Isekai Yururi Kikou ~Raising Children While Being an Adventurer

Chapter 12

Beastman and Elf

When leaving the store after negotiating the price, we resumed our stroll around the royal capital.

"Now then, where shall we go next?"

""N, you see~ snacks~!""

"Oh my? Are you hungry?"

""N~? Hungry~?""

"I see, then shall we eat something light?"

""Yea!""

Although I said that, there are no stores that sell something to appease your stomach like sweets shop or coffee shop in this world.

"What to do......"

""Dorayaki~""

"Eh, you are fine with dorayaki?"

""Yea!""

I see, dorayaki, huh? If it's dorayaki then I have pre-made ones, let's find some quiet place to eat~ While thinking such――

At that moment, I heard something akin to a lover's quarrel coming from ahead of us.

"Isn't it fine, Carna."

"No, it isn't! Release me!"

It seems that a male, grey dog-man or maybe a wolf-man is obstinately trying to court a blonde, cute-looking girl. Well, she quite clearly rejected him, though.

The Beastmen of Aetherdia are a race with human appearances and animal ears and tails, so they look close to a race of cosplayers to me.

There are apparently Beastmen with animal head and limbs too, but that the result of Beastmen specific skill called "Beastification". This Beastification skill has stages, and at the first stage, they turn into human-looking, bipedaling beasts. They apparently turn completely into beasts at the second stage. The sense of hearing and smell during Beastification become sharper and their physical strength increases, so the skill is commonly used during a battle.

Therefore, most of the beastman are in their human forms within the towns.

I would like to witness the moment of transformation from nearby once, but that's an impossible task without any beastmen friends.

"Kya!"

"Oopsy."

"I, I'm sorry."

"No, are you all right? You are not injured, are you?"

"I, I am fine."

The girl the beastman was approaching stumbled towards me, so I promptly caught her.

Eh, oh my? Those ears...... aren't they little longer and pointer?

I was a bit curious, so when I used Appraisal, the girl's race came up as Half-elf.

Elves, the indispensable race in fantasy. The characteristic fair-skin and long ears, a race that excels in magic, was it? This girl seems to be a mix of human and that very elven race.

"Oy, you! Don't go touching Carna as you please!"

"!......"

The beastman tried to seize the half-elf's, Carna's, arm while shouting. That moment, a frightened expression floated on the girl's face.

Seeing that, I avoided the beastman's hand and hid the girl behind my back.

"Wha! What are you doing! Don't get in our way!"

"No, the girl seems not to like it."

"That's unrelated to you, isn't it!"

The anger in the beastman's voice increased even further.