151 ② Gill of Totos (bottom)

"Welcome home, my parents"

Safely finishing her business in Accommodation Town that day, and encouraging her to do the planting work at best, Ai-Fa, with a 60-kilometer class giva, came back single.

At last, from yesterday, I let him resume his work as a hunter.

Dislocation of the left elbow, then approximately twenty days.

Whenever it is an eye-fa on the top of the Buddha, it still must not seem that from yesterday onwards its eyes are resurrected with more full light than ever before.

"Uhm," he nodded to my greeting, then Ai-Fa narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

In which front was it installed behind the house? I'm frying up a commercial aria, and the neighborhood women are observing the judgment. It's not a rare sight to go that far, but I guess Ai-Fa noticed instantly that there were about two intruders.

Namely, he is a Remi-Luu and Leite boy.

"Wow, wow! Is that what Ey-Fa did on his own? My injury just healed, wow!

Rimi-Lou laughing at me shouldn't even care so much. Because if you don't even have a job at home, you're Limi-Luu, who wants to come visit you at Fa's every day.

but the problem is that the boy smiles quietly next to it.

It was still supposed to be Tsubaki, though not forbidden, for the people of the west to step into the forestside settlement.

"You're the kid who named you that Camua-Josh apprentice. How could you be in a place like this?

"Yes, I'm here to help guide Totos' ride."

Ai-Fa snapped his mouth and hung Gibba's giant on a branch of a tree a little further from Kamado before approaching me with a noisy eye.

"Let me explain what you mean, Asta"

"Yes, let me explain"

After I transferred the large amount of Aria that I had finished frying to the wooden dish, I reported the content of the conversation that I had with Camus.

"- So I'd like to hear the parents' views, but how about that?

"How can we invite the people of the West and others to the woods before we ask for their opinion?

"No, I was also the first to get permission from I-Fa..."

"Excuse me. Camua pushed me on Asta. Camua has a bit of a lot of work going on right now, so I'd like to give her a ride on Totos instead."

After the ruin of Zazz-Sung, my parents' feud - I didn't see any such changes in the Leyt boy. At least, on the surface.

A ten-year-old, resourceful boy with flax hair and pale brown eyes. After staring at that flamboyant face, Ai-Fa turned to me again.

"That moronic man also had a conciliation with the chiefs. but that would be a different story from this. Hasn't Donda-Lou been telling you to turn that toss into meat?

The tototoss, connected further away than Gibba, swallows the leaves of the tree branches.

"If there's a more effective use than turning it into meat, I thought I'd present that to the Chiefs. On top of that, if Donda-Lou still doesn't bend his opinion, I'll follow that word, too.... but even Donda-Lou has unilaterally pushed trouble into Fa's house, so I don't think I need to follow those words."

Ie-Fa fell silent.

Ai-Fa herself was angry about Donda-Lou's tyrannical treatment yesterday. I was wondering if I could eat such an unpleasant beast.

Then - Rimi-Lou, who had been silently watching our interactions until now, walked over a little bit and pulled the cloth on Ai-Fa's waist.

"... I = fa eat this totoss?

It was thus also decided that Ai-Fa would sink.

I don't know if an adage exists for one grain of tear over a hundred words - etc. In the meantime, it was no longer possible for Ai-Fa to attempt any further objections to Rimi-Lou, who moisturizes his eyes when he lurks.

"... so what are you going to do?

Eventually, when Limi-Luu's tears pulled in, Ai-Fa dazzled me again with a grumpy face like hell.

"Tomorrow, I'm going to see how much effort it takes to get Totos on board. No matter how convenient it is, the people around the woods won't have the habit of spending any extra time on it."

"... who rides, on something like this?

"First, I'll do it." "No."

"Then the rimi! No, no, no, no.

With a knife to give back, I was even double-broken to Rimi-Lou.

Ey-Fa took a deep sigh before tearing his golden brown head like a jerk.

"... ok. I'll ride."

Late boy giggles at Ai-Fa, who is getting more and more grumpy.

"I don't think that Totos will be shaken off that way either, because he looks like a lot of a big temper in Totos. If you don't make a violent imitation from this side, nothing will be dangerous."

That's how we interrupted our work a lot and combined with the steps of working on a test drive for Totos.

Totos' reins are held by the late boy and we all head to the front door of the house.

The ladies, all six of whom are out of hand, follow each other with a little pleasure. Li-Sudra, Jas-din, Tour-din, and later the Fou and Run women who have yet to remember their names.

"Totos doesn't get too crouched, except when he sleeps and lays eggs. Sometimes trying to force you to kneel can break your mood, so you usually get on top in this standing position."

When he got out to the street in front of the house, the Late boy started explaining it that way.

"The place to ride, from the middle of your back to the back, right? Be careful not to fall on the side of Totos' neck, for example when he suddenly stops and falls out of shape. Because Totos is surprised, and that's what could go wild.... uh, is there anything that could be a stepping stone?

"Such things are unnecessary," he exclaimed, and Ai-Fa put his hand on Totos' back and jumped on it with a flicker.

He is three meters tall, and even if half of it is his neck, his back is about 150 centimeters tall. Even though it is as tall as my height, the physical abilities of hunters by the woods are still tremendous.

"Wow," Rimi-Lou cheered, and the other ladies groaned a little.

Ey-fa, who straightened his spine and spanned Totos' back, looked so good that he didn't even feel jealous.

"As it is, could you tighten Totos' torso with both knees while Totos is not hurting?

Ai-Fa's smooth feet move just a little.

Totos doesn't move at all.

"Yes. Until now, I've stopped moving because I was holding my reins, but now Totos has stopped moving because you're tightening your torso. I'll loosen the reins, so you keep your feet strong."

Saying, it was time for the Late Boy to start loosening his reins.

Neither Totos nor Ai-Fa make it slight.

"Then can you hold this outline next and pinch it so that it is even on the left and right?

To Ai-Fa on a bird not on horseback, the late boy offers a reins.

Ai-Fa obeyed the instructions flashly, and the late boy checked the angular tension of the reins from the left and right sides.

"You're okay. There was no need for an annotation to put extra force in the arms and keep your elbows bent moderately - either. Um, it's all the more so now, but this is your first ride on Totos, isn't it?

"Naturally. Is this what the people of the woods ride?"

"The body posture is also perfect. Keep your spine stretched even as Totos walks. … and the signal of a walking stop is in its current state. I'm going to let Totos walk, but if you want to stop, pull the reins to your side and tighten your torso. It's dangerous when you stop suddenly, so try not to surprise Totos softly."

"Uhm."

"Okay, I'll let you walk. Slowly loosen the reins and foot force. Pull the reins downward and you'll walk away."

"Wow," Rimi-Lou says again.

Totos started walking brilliantly.

Coming, in a very gentle foothold.

Still, for a long leg, it would be about twice as fast as a human.

We followed it on a fast foot, but just five meters ahead, Totos stopped perfectly.

"Uhm. Don't stop properly"

"Yes. Then shall we also try to provide assistance for a change of direction? Totos walks down the road even if left alone, but when you want to change course to the right or left, pull the reins on that side and change the motion of Totos' neck. You don't need to put so much effort into it, so be careful not to surprise Totos at first anyway"

Again, Totos begins to move.

I can't really see much of Ai-Fa's arm movement or anything from the lower realm, but eventually Totos changed course by 50 degrees every three metres and started walking down the road to Zigzag.

"Well, Totos is really something to say."

When I was impressed and raised my voice, Late Boy said, "That's right. It's so good that it's too good," he grinned a lot bitterly.

"If you manipulate the reins as they are, I think you can also point them in the opposite direction, what do you say?

Together with the words of the late boy, Totos uttered in the form of a large arc.

Then he starts walking again to the zigzag, where he reaches the starting point in front of the house, and the walk stops perfectly again.

It's a precise and inexorable move, as if it were controlled by a machine.

"Wow, wow! Nice, I want to ride the rimi too!

"... but this isn't much different than walking on your own feet. What the hell are people in the capital doing riding around like this for fun? By and large, I've never seen a human on a toss before, have I?

"It's dangerous if Totos suddenly runs out, so it's forbidden to ride Totos in Inn Town. But when we travel from town to town, we're all on Totos. … then let's just run a little"

To make it run, all you had to do was kick the base of your leg with your heel.

"Instead of letting him run all of a sudden at first, kick him little by little while letting him walk. You can increase your speed just by putting more effort into it."

"Hmm," Ai-Fa began to make Totos walk while his nose sounded uninteresting.

We don't follow, we evacuate to the edge of the road. The roads by the woods are about half the stone streets and only five meters wide.

The hindsight of Ai-Fa and Totos slowly drifts away, and its speed begins to twitch.

Eventually that speed accelerated to the point where I was worried about this one watching, and Ey-Fa's appearance painted a curve on the road, while quickly becoming invisible.

And.

Within ten seconds the figure appeared again from the shade of the tree and returned with great momentum.

Isn't he out about 50 kilometers an hour? I think it's about as fast as a little motorcycle.

Totos' tough legs kicked the earth, Ey-Fa lay down like a horse racer and ran right through our eyes as the wind soaked his fur cloak - so slowed down a little bit, then quickly bent his neck and came back to us.

"Su...... wow wow! Ai-Fa, cool!

Rimi-Lou cheers again.

Plus, the yellow whisper wore off.

Surprised to look back, four young of the six were shouting out loud, sparkling their eyes just as Limi-Lu did.

Incidentally, Li-Sudra, the wife of Sudra's parents, is also on the young side. The way Li-Sudra, usually clear and elegant, was holding hands with the ladies next door with a maiden in love look, was just a bit of a sight to behold.

The other two, Jas-Din and the magnificent women of the Fou family, are also exclaimed, "Hmm..."

"That's brilliant. It's so perfect from what I'm doing that I don't need any more."

In that, the late boy was clearly smiling bitterly.

"If you drop ten times, you ride one serving of totoss, but you've ridden the toss without falling once. Truth is, no one in town would be as skillful at manipulating Totos as they are. So much for the power of the hunters by the woods."

"... I can't be proud of anything where I've had such an artistic occasion."

Ai-Fa remained on the top of the Buddha and jumped from Hiraki and Totos.

The late boy called out, "Ah," but tototos remains immovable because his reins were still pinned during that time.

Late boy smiled bitterly one more time before shrugging his shoulders with grown-up tricks.

"How was it? And that would cut back a lot of time to travel from the edge to the edge of the woods, right? Besides, they proved that hunters by the woods could manipulate Totos without labor. Could you understand the Camus saying that there is a more effective use than meat?

"Hmmm......"

Ai-Fa still has a difficult face.

With that on the side, I said, "Can I try it on, too?" I tried to speak.

Really, "Don't," "Don't, don't, don't" and "I think you should stop," were returned in a trio.

"What are you going to do if you get a hand wound from something like this?

"That's right. If you fall, it's dangerous. Okay?

"If you're still interested, I think you should practice a little bit each day"

It's a flowing combination of words.

"I see. I got a good understanding of what my physical abilities are rated for. But are you telling me that all you guys see is the future of me falling off Totos?

Now, it was returned in silence.

At this time, silence is also difficult.

"... ok. Then let me practice a little bit each day. Please."

"Why are you so stubborn? I don't care if you ride Totos or something?

"No, 'cause I-Fa's riding it like it feels so good, I naturally got intrigued."

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"Huh? Ai-fa felt good too, didn't she?

…………

"Is that it? Didn't you feel good?

"Weird!"

Hiccups kicked me in the leg.

"By and large, though the Chiefs still wouldn't have allowed me to accept Totos! You can't imitate on your own without the permission of the Chiefs!

"Stay with me. What are you mad at, you?... but if the Chiefs don't show any interest in Totos, I want to pick this guy up at Fa's house. As much as I was originally telling you to make it meat or something. So they don't even complain so much about what we use on our own, do they?

"What? What am I supposed to do with this stuff?

"Hey, I don't need Camua to tell me, this guy's handy, right? If you could buy a luggage truck, it would make it easier to transport ingredients and cookware. If you just let me pull my stuff and walk, I'll be able to do it right away."

So finally, a positive look of thought began to emerge on Ai-Fa's face as well.

"Well... that's what you use it for."

"Oh. But since there's a suspension bridge if it's the road we usually use, we need to use a long way around. But there must have been some luggage cars in town that would have allowed humans as well as luggage, right, Leyt?

"Yeah. Usually it becomes a big two-headed luggage truck, though. Some of them will be small if you look for them. Then you don't have to worry about being shaken off."

Ai-Fa begins to think seriously.

So Rimi-Lou said, "Oh!?," he raised his bare voice.

While I was slightly disturbed by that voice, which sounded strangely happy, I looked back - I saw an unprecedented scene.

In other words, two women by the woods, and Totos, whether three or three of them were caught in their hand, walked one by one from the end of the south.

It was Ama Min-Rutim and Morn-Rutim who were pulling the reins.

Ama Min-Rutim, with two Totos' reins, creeping closer with her huge squire, bows her head to us, feeling sorry from the bottom of her heart.

"I'm sorry. The men of Sauti have found this much totoss in the woods again..."

Limi-Lew said, "Wow!" He shouted, and I sighed deeply, and Ai-Fa was to hang his brow in anger.

Without knowing the emotions of such humans, Totos and his men began to snub the leaves at the edge of the forest with extreme relaxation.

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However, the conclusion was that the four tototosses were to be accepted by the forest.

Nothing. When Ai-Fa came to the settlement of Lou, where four Totos had been pressed to his head, and let him show the convenience of Totos with his body, Dari-Sauti, one of the three chiefs, had expressed his approval by the time he was enthusiastic.

"This certainly makes it easier to get to and from the northern settlements! On top of that, even from settlements in the north and south, it would be easier to buy out to the Inn Town of Genos!

When I asked him, he said that in settlements in the north and south, he never went out to buy out as far as the boarding town, unless it was also a big feast.

If you ask why. It is simply because it is "far away".

Forestside settlements stretch long north and south.

From the house of Lu and Pha, which dwells about the center of it, it is an hour's journey to the city of Inn. From the Zaza family on the north end, and the Sauti family on the south end, it seems it will be nearly four hours on the road.

So they usually buy aria and poitan more directly from nearby rural and farm administrators, and when they need rock salt, fruit liquor, etc., they pay the residents there in advance to buy them out.

After all, it would have been a strong attraction to be able to trample the edge to edge of the forest in just 90 minutes. As before, parents of distant houses face each other only once a year - because that's not how it works.

Without having to be pointed out by Camus, it was important to determine how closely the chiefs were able to interact with each other.

"While we discover for ourselves, we are just ashamed of our own uncertainty, which we could not realize the power of Totos. This is what we need. I'm sure Zaza's parents will agree with my words."

I only heard from Ai-Fa, but it seems that Dari-Sauti was heartily impressed with the power of Totos.

He pretended to be calm, but his eyes were shining like Limi-Luu, etc., Ey-Fa said bad things about people.

"... but it boils my stomach not to say good-bye to make a debt to that man named Camua-Josh. Tell this tototos he wants to pay the right price."

I was to accept such a message.

but of course, it was gently solidified by the camouflage.

"There will be talks between Moribe and Genos soon, won't there? When that is over in peace, I would ask you to abandon the sentiment of lending, borrowing, etc., and take Totos as it is. But if we don't end up in peace, I hope you'll beat up the copper coin and throw back the toss."

It seems that such a suggestion, which is a lot rough, was brought to the attention of the people by the woods.

As a result, the people of the woodland were to welcome four tototosses to the settlement after Dari-Sautti, who himself rode the tototos to the northern settlement to announce an emergency report, also graff-Zaza's understanding.

In the meantime, it's only three days.

It is a speedy verdict unlike the people of the woodland, which is a closed temper.

Donda-Lou also said that if two of the three chiefs agreed, there would be no difference.

I don't know if Limi-Lew's tear appeal existed behind that.

By the way, it was the house of the three chiefs, and the house of Fa, which were ordained to their owners.

Since it is also possible to buy Totos on your own if you need it at Fa's house, I would like you to manage it with the chieftaincy muscle. The credit for bringing the convenience of Totos to the woodland was recognized, and the first Totos discovered was to remain intact in Fa's house.

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"Tomorrow, I'll find out where I can get my luggage."

The 23rd of the Blue Moon. I accepted a suggestion from Camua, and that's what I told Ai-Fa that night when Totos was officially recognized as a forestside possession.

After finishing dinner without delay.

I encourage the work of the planting, and I-Fa sits a little further away.

It was right next to Totos, who nodded at the doorway, that Ai-Fa formed.

Totos apparently was already asleep, folding his huge legs and stretching his long neck sloppily closer to Ai-Fa.

Looking down at Totos' sleeping face like that, Ai-Fa snaps low, "Right."

"Well, we just didn't have a use for copper coins, and if I said it was just right, I guess it was just right? From what I've heard from the people in town, it's not that much of a value."

I started doing business in Inn Town, and today is the 26th day.

The assets of Fa's house have surpassed 3,000 red copper coins.

It's only three pieces if it's silver. There is no doubt that it is a non-standard asset in Moribe.

"Do as you please.... but you'll never be impotent until you're trained?

"Oh. The road to the Inn Town is so thin and sloppy. I'll encourage practice on a flat road for a while."

"Uhm."

"Um... you're not mad at me or anything, are you?

Now I'm worried about the dull Ey-Fa, and I ask him that, and Ey-Fa says, "Why should I be angry?," he tilted his neck.

"If there is no difference between the chiefs, that's fine. I originally feared that my relationship with Genos would be more disturbing than it is now."

Then I guess I also felt that I-Fa himself liked to ride Totos.

That's about it, the eye-fa running Totos was showing plenty, and the look on Totos' sleeping face today was calm.

Besides - wasn't Totos and the people by the woods compatible from the beginning?

Otherwise, I don't think they've accepted the existence of different cultures so far. Anyway, Ey-Fa's appearance across Totos was well dressed and truly natural, as painted.

The origins of the people by the woods have not been made very clear. Perhaps its ancestors were a species that was driving Totos on the plains before caged in the woods - or so much so that it sparked such delusions that Totos looked good on I-Fa.

So I was very satisfied with Ey-Fa looking down at Totos' sleeping face in such a calm way.

"Well, then, what shall we do with his name?

"Name? Thotos would be Thotos"

"But there are four Totos by the woods. Sometimes it's hard to call them names."

"You mean give the beast a human name?"

Surprisingly, Ai-Fa looks back at this one.

While ascertaining the taste of the sauce of Tarapa, he said, "Is that so surprising? ♪ And I let my neck tilt ♪

"We're gonna live together, so it's like family, right? Wouldn't it be easier to get attached to it by name, and your heart?

"Mind......" Ai-Fa dropped his gaze on Totos' sleeping face again.

"I wonder if there is still a heart or something in the beast as well. Sure enough, this guy just made me pull the reins and kick my belly, and he moved more honestly than a human."

"Yeah. Otherwise they wouldn't even call me a human friend"

"For me, it may be easier to deal with than a human being"

"That's a little of a problem statement."

"As much as I want to put a reins around your neck."

"I'm human, so give me verbal instructions!

"... Totos is a strange beast."

With a series of problem statements, I nevertheless looked oddly thoughtful.

Put the lid on the iron pan with the finished sauce, put out the fire, wash my hands, and then I'll walk over there.

"So, what's your name? I don't even know what kind of name it is, so I'd like you to put it on I-Fa if you can."

Ai-Fa shut up for a while - eventually, quietly "Gilua," he snapped.

"Gilua? That's a good name," and then I got a little carried away.

The father of the other world two years ago was only Gil-Fa.

"... were you confused with your father's name?

"Hmm. If I had given a child, and the child was a man, I would have given him his name."

I sit back next to Ai-Fa silently.

"But I decided to live as a hunter. It is no longer possible for me to give a child. So I thought I'd give him that name. - What do you think?

I closed my eyes and searched my heart for a satisfactory answer.

But - even if I didn't get so desperate, I could find my answer right away.

"Then I guess I'd rather have a different name. There's absolutely no way in the world, so even ii-fa might someday feel like you want your own child, right?

I could get beaten up - I've consolidated my readiness about that.

But.

I = fa kept a quiet look on his face and he just snapped "well".

"Then let's gill it. It doesn't sound beautiful in Gilru-Fa, but I'm not giving this guy a Mr., so okay."

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"Don't you mind eating that, too?

Ey-fa looks back at me slowly.

That, staring back at the terribly clear blue eyes, makes me say "no -".

"I think that's a good name too. You have a sweetheart, and you're perfect for this guy."

"Well," Ai-Fa said once more, then - happily, grinning.

Thus there were more new cohabitants in Fa's house named Girl.