10 years old Chapter 1 Part 1. The world of a child is an expanding one.

Translator: Michiko

Faus and I are now 10 years old.

It has been four years since I came to Ravaria.

It has been amazing.

I am not sure if my father’s research, which is the reason we came to Ravaria in the first place, is progressing or not. But it doesn’t seem to be going very well.

Father has a serious look on his face, and while I thought he was buried in books, he was turning over the field and gathering medicinal herbs.

He goes out a lot, and when I ask him where he goes, he answers vaguely and muddles through.

“I check on the patient.”

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“Rv kp yd ldelxkn ekplypl kd Syhyaky.”

When I ask, Father says that but what kind of disease is an endemic disease?

Could it affect Faus as well?

His Holiness Simone too?

I know that curing the disease is not something that can be done overnight, but I can’t help but worry.

Father came home late many times during the week.

Father seems to be having a hard time, but I am pretty much the same.

One day when I was six years old.

When I was bitten on the neck, it hurt so much, but I haven’t been bitten since. Instead, he takes my glasses or licks my neck every chance he gets.

 I wonder if it is some kind of skinship.

Sometimes I don’t really understand the Beastman culture.

My position as a childhood friend and studymate has not changed.

I tried to appease Faus, who wanted to play hide-and-seek and go swimming, sometimes luring him with treats and dragging him into the study room.

No.

Dragging him into the study room is a lie.

When we first met, Faus was a little taller than me. The height difference between us has grown considerably over the past four years.

 My line of sight is about Faus’ shoulder.

When I look up at him, Faus looks happy. His recent favorite phrase is, “Theo is small and cute!”

It is strange.

Even I am getting bigger and bigger.

Father would even say things like, “Theo is getting bigger and bigger and becoming more and more like Lucia-san.”

I think this is where you are supposed to be like your father, not your mother.

Faus is growing up faster than me.

Do beastmen grow up faster than humans? I wonder if I can catch up somewhere.

Since there are no human children around me, I worry  if I am really as small as Faus says I am.

The court ladies who serve Faus laughed and said, “I think Theodore-sama is about average,” so I would like to believe that I am average.

But more than 90% of the court ladies are also lion beastmen.

Most of the nobles in this country are lion beastmen.

Human children are rare, but the number of beastman children has increased around me.

Around Faus, to be exact.

When Faus turned 10, he was assigned two other lion beastmen studymates in addition to me.

One is the son of a duke who split from the royal family three generations ago, and his name is Adalbert Ravaglia Cortese. He is called Adal.

A good looking lion beastman with brown hair and blue eyes. He is the tallest. I wonder if we are really the same age.

The other is Sigismondo Altieri, whose grandfather received the title. He is called Sigis. He is another lion beastman with golden hair and green eyes. His clear face is very beautiful. His demeanor is a little like that of His Holiness Simone.

The two newcomers seem to be growing up as fast as Faus.

When the four of us are together, including me, it looks like I am the only one in a different grade. Like an elementary school boy mixed in with a group of middle school students?

I am my age and it is only Faus and the others are too big.

That’s right.

Uhh…I want to grow up fast.

I kind of hate being looked down on by everyone.

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