Cooking with Wild Game (LN) - Volume 18 - Chapter SS

Bonus Short Story

The Hunter’s Pride and the Clan Member’s Thoughts

“What are you looking so unhappy for?”

It was currently late in the evening on the day when the lord of the forest had been taken down.

A dinner was being held at the Sauti settlement, and when Yamiru Lea started speaking to Rau Lea, he shot her a glare like some starving beast.

“That should go without saying. I can’t stand the fact that I hardly helped at all in taking down the lord of the forest!”

“What are you talking about? Donda Ruu said that if anyone had been missing, they never would have taken the beast down, didn’t he?”

“But I didn’t even manage to cut off the leg I was assigned to. Everyone else was able to carry out their tasks just fine!” Rau Lea replied with a childish pout.

Taking in his expression, Yamiru Lea shrugged. “The way you hunters think sure is tiresome. You threw yourselves up against that monstrous giba, so can’t you at least feel fortunate to have made it through with your life intact?”

“No hunter of the forest’s edge could ever be so weak-willed! As the Lea clan head, I have to be the sort of hunter you can all feel proud of!”

“Hmph. I can’t say I care about any of that, though.”

“What was that?!” Rau Lea angrily shot back.

However, Yamiru Lea kept talking in order to mollify his rage. “No matter how great or mediocre your accomplishments might have been, the thought of you getting seriously injured like Ai Fa and the others sends a chill down my spine. Your pride as a hunter is all well and good, but why not consider how your clan members feel now and again?”

“Were you seriously that worried about me?”

“Is there any person belonging to any clan here at the forest’s edge who doesn’t worry about their clan head?”

Rau Lea scratched his head with a complicated look on his face, only for Yamiru Lea to stealthily stick out her tongue. All around them, the members of the Sauti clan were biting into giba meat, their expressions overflowing with hope, having been freed from the menace of the lord of the forest.