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Hauling back the deer on its own was already difficult enough, so there was no way we could have brought back the jaguar as well. I’d heard from somewhere that one shouldn’t consume carnivorous animals, so I didn’t even want to bring it back anyway.
Riana was utterly exhausted just from helping to transport the single deer, and her stamina was seriously depleted.
“Huff… Huff… Huff…”
Upon returning to camp, Riana collapsed near a tree stump, where Heinrich had managed, through great effort, to kindle a fire. The pouring rain threatened to extinguish it, but Heinrich kept the flames alive, resulting in a continuous plume of rising steam.
“Granz, are you okay?” Heinrich asked with a concerned look, and Riana glanced at him, her arms and legs trembling.
‘Oh yeah, that’s right…’
I remembered that the setting was that Heinrich had a crush on Riana de Granz.
“Do I… look okay to you…”
“Ah, right… Well, no.”
… Somehow, I felt like I understood why she was pretending to be all tough.
She was basically just a female version of me, a female version of Reinhart. Hence, she spoke in a gruff manner and acted tough, but in the end, got all the necessary jobs done.
“Isn’t a jaguar basically like a tiger?” Harriet asked.
Harriet had asked us how we’d managed to capture the deer, and was astonished when she heard about the wild beast that we’d encountered during our hunt.
“It’s not a tiger, but something similar.”
“… And you killed it? You did?”
She seemed doubtful, unable to believe it. Surely, it must have sounded like a tall tale that two 17-year-olds had...
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