CH 51

[Enigmatic Horse]

While the herd surrounded us, the leader Chaos horse is glaring this way with an air of composure and walking out in front of the herd.

Its body sure is about five times as large as a normal horse…

Even though its body had become bigger due to turning into monster, I can’t help but think that it is too big for a horse.

The black body of the leader Chaos Horse glaring at us was filled with a great number of scars from battles with adventurers and other monsters.

And the color of its eyes and mane were dark red unlike other Chaos Horses.

What a beautiful pair of eyes and mane…

It has a similar color as me.

The Chaos Horse with a dark red mane stops at a certain distance from us and *jii~* glares this way.

“Buhihiin!”

The leader Chaos Horse neigh and a Horn Horse with one of its hind legs wounded came out to next to it.

It was as if he had said that we should apologize for hurting his family.

The one who did wasn’t us though…

And the perpetrators had already escaped…

However, these guys were not planning to attack the adventurers in the first place.

The reason they got angry was that the adventurers attacked the herd in an attempt to capture them.

While trying to capture the leader Chaos Horse, one of the adventurers might have hurt the Horn Horse of the herd.

When I thought so, I felt that my feeling of wanting to get rid of them quickly diminished in the current situation where they were innocent.

“Sorry. I’m not acquainted with the people who attacked you guys, but it didn’t change the fact that your family was hurt. I apologize in their stead.”

I said so, put the magic sword in its sheath, and bowed to the leader Chaos Horse.

[Eh? Ah? Master, we’re not going to fight? We can cut them down one by one you know.]

Being put in its sheathe, the magic sword made a ruckus, but if I can communicate with the other party, I don’t want to pointlessly cut them down

“If it attacks, I will fight, but the other party doesn’t seem want to fight.”

I felt affinity with the Chaos Horse that resembled my appearance as Frick.

“Frick-sama, don’t let your guard down. The other party is a monster after all.”

“Ahh, I know. But the other party doesn’t seem to want to fight too.”

Noelia, who had fight against monsters many times as an adventurer, was still holding her staff.

Certainly, the opponent is a monster, but it is not attacking people indiscriminately like the usual monsters.

“Wait, let’s heal the wound of that Horn Horse. They should also be unsatisfied with just an apology alone.”

“Eh? Wait, Frick-sama!?”

[Master! It’s dangerous!]

I entrusted the magic sword to Noelia and slowly walked forward while showing the leader that I got no weapons in both of my hands.

“Buhihiin!”

A young Chaos Horse who was wary of me approaching tried to rush over, but the leader stopped it a cry.

It looks like that it sees that I don’t have a malicious intent.

“Thanks for trusting me. I’ll heal the wound now. But if it is true, the Horn Horse can just heal the wound by touching it with its horn though…”

I approached the wounded Horn Horse, touched the wounded part and activate healing magic.

“Oh mana that dwells in me. Become a light that heals those who I touched. Healing Light.”

A pale light wrapped around the wound of the Horn Horse, and I saw it gradually closing.

A small but deep stab wound.

From its size, the wound seems to be caused by a spear tip or an arrow, huh…

Those adventurers must have attacked it in order to lure the leader.

While looking at the wound that was closing, I put together the story I heard from the adventurers to identify the cause that made the herd angry.

“Sorry. It’s our job as adventurers to subjugate monsters, but there are rules on how to do it.”

Thinking that I could communicate with the opponent, I talked to the leader Chaos Horse while doing the treatment.

I never found any monsters that were as intelligent as this leader among the monsters around the Royal Capital.

Monster is a wild animal that has turned berserk due to the accumulation of mana, if they saw a human or a beast, in most case, they will attack them indiscriminately.

However, no matter how I look at it, I feel that this Chaos Horse seems to understand what I said.

“Buhihiin.”

It sounded like the Chaos Horse was saying, ‘Can’t be helped, I forgive you.’

“You, do you understand human speech?”

Looking at the behavior of the Chaos Horse, I asked so unintentionally.

At my question, the Chaos Horse turned around without answering.

Trained war horses listen to human instructions, but thinking that the Chaos Horse that originally was a wild horse turned into a monster understand human language is too much, huh…

“Alright, the treatment is over. I’ll be grateful if you can forgive me. Now we’re even. There’s no reason for us to fight.”

The Chaos Horse confirmed the wound of the Horn Horse, looked at me and neigh while giving off the feeling ‘It seems so’ as if it was agreeing with me.

As I thought, this guy understands human speech…

Is it really a monster…?

Because I healed its family’s wound, the Chaos Horse no longer showed hostile attitude.

“I’m glad you’re the kind who I can have a talk to. Well then, we’re in the middle of a journey, so we’ll excuse ourselves here.”

“Buhihiin.”

The Chaos Horse neigh as if saying ‘See you then’ to me who had already turned to leave.

What a really unusual monster…

I wonder if all the monsters of Inbahanes are like this.

It’s the first city we visit, but it would be difficult to fight if all the opponents are intelligent like this one.

The monster I met after a long time was not like a monster, and made me feeling anticlimax, but I was satisfied that we were able to avoid fighting.