CH 339

While Aina was running around the open space with Schneider, we were led by Tanji-san to the stables where the male snow tiger was kept.

“Gaw ……”

As Tanji-san put his hand on the stable door, I felt the mother snow tiger let out a sigh …… She doesn’t seem to be enthusiastic, so we called out while stroking the back of the mother snow tiger.

“It’s been a long time since you’ve been to your old home, what’s up?”

“The father snow tiger is here, isn’t he? Do they not get along? Wawa!”

When Makina said this, the mother snow tiger put her head in the air. Nora also stroked her throat and called out to her. They’ve been playing together a lot while I’ve been away, so they’re close.

“I’m pretty sure that she doesn’t want to see him? What’s wrong?”

“Garrr ……”

She responded to Nora’s words, but was not in high spirits. But when we saw the father at the back of the stables, we were convinced.

“Look, you haven’t seen each other in a long time!”

“Garrr?”

There, at the back of the slightly cool stables, he was there.

The father snow tiger, lying down with hollow eyes, doesn’t have the same dignity as the mother snow tiger, but has a big belly and overgrown body hair, and looks like a “No good father”.

“Wow ……”

“This is a little ……”

“Garrr ……”

The mother was drooping in embarrassment. Then the father snow tiger noticed us, opened his eyes wide, got up, and ran towards us. 

“He’s slow.”

“Ahaha …… He also looks very sloppy.”

“He wasn’t like that when we brought the family here, but after he got used to living here, he became depraved. The mother and the children would exercise in the open space, but he stopped moving at all and now he’s like this.”

While I was listening to this, the father snow tiger approached us and rubbed his nose against the mother snow tiger. It hadn’t been that long since she had been taken in, but he looked very happy. But just when I thought it was going to be a touching reunion–

“Gaw!”

“Kyan!?”

“Ah!”

–The mother snow tiger hit the father on the tip of his nose with her hand!　

The father snow tiger rolled over and squealed pathetically ……

“Hmm, this is bad. It’s not at the level of just being lazy.”

“Garrr ……”

“What?”

When Sarge called out to the father snow tiger lying on the ground, it groaned a little. When Makina raised her eyebrows and asked Nora, Nora, unusually, raised her mouth and slapped the father snow tiger on the head. 

“You’re the father, so you need to get a grip! You may not have to hunt, but if this place disappears, who knows what will happen? If the father can’t do anything when the time comes, you’ll die, you know?”

“G-Garrr ……”

“Nora is really angry ……”

“Garrr!”

My brother said that It’s been a long time since he saw it, and the mother snow tiger joins Nora in hitting the father snow tiger on the head. 

“My father was just like you, so I know. Tanji-san, I think it would be a good idea to throw the father at least out? I also think it’s not good for Tanji-san to leave him alone until he gets like this–“

“Oh ……”

“Garrr!?”

Oh, I see. I wonder if Nora sees him the same thing as her father …… We never saw him in the end, but I do remember that Nora’s father was a scumbag.

The father snow tiger clung to Nora, who had said she was going to throw him away, while his loose stomach shook. Tanji-san also jumped up and down and cowered.

“Then, you’re going to exercise and lose weight starting today! Can we start from there?”

“Gaw gaw!”

“All right, then …… Aina-chan, he said he’s going to play chase, too.”

When Nora put her hand on the father snow tiger’s head, he looked shocked. But Aina had already overheard, so she and Schneider came running towards us.

“Do you want to play too, big cat? Let’s go, let’s go!”

“Woof!”

“G-Garr …….”

“Gaoooooo!”

“G-Gaw!”

Aina pulled him along, and for a moment the father snow tiger resisted, but the mother snow tiger gave him a shove and he ran into the open space. His footsteps are heavy, but–

“Fuh, I’m not sure how long this will last, but don’t spoil him, okay?”

“Y-Yeah …… [Animal Protection] is amazing …… There’s no one, not even a tamer, who can get you to say that much on their first visit.”

“H-Hmmmm …… I think Nora-chan deserves a tamer certificate. Lars was one thing, but she’s is too …… It looks like I’m going to be scolded even more if she sees the rest of the stables, haha ……”

Tanji-san laughed dryly and headed to the next stable.

In the past, I’ve had the opportunity to interact with monsters in order to get my tamer certification, and I’ve seen a few monsters open up in the open space, but many of them I’ve never met before, like the father snow tiger.

I’ve been able to see all of them this time, but this is ……

“Geez! All you slackers, meet me in the open space! Tanji-san, you’re leaving them alone too much just because there’s no one’s getting a tamer certification!”

…… It was terrible.

Iron Kong, the ape-like monster, looks like a sluggard, and the Bloody Viper, which is quite vicious, is so stretched out that you’d think it was a rope when you first saw it. There are many monsters that doesn’t mate with each other, but Nora was completely pissed off at the state of them.

“What is it ……?”

“Ahhhh …… Well, you’re right. We’re barely making ends meet with government assistance.”

“Then why don’t you reduce the number of demons?”

Tanji-san scratched his head in response to Sarge’s words. Urka makes a suggestion, but Tanji-san shakes his head and says.

“No, no, no, I can’t do that. As you can see, it’s already been tamed here. So If we let them go into the wild, they’ll die quickly.”

“Well, it might be difficult for them to get food on their own.”

“He-, Helena-san, are you okay with this ……?”

Helena said as she grabbed the Bloody Viper by the tail and lifted it up. The Viper’s head rested idly on the floor, as if she wasn’t interested.

They’re not all sloppy, though, as some of the monsters is playing with Aina.

“Uwah!? You stink! Don’t come here!”

“Buho!?”

“Wafufufufu!”

“Shuu also stink so don’t laugh!”

“Hyaun!?”

“The little girl over there is amazing too …… Is that to be expected because she’s Lars’ sister?”

The smell of wild boar-shaped monster and the sheep-shaped monster seemed to have a strong smell, and Aina moved away to Radia as her shield, and Schneider, who laughed at the stinky monsters, was beaten. Yeah, they’re getting along too fast if you ask me.

“Aina-chan looks like Lars, so she could become a big deal.”

“I was hoping she’d grow up to be graceful, though ……”

As I slumped at Makina’s words, Nora comes over to me and says to me with a furrowed brow.

“Lars-kun, can’t you do something? I think it’s a little bit sad to let him be so lazy? I think it’s easy, but I’m not surprised if my assistance is cut off–“

“Well, that’s possible. Then we’ll have to thin out the monsters population ……”

I don’t want to say it, but I think it’s likely that they’ll be killed. Isn’t there some good idea out there, I thought, then–

“Come on, Aina-chan, you can play with me!”

“Basleigh-sensei! Yay!”

–I wondered how long she had been there, but she was running across the open space with Aina.

“Buh!? Why!? …… Oh, no, wait.”

“Did you come up with something?”

“Well, I guess it’s up to Basleigh-sensei?”

When Makina tilted her head and asked me about it, I nodded and called everyone over. I decided to share my thoughts on the possibility that there might be more tamer applicants. 

So, what’s next?

Thank you for reading!

[Afterword Theater]

“I can somewhat predict it ……”

Well, what’s going to happen now? Well, I guess it’s no different for humans and monsters to be deprived ……