episode_0075
by fnovelpiaNew home in District 3.
It’s New, not Bird.
Or at least a wolf house.
I feel bad saying this to Seira, but this place is much newer than my previous house. The facilities are good overall, and it’s spacious. I can even give Rin a room.
Rin, who became Omiho, grew not only in appearance but also mentally. Her soul shape became closer to that of a woman, rather than that of a child who did not know the ways of the world.
Judging by her appearance alone, she’s in puberty. There’s a saying that women are in puberty from the time they’re born until they die, but either way, Rin is currently in a period of storm and stress.
We need to recognize and take into consideration Lin as a woman of her age. Things that were taken for granted in the past should no longer be done.
But I was bored so I just threw it out there.
“Rin, would you like to wash with the master?”
“Yeah. Of course I’m going to wash with the owner?”
Oh, come on.
I never thought I’d receive this.
When he comes out so confidently, I end up hesitating instead.
“Just saying.”
“Huh? Why~ Let’s wash together~”
“Rindo is all grown up now. She should know how to wash by herself. Above all, she should not wash with a man.”
Are you still lacking in a sense of morality? Lin tilts her head as if she doesn’t understand and makes an innocent expression.
“It doesn’t matter if Lin is the owner?”
“I care.”
“Doesn’t the master want to see Rin grow up? Rin, you’ve grown a lot here and there?”
Lin muttered something like that and lowered her head, placing her hand on her chest. A shallow hill had definitely appeared where there had been none before… .
omg.
What am I imagining now?
Get rid of your worries!
Remember how Taosul came to ruin!
“Absolutely not. If you keep doing that, I’ll make you a slave for the rest of your life?”
“Isn’t it good to be a slave too?”
“… … Lin. I told you over and over again. Being a slave is not good. You should never say that. People in the world will look at you strangely. Do you understand? ”
“Kihihi. Master, your expression is totally funny right now. Well, okay. I’ll let you go today. Sayra~ Let’s wash up with Rin.”
Rin answers with a giggle. It’s an ambiguous reaction, whether she understands or not.
Like this, every time I wash, there is a little squabble, and it is not only during bath time. Bedtime is not much different either.
This is Lin who used to sleep curled up on my stomach. Of course, as she grew bigger, she couldn’t sleep in the same position as before.
To be honest, if I were to sleep with Lin on top of me right now, my stomach would have sunk in by the time I woke up. But Lin insisted on sleeping on top of me.
“Rindo, you have a room now. The bed there is nice, so sleep there.”
“The bed is uncomfortable! Lin can’t sleep unless she’s on her master’s stomach! Why have you been saying this isn’t okay and that isn’t okay?!”
Lin shouted at the house to leave. The easygoing speech and attitude she had maintained until now were torn apart by one shout.
“What if something happens to the owner while you’re away?”
“Even if I do that, it’s right next door, and Rin is also big, so I have to do it accordingly.”
I also slept with Mirabelle, but things were a little different with her.
Aside from the feeling of being a comfortable attachment doll when you sleep with her, Mirabelle, who thought she had been abandoned by her parents, was very dependent. She couldn’t sleep unless she was held.
But Lin is not to that extent, and moreover, I have raised her since she was little, so I feel like she is like a daughter to me. I want to give her a proper education.
But Lin doesn’t think that’s the case at all.
“Rin tried to stay by her master’s side. If she knew it would turn out like this, she wouldn’t have tried in the first place. Master, if you keep acting like that, Rin won’t become a gumiho, right?”
Threatening that she won’t be a nine-tailed fox. I never dreamed that Lin would do something so extreme. As her tail grows and she transforms into a fox, she uses her wits in a way that she never could with other slaves.
If they were to resort to force and abuse, I would subdue them with words, but that’s not the case. As a person whose goal is complete liberation, I cannot just force myself to do so.
“Okay, let’s do it together.”
“Yeah!”
Lin clung to me and hugged me like a corpse. She tied me up with her limbs and tail, making it impossible for me to move.
He buries his face in my chest and takes a deep breath. Then he slowly puts his hand inside my clothes and caresses my scar with his slender fingers.
I thought she was playing another heart-fluttering prank, but Rin’s odd eyes, shining in the darkness, took on a very serious look.
“Rin said… The owner got hurt and couldn’t sleep for days? The owner got hurt because of Rin… . What if I woke up and the owner was dead? I was so scared that I lay down next to the owner every day. I couldn’t stand it if I didn’t smell the owner.”
Lin began to tell one by one the hardships she had endured alone for a month.
“Have you noticed? There’s a reason why people point fingers at Rin, calling her a cursed fox and a monster that brings misfortune. Rin is different from others.”
“… … .”
“Still, it was better than I thought. Because the owner praised her for being pretty. It was enough if the owner only looked at Rin nicely. But after this incident, Rin started to hate herself.”
Lin pauses for a moment and then continues speaking.
“What Percy said wasn’t wrong. I know Lin was wrong. But it was so true that I was angry. Lin wanted to be by her master’s side. Because it made Lin realize the reality she was trying so hard to ignore.”
Lin let out a deep sigh and muttered self-deprecating words as if lamenting.
“Why was Rin born like this? What on earth is Rin’s true identity? If she had been ordinary like everyone else, she could have lived happily with her master. Why is Rin so unhappy? Why was Rin born with this fate?”
Lin muttered and smiled bitterly.
Lin grew up. She was able to interpret the meaning of words, not just the emotions in the voice. Her self-identity was established, and she knew who she was.
It’s different from the past when she was just like a child. Trying to persuade her with sweet words is like poisoning an apple.
“It’s good that Lin is a gumiho. If she weren’t ordinary, would she have been happy? You’re absolutely right.”
But I have never once said sweet nothings to the slaves until now. What I say to them is not just nice words, it is always 100% sincere.
“Think about it. If Lin was an ordinary fox, would we have met at Baekwoon Valley?”
“… No.”
“If she was just an ordinary fox, why would I enslave Lin? The Hoyo tribe is so widespread. Are you saying that I am a high-minded slave trader?”
“But… .”
“Did you say fate earlier? This isn’t fate. I went to Baekungok on my own will, and Lin appeared in front of me on her own feet. Let’s not lump our choices together and pass them off as the will of the invisible heavens, right?”
Lin kept her mouth shut and thought deeply.
“… … Yeah. Okay. ”
Soon, he nodded his head as if he was convinced. Fortunately, it seemed to have gone over well. He patted Lin’s back, and Lin rubbed her cheek while enjoying the touch.
“That’s right, master.”
“Yes.”
“Rin, is there anything else you do besides sniffing when you don’t have a sense of ownership?”
Lin’s eyes and mouth curved like crescent moons, the seriousness of the moment completely gone and discarded somewhere. It was an expression she made when she was joking.
Even if there were no obstacles, it would be scary to walk ten steps with your eyes closed, so if you were unconscious, no matter how pretty the person you were talking to would be, you would get creeped out.
“… What did you do?”
“Well~? What do you think Lin did?”
This was the answer Lin gave while wagging her five tails. We’re only halfway there, and the future is bleak.
***
“Yu-hwa, is it really hard to see your face these days?”
Late at night, a guest came to visit Cheon Sang-ru. It wasn’t the two troublemakers who checked attendance every day without fail, but Hilde, the lioness of Bestia.
Hilde, sitting on a chair with the posture of a third-rate back-alley punk who would not have been thought of as a princess of a country, spoke brazenly.
“I’m sorry, Princess. The old man has not been feeling well lately… .”
Yuhwa refused Hilde’s visit several times. She said she was sick, but in reality, it was a lie, fearing that Hilde and Lin would meet.
In their first meeting with Yuhwa, Hilde swung her fists out of the blue, saying, “Are you strong? Fight me!” Even if Lin was born a nine-tailed fox, it would still be difficult for her to defeat Hilde.
If they met now, all the tails that had grown with difficulty would be pulled out. That’s why I tried my best to prevent the two from meeting. It’s just that I couldn’t do that today.
“Well, you definitely look sick. You’ve aged so much since I last saw you.”
As Yu-hwa began to raise the nine-tailed fox in earnest, she began to gradually feel a backlash against her heavenly mandate. Even though she was a spirit, she had a mysteriousness that could not be hidden even if the passage of time left traces on her.
But the current Yuhwa has lost much of its luster. It looks aged, just like a grandmother of that age.
Thanks to that, Hilde’s excuse of being sick was passed over without much suspicion, so it was fortunate if anything.
“I heard that. You often meet a human called the Slave Reaper. I heard he even opened a cat cafe?”
“That’s right. I talked to him and he seemed like a pretty good conversationalist, so I asked him to be the old man’s conversation partner.”
“That’s really strange. I never thought there would be someone in the world who likes Yuhwa. I don’t really like Yuhwa either. No, how many people in the world would like me?”
Hilde is also aware that she has an eccentric personality. She is the type of person who can’t stand seeing something funny.
I know, but as you can guess just by looking at it now, Hilde has no intention of fixing it. She is in a position where she can do that, and she has the power to keep her position.
“But is it true that the slave messenger is bringing Hongho? Even the tail is like a three-tailed fox.”
“That’s right.”
“That’s right… .”
Hilde seemed to be thinking deeply about something with a serious expression on her face, then lowered her voice and spoke.
“Isn’t that a gumiho?”
“A nine-tailed fox. What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“Just. I remember the nine hazes that Yuhwa’s beads used to reflect. I suddenly have a feeling that maybe it’s the sealed nine-tailed fox that came out?”
Yuhwa’s reaction at the time was also strange. She said that her supernatural powers had declined and later closed down her fortune telling business, but Hilde continued to be concerned.
If a real gumiho were to appear, the world would be devastated. If that Hongho was a gumiho, he planned to eliminate her before she could gain strength.
“Are you saying that the young fox is a gumiho?”
“That’s right.”
“I don’t know either. Since the abilities of the same Yoho don’t work together, I have no way of checking. However, I didn’t feel any great danger from that child.”
“Really?”
Hilde’s eyes narrow sharply. A vertical black line flashes within her golden pupils, and she stares at Yuhwa as if aiming at her inner thoughts.
Yuhwa sipped her tea calmly with her eyes closed.
For a moment, the subtle air current continued. Hildegard let out a pitiful laugh and let out his temper.
“Well, if that’s Yuhwa, then that’s what it is.”
Hilde drank the tea in one gulp and then put it down with a thud!
“Nothing special today. I couldn’t sleep at all, so I came to get my fortune told.”
“My supernatural powers aren’t what they used to be.”
“It doesn’t matter. I’m just doing it for fun anyway. I’m not the type to be swayed by things like points.”
“If you say so, I’ll try to tell you the fortune.”
When Yuhwa creates a pure white fox bead and hands it to Hilde, Hilde places her hand on the bead. Soon, Yuhwa’s tail flutters as if she is receiving a greeting, and a mysterious, hazy mist fills the surroundings.
The crystal flashes and divines Hilde’s fate.
“The black beast will turn its back on the sky and lower its feet to the ground. At the end of its journey, brilliant liberation and disaster will intersect. There will be no iron, but the shackles will be eternal.”
The fog clears, and the crystals lose their light. Hilde frowns as she hears her fate.
“What the hell is this?”
I can’t understand a single thing.
I don’t even know if it’s meant for good or bad.
“Princess, prophecies have always been ambiguous. As long as they don’t go beyond the limit, small coincidences can lead to new endings.”
“That is, depending on how I act, a good future may or may not come?”
“I think you can interpret it that way.”
In that case, Hilde was confident that there was no need to worry. After all, with her own power, she could even snatch away the happy ending that was running away.
Splendid liberation.
Perhaps, you will experience a play on a different level than anything you have ever experienced before.
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