At Linel's command, the knights again grabbed Princess Resilia's arms one by one.
Instead of keeping pace with her slow pace, they dragged her along at their own pace.
After placing her in a carriage prepared by the palace, several knights stood guard around the carriage.
"Your Majesty, are you here?"
Commander Macrom approached, dragging the guild member Princess Resilia had hired by the scruff of the neck.
"The others?"
Je asked, staring down at the guild member, whose body was nearly tattered after being beaten by Commander Macrom.
"They... were swept away by the current,"
Commander Macrom replied in a low voice.
Instead of keeping pace with her slow pace, they dragged her along at their own pace.
After placing her in a carriage prepared by the palace, several knights stood guard around the carriage.
"Your Majesty, are you here?"
Commander Macrom approached, dragging the guild member Princess Resilia had hired by the scruff of the neck.
"The others?"
Je asked, staring down at the guild member, whose body was nearly tattered after being beaten by Commander Macrom.
"They... were swept away by the current,"
Commander Macrom replied in a low voice.
"Was swept away by the current?" meant that the guild members had been killed and thrown into the valley below.
However, Commander Macrom avoided mentioning the guild member directly.
Given Rams's tragic situation, having fallen under the bridge, he seemed to be speaking indirectly.
Linel, sensing Commander Macrom's intentions, simply nodded.
I lowered my gaze to Prince Norton.
Prince Norton held the unconscious Rosie in his arms and patted her back with his hand.
It felt like he was touching Rams, and I was overcome with emotion.
I couldn't bear to watch any longer and turned my head away.
Linel silently wrapped an arm around my shoulder, as if comforting me.
We simply looked down at Prince Norton, unable to speak to him.
"I think it would be best to take them both inside the carriage."
I shared Linel's thoughts.
"Yes, that would be a good idea. Prince Norton is a Prince, but we can't leave Rosie like that any longer."
"That's right."
Linel nodded and approached Prince Norton.
He cautiously placed a hand on Prince Norton's shoulder, but at that moment Rosie came to her senses and woke up.
"Rosie! Are you okay?"
I asked, lowering myself. She looked around and asked me,
"What about Rams?!"
"...They're searching."
“If you’re searching, you mean… You haven’t found him yet?”
Rosie asked me, her expression a bit bewildered.
I glanced at Prince Norton next to her and nodded.
Rosie then jumped up and looked down the bridge railing.
“Be careful, Rosie!”
The pouring rain obscured her view of the valley below, so Rosie leaned down further, leaning her stomach against the railing.
“He’s not dead, there’s no way he could be!”
“Calm down...”
I helped Rosie off the railing.
“I mean, Rams was waving at me just a moment ago.”
She continued to stomp her feet, her excitement growing.
I worried Rosie might faint again.
If Rams were in the fire, I would have rushed in immediately...
I was angry that there was nothing I could do in this situation.
All I could do was hug Rosie.
“Yeah, we don’t know anything yet. So just brace yourself. That’s how we’ll find Rams.”
“Of course. I’ll come to my senses, if only for Rams’ sake.”
Rosie took a deep breath, repeatedly inhaling and exhaling, calming herself down, and only then did she spot Prince Norton.
“Huhuhu...”
Rosie swallowed a groan and burst into tears again, looking at Prince Norton, who was sitting there in a daze with a lost expression.
“Zelda, I’ll have to give Moiya a lot of sausages from now on.”
The Avatar inside me suddenly spoke up.
“Read the mood. Why are we talking about Moiya now?”
I gave the Avatar a sharp word in my head.
“Zelda, you’re bad at reading the mood.”
“What do you mean? Why should I... Huh?”
However, Commander Macrom avoided mentioning the guild member directly.
Given Rams's tragic situation, having fallen under the bridge, he seemed to be speaking indirectly.
Linel, sensing Commander Macrom's intentions, simply nodded.
I lowered my gaze to Prince Norton.
Prince Norton held the unconscious Rosie in his arms and patted her back with his hand.
It felt like he was touching Rams, and I was overcome with emotion.
I couldn't bear to watch any longer and turned my head away.
Linel silently wrapped an arm around my shoulder, as if comforting me.
We simply looked down at Prince Norton, unable to speak to him.
"I think it would be best to take them both inside the carriage."
I shared Linel's thoughts.
"Yes, that would be a good idea. Prince Norton is a Prince, but we can't leave Rosie like that any longer."
"That's right."
Linel nodded and approached Prince Norton.
He cautiously placed a hand on Prince Norton's shoulder, but at that moment Rosie came to her senses and woke up.
"Rosie! Are you okay?"
I asked, lowering myself. She looked around and asked me,
"What about Rams?!"
"...They're searching."
“If you’re searching, you mean… You haven’t found him yet?”
Rosie asked me, her expression a bit bewildered.
I glanced at Prince Norton next to her and nodded.
Rosie then jumped up and looked down the bridge railing.
“Be careful, Rosie!”
The pouring rain obscured her view of the valley below, so Rosie leaned down further, leaning her stomach against the railing.
“He’s not dead, there’s no way he could be!”
“Calm down...”
I helped Rosie off the railing.
“I mean, Rams was waving at me just a moment ago.”
She continued to stomp her feet, her excitement growing.
I worried Rosie might faint again.
If Rams were in the fire, I would have rushed in immediately...
I was angry that there was nothing I could do in this situation.
All I could do was hug Rosie.
“Yeah, we don’t know anything yet. So just brace yourself. That’s how we’ll find Rams.”
“Of course. I’ll come to my senses, if only for Rams’ sake.”
Rosie took a deep breath, repeatedly inhaling and exhaling, calming herself down, and only then did she spot Prince Norton.
“Huhuhu...”
Rosie swallowed a groan and burst into tears again, looking at Prince Norton, who was sitting there in a daze with a lost expression.
“Zelda, I’ll have to give Moiya a lot of sausages from now on.”
The Avatar inside me suddenly spoke up.
“Read the mood. Why are we talking about Moiya now?”
I gave the Avatar a sharp word in my head.
“Zelda, you’re bad at reading the mood.”
“What do you mean? Why should I... Huh?”
I questioned the Avatar and then quickly looked down at my legs.
“Ah, you toothless, insignificant little human!”
“!”
I thought I heard Moiya’s voice.
“You can’t even chew sausages, Moiya~?”
“Aww! You entered Rams’ body because of the sausage, so you have every right to be angry~.”
There was nothing visible under the bridge.
But I could clearly hear Moiya and Moni talking.
I concentrated again.
Ah, their voices were only mine.
I had a feeling they were wandering around here, conversing in wyvern language.
Suddenly, I remembered Rams clutching a sausage in his hand just a moment ago.
Oh my.
“...It was Moiya!”
Just a moment ago.
Moiya, now in Rams’s body, fell under the bridge, dumbfounded.
“Wow, the pink head abandoned me!”
To be exact, it wasn’t he, but Rams who had lost sight of her.
Several screams could be heard from the bridge.
“...Why are you all screaming? I’m the one falling right now.”
Where’s Moni, anyway?
She’ll probably end up in the stream playing with the fish.
But can Rams stay underwater for long?
He’s so insignificant right now, he’ll probably just die without even being able to breathe.
Moiya looked around, searching for Moni, just before he fell into the stream.
If Moni didn’t show up, he had to get out of Rams’ body and pull Rams out before he fell into the stream.
“Moni, that’s so heavy~!”
Just as Rams's small feet were about to sink into the stream, Moni put both hands under Rams's armpits and lifted him up. Rams's clothes were soaked through, heavier than his original weight, and Moni had to flap her wings vigorously.
"Is it heavy because of the diaper?"
Moiya took off the wet diaper himself and threw it away.
"I can lift it now."
As the bottom became empty, Moni's wings also became lighter.
"But, Moni. Where have you been and why are you back now?"
"I was hungry, so I grilled some fish and ate. I forgot to bring sausages, Moni~."
"I was going to share this, but you're already full?"
Moiya said, shaking the sausage in his hand. Moni snorted.
"Huh, you don't mean it."
“Oh, right, those guys in black clothes who kidnapped Rams, Macrom threw them all down the valley earlier. Except for one. I should have thrown him!”
The guy Moiya was talking about was one of the guild members who had personally kidnapped Rams by hugging him at Raphael’s sister’s house.
The same guy who had gotten into a small scuffle with Moiya while trying to pry the sausage out of Rams’ hand.
‘What kind of newborn baby has such strong grips? Why are you holding a sausage that you can’t even eat yet?’
‘Baby, Moiya~.’
Let go of it, you punk. Before I spit fire!
Moiya frowned and pretended to cry so as not to lose the sausage.
‘...What? What did you just say? Did you hear that?’
The man holding Rams widened his eyes and asked another guild member.
‘He must be babbling. Hey, we don’t have time, so just leave the sausage alone. 'If he keeps crying loudly like that, it’ll be a pain in the ass.'
...There were such kind guild members. But.
“The most kind guild member died first, Moiya~.”
Macrom had thrown the guild member who had allowed him sausages under the bridge first.
“Only the guy who tried to steal my sausages survived.”
“I saw it all before, too, Moni~.”
Moni caught a fish in the stream right below the bridge and was grilling it while spitting fire from her mouth when she witnessed the scene of the knights falling into the stream one by one.
“Oh, that’s right. Moni, we can’t be seen. Let’s hide behind the pillars of the bridge and go up.”
Moiya said as she looked at the knights gathered under the stream.
“It won’t be visible to us anyway because of the rain, right?”
“Some of them have sharp eyes, so we have to be careful. If they find out, we’ll both get scolded by the master!”
“I don’t want that, Moni~!”
Moni did as Moiya said and hid behind the pillars of the bridge, and began flapping her wings towards the bridge.
“But Moiya, what are those knights doing over there?”
“They must have come to catch fish. Oh? Did they come to swim?”
“You’re right! Look over there, one of them has gone into the water. Huh? That’s funny. He’s floating away alone, isn’t he~?”
“But those knights are so mean. They’re jealous of that knight swimming alone, so they’re jumping into the water and pulling him out!”
To Moiya, the other knights rescuing the knight who fell into the stream looked like they were dragging him out of the water so he couldn’t play in the water.
“Really? Why are they doing that when they could just fall into the water together?”
“Humans are inherently selfish.”
“Aha!”
“Let’s go. Hurry up and throw this to Norton, and then you can have some sausages.”
“Ah! I’m going up. I haven’t even greeted my master, have I~?”
“Your Majesty! Make sure the knights outside the bridge don’t see this place.”
I looked down at the bridge, then quickly approached Linel and said,
“What?”
He asked with a puzzled expression.
“Just a moment.”
I struck one of the guild member’s vital points, briefly stunning him, as Commander Macrom held him by the neck.
“Did you knock him out?”
Commander Macrom asked me after he let go of the man’s grip, his entire body losing all strength.
“There’s a reason for that,”
I replied to Commander Macrom, then turned to Linel and said,
“Your Majesty, Rams is alive!”
“What?!”
Not only Linel's, but also Commander Macrom's and Rosie’s eyes widened.
Prince Norton, who had been staring blankly into space, seemed to hear me and jumped up from the floor.
“What do you mean?!”
“Moiya. It seems that Moiya was inside Rams earlier.”
I spoke calmly to Prince Norton, but the Prince was speechless, his mouth agape, and he clutched his heart.
“Macrom.”
Linel looked at Commander Macrom.
“Yes, Your Majesty. I will have all the knights turn back toward the forest right now.”
Commander Macrom sensed what order he was about to give, hoisted the unconscious Guild onto his shoulder, and ran to the knights waiting outside the bridge.
“Haa, Moiya... Please...! Save Rams. If you will...”
Rosie muttered, clasping her hands together as if in prayer.
“If you will, will you give me five sausages tonight?”
“Then every single one! Ten, a hundred... Huh?!”
“!”
I thought I heard Moiya’s voice.
“You can’t even chew sausages, Moiya~?”
“Aww! You entered Rams’ body because of the sausage, so you have every right to be angry~.”
There was nothing visible under the bridge.
But I could clearly hear Moiya and Moni talking.
I concentrated again.
Ah, their voices were only mine.
I had a feeling they were wandering around here, conversing in wyvern language.
Suddenly, I remembered Rams clutching a sausage in his hand just a moment ago.
Oh my.
“...It was Moiya!”
***
Just a moment ago.
Moiya, now in Rams’s body, fell under the bridge, dumbfounded.
“Wow, the pink head abandoned me!”
To be exact, it wasn’t he, but Rams who had lost sight of her.
Several screams could be heard from the bridge.
“...Why are you all screaming? I’m the one falling right now.”
Where’s Moni, anyway?
She’ll probably end up in the stream playing with the fish.
But can Rams stay underwater for long?
He’s so insignificant right now, he’ll probably just die without even being able to breathe.
Moiya looked around, searching for Moni, just before he fell into the stream.
If Moni didn’t show up, he had to get out of Rams’ body and pull Rams out before he fell into the stream.
“Moni, that’s so heavy~!”
Just as Rams's small feet were about to sink into the stream, Moni put both hands under Rams's armpits and lifted him up. Rams's clothes were soaked through, heavier than his original weight, and Moni had to flap her wings vigorously.
"Is it heavy because of the diaper?"
Moiya took off the wet diaper himself and threw it away.
"I can lift it now."
As the bottom became empty, Moni's wings also became lighter.
"But, Moni. Where have you been and why are you back now?"
"I was hungry, so I grilled some fish and ate. I forgot to bring sausages, Moni~."
"I was going to share this, but you're already full?"
Moiya said, shaking the sausage in his hand. Moni snorted.
"Huh, you don't mean it."
“Oh, right, those guys in black clothes who kidnapped Rams, Macrom threw them all down the valley earlier. Except for one. I should have thrown him!”
The guy Moiya was talking about was one of the guild members who had personally kidnapped Rams by hugging him at Raphael’s sister’s house.
The same guy who had gotten into a small scuffle with Moiya while trying to pry the sausage out of Rams’ hand.
‘What kind of newborn baby has such strong grips? Why are you holding a sausage that you can’t even eat yet?’
‘Baby, Moiya~.’
Let go of it, you punk. Before I spit fire!
Moiya frowned and pretended to cry so as not to lose the sausage.
‘...What? What did you just say? Did you hear that?’
The man holding Rams widened his eyes and asked another guild member.
‘He must be babbling. Hey, we don’t have time, so just leave the sausage alone. 'If he keeps crying loudly like that, it’ll be a pain in the ass.'
...There were such kind guild members. But.
“The most kind guild member died first, Moiya~.”
Macrom had thrown the guild member who had allowed him sausages under the bridge first.
“Only the guy who tried to steal my sausages survived.”
“I saw it all before, too, Moni~.”
Moni caught a fish in the stream right below the bridge and was grilling it while spitting fire from her mouth when she witnessed the scene of the knights falling into the stream one by one.
“Oh, that’s right. Moni, we can’t be seen. Let’s hide behind the pillars of the bridge and go up.”
Moiya said as she looked at the knights gathered under the stream.
“It won’t be visible to us anyway because of the rain, right?”
“Some of them have sharp eyes, so we have to be careful. If they find out, we’ll both get scolded by the master!”
“I don’t want that, Moni~!”
Moni did as Moiya said and hid behind the pillars of the bridge, and began flapping her wings towards the bridge.
“But Moiya, what are those knights doing over there?”
“They must have come to catch fish. Oh? Did they come to swim?”
“You’re right! Look over there, one of them has gone into the water. Huh? That’s funny. He’s floating away alone, isn’t he~?”
“But those knights are so mean. They’re jealous of that knight swimming alone, so they’re jumping into the water and pulling him out!”
To Moiya, the other knights rescuing the knight who fell into the stream looked like they were dragging him out of the water so he couldn’t play in the water.
“Really? Why are they doing that when they could just fall into the water together?”
“Humans are inherently selfish.”
“Aha!”
“Let’s go. Hurry up and throw this to Norton, and then you can have some sausages.”
“Ah! I’m going up. I haven’t even greeted my master, have I~?”
***
“Your Majesty! Make sure the knights outside the bridge don’t see this place.”
I looked down at the bridge, then quickly approached Linel and said,
“What?”
He asked with a puzzled expression.
“Just a moment.”
I struck one of the guild member’s vital points, briefly stunning him, as Commander Macrom held him by the neck.
“Did you knock him out?”
Commander Macrom asked me after he let go of the man’s grip, his entire body losing all strength.
“There’s a reason for that,”
I replied to Commander Macrom, then turned to Linel and said,
“Your Majesty, Rams is alive!”
“What?!”
Not only Linel's, but also Commander Macrom's and Rosie’s eyes widened.
Prince Norton, who had been staring blankly into space, seemed to hear me and jumped up from the floor.
“What do you mean?!”
“Moiya. It seems that Moiya was inside Rams earlier.”
I spoke calmly to Prince Norton, but the Prince was speechless, his mouth agape, and he clutched his heart.
“Macrom.”
Linel looked at Commander Macrom.
“Yes, Your Majesty. I will have all the knights turn back toward the forest right now.”
Commander Macrom sensed what order he was about to give, hoisted the unconscious Guild onto his shoulder, and ran to the knights waiting outside the bridge.
“Haa, Moiya... Please...! Save Rams. If you will...”
Rosie muttered, clasping her hands together as if in prayer.
“If you will, will you give me five sausages tonight?”
“Then every single one! Ten, a hundred... Huh?!”
Just then, Moiya’s voice came from behind us. Rosie, who had stopped talking in her stunned response, as well as Linel, me, and Prince Norton, all turned at the same time.
“Rams!”
Moni was just setting Rams down on the floor.
It was Moni, not Moiya, who had carried Rams.
“Ugh! That little human is so heavy, Moni~.”
Rams, safely settled on the floor, met my eyes and suddenly lay flat on his back.
There was no way Rams would have laid down like that on his own, and it was clear that Moiya was still inside Rams' body.
"Rams!!"
Prince Norton and Rosie ran over, and only then did Moiya break free from Rams' body.
The first thing Rams did when he came to his senses was to throw away the sausage he was holding, while Moiya, who had returned to his original form, picked up the sausage that was rolling on the stone floor.
"Moiya!"
I shouted at Moiya, and as if he thought I was scolding him, Moiya flew towards me with a terrified look on his face and blinked his ruby eyes as he said,
"I'm sorry, Master. I was trying to be quiet. But I really wanted to eat the sausage from the palace's open pants sister's house... sob sob."
Moiya bowed his head, taking a deep breath with a sob.
Because of the pouring rain, even pretending to cry made it look like tears were streaming down his face.
I hugged Moiya tightly and kept kissing his cheek.
“You’re so wonderful. Thanks to you, Rams is alive. You did a great job, Moiya!”
“Oh? Really? Then can I eat this sausage?”
Moiya asked, tilting his head.
“Then, eat it, eat it! No, give it to me for a moment.”
I grabbed the sausage in Moiya’s hand. I need to warm it up.
Then Moiya quickly hid the sausage behind his back.
What’s wrong?
“Even if you’re the master, this isn’t right, Moiya~!”
“...”
Moiya, are you afraid that I’ll steal your sausage?
“Rams!”
Moni was just setting Rams down on the floor.
It was Moni, not Moiya, who had carried Rams.
“Ugh! That little human is so heavy, Moni~.”
Rams, safely settled on the floor, met my eyes and suddenly lay flat on his back.
There was no way Rams would have laid down like that on his own, and it was clear that Moiya was still inside Rams' body.
"Rams!!"
Prince Norton and Rosie ran over, and only then did Moiya break free from Rams' body.
The first thing Rams did when he came to his senses was to throw away the sausage he was holding, while Moiya, who had returned to his original form, picked up the sausage that was rolling on the stone floor.
"Moiya!"
I shouted at Moiya, and as if he thought I was scolding him, Moiya flew towards me with a terrified look on his face and blinked his ruby eyes as he said,
"I'm sorry, Master. I was trying to be quiet. But I really wanted to eat the sausage from the palace's open pants sister's house... sob sob."
Moiya bowed his head, taking a deep breath with a sob.
Because of the pouring rain, even pretending to cry made it look like tears were streaming down his face.
I hugged Moiya tightly and kept kissing his cheek.
“You’re so wonderful. Thanks to you, Rams is alive. You did a great job, Moiya!”
“Oh? Really? Then can I eat this sausage?”
Moiya asked, tilting his head.
“Then, eat it, eat it! No, give it to me for a moment.”
I grabbed the sausage in Moiya’s hand. I need to warm it up.
Then Moiya quickly hid the sausage behind his back.
What’s wrong?
“Even if you’re the master, this isn’t right, Moiya~!”
“...”
Moiya, are you afraid that I’ll steal your sausage?
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