[Episode 23]
“No matter how much I search, I can’t find any data on beastmen or lizards.”
Richard Colin looked through all the books in the orphanage and still didn’t have enough.
As Richard became more serious, I began to think more and more strangely.
‘Is it really cancer?’
‘Couldn’t it be dangerous?’
‘What the hell is there…’
All kinds of thoughts passed through my head.
Even if he tried to reflect his back in the mirror, it was not easy to see his back in a quadrupedal way.
“I wish you could talk.”
As far as I can tell, I’m not a lizard.
“It’s dinner time soon.”
It wasn’t until late in the evening that Richard secretly returned to the orphanage he had escaped to, washed his hands, and headed straight to the restaurant.
I usually buy bread from outside and eat it, but today I wondered why.
“Hey you came.”
“Leave it alone and don’t even look at it.”
“I heard you don’t eat all the time… Why do you come here to eat?”
“I don’t know why the director is so partial to him. You don’t even train every day.”
“I guess it’s just because I’m reluctant. Besides, he said he was a slave… It must be because he felt sorry for him.”
Innocent words were exchanged here and there. Richard, who was about to receive food with a plate, crumpled his face.
He tossed the tray into the huddle of children.
Taang-!
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
“Hey what are you doing!”
“Quack-quack-noisy stupid pigs. Let’s talk more! Why don’t you talk in front of me?”
Richard raised his voice with a sharp gaze. Fire dripped from the amethyst-colored eyes that were cold to come.
“what? Ooh, what did we do!”
Richard, who was glaring at the plate thrown to the floor, turned around.
Clinging to Richard’s shoulder as he strode back to my room, I let out a deep sigh.
“Kyuuuu…”
“Why do you feel bad about me too?”
Why is he like this all of a sudden?
“What was it like being a slave? Are you dirty with me because I was treated like a pet dog on the floor? I…”
Tears welled up on his distorted face.
“Chi…”
Richard rubbed his eyes with the hem of his sleeve as if he was ashamed of himself.
‘A pet dog…’
Actually, it’s not easy for a slave to be treated as a decent human being.
I was not in a good mood.
I cautiously reached out and patted Richard Colin on the cheek.
“I don’t need sympathy or consolation. I did my best to live.”
‘know.’
I pounded my chest with my front foot, using the back foot stance I was now accustomed to.
Is it because it doesn’t have a tail? Maybe it’s because I’m not used to it? It was a bit difficult to stand still for a long time.
“Hey, do you know what I’m talking about?”
Richard smiled and stroked my hair gently with his fingers.
“I know it’s just because they compliment me, but…”
No, that’s not it?
Don’t you think the timing is too good for that?
“Somehow, BamBam, you seem to know who I am.”
Know.
Since he was a significant character in the novel, there was very fragmentary information about Richard’s past.
“Sorry, I couldn’t even prepare your meal today.”
I looked at Richard blankly.
“Shall we go to bed early today?”
Richard said while taking out a small blanket from the blanket cabinet on one side.
Originally, in the orphanage, it was the rule for everyone to sleep together, but Albion gave Richard a separate room because of his special situation.
“You sleep too.”
Richard put me on a small handkerchief and covered me with a blanket.
As if looking for a little warmth, Richard covered my forefoot with his palm and closed his eyes tightly.
I wiggled my forepaw and patted the back of Richard’s hand.
It’s rough and not even dry, cold paws of a reptile, but I hope it will be a little comforting.
“Hey…”
Was it through my will?
Richard cried until dawn. Without even being silent about what was so sad about it.
And when Richard finally fell asleep, the door gently opened with a creak.
I slowly turned my head, and a familiar man knelt down next to the blanket.
It was Albion.
“Looks like you haven’t slept yet. Is it the nocturnal lizard side?”
In name and reality, it is drivability.
I just couldn’t sleep because I thought of someone in the past who was in a similar situation when I saw the child crying sadly.
“Did you cry?”
I didn’t bother to answer, just tilted my head.
“I thought I could understand the language the other day… I wonder if I was mistaken.”
‘…Mmm.’
No matter how much I think about it, it’s not good for many people to know that I can understand my words.
What should I do if I get dissected because I was sold somewhere? You should know how to humanize it quickly.
“Wizards are not just born. It only comes from genes with wizard lineage. A wizard’s child is precious, and there’s no way that a proper parent would throw it away. I’m trying to find Richt’s parents.”
Albion spoke as if he were confessing, and wiped Richard’s cheeks and eyes with a wet handkerchief.
It was the clumsy and crude hand of a person who had held the sword for a long time.
By the way, is that why you’re not often at the orphanage these days?
“The happiest way for a wizard’s child is to return it to its parents.”
I bet it is.
Albion said that and calmly stood up.
“Even though I raised so many children with my own hands and made them independent, it still seems difficult for them.”
He let out a short sigh and quietly left Richard’s room.
The door is closed. A quiet and still night has arrived.
‘Is Erno Etam doing well? Wouldn’t it run rampant again?’
No way, the female lead is next to me, can that happen?
‘Couldn’t they be looking for me because I betrayed them…?’
I think it would be scary if you were looking for it to kill me.
Goosebumps ran down my spine.
The expression on his face when he reached out to kill him at the end was so frightening.
‘I’m still sorry.’
I wanted to be in your arms a little longer. I know that kindness is all about acting, but still…
I was really happy because I felt like I had a family for a while.
It was a fleeting dream.
‘I want to become a human again soon…’
The lizard’s body seemed too uncomfortable even though it was uncomfortable.
‘Because it’s a request, let me become a human again…’
Otherwise, it seemed that Richard Colin would eventually fall into the swamp of misfortune.
It’s so sad that you can’t go back even though you have a place to go back to.
‘My back is tickling…’
I twisted my body back and forth at the tickling feeling on my back, which I couldn’t even scratch because my arms were short, and I barely closed my eyes.
I didn’t know then
That something strange in my back is growing in size little by little.
And the fact that the empty wish before going to sleep came true faster than expected.
* * *
“Aagh! what what!”
“Eh… Noisy…”
“Noisy! What are you! What’s in my blanket?! That too ah ah al…! Such shameless…!”
I blinked slowly at the sound of Richard’s loud voice hitting my ears.
The bright light blinded my eyes for a moment.
What I saw was a blanket covering my body and Richard Collin sitting in the corner with a stunned gaze pointing at me.
‘uh…?’
The field of view is high.
I lowered my gaze slightly and looked down, then at my hands, then at the ceiling, then at Richard Collin, who was sitting at the same eye level as me.
“uh?”
A voice came out.
It was strange to see Richard Colin, who was frightened with a white face.
I slowly reexamined my situation.
I don’t know why, but when I woke up, I became humanized.
And as I became a water person, I threw away the clothes there, so of course I’m not wearing anything right now.
‘…ah.’
So you’re surprised
But, what if you can see the body of a five-year-old child?
‘…What is it that I’m naked?’
I hugged the blanket that was covering me a little more and opened my mouth in embarrassment.
“You ask who the hell are you!”
“Richard, what the hell…”
Then Albion entered at the right time as if he had heard the commotion in the room.
When he saw me desperately hugging the futon and Richard yelling at me…
…froze as it were.
‘What if you freeze here!’
He had no tolerance for this kind of situation, so it seemed that buffering had taken place.
“Bam-Bam…”
Richard opened his eyes wide and came to me, examining the surroundings of the blanket.
Then, as if he had found something, he carefully picked it up with both hands.
“Oh no…”
Richard’s eyes burned red as he looked down at something crushed.
Richard glared at me like he was going to kill me, then raised his voice.
“You… what about my BamBam!!”
When he lowered his gaze slightly, Richard’s hand was neatly laid out like a lizard’s skin.
‘…uh? Did I escape?’
Apparently, I escaped without even knowing it.
