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Volume 4 Chapter 68

Fenrir the Divine Beast

The wolf is blankly staring at me.

But strangely it doesn’t feel dangerous.

[Did I wake you up? Sorry.]

I apologized anyway.

[…You’re a human?]

Earlier, he spoke directly into my brain, like the telepathic language used by the sylphs, but this time he spoke to me in a normal voice.

[Right, I’m a human, but…]

What else can you see?

[I thought the demon king was trying to rouse me out of my reverie and take me to war.]

[Demon king? No, I’m just an ordinary mortal!]

[You have strong enough power to wake me from my deep slumber in this land, and yet you claim to be a mere mortal?]

As he said that , the wolf came closer to my face.

[Don’t you try to mess with me, do you understand? Do you want me to bite that head off?]

Eh? I’m not sure what his deal was, but since he is threatening me, let’s deal with it accordingly.

I gather the magic power released around me and give it the attribute of wind.

Then, I compressed that wind into a super-density and dropped it on the wolf that threatened me.

[Guhaha!]

I held down the back of the wolf’s neck and then its limbs with a pillar of dense wind.

The wolf went into a prone position in front of me.

[What? I can’t move! Did you do this to me?]

Didn’tyoudoit yourself?

[Are you kidding me! Who do you think I am, to be hampered with this thing!]

The pillar of wind began to be pushed back as the wolf strained his body.

Hmmm, so I guess one is not good enough.

[Then I’ll add this one to the list. Thunderlance!]

The pillar of wind that restrains the wolf is clothed with high voltage.

[──!? Ugga-ga-ga, no, stop. Please don’t do this…

The wolf started to get up a bit, but his body went numb and he went back to a prone position.

Then, as he pleaded with a trembling voice, I left the wind restraints in place and only extinguished the blitz.

If it was a B-ranked demon, an Orc King or so, they could be turned into charcoal, but since his body seemed to be numb even after receiving it, it seemed that this wolf was a very high level demon.

[What are you!? There’s no way even the Demon King could easily restrain me, a divine beast, so easily. Could you be a part of the god race?]

[No, like I said before, I’m just a ordinary mortal.. a divine beast?]

Hold up, he’s a divine-beast?

A divine beast is a beast that is sent by a god, and it was said that there are five of them in this world.

Speaking of divine beasts in the form of white wolves…

[Are you the Divine Beast, Fenrir?]

[What do you know about me?]

It seems like the divine beast fenrir is real.

He seemed to have realized that his resistance was futile, and turned kind of quiet.

[Before I go about that, don’t bite me. If you try to bite me, I’ll hold you down some more.]

Okay, okay.

With a little threat, I erased the pillar of wind that was restraining Fenrir.

[Now, I didn’t think a mortal could capture me.. Are you certain you’re not a demon king?’]

[You’re irritating me with that demon king thing.]

Saying that, Ishow the lightning charging on my fingertips.

Hi, hi!]

Fenrir backed away.

Wow, okay. You’re just a human! I won’t ask you if you’re a demon anymore!

It seems that the electric shocks just now have been working too well.

It’s a terrible thing to call someone a demon king.

[So you were asleep, right? I’m sorry to wake you up. I don’t have any business with you, so you can go back to sleep if you want, okay?]

I was surprised to find a divine beast sleeping beside my parents’ house, but since I had no particular need for it, I wanted it to sleep peacefully again.

A god that doesn’t touch you will never be cursed.

I did touch it, though.

[The thing is, I only wake up in response to the request of a god. And when the god’s work is done by me, I naturally fall asleep. But now that I’ve woken up in response to your enormous magical power, I don’t know what to do.]

Then Fenrir looks at me.

For some reason, his tail was swinging wildly from side to side.

Fenrir is looking at me as if he wants to be my mate.

[Do you want to be my mate?]

▶▶ Yes.

▷No

It was as if I could see such a display.

[Well, if you don’t have anything to do, do you want to come with me?]

[You sure?]

Oh, an unexpected bite.

[To be honest, I was worried because I’ve never had anything happen to me that wasn’t a divine call. And I don’t know what’s taken place in the world without a divine call.]

[You sure you want to come along?]

[What, do you not desire to ?]

Fenrir’s tail flutters.

I feel a little sorry for him.

Well, since I’m the one who woke him up, I guess I’m responsible for it.

[You can follow me, but can’t you do something about the size of it?

[You mean the body?　Can we make it smaller?

[Yeah. As you can imagine, at that size, it’s a big deal when you go into town.

No matter how you look at it, it’s a high-ranking demon.

If you’re not good at it, you might get attacked just by getting close to the city.

[Alright, I understand.”

White smoke rose from Fenrir’s body, and his body became smaller and smaller.

[Is this how it is?”

Oh.

It fits into my hands, just big enough to fit in both of mine.

I gently pick him up and place him on my shoulder.

He was a bit wobbly, but he seemed to have found a stable position.

[Hmm, I’ve never been on a human’s shoulder before, but it’s not bad.

[I see. Okay, I’ll go back to my wizarding academy, but don’t try to scare everyone.

[Yes, I know. I know, but are you sure you want to be your own personal messenger?

[You’re a divine beast, and that’s what you want?

I’ll be fine. More importantly, let me have a good meal. I had this curry made by a human once, and it was very good.

I like curry.

I thought it should be more like this, with raw meat that drips blood or something.

Well, I love the curry that Tina makes, so let’s have her make curry for dinner tonight.

We should have a welcome party for Fenrir.

[Oh, you didn’t tell me your name. I’m Haruto-Elnor. It’s a pleasure to meet you.

[I am Fenrir, the divine beast. But Fenrir is my species name, not my name. Haruto, I will allow you to give me a name.

It’s kind of over the top.

Well, it’s a divine beast, so what can you do?

Hmm, it’s just a name. What should I do about it?

It’s white, so…

White.

[Haruto, are you with your dog?　More like this, Schwartz or Schneider or some other cool name.

[Okay, Shirou!　Let’s go home.]

[Mm, he’s not gonna change his mind.]

Fenrir, White and I moved to the magic academy with transfer magic.