I Inherited a Beautiful Wife and a Territory - Chapter 19

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Inheriting a Beautiful Wife and Estate Episode 019

19. Spirit Beast Kyuung

Medieval Europe from his past life.

That was a world ruled by God.

No, to be precise, it was a world ruled by the Pope.

The newly born world was similar.

It was a world where divine authority, or more precisely, ecclesiastical authority, was extremely powerful.

The refinement of nobles was theology. Nobles learned theology and had the responsibility and power to teach and govern commoners according to the teachings of faith.

Just like how Cliff had spoken about winter.

‘But that wasn’t really…’

It wasn’t something he said out of faith.

Of course, God existed in this world.

Among those who followed God’s will, there were people who borrowed that divine power to perform miracles of healing.

“A, a bear!”

“Why is there a bear…!”

Outside became noisy.

“Lucas’s bear is moving!”

It was incomparable to such healing miracles.

Something too tremendous had happened in the estate.

The status window he possessed and the additional rewards it provided through it.

“Wow.”

Cliff let out an exclamation.

He went to find where the commotion was happening. There he saw what kind of event the divine power that God was said to exercise had caused.

-A spirit beast is being created.

The white bear that Lucas and his family had made by packing snow together.

It was just a snowball.

The snow kept repeating the process of freezing and melting little by little. Since winter was ending, that bear would have eventually ended its life(?) at some point.

Naturally, that bear should never have moved of its own will since its birth. It wasn’t a creature capable of movement in the first place.

“Kyuu?”

But the bear ignored such common sense.

It even blinked its eyelids.

Until now, the bear had been in a sitting position. But before anyone knew it, it pressed its front paws against the ground and stood on all fours.

It had truly become a bear.

It was no wonder people were terrified.

‘How should I handle this situation?’

When it was just a snow sculpture, people found it cute.

But not anymore.

The children were even more fascinated and tried to approach, but the adults stopped them.

This bear was larger than the bears living in the forest.

“Kyuu!”

Despite being made of snow, the bear even made sounds.

The sound was quite adorable and even cute.

‘Yes, it is cute, but…’

Even Cliff was at a loss for words right now.

Cliff narrowed his eyes.

The bear looked at him and was approaching. It had no tail, but its wiggling bottom seemed to show affection.

‘No, is it really affection?’

While he was staring blankly.

Teobaldt urgently stepped in front of him.

“Please step back. That being… is a spirit beast.”

Spirit beast.

Come to think of it, he had seen the same words in the status window message.

That a spirit beast was being created.

‘And if it’s a spirit beast…’

It was rare on the continent, but not unfamiliar in this estate at least.

There were many nearby.

Shadow Wolves.

Those shadow wolves were definitely classified as spirit beasts.

“So you’re saying that bear is also a spirit beast, just like those wolves?”

To Cliff’s question, Teobaldt silently nodded.

“It seems a spirit has inhabited that body molded from snow. I’ve never heard of such a case, but spirit beasts can be dangerous. Especially that spirit beast…”

Teobaldt trailed off.

The bear that had become a spirit beast.

As Teobaldt blocked Cliff’s path and remained on guard, the bear also stopped moving. A standoff occurred between the two.

The bear made a displeased expression.

“Kyuu!”

The tension flowing between the two.

The bear’s cute sound that contrasted with it.

Cliff chuckled. The bear might be bewildering to people, but not to him.

“You can step aside, Teobaldt.”

“It’s dangerous.”

“It would be if you provoke it. The bear has no malice.”

He could feel that Teobaldt was quite tense.

He was the estate’s greatest warrior.

He must be sensing how strong the bear was. That’s why he was more tense than anyone right now. But the bear had no hostility from the beginning.

However, even this could change if Teobaldt continued to provoke it.

“Even if it has no malice, a spirit beast of that size is…”

“Stop it. The stronger that spirit beast is, the better it is for us.”

At Cliff’s words, Teobaldt seemed to give up and stepped back.

As he stepped back, the bear finally began to move again.

“Kyuu!”

“Since you keep making ‘kyuu’ sounds… let’s call you Kyuung.”

“Kyu!”

“You don’t dislike it?”

“Kyukyu!”

When the white bear approached closely, Teobaldt had been extremely tense.

But making that tension seem pointless, Cliff even gave the bear a name as if handling a pet dog.

‘Kyu, Kyuung?’

And it was an adorably cute name that would make Teobaldt, who could sense the bear’s power, gasp in shock.

What was funny was the bear’s attitude.

When asked if it liked the name, it was even nodding its head vigorously. Thus, the bear became Kyuung.

‘What am I really looking at?’

Teobaldt could still feel the tremendous strength Kyuung possessed.

This spirit beast was strong.

It was incomparable to the shadow wolves encountered in the mountains. The shadow wolves were too weak to be called spirit beasts in the first place.

They were also dangerous predators that surrounded their prey without making footsteps, but that was all. Except for their faint sounds and presence, they were nothing more than ordinary wolves.

But Kyuwong was different.

“Kyu!”

It was a monster that even dozens or hundreds of shadow wolves couldn’t defeat if they attacked together.

Yet that adorable cry and name shook Teobaldt’s common sense.

“Oh my. You’re quite strong indeed.”

“….”

Just saying he’s quite strong?

Cliff went even further, seeming to truly regard Kyuwong as nothing more than a pet dog. He even patted the bear’s head.

“Kyuu!”

And what a sight it was to see Kyuung making pleased sounds as if enjoying it.

I don’t understand. Teobaldt gave up thinking any further. Likewise, his wariness relaxed.

Kyuung glanced once at him as his tension eased, then rubbed his head against Cliff’s hand.

“This worked out well. I’ve gained a very good mascot for the estate.”

He was even more flabbergasted by Cliff dismissing Kyuwong as merely a mascot.

Cliff took Kyuwong straight to the Lord’s Manor.

A bear that followed along obediently just as Cliff wanted.

“Priscilla!”

He called for his wife.

Priscilla, who had been in the garden, was also startled to see the approaching bear.

“What is… that?”

Still, she didn’t seem as tense as Teobaldt had been.

Rather, the way she glanced at Kyuung suggested she felt some other emotion.

“You can touch him.”

When he said this while touching the bear himself, her expression brightened.

With slight nervousness, she touched Kyuung’s body.

“He’s not as cold as I thought! And… he’s fluffy.”

“Kyu!”

She was right.

Despite having a body made of snow, Kyuung’s body wasn’t cold.

It wasn’t warm either, but it was fascinating. In this cold weather, you’d expect your hands to freeze when touching him, but since he wasn’t cold, he even felt warm.

‘I don’t think he’s actually not cold though…’

Kyuung controlled his own cold aura.

So he didn’t harm those who were friendly to him. Since the weather was still cold, if his body had been freezing, that alone would have caused damage.

He was controlling this on his own.

“Kyuu!”

“What a cute friend. But… where did he come from? He looks just like that bear doll Lucas made from snow came to life.”

That’s exactly right though?

Cliff just smiled.

She would find out eventually, but honestly, even he found it hard to explain.

He had no intention of explaining it. He simply asked.

“Would it be okay if he stayed here?”

“You’re the master of this place. If you want it, then do as you wish.”

Still, could he do it if the lady of the house disliked it?

Cliff smiled.

Fortunately, she seemed to welcome Kyuung’s arrival.

‘The doll princess now has much more liveliness in her expressions.’

Since the festival, her frozen heart seemed to have thawed considerably.

“Kyu! Kyu!”

“It’s Kyuung!”

“Wow!”

His first appearance was quite shocking.

But before long, Kyuung had adapted well to this estate.

People are meant to adapt. Even those who had been wary at first no longer feared Kyuung.

The children were making a fuss trying to climb on Kyuung’s back.

“Kyu!”

Kyuung carried several children on his back.

“I want to ride too, you get down!”

“Kyu!”

When occasional troublemakers appeared, Kyuung would gently push them away with his front paw to stop them.

Thus Kyuung became the children’s playmate. Besides that, Kyuung had other work to do.

Namely, taking care of the geese.

Quack quack quack quack.

The geese were noisy today as well.

Four pairs of geese that survived after most died during the festival.

The estate let them graze freely.

However, until recently, the estate couldn’t even think of letting geese graze freely.

Screech.

It was because of hunters that occasionally flew into the Elimis Domain.

A pure white hawk.

It spotted its target from the sky and prepared to descend. Kyuung, sensing this killing intent, raised his head.

“Kyu!”

To others’ eyes, it was just a cute cry.

But not to the hawk that had been eyeing prey from above.

The air around the hawk turned chillingly cold. The hawk flapped its wings in confusion. The hawk, which had nearly crashed for a moment, fled far away from the killing intent it felt from the ground.

This was Kyuung’s doing.

“Kyuuu.”

Today too, he had protected his master’s geese.

Having fulfilled his role as a sheepdog(?), Kyuung held his head high.

There were no enemies in this vicinity that could threaten Kyuung. The only thing that came close was that other human by his master’s side.

That human was quite strong.

Even Kyuung might get scratched if he let his guard down.

“Kyuung, let’s go over there.”

One of the children riding on his back pointed in a direction with their finger.

“Run, Kyuung!”

At the children’s words, Kyuung began to move his body.

But he didn’t run. Though all threats had disappeared, he didn’t completely leave the vicinity of the geese either.

Ambling along leisurely.

Then Kyuung raised his head and looked toward one place.

The northern part of the estate.

“Kyu?”

There was a smell.

The scent of strangers.

Mixed in with it was the smell of weapons, that is, the scent of metal. Also, that metal carried a faint but definite smell of blood.

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