Chapter 388: The Purpose the Griffin Came For

The griffin slowly landed on the ground. That presence is no small thing. It overwhelms everyone here. The maids hug,

"Please save us!!"

and cry. Because the ground is wet they must have lost control. I understand that feeling well. Even Her Majesty and Anouk for the second griffin have tense faces.

The griffin toward the sky guwa!!!! barked one voice. That sound pressure was transmitted biribiri. Then the griffin turned its neck around (is its shoulder stiff?) and looked at me.

"I will have you let me eat this."

the griffin spoke into my head.

"Please, as you like."

I who have no choice but to say that. The griffin breathed pale flame on the wyvern that became an arrow daruma, burned all the arrows away, and made the wyvern’s skin a just-right roast and started pecking.

Everyone looks silently at the griffin eating the wyvern gatsu gatsu. There I remembered and looked at Her Majesty and Her Majesty and Anouk were looking at me.

"I heard."

Her Majesty says. Anouk too,

"I heard too."

says. Then unexpected Sandy,

"I, I heard too but is that voice that creature’s voice?"

came saying. Somehow being able to hear the griffin’s voice seems confirmed as a condition of having a relation with me. I wanted to bring Ann and Rin and try. Perhaps the ability called "Otherworld Language Translation" is shared? The ability called "Otherworld Language Translation" is not visible to me so I feel it is surely a hidden skill.

"I cannot hear."

Agnes says disappointedly. Well that is fine.

"I did not hear either. What did that say?"

The clan chief whose cheek is swollen bright red from Her Majesty’s slap asked. His voice is trembling. We for the second time have composure after all.

"That is a creature called Griffin and I met it on the way from the royal capital to the Eisleben clan too."

When Her Majesty answers the clan chief,

"That is a griffin after all. Even told I was half belief half doubt. To be able to see it truly with these eyes! Living long is a thing. That while alive I would meet a griffin called a divine beast."

He is admiring. Well if you were dead you could not meet it.

"Then what did the griffin say?"

The clan chief asks Her Majesty.

"It said it would eat the wyvern."

"So that is why it is eating like that..."

"If you interfere it grows angry. If you do a strange thing you are killed without mercy."

When Her Majesty says it is repeated zawa zawa and spreads. This time there seems no foolish rebel.

The griffin does not seem to dislike organs and eats the wyvern without likes and dislikes. It has no tongue and no teeth so pecking, tearing and swallowing repeats.

Surely the griffin will eat all the wyverns we took down. This time I feel we cannot take them back as souvenirs. Just having seen a griffin would be enough as a souvenir story.

Will we stay here tonight? Or return to the town of Andeshon? I thought and

"Do as you like."

an answer rang in my head. I meet eyes with Her Majesty. Her Majesty nods and turns to the clan chief,

"Today after this what will you do? Stay here or return to the town of Andeshon. There are dead too so I think it is better to return once to the town of Andeshon. Clan Chief, how is it?"

she spoke. The clan chief thought a little,

"Your Majesty. For me I want to return to the town of Andeshon. Attendants becoming unwell this gathered is a mysterious story too and I feel we may have been trapped by that sow. I want to go to the town of Andeshon and confirm that. Is it all right?"

"It is fine. Then prepare."

Saying that Her Majesty looks at the griffin but it is still eating the wyvern gatsu gatsu and seems to have no interest this way.

Her Majesty, Anouk and I talked the previous time too and are talking this time too so we know the griffin does not lie and has no desire to eat people so we think we will not be attacked.

But from the view of everyone seeing it for the first time there are ones who think when will the griffin change its mind and start eating people? I think. Being a beast, being unable to look at the griffin with the eyes of a highly intelligent life is not unreasonable I think.

The griffin finished eating the first wyvern and starts on the second.

"Will that griffin eat all the wyverns?"

The clan chief asks Her Majesty.

"I do not know. I think it is better to think so. I heard wyverns are the griffin’s favorite."

"Is that so..."

The clan chief is disappointed but that cannot be helped.

By the time the griffin finishes eating the second, preparations for departure were in order.

"Then we depart."

When I speak to the griffin it seemed conveyed to the griffin, it raised its neck, looked at me,

"Are you all leaving too?"

it asked. Surely it will not tell me to stay? Why again? I thought and

"Talking with people is a fun thing."

I was told a shocking thing. When I look at Her Majesty’s face she has grown pale. If I expand what the griffin just said it is like those who can talk with the griffin are told to stay.

"I will stay!"

The one who made a courageous statement was Sandy. Other than Her Majesty, Anouk and me no one understands what talk it is and they blink their eyes.

"What are you saying?"

The clan chief asks Sandy. Sandy,

"The griffin said those who can talk should stay. Lord Marie staying seems decided so someone else to take care of Lord Marie seems to have to stay and I thought I would stay."

She speaks plainly but the tragic feeling on the side hearing it becoming a tremendous thing was transmitted. Every maid and every knight has written on their face I refuse spending a night near a griffin. Because the griffin changing its mind and starting to eat humans seems possible.

"Then I too."

Where Her Majesty started to say,

"That will not do! Your Majesty please return to the town of Andeshon together with us!"

the clan chief says strongly strongly. And those other than Anouk also oppose greatly. Her Majesty staying beside the griffin is outrageous! Please think of your own safety! they insist. For me protecting Her Majesty’s body is my role so Her Majesty remaining here is very welcome. The gladdest is a situation where only Her Majesty remains. That kind of situation, unless Griffin-sensei goes gwaaa and breathes hellfire or a shockwave and kills everyone other than Her Majesty and me, would be impossible.

"You, just what are you thinking?"

Yes, a retort came in from Griffin-sensei.