Chapter 15 - I Will Stay With Senephin (1/2)

Chapter 15: I Will Stay With Senephin

“I see. So why don’t we just let Senephin raised him?”

Velkina’s cheerful reply made me want to cradle my head with frustration.

“Urgh… No, Velkina. It might be possible to do that, but Jean is a man.”

“We can’t reveal to the public that a shapeshifter would like to join the magic research institute. Wouldn’t it be better to shift into an animal since it would be hard if he is in human form?”

The idea must have come about after getting to know the full story, and it wasn’t a thoughtless one either.

But, err… I’m glad that Jean wouldn’t be staying in Velkina’s room. But, if I’m with Jean all the time later, then I won’t have time to fangirl, right? I tried to control my facial expression through my flurry of thoughts.

Velkina continued, turning to face Jean.

“Is that alright with you?”

“That’s what I wanted.”

Jean answered as his ears twitched slightly in response. How cute…it makes me not want to let him leave.

At that point, Lumins, who had been listening to the conversation quietly, interjected with his opinion.

“Even though Senephin offered to give you mana, I’m against you staying here.”

“Hmm? You mean Jean shouldn’t stay in Senephin’s room?”

Velkina prodded Lumins. Being an already very sociable girl and now informed about Jean’s background, she’d been talking casually with Jean since earlier.

“He might be in the form of a baby wolf now, but he is originally a male adult.”

He is indeed a boy now but he could go back to his original form by just consuming Mana? As expected, our genius sorcerer Lumins is indeed in a different league!

“Oh, is that so? I thought he would be a small little boy because he was a puppy. I’m sorry, Jean.”

“It’s alright.”

I’d also already done my best to break the flag of Jean and Velkina’s first meeting. Now that they already know each other and even about Jean’s background, will this be okay…

“Anyway, now that we have come to this. I’ll let you stay in my room.”

Jean shook his head when he heard Lumins’ offer.

“I will stay with Senephin, who I offered my back to, and protect her.”

“You can still do that even if you’re not in Senephin’s room. You would be more comfortable that way, right, Senephin?”

“Ye, Yes. I’m not comfortable staying in the same room with a man. Ohoho…”

Of course if whitey was living in Velkina’s room, I would have stopped him at all costs. Compared to that, letting him sleep in my room would sound a hundred times better, but now, it doesn’t matter at all if he stays with Lumins.

Whitey become sullen and buried his face under the quilt for some time, before his ears perked up again.

“If Senephin says so…”

You shouldn’t try to buy people’s sympathy with your cute looks!

I approached the bed and sat next to the whitey and held out my hand to him.

“Now that we are done with this. Take my mana. You’re struggling and troubled because of this, right?”

Whitey has been looking sullen for a while now and that could be a problem. But the biggest problem here is that he keeps leaning on the headboard because he is having a hard time keeping his body together.

Jean looked up at me with his deep blue eyes that seemed to shimmer between a hint of light green and deep emerald then licked the back of my hand a few times.

At the same time, the hair that was looking a little ragged and close to gray turned into soft-looking silvery fur. I stroked it with my hand after getting permission from Jean. I sighed in relief as I saw that his skinny body had gained some weight.

“What a relief…”