She said, as she ran up and put her arms around Femm.
We ate dinner, and then slept.
Two beings and one beast…one bed.
Just like usual, Femm somehow was able to invade my space.
It dropped its heavy snout onto my stomach, and I just put up with the weight.
Vi-Vi was closer to Femm than usual as well. She gripped onto Femm’s tail and slept.
The next day, we all had breakfast, and I went to guard as usual.
Femm ran around nearby, and Vi-Vi drew magic circles in the ground.
「Ruff Woof」
Femm barked. I looked over, and Femm’s underlings had brought something from the previous day.
Claws, fangs, bones, dragon scales, and magic stones.
「Oh, thanks!」
The fangs were as long as a person. The bones were even bigger.
The scales were as big as shields.
All of the wolves had given their all to drag everything down to us.
We were about to give some beef to the wolves when Femm stopped us.
『I don’t want the wolves to get used to people giving them food.』
「But this is thanks for dragging all that loot down to us.」
『They dragged it down as thanks for you destroying those dragons. There’s no reason to thank them for anything.』
「Is that how it is.」
『Yes.』
Maybe as a substitute, or something, I petted as many of the wolves as I could in thanks.
「Hey, but you’re getting fed, Femm. Is that okay?」
「Rurf?」
Femm slowly rolled over on the ground and panted.
There was nothing I could do, so I rubbed its belly.
While I was doing that, the chief came over. Millet had called for him.
「Al, did you need something?」
「Yeah, chief, thanks for coming. Look at that!」
The chief looked at everything the dragons had dropped.
「Yesterday, Femm and Vi-Vi helped me get rid of those things.」
「What? Dragons?」
「Yes, there’s a lot left over…do you have a place to put it? I’ll pay rent for the land and so on, of course.」
There was no way to put them in my bungalow. There was no way to carry them, and they didn’t fit in the magic bag.
「You…killed…this many…dragons?!」
The chief’s face was still locked in a shocked expression.
There are humans that think that dragons are some kind of holy being…the chief must be one of these.
That’s why I prayed for them once.
「Sorry, but they’re undead, so I have to kill them.」
「No…that’s not the problem. The problem is…if you fight dragons…you’re going to KILL YOURSELF!」
The chief worried about me. How kind.
「I’ll be careful.」
「I really wish you would.」
「Yes, well…thanks.」
After that, the chief gave me some land. I said I wanted a wide, flat area, that was near the village.
「Okay! Let’s make a place to store this!」
「Okay then!」
「Rawf!」
We began to construct a shack to store everything in.
We bought some logs from the woodcutter, and had the town carpenter help us.
Magic helped us a lot with the construction as well.
It made lifting the logs, striking the nails, and clearing the land easy.
We made the roof on the ground and then I used gravity to lift it later onto the building.
「Maybe being a wizard is really the perfect job for a carpenter?」
「You might be right.」
The carpenter asked and then laughed at my response.
Villagers that were free also helped us where they could.
While we were taking a break, one villager looked at me and said,
「Since you’re such a great wizard, Al, you’re a guy that’s easy to take a liking to.」
「Really? Well thanks a lot.」
「Yeah, but there’s something lacking in…gravitas…about you.」
The villagers around me looked at each other and nodded.
「Gravitas?」
「Yes, gravitas…you know…you’re not scary.」
The villagers again agreed among themselves.
「I don’t need to have something like that…I guess.」
「No, you do! If you had that, you could push people around!」
「Yeah! Here, Al, wait here for a second!」
The villager looked as if he realized something, ran to Millet’s house, and came back quickly.
Millet came back with him with a fake beard.
「We used this beard in last year’s festival. If you want it, we’ll give it to you.」
「Oh, that would look good on you, Al!」
I put the fake beard on, and I could feel the fluffiness on my chin and under my nose.
It was just enough to hang off my chin…not the kind that reaches to your stomach.
Once the villagers saw me wear that, they jumped up and down gleefully.
「Okay…I guess I could try wearing it…」
「Now you look like a REAL wizard.」「It suits you well.」
After putting in on, everyone nodded in approval.
Maybe I could wear this as a disguise someday. Since I might need it, I took it and thanked them.
Using magic, the storage shack was finished in three days.
And with Vi-Vi’s expansion magic, the inside of the storage was made even bigger.
「Because of this building, I’m going to make the most beautiful magic circle to match it! Not something cheap that you use during battle, but a gorgeous, superior magic circle!」
Vi-Vi was super excited to do it.
Because of Vi-Vi’s exquisite magic circle drawing, the internal storage of the place expanded 10 times the outside size.
It was also a very tough circle. Attacks and fire couldn’t harm it.
「Maybe being a magic circle magician is really the perfect job for a carpenter?」
「Good job, Vi-Vi….」
「Right?! Right?!」
Vi-Vi said proudly.
There was a crawl space under the floorboards of the storage shack. The wolves took a liking to it.
Several of them had already crept in and were sleeping.
「I wonder if they can warn us if anyone comes.」
『You’re right.』
Femm said proudly.
「Hmph! Those dirty wolves are going to just sit there and chew on the bones!」
『They won’t do that!』
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「I was just joking. Al, I have an idea!」
Femm didn’t get angry, and Vi-Vi just blew it off…they both had grown.