Yotogi no Kuni no Gekkouhime

"Ugh...?

Serene awoke with a small groan. I felt fluffy on my palms when I put my hands on it to wake up my upper body. So Serene realized for the first time that she was sleeping in a bed made of leaves.

Rubbing his sleeping eye around, he touches the wall nearby. From the touch, I could tell that this building was made of wood, but for a wooden house, the walls are long overhanging and the walls are tilted diagonally. A few parts of the wall were rounded out for the lights, which seemed like an obnoxious piece of work.

"Here, where?

I remember as far as attacking a bunch of elves, but I have no memory of them since. Speaking of which, I wonder what happened to Butler.

"Princess! Were you noticed!?

"Duh!?

Suddenly he is talked out loud and Serene jumps up in surprise. Looking closely, beside Serene's sleeping bed was a small crate of hay laid on the bottom, in which a butler remained tied with a sledge.

"Butler, go?

'I'm fine, but as you can see, I took an unconsciousness. I am truly, truly sorry!

"Knuckle"

Serene shrugged her shoulders and comforted Butler. There was nothing I could do in that situation. Rather Butler worked hard for me a lot. If this were Milan, I'd say, "I'm sorry, I took the unconsciousness" and "Buccayalo!" It would have been an exchange.

She took Butler out of the crate and Serene fought to untie him, but the disappointingly tied sturdy one is very unlikely to cut a thousand in her power. While doing so, a wooden door attached to the wall was opened.

"Oh, woke up?

It was the elf girl I saw the other day who came in with the sun. Dressed in a costume like a white cloth wrapped around her whole body, she looked old better to describe as a girl than a woman. He's short, but in a slurring shape reminiscent of a chamossis, and his voice is full of vitality and confidence.

"Elves?"

"Well, I'm Zana the Elf. For once, it is a difficult position. The age is fifteen. My favorite food is apples. What about you?"

"Serene, human, eight"

"Yes, you say Serene. I've seen many humans, but I've never seen them as small as you. Are you your pet, rat? I'm sorry, but I'm letting you tie me up a little."

'That's why I'm telling you it's not you or your pet! I am the proud butler of Princess Serene, Butler!

Butler stood up with his untied hind leg, cleverly rising to Serene's shoulder with only two legs, his chest stretched and he said aloud, but Zana only tilted her neck.

"Wow, apparently my words don't make any sense other than Princess Serene"

Butler groans remorsefully. Since I had never spoken to anyone other than Serene before, neither Butler nor Serene knew about it. Unaware of the two new discoveries, Zana asks Serene again.

"You miss that rat a lot. I've been worried sick all my life while you were asleep."

"Butler, Shitsuji"

"That rat...... Mr. Butler, sounds like he's not just a rat. What the hell is that?

"I don't know."

'I'm not sure either. Although there is no doubt only that it is a favour to Princess Serene'

Neither did the parties know why Butler was powerful. It's a coincidence, so I can't help it. When Zana tries to move on to the next question, Serene's stomach growls unexpectedly. Zana smiled bitterly, walking out the door and immediately putting something back on the wooden tray.

"You can ask questions later. You've been asleep all day. You're hungry, aren't you?

Saying so, Zana stuck out a tray in front of Serene. On top of the tray were giant leaves in place of plates, and on top of them were white meat in a ham-shaped circle and some vegetables stir-fried.

"What, this?

"Skink tail grill. It's delicious."

I wondered what skink was, but as soon as I smelled the fragrant smell of meat and vegetables baking, everything got better for Serene. Serene, who had not eaten anything for a whole day, was completely peeling and diapering.

"You don't seem to have anything poisonous."

Butler also has a keen sense of smell, confirming the meat he doesn't know, but he doesn't have any poisonous substances in it. Most importantly, Serene had hardly heard Butler's words, and immediately after Butler had spoken, he had thrown the meat into his mouth. It is Serene's creed to eat anything if you are hungry.

"Ugh!

Serene eats the meat without hesitation. Serene doesn't like poisoning or looking at things like that.

Xana feels smiling when she sees an unsecured amount of food. If you are fed by a people-loving wildlife child, everyone breaks their face. It was close to that feeling.

"Look, if you eat so vigorously, you'll get stuck in your throat. Drink this too."

When Zana holds the small barrel in the corner of the room, she pours the grape-colored liquid into the wooden bowl and offers it to Serene. Serene, who sees a dark purple liquid, rejoices.

"Ooh!?

"There's no way. If a kid drinks alcohol or something, he'll fall. This is just juice. Don't hesitate."

Zana cared about Serene's body and served juice for the child, but the white girl in front of her looked so disappointed that she tilted her neck again.

"Stomach, full"

"Thank you."

So Serene put all the food that was served in her stomach, and Butler fell into the spill, and they filled her belly. And it is one thing when it comes to what Serene, whose appetite is satisfied, does.

"Good night -"

Serene lowered her head with a pepper to Zana and headed to the bed of fallen leaves where she had slept until earlier. The smell of hay in this bed reassures my mind and makes me feel comfortable sleeping.

"Wait a minute!

Zana rushes to grab Serene's collar neck. I look down at Serene, looking up at Zana strangely, in a frightened manner.

"You! I haven't forgotten that I'm a prisoner!? Why are you trying to sleep normally?

"I was!

Because Zana was cute and the rice was delicious, Serene completely forgot she had been caught. Xana almost accidentally answered the stupid question, but she managed to enjoy it.

My buddy said he was eaten by this girl's appearance the other day. Maybe I dare pretend to be stupid. If that's the case, it's more of a real act than anything else.

On further thought, I was completely relieved of Serene's appearance of happily flattening my diet. At that moment, he could have thrown the rat in captivity and killed himself.

"(You may be too wary, but you should be a little careful…)"

The human girl in front of you is likely posing as a helpless girl. Rethinking that, Xana, the warrior of the elves, decided to endeavor not to be ostensibly alert.

"I'm taking you to Gi's now. Don't be so weird."

"Gino? Who?

"Our chief. Finally a summary of the settlements around here. If you're serious, you probably won't get killed. Because he's an idiot, but he's not a violent guy for no reason. It's stupid, though."

Zana placed her tray of meals in a corner of the room, pulling Serene's hand. They're taking me straight to the chief named Gi. Butler, still in captivity, was also to accompany Serene on his shoulder.

"Princess, we have no choice but to obey here."

As Butler struck his ear, Serene nodded silently. This is the middle of the White Forest so you don't know where to run, so you don't have a choice.

"Huh!

"What? Unusual?

"Yeah."

Serene was stunned by the sight that was thus let out of the building and spread in front of him. The place I thought was a bad hut or something was a giant tree hole. There were huge trees that seemed to grow tens of meters around the trunk that would be designated as natural monuments on Earth, and the elves seemed to live in the cavity of the tree instead of the house. It's a natural wooden house, so to speak.

"From us, you guys are so rare."

That's what Zana leading the way told me, and when Serene just looked around. From the shadows of the bright white bushes and between the branches of the trees, I noticed the elves peeking away at Serene as they said they were half interested and half fearful.

Where everyone is dressed in the same white costume as Zana, it's apparently like their ethnic costume. It may serve as a protective color for blending into the white forest.

"You're so sloppy." Princess, you don't have to worry about it. "

"Yeah."

Regardless of myself, Butler was grumpy that the beloved Princess Serene was being treated like a spectacle. But Serene at the time, he gently flushed the elves' gaze, as if he didn't even care.

In the past Serene had been mixed up with children in hero shows to do on the rooftops of department stores and so on. Compared to the odd gaze directed at you from your father and mother at that time, I don't care at all about the kind of gaze the elves explore.

"(What guts. I have to apprentice too) '

No matter what, Butler can't possibly know that. From him, it just seems like Serene is behaving softly in the Elf's crowd circle. Even though the elves are unknown, they will show a gap if they are frightened by their gaze. Butler tightened himself up and regained his temper.

As Xana drew her hand and walked to sew the gap between the huge trees, she saw a single tree claiming to exist. The roots that rose from the ground grew as if they were twisted (sardines), and Zana climbed up slightly, but from the small serene, it seemed like a little rock climbing.

When I struggled to climb up a giant root wall, there was a place where the same type of door was mounted as the earlier tree. Apparently, this is the entrance to an elf's house called Gi.

"Uh-oh! Gi, I brought the example boy!

Zana knocks on the door with great momentum, shouting so loudly. There is no reluctance because he is the chief opponent, and the momentum is that the door will break.

"Uh-oh! Shit, you're being disrespectful!

Not so long apart, when the door was opened abusively, a younger man appeared from the inside. I guess he is the elder chief of the elf he was called Gi. As for the chief, I expected him to be Grandpa or Grandpa, but contrary, Gi was a long time younger.

With a thinner body than the skinny Milan, a bright white body thumps. It was characterised by a tight fishing eye, which was inversely proportional to that. I would call it quite a beautiful young man full of wild flavors, but somehow he wore a pot of spilled iron on his head, and that was ruining everything. It does sound stupid.

"Is this the rumored human chick………"

"Gi,"

"What is it, little one?

"Head, that, what?

"Mmm, this it?

Gi glanced at Serene so that he could fix the product, but Serene couldn't help but notice the pot on her head and asked her. I thought it would piss me off, but for some reason Gi smiles happily and slaps his head in a boring pan.

"This is a guy named Orcan. Human greats wear this kind of metal covering, don't they? What do you say, cool, huh?

"Well......"

It was full of scratches, but Serene answered vaguely because it was a pain in the ass. Neither Gi nor any more raised the subject of the 'crown', and invited Serene into his room.

The basic construction seems to be the same as Serene's sleeping Ogi sinus, but it was decorated with feather decorations, masks, and, for some reason, an iron spoon. I guess these decorations are a testament to him being a chief.

Gi sat Serene on something like a futon overlaid with leaves and sat herself down in front of Serene. Serene is on the wall and Gi is the entrance. And Zana stands to block the entrance door. Apparently to prevent escape.

"You said Serene or something. You, aren't you Bockenshire?

"Boosh?

"Probably about the adventurer."

Butler's guess finally made Serene agree, but naturally, he's not an adventurer or anything, so he shakes his head to the side and denies it. I mean, I don't know what an adventurer is. From Serene's surprising look, Gi apparently decided that she was not an adventurer.

"I believe you're not Bockenshire. But your country, Bandor? I'm annoyed with humans. I go into people's territory on my own and try to steal materials from the White Forest. It doesn't look like you're one of them..."

"Bandoru?

'It would be Valvere. I hear there are many adventurers in that country.'

An adventurer is literally a 'risk-taker'. Unlike Helifarte, Valbert remains deeply discriminated against on the basis of his identity. Even if you have the magic or the corresponding strength, you can't get a big job if you're a civilian, and it's very difficult to try to move to Helifarte for better treatment. Because you will be sending salt to your competitors.

Among the Valvere humans whose strength was treated so unjustly, there were a certain number of people who entered the White Forest, overflowing with the resources of magic, and who were after a thousand dollars. Throw your personal belongings, gather the tools of magic resistance, like the dress Serene is wearing, enter with determination, and defeat.

Butler had heard rumors about the wind, but there were not so many adventurers in Archira or Helifarte, so he never really cared.

"Bulberry, me, my country"

"Yes, that bambail...... is there anything else about human country?

"Yeah."

"So where's your country?

"Heavy flutter"

"Heliharte? Is it just a short distance from White Forest?

"Hey, distance, a week or so"

Gi tilts his neck at Serene's answer. Isn't it a long way from the White Forest? From such a place, why did the child and the rat appear abruptly? I can't imagine at all.

"You, what you're saying is lame. What are you doing here from so far away? Or Bockenshire, but it's not even this deep."

"Ryu, I brought you"

"The dragon? You're saying the dragon brought you here on purpose?

Serene nods silently. He was abducted by a dragon without knowing why, and was mistaken for an elf to bring him here. I wish I could have explained that much, but with Serene's linguistic abilities, I could only tell him that he had been brought to the dragon.

"What she's saying is true. We went to investigate yesterday, didn't we?

Xana, who was keeping silence behind her, spins her words to supplement Serene's.

"Oh, you're talking about a dragon coming out nearby. I heard the report."

"That's where the two people around found this girl. I'll check it out later, but I'm pretty sure it was a dragon's footprint."

The elves are familiar with the White Forest ecosystem. From the footprints left on the ground, there is no such thing as imagining what kind of animal went through. You don't have to do that in the first place, the huge footprint left near Serene. There is only one species in this world, such as an organism with such legs.

"A dragon makes a human, hey... It's hard to believe."

"What? Are you trying to tell me that our investigation is wrong?

"I'm not saying that, 'cause it's a dragon, huh? A dragon killed a human child? For what purpose?

"I don't know..."

Gi's question is the most. The elves had no custom of believing in a particular god, but had the idea that there would be gods and spirits in nature and life itself. Among them, the race of dragons with the most powerful power was the incarnation of God, the object of worship and awe.

The dragon purposefully appeared in the White Forest with a human child. I've never done that before. The rats they carry are also reported to be peculiar.

Does this girl have any special powers? For example, he claims to have been brought to the dragon, but he has the ability to follow the dragon, and he came to see a single elf for some purpose, etc. That's too absurd. Gi shakes his blanket to shake off his crappy thoughts.

"Well, what's wrong...... you said Serene or something"

"Yeah."

"If it's true, Bockenshire is stripped and left alone, but you seem to have a point. In two weeks, I'll send you outside the White Forest. Do something yourself from there."

"Nishiyukan? Reason, what?

"In that time of year, there was a wilderness that approached human land, and then..."

Serene did not know, but the elves were supplementing the materials and ingredients used in their lives by collecting them from the woods besides cultivating them. If we continue to take it in the same place, the resources will be depleted, so we had a certain period of time and we were changing our collection points.

The location of the sampling, which will take place two weeks later, was the one closest to the area where humans live. If we stretch our legs a little from there, we can get through the White Forest. If we go any further, it will be an unknown place for the Elves in the future, so there's a critical line around it.

I also have the option of cleaning up Serene and Butler on this occasion, but I can't act lighter than the dragon is involved. Gi is the head of the clan, and his actions can put the clan in danger.

Shortly after Gi concluded, the door was knocked more abusively than Zana had earlier, and a young man from one elf jumped into the room. He looked so hasty that Zana didn't have time to stand still.

"Dear Gi! Excuse me!

"You're not coming in here on your own! I'm talking about something important right now!

"It's an urgent order! The dragon has appeared again!

"Are you kidding me? You just got here yesterday."

Gi gets up as she pulls her face together. A dragon crossing a continent in a single day is very rare in itself to land in the White Forest. So yesterday, I dispatched a guard force that included Zana, who is second only to Gi in strength. So much anomaly seems to be happening for two days in a row.

"So, where is the place?

"It's the same place yesterday, it seems like you're looking for something, walking around the area. So far, no particular damage seems to have occurred."

"Hmm..."

Gi puts his hand on his chin and thinks for a while, he turns his eyes to Serene, who was sitting back.

"All right. Me and Zana, and this little one... we're taking Serene to the crime scene"

"What!? Not only Master Zana, but also Master Gi?

Gi is a compiler for the Elves. I won't move on my own unless I have a lot to do. The gi said he would go out on his own and take him even to a human child. To the words, both Elf and Zana blinked their eyes as surprised.

"I'm pretty sure this chick is involved in dragons, but I don't know why. Then you can give this guy directly to the dragon rather than just thinking about it here."

"Hey! Are you going to use that kid as bait?

"I said to myself that the dragon brought me here. Then there's nothing dangerous about it. If what this guy is saying is true, it's fine, and even if it's a lie, this guy just dies. What do you say, a good idea?

Zana tried to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything.