Her expression turned a little lonely as she spoke of her circumstances with her older sister.
According to her, the tail of the haunting wolf emits a dark blue light and said tail could be weaved into a glowing blue veil, which was a rather expensive present.
However, the tail of the haunting wolf was a rather difficult to obtain because the wolves were able to create multiple illusions of themselves, making it difficult to find the real one during battle.
──A monster capable using the shadow clone jutsu……
Alone, Ariane would be able to deal with a single one of them, but this was a monster that hunted in packs, which meant there would be multiple adversaries.
Since this request of hers wasn’t related to the rescue of the elves, she was conflicted because the normally unattainable material was right before her eyes.
Her only motivation was to give her older sister a gift, there was no other reason. Taking into account the strength of the monsters, she couldn’t afford to be careless when dealing with them.
“Well, we’ll be able to reach Hoban by tomorrow if we cut through the forest at the base of the Annetta mountain range.”
“Thank you, Arc.”
With tomorrow’s plan set, the blush on her lilac skin lessened and she offered me small thanks. I would’ve liked to see her embarrassed face a bit more, but she was staring back at me with the usual strength in her eyes, so I left it at that.
“Then let us go and buy dinner…… and some preserved food for tomorrow.”
“Kyun!”
Ponta, who had been looking out the window until now, let out a cry when she heard me mutter about food in preparation for tomorrow. She used her wind magic to fly onto my face before climbing onto my helmet.
As we walked down the street into the sunset, I really wondered how Ponta was able to understand human speech.