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"Is this about right, Brother Bite? Are there any more dog people left in the mine?"
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"...... maybe. Maybe there are some survivors, but that's not a problem. When we reopen the mine, I'll station some Baltic knights there just in case. If there are not too many, that should help."
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"Right. I guess that won't be a problem. Anyway, we'll have a steady supply of iron. That's good. What's ......? It's a lot noisier over there."
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"Hm? It's true. What's going on?"
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Me and my part-time brother exterminating a demon called "dog people" that had nested in the mine.
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We left poisoned meat near the entrance to the mine, and the dog people brought it back and ate it with their whole pack.
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In no time at all, we ended up causing mass food poisoning in the herd.
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Even the strange creatures called "Inujin" couldn't help themselves.
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After a few days, no more Inujin came out of the tunnels, and when I went inside to investigate, I found dead bodies of Inujin lying all over the place.
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After the extermination of the dog people, we finally managed to get all the corpses out of the tunnels.
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As we watched, we talked about how to get the mine up and running again.
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But then there was a bit of a stir.
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I wondered what was going on, but it seemed that some of the dead dogs that had been taken out of the mine were still alive.
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Perhaps they had been in a state of suspended animation and had come back to life.
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They crawled out from among the piles of corpses, pushing other corpses out of the way.
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"Get back, all of you. I'll deal with them in case they are immortals."
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He called out to the people around him who were in a hurry to see the dog-man survivors and made them move backward.
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To tell the truth, I don't know the conditions under which immortals occur, but just in case.
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Well, I don't see any corpses decomposing around us, so I think we'll be fine.
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"Kuh-uhn!"
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A survivor emerges from a pile of dog-man carcasses.
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People around me watch the movement.
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I stepped forward and drew my holy sword, Granbarka, from its sheath at my waist and held it in front of my body.
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I am ready to intercept the attacker whenever he comes at me.
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The dog-man cried out in front of me.
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He was shaking his body like a weak puppy, and he put his belly down on the ground, as if he were lying down, and he cried out with a cooing sound.
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The other dog people had blackish fur, but this one had a whitish color.
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The dog-man, a bipedal dog-like creature, looked like an ordinary dog when it was lying down on the ground.
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His entire body was covered with white fur, and his head was covered with dog ears.
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However, unlike a normal dog, it was wearing a waist minnow-like garment made of goat fur, which gave it a sense of intelligence different from that of a dog.
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I am not sure if they need clothes when they have hair all over their bodies, though.
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"Coon, coon."
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It might be surprisingly cute.
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That's what I thought for a moment when I saw such a dog person.
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But then again, I think we should kill them as soon as possible before they do something strange.
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After I finish observing the surviving dog people, I move the holy sword in my hand and try to slash at them.
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But then, I catch a glimpse of an ornament that the dog-man is holding.
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I was interested in it.
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I stop the movement of the holy sword, which was just about to swing down, and while keeping it in a ready position, I tell my brother Baito.
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"Brother Bight. I want to check on the survivor. May I ask you to help me catch him?
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"Huh? You want to catch that guy alive? All right, hold on a second. Hey, you guys, seize that guy. Don't kill him."
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The Bite Brother calls out to the knights around him.
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Then they surrounded the area with several knights to prevent them from escaping, and secured the prone dog-man.
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"I knew it. This white dog might be a different breed from the other dog people."
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I examined the white survivor of the dog people who had settled in the mine and muttered to myself.
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There was no one near me.
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My brother Bight and the other knights who had captured the dogman with me were now on their way to check the mine for any more dogman survivors.
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Meanwhile, I stayed outside to check on the dogman we had captured.
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And I found out something.
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It turns out that this dog-man has a slightly different characteristic from the usual ones.
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It may have something to do with the fact that his fur color is different from that of other dog people.
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Perhaps this dog-man was a different species within the dog-man family.
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It was my opinion that there was not a mutation with white fur, but a race of white dogmen that existed separately from the black dogmen, and that for some reason the white was mixed in with the black.
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And perhaps it is not wrong.
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It has something to do with the fact that this white dog-man survived.
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Maybe this dog-man was the lowest of his kind and did not receive enough food.
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He was much leaner and smaller than the other canines who died from eating poisoned meat.
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They were left out of the packs of Inukinese who shared their prey with other Inukinese.
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They looked like white ducklings.
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But this is what kept them alive.
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Because he was the last to eat the poisonous prey, he did not eat the meat as his companions struggled and died.
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The fact that he was brought here with other corpses suggests that he was carried here when he was too hungry to move.
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But there was another reason why this dog-man caught my attention.
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It was in their ornaments.
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The Inuman was not very smart, but he had a habit of decorating himself.
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They also made simple collars out of found iron and other things and put them around their necks.
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And it was the same with this white dog-man.
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Unlike the others, however, the collars were not made of iron.
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The white dog-man wore a collar.
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It was made of silver.
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But neither Bait nor Payne had told me that silver could be mined in this mine.
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It is possible that the collar was made from silver found elsewhere.
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But as far as I could see, none of the other dog people's collars were made of silver.
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So I noticed this and caught the white dogman.
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After a while, I examined the dog-man who had woken up and found out something.
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It turned out that this dog-man could use magic to convert iron into silver.
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Thus, I had succeeded in obtaining a demon that could use alchemy, not alchemy, but alchemy of silver.
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