chapter 36: Dog-like Day (02)

  I 't possibly take ieemen.

  Even if I send them to my hometown, sendieen dogs would cause problems, let aloeemen?

  Moreover, beastmen like the dog type enjoy running around in rge spaces, and there were few noble families who owned gardens or private nds rge enough for that.

  Even promi noble families 't hahis, and even if they wao, I wouldn't feel like handing over beastmen of the dog type to them.

  They are too useful as private soldiers.

  If it is determihat their strength poses a potential threat, there's only ohing to do if they ot be released carelessly.

  Just send them to a pce where their force won't be a problem.

  If sent to a force where eadividual surpasses the bat power of the beastmen of the dog type, whether those eighteen follow orders or not won't be a problem.

  "Are they all enlisting?"

  "From what I see, they like humans, and among them, they seem to like knights who manipute mana the most."

  I thought about the differences betweeizens of the north and myself as I had before, and there was only one.

  Mana.

  Knights enhaheir physical abilities by operating mana circuits, making them the ultimate ons otlefield, capable of high-speed bat even ial armor.

  Therefore, knights who have undergone formal training all have mana circuits, and are also qualified to use a mana saber.

  "Even if they like knights, why should we take them in?"

  "Wouldn't it be helpful? Being of the dog type, beastmen have a keen sense of smell, making them excellent at trag, they have superior stamina pared to ordinary soldiers, and they are so loyal that they would risk their lives for their master."

  "Hmm..."

  "It's also tricky just to release them, and they say they won't return to the north..."

  "There's also the option of firing you and sending you to the north."

  "Hey, you 't be serious."

  "Isn't it more normal to fire a training knight than to take care of eighteemen?"

  Damn, I didn't see this ing.

  "Moreover, enhang our strength this way would lead to checks from other knight orders."

  "Aren't we the only ones who ha anyway?"

  In the current situation, other knight orders 't do it. Only the Magiight Order .

  Other knight orders are using the facilities fully, so it would be difficult for them to take ieemen, but it was different for the Magiight Order.

  "inally, the trainier is meant for 250 people, but currently, 150 are living there. I think there is room for 100 more."

  "Iy, the budget has been reduced so much that it's tight."

  "But if uys are coveting your pd ask if there's room, and there's plenty of space elsewhere to aodate them, wouldn't that solve the problem?"

  Upon hearing this, the senior knight ed his gsses and sat back down.

  "You know how to think."

  And to tell the truth, I didn't want to send these beastmen anywhere else.

  I realized how useful they could be in the Magiight Order by ily verifying their abilities.

  To give away such useful and loyal eighteemen of the dog type to ananization? No way.

  "Don't even ask for permission. Of course, they must have gra..."

  Outside, my cssmates were already walking the beastmen of the dog type on leashes or pying with them by throwing small balls.

  "If... the royal family grants permission, a new military branch would be created."

  It was the birth of the military e troops, a specialty force within the Magiight Order.

  Not as soldiers handling military dogs, but as dogs serving in the military.

  * * *

  "Sve traders are ing."

  "Shut up."

  Levin and Jake had goo see the military dogs and were not in the barrack; only Dane and I, who had just been released by the senior knight, were left.

  "How e all the letters I received during my absence were just advertisements?"

  'Because you collect advertisements...'

  And some advertisements ended up at Dane's desk because Levin and I were too zy to throw away the trash.

  "And why is the sheet such a mess? Did someone mess with my bed? There's a strange smell ing from the sheet."

  "You're just imagining things. Who would do that in someone else's bed?"

  Even if Levin and Jake were perverts, they wouldn't go as far as to use someone else's bed.

  They have their own beds; they would do it there o to the bathroom.

  "Something feels off... I'm going to do undry."

  Watg Dane clutg his nose and carrying the sheets to the undry, I was finally able to unpack my stuff.

  "First, let's take out Molng... and the clothes inside o be washed too."

  Maybe because the bag was in the sun on the way here?

  The clothes ihe bag felt warm.

  And I felt a warm fur that seemed alive...

  "Hmm...?"

  As I felt a familiar touch, I froze with my hand still ihe bag.

  "No way."

  And 'no way' often catches one off guard.

  "Why are you ing out from here?"

  Inside my bag, Shuru, making a victory pose and sn, was sleeping.

  Looking at Shuru, who was sleeping on the clothes I had ged out like a bed, I took out a fsk and Molng from ihe bag.

  "Molng was supposed to stay still, right?"

  Molng had been keeping Shuru at bay, even going as far as to cover my lower body if Shuru approached, but strangely, she was quietly inside now.

  'Did she not know that Shuru had sneaked in?'

  Boing...

  Even though I took her out of the fsk, instead of preparing to attack Shuru, Molng seemed to be watg me and shyly approached to nuzzle my hand, apparently knowing that Shuru had hidden ihe bag.

  It seemed the bag's exit was slightly looser than I had locked it, and the lid of the fsk had turned...

  "Did you... let her in?"

  They say affe grows through fighting, and it seemed Molng had taken a liking to Shuru.

  So, she must have secretly opehe tightly locked bag to help smuggle Shuru in!

  I thought Molng had gone somewhere since I didn't see her and she was quiet, but I never imagined she could be in the bag.

  "Wow... really..."

  I had no idea what to think.

  What to do with this tiny mun cat beastman was also a question.

  'Should I send her back to the north again? No... but with the beastman independence group gone, where should I send her? Maybe sending her back to Naomi would be...?'

  "G..."

  Maybe because her nose is low, but seeing her snore while sleeping made her seem cute, and I also thought about how I would raise her...

  "Let's wash her up a bit."

  I hadn't noticed the same smell in the beastman vilge, but ing here, the animal smell was no joke.

  The smell of animals out of my clothes and from Shuru, so I had to take advantage of the moment while my cssmates were busy with the beastmen to go wash up.

  'Wait, should I wash Molng too?'

  I hadn't washed her before because I thought slime shouldn't touch water, but after Molng absorbed water the other day, I judged it was okay for her to touch water, so I hid Shuru and Molng inside my clothes and sneaked into the shower.

  "Phew..."

  Fortunately, it was midday, so no cssmates were using the shower, and Dane had goo do undry, so I guessed it would be a while before anyone came to wash.

  Ssshhh...

  I scooped up the pre-warmed water in the shower room into a wooden barrel and mixed it with cold water to make it suitable for bathing, then pondered whether to put Shuru or Molng in first.

  "Want to go in first?"

  Nod, nod.

  Seeing Molng refuse, I carefully pced the still-sleeping Shuru into the barrel without waking her.

  Spsh.

  "......."

  At the sensation of water toug her feet, Shuru opened her eyes and looked at me drowsily, and her pupils soon filled with horror.

  "Meow!"

  her tail shot up, and she g to my arm, but fortunately, I was faster and grabbed her under her armpits and forced her to sit in the wooden barrel before she could escape.

  "Meow~!"

  "It's okay, it's okay."

  Fortunately, the water wasn't too hot, and her voice wasn't one of pain, and I started p water over Shuru's body with one hand while holdiightly with the other.

  Spsh. Spsh.

  'Look at all the fur shedding.'

  I heard that cats shed a lot of fur, and it seems the same goes for cat beastmen.

  Of course, some of it might be due to not having been properly washed before and the fur clumping together.

  "Meow..."

  Now she intively g and ging on, but I steeled my heart and began to wash every part of Shuru's body.

  "Let's see... where's the soap..."

  I had inteo dissolve the soap ier and had set it down on the floor, but I couldn't see the soap.

  "Molng, brihe soap, please."

  Molng, hidden uhe wooden barrel, grabbed the soap with both hands and held it out to me, but maybe because it was wet, it was too slippery to hold properly.

  "Meow~!"

  Moreover, just as I reached out to grab the soap, Shuru began tle to escape.

  "Ah, Molng, help me..."

  I wasn't really asking Molng for help; it was just a desperate cry.

  But Molng seemed to uand my words and immediately swallowed the soap she was holding and also ied the water, starting to produce soapy water from her body.

  'Does that work?'

  While I was surprised, Molng began to create soap suds outside her body and approached me.

  "Oh, thank you."

  Holding Molng in my hand with a proud expression, I inteo Shuru, but Molng didn't go to Shuru; instead, she burrowed into my arm and started to my body.

  "Hold on, Molng. I was going to wash after washing you... Ouch!"

  The first pce Molng targeted was naturally near my genitals, where her food came from, and she began to me with her bubbly body sliding over mine...

  'Ah, this is a new sensation...'

  Every time Molng's little bumps brushed against me, I involuntarily started to respond, and I was getti.

  Right now, the priority was to wash Shuru, wash Molng, and then wash myself and go back, but if I got aion in this situation...

  Nibble.

  "Gah!"

  Just then, unfortunately, Shuru also started attag my erect an, causio uionally receive a twed assault from Molng and Shuru.

  "Molng, stop! I'm supposed to be washing Shuru, not... Ow!"

  As Molng was frolig and washing my body with suds, Shuru also took the opportunity to slip out of my hands and started to dash away quickly, f me to chase after her in the shower room with foam smeared on my groin.

  "Don't run away...!"

  "Shssk!"

  I caught Shuru's leg trying to escape through the window and finally rexed, but then an ued attack from Molng followed.

  "Uh... what?"

  I thought Molng was just sliding down with the suds, but suddenly she had transformed her lower body into something like a tentacled creature from st time and g tightly to my groin.

  "Not now, I don't know when Dane will e... Uh!"

  Molng didn't care and immediately started mating.

  "No, not... not like this..."

  Normally, Molng would let herself be caught by my hand only when she wanted, and when she wao escape, she would slip out swiftly, but at least when she solidified her body to mate, I could physically grab her.

  But now, I couldn't pull Molng off as she was sug on my groin.

  'It's slippery!'

  Molng was emitting soap suds from her body while her inside remaihe usual Molng without the soap suds, and only her surface was covered in soapy water.

  That is, Molng was stuck tightly to my groin, and the outer part that I tried to grab kept slipping away, creating a maddening situation.

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