctor, and killed all the other creations the doctor made.”

That’s talking about Alaina.

“But how did you survive?”

“The woman let me go because I could speak human language. She told me to go out and live freely. But how can I find freedom outside when I was born in the lab and spent my whole life there? Being in the lab is freedom to me.”

Brasha snorted.

“So, after the woman left, I came back to the lab. I stayed there and sneaked food from human homes or barns. But a few days ago, when I returned, the lab had collapsed!”

That’s referring to what Liberonne did, destroying the manor completely.

“Ah, it feels like losing your home overnight, doesn’t it? Like being struck by lightning?”

“I’m sorry.”

“If you’re sorry, take responsibility! I chased after you to say that, but look, my body is so heavy now, huff.”

Brasha laughed, patting his large chest.

Listening to the situation, it seems entirely my fault that Brasha ended up like this.

Sending Alaina to the lab and taking Liberonne there were both my decisions.

Alaina killed everyone in the lab except Brasha, and Liberonne demolished the remaining manor.

I suddenly feel extremely sorry for this half-goblin.

“Anyway, so let me live here. It’s your fault that I lost my home and became a wanderer. My point is valid, right?”

Brasha’s argument is valid.

It’s right to eliminate the place where the mad doctor’s evil experiments took place, but that’s our perspective.

Although Brasha did nothing wrong, he suddenly found himself homeless overnight.

Our village is short of people, so even though he’s a hybrid goblin created through experiments, bringing him in would be helpful.

Especially his incredibly rare ability to communicate with pigs is urgently needed in our village right now.

Raising twenty pigs well and increasing them to a hundred or a thousand requires advanced pig farming skills.

If Brasha, who has the crazy ability to march pigs in rows, helps, raising a thousand pigs is not just an empty hope.

Let him live in the village.

“You’re right. We’ll take care of you. Let’s live together in our village.”

“Really? Are you really accepting me?!”

Brasha grabbed my hand excitedly.

“Thank you. I was actually really scared. I followed you eagerly to argue with you, but I was afraid I might be turned away at your door. What’s being turned away at the door? It’s a situation where a big knight might cut me in half, you know? Ah, then I was afraid and anxious about how I would live alone. But even if the sky falls, there’s a hole to survive.”

The whining half-goblin is quite cute.

“So let’s report to the magistrate and get some recognition from the villagers. Otherwise, we might be misunderstood as monsters and end up in trouble.”

I took Brasha to the village hall.

“Hey, this is the village. It’s a very simple place.”

“It will grow bigger in the future. Bigger than Odellin City.”

“Really, I hope so. If the village grows, it will be easier for me to live too.”

There’s the town hall ahead. And something standing in front of it.

At first, I thought it was a ghost.

If a tall woman with long black hair flowing like seaweed exudes a gloomy aura, it’s not a ghost but what else could it be?

“Magistrate?”

The magistrate quickly ran to me and clung to me.

“Jack… Jack… Ugh, I’ve been waiting…”

“Are you okay? Is it because of the healing potion?”

“Quickly… Please give it to me… I can’t bear it anymore…”

“Have you already consumed what I gave you?”

“I saved it, but I drank it all last night… I tried to wait until Jack came today, but I couldn’t hold out any longer…”

The magistrate desperately dug into my arms with a distressed expression.

Sure enough, Mirella rushed in like a whirlwind and pushed the magistrate away.

“What are you doing now?!”

“Sorry… But I really couldn’t bear it…”

Seeing the magistrate’s stern gaze, Mirella flinched and backed off.

“Hurry up and give it to him, brother! He might die like this!”

“What? Is she your girlfriend or wife?”

In response to Brasha’s question, Liberone shook her head briefly.

“She’s the magistrate of our village. As you can see, her mental state is extremely unstable, with an abnormal dependence and obsession on potions.”

“Is she addicted?”

“You could say that. Since you live here now, you will see more of this behavior in the future.”

“And what about yourself then?”

“I am a sacred knight of the Archangel.”

“An Archangel? Was Jack an angel?”

“Yes. Being a goblin, you are in a dimension that you cannot understand, a very noble being.”

Brasha looked at me in disbelief.

There will be plenty of time to explain that later, but first, I need to deal with the magistrate who is clinging to my waist and won’t let go.

“I feel like I’m going to die… I’m so tired and my body feels heavy… It feels like I’m sinking to the ground…”

“Well, Magistrate. Here’s a potion for you.”

“Ugh, feed me….”

As I opened the lid and put it in her mouth, the magistrate started sucking on the bottle with a strange expression.

Seeing that, various complex emotions like pity and disgust crossed Mirella’s face.