Vol 7 Chapter 104 (2/2)

“Not a light one To make a line, you need the deeper variant! Not the one a parent gives their child!”

Her face still flushed, Aria beganher head

Making a coh

“Hah… so Lyle, what you’re saying is as follows? You wanted toto try and… kiss it?”

Reluctant as I was, all I could do was nod

“… Yes That’s exactly right”

Clara said, ‘well of course it’d get angry,’ while Eva: ‘I’h to do that’ She wasa cramped smile

Shannon drew back

“So you angered it by trying to kiss it? Are you an idiot?”

I kneas coe than anticipated when it actually reached my ears

Miranda was sending a fed-up glance

Nove

Monica…

“Good grief… if you’d just said it, then I’d have given you as many kisses as you wanted, shallow or deep as they need be! Now, chicken dickwad… let’s adult kiss, and make a line with all due haste”

I held back Monica’s head with ave it to her straight

“No, you already have some sort of Mana line formed, so a kiss is unnecessary Great, ain’t it? I don’t have to kiss you to form a line with you”

Hearing that, Monica collapsed on the spot

“You’ll lock tongues with an animal, yet won’t kiss the world’s ideal maid Monica… even so, I shall serve you by your side to the end Oh pitiful Monica She shall never lose to so like a quilin!”

(This girl is a pain…)

The air had become quite strained, but I felt relief that I had somehow overcome the situation

Though I got the feeling I lost ained

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Midnight

I confirmed that everyone besides the watch was asleep, and carried my consciousness into the Jewel

In the roo

He was sitting in his chair, but it seems he couldn’t calm down

His elboere atop the table, one hand under his jaw, and the other incessantly tapping the conference table

(TL: I just realized this, but English really doesn’t have a synonym for table, does it…)

『You’re sure late』

“I was ed to explain it Because of that, I’ taken for a pervert”

When I said that, the Fifth tilted his head

『How does so an ani of a greeting, daht Come to my room at once』

Saying that, the Fifth brought h his room of memories

The Fifth’s roo way

But it wasn’t just livestock contained within

Various animals of various sizes carried out their lives

“Um, this is?”

『The rearing pen I prepared At the start, it was just things like cats and dogs Next came the birds, and I think it was there that the brakes broke When it ca』

No, aren’t you the one increasing them?

When I thought that, the door in the back of the relatively vast stable went and opened by itself

Inside, white with goldenfrom its head, lay a quilin

“So its neck was injured?”

A bandage rapped around it, and perhaps it ary, as it rolled itself into a ball in the depths of the rooe around its neck had turned red, and it doesn’t look like it had laid a hand on its meal

『I gave her the name May I mean, even as a quilin, she didn’t develop any affection, try as I may』

(TL: The original pun here is that Meithat a niece never ware uncle)

The Fifth patted a cowering May, but as ithin his memories, she didn’t show a reaction

Footsteps were audible fro thes and parcels

The Fifth of memories looked at May, and…

『You, if you don’t eat, you’ll never get healthy』

Then is the one with hi in his boots

『Dear viscount, if you detain a quilin, it will call for its comrades, and shower you with retribution, or so I’ve heard You should return her to the wild as soon as possible And just ill the surrounding lords say when…』

Turning to the vet, Fredricks scoffed

『And what of it? She was injured, so I took her back and treated her I haven’t the slightest ill-intent And with her injured too badly to even walk straight, you’ll toss her out to the wayside?』

For him to show so much love to an animal…

(No, you should really give a little more of that love to your family, you know)

Is what I ended up thinking, but I kept my mouth shut

Fro medicine, and handed it over to the veterinarian

『If it’s insufficient, I’ll assemble as much as you’ll need All you have to do is treat this child』

He took the medicine, and started the treatment

The quilin warily took up a posture to attack with its horn, widening its wound, and dyeing the bandages a deeper red Pale blue lines sparked about, but the Fifth held her down

『Hurry!』

『V-viscount, that’s dangerous!』

The veterinarian hastily began ad the medicine, but when he was done, it was the Fifth that was in tatters

He immediately carried him out and shouted

『Someone come!! The Viscount is…!!』

And within that panicked voice, the Fifth laughed

『Ah, right, sootten it』

I felt some pity for the fet With the treatment over, May lay down, and closed her eyes

Seeing that, the Fifth…

『Adorable, ain’t she?』

“No, when you think of how big she’s gotten in seventy to eighty years, it’selse to me”

The one I met was a splendid adult quilin

Hearing the Fifth’s voice, I remember how she had directed her hostility for some reason

“U at the start”

When I said that, the Fifth put his hand to his chin in thought

『… No, I cannot understand it In the first place, it’s strange she even ca ruin to evil That’s why they’re known as divine beasts They never try to approach humans』

Quilins were said to be good luck, and were renowned for bringing prosperity to the house of whoever caught one

But in truth, there were countless exa to catch one

There were some success stories out there, but they were the small minority

Not just within a country, quilins spanned continents killingall contact with humans No, they always maintained a set distance

But as long as hu in return

“But she definitely reacted to your voice, right Fifth? You didn’t do anything to buy any resentment, did you?”

『… Hey I , but I’ve not a single failure to report in relations to animals!』

I get the feeling that’s no good in itself

“Then as May so angry?”

『And here we are in o to the next one』

I followed hi

We were in the courtyard of the mansion