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(Henryk's Diary)
Monday, 19/10/1058:
Shira's form is still taking shape.
Today she started forming the general shape of her body first, loosely so. The shape is unclear.
Tione, the older twin (that bit surprised me. It usually is the more petite one who is older between siblings, according to anime laws), was especially fixated on asking me when she could meet Shira. She expressed the desire to make her a friend of hers.
My lesson with lady Riveria, along with some intrusive elves, reached a most basic understanding of Genomics and some basic understanding in Anatomy. I even tested her. To my surprise, she could understand yesterday's lesson and analyse it in a night and maybe some of the morning.
'Tis truly a pity. She should've been born in an era when she could have had more to learn, much more than now.
Carillon told me about his rank-up to level 4 from level 2 before it was announced at the guild, even going as far as to tell me before Bell. He jumped a level because of how long he edged his rank-up to level 3.
Him choosing to tell me first made my heart warm up. I hate, despise, abhor and am absolutely disgusted by how my heart warmed up because of who was essentially a younger Norman with a rabbit's mask.
It's alien to me to be like this towards him.
Note from the next day: Future me, don't believe this guy. He is actually happy deep down.
Tuesday, 20/10/1058:
Shira's transformation progressed to where her hands and legs are taking form as small limbs without any fingers or toes.
After breakfast, lady Riveria asked me to change locations for our lesson. She said something about the student count shooting up drastically.
Among the 200-ish members, ~10% of which are elves by the way, around 50 of them wanted to attend. We agreed that the best place for this large number was the mess hall. Not to mention, we started making disturbance for the few who were not participating in our lesson inside the library.
During the break of today's lesson, a blonde, the heroine of this world's novel, Ais Wallenstein her name was, she looked at me with a blank, empty stare. It was unsettling. I ignored her as I played with the pups.
After the lesson, I finally had had enough. I wanted to grant Fey a home that she could be comfortable with. A kapok tree, or rather something that looks like it. Any tall tree with strong branches near the top will do, really.
I'll need to go tame some intimidating monsters to guard the tree. Maybe a black Goliath would do the trick. Most people wouldn't dare fight it for no apparent reason.
The good thing is that I got Ganesha's permission today. Finally, after a week of entering the city, I got a permit to tame and use animals and monsters.
Now, how does one force the damned Goliath of all things to turn into a black variant? A level 5 monster would have been the best intimidation to guard Fey's tree.
Fey asked me if she could just move into Tione and Tiona's room and live with them for a while. I kept rejecting until Tiona genuinely bowed down and begged. I couldn't say no after seeing what lengths she was willing to go through.
(AN: You can stop reading here since the next part, along with part 2 of the chapter, are a broader telling of the last entry of Henryk's Diary. But I would appreciate it if you could spare the time to scroll down to read at least the fight Henryk has with a member of Ganesha's familia. I want your feedback on it)
(Tuesday, 20/10/1058)
(3rd person PoV)
Henryk finished the day's lessons early today, telling Riveria that he needed to get permission from the Ganesha familia to use his taming skill and utilize the creatures subjected to it.
Some of the elves objected, not only because he was telling their princess what he said. A few began to genuinely enjoy the lesson, even if it was essentially Henryk dumping information on them until someone asks why things are as they are or going on an unrelated tangent to cause them nightmares. He was successful in causing some of them to have said nightmares (Think SCP-1027 with more details on the smaller branching nerve endings, every single one). He planned to explain better once they have enough information to link and analyze it to make up new information.
"Fey!" Henryk called Fey's name with open arms. He wanted to send a message. It was received.
"Papa~!" Fey dove directly at him. He was tackled to the ground as he hugged her like that for minutes before coming back to reality.
"Fey, Papa needs to go somewhere. Would Fey like to come along?" Henryk asked while tilting his head at Fey, imitating her.
Fey looked at Tiona for a moment and made her choice.
'She hesitated' Henryk thought with both bitterness and relief. He also got some pride mixed into the storm of emotions Fey's hesitation caused him.
'Is this what it feels like to see your children grow up to become more independent?' Henryk wondered.
"Where to?" Fey asked with a tilted head, making someone almost have a heart throb.
"Papa needs to get Mama some new clothes and also meet Ganesha. I might walk around as well" Henryk said while stroking Fey's feathers.
"Tiona~ Come~?" Fey looked at Tiona with pleading eyes and a tone to match.
'I need to make her voice softer on the ears, just a tad bit more' Henryk thought. Although Fey's voice improved over time, she still has a voice box that did not make it easy for her to talk with the desired amount of clarity, not to mention softness.
"Alright! When are we going?" Tiona crouched down near Henryk, her getting much too close for his comfort. To get out of this situation, he sold out someone else, someone very useful in this kind of situation.
"You come as well, Carillon! I know you're hiding behind the northern corner of the manor!" Henryk exposed Carillon's location.
Carillon bolted off from behind the corner and towards the gate, attempting to escape from Tiona's sights and lose her in some crowd.
"Not so fast!" He was hugged violently from behind, barely holding on and not falling to the ground with Tiona on his back.
"Leave me be!" Carillon screamed at her in vain. Tiona would never let go unless she wanted to.
"Fey wants to play too~!" Fey flew right into them, forcing Carillon and his load off-balance and to the awaiting dirt.
Carillon's face was met by the soft grass, welcomed by it. As for Fey, she thought they were playing. Carillon knew that this was a hopeless case once Fey thought as she did.
"And now I ask, why do you reject her so much?" Henryk asked him. He not so secretly enjoyed the sight before him.
"Might I remind you of how old I am?" Carillon said loudly. He did not squirm to try and get out from under Fey. She would just jump at him again, voiding any attempt to get up.
"Is it only that? If so, why not be engaged until you're of age?" Henryk said, making Tiona's eyes gain a dangerous glint to them, an expectant one.
"Say it! Say it!" She excitedly said.
"I... Um... I fear I might act... recklessly around her..." Carillon said in a muted voice. He felt ashamed of himself for admitting that he found her attractive enough to be reckless around her.
"You don't dislike polygamy, do you?" Henryk turned his head to face Tiona, who was sandwiched between Carillon from below and Fey from above. 'What's this? Amazoness sandwich?'
"Not in the slightest! As long as I get him to love me, I don't mind him being with more women!" Tiona said. Her excitement became enthusiasm, and she started vibrating with pent-up hopes and dreams. Actually, her imagination went as far as to imagine a little girl that looked like a mix between them.
"Don't play Cupid with me!" Carillon whined in defeat. He was teamed up on, outnumbered and his situation hopeless. 'I should just give up and enjoy it once I'm 15. Damn, man. To think that a mere 5 years with Zeus corrupted my morals this much' He remembered another family member deserving of blame. 'Though I loved you with what little time you had with us when we were infants, I hate you to hell and back, father. An unrepentant perv for a father, and an even bigger one for a grandfather. What luck we had!'
"What's a 'Cuoped'?" Tiona said. She was curious what kind of meaning this 'Cuoped' has.
"It isn't Cuoped, but Cupid. Cupid's an angel or a deity of love, one who brings couples together or separates them. Do with that what you will" Henryk said as he stood up and left them under Fey. It was for the sole reason to make Carillon mad.
'That felt refreshing!' He stretched his arms with a smile.
'Futura, where are all of you?' Henryk thought after opening his link with Futura.
'Witnessing a disgusting amount of flirting unfold' Futura's inner voice sounded dead. She wanted an out and away from this hell.
'Then come with us. We're going to walk outside manor grounds' He suggested an out from her personal hell. Futura promptly shot up and ran to the front gates like her life depended on it. Ouros followed his mother, the two girls hot on his tail.
[Mom! Wait for me!] (Wolvish) Ouros wanted to see what made her spring up so quickly when she was sunbathing so calmly a moment prior.
[Prata! Platina! Hold him down! You can have him for yourselves!] (Wolvish) Futura wanted some peace of mind. The busy crowds were more peaceful to her than the flirting she was witnessing for the past few days. It bore her.
[With pleasure!] (Wolvish) Both of them replied as they pounced on Ouros and pinned him down. Their tails swished as they just got some private time in this quiet corner of the yard with some small bushes around them.
[Mom! Help!] (Wolvish) Ouros yelped, distressed. He got no help.
(Minutes later)
'You just left him with his girls? How cruel' Henryk said to Futura.
'It's his responsibility to keep his relationships intact on his own. Another correction to make is that I didn't leave him there, he was kept there by the two girls he was flirting with' Futura brutalized her son in her thoughts.
'Fair enough' Henryk said, ending that conversation then and there.
'Fey, get up from their backs. The three of you need to accompany me' Henryk said to Fey.
'Okay~' Fey got up. Carillon finally got both loads off of his back. Now, the problem now is the load attached to his arm.
(At Ganesha's home)
"Are you kidding me?" Henryk gawked at the sight before him. It was not a gawk of awe or amazement. Rather, it was one of shock. "How much of a narcissist does someone need to be to commission this?" He pointed at a building with a shaking finger and a twitching eye.
"What you see isn't the result of narcissism. It's the result of showboating" Carillon said in a monotonous tone. His expression soured as he remembered something bitter. "Scratch that! He's definitely narcissistic!" He shouted, which made some familia members passing around them cringe. They got to feel the same way he did at some point.
'That's obscene by human standards, isn't it?' Futura was not particularly disgusted. She compared it to her race sniffing each other's butts and wrote off Ganesha's actions as more normal by human standards. She was merely shocked at the audacity.
'If he wanted to make it disturbing and awkward to enter his familia's home, then he succeeded' Henryk replied to her as he stepped forward. In spite of his displeasure with the design, knowing that it was not his place to dictate how a god made his home, Henryk got things to be done.
"I wo~n't be going anywhere close to there!" Tiona released her hold of Carillon's arm, making him appreciate Ganesha for a moment. Not a moment more, though, and he returned to being disgusted by the choice of entrance. Ganesha's home was a building in his image and its main entrance is at the area where his crotch is.
'I could probably request Futura's cooperation while Fey flies around with Tiona. She'd protect Fey from sneak attacks, too' Henryk contemplated the thought deeply.
"Fey could go with Tiona" He said to Fey, imitating her speech habit of referring to herself solely by name.
"Yay!" She flopped on top of him as thanks before leaving.
'I want to spend more time with you, Fey. But you also need to experience the feelings that are entailed by friendship. No matter how short a time it'll be, I'll miss you' Henryk kept this thought to himself before opening the mental link.
'Fey, you could give her a fly around the city if she wants it' Henryk told Fey once they were at a distance. 'I'll keep my mind open for when you want to tell me something, Fey, my dear daughter'
'Fey loves Papa!' Fey lovingly sent her appreciation back through the mental link, both emotionally and in words.
"Could I leave as well?" Carillon said with an unsure tone. "Bell's waiting for me around Babel to go to the dungeon together" He was looking at Babel's base.
"Another one down for the count" He ruffled Futura's ears. "Should we go, old lady?" He got a bite on his hand for saying that.
'I'm still young inside' Futura said to him.
'With a temper like that, you're still youthful. Only if your personality was softer... sigh~' Henryk provoked her intentionally. Futura replied silently by squinting her eyes at him and snarling slightly.
'Okay, I'll stop now' He said.
'Only if you were a wolf' Futura said, forgetting for a moment that the link was still open. Henryk heard her thoughts and suddenly froze solid in his steps. He stared at her with scrutinizing eyes as her ears flattened against her head in shame. 'Please... forget you ever... heard that'
'I'll only delay talking about it for now' Henryk said. He was expecting the worst possibility.
'Maybe since they're so emotionally developed, they have the very tiny, yet real, possibility to develop lust or romantic love to something outside their own species. I hope she only meant it in a milder way, hopefully not a romantic one' He thought to himself.
"Good afternoon" Henryk greeted one of the Ganesha familia members who was about to go in. That stopped the man in his tracks. He was old-looking but had a build that showed his active state.
"Good afternoon to you too, young man" The man replied with a soft smile. "I remember seeing you enter the city just recently. Are you here to get permission as a tamer?" He said while looking at Futura, who looked back as to challenge him into a one-sided staring contest. She was the self-appointed winner when he looked back at Henryk.
"Yes, I'm here exactly for that" Henryk said. "By the way, my name's Henryk Williams"
"Hashana Dorlia. Follow me; I'll lead you where you need to go" Hashana said.
As they walked in with Futura in tow, Hashana got overwhelmed by curiosity.
"Why didn't you join our familia? I reckon that would have been an obvious move for a tamer like yourself" Hashana said. He sported an easygoing and friendly attitude. His tone reflected that even when his face was not visible to Henryk.
"I didn't want to join a familia that's directly responsible for people's safety. That kind of responsibility isn't something I want to shoulder" Henryk said. He was trying to read Hashana's reaction to his words.
"Only if you asked first. There are people who don't get that kind of responsibility. To compensate for that, they get delivery missions and monster capture missions when it's around time for Monster Feria" Hashana said. "By the way, how much experience do you have with taming? Have you tried it with monsters yet? Maybe you could participate in this Feria if you had the skill to show" He added.
"I AM GANESHA!!" It was then that Hashana knew, something was amess.
(End of Part 1 of the Chapter)
If you must go now, be well, ladies and gentlemen.