I Got Possessed, But the Monster Beast Is Adorable - Chapter 27

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#27

As if getting revenge for all this time, I gritted my teeth and shot a warning at Number 1, who was mocking and ridiculing me to his heart’s content.

“Don’t tease me, or I’ll stomp on you with my hooves. Neighhhh!”

Ugh, now I’m even making neighing sounds!

With the addition of horse whinnying, I felt like my human dignity was being destroyed, so I buried my head in the ground again.

“Zoe, you’ll get hurt if you keep doing that.”

Then Ruan, who had been watching me in despair, blocked my forehead buried in the ground with his hand, then lifted me up with both hands.

My large eyes, suddenly lifted by Ruan, turned toward his violet pupils.

“Ruan… Neighhhh!”

Ah, please stop with the neighing sounds. Really.

“Um, Zoe.”

Just when I was on the verge of dying from shame, Ruan, who had been examining my dirt-covered forehead, carefully parted his lips.

“This isn’t really the right time to say this, but this foal… somehow seems to resemble you, Zoe.”

“What?!”

Along with those words, Ruan’s lips curved into an arc as he lifted me up to examine me from various angles.

Ah, this, this. That’s his face when he’s found another teasing opportunity!

“No, at first I wondered why you transformed into a foal of all the many animals. But looking at you now, there seem to be some similarities between you and Zoe.”

Ruan’s gaze turned toward my short arms and legs as he said this.

Aha, so that’s what he meant by resemblance?

God, I’m sending up one handsome man to you today.

I offered a prayer inwardly and then struck Ruan’s face hard with my tiny hoof.

“Ow.”

“If you tease me one more time, I’ll kick somewhere else next time. Neigh.”

“If Zoe were a knight, I would have recommended you for the Chevalier Order.”

The Chevalier Order is the northern knight order that Ruan mentioned before.

Something about how if I joined the knight order, I could subdue all the knights there. Really asking for trouble.

At that muttering, I immediately glared at Ruan’s other parts, and sensing my killing intent, he carefully set me down on the ground.

“Ahem, looking again, you don’t resemble each other at all.”

Even while gently rubbing his cheek that had turned red from my uppercut, Ruan’s crinkled eye corners showed no signs of returning to normal.

Sigh, I’ll let it slide because his smiling face is pretty.

“Lady Zoe, didn’t you say you had to go down to the village today? But… um, in this state…”

Golem asked me with a worried expression.

Come to think of it, today was the day I was supposed to go down to the village to register as a merchant.

My current location is at the edge of the Belnuaire Territory in the northern region of the empire.

According to Ruan, there’s a small village about three days away by carriage from here.

That village was close to the Altus Mountains where an outpost was established to guard against monsters, so it seemed to be a place where dispatched Chevalier knights also restocked food and equipment and took rest.

“That’s the problem… Neigh. Of all times, tomorrow is the deadline for merchant registration, so how can I register as a merchant in this state!”

“Lady Zoe, you’re suffering because of me. Hmm, how about waiting for the next registration period?”

“But we have so many clothing orders backed up right now. I need to register as a merchant as soon as possible to put out Somphara’s clothes.”

“Lady Zoe… I’m truly moved… I’ll also bring you the items you requested as quickly as possible!”

Somphara’s eyes glistened with tears as he showed a look of devoted loyalty.

Well, such a reaction was understandable.

Why? Because I had freed Somphara from his slave contract.

The full story of how I gained Somphara’s complete trust was as follows.

Somphara had been trading with ‘Crowdy,’ a scarecrow monster that could speak human language, to sell Somphara’s clothes to humans. But these creatures were so cunning that they had joined forces with the merchants trading with Crowdy to exploit Somphara’s labor.

I could finally understand Somphara’s fed-up attitude when he made clothes for me before.

Being the same kind of monster, yet exploiting your own kind?

This is why they say when traveling abroad, be careful of your own countrymen, not foreigners.

Anyway, I rolled up my sleeves for Somphara, who wanted to have his clothes worn by many humans.

The first thing I did when I went to find Crowdy was to burn the contract that was no different from a slave contract.

Haha, well. There wasn’t no resistance from Crowdy in that process, but I resolved it amicably. How did I resolve it, you ask?

“Really, those scarecrow bastards have no conscience. Neigh! Ah, I should have broken one more branch.”

I rolled my hooves on the ground and spat out menacingly.

Actually, I only intended to scare them a little. But as soon as I grabbed the wooden Crowdy’s arm, it broke off helplessly with a snap.

I was somewhat flustered because he made such a fuss about it hurting, but since Somphara said from the side that Crowdy’s body could regenerate, I broke a few more parts and he became docile.

Mm, it was a very amicable resolution method.

“You’ll hurt your feet doing that, Zoe.”

Since this was apparently a construction site for building a house, there were sharp objects scattered all over the ground, so Ruan lifted me into his arms again with a worried expression.

“Well, I was quite surprised to hear what Zoe said. Somphara Clan’s clothes are secretly traded at quite high prices even among nobles. Even while outwardly disparaging them as monster techniques.”

Ruan’s eyebrows twitched slightly as he spoke in a sarcastically gentle tone.

Ruan always made that rotten smile whenever nobles were mentioned, so it seemed his identity was indeed set as an imperial bastard oppressed by nobles.

How’s that, my brilliant deduction. The truth is always one.

“That’s right. Neigh. Somphara’s clothes are so amazing.”

I nodded and looked at Ruan’s white poet shirt that Somphara had made.

‘Didn’t Somphara say he made that shirt with special breathable fabric too?’

The poet shirt with voluminous sleeves and the striped sash wrapped around his waist as an accent upgraded Ruan’s beauty to another level.

Well, Ruan seemed happy just to be able to take off his apron…

Like this, Somphara boasted very excellent quality because he gathered rare natural materials and magical fibers to make clothes. Perhaps because of this, Ruan had told me that Somphara’s clothes were so popular they couldn’t keep up with demand despite their high prices.

But the problem was that he received far too little compensation in return…

Anyway, since the deal was blocked after the conflict with Crowdy, I was going to look for other merchants directly, but Somphara, who had clearly realized his own value in the process of dealing with Crowdy amicably, said he couldn’t trust other humans anymore and came to ask me for help.

If I registered as a merchant myself and brought Somphara’s clothes to sell at the merchant guild, we would split the profits at a certain ratio.

Well, it was a grateful proposal with no loss for me. I had to sell the crops from my vegetable garden in the village anyway. Moreover, since I could communicate with both humans and monsters, there was no one more suitable than me.

“What should I do? The next merchant registration period isn’t available until a month later…”

A month would be too much of a loss, so I could only roll my eyes around, unable to do this or that.

Then Ruan, who had been watching me in my dilemma, spoke up.

“Zoe, then shall I register on your behalf?”

“Neighhhh? Is that possible?”

“Yes, it should be possible. Although it’s prohibited by imperial law, the merchant guild leader of Belnuaire and I are… um, well acquainted.”

After thinking deeply about something for a moment, Ruan soon answered with a confident voice.

Th-this is… a connection favor?

Indeed, whether in reality or in games, connections are the best!

At that moment, the scales in my heart tilted a bit more toward ‘Ruan is an imperial bastard.’

“Ruan. Neigh! Ugh! Ahem, if I’ve been rude to you until now, I apologize in advance.”

“Huh? Why suddenly…”

Ruan asked back with an expression that showed he didn’t understand my intention behind my sudden apology.

“Just, since I saved your life, let’s call it even with that, okay? Neigh.”

“…Sometimes I don’t know what Zoe is thinking.”

I twisted my body out of Ruan’s arms, who was still muttering with a face full of questions, and clip-clopped over to Ruby.

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