I Can Speak with Animals and Demons

"It's my dream now to be hit by a strong adventurer's son..."

Guy, a skeleton man wrapped around a pitch-black cloak, shrugged as he looked far away.

I listen closely to the story.

"My son, who lost his father early, became an adventurer he had long admired, and one day he meets a skeleton equipped with a pitch-black cloak, which his father wore without letting go of his skin in a coal mine! Inside this coal mine is where my father was involved and died in a crash, and my son understands at a glance that this skeleton is my father, Guy!

Whether sitting got in a hurry or not, Guy talks as he flashes his standing cape.

It was as emotional as a lofty, appealing to a man's heart, as a bard that came fluttering and windy to a liquor store.

"A struggling son who finds out his former parents are skeletons. Skeleton, who desperately spoke to his father but succeeded in becoming the devil, will not answer it. Even though I knew it, my son couldn't point a blade at his beloved father! By his father's hand, his son, instantly driven, closed his eyes wondering if he would be slashed and torn by his father's swinging blade...!

…………

"And one last time I call my father's name again. Then the blade of the white blade stops in front of my son. A son who opens his fearful eyes. So my son did hear his voice!" No, he said he couldn't do it except me. "

Shut up! This is a good place. Shut up!

When I accidentally pinch my mouth, Guy steps on the estate in an indignant manner.

'So my son did hear his voice!

You're gonna start over from there properly.

'Hang on... you've become an adventurer, haven't you? You can't take down as many skeletons as you want. What are you gonna do? That was the voice of a father once. My son wakes up to that word of his father and can put his strength into his sword-shaking hand! And a slaughter that will shake into a diagonal line toward that skeleton! It slit Skeleton's chest.'

… It's been a long time. If I say something like that, I'll be angry again, so I'll keep my mouth shut.

Guy keeps talking more excitedly without worrying about how I look like that.

"A son who stares at his father as if he were crushing and scattering his sword. That's when my son heard his voice in his ear," So it sounded like it wasn't me. "

"Yeah, shut up! You're such a good place, but bear with me! My family is connected by my soul even when I'm dead! Don't miracle lick me!

Guy was so angry that he threw his bones at me.

Hey, isn't this part of the spine? It would be really dangerous if I hit it.

"- Well done. Having heard that voice, his son groans as he feels the hot thing that conveys his cheeks. Father...... and '

Guy snorts with satisfaction, thanks to what we've talked about for a long time.

Are you drunk with yourself? Guy hasn't moved for a while.

"So what was the son's name?

"It's Ark."

"Could that be a blonde and a man with a black child in his eye?

'You know!?

"I did travel from Aether a week ago when I said I would be based in Wangdu."

Yeah, that's a recent one. That's what I heard when I was casually resting in my guild. An adventurer who had recently been rumored to rise to the silver ranks.

He wants to brush his arms in a different place because he says he has a "bad feeling" and because his strength has risen.

The adventurer's crisis-sensing ability to make the boulder rumor that it will be silver is great.

If he had stayed here, his Alliance might have asked him to take a coal mine quest as a condition for his promotion to the Silver Rank.

"Hey, hey, hey, good. No!? Let go of me, his parents, and go to Wang Du! Though that would be a place to go after you defeat me!?

"Even if you say so."

I think there's something in his life that says freedom, too.

"Hey how long does King's Capital take from here!?

Guy grabs me with a chopped voice.

"It's gonna take ten days to get a carriage from here, isn't it? You're a skeleton, so screw the moment you take a morning sunbath, you can't."

When I embarrass myself to stop thinking sooner, Guy starts roaring.

And when he flashed his arm, Guy stood up and said something stupid.

"Mmmm... then I'll be rich! Rich standing in front of his grown son! What a heartfelt development! I'd rather be stronger that way, and it could be touching because the months have gone by! All right! We've got a new target! It's a monster hunt from one end!

"What!? A little?"

Without even hearing my still voice, Guy flipped a pitch-black cloak and disappeared into the back of the pit.

"... Yep..."

× × ×

And then how many am I? was entrusted with things and messages by Skeleton of

I heard and wrote down a lot of family names and other information because some of them had objects that could prove their existence, while others did not.

At the time of entrustment, some returned to ashes.

Every time I stopped feeling, but I couldn't just turn away.

Most of the others are people who want me to check with their families in the city of Aether and ask for a report. Some of them said they wanted to go see him, but that's all they could do, so they put up with him.

And now, all that's left in the coal mine are my skeletons waiting to be reported, and a few special types like Skeletons and Guys who don't intend to die from the start.

"The number of skeletons in this coal mine has dropped a lot," Emma murmured in a worrying atmosphere.

Like that, the time was night, and I slept in the coal mine, where I was the only one sleeping.

They don't sleep because skeletons are an undead species.

Guy knocked me up in the middle of the night because of you.

I want to learn magic for when anything gets rich, but he told me to teach him the sword, so I just taught him how to swing the basic sword and fell asleep.

That's when I'm tired. If Skeleton pulls out his sword, he'll be strong. How dare you close your eyes.

The Next Morning.

When I opened my eyes, the skeletons filled my vision.

"Ghahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

When I scream, the skeletons shake their shoulders with pleasure.

What a bad way to wake up your heart.

My eyes woke up completely because of my skull in the morning.

'It's time for morning. It's not good for you to sleep until noon.'

Emma rips the cloth off of me and wakes me up like an okan.

I didn't expect Skeleton to wake me up in the morning.

It happens honestly with that in mind.

'I miss you. This is how I woke up my daughter as old as Jed when I was still alive. She was so weak in the morning...'

I was replacing the futon with a familiar hand, folding the cloth.

Yes, Emma worked here with her daughter as a help, but she had a fight the day before the collapse.

At the end of the fight, she broke up, but because of it, her daughter stubbornly skipped work.

So my daughter didn't get caught up in the collapse, so maybe it was a good idea for Emma, but from her daughter's point of view, I don't know what she thinks about living now.

That seems to be all I'm worried about.

They tend to think I'm a strong kid because I'm strong, but I'm really worried because I'm a weak-minded kid.

I accidentally loosened my cheeks when I heard such a story and ate a shy binta, but Skeleton's hand was more painful than I expected because it was bone.

And what Range and a lot of other skeletons hoped for.

- He wanted it to be purified.

The thirst, the hunger, the sleep, the pain, nothing to feel in it all, it seems that the life they have now is a pain.

At first I cursed my unfortunate destiny and became a skeleton with a desire to live.

However, he was tired of spending an infinite number of years without being able to get out of the abominable coal mine.

Now I just want salvation.

If I may, I would like to be summoned to the goddess Meriarina.

I took that wish and told them to meet me this morning.

Everyone would have done so out of curiosity.

The two skeletons carrying spines that did not need it also came this way to drop off their companions' goodbyes.

Their conversation with me made them want to build new weapons.

What kind of weapon are you going to build next?

And everyone who gets together is asked to stand in a circular, sprawling pit where they first meet.

"So, are you all right?

"'' Whoa!

He answers my call with such a cheerful voice that I don't think he's going to be purified now.

The expression was enough to convince me that even bones had a good smile.

I decided to smile at them and drop them off, trying to make a bright voice.

"It might be a little hot, but be patient, okay?

'Pretty hot, huh?

George, a skeleton with a back of his spine, tells him to chill as an experienced purifier.

Seriously!

'Be as gentle as you can? Gently.'

"... will I die properly?

"It would be hell if we met in the same landscape."

"Thank you, Jed!

The range tells me strictly at the end, whilst saying things like that.

'... then please. My light range... I did entrust it...'

"Yeah, I get it. Then I'll do it. [Li Secdo Stra]!

In response to my voice, there is a loud light on the scaffolding of the skeletons.

Its intermediate range and effectiveness are therefore immense.

The magic and light converge and the brilliance becomes stronger in an instant.

And it became a pillar of light at once, swallowing the entire body of the skeletons.

When the pillars of light were gone, there was not a single skeleton figure there, not even a bone shard remaining.

"... have you passed away?"

"You passed away. That was... they all had a good smile"

As the skeletons in the waiting group look up at the ceiling and whine.

That's when I heard the ranges say 'Goodbye' in my ear, like Guy's story.

It's kind of like the end of Guy's story, and I wiped my face with my arm.

"……… badass"