3-Chapter 1-1 Parents are done

The sensation of the wind ruffling my body brought me to the surface of consciousness.

...Oh, I'm awake... and I can smell the grass and the earth on the wind, and I'm in the woods...

The sound of leaves scraping and dancing as the wind blows through, the sound of birds' wings as they try to take flight with the wind...

I was about to let go of my consciousness once more with the comfort of it when I noticed something strange.

(Smell! What is that smell? (Not even the smell of the beast... as if it hadn't been bathed in years...)

When Tenma decided to open his eyes, there was something dirty looking and humanoid looking at him with a smile on his face...

(He's smiling, but that's his face, no matter how you look at it, he's happy to have found his prey!

The distance is about 30 meters or so, and the humanoid "something" is slowly approaching you, one step at a time.

With 25 meters to go...Tenma tries to escape, but his body is too weak to stand up.

With 20 meters to go...he tries to scream for help, but he can't do it.

15 meters to go... you look around for someone, but you don't see anyone... and "something" is laughing at you.

10 meters to go... the sheer size, ugliness, and fear of the thing is more likely to make you give up than cry.

5 meters to go...something is laughing and raising a club like a log in its hand, Tenma closed his eyes tightly

(Why did those gods leave me in the middle of this monster! Get to work! (What a horrible story about being born again and dying in minutes!

While Tenma is swearing at the gods in his mind, the monster hasn't stopped moving, the

At this very moment the club is being swung down by the monster, there is a hum, thud, rumbling sound.　

When Tenma opened his eyes, he saw the monster with a thick arrow sticking out of the middle of his face.

It's a dangerous place, I didn't expect to find a baby in a place like this. It's a good thing I came to check on you just in case.

An unfamiliar word came from behind Tenma.

Then the owner of the voice lightly lifted Tenma up and held him in his arms as if he were relative to Tenma.

Its identity was........a giant.

'Why were you here? Where's Dad or Mom?

The giant spoke to her in a gentle tone of voice, but Tenma couldn't understand.

'Maybe she's an abandoned child, poor thing... let's take her to my village for now.

The giant muttered something and put his bow back on his back and gently re-hugged Tenma gently. Tenma was in a mild panic, but since the giant didn't seem to have any harm in mind, he decided to be quiet. ...Well, as long as he couldn't move his body properly, it was also because he had no choice but to be quiet.

It's a meek boy, he doesn't even cry out when he's faced with a goblin. Maybe he'll be a big shot in the future.

The giant muttered in a slightly happy voice. As usual, Tenma had no idea what he was saying.

It's a very good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for.

We're here. Oi~, is anyone there~

When the giant shouted, a few straw giants gathered around.

''Yo! You're early, you said you'd be home at night, what's going on?

The male giant speaks to me, and the female giant who was following behind him noticed me.

'What's wrong with that girl? She's a lovely girl, but you didn't kidnap her, did you?

The female giant laughs as she holds me.

'Speak of a fool, I saved her from a goblin that was about to attack her in the forest. I searched the vicinity, but he was the only one I could find. Maybe it was an abandoned child, so I stopped hunting and turned back.

The giants seemed to be talking to a female giant. In the meantime, Tenma watched as numerous giants gathered around it.

(Come to think of it, you said that God would reincarnate them as babies... so that means they're not giants, but normal humans.)

As he was thinking about this, he saw something unfamiliar at the edge of his vision. Ears, not human ears to be exact, but the ears of a beast, that is, dog-like ears on a man's head, not just on the man, but on a few of the people gathered together, with beast ears. Droopy dog ears, cat-like ears, etc.

(Are there so-called 'beastly' ones as well?)

While Tenma was thinking about this, they were taken to the house of the person who had brought Tenma and a woman who looked like his wife, who must have agreed to talk to him.

'This is your home from today. Think of me as your mother.

So I'm the father?

Yes, she's, um, what's her name?

Doesn't the cloth you've wrapped it in have any sort of name on it?

Wait a minute, hmmm, here it is! It says Temma-Otori.

'Maybe he had a surname, or maybe he was a nobleman, this boy's parents. We still don't know if he was abandoned or not, so we'll raise him under this name, take care of him, Temma!

Nice to meet you, Temma.

As usual, Tenma couldn't understand what he was saying, but at least he could see that these two were friendly and likely to raise him.

(Would these two take the place of my parents? (I'd be happy if it was.)

In his previous life, he lost his parents when he was very young, so Tenma, who had few memories of his parents, was a little grateful to the gods.