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"All right, let's go for it!"
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"Cue."
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I say this with my right hand raised in the air, and Valkyrie responds as if in response.
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Through the deal with the peddler, I will now be able to obtain a steady supply of the beast egg.
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This is a huge business opportunity.
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Or perhaps there is no better way to make money in the life of a peasant in the countryside.
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We must get this business going at all costs.
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"In the meantime, we have to make sure that the beast egg is infused with magical power.
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I did so while looking at the five eggs I had received from a peddler.
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Then a Valkyrie came up to me, put her nose on one of the eggs and started sniffing it.
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"What's wrong? I don't think so, but you can't eat these eggs.
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"Cue cue!"
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When I say this, Valkyrie looks at me in protest, as if I would never do such a thing.
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I apologize to her, but she does something unexpected.
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With a snap, she took a piece of egg in her mouth.
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Valkyrie's mouth and teeth are strong enough to chew up a rather tough hatz-ka.
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I thought the egg might have broken from our earlier joking exchange.
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But that didn't seem to happen.
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Valkyrie just held the egg in her mouth with perfect force.
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She then placed the egg on the grass where she slept and laid herself down close to it.
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She looks like a parent bird warming its eggs or a horse suckling its young.
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Five eggs rest under the belly of the reclining Valkyrie.
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"Coooo!"
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As I was wondering why she was doing that, Valkyrie started to do something more.
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As she lay on the bed with her legs spread, she bent her neck and put her mouth close to the egg on her tummy.
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Then he made a squealing sound.
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Could it be a spell?
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But I didn't make any bricks or anything.
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If that is the case, did he perhaps inject magic power?
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"Well, this egg, is Valkyrie going to raise it? Can you do it?"
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"Cuey!"
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Putting magic into the eggs shouldn't be a problem, since that's what I did the last time I hatched them.
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But I didn't explain it to Valkyrie.
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Could it be that she understands that the eggs of the beast are born absorbing magic power to grow up?
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"No," he said. A messenger egg changes its form depending on the quality of the magic it absorbs. It doesn't make sense if I don't raise them myself.
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I was surprised at what seemed to be an innate habit, but I soon realized that there was a problem.
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I realized immediately that there was a problem: I had to be the one to do it.
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I rush to retrieve the eggs under the Valkyrie's belly.
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But I had already injected magic into the three eggs.
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What should I do?
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As I recall, I heard that there is a possibility that the eggs will hatch even if several different people gather together to absorb the magic power.
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But even if a useful beast is born, it would be difficult to reproduce it again because the conditions would have to be the same.
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So, it might be better not to mess with something that has already been infused with magic by Valkyrie.
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"Oh well. Valkyrie, I'll leave these three eggs to you. Take care of them so that they hatch properly.
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"Cue!"
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Valkyrie's head sank down as if depressed when the eggs were taken away.
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But after some thought, I decided to give up on the eggs that were already under the influence of Valkyrie's magic.
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It was also because I had not bought them with my own money.
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If I had spent all my money to buy the eggs, I might have been furious, but that was not the case.
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Besides, it is not uncommon for eggs to be broken by accident before they hatch.
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If I fail to do so, I will consider it as an accident and give up.
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With this in mind, I decided to split up with Valkyrie to take care of the eggs.
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