Chapter 466: Acquiring the Tamer

[A/N: We are just a few more golden tickets away from reaching another milestone!!]

The Empire’s knights are all of noble origin, and even if there are cases of doing combat command, there are few cases of facing scenes like the front line where actually swinging the sword and defeating the enemy.

Even if Zhu Biao, Li Jing and the Empire’s knights conduct mock battles, the knights are mostly overwhelmed, and immediately there became no one who could be an opponent. Therefore Zhu Biao and Li Jing mostly ended up training with the two.

Conversely the Saintess Xie Honghua and the Tamer Xu Meiyi are being taught by Hütter attached closely. Regarding the Saintess the high priest Andropov wanted to teach, but Andropov can only teach from the initial to medium level of holy magic. Therefore in the end, mostly Hütter teaches. However Hütter himself is also not detailed about holy magic (not his specialty) so he cannot teach that deeply.

Regarding the Tamer Xu Meiyi, no one could teach and it was decided that Hütter would teach referring to past books.

First with the purpose of using beasts, it begins from acquiring making the dog nearby move as the Tamer wishes. Hütter also does not understand well, so

"Become able to communicate intentions toward the dog."

he tried saying to Meiyi, but she does not understand communicating intentions with the dog. Meiyi has not had a dog nearby from childhood, so she does not understand that area well. Perhaps because of that, the one who became familiar with the brought dog was Honghua’s side earlier than Meiyi. Honghua had a dog at her family home, and until rising to Zhu Biao’s maid she lived familiar with the dog at home. Honghua has the quality of a dog handler that can be said to be innate, and can immediately become friendly with any dog and play together.

Before Meiyi who is afraid of dogs becomes familiar with the large white dog brought for Meiyi, Honghua became friends.

The moment Honghua saw the brought dog, she suddenly jumps at the dog’s neck

"This child, cute——!"

while saying, she rubs cheeks. She buries her face in the dog’s fur, and sniffs kunka kunka.

"Good smell——!"

The maids are looking dumbfounded at the figure of Honghua and the dog rolling and playing, but Meiyi is looking enviously. Honghua notices that gaze,

"Meiyi! Come here! Let’s play with this child together! Mufufu! It is a very good child! Look, ahaha, don’t lick so much! No, no, geez, ufufufu, no, Meiyi, come quickly!"

Honghua is licked on the face by the dog, and while turning her face away is laughing, and is beckoning Meiyi. The dog is wagging its tail as if it might tear off. Because the dog pushes Honghua down, even if the maids try to restrain the dog Honghua,

"Fine, fine, this child is saying it loves me! Ahahahaha——"

The maids are playing with the dog to the extent of thinking one must not laugh with such a loud voice and be shameless.

Meiyi fearfully approaches Honghua and the dog. Not knowing if it is fine to enter the playing of Honghua and the dog, when to enter, and hesitating, Honghua while holding the dog,

"Meiyi! Look, here! Pet here! Don’t be afraid, come! Look! The maid you! Yes, you! Come! Show the example!"

Honghua nominates one of the maids. Honghua was looking at one who has the same smell as herself in that maid. Taking an attitude of "Eh? Me?", while caring about the eyes of the maids lined beside, the nominated maid while brewing an atmosphere of "It cannot be helped..." slowly approaches. Then while Honghua stares, the dog in front is haa haa with tongue out, and unable to endure the eyes staring at the maid,

"Dog-chan————nnnnnn——"

she hugs, and buries her face in the dog’s fur. The maid grinding her face and sniffing the dog’s smell happily kunka kunka.

"Meiyi-sama—— this child is a very good child!"

The maid shouts to Meiyi with a full smile. In that case, Meiyi also decides her heart, and slowly approaches and extends her hand to the dog. Whether the dog transmitted Meiyi’s tension, the dog is facing the other way, but the dog’s tension is transmitted to Honghua and the maid, but everyone is pretending not to know and facing the other way.

When Meiyi’s hand touched the dog’s fur, the dog twitched. But the dog does not move. Meiyi exhales a small breath, and tries petting. Petting the tip of the dog’s fur, and because there was no reaction from the dog, she puts her hand a little into the fur, and pets once more. Relieved she advances the hand further. When touching the dog’s skin, it was felt that the feelings of the dog and Meiyi connected. The dog’s face turns to Meiyi, and licked Meiyi’s face with a pero!

"No, cuteeee——!!"

Meiyi hugs the dog’s neck.

"Right! Cute, right!"

At Honghua’s words Meiyi nods while burying her face in the dog’s fur.

It was the moment it was understood that for Meiyi to use beasts, it is fine if touching the opponent beast. After this, even if a ferocious beast is captured and restrained by the hero or Hütter, it was understood that if Meiyi touches it can be used. As experience accumulates, gradually Meiyi’s ability stretches, and she becomes able to use just by looking at the beast’s eyes without touching. Because there is a limit to the number of beasts that can be used, it is not unlimited but as the ability stretches, large beasts can also be used, and she became able to use even 10 heads at once simultaneously.

Meiyi who became able to use almost the beasts around the Royal Capital began to wish for using beasts or magical beasts with further large attack power. Then seeking magical beasts, the hero party advances aiming near the Mainz Kingdom border. For that they are bringing the white dog first used. And that was exactly the same period when the Mainz Kingdom’s heroes taking Robbie headed to the northern part of the Mainz Kingdom.

I accompanied the heroes and departed the Royal Capital. Still the aftertaste of Konoka’s performance heard at the church on the festival day remains inside the body.

On the festival day, the church in the noble district is a small thing compared to the surrounding large mansions, so the ones who came to hear Konoka’s performance filled the seats, and were surprising the priests. After the performance ended, the priests variously say, if Konoka’s performance could be shown at the cathedral it would be good! but it seems no one came to listen from the cathedral. As the face of the cathedral, even if a performer of a small church performed well once it seems impossible to call to the cathedral. The cathedral’s performer is said to be the top master of this country, so setting that aside and having an unknown little girl play at the cathedral is also crushing the face, it seems.