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Annie, who was watching Minwoo and Aisha from the side her her, said as if something suddenly occurred to her.

“Could it be the work of dream demons?”

“A dream?”

Minwoo and Aisha looked at Annie in surprise at the word “Dream horse.” Of course, the reasons for the two people’s surprise were different. Unlike Min-woo, who had just spoken with the CEO of Mongma, Aisha was simply surprised to hear an unexpected word.

Annie continued.

“Actually, I’ve had some strange dreams recently. I guess this place is a place, so I don’t think it’s too strange if something like that happens.”

“..I see.”

Sure, I thought you could think that way. Still, it is the village closest to the desolate land where the Demon King’s Castle is located.

Aisha must have understood something from Annie’s words her her, nodding her head and apologizing to Minwoo again.

“I’m sorry, Minwoo. Like you said, I think I had a bad dream. Annie, I’m sorry for making a fuss for no reason.”

“No, not much to say…”

In the end, thanks to Minwoo’s all-out acting and Annie’s unexpected assist, Aisha came to believe that her yesterday’s events were just a dream.

…

The two were running through the meadow.

“Isn’t this… “So embarrassing?”

“Really? I don’t really mind… I don’t have any eyes to see anyway, so don’t worry too much. Minwoo doesn’t want to be homeless either, right?”

“That’s true, but… I also feel sorry for Aisha… “

“What are you talking about? Minwoo said I was in heat too… Hmm hmm… ! You… Carried me on your back when you were sick, right? I think this is a big deal.”

“…If you say that, I can’t do it. Please take care of me.”

After resting for one more day, Minwoo and Aisha woke up early in the morning and left Roswell Village immediately. Aisha said that if she traveled east for half a day, she would come to a small estate called Viscounty Shelton, so she would never be homeless.

But unfortunately, that was based on Aisha’s movement speed her, and of course Minwoo wasn’t fast enough to match her speed her.

In the end, Aisha suggested a different form of transportation than before, and Minwoo agreed to it without thinking much.

And now, Minwoo was slightly regretting that decision.

“Woah, it’s definitely fast… But it’s a bit scary…! The wind is also fierce.”

“Really? I know that humans are good at riding horses and such. Isn’t that similar to that?”

“Ah, that’s… People where I live don’t ride horses very well…”

“I see… Oh, you bite your tongue, so be careful.”

Aisha was running on all fours with Minwoo on her back.

Beast shoes.

It is a unique ability that all beastmen have.

In normal times, beastmen look no different from humans except for their ears and tails, but when they manifest beast form, they literally turn into something close to a beast.

In the case of Aisha, she was able to transform into the appearance of a sleek female cat. She only looked like a cat, but her size was the same as that of a leopard.

No, it was just a black leopard.

When she becomes a beast, her physical elements such as strength and agility improve, but she also constantly consumes magical power. It is convenient to think of it as a kind of lifting of a limit. In fact, it is said that beastmen often use it in urgent situations or important battles.

However, in the case of Aisha, unlike ordinary beasts, her martial arts class has reached its peak, so she is stronger when she fights than when she is in her beast form. If you turn into a beast, it will be difficult to use martial arts or something…

For her, it seems like she would never use her beast fire unless it was in a special situation, for example, when she is moving around while carrying someone like she is now.

Still, it’s a time-limited transformation ability, so it’s pointlessly cool.

With that thought in mind, Minwoo stroked the fur of Aisha, who had turned into a black leopard. I felt a soft touch in a different way than when I was in human form. He seemed to understand the feelings of people who raise dogs or cats. This feeling makes me want to keep stroking it without thinking.

“Gyaarung..! Don’t do that, Minwoo… “

“Oh, I’m sorry. It was so soft that I inadvertently…”

“Well, don’t say that… “

Seeing Aisha in the form of a black leopard being embarrassed by Minwoo’s words, Minwoo thought that he might open his eyes to a new sexual preference.

…

Minwoo and Aisha were able to safely reach Viscounty Shelton as the sun was setting.

There was no game-like development at all, such as encountering monsters along the way. If you think about it, it was already within the imperial territory and the monsters had been driven out by humans for a long time, so their seeds were at a dry level, so it was natural that they could not be encountered. The appearance of monsters in Roswell Village last time was a very unusual event.

Perhaps thanks to Aisha’s status as a former hero, the process of entering the territory went smoothly. When the sun was about to completely set, the two people had already entered the living room of the Viscount’s mansion and were drinking tea and waiting for Viscount Shelton to arrive.

Aisha said as she put down the teacup with a frown on her face, probably because she didn’t like the bitter taste.

“If there are no problems like this, we will be able to reach the capital soon.”

“Huh? Is the capital already that close?”

Is the continent of this world smaller than you think? For a moment, Minwoo had such doubts, but he was able to resolve those doubts with Aisha’s words that followed.

“No, in terms of distance, you still have to go a long way. However, nobles with fiefdoms have a transfer magic circle that is directly connected to the capital. If you borrow it, you can get there in one go. I didn’t have it in Roswell Village because there are no lords…”〈 Br〉
“Aha…”

Minwoo said, “That’s what it was,” And once again admired magic.

On the other hand, I also felt regretful. While on the way to the capital, I planned to play with Aisha slowly. It was good for her to quickly meet the Hero children, but she was a woman who would be a waste to throw away Aisha after tasting it once or twice.

While Minwoo was happily contemplating such thoughts, Aisha suddenly lowered her gaze, wagging her tail back and forth, and spoke.

“Well, by the way, Minwoo… Do you really plan on going back to the original world?”

“Yes? Ah… That is.”

Come to think of it, Aisha knew that Minwoo was trying to go to the capital to find a way to return to his original world. Because it was Aisha who suggested the method in the first place.

However, for Aisha, Minwoo’s return to his original world means her second heartbreak. Although she didn’t show it on the outside, Minwoo knew that Aisha was already in love with him.

“I’ll be busy as I have to act as the hero’s teacher for the time being, but… It’s a bit lonely to be breaking up with Minwoo like this.”

“…”

While Minwoo was thinking of an answer in his mind, seeing Aisha expressing herself in a surprisingly direct manner,

“Sorry for keeping you waiting, Aisha. This is Shelton.”

Viscount Shelton entered the drawing room.

…

“Please… ?”

“Yes, yes.”

Viscount Shelton was a middle-aged man who appeared to be around the same age as Jerome, the Incubus Lord. Of course, unlike Jerome, who was middle-aged and handsome, he was a man with a normal belly, but his face had a rather good-natured look. Well, you can’t judge him just by his appearance.

Viscount Shelton graciously allowed Minwoo and Aisha to use the transfer magic circle, but he said he had one favor to ask.

“Actually, I can ask you this because it is Aisha…”

“?”

What on earth is going on that makes Jeonju so long?

The Viscount’s story that followed contained quite interesting content even for Minwoo.

…

Of course he is not dead now, but he will be Viscount Shelton, three generations before the current Viscount, that is, the great-grandfather of the current Viscount. The great-grandfather loved a beastman woman. At that time, he was already married and middle-aged, and although she was just a beastman woman who had been taken in as her slave, she ended up falling in love with her.

Meanwhile, the slavery system for beastmen was abolished by the former warrior, Leon.

The great-grandfather was worried as he could no longer keep the beastman woman as a slave, but fortunately, she continued to remain in the mansion as a maid. She was also attracted to the Viscount, who treated her kindly and not as a slave.

However, the great-grandfather’s wife, the Viscount’s great-grandmother, did not like the beastman woman. It wasn’t such a big deal for her nobleman to take one or two of her concubines, but she hated the fact that her husband was having an affair with her beastman woman. She was an extreme human supremacist.

Her great-grandmother devises a scheme to separate her husband from her beast-man maid. He hired another male beastman and instigated him to rape the beastman woman when she was in heat.

The beastman woman ended up pregnant.

Because babies cannot be born between humans and beastmen, it was an undeniable fact that the woman had a relationship with a man from another beastman tribe.

Her great-grandfather feels angry and betrayed by the beastman woman, and ends up throwing her out without even finding out what happened to her.

As time passed, the Viscount’s great-grandfather regretted his actions. Then, he hurriedly searched for the beastman woman again, but she had already been brutally murdered at the instigation of his wife and her great-grandmother.

But the story did not end here.

The murdered beastman woman had a newborn baby girl.