The dog gum is hard. It's very hard, but when I try very hard to chew on it with my back teeth, a delicious extract seeps out as time pa.s.s by.
It's seriously very delicious. What is this?
I don't know if it's made the same way as my previous world, but once you bite on it, it's very hard to stop.
It's also fun while gnawing it.
I keep my front feet on it to keep others from taking it as I continue to bite it. Even if I keep chewing on it like this, it does not disappear. Dog gum is amazing! I was so happy my tail wags by itself.
Ferdinand and Fockel-san watched me busily munching on the dog gum with a smile on their faces, but there's one looking at me solemnly. It's Benjamin.
I feel like Benjamin might take the dog gum from me, so I continued gnawing on it with caution.
I kept on gnawing at it continuously……until my jaw has gradually gotten tired.
The dog gum is hard. I've been eating on it for a while but it seems I still haven't gnawed on it enough. Â I want to bite it more.
But I'm tired.
I deeply breathed out.
I decided after looking at the dog gum full of bite marks. Let's make this my treasure. Let's do so.
I have to hide it somewhere where Benjamin can't find it.
I bit the dog gum and walked.
Ferdinand has already gone and left. I can't see Fockel-san's figure, either.
As I was trotting around wondering to hide it, I ended up approaching the kitchen. When I met eyes with Benjamin who suddenly looked over, I jumped and quickly fled in panic.
The first floor is no good. That guy is there.
I climbed the stairs with all i've got and went to the second floor.
Ferdinand's room…I can't. There are too many people coming and going.
A place where n.o.body can find.
While walking around aimlessly, I found a slightly open door. I forced myself through the gap and entered the room.
The inside gives a homely feeling with good furnitures in it. Yeah, if it's here, it seems n.o.body will come.
I wandered around inside and found a good place. It is a gap between the cushion and the backrest of a fuzzy sofa. I pushed it with my feet and inserted the bite-filled dog gum inside.
With this, good.
I decided for this place to be my treasure's hiding place.
….Was what I thought but Benjamin quickly found it and took the dog gum.
[Don't just keep eating snacks. You won't be able to finish the meal I prepared.]
Benjamin irritatingly says.
Grr.
I was defiant.
[Besides, do not put this dirty thing on the guest room sofa!]
…… My dog gum. Even though it's my treasure.
I got tossed by Benjamin in the backyard.
[If you're going to dig around in strange places, dig there. There are ridges. I will be planting seedlings there now.]
Over there has turned into a small field.
While I was still scared, I scratched the edge of the ridge lightly with my forefoot.
Soon after, the smell of soil spreads.
It's an amazing smell. It's the smell of soil, gra.s.s, and various other creatures.
What this is, so interesting!
I immediately started digging on the ground.
One after another, various smell started rising up.
I stuck my nose in the hole I dug.
FUWOOOOOO!
Something, there's something! It's under the ground! It's a prey!
As I was crazily digging the ground, Benjamin caught me.
[You idiot, just how much are you digging? I told you it's for planting seedlings. A little bit is fine, a little bit!]
…..Sheesh.
I turned around on the place I was told at helplessly.
Benjamin starts planting the seedlings on the hole I dug.
It was a very plain work. Although it was also fun as it is.
And after all of that was done, Benjamin washed me again.
Ferdinand came back by evening.
[I'm home, Krish, here's a souvenir.]
What Ferdinand gave me was a new dog gum!
[Because you seemed to have liked it.]
Yay! Ferdinand is a super nice guy!
I immediately bit  it and took it to my treasure's hiding place.
And that night.
When I unknowingly started nodding off from having gnawed on too much on top of my treasures' hiding place, I noticed someone stroking my body.
Is it Ferdinand? I thought for a moment but something's different. The hand that's stroking my body is big. Slowly and gently, it stroked along my coat. I feel like I knew this touch very well.
When I open my eyes a little, the light of the star is illuminating the inside of the room vaguely and I can see a big silhouette bent downwards.
It's Alex!
Welcome home, Alex~.
As I happily swing my tail around while being sleepy, I can feel that Alex is laughing.
[Chibi.]
His gentle voice called out my name.
Suddenly, my chest was filled with happiness and warm feeling.
In order for him to not go anywhere, I held on to his hand tightly with my front feet as I close my eyes.
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２９　Going Out
When I woke up, Alex was gone.
I feel lonely but it can't be helped. Alex, Ferdinand and the others are currently looking for my human body. It's probably a hard work……I think.
A sigh ended up coming out.
I wonder where my human body has gone to.
I will be troubled if it's neglected somewhere, but I'm also worried that it's in the hands of someone weird.
Ferdinand, who came back from work a little earlier, said to me in the evening one day after a few days pa.s.sed since I began living on the his mansion.
[Krish, if it's fine with you, would you like to go out with me?]
Uhm, is that an invitation for a walk?
I answered with a bark.
I'm going. I'm so happy to go on a walk.
Taking a walk is a fun, important and special event. Though I'm still a bit nervous about going together with Ferdinand.
After a while, Ferdinand came down the stairs after changing his clothes.
Ooh.
That surprised me.
Somehow, unlike usual, Ferdinand's handsomeness went up a level with his cla.s.sy clothes and well-prepared hair.
[Let's go?]
I was further surprised because there's a luxurious carriage waiting outside the mansion.
Huh? So we're not taking a walk?
While being shaken by the carriage, pa.s.sed through a busy street and  arrived in front of a shop. It is larger than the surrounding shops and looks a little expensive.
When Ferdinand entered, a person dressed in black gently greeted him as he lowered his head.
[I've been expecting you, please come to the back.]
Even as I followed after them nervously, I wasn't scolded. The fashionable people we pa.s.sed through at the s.p.a.cious hall are having fun while surrounding their own table as Ferdinand and I were guided out of the door which opened on the wall with the big window at the end.
It was a s.p.a.cious terrace with a roof. Light stones are decorated on the pillars and walls, and they're beautifully lighted up like electric lights. The other side is dark and I can't see it well, but it looks like a river. I can hear the sound of running water.
In the middle of the terrace there was a table with a white tablecloth with only one seat, Ferdinand and I came in that seat. Somehow, my seat is a fluffy cushion which looks expensive.
Delicious-looking dishes were brought in. The store personnel also served my food as if it's a human's. When I smelled its scent, I felt hungry.
Since I felt sorry for just shoving my face in it, I angled my face sideways and slowly took a bite.
How should I say it, it tastes expensive.
They probably held back on the seasonings because it's for a dog, but it's incredibly delicious.
While eating, I ended up eating the same way like always but since there's only Ferdinand watching, will it be alright?
Ferdinand smiled as he watched me eating happily.
[I wanted to talk with you slowly once.]
Ferdinand suddenly said.
[I also wanted to apologize properly.…… that I have probably done a lot of things that Krish hated.]
The tip of Ferdinand's ears have slightly turned red.
[When I think about it now, Krish was also close while Alex and I were talking. That's why it might be already clear to you but, I'm attracted to you. Hopelessly so.]
His ice-blue eyes are staring directly at me.
To the kind of gaze that seems to see something that should not be loved, uh, was I a human? Was what I thought but when I unthinkably looked at my body, it's affirmably a dog's.
[At first, I was just fascinated by your beauty. Perhaps, I think I was strongly attracted to your mysterious figure lying without consciousness. I was so happy when you opened your eyes and called my name……You looked unbearably lovely and adorable that my chest hurt. It was the first time that I truly fell in love and I did not know what to do so I ended up losing control… It will not be a very good excuse, but I do feel sorry about it.]
….. Uhh.
Y, yeah. In the meantime, I'm glad for being a dog.
I think my human face would have turned red.
When I nodded slightly, Ferdinand let out a sigh of relief.
[……Thank you.]
Ferdinand said while swaying the gla.s.s in his hand.
[I thought that I would like to come with Krish to this store once. I am glad that my wish has come true.]
So that's why.
I'm a dog though, is that fine?
You can see people talking to each other with a smile through the window gla.s.s, the inside of the shop is fashionable and the food is delicious, the terrace is beautifully illuminated with glittering lights and the sound of the water sounds very smooth, it's an awesome atmosphere. I finished eating dinner with a happy feeling.
After leaving the store, Ferdinand said.
[Is it okay if we walk on the way home?]
I answered with a bark
There are still many restaurants and taverns open on the street in the evening and there are so many people trying to go home, people who are already finished, people who are planning to eat right now, and people who are about to go drinking walking around.
It's a somewhat lively atmosphere and it's fun.
When we are walking for a while, I saw that there was a square where the ground was glowing with the embedded light stone in the other side of the alley.
I wonder what that is, is the ground wet?
Because Ferdinand gave me a nod when I looked at him, I ran towards the square.
[Kirsh, if you get too close…!]
Waah!
That scared me.
From a part of the ground, a thin water pillar suddenly sprang out.
[Did you not get wet?]
Ferdinand asked anxiously.
I, I'm fine. I just got a little surprised.
[In this square, thin water pillars sprout out here and there. The air stone is blowing them high up.] (TN:In other words, a fountain.)
Oh.
When I suddenly noticed, a pair of water blew up in the other side. The waterdrops are being illuminated by the lights and looks pretty.
Somehow, I feel like there's also something like this in my original world.
I ran to the water that was blowing up, and I bit it to the water. (TN: just imagine a dog biting on the water coming from the hose.) Uwo, my face is losing to the water pressure. I will try to hold the entrance with my feet and suppress it.
The water quickly withdrew and has spring up from another point after a while. I ran towards it and bit it again. This is pretty fun.
As I happily played with my tail wagging about, Ferdinand who was a distance far from me was laughing a little.
I got wet a little. After shaking the water off, I ran towards Ferdinand.
Ferdinand took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped my face.
[Let's go home.]
Ferdinand says while smiling.
When we walked back on the main street, we met the aunt who's closing her stall as she cried with, "Oh my".
[Hey, the handsome young man over there! How about giving this toy to your cute doggy?]
That thing that the aunt has taken out is…
It's a very mysterious toy, a slender giant dog gum wrapped on a polkadots cloth has a spring on it and a strange animal head is plugged on it with a spring.
A giant dog gum doll…!
Ho, how marvelous…!
My eyes were sparkling as I looked at it and when Ferdinand saw the state I was in, he said
[i'll take it.]
[Come again~!]
While giving the giant dog he just bought to me, Ferdinand said.
[Thank you, Krish. Today was really fun…. Truly.]