Chapter 51

In the end, Liz didn’t delve much into her background that day.
The situation of an 8-year-old girl being abandoned in the slums was an extraordinary case.

Just thinking about it was painful, and it was hard to imagine anything other than some traumatic experience.
Moreover, after seeing the marks on Liz’s body when she came out of the bath, there was no doubt that something had gone wrong.

So, for now, my perspective was that we should stay together until at least her physical condition improved.

Although Lilith and I had separate rooms, I suggested to Lilith that we should all stay together until we put Liz to sleep, and that’s how things stood at the moment.
In the dark room, I was lying on the couch with a blanket over me, half-awake, and Liz was fast asleep in the bed, cradled by Lilith.

After exactly 45 minutes had passed, Liz started snoring, so I lightly tapped the floor.
Lilith tapped the wall as well.
It was a signal to indicate that she had cast an extremely gentle sleep-inducing spell to make sure Liz’s sleep wouldn’t be disrupted.

In silence and without making a sound, we both got up.
We carefully opened the door, and then we entered the other room.

As I lit the lamp, Lilith used magic to change the pot’s water into hot water and brewed herbal tea.
We worked in silence and without speaking, for a few minutes.

With the fragrant herbal tea in a cup in my hand, I spoke.

「Hey, Lilith?」

「…What is it?」

「About that girl…」

「…What about her?」

「It might seem like I picked her up, but… deep down, it’s you who wanted to, right?」

「…Nn.」

Lilith was originally a slave, and despite her generally unrelenting personality, she had a soft spot for powerless children, perhaps due to her past experiences.

「So… what do you plan to do after picking her up?」

「…I intended to put her in an orphanage after her weakened condition improved. I could arrange it through Cordelia Allston or the Guild Master here. That way, she should be placed in a decent facility… But,」

「But a problem has arisen…」

「…To be honest, I’m in a bit of a dilemma too.」

When Liz returned from the bath, both Lilith and I had confirmed an astonishing fact.
That’s why we immediately instructed Liz to wear a hood, and we intended to buy her a more proper robe with a hood tomorrow.

「Yeah, you’re right. Being an elf-beastman hybrid is far from ordinary.」

That’s right, Liz had… beast ears.
Liz’s appearance had the typical characteristics of an elf, with slender features, golden hair, azure eyes, and an abnormally pale, smooth complexion.
It gave her a fragile, glass-like impression, which only intensified the delicate look of her features.

However, her long elf ears weren’t her actual ears.
They were fake, attachable ears, and her real ears were closer to the top of her head, hidden amidst her golden locks.

Liz had been concealing this fact all along, but in the bath, she couldn’t hide it anymore.

「Throughout history, elves and beastmen have been considered natural enemies.」

In the world of demi-humans, which included humans, conflicts were frequent.
While they would conduct necessary minimal trade when it’s mutually beneficial, but things were different when there is already animosity between the species,

Elves, who built a civilization primarily based on magic, flaunted their knowledge and often displayed arrogance.
In contrast, beastmen, relying on physical abilities, lived a more primitive lifestyle but took pride in their prowess as warriors.

Both are fellow inhabitants of the forest, but their values are different, and their appearance are different too.

Even on modern-day Earth, conflicts have erupted over trivial differences in skin color—a sad history filled with countless wars and tragedies.
In a sense, it was a saga of humanity—a story where getting along was an impossible proposition from the start.

「To make matters worse, the curse seal placed on Liz requires a lot of gold, effort, and people. So, when we talk about the beastmen’s country, it’s usually Makkinri, right? And for the elves, it’s Forestlane, right?」

「…Yeah.」

「It’s probably a political struggle. Liz might have noble or even royal blood from one side or, in the worst case, both. Or if not that, she might be connected to an extremely important figure.」

In which world would someone go to the trouble of placing a curse on a street child, costing tens of millions of Japanese yen?
Lilith seemed to be thinking the same as me and nodded.

「…I’m sorry.」

「Why are you apologizing?」

「We need to quickly raise our guild rank… and we’ve really gotten ourselves into a mess. To be honest… if we just leave her in an ordinary orphanage, it’s the same as leaving that child to die.」

In reality, it would be.
Setting aside a child in such a state in a slum, there would be a lot of intricate circumstances involved.

Normally, street children like Liz, lying in the slums, wouldn’t have much hope, so in that sense, the people who drove Liz to this point were correct in their calculations.
An intrusive person like us is nothing more than an irregularity.

「Well, they’ll probably come after us in one way or another.」

「…I’m sorry.」

「No need to worry.」

「Huh?」

「Because you were determined to pick her up from the moment you first saw that child, right? Going papa, mama or onee-chan well, let’s set aside that little skits.」

「…Un.」

「You decided to pick her up, and I thought that was fine. So… we have no choice but to shelter her for a while.」

Lilith nodded at those words and then put her hand on the room’s door.

「…For now, I… will sleep with that child. No, I have to sleep with her right now.」

「Why?」

「Because she has animal ears.」

Come to think of it, this girl… she willingly went to sleep with Liz when putting her to bed.
Her hood on her clothes also looked like cat ears, probably because it was Lilith’s preference.

Then I realized…

I see… It seems that Lilith is a furry.

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