Volume 5 - CH 9

Act 5-9: Discussion Regarding The Treatment of The Outsider

Bluegrass covered the floor of the wooden house. Sitting on the grass were several people with appearances resembling a mixture of cat and human.

「We should kill him immediately!」

The cat-headed youth with short golden hair stood from his position, shouting excitedly.

「But, Sharm-sama rejected that idea. The demon race is going to invade this place in the near future. Sharm-sama’s biggest concern right now is maintaining and invoking the barrier ritual. We really can’t afford that personage’s anger.」

But a cat headed old man admonished the youth.

「Dammit! Why can no one but Sharm maintain this village’s barrier!」

The blonde haired youth struck the bluegrass on the floor, causing it to scatter in the air of the room,

「For us, the current invasion of the demon race is no different from the massacre of human race. Even if it’s the request from that personage, we’re still disgusted by the fact that we’ve to breath the same air as those despicable human, our mortal foe.」

When the red haired young woman with cat head shouted with an indignant voice,

「That’s right. I can’t help but to worry if my child is going to be taken hostage by that human. On top of not knowing his reason for coming to this place, we at least can’t leave him on his own device.」

A cat-headed youth with black hair touched his chin, muttered so with disgusted look on his face.

「Even the person himself said that he has no idea about that himself.」

「That must be a lie to prevent us from killing him! We’ve to drive him out immediately!」

The blonde haired cat shouted again but,

「Are you stupid!? Humans have already infiltrated this land! If we let go of that human, he might tell his peers about this village, and we’re going to be destroyed first by those human instead of invaded by the demon race!」

His idea got shot down immediately with the red haired cat.

「What should we do then!?」

「I don’t know! At least use that empty head of yours to think about that!」

「WHAT!」

「What, wanna duke it out? Fine by me!」

Seeing both of them standing up, glaring at each others,

「Enough.」

A cat-headed, red-haired man with a scar on his left cheek stood there and stopped them. Both of them snapped off their fury and sat down like obedient children.

「Let’s end this topic and confine that human to underground prison.」

Hearing the grave voice of the man with scar on his left cheek,

「But, what about Sharm-sama’s opinion in this regard?」

「Leave that decision to my daughter. You guys won’t have any problem with this, right?」

When he looked around, no one objected to his decisions. That’s just how much they trusted this man.

「Everyone should prepare for the worst.」

Thus, the meeting ended with the last reminder from the man with scar on his left cheek.

After everyone has left, the man with scar on his left cheek raised his face.

「Human visitor huh… Maybe the rumor about that Deboa subjugation is true――」

He muttered so while shaking his head to the sides,

「Don’t associate with humans, don’t take in humans. That’s the one and absolute law followed for a long time.」

He muttered so with grave look on his face as he tried to shake of a naive thought in his head,

「But, it’s been decades since the last human came to this place… Is this some sort of omen…」

The man’s muttering vanished amongst the rattling sound of the building due to the strong wind from the outside.