Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 24 [Parts 1 to 10] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

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It was now the following morning.

I headed to the Ruu settlement at the agreed upon time, finding a bit of a commotion there. I arrived right at the upper fifth hour, since that was when Shumiral had said his next visit would be, but it looked like he had shown up a bit early. There was already a crowd surrounding him, which included hunters from not just the Ruu, but their subordinate clans as well.

“Well, if it isn’t Asuta! Long time no see!” Rau Lea called out from the crowd as I was approaching them after bringing my wagon to a stop. He was right; it had been quite some time since I’d last seen him. In fact, it might have been since that welcome party we’d had for Dora and the other townsfolk.

“Yeah, it’s really been a while. What brings you here today?”

“Donda Ruu invited me! He said I should come and see what I think about this crazy easterner and the hunting dogs he brought with him.”

Rau Lea and I were the same age, but despite that, he was already the head of the main Lea house. His hair was golden, like Ai Fa’s, and he had fine facial features like a woman, but he was still a pretty brazen and mischievous guy. His light blue eyes were sparkling like a child’s as he stared at the hunting dogs, which he was seeing for the first time.

Behind Rau Lea, I spied a middle-aged man with gray-brown hair and a mustache grinning at me: Giran Ririn, who I also hadn’t seen in some time.

“So you’re here too, Giran Ririn? Were all of the subordinate clan heads invited?”

“Indeed. And there seem to be some folks who aren’t clan heads here too,” Giran Ririn said, right before someone else in the crowd started roaring with laughter. And sure enough, the person who was laughing was not a current clan head, but a former one.

“Excuse me for a moment... Dan Rutim, I’m glad to see you looking well.”

“Hey there, Asuta! Just look at these things! Pretty interesting, aren’t they?!” Dan Rutim was sitting on the ground, playing with two of the hunting dogs. He almost looked like a giant baby holding two huge stuffed animals. “Yes, very interesting! They kinda resemble varb wolves too! Isn’t there some legend about wolves who left the mountains and became dogs?”

“Yeah, I heard something like that from Ai Fa. I’m sure dogs and wolves are related, at the very least.”

The dogs looked like the kind of breed that would come from the west in my old world. They had droopy ears, square faces, and strong bodies, but there was still something weirdly cute about them.

“I knew it! They’ve got the same clever look in their eyes that varb wolves have! What incredibly interesting creatures they are!”

When I met Radd Liddo, I had thought that he and Dan Rutim were pretty similar, but on second thought, it was pretty obvious that this man had the bigger heart by far.

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