He soothed the giants, and his powerful leadership immediately put the Giant Priests at ease.
Among the generally hunched giants with slurred speech, he was the only one who stood straight and spoke clearly.
Even if one only looked at their backs, when they were all the same height, people could often distinguish a giant from members of other races at a glance.
But Elnino, the Giant King, was different--
If one only looked at his back, it was even possible to mistake him for a heroic monarch or a human general!
Though his features were closer to those of a beast than a human; though he had fangs and an exceedingly ugly face...
He possessed a powerful confidence born of authority. Compared to the other giants, he was actually closer to a human.
In fact, that was indeed the case.
This Giant King was different from all the Giant Kings of the past.
When he was young, he often liked to seek out the humans being raised in the Royal City and chat with them. He had mastered the human language even before he mastered the Giant Language. The first song he ever sang had been taught to him by his human friends.
When he was still a giant youth, he had not been so tall. He was only a little over two meters tall, had yet to grow hair over his body, and did not look particularly ferocious. He looked like a simple and honest, tall human young man.
An elderly human who had been captured learned that he was a giant prince, so he told him human stories and taught him human principles. He hoped to give him a kind and righteous heart. If fortune favored him, perhaps the giants could begin to change with this generation.