A Gift from the Heart

Legend had it that Unicorns allowed only pure maidens to approach them. For these Magical Creatures, that was undoubtedly a stereotypical prejudice.

Unicorns were merely shy and cautious, unwilling to approach other creatures. Witches were comparatively less aggressive and less imposing, which made them more likely to approach Unicorns.

Every link in this was a broad tendency rather than an inevitability. Over time, as more cases were witnessed, it became the widely circulated version of the legend.

If anyone truly believed herself to be a pure maiden and rashly approached a Unicorn, her chances of being gored to death would be far greater than her chances of being allowed near it.

However, Unicorns did possess traits of purity and innocence. They had incredibly swift speed and great strength, yet ate only berries and tender leaves, with no natural predators in the wild.

In terms of purity and innocence, they could even be compared to a Magical Creature from the Far East called a Zouyu. It ate meat, but only meat from animals that had died naturally.

Even though every part of a Unicorn was precious, especially its blood, whose abundant life force could even prolong the life of someone near death, anyone who harmed a Unicorn for that reason would bear a Curse and fall into a state described in ancient texts as "half-dead, half-alive."

Because he had killed a pure and innocent living being to save himself.

Reviewing his knowledge of Unicorns, Manus inspected the box of Unicorn tail hair and found that every strand was indeed of excellent quality.

After all, this was Unicorn Hair that had fallen out naturally, without the slightest coercion.

"Besides the tail hair, there's also hair from the Unicorns themselves. I remember you liked this stuff too?"

Hagrid dragged over another woven sack.