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"I'm so sorry. They hurt my little children."

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　After presenting the messenger beast to the noble family, we are now back at the inn we took in the city.

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　In one of the rooms, I was complaining one after another.

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　I guess this is exactly what I mean when I say that my guts are boiling.

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　When I was looking at the beast being chopped off by its horns, I almost punched it in the face.

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　The palm of my hand was gripped tightly when I tried not to jump at it, and my own claw was stuck in it and bleeding.

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　Suddenly I remembered a story I had heard in my previous life.

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　It is a story about a guide dog that is there to help the blind and visually impaired.

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　Guide dogs are professionally trained to replace the eyes of the blind.

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　The first step is to make them stop barking at all times.

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　If they bark unnecessarily, they cannot work as a guide dog.

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　However, there was a guy who once pressed a cigarette against a guide dog that was standing still at a traffic light or something.

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　The hairs were burned off and the skin was burned as if the dog had been branded.

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　But even so, a dog trained as a guide dog did not squeal.

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　The blind owner of the dog did not even squeal, so he could not notice the despicable act at the time.

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　When the owner found out later, he was very saddened.

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　Normally, such an act would have made a dog hate humans, but the dog, who was an excellent guide dog, remained with and supported the human until his death.

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　Dogs that have been partners with humans since the beginning of history can become so much more if they are educated.

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　And perhaps the same can be said of a beast.

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　The servant beast did not even squeal and endure the act of having its horns cut off from its head.

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　I couldn't help but shed a tear.

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"It's time for you to calm down!"

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"What, you don't feel sorry for me?"

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"I'm more worried about the Valkyries who got their horns cut off. You don't know what kind of trouble you'll be in if the messenger dies soon after you offer him up.

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　Mmmm.

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　It's certainly possible.

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　Unlike me, my father was very calm.

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　Unlike me, my father was an uneducated peasant who lived in this world, but he was not stupid.

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　He noticed many things that I did not notice.

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　Especially, he knows in his bones how socially weak we peasants are.

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　I guess that's where my earlier comment came from.

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　The possibility of premature death of a beast whose horns have been cut off.

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　I hadn't thought of that, but it's certainly a concern.

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　I mean, we don't even know how long the life span of the Valkyries is.

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　I wonder how long they will live.

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　Will they become sickly if their horns are cut off?

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　I am sorry to say that I may have to look into this later.

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　Moreover, there was something else that was bothering my father.

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　It was about the forest land I had cleared.

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　In a short period of time, I, a child, cleared a forest that would have encroached on the village if left unchecked.

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　I don't know exactly how he felt.

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　Maybe I would look scary and eerie.

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　But they seem to have more than that to worry about.

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　It was about the practical problem of tax collection.

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　Peasants are mainly taxed by a per capita tax and a land tax based on the size of the farmland.

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　Furthermore, farmers are required to pay the tax with the wheat they produce in their fields.

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　And this time, they had no idea how much tax they would have to pay this year because of my expanding the land so much.

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　In fact, the villagers thought that I would never be able to pay the tax if I expanded my fields that much.

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　The village chief even secretly planned to take away my farm when I couldn't pay the tax.

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　This time, I met the head of the aristocratic family that governed the land.

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　There my father made a petition that he had been thinking about for some time.

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　He told them that in order to continue to produce the beast of burden, he needed to grow hatzkah in the fields, and that he could not grow wheat in the fields he had created by opening up the forests.

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　For the nobles, the production of the messenger beasts and the clearing of the forests are two things that they do not wish for.

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　They listened to my father's desperate pleas and allowed him to produce and sell the mastodactyls, as well as to officially own the land and to pay taxes in money instead of wheat.

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　I can say that I was very lucky to be born to a father who I could count on.

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　Thus, I became the official owner of the land.

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