337 Lizardmen (1/2)

While following the lizardmen, Yale was happy about having told beforehand everyone about his transformation abilities and the fact that Wyba could change her form because that avoided that the others were shocked seeing those transformations.

Of course, the day Yale and Wyba showed their half-beast forms for the first time, Nurvey almost turned mad of happiness and spent quite a bit of time touching the ears and tail of their half-beast forms, which irritated Yale quite a bit despite enduring it till the end.

Moreover, Yale even heard Nurvey speaking with Julie, and he felt that Julie mentioned something regarding making plushies of the half-beast forms of Yale and Wyba, but Yale decided to ignore that topic since he felt that there was no way they could produce them well in the ocean. Furthermore, even if Julie managed to make them, Yale still preferred to not know about it.

At that time, Yale had doubted if his choice of disclosing it was good or not, but after reaching the western continent, he sighed in relief since the situation confirmed that he had made the right choice.

”Your friends called you Shirk earlier; you are quite weird for having that name.”

The lizardman with the scar started to speak with Shirk because although Yale and the others were honored guests, Shirk was a lizardman who could join the tribe.

”Is my name that weird?”

Since Shirk didn't know anything about lizardmen, and he only turned a lizardman thanks to Yale's help, it wouldn't be strange if his name seemed strange for those lizardmen, but the answer was something he never expected.

”The weird thing is that you have a name. In the lizardman tribes, no one has a name and having a title is already considered a lot. Are you serving any of those esteemed divine beasts?”

The lizardmen of the western continent once enraged another species that they mustn't have offended, and in consequence, all the lizardmen became cursed and turned unable to naming themselves or naming others.

The only way for them to obtain a name was to become the servant of a member of another species and letting the other party bestow a name upon them, which usually was great humiliation.

Thus, the lizardmen thought that since Shirk had a name, it would mean that someone else had given it to him since the lizardmen were unable to do it.

Of course, Shirk obtained his name from his parents because he wasn't born as a lizardman and the curse didn't affect him even after the transformation of his bloodline because the origin of his bloodline was different from those lizardmen of the western continent.

”Shirk is an orphan and Sebe has taken care of him for a long time ago. I fear that he doesn't have any knowledge of the traditions of Lizardmen.”

Since Yale knew that Shirk wouldn't be able to come up quickly with a decent reason, Yale needed to say a reason himself. In fact, Yale hadn't lied because Shirk's parents were already dead and Sebe had been helping him for a lot of time, and it was true that Shirk didn't have any knowledge about lizardmen because no one in the eastern continent had that knowledge.

As for the fact that no one told about the lizardmen to Shirk, the scour group just thought that there was no way that the powerful divine beasts had any interest in investigating the traditions of the lizardmen.

”Sir Yale, that isn't true! You have also helped me a lot!”

Shirk automatically replied to Yale's words because although Shirk felt great respect for Sebe, the respect he felt for Yale was even greater. Moreover, Sebe himself respected Yale, so he didn't feel it wrong that Shirk thought like that.

”How many times I need to tell you to remove that Sir when you talk with me...”

Yale didn't feel well when people close to him talk with him using so much respect, but sometimes Shirk couldn't avoid it despite knowing that Yale preferred to be treated more informally.

The lizardmen were hearing the conversation, and they confirmed in their minds that despite not being the most powerful of the group, Yale's position seemed the highest due to the way he acted.

Although they were unable to detect exactly how powerful were Yale and the others who had reached at least the Elder Rank, they could feel that Sebe and Swordmad were more powerful if they were only to take in regard the level.

”You had great luck for having found great divine beasts that treated you well.”