Shut-in Magician - Chapter 28

Chapter 028: Beast Mount Child and Princess Sumina’s Tale

The child was a deer-type, Rufusrukus and it was considered small amongst the beast mounts. It was an unpopular beast mount, same as cat-types. Because there was a limit to how one could ride them, for example, a bulky man wearing armour would find it difficult to ride the mount. Instead, it was popular as a pet. Shiu remembered this from his association with Cassa.

He knew this from appraisal; her name was Ruco and she was female. Even though she had only been born 3 months ago, she seemed to understand what Shiu was saying. She was tame and smart. She never parted from him and he constantly checked her mood.

Even though Feles will be 5 months old soon, he was still simple-minded and Shiu thought that it was tragic. Ruco may have begun to understand her position from how people around her acted. He could guess that their treatment of her wasn’t good from the fact that they didn’t hire a tamer for her.

Still he was happy that she was walking cheerfully around the park.

Incidentally, he had expected her to have a conversation with Feles when they met since they were both beast mounts and young ones at that, but . Feles’ mind was still very young and Shiu felt like they didn’t actually have a proper conversation.

“He’s really easy going, isn’t he? Feles that is.”

Horses treated Feles as if he was their own beloved grandchildren, but beast mounts kept him at a distance. The beast mounts kept at the shop had high mentality probably because they were proud of their work. They didn’t bother with a kitten like Feles’, or were they troubled at how to treat him? However, he could see that Ruco was probably perplexed at how carefree Feles was.

“Ruco, if you get hungry you can eat the grass. They allow it around here.”

She glanced at Shiu and began to eat the grass after hesitating.

Feles was ran around in circles next to her. He didn’t mind that someone was eating next to him and purred happily.

“Feles, you’ll get sleepy again if you play too much.”

He laughed and Feles cried out, “Myu.” Whatever, was probably what he said.

Ruco watched him and sadly cried, “Kyu kyu kyu.”

“Even if I ask you what’s wrong. You won’t understand it”

Recently, Shiu became able to understand their emotions, but he couldn’t understand what they were saying. I’m troubled, he thought as he squatted down to pet Ruco then Laetitia appeared.

Laetitia, who was like a stalker, told Shiu what Ruco had said.

“She said she wants to get along with Sophia too.”

“You understand her feelings?”

“The tree spirits tell me the voice, the sounds as they are. They just tell me what they see and hear. As for me, I can understand them somehow.”

Come to think of it, elves live in the forest. He read in a book that a lot of them understood the feelings of animals.

“She’s an ojou-sama from a merchant house, she’s still a kid. I feel like she wasn’t allowed to take her out on a walk.”

“So they hired an adventurer instead of a specialist? They treat her horribly.” Laetitia snorted and said.