Chapter 22 (1/2)

Dealing with the stallkeeper was easier than I thought The mental aspect of it, not the physical method

I expected hesitation, even forpeople In the end, I didn't really feel anything

Had the past month twist me so much? Or had I fully adopt the mindset of a monster? At any rate, all life, to me, was separated into three neat boxes: allies, enemies, and the uninvolved I could not see the world in any other way

Well, it's too late for contemplation now I'd already killed bandits and merchants, after all

[Shedy] [Race: Mistral] [Lesser De mist that dances upon the northern seas A canny spiritual lifeforic Points: 752/755] 5↑ [Total Combat Power: 830/830] 5↑ [Unique Skill: <reroll> <cyber-manipulation> ] [Racial Skill: Fear] [Simple Identification] [Humanoid Form (Adept)] [Expert Packer]

I had Blobsy dispose of the corpse before people could discover him and raise a fuss I exited the thicket and went back to the road, looking as innocent as an angel

If I took him to be the standard for non-combatant citizens, I was quite sure I could massacre a hundred of theuarantee all humans were similarly terrible And I didn't even have the spare ti anyway

Twenty-six days of borrowed tiic stones and reach the World Tree by then

So anyway, I didn't expect my ears to be exposed so easily

It's true that I still hadn't gotten used to having a hu? Back on Earth, I used to get curious looks all the ti albinic However, people in this world had more than just black, blond, or brown hair – there were silver, deep-blue, scarlet, and many other colors too I didn't think I would stand out here

The fore of myself that I had Except I didn't look e coe, so there's even less of a reason for people to take notice

I wondered why I was different from my memory of how I used to look like Perhaps I had subconsciously 'optimized' myself?

And the results of the optimization included rabbit ears…? And I didn't just have the ears I only realized when changing in the second-hand clothing store that I also had a rabbit's tail, around the size of a human fist, above my butt

Why Why were the ears and tail necessary???

Well, what's done is done I'd just have to hide the ears with my coat's hood

I still had around 10 silvers and a few small silvers taken from the bandits I'd really prefer to have souards really put a dent toto the late, but I had no intention to rent a roos of coins Even if the innkeeper looked like a nice person, if they saw e into ht with a stick

So I hid ht came, I stealthily moved towards the fields

Here, unlike Earth's polluted night sky, the stars alone were plenty bright enough to light ht to be able to see

I transformed into a quasi-misty human shape to not leave behind any footsteps, and floated towards a small shack adjacent to the fields There were around 10 people inside, judging fronals

The shack – it was closer to a storage room, really – wasn't locked The door looked like it would break froap and saw only men Demihumans, from early teens all the way until around fifty-years old

There was no floor, only hardened dirt I sahat looked like straw-beds in the back Everyone looked hygienic enough, but they were only wearing so around a se roo

Besides the walls and roofs, this was no different fro in the wilds

Six canine beastmen, three felines, one elf All of theh that still probably ers

I opened the door and stepped inside Around half of them instantly noticed They looked up

”…who are you? What does a kid like you ith us?” A beast tired but cautious He looked closer to a wolf than a dog ”We may be slaves, but we're not toys for you kids to play with even into the night…”

”That's not why I'asped as they sawears

”You're a canine-type… no A rabbit? I've never heard of that beastman race before”

The wolf beastman looked over to the elven man, who frowned and shook his head

”Neither have I Although… I had heard that during randfather's time, there lived more than just the current canine and feline beastman races However, these other races had all been hunted down to be pets for the huone extinct a few hundred years ago”

”There were survivors…?”

They looked at me with skeptical eyes I shook my head