I’m The Brave Puppy That Will Save The Villainess - Chapter 13

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Episode 13

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Sadly, after the meal, Sister kicked me out mercilessly.

“Stop joking around.”

“I’m not joking though…”

“You’re done eating, so get out now.”

“Hey, you’re kicking me out so coldly. I’m still a baby though…”

“Ruth, you get lost.”

“Wow, you’re really cursing at me. You only went easy on Coco because she’s a baby.”

…Anyway, this is all because I look weak.

Another reason to catch the tiger was added to my heart.

Before returning to my annex.

I looked around near my grave and said spiritedly.

“Animal Friends, Summon!”

Even after saying that, I hadn’t particularly thought of mice.

Squirming and crawling, a white mouse came out along the wall.

“I will bring the leader of our Mouse Group, ‘Emperor of Mice’.”

“Mmm…”

I nodded toward the somewhat foolish-looking mouse.

Soon after, the ‘Emperor of Mice’ made a grand entrance through a hole in the wall.

“…Huh, truly surprising indeed. You want to catch a tiger?”

The mouse who had heard my entire story curled its tail in a circle as if troubled.

“Yeah!”

The mouse trembled all over.

“I can’t help you. A mouse like me would be just a bite-sized snack if I went near a tiger!”

“Why! You’re the ‘Emperor of Mice’!”

“Ahem. Even the great ‘Emperor of Mice’ has things he cannot do.”

“…”

“I really don’t want to go anywhere near a tiger! My instincts are telling me. Avoid tigers. Avoid the vicinity of tigers! I’ll become a half-chewed mouse!”

“Then what animal could help me…”

“Absolutely, absolutely none!”

This time was different from when I dealt with the Servant Girl.

The animal friends who could help me had disappeared.

I grabbed my head tightly with a gloomy expression.

‘When I think of Sister, my head should sparkle! Get to work!’

Right now, I have no one to help me, neither people nor animals.

‘First, I need to find out where the tiger is.’

Even in the future I saw, it didn’t show where the tiger was discovered.

The only thing I can trust is my head blessed by God.

Just as I was gripping my head tightly and lost in thought.

“Gasp!”

Suddenly, a lightning-like realization struck me.

“What’s wrong, Coco?”

“You know, you said you didn’t want to go near the tiger, right? Instinctively!”

“That’s right! So I absolutely won’t help you find the tiger spirit!”

“Mouse! No! You just helped me.”

“Huh?”

I patted the confused Mouse’s head.

“You and your small animal friends. Is there anywhere in this entire mansion that you instinctively absolutely don’t want to go?”

At those words, Mouse solemnly slapped his tail on the floor with a thud.

“Ugh, there is! It used to be my storage room, but it’s become a very terrifying and frightening space!”

“A place you’ve recently started avoiding?”

“Yes! Huh, th-that place is…”

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The place I ran to with my hair flying after hearing Mouse’s words.

‘This is the place that’s been scariest to Mouse lately.’

It was near a building on the far western side of the Duke’s Castle, where there were many soldiers and strong winds.

‘The weakest animals like mice instinctively fear places where scary beasts like tigers are!’

I laughed, “Uhuhuhut.”

‘Besides, there are animal habits that people don’t know about.’

I thought about something that everyone looking for the tiger was forgetting.

‘Animals are simple. They only think about one thing.’

I’m a puppy who likes to roll around on grass fields.

And they said tigers are similar.

They like tiger grass, so they roll around enthusiastically in tiger grass?

‘Here too, it probably only thought about one thing. Tiger grass.’

I walked around pattering and looked around the area.

The tiger grass here was pressed down as if trampled.

As if someone was lying on it.

I raised my hand and rubbed it through the air. Lost in deep thought, I whispered quietly.

So then…

“It’s here. The tiger might be here.”

I pointed at the pressed-down grass.

As if explaining to the ‘Emperor of Mice’ who wasn’t present at this place.

“The wind is blowing hard today. But… the grass isn’t moving.”

Even today when the wind was blowing hard, that Tiger Grass was only pressed down and didn’t change direction according to the wind.

‘The tiger spirit’s special ability must be hiding its body.’

I quietly murmured.

“I think it’s probably hiding on top of the Tiger Grass.”

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The escaped Black Tiger swallowed hard and looked ahead.

‘Did she read my inner thoughts?’

A gloomy corner of the duke’s mansion that no one visited.

A black tiger was hiding there while invisible.

‘I thought I’d never be caught since I’m invisible.’

Black Tiger lay on the small Grass Field next to the Dog Hole, breathing heavily.

But right at that moment.

“Hello!”

The silver-haired little one, having properly finished her deduction, cheerfully shouted.

Looking straight at him, who was definitely invisible.

‘Is she calling me?’

Black Tiger pressed his body even closer to the Tiger Grass.

“You’re here, Black Tiger!”

…A clear and bright voice that he absolutely couldn’t ignore.

The gentle Black Tiger couldn’t run away and pressed hard to write letters on the Floor.

[Can you see me by any chance?]

…Of course, she wouldn’t be able to see these letters.

Humans couldn’t read the writing that Black Tiger wrote.

“Yes! I can’t see you but I can see you!”

Black Tiger’s mouth fell open in a circle.

‘A human who can read my writing?’

His confusion was brief.

The polite tiger wrote letters on the Floor again.

[I see. Today is really a lucky day.]

“Why?”

[It’s amazing that I can communicate with you. Everyone else didn’t know…]

“Huh, really? You haven’t even played with people passing by?”

A tiger with an unsightly appearance because all his teeth had fallen out from the long war against demons.

Who would talk to a toothless tiger?

Hiding that fact, he pressed hard with his claws to write.

[Yes. I used to kill demons in a very cold land, but no one talked to me, so it was hard.]

“…I see….”

[So I can disappear now, right? No one was interested in me anyway.]

Words slowly written on the floor.

The little one who had been staring at those casually written words as if engraving them in her eyes blinked.

“No.”

[What?]

“I’m interested in you!”

‘There’s a human who’s interested in me…?’

The withered paw that was reaching toward the girl dropped with a thud.

As his mind wavered, his gradually invisible body began to reveal itself.

A pitiful body with all ribs showing, exhausted from long warfare.

Black Tiger gazed at the small girl with gentle eyes.

“It must have been really hard living as a wild tiger.”

Black Tiger stared at the girl with yellow eyes.

The one with spirited round eyes.

The one gently grasping his paw where fur had fallen out in patches.

The small, young girl who was maybe one-tenth the size of his body.

“You know, my name is Coco.”

“….”

“Now come with me. Actually, at first I wanted to catch you because I wanted to become family with Sister.”

“….”

“But now I just want to be friends with you!”

[Friends….]

“Yeah! I’ll play with you and heal your hurting heart, and make you happy too.”

“….”

“Oh! And I’ll introduce you to my Sister, who’s the most amazing person in the world!”

The girl smiled brightly and extended her hand.

But….

Black Tiger lifted his front paw with a hesitant expression.

[Don’t touch me.]

…Black Tiger couldn’t take that hand.

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