Led by the butler, Hayumi and the others arrived at the manor of Duke Qusayi.

To be honest, Hayumi had been mentally prepared before he came, but he didn't expect that Duke Qusei's manor was completely dirty and messy beyond Hayumi's acceptance.

You can smell a disgusting stench from 500 meters away, you need to cover your face with a damp cloth, and you can't keep your eyes open, otherwise you will be smoked by the strong stench.

Hayumi tried to blow the stench away with the wind, but even if it did, a new stench would immediately surround them, and if it weren't for the fact that Hayumi would die if he was far away, Aisha would not want to follow him to such a hellish place.

In comparison, the ancient dragons were even worse than Eros, whose sense of smell was twenty times that of humans, and she could feel the stench even when she covered her mouth and nose with a damp cloth, and Eros began to regret that she had taken on this task.

But as a dragon, Eros values credibility and something the most, and since he has promised something, he must definitely do it, which is what Kaos has always taught Eros.

"Mr. Butler, why...... Hmm...... The Duke's Manor...... So ......" Hayumi hesitated for a moment and said, "It's so 'charming'......"

The housekeeper also tried to cover his mouth and nose, and said helplessly: "This is because of an animal adopted by the Duke more than twenty years ago......"

According to the steward, the Duke of Qusayi was out playing when he met a young man who had never seen a strange creature in his hand, and he was curious to buy it from the young man.

After bringing it home, the Duke of Cousey loved this strange pet and took care of it as if it were his own grandson. But after a few years, the animal began to grow larger and eat more. There was not enough vacant space in the duke's house, so he sent it to live in a manor house on the outskirts. Later, without knowing what was happening, the animal began to excrete strange objects, which smelled so bad that normal people simply could not tolerate them.

At first, it could be cleaned when there were few of them, but then the duke's pet grew in size and excrement, and in the end, it evolved to the point that more than 20 men and women under the duke's command could not clean it. In the end, the excrement has been piled up and no one has cleaned it, and it has been piling up for more than a month now.

"Who bought the duke's pet?" asked Hayumi, "if you know, you should ask the man." ”

The butler said: "This duke doesn't know, I just asked the man's name is Zephyr, but he didn't say where he was from, so he never found it." ”

Hayumi was stunned for a moment, why is it the west wind again? He was present when the monster appeared in Noji Village before, and he was the one who sold the duke's pet later, maybe he went south and came here after helping Noji Village solve the trouble of the monster.

"Hayumi...... I'm dying......" Eros grabbed Hayumi's arm, his big eyes filled with mist, "I'm about to die of a stinking......"

What a trouble, who told you to take on this task yourself? Hayumi couldn't help it, so he raised his staff and said, "Dance!

Then I saw a strong whirlwind erupt from Hayumi's staff, blowing away all the stench around it. "Hurry up, or you'll be surrounded by stench in a minute." ”

Eros hurriedly grabbed Hayumi and ran forward, but Aisha and the butler behind were startled by Hayumi. The whirlwind power that Hayumi used just now was something they had never seen before, and the butler felt that even if the more than twenty spirit men and spirit women in the Duke's family joined forces, they might not have such great power, right?

But how did he do it? Aisha could feel that the spiritual power in Hayumi's body was very powerful, but he was able to use such a powerful whirlwind with a wave of his hand, Hayumimo was not a genius that humans would encounter once in a thousand years?

"It's coming soon!" said the butler who was chasing after Hayumi, "ahead is the Duke's manor, and the Duke's pet is inside!"

I had already seen that in the open space of the manor, a huge creature about seven or eight meters in size was sitting there, holding a large tree in its hand and gnawing on its trunk.

"It eats trees?"

"Yes, in the past, we only ate leaves, and in the winter, we ate stored fruits and vegetables. As they grew older, they began to eat the bark and later the trunk...... Like the kind of tree in its hand, it eats two a day. ”

"How can you excrete such a stinky thing just by eating trees?" Hayumi sent out a whirlwind again to blow away the stench around him, but the stench was too strong for even Hayumi to do anything about it.

"Hmm...... Hayumi ...... Is there any other way to blow away the smell?" Eros didn't even dare to open her eyes now, or she was afraid that she would become blind if she opened her eyes.

"The taste is too strong...... We've got to do it another way......" Hayumi said to Eros, "you wait here...... Mr. Butler, please do me a favor. ”

"What's the problem?" "Do you need to help yourself?" the butler didn't want to stay around anymore.

Hayumi pointed to the house not far from the huge creature and said, "I deduce that the stench came from that house......"

"That's right, the Duke taught it not to defecate in the open, so after moving here, it used that room as a toilet...... We thought about burning down the whole house, but we couldn't get close to it......"

Hayumi picked up four fist-sized stones from the ground and drew a formation diagram with spiritual power on them, "Mr. Butler, your arm strength should be okay, right?"

"What's wrong?

Hayumi visually measured the distance between this place and the house, about thirty or forty meters, and said, "Throw these four stones on the four sides of the house, as long as you can enclose the house." ”

What was he going to do? The butler did not understand Hayumi's intentions, but threw the stones on the four sides of the house as Hayumi had said.

Ready for these, I saw Hayumi raise his staff towards the room: "Seal!"

In an instant, four rays of light burst from the stones at the four corners of the room, and then four walls of air sealed the room.

In this case, the room was sealed for the time being, and the stench inside would not come out for a while. Let's clean up the surrounding odor first. ”

What is this? How is this done? Aisha and the butler were shocked again. They had never seen or even heard of this kind of spiritual magic.

This is a spiritual technique created by Hayumi himself, using stones as a medium to create a rotating wall of air in the air, and bounce all the gas that touches the wall back. It was a psychic spell that Hayumi had improvised when he saw the room.

With no source of the stench, the smell in the surrounding air was quickly blown away by Hayumi, and the duke's manor returned to its original calm.

Without that strange smell, Hayumi and the others had a chance to get close to the duke's giant pet. It looks a bit like a big bear, but it's not as ferocious as a bear, and it's a very approachable creature.

The pet obviously knew the housekeeper, so the housekeeper didn't react much when he approached it with a stranger. Instead, he broke a branch from the tree in his hand and handed it to them, as if he wanted to share his own food with Hayumi and them.

"Momo!" the butler suddenly shouted, "Momo!"

It turned out that the pet's name was Momo, and when he heard that the housekeeper asked him to sit down, Momo put down the tree in his hand and sat on the ground obediently looking at the housekeeper.

"Mr. Hayumi, although the problem of this smell has been solved for the time being, if Momo continues to excrete......"

Naturally, Hayumi understood what the butler meant, and at the same time, Hayumi was also very curious about why this giant beast suddenly excreted such a foul-smelling thing.

"I remember you said that Momo didn't excrete such a foul-smelling thing when he used to live with the Duke, right?"

"Yes, the ink used to be very clean, and even if it was a bowel movement, it didn't stink so much. ”

In other words, the problem is after Momo came to live in the manor...... Hayumi looked up at the dumbfounded beast, and then at the tooth-marked trunk beside it...... Tooth marks?

"Mr. Butler, could you please let Momo open his mouth for a moment?"

The housekeeper nodded and said to Momo: "Momo! open your mouth, ah~"

Mo Mo obediently learned from the butler to open his mouth wide, revealing a large row of sharp teeth.

Hayumi looked at Momo's mouth and pondered for a while, then asked the housekeeper, "Has Momo been in this manor all this time and hasn't gone out?"

"No, I heard that sometimes it also goes for walks and plays in the nearby forests, according to the villagers nearby. Because Momo is very docile and does not do anything rough to people, the children of the villagers sometimes play with him, and some villagers will see Momo playing in the forest when they go into the forest to collect firewood. ”

Hayumi looked at the forest not far away, and there were indeed traces of large trees being knocked down, and it seemed that Momo had entered the forest from there.

"Eros, let's go investigate in the forest. Hayumi felt that if he wanted to know the truth, it was probably in the forest.

"Wait a minute, I'll!" Aisha shouted as she chased after Hayumi and them, leaving the butler alone and not knowing what to do.

But Hayumi didn't tell himself to follow, so he just waited here, and he hadn't been so close to Momo for a long time, so let's play with it more.

The three of them entered the forest, and Momo's huge footprints were very obvious, spreading all the way to the depths of the forest.

"It's a huge creature...... Aisha sighed as she looked at the footprints that could lie down.

"If I change back to my ......," Eros was gagged by Hayumi before he could finish speaking.

Hayumi pointed to the road ahead and said, "Don't be verbose, keep going inside, maybe there will be clues inside." ”

Aisha couldn't help but complain, "You've cleaned up the manor, and the mission is complete, why are you looking for any clues?"

"Because I'm interested in why Momo excretes such a stinky thing. "I'm not an adventurer for money or fame, I just want to know the unknown and get trained," Hayumi said. ”

"I'm also curious. Eros also said, "Isn't that fun?"

"Fun, isn't it?" Aisha understood, and the two men were acting solely for the purest purposes of their hearts.

After walking for a while, Eros suddenly said, "Hayumi, I smell a smell......

"What?" Could it be the excrement that Momo left in the forest?

"It's kind of like the smell of rotting animal carcasses......"

"Normally, fighting in the forest is everywhere, and the smell of corpses is not strange. ”

Elos pointed to the direction in front of them, where Momo's footprints were going, and said, "The smell came from the front. ”

Maybe it was a beast in the forest that met Momo, and was later killed by Momo in the battle.

But since it was ahead, there should be some clues, so Hayumi said, "Speed up, let's go and see." ”

The three of them quickened their pace, and soon came to the place where Eros had spoken of the smell of the corpse.

In front of them, there was the corpse of a black bear, the head of the black bear had been photographed into tofu, and many parts of the body below had been gnawed off, and even some bones were missing.

"Who could have done this?" Hayumi had the answer at the first glance, but he asked anyway.

Eros and Hayumi looked at each other, and the two said in unison, "Momo." ”

Aisha asked curiously, "Doesn't Momo eat trees, and it doesn't eat meat?"

......

Seeing the three of them coming back from the forest, the butler asked excitedly, "How is it?

Hayumi thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Butler, if I want Momo to stop excreting those foul-smelling feces, I have only one way. ”

"What's the solution?"

"Take Momo back and don't let it live in this manor anymore. ”

Hayumi's words made the housekeeper a little embarrassed, the housekeeper didn't want Momo to go back to live, but the current Momo......

"Mr. Hayumi, you also know that Momo is now too big, and only the back garden in the duke's house can be used to live in it. But we're afraid that Momo will think the back garden is too small, after all, animals like to move, right?"

"Don't worry about that. Hayumi said: "Momo is not a spirit animal, and he has no spiritual power in his body. It's just a simple animal, every move of such a huge animal needs to consume a lot of energy, and Momo's staple food is trees and other things, so Momo basically only needs to stay in the Duke's back garden and eat. As long as the Duke is here, Momo probably won't want to go outside to play, and you must trust me about this. ”

"Really?"

"Guaranteed in the name of Hayumi, an adventurer of the Adventurer's Guild Forget-Me-not. ”

He returned to the duke's house with Momo, and although he was pointed out by the people of the city along the way, Momo eventually returned to the place where he first lived.

As soon as Duke Kusei's arrival in the back garden, Momo called out to him with joy, as if a wandering wanderer had finally met his parents.

"Mr. Hayumi, are you sure that Momo doesn't have those foul-smelling feces anymore?" Duke Kusei was much better after seeing Momo, and he didn't speak like he used to be able to lose his breath at any time.

"Maybe once or twice in the short term, but definitely not in the future. Hayumi didn't intend to tell them the truth, it didn't matter if he said it or not, and if the Duke was able to live with Momo again, why should he care?

"Yes, Mr. Hayumi......" Duke Kusayi extended an invitation to Hayumi, "you are a great adventurer, and a great spirit man, who can easily solve problems that none of my twenty men can solve...... If you want, I hope you can stay by my side and be my staff......"

"Of course ......"

Before Aisha could finish speaking, Hayumi decisively refused: "I'm sorry, but I still like to live a free and adventurous life. ”

"Are you stupid? This is the Duke of Kusei!

Hayumi looked at Aisha indifferently and said, "Why don't you stay?"

"......" Aisha obediently shut up, knowing she couldn't convince Hayumi.

"Then Lord Duke, our mission has been completed, and I need to go back to the Adventurer's Guild to settle the mission, farewell. ”

Looking at Hayumi's back, Kusai couldn't help but smile and said to the butler beside him, "I have a hunch that that child will become a greater figure than Langum. ”

"Really?"

"Don't believe me? How about we make a bet? Before I die, his name will be resounding all over the world. ”

Leaving the Duke's house, Eros curiously asked Hayumi, "Why didn't you tell them about Momo?"

"There's no need, that thing doesn't have much to do with it, it's better not to say it. ”

"Really?" Eros didn't understand why he already knew the truth, but Hayumi was reluctant to tell them.

"What do you know, Hayumi?" they had gone to investigate, but Aisha didn't see anything.

Hayumi sighed and explained to Aisha, "Do you see Momo's teeth?"

"See, what's wrong?"

"Momo is an omnivore, can't you see its fangs?" Hayumi said helplessly, "I usually eat trees because Duke Kusayi thinks Momo is a herbivore, so they only feed him trees." Momo doesn't need to forage for food on her own, and she doesn't move much, so the tree has enough nutrients to provide it needs. But when it gets to the manor, the field widens, and it can run around as it pleases. The energy consumed has increased, and the daily supply of trees is not enough for it to eat, so Momo naturally has to go to the forest to find food. ”

As if she understood something, Aisha said, "So Momo met the bear, and then it ate the bear?"

"Maybe there are other animals in the forest that it eats. Hayumi went on to explain: "The feces excreted by Momo eating trees don't smell so bad, but it doesn't necessarily smell like eating meat...... Maybe it's a physical problem, but I'm sure that as long as Momo is only given trees in the future, this will never happen to him again. ”

Aisha, who finally understood the reason, nodded and asked, "Then why didn't you tell them about it?"

Hayumi looked at Aisha helplessly and said, "Sometimes it's good for you to use your brain a little. ”

"What do you mean? Do you think I'm stupid? Hayumi, stop me!