Seventh: Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 7] by Yomu Mishima

Author:Yomu Mishima
Language: eng
Format: epub

“This is the hippogryph your daughter defeated. Display it with pride! Oh...did you think it was a gryphon? Too bad!”

As he crumpled the letter in his fist, Renaldo shook his head. “I questioned the servant who did the check. Although he researched a gryphon’s characteristics from literary sources in advance, he had never seen the real thing, neither living nor stuffed before. Our unit is specialized in anti-human combat, you see.”

They were trained to fight humans, and so they were a bit dim when it came to monsters. In the royal capital protected by sturdy walls, some even grew up having never seen a monster before.

What’s more, a gryphon was a very rare beast, and a large majority had only ever seen it in books.

“That whelp!” Ralph tore apart the letter in a fit of rage.

The look on Renaldo’s face turned stern. “Master, the young man milady chose is a formidable one.” And implicitly he asked, do you really want to fight him, knowing that?

Ralph steadied his breath. “There is no need. He won’t be able to go anywhere, after all.”

The snow that had started only yesterday had begun to accumulate in the capital. It would hinder all trade routes, and this meant that Lyle and his party members wouldn’t be able to leave the capital for the time being.

“Relish in your victory. It won’t last,” Ralph said before leaving the warehouse and making for the manor. Renaldo followed along behind him.

***

“You chose me, was it?”

“And weren’t you going on about everyone wanting to see you naked?”

“This was a fun one.”

“Nothing too impactful, but we got to enjoy ourselves for a decently long time.”

“That’s the Walt wonder child for you.”

I holed myself up in my room at the inn, shaking beneath the blankets.

“Wrong... That wasn’t me. That was anything but me!”

I’d exposed myself in front of everyone. I also got the feeling I’d said embarrassing line after embarrassing line the entire time.

How was I supposed to look my party members in the eye after this?!

“No matter how much you deny it, it won’t change the truth,” the fifth head coldly told me. “That aside, you should have started to get a little used to Growths, but, you’re still just as terrible.”

His words were like a knife staving straight through my chest. I thought I was going to drop down, unconscious.

Everyone was so mindful, so warm, so accepting ever since I woke up the next morning. It was agonizing.

Miranda and Shannon would look at me with a grin. It felt like Clara would give a somewhat relieved smile whenever she saw me. Surely she was thinking, you’re just like me.

“It’s not my fault. It’s the Growth’s fault,” I tried to convince myself.

But the third head maliciously said, “Huh? Are you sure you should be saying that? Sure, you were in a post-Growth, but you did in fact cause trouble for everyone. Like telling everyone to look at your body, or saying you’d make them happy... You could go and tell them it was all a lie, but I don’t think that’s going to work.

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