Liza was interested as well

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“Hey, hey, sister Tilura. I don’t know much about magic, but, how was it like to fight?”
“Hmm? Well…”

While Mr. Ekenhart and I were relieved that Leo would not be using her magic, Liza looked up at Tilura and questioned her with shining eyes.
Liza had been watching us from a distance. So perhaps she was interested in fighting…?

“I ran as fast as I could, and swung with all of my might… And when it was dangerous, I moved out of the way… Uh, I was quite nervous, and it’s difficult to explain…”
“Oh, I see…!”
“Well, it was your first time, so it cannot be helped. As long as you remember your mistakes so that you can do better next time.”

Tilura had a serious expression as she tried to explain it to Liza.
But she was having trouble describing it.
Perhaps Tilura was more of an instinctive person than a theoretical person.
Well, she was still young, and it would have been quite the unusual talent if she was able to calmly relay the details of her first battle step by step.

Still, I could see that Liza was enjoying listening to Tilura talk.
Was she not scared when Tilura was knocked away, or when the orc charged at such a great speed…?

“You didn’t feel scared at all, Liza?”
“No, because you and mama were here. Besides…I don’t know…there wasn’t much…hostile…it wasn’t scary…”
“Scary…because they weren’t hostile?”
“Yes! That’s why I wasn’t scared!”
“Hmm. Well, I suppose it was quite different from the hostility in the slums. And the orcs don’t feel threatening in the same way…”

However, the orcs were definitely trying to kill us.
I suppose it was a different, less personal emotion, but the two could mix.
Well, at least with the orcs, it was mostly instinct. They weren’t trying to make us suffer, and there was no hatred.

…Well, they were still angry after being provoked by Phillip.
In any case, she did not sense the same kind of dark emotions from them.
Personally, I thought the pure intent to kill was quite scary, but Liza thought differently.
Of course, part of it was also because Leo and I were here.

“I want to fight too! So I can be useful to you and mama!”
“What!?”
“What!?”
“What!?”
“Wuff!?”
“…Kyau.”

Perhaps it was curiosity, but now Liza was saying that she wanted to fight the orcs as well.
It was possible that Liza was stronger than them… The thought had crossed my mind before, however, it was too dangerous to put to the test.
Aside from me, Mr. Ekenhart and Tilura were also surprised. Even Leo was shocked.
Only Sherry seemed confused…

“Uh… Liza? You really don’t need to go around fighting orcs in order to help me and Leo, you know?”
“Really? But Sherry was told to get her own food… And I want to get food for you and mama! Besides, my grandfather used to say…”
“Well, we have plenty of orc meat, so you don’t need to… Uh, what is it that he used to say?”

With Sherry, it was to awaken her instincts, and for her diet…
It was all things that Leo had decided on.
Liza was different. I wanted her to spend her time laughing in safety, so there was no need to think about such things…

“He said, ‘They that do not work, shall not eat.’ But I was still young, and he said that I don’t need to, but… But working is like hunting orcs, isn’t it? I thought that was how you acquire food. Until you saved me, I didn’t work, and so I couldn’t eat much.”
“Uh…well…”
“Woud…wuff? …Wou.”

Liza’s expression kept changing as she talking about Mr. Reyndorf. And not just me and Leo, but the others also did not know how to react.
Leo sounded like she regretted what she said to Sherry.
Because now Liza seemed to misunderstand what it meant to work…
And the reason was that Leo had decided that Sherry should get her own food, and hunt orcs for lunch.

Well, as she had frozen that orc, she ended up eating a different one in the end…
In any case, it was because of Sherry’s efforts that Liza now felt that she should do the same.
As she had not done that in the slums, she felt it was the reason that she went hungry.
Also, I had heard that the beastkin were originally hunters… So perhaps that was part of it. Or was I overthinking it?

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