Half a month has passed since the raid of the herd of tarantulas.
『…… Are you going?』
(Yeah. Thank you for taking care of me Kaa-chan.)
『Hey, how long am I gonna say, I don’t remember being your mother…』
I don’t know if she has given up or just accepted it, but she just sighs exasperatedly. She doesn’t deny it as strongly as she used to. She kinda looks a little lonely too.
I am now going to leave this forest. I’ve made friends with the wolves but I’m still human after all. Besides, some of the other wolves don’t like the fact that I’m around Kaa-chan and they persistently insist that she get rid of me immediately.
Well, on the contrary, it seems that there are others who treat me as a savior for saving Kaa-chan and the herd. Because of this, even though they had repelled the threat from the north, the leadership of the herd seemed to be disrupted.
『…… You don’t have to worry about that.』
Kaa-chan is telling me not to worry about it, but I can’t bother her anymore. With that in mind, I decided to return to the human city. Luckily, not having breast milk is not a problem anymore. Well, in the first place, there is almost no breast milk left from Kaa-chan.
My body has become stronger, and I can speak. I think I can survive in a human city now.
“““Wauwauwau”””
(Wait, you guys… uh?)
Suddenly, as I was about to leave the forest, the little wolves I had befriended jumped on me one after another. I was buried in their fluffy hair.
(Hey, stop. I can’t move forward like this you know?)
“““Wauwauwau”””
Apparently they don’t want me to go.
“Grrrr!『You guys, stop it. 』”
““““~~~~uu!””””
When Kaa-chan scolded them, the wolf cubs panicked and stopped moving.
“Gaaarrrrrrrr! 『Don’t get in the way. That child is different from you. He is a human child. He can’t stay with you guys here forever.』”
““““Kuuun…””””
The little wolves with their tails tucked between their crotches are crying sadly. I tousled the fur on their head—it was hard because there were so many—and then I said goodbye.
(See you then, be well, okay?)
“““Wau!”””
Waving to the howling little wolves, I left them. And it was just as I was leaving the forest, I heard a loud howl.
“Waauuuuuuu! 『You can come back whenever you feel like it!』”
I still don’t fully understand their language, but I can somehow understand what they meant.
……This forest is my hometown.
Even though I was abandoned immediately after birth, I now have a place to return to.
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『So, where are you going from here, Master?』
(Hmmm, well… It would be better not to go back to the territory where I was born…)
If a baby abandoned in the forest comes back, there will be many problems. Well, that’s true, but it also looks interesting to see the astonished faces of my parents.
However… the house of the nobility is too troublesome to begin with… He abandoned me because it was about his honor as a nobleman, I don’t want to live a life of being haunted by such an invisible thing.
……In fact, in my previous life, I was born into an aristocratic family.
It was a family of knights for generations, and it was a prestigious sword family, so I was forced to train with the sword from a young age. At that time, I really wanted to learn magic, but I wasn’t allowed to learn it, saying that magic is something that only weak people learn.
Well, I learned it secretly on my own though. After leaving home, I was free. I stayed in my lab and immersed myself in the development of new magic and tools. I traveled around the world in search of magic books that lie dormant in various places. I also joined the party of the hero to fight against the Demon Lord’s army.
(I want to live freely in my new life. In that case…. adventurer. Yes it could only be that after all. I can also earn money so I can kill two birds with one stone.)
『Adventurer huh. It’s risky but it is indeed a free profession. ……But Master-』
(What?)
『Do you think a two-month-old baby can register as an adventurer? 』
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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