Chapter 130 - Hanging out in Lindobal Forest (1/2)

Chapter 130 – Hanging out in Lindobal ForestSince we were going to Lindobal forest, we thought Vi-Vi should come too.

I went out of the shack, and called Vi-Vi over from the village entrance.

「Vi-Vi. I finished making the entrance big enough for Doby.」

「I see. Good job. I still need time here.」

「Cruz and the others were thinking of going to Lindobal, do you want to come?」

「Nah, I’m fine. I have to finish this magic circle.」

「What, you don’t want to go?」

Seemed strange. I thought she’d want to see her home again.

「I’m okay. I already visited this morning.」

「Oh, really?」

「Yeah, it’s easy to go right through the circle so I go now and then.」

「I see.」

I never knew. She could have invited me…

However, it might just be sisters hanging out.

「Okay, let’s go to Lindobal!」

「Tell my sister I said hi.」

I went with Cruz and the beasts, and we made our way to Lindobal.

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As we stepped through, we saw a stone building.

It was very large with no decoration.

But we did hear a beautiful bell-like sound ring.

「Wow, this is a nice building!」

「The entrance is huge, as is the building. Doby could pass through with no problem.」

「I wonder how he’s doing?」

Cruz said happily.

The beasts were sniffing around. They were probably trying to sniff him out.

Just then, Vallimie approached.

「Hm? Al and Cruz?」

「Sorry for the surprise.」

「No problem. I show up at Mulg without warning too.」

Behind Vallimie was Rai.

We were all happy to see Rai again.

Femm, Moofy, Shiggy, and Rai all sniffed each other happily.

「Welcome, Al and Cruz. Beasts. So why are you here? I mean, you don’t need a reason.」

「We changed the shack so that Doby can fit through. We wanted to tell you.」

「Thanks for that. I’m glad you did it so quickly.」

「And…well we wanted to see the forest.」

「Look around all you want.」

I looked around and Doby wasn’t near.

「Where’s Doby?」

「Doby’s patrolling the forest.」

「Great dragons can fly pretty fast.」

「Yeah, Doby’s strong and can move swiftly. He does a great job patrolling.」

「Sounds busy.」

「He tells me right away if he senses anything. Then Rai and I go and hunt whatever it is down.」

I guess the forest was very well protected.

It’s almost how Mulg is well protected by all the magical wolves.

「How long until Doby returns?」

「Yeah, well, I think he’ll be back after an hour or so.」

Vallimie said while thinking it over.

Cruz pulled on my sleeve.

「Al! Let’s go for a walk in the forest!」

「Is that okay, Vallimie?」

「No problem here.」

「Yeay!」

Cruz was ecstatic.

「rya rya」

Sighisoara said in a happy cry.

Then Vallimie looked at us seriously.

「Cruz and Al, I’ve promised to protect all the monsters around here.」

「Promised?」

「Could you not attack them for me?」

Cruz looked a bit confused.

「Some of them might come at you, I mean, they’re monsters…you know?」

「You’re right.」

「So if you can, just run. They’re wild, after all.」

Rai stood proudly at attention next to Vallimie.

Then she rubbed Rai’s head.

「Unless you absolutely have to, promise not to kill them, okay?」

「Roger. You have my word.」

「Thanks.」

「Leave it to us!」

Cruz said proudly.

「I have work to do, so I have to go, but Rai can go with you.」

「That’s reassuring.」

「Moo」「Wuff」

The beasts were happy too.

So we headed off into the Lindobal forest.

There were a lot of beasts and monsters.

「There’s a lot here!」

『Magic wolves too!』

Since Femm was a wolf of a different pack, the magic wolves here were really on edge.

They watched us from afar. We could hear their distant howls too.

「They’re really on alert.」

『They know how strong I am.』

Femm said proudly. However, Femm didn’t run to or away from them.

We just stood there together, and acted calm.