[Episode 22]
A small park with a fountain on a weekday afternoon was crowded with harmonious families and lovers.
Near the fountain carved out of rough stone, I saw people having a good conversation.
“Wow Mom! mom! mom! Look at this, I caught a stag beetle! Huge, right? I got it!”
“Then you fall, be careful. Mom will take care of everything. okay.”
“Look at this! Uh-chung, right? Daddy daddy!”
“Yes, my son. Aren’t there any geniuses? haha isn’t it? honey.”
“Iknow, right.”
It was a doran family.
The father rushed over to the child excitedly because he had just collected one insect, and the father hugged him and held him in his arms, and even that was not enough.
The child burst into laughter as if it tickled him, and the mother held the boy, who looked like a younger sister, in her arms and wiped the boy’s muddy cheeks with a soft cloth.
‘…’
I looked at the scene for a long time.
In the past and now, no matter how old I am, I couldn’t help but lose my eyes when I was looking at such a happy family.
just a little envious
And just think. I wonder what it would be like if I had a family like that.
Just for a moment, I’m immersed in happy imagination.
It was like that in a previous life too. Sometimes I would sit in a park or playground and watch my family pass by.
‘Oh, how long will this be like this?’
I think I am still far from being a proper adult.
It was the time when he was about to pat Richard Colin on the cheek to ask him to return to Albion soon.
Richard Collin’s gaze was still on the family.
When I turn my head to follow the boy’s gaze once more, the family is going to buy snacks with a friendly expression.
“Think about it sometimes.”
He turned his head reflexively at the sudden voice.
“Why did my parents abandon me? They say that normal humans hate wizards, but maybe that’s why?”
The boy let out a short breath.
“Then I think again. why did you give birth to me I’d rather kill them as babies. If so… then at least I…”
My eyes widened naturally at Richard Colin’s words.
It’s because I didn’t know that I would hear the thoughts I always recited to myself through the mouth of others.
Slowly, I stretched out both front legs.
Seeing my reaching out, Richard slowly lowered his upper body and brought his face closer to me.
Tok.
Her forepaw barely touched Richard’s cheeks.
“Have you been abandoned because you don’t have a tail…?”
So it’s got its tail cut off and it’s going to fly again.
But I stayed silent pretending not to understand.
“Why? You’re a lizard… You seem to be able to understand human speech. You may be a genius like me.”
He averted his gaze at the slightly stinging words.
“It’s okay, because one day I will take revenge on the people who abandoned me and the people who bought me.”
Richard tried his best to speak resolutely.
I moved my little head and shook my head slowly.
“…Stop? BamBam, don’t you think you’re saying that too?”
The boy raised his voice as if it were absurd and fired at me, but quickly shut his mouth at the gaze he felt around him.
“No really… What am I talking about to the lizard?”
‘It’s not like that…’
It wasn’t like that.
The Duke and Duchess of Colin never intentionally abandoned Richard.
One of the ladies-in-waiting, who usually had a bad feeling for the Colin family, sneaked into the mansion, and the family took advantage of the madness to steal Richard and sell it to a slave trader.
As soon as the Duke and Duchess Collins found out about the fact, they released people to search for them, but they couldn’t find Richard, who had already been sold as a slave to a pirate group.
‘At this rate, I won’t be able to find it until I become an adult.’
is that the right thing to do?
I know loneliness better than anyone. I knew better than anyone about the absence of parents.
Is it right to turn a blind eye to the flow of the original work even though you know the correct answer?
‘…That can’t be.’
When you become a human again, go visit the Duke of Colin.
‘If I talk about my son, he’ll come even if he thinks it’s a trap.’
Then surely Richard Colin will find his place.
‘Then, will my future idiot personality change?’
I put my paw on Richard’s cheek once again! I raised it.
Richard’s gaze, which had been looking only forward, reached me very slowly, as if escaping from a dream.
I poked at the entrance to the park with my paw and pointed.
Then, covering his eyes with his front paws, he pretended to be looking for someone eagerly.
‘Let’s go, it’s been a while since Albion found you!’
Of course, there was no way he could understand, so he pretended to run hard.
And once again I pointed my front paws at my family, stood tall on his palms, and tapped my chest with my short front paws.
‘I’ll find my family, trust me.’
Lizard… no, it was body language.
“…What are you saying?”
It doesn’t seem like it was delivered at all.
power went out I let go of my hind legs and crumbled down, laying in the palm of his hand.
‘There must be a way to humanize it.’
However, the actual heroine of [Ip.Yang.Gak] was not a beastman, and the beastman who appeared later was humanized for granted, so there was no way to humanize it in the novel.
‘I don’t know what to do.’
Fortunately, Richard got off the bench and walked out of the park.
I could feel the smell (?) of Albion not far away.
Fortunately, Richard obediently followed the directions I pointed to with his hands and feet.
* * *
“BamBam, let’s eat.”
hig.
As I jumped up, Richard Colin grabbed me and put me on the desk.
“Eat one today. According to the book, protein intake is essential.”
Richard Collins put me in a collection box with a couple of caterpillars.
‘Aaaaaaagh!’
Avoiding the wriggling caterpillars, they clung to the wall of the collection box.
‘No, no, no!’
Luckily, Richard Collins was giving me fruit, so I was able to take care of the meal.
At first, I don’t know how frightened I was because I caught insects or caterpillars and held them out.
I hurriedly climbed up the collecting barrel and shook my head.
‘How can I eat something wriggling like that!’
As I desperately shook my head, Richard Colin furrowed his handsome brow.
“Even if I only eat too much fruit…”
I shook my head to let go of my throat. The wriggling caterpillar was slowly moving.
As I hurriedly grabbed onto the edge of the collecting bin and stretched out, Richard sighed and held out his palm to me.
I quickly climbed onto his palm, climbed up his arm, and sat on his shoulder.
It seems that this has become more comfortable after sitting down for a while.
“Shouldn’t you give me some meat?”
I like meat, but I hate live caterpillar meat!
“What can I do? Because I don’t like it. You can’t go anywhere else without me Where in the world is there a master like me?”
“….”
“Then don’t go anywhere and stay by my side. I or everyone else will feed you bugs like that.”
While saying that, Richard put the apple in small pieces on his finger and held it out to me.
I gobbled it up.
“By the way, BamBam, what is on your back?”
‘etc? What’s on my back?’
I tilted my head and tried to look behind me.
Of course, hard work is something anyone can do, and that doesn’t mean hard work is the result.
I can’t see my back
“There is something very small.”
‘A little thing? what is that?’
My head tilted at an angle again.
I can’t speak, so when I ask something I don’t know, I always act like this.
‘It’s only been a week…’
Someone said that humans are animals of adaptation, but that seemed to be the same even when they became animals that couldn’t speak.
“Wings… are they? Something is so small that it looks like a bean…”
Richard scratched my scales with his blunt fingertips.
Surprised, the scales sharpened their blades.
“Sorry, did I startle you?”
I was a little surprised…
but strangely, the area he touched was sensitive. Should I say it feels like a slight muscle pain when touched?
“Not too long ago, there wasn’t anything like this… You really do look like a mutant.”
I froze at the voice muttering that I had never seen such a lump (?).
Could it be…
‘It’s not cancer…?’
Anxiety jumped to strange places.
