Tehe(*´∀`)♪ I Was Picked Up By a Wolf - Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Chapter 21: For The First Time

For the first time…

For the first time, someone told me I was beautiful…

Since the moment I was born, the other fenrirs, my parents and siblings, everyone looked at me with scorn; they despised my black body . They always told me that I was born tainted, that I was cursed . So it made me really happy when someone told me I was beautiful .

“Thank you, for telling me that I looked beautiful . ”

“Don’t mind me! It’s the truth after all!!”

“Amelia, there’s something I want to tell you . If possible, I’d like Martha-san and Russel-sama to be present too . ”

I wanted to tell them what happened to me before I was abandoned in the forest .

A fenrir stayed with its pack for the first 30 years of their life . No matter how much I was abhorred and condemned, I was given that right too . Those 30 years felt like hell . Remaining there was a rule established by the fenrirs, so I was to stay with the pack no matter how much I resented it .

As soon as I reached maturity, I was chased out of the pack . They told me ‘You have no obligation to return to the pack anymore . ’ .

The pack was a small one . Most of them had lived for a long time, so there were not that many in the pack . Fenrirs didn’t build or inhabit houses either; they lived constantly moving from one place to another . If they were to remain in a single place, other lifeforms would start marking them as prey; no one dared to admit it, but that was the truth .

To avoid running into them again, I decided to wander to a place inhabited by humans, after changing into my human form . I quickly found a small job that I could take and started to make a living out of that .

A certain day, one of the friends I had been hanging out with for years invited me to dinner . I didn’t suspect anything and went with her . That had been a grave mistake; she drugged my food with sleep-inducing drugs .

When I woke up, I had been collared, clothed with crude garments, and locked inside a cell . I had been sold to a slave trader . When I asked why I was there, all I heard was that the woman who sold me was in need of money .

I struggled to fight back, but when I tried doing something, pain shot through my whole body . I attempted to remove the collar, but the same thing happened .

At first I only hated my own race; now I loathed the human race too . The former despised another being just because of its color, the latter could willing sold out their friends . The fenrirs who said I was cursed, I despaired after facing them . At that point, I could no long see any meaning to my life .

Before long, someone from nobility bought me . I could see a coarse smirk appearing on the dealer’s face as he closed the deal . Apparently I was sold for a high sum . A couple of days after I was taken to that noble’s mansion, I met him . Although he was a human, he was excessively fat; in fact, he looked almost like an orc . He approached me holding a nasty looking collar, then foolishly proceeded to unlock my collar . I escaped immediately by returning to my original appearance . I managed to hear someone screaming “A monster!” behind me . Many people started chasing after me immediately after . In a certain sense I was grateful to that noble; thanks to him I managed to be free again . My pursuers…I obviously killed them all . Despite that, I didn’t manage to escape unscathed; I had many wounds all over my body, blood that wouldn’t stop spurting from my injuries . If someone spotted me, they would definitely hunt me down . Thinking so, I hastily ran away . I ran, ran and continued running until I arrived at that forest . At that point I was thoroughly exhausted and couldn’t move anymore . So I thought that I was going to die in that place .

“…And that’s how I arrived here . So I’m really sorry for taking those actions against you at the start . I’m really, really grateful to you for saving me . ”

“Well…I could never have guessed that you went through such hardships . Don’t worry about it anymore; it’s alright now . Also, abandoning a wounded creature would have been really cruel of us, right? In any case, if you want to thank someone, thank Amelia . I didn’t do anything . ”

Martha said .

“Thank you, thank you so much…”

She repeated countless times, overflowing with tears .