Vol 3 Chapter 35 (1/2)
Chapter 35: Traveling Adulteress
Now, it’s time for some fun
What would you like to do?
Eat dinner? Take a bath? Or…
Point Allocation (Beast)
The house was made of sweets The floor panels and walls were thick wafers, the roof was sugar candy and chocolate, the ere sugar sculptures, and the pillars were thick pretzels
However, the furnishi+ngs in the roo more than bent ith the surface hollowed out and the table was carved fro
The dishes, the soups inside them, and the other food were not sweets either
“Heh heh I take it from the look on your face that you didn’t think the Reine des Garous could cook, Musashi+ Chancellor”
The Musashi+ Chancellor shook his head in his chair while looking at all the meat-focused food in front of hiant it all is …In fact, did yousio”
“No,” said the Reine des Garous who had removed her coat and put on an apron “My o Only lost children can remove its components and it repairs itself …I’ve heard a few others were made for the history recreation of some old story”
“Hmm So it’s a place for lost children, is it? …So was I lost?”
“That’s a good question” The Reine des Garous gave a bitter smile and looked curiously across the room “Children like that used to show up from tiettingup on ingredients isn’t easy …The house you found yourself at was probably better e …So I take it even Loup-Garous eat more than just people”
No aht the Reine des Garous
…It is true the ets a lot of focus
They used that i with others and preserve their position as beasts, but there were certain people a Loup-Garou would always spare
“We do not eat children Ogres specifically target children because they like the soft meat, but they eat people solely for the food We eat people as a part of the ritual battle known as hunting, so we do not attack children who cannot run or fight very well”
“You don’t like children?”
“I never said that” She soats, human children will cry instead of run They’re very cute …If they would run with all their strength, ould have the right to use all our strength to hunt theation to rescue them Of course, if they corow up, all of that changes”
“You’re a true knight…no, a true royal, Nate Maman”
She only allowed herself a small smile at that She turned her focus back to the food and used herbone out of a pot on the stove
She placed the hunk of iant bread plate
“I can’t say anything about being a knight, but to many tribes in ancient Europe, the as viewed as a God of hunting or war After all, wolves have a strict pecking order and they value their pack Also, they avoid unnecessary hunting and protect their territory …The Far Eastern wolf is ht?”
“Gulp”
“No, not like that When a person enters a wolf’s territory, it will not immediately attack In order to drive them out, it atch and see whether the person will leave or not Once the wolf knows the person is not travelling deep into its territory, it will leave If the person does head that way, then it will attack …That is why there are sosent back to their village by a wolf”
“I see”
The Musashi+ Chancellor brought a hand to his neck There was a collar there
That hat a wolf attached to its prey
He grabbed the loop of leather wrapped around his neck
“Am I your prey? Or am I a child?”
“Hoould you like yourahead of ourselves here!! And raw! I think raw is best!”
Toori brought his hand back to the collar
“Anyway, can you re? I won’t run away And I’ain if I tried”
“No After all, we don’t trust each other enough yet”
“Eh? But I trust you”
“Then…”
She pulled a leg of venison from behind a pile of plates and placed it on a metal plate on the table It was sprinkled with herbs and ready to be put in the oven
…Now, then
She bent her upper body doer than her butt, rested her chest on the table, and lightly poked at the meat with her claws From there, she looked up at the Musashi+ Chancellor and tilted her head
“Hoould you like this cooked? That’s what I was asking about before”
The Reine des Garous saw the Musashi+ Chancellor look up at the ceiling in thought
…How about it?
Loup-Garous were ht away The proper method was to hunt down her prey, feed them to remove any odor from their meat, and then have them obey rather than be forced
…We only eat them once they actually want to be a part of us
This was different fro men she had lured in and eaten for fun with her fellow Loup-Garous long ago
This was Musashi+’s chancellor and student council president
She felt he orth eating properly
After all, her daughter Nate relied on him If he personally asked to becoive up
“I a to eat you that soon So…”
If the prey feared her, it was easy for them to be pressured into submission
She wanted to avoid that
He had to happily desire to be eaten from the bottom of his heart Loup-Garous were a race associated with the moon who toyed with the instincts ofless For that reason, she lowered the ends of her eyebrows and spoke
“It disappoints ht away”
She then repeated her question while poking at the uncooked meat so it swayed toward him
“Hoould you like this cooked?”
He bent back even further in thought, but after a while…
All of a sudden, he faced forward and looked right back at her with his eyebrows slightly raised
Oh, how cute, she thought as he aze
“Raw! I said raw is best, didn’t I!? I mean it!! I want it raw!!”
“Y-you sure are stubborn You thought I was talking about you when you said that!”
“Honestly, did you really think you could talk your way out of it like that!?”
When the Reine des Garous straightened up and raised her eyebrows, Musashi+’s chancellor averted his gaze
He faced the door and pouted his lips
“Don’t knohaaaat you’re talking about”
He then began whistling to feign innocence As soon as he did, a snake appeared in a corner of the roo!? Wh-where’s a woret so swollen!”[1]
“Oh, the Technohexen that built this place added in a lot of tricks, so it probably really will swell up if you do it She couldn’t control the weather, so frogs should be fine though”
She partially hid behind thewild ani parasites”
…Rawfor humans
However, she saw the idiot turn toward her and twist his eyebrows
“What? I’uy who keeps his word!!”
“You really are stupid All you have to do is apologize”
“What? I haven’t done anything to apologize for”
He pointed at her with a gently bent hand
“You asked me hoanted theabout that, is there?”
“Then what does that say about ain?”
Well?
“That makes my later question proof of my distrust of you”
“What? That’s just…u and strong, right? Listen, Nate Mas about yourself”
She just about complained that he had started it, but she reconsidered
…This will never end if I do that
One or the other of them had to back down and she was older
…I’ht
A quiet laugh escaped her lips and that laugh calently shaking her hips left and right She once more looked up at him from below
“Do you like wo themselves?”
“That kind of woman sounds like a lot of trouble”
“Oh? Then you must be the type who can’t leave that kind of woman alone”
That hat ither He roan that could be taken as understanding or stalling for time to think
“Ah, well, you see? About that…”
He thought some more and spoke the words as they came to him
“It’s a waste to destroy yourself like that”
“True And you want to tell those woht?”
He was saying they were a lot of trouble because he felt he had to say that to thehed quietly, reached out a hand, and touched his cheek
“Will you tell me that I would shi+ne even more if I wasn’t so troublesome?”
After all…
“I a to notice that,” he said “But still, I’ll take it raw”
“Are you still insisting on that?”
“I’ down on that decision Slice it thin and serve it with soy sauce and wasabi”
“It will have to be horseradish instead of wasabi …You can really get hooked on that stuff, even if I only use a little bit I’ll go get so out back”
“This house of sweets sure is perfect for a carnivore’s diet”
It had been used by two generations of Reine des Garous, so it was perfectly set up for them
Meanwhile, he looked to the aht? Eat it right away and not all the blood will have drained”
“Yes It will sht for a while and tried to find ait that they would both accept
“How about I make it into roast beef? The meat will be room temperature, so that is the best way to retain the flavor of eating it raw While I prepare it, we can talk and deepen our trust over the soup and hors d’oeuvres”
“That’s fine, but isn’t roast beef an English way of cooking?”
“Oh, ”
She al cohter
“That’s because my mom’s a cook”
Does that not count? she wondered All of a sudden, she found this thought process reo, she had had a siht I heard someone talk about another woan to immerse herself in the htening up She had to take good care of that memory, so she instead nodded toward the boy in front of her
“No about I start cooking After that, you can go take a bath”
“I’ me to be eaten”
“You clearly don’t trustsince we only just ht
…And yet I know a lot about this boy
She had done a fair bit of research on him after the incident at Mikawa After all, the divine courrier and letters her daughter sent her oftenexistence
What kind of letters would her daughter send once she ate the boy?