Episode 64 – Silverwolf Lord and The Hero (part 2)

No, I mean, no matter how much I think about it, isn’t it going to be difficult to fool them? We’ve already done a lot of things, and when I think about the hassle it’d be to deceive them, wouldn’t it be easier to just make them my slaves and explain things to them later?

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“A, a slave…?”

“I’ll do it! I’ll become your slave, so please save me!”

In contrast to the hesitant woman, the young girl, who had wet herself, agreed to become a slave without hesitation.

“I’ll become a slave too, so please help me!”

“Me, me too…”

“Please help me…”

Eventually, they all agreed, so they stripped (willingly) and I carved slave crests onto their backs.
Resistance was futile.

“Now, Maple, get these girls on board.”

“As you wish!”

I had Maple turn into a sea serpent and put the women on her back.

I’ll omit the reactions of the naturally surprised women.
After that, the girl who wet herself looked like she was having trouble staying on, so I applied ’s “Clean” as usual.

“So it’s alright with 4 passengers but with me alone you’re over capacity ”

I ignored Tiramisu’s grumblings about her weight.

I used the “Portal” set up by Maria, to join her, and then “Summon” to draw the other members to us. [1]

“I’ve been waiting for you, Jin-sama.”

“Oh, good work.
Haven’t you finished it yet?”

There, the Silverwolf Lord, who had its front right and rear left leg cut off, and the base of its remaining rear right leg skewered with a sword, was rendered completely immobile.
Yeah, she certainly pulled no punches.

“Yes.
I thought it would be a good idea to wait for Jin-sama to catch up…”

“You could have just finished it off…”

It was troublesome enough that she was making an “I’ve left the best parts…” face.

“Grrr! Grrrr! (Help! Please help me!)”

The Silverwolf Lord begged for its life as it laid collapsed on the ground.

“Growl! Gr? Grrr! (You’re taming demons, right? I can be tamed too, so please help me!)”

It must have remembered that Maple had called me “master” before.
Begging for its life, it was trying to negotiate.

Unfortunately, since I’ve seen what it’s done so far, my desire to tame it was clearly at 0.

However, there was something that bothered me a little, so I approached it.
When I was within 2m of it, the Silverwolf Lord turned towards me and waved its remaining left paw at me.

“Growl… (I’m taking this guy hostage…)”

－Toss－

Before it could finish its line, its head got skewered.
It seems that Maria used “Warp” to close the distance and stabbed her “Sun Sword – Sol” through the Silverwolf Lord’s head.

“Jin-sama! Please don’t do anything to expose yourself to danger!”

Maria appealed to me with tears in her eyes.
I wasn’t sure what to do.
I could easily avoid it, and even if it did hit me, the damage would be almost zero.

“Sorry about that.
I was just wondering about something…”

“GYAU? (What’s that?)” [2]

“Yeah, I was wondering if such an obvious villain would actually go quietly in that situation.”

“It was a villain till the end ”

I knew that if I had carelessly approached it in that situation, it would definitely try to attack me.

And as expected, it was a piece of trash through and through.

Now that we’ve defeated the Silverwolf Lord, we were left with all the post-processing.
I put its corpse in the and returned to its dwelling.

“It really was a piece of trash, that Silverwolf Lord…”

There was a large number of female corpses in one part of the cave.
Carefully arranged, they looked as if they were part of a prized collection.

Including the dead body of the woman from earlier, a considerable number of people must have fallen victim to it.
Definitely over three digits.

It didn’t sit right with us to leave them like this, so we’ve decided to dig a hole outside the cave and bury the corpses of the women.

The reason why we took them outside, was because we thought that they wouldn’t want to rest in the Silverwolf Lord’s dwelling.

We planned to bury the bodies of the men, discarded in front of the forest, in the same place later.
Most of them were probably related, so burying them together sounded like a good idea.

With just the Immortal King and the Silverwolf Lord, the number of their victims had already added up to a considerable amount.
Because of that, exterminating those evil monsters had become almost synonymous with disposing of all the bodies of their victims, making me feel like I should to do something about it.

Well, I could also think about it as trying to prevent any further damage.

In addition to the corpses of the women, there was also a good amount of valuables in the dwelling.
Most likely they were things stolen from the horse carriages.

“So, that Silverwolf Lord also enjoyed collecting treasures…”

“I’m sure it’s all probably stolen loot.”

As a principle, it seems that the Silverwolf Lord first got the women, and then moved on to gold and other treasures.
Scum through and through.

“The adventurer gains ownership of items recovered from bandits, but what happens to the ownership of items recovered from monsters?”

A: The ownership is transferred to the person who defeated it.
There are also monsters that collect precious metals.

If that’s the case, there’s no problem with me taking it.
I have a policy of refusing to buy back items recovered from bandits, so I guess I’ll refuse to buy these ones back too.

Basically, the refusal to buy back was a measure to avoid unpleasant problems (interacting with nobles), but in this case there were two other reasons.

The first was that I couldn’t explain how we got it back, without revealing what we’re capable of.
We’ve taken too many liberties.
It would be very difficult to talk about it in a deceptive way.

Secondly, how would I find the owners in the first place? It was a monster that had been alive for a long time, and in many cases, the people directly involved were probably long dead.
Even if I were to report it, there was little chance that the original owner would come to me.
The person in question would have been killed by the Silverwolf Lord almost 100% of the time…

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So, I decided that it would be a waste of time to send it back for repurchase in any case.

“Maria, we’re going to retrieve the treasure that Silverwolf Lord had been hoarding.”

“Yes.”

“Ah, I’ll help too”

“Dora too”

Everyone split up to store the treasure in the .

After that, we gathered up the bodies outside the forest and buried them together with the bodies of the women a short distance away from Silverwolf Lord’s dwelling.

Let me tell you a little about the women who we’d rescued from captivity.

The oldest woman is in her early twenties, and is the mother of the youngest girl.
The two young girls are sisters, daughters of the woman who had been killed by Silverwolf Lord.
The oldest woman had sacrificed herself to buy time for the rest.
Coincidentally, that’s why we managed to make it in time.

The girls were relatives and were moving when they were attacked by Silverwolf Lord.
The guards and their male parent were killed on the spot, while the women were kidnapped by the Silverwolf Lord.

Originally, they ran a store run with their relatives in the Nalunka Kingdom, which was our next destination, or rather on our way.
However, the situation in the country has been getting so bad in the past few years, they decided to make a gamble and move out of the country.

A: Taxes in the Nalunka Kingdom have risen sharply over the past few years, and life has become quite difficult for the poor.
It had also proven difficult to enter the kingdom for the Advance Chamber of Commerce, so we’ve sent some adventurers instead, but they haven’t been able to reach the capital yet.
Depending on the situation, I was thinking of proposing a roundabout route to the Crimson Empire.

Taxes mean state management, right? In other words, it’s trouble related to the nobility.

It’s not going to be an enjoyable trouble… I think we should go with the policy of ignoring the whole country, either by bypassing it, or flying over it.

It’s not like we’re running away.
We just don’t want to deal with trouble we can’t enjoy.
Just in case you don’t like running away, we’re not- we’re going around.

Let’s return to the women’s story.

In order words, they have nowhere to return to.

They were on their way to a new home when their entire carriage and family were attacked.
While they do have their belongings, they wouldn’t be able to do anything on their own.
The men they had relied on had been killed, and…

That’s why we’ve decided to leave them in the care of the Advance Chamber of Commerce.
Since they did mention that they had been running a business, I’m sure all of them, save for the youngest one, should have some idea of what to do.

Also, they wanted to burry their family members themselves, so I put their corpses in the separately.
They’re planning to mourn them when they’ve settled down.

After we finished subjugating the two evil monsters, we decided to return to Kastal’s mansion.
Because of all the things that we’ve been doing, it’s already getting late in the day.

In addition, Maple and Chocolate knew about about a lot more evil monsters inhabiting the region.
I’m not sure how the Atto Union managed to stay intact until now.

“I’m sure there are a lot of countries that have been destroyed… You can even see them from the sky… “

“That’s right, even this mistress knows of at least three of them.”

They were not fine at all.

It seems that most evil monster, like the Immortal King and Silverwolf Lord, don’t commit any evil acts that stand out too much.
However, it seems to be a common trait of such monsters, that they have quite a few victims who are not visible to the public…

“If honey wants, Tira-chan can go and defeat the monsters ”

“That’s another possibility…”

Isn’t it a good idea to have Tiramisu and her team hunt the demons in the Atto Union, just like Claude and his team of adventurers in the Kastal Queendom, and Cynthia and her team of explorers in the Estia Kingdom?

We can’t just go around killing monsters all the time.
However, there are a lot of evil monsters in this country that are very unpleasant, and we want to reduce their numbers as much as we can.

With the knowledgeable Maple and Chocolate, plus Tiramisu, it is unlikely they would get defeated by such monsters.
We may even be able to steal some rare skills…

“Okay, let’s use Tiramisu’s idea.
Tiramisu, Maple, and Chocolate, after we leave this country, you three will be in charge of ‘defeating evil monsters’ around the Atto Union.
We’ll start with the ones that Maple and Chocolate know about.”

“Okay”

“Got it.”

“Sure, leave it to us.”

In this way, the work of the demon girls who were assigned to the Atto Union was decided.

“Welcome back! Your eggs are ready!”

“Welcome back…”

“Welcome back.

When I opened the door to the mansion, I was greeted by Mio, Sakura and Sara.

I’m actually looking forward to eating Mio’s eggs, which she had practised all day today.

“Oh, welcome back onii-chan!”

“Welcome back, Jin-sama.”

Coming from the side were Sakuya, Queen of Kastal Queendom, and Cattleya, Princess of Estia Kingdom.
Even I was surprised that the Japanese and Western style beauties had lined up to greet me.

“Why are you two here?”

“Harpies!”

“I heard they serve eggs!

They cheerfully answered my question.
The two of them were well-known for their fascination with our food (at least among my subordinates).
They must have heard about harpy eggs from somewhere and came here for dinner.

“You can eat them, but you’re going to pay for them, right?”

“What?”

They froze in place.

The expensive harpy eggs had been prepared by Mio, a first-class chef.
If you look at it from the general public’s point of view, the price would be quite high.

“I’m just kidding.”

“That’s not funny, onii-chan.
Though, of course I’d pay for it if you really wanted me to…”

“Yes, that’s not funny at all.
I’ve already calculated how many meals my pocket money could cover.”

They looked relieved, but apparently not eating the harpy eggs was not an option.

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“Also, I heard that you have the eggs of a Harpy Queen.”

“Oh yeah, you have to let us eat them! We’ll do anything!”

Apparently, that was their main concern.

“Oh, the Queen’s eggs are for tomorrow morning.
You can have a bite after master has eaten.”

“We’ll definitely come back tomorrow morning!”

The beautiful royal girls shouted in response to Mio’s comment.
They sure get along well.

“Yes, Master.
It’s the best oyakodon (Parent-Child Don) I’ve ever had.”

“Parent… child…?”

When I arrived at the table, I was presented with a delicious-smelling oyakodon.
It’s an oyakodon made with harpy eggs.

An oyakodon is a dish in which the meat of the chicken, the parent, is enclosed by the egg, the child.

I checked the map and counted the number of harpies.

Thank God… They’re all alive.

“Don’t scare me like that.
I thought you were using actual harpy meat.”

“No, no matter how much I like to cook, I would never go that far… It’s just regular chicken.
Since the cheap stuff doesn’t go well with harpy eggs, I bought slightly more expensive ones.”

Mio said, looking disappointed.
But then came Maria’s killer response.

“But if we use recovery magic and “Revive”, we can recover the bird meat while keeping the harpy alive, can’t we?”

The harpies in the house all ran away.

I called them all back with “Summon”.
The harpies looked at Maria with fear as they shook and huddled together.

“That’s not the problem, Maria.
You can heal it, but it still hurts.
Don’t scare them like that.”

“As always you are right.
I’m sorry.”

Maria seems to have come to believe that as long as she has “Revive”, her physical deficiencies are no big deal.
Even though she can recover… It’s still a big deal, you know?

Also, aside from eggs, I would never do something as bizarre as eating an almost humanoid monster.

Oh, the oyakodon was delicious.
Mio was right though, the taste of the chicken was overpowered by the taste of the eggs.

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ED Notes:

[1] Not sure why they couldn’t all just go through the portal, like they always do…
[2] That’s Maple in her sea serpent form.

Episode 64 – Silverwolf Lord and The Hero (part 2)

No, I mean, no matter how much I think about it, isn’t it going to be difficult to fool them? We’ve already done a lot of things, and when I think about the hassle it’d be to deceive them, wouldn’t it be easier to just make them my slaves and explain things to them later?

“A, a slave…?”

“I’ll do it! I’ll become your slave, so please save me!”

In contrast to the hesitant woman, the young girl, who had wet herself, agreed to become a slave without hesitation.

“I’ll become a slave too, so please help me!”

“Me, me too…”

“Please help me…”

Eventually, they all agreed, so they stripped (willingly) and I carved slave crests onto their backs.
Resistance was futile.

“Now, Maple, get these girls on board.”

“As you wish!”

I had Maple turn into a sea serpent and put the women on her back.

I’ll omit the reactions of the naturally surprised women.
After that, the girl who wet herself looked like she was having trouble staying on, so I applied ’s “Clean” as usual.

“So it’s alright with 4 passengers but with me alone you’re over capacity ”

I ignored Tiramisu’s grumblings about her weight.

I used the “Portal” set up by Maria, to join her, and then “Summon” to draw the other members to us. [1]

“I’ve been waiting for you, Jin-sama.”

“Oh, good work.
Haven’t you finished it yet?”

There, the Silverwolf Lord, who had its front right and rear left leg cut off, and the base of its remaining rear right leg skewered with a sword, was rendered completely immobile.
Yeah, she certainly pulled no punches.

“Yes.
I thought it would be a good idea to wait for Jin-sama to catch up…”

“You could have just finished it off…”

It was troublesome enough that she was making an “I’ve left the best parts…” face.

“Grrr! Grrrr! (Help! Please help me!)”

The Silverwolf Lord begged for its life as it laid collapsed on the ground.

“Growl! Gr? Grrr! (You’re taming demons, right? I can be tamed too, so please help me!)”

It must have remembered that Maple had called me “master” before.
Begging for its life, it was trying to negotiate.

Unfortunately, since I’ve seen what it’s done so far, my desire to tame it was clearly at 0.

However, there was something that bothered me a little, so I approached it.
When I was within 2m of it, the Silverwolf Lord turned towards me and waved its remaining left paw at me.

“Growl… (I’m taking this guy hostage…)”

－Toss－

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Before it could finish its line, its head got skewered.
It seems that Maria used “Warp” to close the distance and stabbed her “Sun Sword – Sol” through the Silverwolf Lord’s head.

“Jin-sama! Please don’t do anything to expose yourself to danger!”

Maria appealed to me with tears in her eyes.
I wasn’t sure what to do.
I could easily avoid it, and even if it did hit me, the damage would be almost zero.

“Sorry about that.
I was just wondering about something…”

“GYAU? (What’s that?)” [2]

“Yeah, I was wondering if such an obvious villain would actually go quietly in that situation.”

“It was a villain till the end ”

I knew that if I had carelessly approached it in that situation, it would definitely try to attack me.

And as expected, it was a piece of trash through and through.

Now that we’ve defeated the Silverwolf Lord, we were left with all the post-processing.
I put its corpse in the and returned to its dwelling.

“It really was a piece of trash, that Silverwolf Lord…”

There was a large number of female corpses in one part of the cave.
Carefully arranged, they looked as if they were part of a prized collection.

Including the dead body of the woman from earlier, a considerable number of people must have fallen victim to it.
Definitely over three digits.

It didn’t sit right with us to leave them like this, so we’ve decided to dig a hole outside the cave and bury the corpses of the women.

The reason why we took them outside, was because we thought that they wouldn’t want to rest in the Silverwolf Lord’s dwelling.

We planned to bury the bodies of the men, discarded in front of the forest, in the same place later.
Most of them were probably related, so burying them together sounded like a good idea.

With just the Immortal King and the Silverwolf Lord, the number of their victims had already added up to a considerable amount.
Because of that, exterminating those evil monsters had become almost synonymous with disposing of all the bodies of their victims, making me feel like I should to do something about it.

Well, I could also think about it as trying to prevent any further damage.

In addition to the corpses of the women, there was also a good amount of valuables in the dwelling.
Most likely they were things stolen from the horse carriages.

“So, that Silverwolf Lord also enjoyed collecting treasures…”

“I’m sure it’s all probably stolen loot.”

As a principle, it seems that the Silverwolf Lord first got the women, and then moved on to gold and other treasures.
Scum through and through.

“The adventurer gains ownership of items recovered from bandits, but what happens to the ownership of items recovered from monsters?”

A: The ownership is transferred to the person who defeated it.
There are also monsters that collect precious metals.

If that’s the case, there’s no problem with me taking it.
I have a policy of refusing to buy back items recovered from bandits, so I guess I’ll refuse to buy these ones back too.

Basically, the refusal to buy back was a measure to avoid unpleasant problems (interacting with nobles), but in this case there were two other reasons.

The first was that I couldn’t explain how we got it back, without revealing what we’re capable of.
We’ve taken too many liberties.
It would be very difficult to talk about it in a deceptive way.

Secondly, how would I find the owners in the first place? It was a monster that had been alive for a long time, and in many cases, the people directly involved were probably long dead.
Even if I were to report it, there was little chance that the original owner would come to me.
The person in question would have been killed by the Silverwolf Lord almost 100% of the time…

So, I decided that it would be a waste of time to send it back for repurchase in any case.

“Maria, we’re going to retrieve the treasure that Silverwolf Lord had been hoarding.”

“Yes.”

“Ah, I’ll help too”

“Dora too”

Everyone split up to store the treasure in the .

After that, we gathered up the bodies outside the forest and buried them together with the bodies of the women a short distance away from Silverwolf Lord’s dwelling.

Let me tell you a little about the women who we’d rescued from captivity.

The oldest woman is in her early twenties, and is the mother of the youngest girl.
The two young girls are sisters, daughters of the woman who had been killed by Silverwolf Lord.
The oldest woman had sacrificed herself to buy time for the rest.
Coincidentally, that’s why we managed to make it in time.

The girls were relatives and were moving when they were attacked by Silverwolf Lord.
The guards and their male parent were killed on the spot, while the women were kidnapped by the Silverwolf Lord.

Originally, they ran a store run with their relatives in the Nalunka Kingdom, which was our next destination, or rather on our way.
However, the situation in the country has been getting so bad in the past few years, they decided to make a gamble and move out of the country.

A: Taxes in the Nalunka Kingdom have risen sharply over the past few years, and life has become quite difficult for the poor.
It had also proven difficult to enter the kingdom for the Advance Chamber of Commerce, so we’ve sent some adventurers instead, but they haven’t been able to reach the capital yet.
Depending on the situation, I was thinking of proposing a roundabout route to the Crimson Empire.

Taxes mean state management, right? In other words, it’s trouble related to the nobility.

It’s not going to be an enjoyable trouble… I think we should go with the policy of ignoring the whole country, either by bypassing it, or flying over it.

It’s not like we’re running away.
We just don’t want to deal with trouble we can’t enjoy.
Just in case you don’t like running away, we’re not- we’re going around.

Let’s return to the women’s story.

In order words, they have nowhere to return to.

They were on their way to a new home when their entire carriage and family were attacked.
While they do have their belongings, they wouldn’t be able to do anything on their own.
The men they had relied on had been killed, and…

That’s why we’ve decided to leave them in the care of the Advance Chamber of Commerce.
Since they did mention that they had been running a business, I’m sure all of them, save for the youngest one, should have some idea of what to do.

Also, they wanted to burry their family members themselves, so I put their corpses in the separately.
They’re planning to mourn them when they’ve settled down.

After we finished subjugating the two evil monsters, we decided to return to Kastal’s mansion.
Because of all the things that we’ve been doing, it’s already getting late in the day.

In addition, Maple and Chocolate knew about about a lot more evil monsters inhabiting the region.
I’m not sure how the Atto Union managed to stay intact until now.

“I’m sure there are a lot of countries that have been destroyed… You can even see them from the sky… “

“That’s right, even this mistress knows of at least three of them.”

They were not fine at all.

It seems that most evil monster, like the Immortal King and Silverwolf Lord, don’t commit any evil acts that stand out too much.
However, it seems to be a common trait of such monsters, that they have quite a few victims who are not visible to the public…

“If honey wants, Tira-chan can go and defeat the monsters ”

“That’s another possibility…”

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Isn’t it a good idea to have Tiramisu and her team hunt the demons in the Atto Union, just like Claude and his team of adventurers in the Kastal Queendom, and Cynthia and her team of explorers in the Estia Kingdom?

We can’t just go around killing monsters all the time.
However, there are a lot of evil monsters in this country that are very unpleasant, and we want to reduce their numbers as much as we can.

With the knowledgeable Maple and Chocolate, plus Tiramisu, it is unlikely they would get defeated by such monsters.
We may even be able to steal some rare skills…

“Okay, let’s use Tiramisu’s idea.
Tiramisu, Maple, and Chocolate, after we leave this country, you three will be in charge of ‘defeating evil monsters’ around the Atto Union.
We’ll start with the ones that Maple and Chocolate know about.”

“Okay”

“Got it.”

“Sure, leave it to us.”

In this way, the work of the demon girls who were assigned to the Atto Union was decided.

“Welcome back! Your eggs are ready!”

“Welcome back…”

“Welcome back.

When I opened the door to the mansion, I was greeted by Mio, Sakura and Sara.

I’m actually looking forward to eating Mio’s eggs, which she had practised all day today.

“Oh, welcome back onii-chan!”

“Welcome back, Jin-sama.”

Coming from the side were Sakuya, Queen of Kastal Queendom, and Cattleya, Princess of Estia Kingdom.
Even I was surprised that the Japanese and Western style beauties had lined up to greet me.

“Why are you two here?”

“Harpies!”

“I heard they serve eggs!

They cheerfully answered my question.
The two of them were well-known for their fascination with our food (at least among my subordinates).
They must have heard about harpy eggs from somewhere and came here for dinner.

“You can eat them, but you’re going to pay for them, right?”

“What?”

They froze in place.

The expensive harpy eggs had been prepared by Mio, a first-class chef.
If you look at it from the general public’s point of view, the price would be quite high.

“I’m just kidding.”

“That’s not funny, onii-chan.
Though, of course I’d pay for it if you really wanted me to…”

“Yes, that’s not funny at all.
I’ve already calculated how many meals my pocket money could cover.”

They looked relieved, but apparently not eating the harpy eggs was not an option.

“Also, I heard that you have the eggs of a Harpy Queen.”

“Oh yeah, you have to let us eat them! We’ll do anything!”

Apparently, that was their main concern.

“Oh, the Queen’s eggs are for tomorrow morning.
You can have a bite after master has eaten.”

“We’ll definitely come back tomorrow morning!”

The beautiful royal girls shouted in response to Mio’s comment.
They sure get along well.

“Yes, Master.
It’s the best oyakodon (Parent-Child Don) I’ve ever had.”

“Parent… child…?”

When I arrived at the table, I was presented with a delicious-smelling oyakodon.
It’s an oyakodon made with harpy eggs.

An oyakodon is a dish in which the meat of the chicken, the parent, is enclosed by the egg, the child.

I checked the map and counted the number of harpies.

Thank God… They’re all alive.

“Don’t scare me like that.
I thought you were using actual harpy meat.”

“No, no matter how much I like to cook, I would never go that far… It’s just regular chicken.
Since the cheap stuff doesn’t go well with harpy eggs, I bought slightly more expensive ones.”

Mio said, looking disappointed.
But then came Maria’s killer response.

“But if we use recovery magic and “Revive”, we can recover the bird meat while keeping the harpy alive, can’t we?”

The harpies in the house all ran away.

I called them all back with “Summon”.
The harpies looked at Maria with fear as they shook and huddled together.

“That’s not the problem, Maria.
You can heal it, but it still hurts.
Don’t scare them like that.”

“As always you are right.
I’m sorry.”

Maria seems to have come to believe that as long as she has “Revive”, her physical deficiencies are no big deal.
Even though she can recover… It’s still a big deal, you know?

Also, aside from eggs, I would never do something as bizarre as eating an almost humanoid monster.

Oh, the oyakodon was delicious.
Mio was right though, the taste of the chicken was overpowered by the taste of the eggs.

*****************************************************************************************************

ED Notes:

[1] Not sure why they couldn’t all just go through the portal, like they always do…

[2] That’s Maple in her sea serpent form.