Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 7] by rarutori

Author:rarutori
Language: eng
Format: epub

After five days of travel, we reached a small settlement belonging to the Goat Clan, or perhaps more accurately, a waystation belonging to them. With an introduction from Gauba of the Black Bear Clan, the Goat Clan accepted me without complaint. My new horned hosts immediately welcomed me with gifts of milk in leather bags, allowing me to stay with them. They agreed to take me to the place where Win was staying, a gathering of the Federation’s races.

It was all great luck, but something that could only happen because of the trust Gauba showed me when we first met. He would be leaving us the next day, but I was dying to know what had led him to trust me so freely. Both he and the Black Bear Clan’s chief had said something about trusting me because of my strength, but I didn’t understand the logic in that. There were certainly people who used their strength to evil ends, so I couldn’t imagine they wouldn’t be on guard against them.

But when I asked Gauba while we sat in a tent of wood and leather the Goat Clan had given the two of us for the night...

“Strength can be measured as one’s power, skill, heart, or knowledge. There are good and evil, even among the strong. But in general, those who are truly strong have no need to deceive others to achieve their ends. Assuming they don’t do so just for their own amusement,” he replied with a laugh.

In short, if I had intended any harm toward the Black Bear Clan, I wouldn’t have needed to lie and get in their good graces.

“The strength the chief saw in you may have been entirely different from what I saw. But if you intended to hurt us, you could have attacked us while in hiding, or covertly followed us back to our settlement.”

I supposed he was right. If all I wanted to do was find the Black Bear Clan’s settlement, it would have been easier to just track and follow them from the shadows than to appear before them and try to win their trust.

“But you showed yourself, surrendering the advantage of surprise in hopes of a friendly interaction. That’s why I trusted you. That was the strength I saw in you. Because you were strong enough that you could throw away such an advantage without concern, there would be no reason for you to deceive us.”

Knowing the sly and cunning people that I did, I felt that way of thinking was rather simplistic and honestly, somewhat dangerous. But the fact that was enough for Gauba to trust me left me feeling a little happy. I didn’t know much about the customs of the beastfolk, but when I extended a fist toward him, he returned the gesture with a fist bump.

I didn’t know him well enough to really call him a friend, but I certainly would remember there were people like him among the beastfolk.

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The Goat Clan had a number of settlements

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