--I heard a scream.

　It was a terribly dingy man. He was so black, bristly and hairy that his whole body looked as if it was covered in sludge.

'A tiger? ....the beastmen? Ichijo said.

　'They're holding one of the orphanage children hostage, and they're wary of us.
　The children's voices caused a commotion, and the sisters gathered the crying children around themselves. They all stand up and are alerted to the tiger.

The man looked at me in amazement as he held the child in his arms, "Why is it here? 'Why would a hero want to do that?'
What are you going to do with the boy?
You knew I was coming here.

　I didn't understand. But come to think of it, this is a beastman's orphanage. It's a beastman's orphanage.

Hey, you're a hero. You're a hero. Come on, I need your help.

　The tiger's voice sounded like it was sobbing. It was a cry of grief, but I don't know why.

'Let the boy go first, I'm tolerant of beastmen. I'll listen to you, too.
I'm not a beastman, I'm a man!

　But for all intents and purposes, he was a beastman. It must have seemed that way to me and to Ichijou.

''It's them........''
Those guys?
Yeah, they gutted me with a bunch of beastmen.
Is this about that clinic on the outskirts of town?

　Sufilia asked that in a calm tone.

''That's right. It's that old man and that woman. They gave me, a dying man, the guts of a beastman.......
Oh, and the other one was a scar from an operation?

　According to Sufilia, there were two traces of magic power in that infirmary's operating room.

''So that's why you're killing beastmen.......''

　I asked.

'I'm not a beastman, I'm not a rabid beastman like all you beastmen, I'm just a man who buys bread and wine on his days off and wants to stay at home and be quiet for the rest of his life.... ...but that day.

　The tiger was emotionally unstable.

She stabbed me in the back and I saw it and it was a beastman. I think he's one of you.

　The man looked confused as he pointed the knife at us and then at the child.

I would rather die than have the inside of a beastman inside me, of all things. I'm not........a beastman.

　--I activated the Skill 《 Telekinesis》.

　I clenched the tiger's body with my power and stopped it from moving. Then I released the child who was being held hostage and pulled her directly to the sister.
　I stepped closer to the tiger, leaving the child, who looked shaken, in my sister's arms.

'Oh, you're going to kill me, hero...'
You don't have a shadow on your back, why did you attack the beastmen?
What the f*ck are you talking about?
Calm down.

　The tiger seemed to be beginning to trust me. His lips quivered and he looked frightened as he checked his surroundings and then me. I feel like I'm being asked to do a favor.

''Oh, I just wanted to live an ordinary life,''
Why did you attack the beastmen?
Oh, I'm...
Answer the question.
"....I'm," crunchy tiger.
'The beast hunter--'
Don't call me that.

　The words were interrupted. The tiger refused to be called that.

''But the fact is, you're killing beastmen.
I didn't kill him. The beastman killed me, and he turned me into a beastman. Look at my arm.

　Flipping up his sleeve, he saw that the tiger's arms were covered in thick body hair. But his skin was so thin and dirty that he couldn't tell if it was hair or something else.

　The tiger claimed that he was originally human and that he had been grafted with the entrails of a beastman. But how is that possible? I don't know. Apparently he knew my face, which meant that he had been living in this country since at least the time of the Imperial War.

　After that, the tiger was awfully quiet.
　After a while, a warning line was set up around the orphanage. Sierra apologized, "I'm sorry for repeating myself.
　I was told later that that tiger was definitely the beast killer. They said that the blood in the clinic matched the blood in the tiger. I don't know much about that part of the story, but I heard that the traces left in the clinic and the man's magical properties were the same.







　A few days later, I offered to go and see the director of the clinic, who said he had regained consciousness from a strange itchy feeling, to visit him. Sierra was tolerant, saying, "That's about as far as it goes.

　Why is Ichijo still working with us? That's because this guy was standing in front of the gate when we left the Eccarlato mansion. I couldn't just say "f*ck off" without a second thought, and since he looked like he wanted to follow me, I told him to come if he wanted to come. How long are you going to stay?
　When we arrived in front of the hospital where the hospital director was admitted, I told Ichijo, "You won't be happy if you act with me.
'Happy?'
Why don't you marry a nobleman like Saeki, it would be more meaningful than the adventure?

　Of course, it would be a grave for me.

The best thing to do is to get a good idea of what you'll be doing later on. Hidaka, you'll have to do that sometime.
What?

　It's rude. But if I told him that, he wouldn't understand.

"Come on. Let's go.
'You didn't set your sights on Eliza because Alford wasn't there, did you?


　You are a bother. I ignored it and went into the hospital.