"People say girls change completely as they grow up, but..."
Looking at Filo, who was happily wolfing down food at the table beside him, Fang Zheng had no idea what expression he should make.
This was not just a change of face. She had changed species, all right!
And that fat bird could actually turn into a little girl?
What kind of logic was that?
Though little girls were definitely better than fat old ladies...
But thinking about making such a small child pull such a huge carriage... well, that would count as exploitation by the ruling class in the old days, wouldn't it?
But Filo clearly did not see it that way. Fang Zheng had tried discussing it with her before, only for the little girl to cry, throw a tantrum, and threaten to hang herself. She acted as though she would hate him for the rest of her life if he did not let her pull the carriage, leaving Fang Zheng utterly speechless. He had heard that Filo Birds especially loved pulling carriages, but taking it to the point of treating carriage-pulling as the meaning of life... that was rare indeed.
In any case, since Filo liked it, Fang Zheng let her pull the carriage. Besides, whenever she did so, she would turn back into a big fat bird, so nobody would associate it with child labor abuse.
"With ten more levels, I should be able to unlock this shield, right?"
With that thought, Fang Zheng glanced at the shield in his hand. After all the quests and leveling along the way, he was now level fifty. Akemi Homura had reached level forty-five, Raphtalia and Rifana were level forty, and Filo, having joined last, was only level thirty.
It was not that Raphtalia and Rifana were not working