Chapter 117 Catching Up (1/2)

Not too long before the group reached the town's gate, Jyuuk momentarily chose to store the six eagles, Tsurishika and Gobu the Hobgoblin on his own skin, that was starting to slowly run out of space. Both of his arms, as well as his whole front torso were now completely covered in tattoos of his beasts and monsters.

Trying to think of a way to help him with that, Eisen began scratching his beard when he looked at the Monkey-Beastperson.

”Hmm, Jyuuk, what are the exact conditions for storing your monsters like that?” Eisen asked, before Jyuuk lightly scratched the back of his head.

”It's nothing too complicated. Basically just that I have to touch my monsters to store them and that there needs to be enough space on my skin left. Apparently there are some ways to store things externally, but that's just what my skill told me when it ranked up to two not too long ago. I've been storing and taking out all of my monsters non-stop ever since I got this skill to get used to it and rank it up, so it happened quite quickly. But I really don't know what external storage refers to.” Jyuuk explained to Eisen, who then slowly got an idea.

”Hmm, if you have time to stay a day or two, I may come up with something for that. After all, you tamed them as per my request.” Eisen chuckled lowly as the group now walked up to the gate, being stopped by the Guards.

”Halt! As I can see, you have monsters with you. Are they tamed?” One of the guards asked, and Eisen nodded.

”Yes, they are! As you can see, these two cuties obviously couldn't hurt anyone.” Eisen said with a smile as he picked up Caria and looked over to Melissa, who was sitting on his shoulder.

The Guard simply scoffed, before shaking his head. ”Sure, they seem to be tamed at the very least. What about that winged Lizardman behind you?” He asked, and Eisen turned around to look at Kiron.

”Ah, yeah, he has been tamed as well, of course. Only recently though. He's civilized, can talk, and is basically harmless all the way through.” Eisen said with a small wink directed at Kiron to make him play along, and the Half-Dragon nodded with a smile.

”It is so, I am my Lord's tamed monster.” He said quite clunkily while bowing forward. Obviously he was just a terrible liar, but to others it might seem like a creature that was still bad at speaking, attempting to talk.

”Alright, that should be fine then. Just make sure that they keep close to you, especially the big guy. Many would probably be scared if it was walking around on its own.” The Guard told them and waved the group through the gate, before they entered town together.

Once they were out of range, Eisen turned over to look at Kiron. ”Sorry about that, this was just far easier than to try and explain who you are and that you are my Knight instead of a tamed monster.”

”I understand, M'Lord. I do not mind, since I would have offered to be your tamed monster if it had been possible.” Kiron admitted as he kept following behind Eisen, who chuckled softly and nodded.

”Alright, well, as long as it's fine for you. Anyway, right now we're just going right to the Inn that I am currently staying at, it's not far away. I'm sure both of you are hungry, so we can eat something there.” Eisen said as he was looking at Sky and Kiron, who were both starting to grab their stomachs as they only just realized how hungry they really were.

They had both spent a long time imprisoned, so maybe they simply tried to ignore and tune out their hunger, but now that they were finally free again and able to eat whatever they wanted, that meant that their sense of hunger returned after being reminded, although it was kind of weird that they even had to be reminded.

With a soft laugh, Eisen looked at the both of them and shook his head while smiling. ”Haha, don't worry, you can eat as much as you want in a bit. Just tell me what you want when you want it, and I'll buy it for you.” He told them, and Sky and Kiron replied with large smiles.

”Thank you, M'Lord!”

”Thanks, Eisen!”

They said basically at the same time, and Eisen chuckled in response while leading the group toward his Inn.

Once they got there, Eisen noticed a very familiar woman standing in the front. It was Evalia, simply waiting for Eisen to arrive, and she was quite surprised to see one face she hadn't seen in a while, and two she hadn't ever seen.

”Well hello there, Jyuuk!” She exclaimed as she happily walked up to the group, immediately hugging the Monkey-Beastperson to say hello while getting a good look at Jyuuk's tattoos. ”Huh, I didn't know that ya were the type for ink all over your skin!” She laughed loudly, but Jyuuk simply shook his head.

”Hello Evalia, long time no see. And this aren't real, permanent tattoos. They are part of a new taming-related skill that I learned.” He explaiend before Evalia placed her fist on her hip and smiled.