"Demon beast tide??"
Allen looked at Sylphy beside him in surprise. With her head tucked into her fur collar, she sat on a stool with her legs dangling and gently swinging. Her gaze met Allen's fixed stare; her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her pointed ears twitched.
This winter, Sylphy had been "studying" at the Greyrat Family home. Rolls or her mother brought her over during the day and picked her up again at night.
In front of her lay Demon Beast Ecology and Weaknesses of the Fittoa Region, with many passages marked in small writing and numerous supplementary stories written beside them.
After getting Zenith's permission in advance, Lokkishi had spent a week leaving behind anecdotes from her "travels across the continent." She had originally marked them out beforehand so she could tell stories to the two children every night without suddenly running out of things to say and losing her dignity as a teacher.
Blue Mom took teaching very seriously.
And now, Sylphy had practically treated this book as extracurricular reading for magic, reading it over and over again. She liked it very much.
"A few days ago, Father said that. I didn't ask for the details, but his expression didn't look very good."
Seeing that some of her shoulder-length emerald hair had been bunched up by the fur collar, Allen casually adjusted it for her, then propped his chin on his hand and frowned in thought.
I seem to remember something like this in the original story, but that should have happened during Rudy's Tutoring Period after leaving Buena Village. The specific reason the demon beasts became too active was...
Allen's expression darkened for a moment.
*The summoning magic of the Great Transfer caused excessive mana fluctuations throughout the Fittoa Region, which stirred up the demon beasts. But