"Can you find a dress for this kid?" Cheese pulled his apprentice out of the room and into Charlind's presence. The latter had not yet figured out the situation with the other team members who had just gone out in a rage, and when he was asked by Cheese, he realized that things might become serious. poured out of the nest, and it was the initiative to abandon the safe stronghold of Felt Avenue. Or, it's they who get in too much trouble.

Or, they feel that the trouble is not big enough, so they decide to take the initiative to solve the source of the trouble. But the truth is that no matter which one is right, it doesn't matter to the boss here, anyway, the house payment has already been paid, and it is their freedom to go where they want to go.

It's just that looking at the boy who followed the cheese in his footsteps, the dwarf showed a subtle expression. He hadn't seen a patient with bestiality, but he had never seen a child with so many animal features that were not obvious, and he could even walk on his own. So he was stunned for a few seconds before he spoke, "Well, I'm afraid it's a little difficult. ”

As if aware that this could be interpreted as discrimination against Yoni, Charinder quickly continued, "This kid is so thin that even if he could fit our clothes in height, the extra part would make him look like a sail on his face." If you really want to find him a fitting garment, you'll have to look for it on your human streets. Although I also doubt that there will be a suitable one in those stores. ”

The dwarf's question is very reasonable, with the size of the apprentice at this time, I am afraid that the whole rush will not be able to find a few suitable clothes for him, but the clothes of the dwarves may be suitable, but that height is not feasible. Cheese nodded, he also thought of this question, but the gray robe is never waiting for the people who use the results, they create the results, "Give me a set of similar lengths first, and then I will figure out how to solve the problem of width and narrowness." ”

It didn't take long for Charlinder to find a set of dwarven clothes for Yoni, and if the blouse made the boy look like a hanger post, the pants couldn't be tied to the thin waist at all. The mage squinted slightly, didn't say anything, thanked the dwarf, and led the apprentice who had to lift his pants to barely walk.

Perhaps the noisy atmosphere of the street gave people a sense of security, so Yuni finally mustered up the courage and whispered to his mentor, "No, you don't need to give me clothes." I can dress anything, and I've been without clothes for a long time before. ”

Probably due to a variation in the throat part, the boy's voice and tone are a little strange. Cheese did not immediately respond to his apprentice, but was relieved to think that the child could at least use language. Although the tonal changes caused by those words and tones are weird, they can be adjusted.

A person's sensitivity to language needs to be cultivated from an early age, and those children raised by wild beasts usually need to spend a lot of time redoing language training, and he doesn't want his apprentice to waste time in this regard, to become a gray robe, he has too much to learn, and it is better to choose only the necessary parts of the course.

The two of them didn't stop, they walked along the stone brick path, listening to the roar of the dwarves and their machines. Yoni is scared at first, but when he realizes that even if he is afraid, he has to follow Cheese and there is no room for hiding or backing down, so he has to accept and transform his fears.

In many cases, it is not that a person is not afraid, but that he must be brave because there is a reason behind him that cannot be retreated. Just as the apprentice was about to get used to the sounds and whizzing dwarves around him, the gray-robed men stopped, and they stopped at the door of a storefront, a shop full of tapestries.

"Follow me. Cheese seemed to have thought of something, and before the apprentice could react, he slipped into the door of the shop hidden among the tapestries. Yoni hesitated for a few seconds, then made up his mind when he heard the screeching sound of the wheels of the cart rubbing against the ground, and the figure of the mentor disappeared into the colorful tapestries. Inside, the mage had already spoken to the dwarven woman who was smoking a shisha, "I need a tapestry of about three feet, waterproofed, bearskin or other beast leather, preferably pure gray or a large gray area." The price is within the range of this number. ”

The shopkeeper, the old woman, put down the hookah and was silent for a few seconds, and her eyes swept over Yoni as well. The hookah was placed on the small table next to the chair, and she slowly got up and walked to the inside of the shop, "Wait a minute, I remember that there was a blanket that was sold a century ago and was close to your needs, and it was sold by a lord when he sold his possessions. I thought it was pretty good and took it. ”

It is impossible for humans to be able to measure time in centuries lightly, and to remember reliably what happened in those times. But if you look at the world only from the perspective of human beings, how monotonous the world must be.

The old woman came out of the blanket after a few moments, dragging a roll of blanket in her hand. The weight of the blanket is not light, and it seems that she is not as gentle as it seems. As the blanket was unfolded, the revival of the blanket after a century did not make the blanket dilapidated, presumably because of the careful care of its collectors.

"It's the skin of a man-bear. Cheese's eyes were already glowing with a faint blue light when he saw the blanket, and when he touched the hairs, his voice trembled a little unconsciously.

The man-bear may be understood as a bear remake of the wolfwalkers. The only difference is that they are extremely rare in number, most of them live alone, and the way of transformation is much more complex and mysterious than that of werewolves through gnawing. However, on the other hand, the combat ability of the man-bear is an existence that can make the wolfwalker clan retreat, and a single man-bear can often destroy a castle from the inside.

And when they are in the state of bears, they are hardly killed by any external force. This is why in many regions there is a confusion between the human-bear and the bear-skinned man, who are equally capable of this. Legend has it that most of the man-bears that were killed were killed at the hands of their own human lovers, who were killed by the pillow man when they turned into human beings and slept soundly at night.

This is why Cheese was so excited when he saw this blanket, because the human-bear, which had been transformed into a humanoid form, obviously would not have such leather, and the one who had been made into the tapestry was killed as a bear, or somewhere in between a man and a bear. Only then, and only so, would his skin be preserved in this form. And according to the old woman's description, it is likely that the ancestor of the fallen lord completed this task. Making trophies of one's enemies or prey is a hobby that many people have.

"No wonder I didn't like it all the time. This blanket was unlike the others, it was full of resentment and hatred. Honestly, if you don't want it after knowing this, I can accept it. ”

"No, that's fine, it's great. Resentment is one of the strongest emotions against magic, and the man-bear itself is resistant to magic, and although it is not as strong as a werewolf, it has something else. But it must be handled with great care, and the hatred that has been fermented for hundreds of years will turn the person who wears it into a beast again. That's not good. Cheese's hand swiped through the blanket, leaving trails.

"You said to put it on, this blanket is too heavy, if it is used as a quilt, it may be fine, but as a cloak..."

The gray robe on the mage's body was windless, and a strong dark blue glow erupted in his eyes, and the rat crest with a robe and a lantern appeared on his clothes, and made the same gesture as the cheese.

"Yoni, stand there and don't move!" With a soft snort, Cheese's mouth began to chant an unknown incantation, his right hand dancing wildly on the blanket, plucking hair off and throwing it into the air. That would have been impossible, the hair on the blanket was treated and glued together with the leather, how could it fall off so easily?

Magic, only magic can do this, and the fur that was thrown into the air was like a conscious bird, and the invisible wind blew towards the speechless apprentice who stood there in fear. Hair after hair clinged to the dwarven garment on his body, no, not attached, but burrowed into the fabric like worms!

"Howl!" a roar of anger came from the ignorance, intimidating the cheese who had made the act of desecrating its remains. But the mage was undaunted, facing the blanket and opening his mouth, from which he let out a silent but more terrifying roar. Then the resistance was broken, and the bear fur on the blanket was no longer difficult to handle, and they were left to be transferred from their original base to another place.

As the blanket gradually became bare, Yuni's clothes completely changed, the ill-fitting cloth was tied tightly, and the bear fur changed its style in combination with the original fabric, and now the clothes seemed to fit according to Yuni's body shape. The motley hairs were hidden, revealing only the pure gray portion that covered the outside of the garment, and when the last strands of bear fur on the blanket melted into the corners of the garment, Cheese's spell came to an end.

"Listen boy, of course clothing is important. The most striking difference between us and those creatures called beasts is that we wear clothes. It is both functional and identity. As my apprentice, you can't be naked. This garment will protect you from the cold and a few other things, but it's not really a gray robe, it's not complete yet. And I'm not going to finish it all at once, so I'll leave it to you to see if you can control the garment, or if you're going to be devoured by it and become a beast, as you should have been. ”