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Chapter 5 – Fenrir Life 4
I also soaked up to my shoulders in the water.
[Haa~ it’s warm…]
I feel like the wounds and fatigue from fighting the Wyvern Fake Dragon are fading.
So happy~
But, even though I can do it with the magic Fluffy, I can’t relax because it’s really tiring.
[Hey, Mom~ I wonder if we can make a bath with that rock over there]
[Hmm?]
Mom looks at me with a puzzled expression.
There’s actually a marble-like rock lying near the cave.
[You can carve that rock so that it can hold hot water. You can make a hole in the bottom so that it’s easy to throw it away when you’re done]
I explained as best I could, but Mom just laughed bitterly and said, [Little girls say weird things sometimes].
[But it’s also good for training your magic, so keep doing what you’ve been doing.]
[Ehh] I was disappointed, and my big sister poked me with her front paw.
[Wash me, little sister!]
[I can’t help it.]
I took the white Fluffy out with my right hand and spread it in the soap jar next to the bathtub.
I poured hot water over the soap I took out and made it lather.
Then I scrubbed my big sister’s body after she got out of the bathtub.
At first, she was so dirty that the foam turned black quickly, but now that I take a bath every day, that doesn’t happen.
As I was washing her back, shoulders, armpits, etc., moving the white Fluffy around, mommy got out of the bathtub.
Then she said to my big sister, who had her eyes closed and looked like she was enjoying it.
[Big girl, please wash my body.]
My big sister’s face visibly twitched. [It’s hard because mommy’s body is big…]
[Oh, you’re getting the same, aren’t you? You’re making your sister wash it, so there’s no way you can’t do it, right?]
[…My little sister is good at manipulating magic]
[Oh? In that case, it’s perfect for you to practice.]
My big sister–or rather, my brothers and sisters, we still can’t beat mommy.
My big sister’s shoulders slumped, but she reluctantly raised her right front paw and showed her red fluffy hair, and started washing mommy.
Then, mommy looked at me and smiled.
[Little girl, I’ll wash you.]
[Mom’s not fair! My little sister’s body is so small, it’ll be over in no time!]
[Oh, I’m making a bathtub too? Then maybe you can take over that too?]
It’s pretty hard to maintain a bathtub as big as a pool.
My older sister seemed to understand that too, and just said [gugugugu…] in frustration, but didn’t offer to take my place.
After I finished washing my body, I soaked in the water again.
Ah, so happy.
Both mommy and my older sister had their eyes closed and looked lazy.
As I was feeling even more relaxed watching their cute appearance, I felt the presence of something huge approaching.
[Hmm?]
I turned my gaze and saw my big brother running towards me from afar.
Behind him, I could see something tied up in black fluffy material.
[What!? What is that!?]
As I stood up from the bathtub, my older brother arrived just before me.
Maybe because we were in the bath, it was quiet and didn’t raise any dust.
But I was more surprised than anything.
[Big brother! Is that a bear!?]
The big brother grinned at my excitement.
Then he held it out so I could see it.
Black fur with red on the head, a gigantic body, and long, thick, vicious claws – I screamed without thinking.
[Whoooaaa! And it’s the one I met!]
Bears in my previous life were also a symbol of fear, but bears in this other world are thousands of times more dangerous.
Its body length is the size of a large truck, but it’s more than one size larger, its front legs can crush rocks when it swings down, and its running speed easily surpasses that of a leopard-type magical beast. It can reach the flying wyvern pseudo-dragon by jumping up, and it has the sturdiness to cling to it and devour the wyvern it has killed, even if it crashes headfirst into the hard ground.
And yet, it’s smart, so it doesn’t rush in recklessly.
To be honest, he is stronger than any young dragon.
I encountered one a week ago while hunting alone, and it was a terrible experience.
Using the white Fluffy as a shield, I managed to fight back, and managed to crush its left eye, but that was all.
If my mom hadn’t come to help me, I’d probably be in the bear’s stomach.
That’s scary.
But, big brother, you’re hurt!
I hurriedly took out the white Fluffy and treated him, but he laughed and said, “This is no big deal!”
No, no, it’s true that it’s not deep, but there are still clear scratches from the claws!
But he rubs his cheek against me and says, “It was easy because my little sister hurt you!”
Even a small wound can be a big problem if it becomes infected, so I wish you’d pay more attention to it!
But it seems like I’m the only one who’s worried about that. My big sister in the bath is drooling and saying, “That looks tasty,” and my mom is smiling and saying, “My little girl crushed one of her eyes, so I need to defeat her a little easier.”
By the way, mom can crush the heads of these bears with a light blow from her front paw.
In fact, if the bears see mom, they run away as fast as they can.
They’re really on an entirely different level.
[Little sister, please cook this. Was it a pot? That would be good.]
[But――] I move my gaze to the bear’s throat.
The fact that there is a cut means that the blood has been drained.
Perhaps noticing this, big brother says proudly.
[My little sister has already done what she always does! She has even finished eating the innards]
When you catch a prey, you immediately drain the blood and remove the innards. It makes a big difference if you do this or not.
If you skip it, it will smell bad, be hard, and taste bad.
I always do it, so my big brother has been doing it lately too.
I’m grateful.
[Thank you. Okay, let’s have hotpot later!]
[Yeah, I’m looking forward to it!]
Saying this, big brother walks towards the cave with the bear in his mouth.
[Hotpot sounds good]
[Looking forward to it, Mom]
Mom and big sister say things like that.
Well, it’s not a big pot.
I make a big pot out of white Fluffy and boil water.
I put in rock salt that I can get nearby, pepper that I grew from seeds that I got from the elf sister, dried mushrooms, herbs, etc.
Add the meat and carefully skim off any scum that comes out.
This is finished.
I’d never made a hot pot in my previous life either, so I was mostly guessing, but it turned out better than I expected.
My mom, siblings, and the older elf sister all praised it, so I’m a little proud of it.
We all gathered around and ate it.
At first, the Fenrir team stuck their faces directly into the pot, but at the request of me and the older elf sister, who were both completely put out by surprise, we decided to eat it using the Fluffy that each of us had brought out as chopsticks.
I probably never had a hot pot with my family in my previous life.
And yet in this life, where we live in a different world, I sit around eating hot pot with my precious family, who are of entirely different races.
It was somehow strange, somehow funny, and somehow happy.
I was happy…5
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