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Chapter 478: Spill as Much as You Ate

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Trust was a resource that could be exhausted too. With what little faith she had left, the regressor calmly watched Azzy and me from morning to night, observing what we did and how we spent our days with the patience of a mother watching her children.

"How can you not do a single thing properly?!"

As a result, my trust capital went bankrupt. Unable to contain her anger, the regressor grabbed me by the collar and shouted.

"You're spending money left and right! Empty food containers are all over the yard! And the only people who come into this mansion are delivery workers!"

"A housekeeper will be here soon too. They said they'd clean the whole mansion."

"That's not something to be proud of!"

The regressor released my collar and clutched her head. After taking several deep breaths, she muttered with a grim expression.

"Phew... It's fine. I haven't wasted any time. A month was still a quick turnaround for the merchant company work. I just need to start doing this properly now!"

"That's right. You can do it, Shei."

"You should be doing it! You're the King of Humanity! You said you had to defeat the wolves! You don't look remotely willing to do that!"

"But the situation here is so difficult."

I wanted to work hard. Still, what could an ordinary person do after being dropped into an unfamiliar city? No matter how much money he had, a drifter with no connections or information had obvious limits. It couldn't be helped that I hadn't achieved anything.

...That was the angle I should take. It would hurt my pride to admit I'd just been lazy. I grumbled and made excuses.

"There are so many different races that trouble and conflict break out all the time. I heard beastkin were discriminated against, but the moment I tried joining a clan, they started whispering, 'A human. It's a human.' They were wary because I smelled unfamiliar. What am I supposed to do?"

Ende's situation really was chaotic, so the regressor didn't particularly doubt me.

"I know. But the easiest way to resolve conflict between beastkin and humans is to use the Beast King. I thought you could do it."

"I told you, I lost my power."

"You have Azzy. The King of Dogs."

The regressor pointed to Azzy, who was happily gnawing on a bone. Oh, right. Even if she'd gotten nice and plump lately, she was still a king.

"Many of this city's influential figures are dog beastkin. Ende's mayor, Triber, is a dog beastkin with imperial blood. Since Triber understands the threat posed by wolves better than anyone, the mayor would've cooperated with you."

"You knew all that, and you left it to me?"

"I'm regretting it now. I should've told you every bit of information that anyone you grabbed off the street would know!"

'Ugh. Did I take this too lightly because I can regress? No. If he can't even manage this much, there's no reason to leave the job to him. I might as well do it myself.'

Really? I'd be happy if she did it for me.

Well, I did read the minds of passing people whenever I got bored. I knew the broad details of Ende's situation. I just hadn't thought of making connections by using Azzy like the regressor had.

"Phew. I need to get moving right away."

"Take it easy and fill your stomach first. Here, have some meat."

"I don't need it. I'll handle my own meals, so come up with some kind of plan before I get back!"

Tch. I'd offered it out of kindness. Like someone being chased, the regressor hurried off. She was going to meet the mayor through a merchant company she had connections with.

"She's busy~."

"Woof~."

Azzy and I slowly gnawed on our meat as we watched the regressor leave.

There wasn't much to a strategy. Dig pits, set traps to weaken their forces, then fight the King of Wolves. I'd leave that to the regressor.

What I needed to do was find people who could help and connect with Azzy. There was still meat on the rib I'd been gnawing, but a full beast was a merciful beast. I gladly tossed her the meaty bone. Azzy, who had been waiting eagerly, leaped up and snatched it before it hit the ground.

"Woof woof~."

"What an easy life~."

Living in a big house with a yard and raising a dog. It was nice and pastoral. If there were a woman beside me, it would be the perfect ordinary life.

...Though the regressor was here. She still believed she was disguised as a man, so she didn't stir much in me. Besides, she never even came into the house.

Ah, Tyr really was beautiful. Now that we were apart, I missed her. Wouldn't I meet anyone new around here?

"Is anyone home~?"

Oh. Was that the housekeeper I'd called? I'd asked them to buy some snacks on the way, and they arrived quickly. I strolled leisurely to the front gate.

I had to walk over whenever I wanted to receive something. That was the inconvenient thing about a house with a yard. I couldn't exactly leave the gate open.

Grumbling about the troubles of the well-fed, I opened the gate and found a hooded pig beastkin waiting outside, hiding something in their arms.

Did they send a pig beastkin as a housekeeper? Pig beastkin were good workers who handled unpleasant jobs, but I'd called for sheep beastkin. What was this?

"What brings you here?"

Despite me standing right in front of them, the pig beastkin ignored me and looked around the yard.

Azzy, scurrying around as she gnawed on meat. A sizable pile of delivery containers. And a mound of bones Azzy had collected like treasure after chewing, tearing, tasting, and enjoying them.

Had I been living too extravagantly? It was a little embarrassing to show a stranger the state of my home.

...No.

Wasn't it strange for a stranger who wasn't even a housekeeper to inspect my home?

"...Was it good?"

"Huh? What was? The beef soup from Kitchen Gluta? It was good."

"That wasn't beef. It was pork slaughtered in the outskirts. Gluta deceived you."

What? He lied about the ingredients? And then took the enormous sum of 40 alke from me?

I'd enjoyed it, but now I suddenly felt terrible. Unless I got ten free meal vouchers, I wouldn't calm down.

"Thank you, whistleblower. I'll go complain immediately. He needs to give me my money back."

"Is that all?"

"Do you need something else?"

The moment I asked that, a cold gleam flashed from inside the pig beastkin's clothes. Before I could react, sharp hostility pierced my body.

"Urk!"

I screamed and collapsed as the blade stabbed me. A wet stain gradually spread across my clothes. The pig beastkin looked down at me with malicious delight.

"You use a dog as a guard dog and fill your belly with pigs... Oink oink. It was nice when you were taking from us, wasn't it? How does it feel now that you're on the receiving end?"

"Ugh... Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?"

"If you don't know, learn. I'm letting you off because you ate it after being deceived. Oink!"

The pig beastkin pulled their hood lower and fled at full speed. Even as a pig, they were beastkin, so they ran quite fast. Swallowing back my groans, I desperately moved to close the gate. Only after the lock clicked into place did I breathe a sigh of relief and lean against it, panting.

"Woof?"

When I looked up, Azzy had come over and was watching me with concern. This stupid dog was supposed to be a guard dog? What kind of guard dog couldn't even bite a human? She was just a bottomless pit.

Suddenly resentful of Azzy, I bit my lip and groaned.

"A person got stabbed, so what are you staring at?! Hurry up and call the police!"

"Woof? You didn't get stabbed."

"...Surprise!"

Why was a dog so smart? Had she noticed there was no smell of blood?

I discreetly pulled out the meat I'd hidden inside my clothes. The bone-in meat bore a deep knife mark.

I'd pressed the meat against myself as though I'd been stabbed, then squeezed it to let the juices run out. The pig beastkin mistook the juices spreading beneath my clothes for blood, assumed the job was done, and ran away.

It was a good thing I'd ordered one extra serving. I tossed the cut meat to Azzy and muttered.

"Where did they find an idiot like that to send as a killer? Ah, maybe they weren't even a killer."

This was simply terrorism. A terrorist who followed delivery workers, remembered houses where people ate meat, then went around stabbing them indiscriminately. They hadn't attacked because I was the King of Humanity or because I was Hughes. I'd been stabbed solely because I'd eaten pork.

"This city's rough. I thought I'd been living comfortably for a month, spending money and having fun... I never expected to get attacked."

Ende was a frontier city. I'd thought money would make it heaven, but life wasn't so easy.

As I sat there thinking, Azzy tilted her head at me.

"Why did you get stabbed?"

"What am I supposed to do when someone stabs me? Get stabbed, of course."

"Woof? Dodge!"

"If I dodge, they'll stab harder next time. It's better to get stabbed once. If they only stab me a little, it doesn't hurt."

What if another one came after me once I dealt with this one? It was better to make them think I'd been attacked.

Still, getting stabbed hurt. Rubbing my aching side, I spoke.

"But Azzy, isn't it a little interesting?"

"Woof."

Azzy shook her head. It seemed she wasn't interested in fights between humans. But that was from a dog's perspective.

"A pig beastkin stabs people for eating pork? Do they think pigs are their ancestors? Not humans?"

Interesting. I wanted to read some more thoughts.

"Baaaa~. Baaaa~. We're housekeepers from Team Wool~. Are you Mr. Hughes, who made the reservation~?"

As I thought about it, I sensed a group milling around in front of the gate. They were the real housekeepers sent by the clan made up mainly of sheep beastkin.

I lightly got up and opened the gate. The sheep beastkin had cleaned the mansion three times already, so they politely bowed and immediately got to work. Azzy's body twitched at the sight of the sheep beastkin bustling around, but I couldn't let her bother the housekeepers, so I pulled her away.

"Azzy. Let's go for a walk."

"Woof!"

Regressor, it turned out just as you wanted. I was finally going to take on a great challenge out in the world.

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