782 In the kingdom of the beast man, part 15 - family ④ -

"You fit well. It made our family care."

"Well I would have had to do that on that occasion. I'm somewhat surprised that my will didn't seem to matter at all."

Kazas was drinking with Lower, laughing somewhat bitterly. Abby had already pretty much cleaned up on the table, Yao fell asleep and Nia left the spot to think about it alone and went somewhere.

Kazas stayed on the spot as he wanted to talk to Lower, but in fact it was Lower who wanted to talk.

"I'd like to ask you one thing."

"Whatever."

"What do you want to be in this country yourself? I don't think it was just about Nia."

To Lower's sharp question, Kazas laughed all the time.

"After all, you're not just a beast man."

"What would it be if you weren't just a beast man?

"Mr. Amur's comrades, or trusted men. Is that the place?"

In Kazas' words, Lower's movement, which was stirring up booze, stops for a moment.

"... a sharp man. How did you know?

"If you look at sight and life, it's obvious you're not just an animal man. You are very much influenced by the way the human world is. I also heard that he was originally a fairly powerful warrior in the military. I suppose it would be natural to assume that such talent, if it had been operated, would have been as secret as Mr Amur's?

"That's right. Me and Amur were secretly fathered by King Dryan, and there was a time when we were mainly operating outside the country. The most Amur guy volunteered for the assignment from the edge, and I had about half my job in the army and half my job outside."

When Lower's glass was empty, he started drinking the bottle of booze directly. When he saw Lore do such a thing, Kazas also recognized that he was still one of the beasts. But the look on Lore's face, which speaks of the past, doesn't float anywhere.

"You said you didn't like covert work?

"It's not. Instead, it was fresh to leave the country for covert work. The human world was filled with all sorts of things. Beautiful stuff, dirty stuff. To be honest, I've admired a species called man. Although, of course, I am proud to be an animal man.

Amur was a good friend, but me and him were decidedly different. Amur was completely disinterested in the military's emergence from the middle of nowhere, but I wasn't. I admired my position as a beast general. He was trapped in a young passion to be a general and try to run the battlefield beside Dryan, who is also said to be the most powerful beast man of all time. Even without any sense of purpose there, I just wanted to.

So I didn't want to take much of the covert work, but I did sometimes because of my interest in the human world. But halfway through it became a vendetta. One time I didn't even take Amur's advice, and I went deeper into the case. As a result, I lost my wife, and my legs are like this. It was as good as one leg went broke and it was still better. "

"Didn't Nia's mother stop being sick?

"That's just what Nia assumes. It was poison."

To Kazas' astonished voice, Lore glanced at Abby. And when he made sure Abby was washing the dishes, he spoke slightly down.

"... she was killed, Gina."

"To whom?

"Only humans use poison. The enemy was skilled to the point of abnormality. The only people I've seen so much human hand work with are probably Valsas, who've stuck with Dryan, and those guys. And -"

"And?"

"No, it must have been an illusion. I saw..."

Lore stirred up the liquor as if to shake off his own memory. The group that Amur, myself and Gina encountered during their assignment then. The three Lores encountered a place where a certain city was being wiped out. The carcasses of demons I've never seen there, and a bunch of hand-worked humans. Gina was invaded by poison in the battle at that time, and Lore was left with a deep hand of irreversibility. Lore also thinks Amur should have been put on some constraint from them to escape. Lore had been told by Amur what was the group that easily drove the three most motivated young men of Gruzaldo at the time.

Assassination groups that have been in the human world for a long time. Some of their fighting power was off track, but wasn't it the Lowers they were dealing with in the first place? I didn't even tell Amur, but Lore saw it for a moment then, a woman with long silver hair. When the woman tried to turn around Lower, Lower followed the scene at full speed. If I had eyes with that woman, I'd be done. That's what my instincts told me. Left foot wound sustained on the way out. So to speak, when he was injured with an escape wound, Lore was reminded that he was unable to resume as a warrior, not because of the wound. He was clearly informed that he no longer qualified to run the battlefield as a beast general.

Seeing Lore stop saying something, Kazas looks at the look on his face wonderfully. Lore responded to him with a bitter smile.

Continued