The Tale of Hero Alice’s Social Death

spell placed a high requirement on the coordination between the body and wind mana, it was categorized as a taboo.

Of course, the fact that Wind Chaser could be categorized as a taboo also showed that the spell had outstanding effects.
After all, a spell wouldn't be considered a taboo simply because it had high usage requirements.

However, while Alice was occupied with her studies, Andusia quickly found herself growing bored after watching Alice study for some time.

Andusia had basically given up her thoughts of getting revenge against humans already, so she no longer had any goals to look forward to achieving in life.
She didn't have any need to learn new taboos, either.
Moreover, she had already spent so many years idling inside the block of Living Wood.
Now that she finally had a chance to see what the world had become, how could she possibly bear to continue doing nothing and enduring boredom?

“Hey, Alice, I'm going out for a walk by myself, okay?”

Andusia tried to call out to Alice twice, but Alice was too immersed in her studies to respond.
However, Andusia didn't find this situation strange.
She had studied taboos herself before, so she knew that one would need to focus all of one's attention when studying a taboo.

Of course, Andusia also knew how to interrupt Alice if necessary.
However, after thinking it over, she felt that there wasn't a need to do so.
She could use mana now, in any case.
So, she could easily avoid others' attention while walking outside.

Hence, rather than interrupt Alice's studies, Andusia stood up, skipped and hopped a few times in her miniature body, and quickly arrived at the nearest window.
Then, she pushed the window, which was gigantic to her, open with little effort.

“Elkite hasn't changed much even after all these years…”

Looking out the window, Andusia saw the architectural layout of the nearby streets and found that it wasn't all that different from the small town in her memories.
Apart from the buildings taking on a modernized appearance, the only significant difference she noticed was the catkins' lifestyle.
Specifically, the catkins in Elkite behaved much more carefreely now.

During her era, beastkins were put in a bad situation where they were at constant risk of being captured by humans.
Catkins were no exception.
As a result, catkins lived in constant fear that humans would one day locate Elkite.
The catkins of that time would probably find it very hard to believe that there would come a day when they could coexist with humans peacefully.

At this time, Andusia suddenly thought of her catkin friend.
Her friend had always hoped to get the various races to accept and understand each other.
Unfortunately, her friend got betrayed by human nobles and died a miserable death in a dungeon.
This also became the source of Andusia's hatred for humans.

Perhaps Elkite's current situation was the picture her friend had always wanted to see.

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“I wonder what has become of her home now?”

Andusia reminisced for a while.
Then, when she turned around and saw that Alice was still immersed in her studies, she curled her lips a little before casting a small concealment spell on herself.
Then, she jumped out of the window without a second thought.

Since she had followed Alice to Elkite, she naturally had to visit her old friend's house and see what had become of it.

In reality, she still held a little hope in her heart.
Since her family in the human realm managed to continue existing until this day, there might be a chance that her catkin friend's blood was still circulating in Elkite.

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TL Notes:

It was previously mentioned that the catkins have several tribes in the Gryffin Kingdom, but judging by this chapter, I think the author must have forgotten about that and just started writing under the assumption that there is only one big catkin tribe.
I'm not certain, though, since I haven't read that far ahead.