novelGoing to the Half-beast Town
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Yale had no rush to go to the town; he taught Wyba for a week before she turned capable of speaking like humans.
The most difficult part to her was to learn how to make human sounds, Wyba had been surrounded by humans a lot of time, so she was used to the language and could understand it. Thus, once she was able to make the sounds, she was able to speak without too many difficulties.
In that week, Wyba also got used to moving in her half-beast form, if she walked like a wolf in that form it would have been too weird.
"Well, it seems that you are ready. Will you want to go now to the town?"
Yale felt that Wyba was ready, she was able to speak and move like a normal half-beast of her age. Furthermore, as she was still young, even if she made some mistakes people wouldn't think too much about it.
"Wyba wants to go now!"
That was the main problem in Wyba's speech; she was used to be called by her name when he heard humans speak, so she started to speak human language saying her own name instead of I.
She spoke normally in wolf language, that problem only happened in human language.
At the start, Yale tried to correct her, but Wyba didn't understand what was wrong with her name.
In the end, Yale just gave up on correcting her; she was still a little girl, so that way of speech was cute when she was the one saying it.
"Then, we will go right now. Remember to don't use your wings; as I explained to you before, this is our secret."
Yale had also set some rules to Wyba for when she was with others.
She couldn't use Shape Shift in front of the others or fly. However, the most important rule was that she should never use any healing magic, that was the biggest taboo for her.
Shape Shift was a useful skill, but if everyone knew about it, its usefulness would diminish. The Frost Winged Wolves were more valued due to their capacity to fly; Yale feared that if their bloodlines were revealed to be from such beasts, they would catch the attention of some powerful people.
However, the healing skills were the worst if discovered, showing a healing skill to any half-beast was like a death sentence. In fact, it would be worse than death; they would be caught and enslaved to heal others for their whole lives.
If that situation happened, Yale would be forced to use one of his trump cards to flee, thus using healing magic was forbidden for both of them, Yale wouldn't use it either.
Yale had never seen Wyba using healing magic, but he knew she could do it due to Appraisal.
Fortunately, Yale wasn't worried that Wyba would use any healing magic because she wanted to battle to that little girl who Yale had saved before and wasn't interested in other people or helping them.
However, Yale feared that she would have difficulties in the battle and chose to fly as that was a great advantage in any battle when the other party couldn't fly.
Thus, he remembered her that part; Yale didn't mind the two girls having some sparring, but there was no need to reveal any of their secrets due to that, even if Wyba lost the sparring it wouldn't happen anything to her.
When Yale was about to start walking, Wyba jumped to his back, and Yale almost lost his balance.
"What's wrong, Wyba?"
Yale thought that Wyba jumped because she wanted something, but he was wrong, she didn't jump because she wanted something, she wanted to do that jump.
"Nothing, Wyba is only returning to her place for travel."
Wyba felt that she should be in her big brother's head as she always did when traveling.
Yale wanted to say that with her size she couldn't be on his head, Wyba had only the size of a four years old girl, but that was bigger than a wolf cub.
However, Yale didn't want to hurt Wyba forbidding her to go to her usual place.
"It is better if you sit on my shoulders, you can't do that in your wolf form. Don't you want to try it?"
Instead of forbidding her going to the top of his head, he chose to give her another option that was more normal. It wasn't weird for a big brother carrying a little sister in that way; Yale had seen a lot of fathers and brothers carrying the little girls in their backs in Trade City.
Wyba also liked the idea; she remembered that most of the little girls that went to hug her in Trade City were in their parents or brother's back when waiting for their turn.
Wyba would lie if she said she didn't want to try it, but she knew it was impossible in her wolf form. However, after Yale said it, she realized that she could do it in her current form.
Wyba didn't waste that chance and went to Yale's shoulders instead of his head.
Yale sighed in relief as Wyba seemed happy with that and started walking towards the town.
When they reached the entrance of the town a man with tiger ears and tail appeared, he was the 3-star Novice Rank that Yale had detected. Moreover, by how he looked, his bloodline purity was high.
"Welcome to our town, young friends."
There wasn't any hostility in the man's voice, he didn't lower his guard, but he saw that Yale was young and was carrying a little girl on his back. He couldn't think that Yale had evil intentions or that he was a bandit, no one would assault a town carrying a little girl on his back.
He looked at Yale's wolf ears and then added.
"Maybe you are the one who saved my daughter some days ago? She told me that a guy with some wolf-type bloodline had saved her."
Yale noticed that the ears and tail of the man resembled the ones of that little girl and he also noticed that Wyba seemed to dislike the man, but as that man was stronger and older than her, she didn't say anything about it.
"Indeed, I saved a little girl from a boar beast a week ago, but I don't know if she was your daughter."
Yale was pretty sure that the man was the father of the little girl, but he chose to appear he wasn't sure.
In the town, there should be more little girls and it wasn't impossible that another girl had a problem and was saved by someone, it would be weird if Yale were sure that the man was her father and not the father of another girl misunderstanding his identity.
Yale had seen though mapping how the little girl was almost always beside that man who was the only at higher realm than Yale in the whole town, so Yale didn't doubt about the relationship between the two of them.
"It was my daughter without any doubt; she is the only little girl in our town who have guts to go out alone and without saying anything. I already scolded her for being reckless, thank you for saving her."
Yale felt that the man was telling the truth and was really thankful for saving her daughter's life.
However, before Yale managed to reply to him, Wyba spoke.
"Your daughter didn't thank Wyba's big bro after big bro saved her."
"She is Wyba, my little sister. She was hiding in the surroundings when I was saving your daughter. She is angry because your daughter fled after I saved her without thanking me. Forgive Wyba's rude words."
The man sighed. After hearing that and seeing Wyba's little body, which showed that she was about the same age of his daughter, he thought that Wyba was just a little girl attached to her big brother and she didn't say that words about her daughter with any evil intention.
Moreover, the man knew that his daughter was unruly and unless he or his wife ordered her, she had never shown gratitude towards others. Thus, he knew that it was his daughter's fault and it was normal if Wyba was angry.
"I am sorry for that. My daughter is always like that. Come to my house, I will treat you as guests, and I will make my daughter apologize for her rudeness."
Yale nodded, but Wyba hadn't enough with that.
"Wyba didn't want apologies. Wyba wants to fight with her."
Yale and the man sighed at the same time.
"Well, it is good for them to spar against someone of same age and power. I don't have any problems with my daughter fighting with your sister."
"I don't have any problem either, but we need to ensure that both of them won't battle too seriously."
Both of them were thinking the same, the battle would be good for the young girls, but they need to control them to avoid them hurting the other party too much.
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