The Shapeshifter Academy was bustling with excitement wherever you went.
Huff, huff.
I dragged the saddle of happiness to a corner, trying to hide my presence.
As I took off my stifling hood, my lightly wavy crimson hair flowed down.
Even though I had completely left the vicinity of the academy, I didn’t have the courage to return as a deer merfolk. Diart is a carnivorous merfolk city, after all.
“Hmm….”
I ran out of the academy as if I were escaping, but once I reached the city center, I couldn’t think of anywhere to go.
Happy snorted roughly beside me, interrupting my thoughts.
It seemed like he didn’t quite like the fact that I had left the academy. It must have been quite luxurious living in the stables.
I muttered with a voice that crawled.
“I couldn’t help it.”
Even passing a carnivorous merfolk on the street is scary enough. I couldn’t handle the carnivorous merfolk who would rush in to claim the authority of the student council president.
“I really couldn’t help it….”
In truth, it wasn’t just an excuse for Happy, but a justification for myself.
The moment I met Renen’s eyes stained with instinct.
The moment I faced the reason I was elected as the student council president.
Every time, I had one thought.
I don’t want to die.
When I came to my senses, I was packing my belongings and my feet were heading outside the academy. There was no point in fighting anymore.
“Now, where should I go?”
Sitting with my back against the wall, Happy and I blankly watched the busy pedestrians passing by. I was envious that they had a destination to diligently head towards.
We sat there for a while.
I stood up, tapping my numb legs, and pulled Happy’s saddle.
“Let’s just start moving.”
Since I had to go somewhere anyway.
Before I completely exhausted the magic of the artifact and turned back into a deer, I had to leave the territory of the carnivorous merfolk.
“Before that….”
How toxic would my father be?
Until now, I couldn’t find out the situation of Patrian because I couldn’t contact the members of the adventure team.
There was a possibility that my location would be exposed and the adventure team would be in danger.
It would be better to find out the general trend of the herbivorous territory before leaving.
The footsteps of Happy and I headed towards the shops.
The first shop.
“A newspaper about the herbivorous territory? Who brings that in?”
The second shop.
“We don’t have it!”
The third and fourth.
“Oh, well, we don’t have it!”
Coming out of the fifteenth shop and closing the door, I took a deep breath.
“How is it that there isn’t even one shop that handles it?”
There really was a lack of communication, but this was excessive.
As my face turned red, I regained my senses and bit my lip.
Because I had completely lost my temper, I was able to hide in the territory of the carnivorous merfolk, away from my father’s eyes.
“Happy, that’s the last one. That’s really the last one.”
Was it just my imagination that the veins on Happy’s forehead were visible?
I pointed to a hole-in-the-wall shop near the train station, trying to calm down a frustrated Happy.
“Excuse me….”
When I opened the creaky door, the shop owner immediately yelled at me.
“Eh, where’s the animal being brought in!”
Ah. Startled, I wrapped the saddle around the entrance pillar.
“Happy, wait here for a moment.”
Happy snorted, seemingly ignoring my words.
I cautiously opened the door and entered the shop, where the shop owner shouted.
“Do you happen to handle a newspaper about the herbivorous territory? I don’t care which territory.”
“A newspaper about the herbivorous territory?”
The shopkeeper scratched his ear and casually replied.
“Who would handle something like that?”
As expected. Disappointed, I turned away,
“Oh!”
The shopkeeper’s exclamation caught my attention.
“Come to think of it, a few copies were wrongly delivered four days ago. The logistics got messed up.”
“I’ll buy them. Which territory’s newspaper was it?”
“That…I think it was goats.”
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