[Episode 24]
I didn’t even think of it.
The obvious fact that lizards shed was completely forgotten.
What would I do if I were a lizard? I don’t know anything about lizards.
‘Ah, did my body not come back to normal because of molting?’
I heard that shedding consumes a lot of nutrients, so it was clear that it was difficult to humanize it.
“…lizard?”
Albion muttered in a very low voice and came to me.
Seeing the traces of shedding on Richard’s palm, he looked at me, very nervous, and he let out a low sigh.
“You are… a prisoner.”
As befits a hero who has been on the battlefield for a long time, he realized my true identity very quickly.
“I heard that lizards have a strange corner… But was the lizard’s hand this small?”
he said as if he was puzzled.
‘Certainly I’m not very small.’
Beastmen were basically born into the most dominant species of the same species.
In other words, even if it is the same lizard, it is inherited from the largest and longest surviving powerful species.
“I have seen a lizard beastman. 2m is far over. Is it a hybrid?”
At that murmur, I smiled like a foolish person. Other than that, I don’t know what else to say.
“Director Wo. What is he saying now. Is this my BamBam?”
“Yes, it looks like a baby that hasn’t even become an adult yet.”
Albion said that and carefully wrapped the blanket around me and tied it like a mantle.
“BamBam is a human…”
Richard’s jaw seemed to drop. After a long time searching for something to say, I cautiously opened my mouth.
“Are you surprised Mia? I was sad to become a human, but he didn’t treat me well…”
“…are you really BamBam?”
“Yeah, I’m A-ring.”
I hope you get rid of such a strange name like BamBam.
“Those eyes… BamBam is right.”
So Eirin…
“BamBam has become a human.”
Richard, his eyes wide open, approached me right in front of me as if he had never done that before, and suddenly poked his face out.
The twinkling eyes are like the eyes of a boy who learned that robots can also transform and merge.
“Your parents are looking for you, but are you from the Komodo family?”
I shook my head slowly.
“Then where are you from? As far as I know, there are not that many families of lizard beastmen.”
I pursed my lips and shook my head slowly.
I couldn’t bear to say that I had run away from the Etham family.
‘Even if I go back, I won’t be able to see anything good.’
I will return Richard to the Duke of Colin, and I will ask him to take Richard’s vacant place and let him stay in this orphanage.
As I lowered my head and shook my head once more, Richard stood in my way.
“You came all the way to the orphanage! there must be a situation You can grow it here.”
“A prisoner must have a guardian.”
“I can do it, guardian. I picked it up, so it’s mine.”
Richard gripped my hand tightly.
I got a strange feeling when I saw the little shoulder blocking my way.
When Albion did not respond, Richard growled and revealed his teeth.
“It’s mine, Director.”
“I know how you feel, Richt, but Suin needs parents to become an adult. Beasts need to meet certain conditions in order to grow differently from humans.”
“But…”
Richard tightened his grip on his hand. It’s a face that looks like it’s going to explode in resentment.
‘If I get kicked out of here, I’ll be in trouble too.’
I shook my head slowly.
“I have nowhere to go.”
“…Could it be that he was abandoned?”
No, saying that really makes me feel like an animal.
No, of course it’s half-animal, but…
I nodded slowly, and Albion’s expression hardened.
“You dare…”
His voice cracked.
‘Oh come to think of it, I can’t stand this person’s child abuse…’
Because of the trauma of losing his daughter, he was especially sensitive to children.
“Captain, I will do well. I will do well in class and participate in training. You can eat well without complaining about rice. I won’t call the other kids stupid pigs.”
Richard took a step in front of the director, holding his hands together.
Albion shook his shoulders.
‘I’m also weak to children.’
Albion looked down at Richard in bewilderment.
“huh? I’ll take good care of you. If you don’t have anything to eat, you can share mine…”
I didn’t know whether to be happy or sad about Richard’s actions.
“…Are you going to participate in the training properly?”
“huh! I will.”
“…there is no problem with adding one child.”
He looked at me for a moment, then stood up silently.
“…Eirin.”
He rolled a slightly unfamiliar name on the tip of his tongue.
It was the same for me that the name that I heard from others was not my real name and was unfamiliar.
“…yes.”
“I’ll bring you some clothes. Stay awhile. Richard, come out.”
“why?!”
“Because Eirin is a girl.”
“…ah.”
Only then did Richard nod, his face reddening.
The bowed head seemed to be looking at ripe rice.
‘First of all… Settling down in the orphanage must have been a success, right?’
I never thought that an unexpected runaway would happen in this way.
‘But…because I have money.’
I tapped my wrist twice. Then, the hidden bank bracelet was revealed.
‘It’s good to know that this function exists here…’
I remembered seeing it in a book.
“I know…”
I wanted to stay with the Etam family a little longer.
I was pacing around, fixing the hem of my clothes, and after a while I was about to change into the clothes Albion brought me.
“…uh?”
The tail has grown back.
“uh…?”
In addition, even after humanization, the tail did not disappear. Only then did I realize that Albion had immediately recognized that I was a prisoner.
‘Why the hell did no one point this out?’
I opened my mouth as I looked at my tail in the mirror with a puzzled look.
I barely managed to get up when I tucked my tail inside my skirt.
* * *
The tail does not disappear.
No matter how hard I tried, it wouldn’t go away.
It was humanized, but it was only humanized, so it was difficult to get out of the orphanage at all.
“It’s amazing that BamBam can speak.”
“…I’m Eirin.”
Of course, I was grateful that Richard and Albion didn’t seem to care at all.
I wonder if that’s all, when I put on a face that looked like I was about to cry on my tail that wouldn’t go away no matter how hard I tried, Albion got down on one knee and looked into my eyes and even comforted me seriously.
[By nature, children can be clumsy in humanization. I will go to the capital soon and get some information.]
Of course, it didn’t help.
“Yes, but since I called you BamBam, you are BamBam. I saved you.”
Seeing the child showing his teeth and smiling whitely, I just quietly kept my mouth shut.
I had been saying the same thing for the third day, and Richard had returned the same answer for the third day.
It seems that ttorai had a ttorai temperament from the cotyledon.
“Let’s go to the back mountain with me.”
“But if you spend a little bit on Richard, it’s training.”
“…You can go after training. I’ll finish in first place and come out.”
“After that, you’re going to have some rice.”
“…”
Richard pursed his lips dissatisfiedly.
However, since I have promised with my mouth, I am not stubborn.
“BamBam, then can I show you pretty things?”
“Are you pretty?”
“Yeah, I sometimes pick them up when I go for a walk.”
Richard pulled out a shabby wooden box from deep inside his desk drawer.
“Come here and see.”
Sitting on the soft, unopened blanket, Richard cautiously opened the wooden box.
When the wooden box was opened, something glittered inside.
It was filled with things that glittered in the sunlight.
It was full of colorful small fragments of stained glass and sparkling stones and shells.
“Isn’t it pretty?”
It was not enough to say that the things that each boasted their own light in it were definitely a small group of stars.
“huh.”
“If there is anything you want, I will give it to you. Because you are my BamBam.”
As if possessed, I lightly ran my hand through the inside of the box.
‘This is…’
And found a piece of blue light in it.
‘…why is this here?’
I carefully reached out and squeezed it lightly. It became even more certain when I brought the piece right in front of my nose.
‘Is that really true?’
While I was staring at the sculpture for a long time, Richard suddenly approached me.
‘Why is this here?’
The expression on his face became strange with a slightly incomprehensible feeling.
“Do you like it? Shall I give you that?”
At Richard’s words, I involuntarily opened my eyes wide.
‘This… would be better to have.’
I nodded slowly.
“Okay, if I give you this, what will you do for me?”
“Isn’t that just giving…?”
“Of course you can, but that’s what I love the most… What can you do for me?”
What can I do…?
There was only one such thing here.
“Let me meet my parents…”
“…what?”
“I’ll kick Richard’s parents!”
When I opened my mouth with all my strength, Richard opened his eyes wide and slowly opened his mouth.
“Are you worried about me?”
I nodded.
How could I not be worried when I was holding my breath and crying sadly in front of my eyes?
“good.”
It was a satisfactory transaction.
After all, his parents originally intended to find him.
“If I fail instead, BamBam will be by my side for the rest of my life, okay?”
It was going well, but the story somehow fell into a strange place.
Richard laughed mischievously.
“Since you and I are all alone, how about becoming a family to each other?”
Hearing that sad voice, I nodded my head involuntarily.
“I promised!”
Richard’s face brightened.
