771 You are Grandpa Weretiger
The old weretiger then tried to stop the fight. Should I call him Grandpa Weretiger then? He’s close with Grandpa Werewolf after all.
“Enough fighting! We have seen how strong she is. And the man with him is stronger than her. I’m sure that they didn’t lie and Borsce really gave them his mustache on his own. And not because he was forced. So let’s stop the fight and listen to what they want to say,” Grandpa Weretiger said.
“Eh? But I haven’t fought yet!”
“Who cares if Borsce sent them here or not? We just want to fight!”
Why are they complaining? Just how much do monsters love to fight anyway? So annoying.
“Shelia, enough fighting. It will be annoying if you get tired again like yesterday since I may need your help tomorrow.”
I also stopped Shelia from fighting anymore. Even if she’s tired, she’s the kind that won’t refuse any challenge toward her.
“Tsk! I want to see how many of them I can defeat on my own until I lost. Though I have no plan in losing. Why are we stopping? If it’s you, you should be thinking that it’s easier to convince them after we knock them all out and force them to talk and agree with you later, right?”
Just how much does Shelia know me now? How right is she? Very right. That’s actually what I thought until Grandpa Weretiger approached me.
.....
“If your fight goes on a little bit longer, that is actually what I planned to do. But that old weretiger said that he’s a friend of Grandpa Werewolf. I told him that you’re his granddaughter, and then he stopped the fight,” I said.
“Really? Wait, Grandpa often told me that there were some opponents that he respected because he couldn’t kill them, and they couldn’t kill him. I think he said that one of them was a weretiger. Maybe it’s him.”
“You will know later if you talk with him. He said that the werewolf’s name was Dorak-something. And Victoria said that it was your grandpa’s name,” I said.
“Doraqulay,” Victoria corrected me.
“Yes. That’s Grandpa’s name. So what should we do now?” Shelia asked.
“Probably telling him our connection with Grandpa Werewolf, how Tiger lost against you, and how we will help them out of here,” I said.
I hope we can get it done sooner.
I don’t think we can investigate the entire Magicless Area by today. So we can take our time doing whatever we want.
But tomorrow is the deadline that Albert gave us. It’s the deadline for the time if the agent in the city will give us more reports or not.
We will decide our next move after getting report from him. But if there’s no report, we will go there to investigate. At least me and Shelia. Maybe I should bring Graham as well.
There will probably a huge fight, so I will get everyone ready. Make them stay in one place by tonight. And by tomorrow, when there’s a fight, I can just open one portal and bring everyone in to help me in the fight.
That will be the first fight that Sunglasses will be in command. Though it’s only if it happen.
If nothing happen and I can infiltrate easily without being noticed, that would be great. But it’s a city suspected to have a lot of master level mages. So I don’t think we can do that.
And I can’t forget that there were summoners in that place as well. Connected to the destroyed base in Monsters World. So I need to improve the defense in Monsters World as well. I’ll get the werewolves stay there. If the weretigers will join us, I can ask them to help as well.
After taking everyone’s complains, Grandpa Weretiger gathered everyone around us. No hostility this time.
“Let’s start from the introduction. My name is—”
“Grandpa Weretiger.”
Before he could introduce himself, I interjected. I need him to know what I will call him.
“...Actually, my name is—”
“It doesn’t matter. That werewolf you were close with was called Grandpa Werewolf. Since you’re close, I’ll call you Grandpa Weretiger. It’s too annoying that I keep meeting new people and keep being forced to remember everyone’s name. You’re Grandpa Weretiger. The one who gave me the mustache, I called him just Tiger. The rest of you just weretigers. Unless you did something great that I have no choice but to give you a new nickname,” I said.
If they’re humans, they would have complained. But they’re monsters. And I guess they just don’t care about it so it’s fine.
“Fine. Call me Grandpa Weretiger. That Grandpa Werewolf was my rival. We met often in the past and fought a lot. We respected each other. Can I hear how he’s doing?” Grandpa Weretiger asked.
“He’s dead. I killed him. And now I’m the Werewolf King. That’s the short story. For the long version, it will take longer,” I said.
“No. That’s enough. Although we’re different race and different tribe, we’re the same. Only the strongest can be called the king of the tribe. Even if we are from different species. And since the little girl defeated the strongest weretiger, Borsce, or the one you call Tiger, she should be our king. But you’re stronger than her so you’re the real king. But we won’t know until Borsce himself told us about it. So we can’t call you our king,” Grandpa Weretiger said.
Wait, so I’m the Weretiger King as well? Neat!
But are they the kind that obey their king’s order? I hope that’s the case.
Well, if I bait them with a way to get stronger, they might obey me. I’ll get them to train with the werewolves a lot.
“So, what can you do to help us?” Grandpa Weretiger asked.
“First, is there a reason why you stayed in this Magicless Area?” I asked.
There’s no need for a tribe of powerful race to stay here. They can go anywhere and even infiltrate human’s society.
“It’s just tradition. This was how I trained to be stronger than the others. Though I have never fought other races after I started living here,” Grandpa Weretiger replied.
So, weretigers are the race that seek strength. And they know that they won’t just get stronger with their regeneration skill, transformation skill, and other type of magic that they can use. So they trained in a skill that can be used even when they can’t use magic.
Grandpa Weretiger said that he and another weretiger learned it from watching how an Aura user can grow so strong without magic.
Well, they succeeded in getting stronger. But because of that, they thought that staying in Magicless Area will make them stronger. So they rarely left.
Except for Borsce who often left. That’s how he got strong enough to be Shelia’s equal. By testing his strength on other enemies. Though that’s also the reason how he ended up getting tamed.
“So, is there any other reason you have to stay? If not, then I will bring you to a safe place. To her village. Though it’s now a village of various monsters. Werewolves, elves, and angels. If you go there, as long as you obey the rule, you can even have a match against werewolves every day,” I said.
Offered with a free fight, there’s no weretigers who want to refuse. But for some reason, they were still hesitant.
I guess it’s not what they will get. But there’s something else that make them stay here.
“If you think of waiting for the tamer who tamed Tiger, don’t waste your time. Tiger told you guys to not go out and face them, right? And just wait here in case he came. But I don’t think he will come. I also promised him that I’m going to kill that mage so Tiger will be free. Just leave it to me. Tomorrow, I will go there and kill him and everyone else related to the cult over there. It’s also for Tiger’s peace of mind that you all move to a safe place,” I said.
Then I explained my goal and what the cult is. And they just don’t care about the cult. They care more about Tiger’s master.
“So, that tamer is in an organization who want to destroy the world?” Grandpa Weretiger asked.
“To put it simply, yeah. I’m on a mission to destroy that cult. If you guys want to join us, that will be great. But if not, as long as you won’t get in the way, I don’t care what you do. Though if you want to kill me or any of our allies, I will have to kill you,” I said.
Grandpa Weretiger pondered for a while. Then he looked at me after making a decision.
“We can’t make a decision without Borsce here. But we will go to a safe place since that’s what he want. Promise us that once you kill his master, you will bring Borsce to us. Then we can start thinking of what to do next,” Grandpa Weretiger said.
From the look of it, everyone agreed with his idea. To just let Tiger decide what to do next.
“Well, that’s good enough. I’ll bring you to Monsters Village then.”
This will be the fourth race in the village. I hope they won’t cause any trouble.