"I finally finished cleaning you up. What a hassle! If I didn't need to eat so much these next few days, I wouldn't have bothered with you!" After cleaning the wild boar's carcass, Ruri stood up and looked at it as he spoke.
"Ah, forget it. It's all cleaned up anyway, so I'll stop complaining!" Ruri clapped his hands and said with a smile.
Ruri then walked over to the sabertooth tiger from earlier. By now, the tiger had eaten its fill and was lying on the ground. It hadn't run off.
The moment Ruri reached its side, the sabertooth tiger grew alert, sprang to its feet, and growled at him.
"Oh, you're pretty alert! Not bad, not bad!" Seeing the sabertooth tiger's reaction, Ruri spoke quietly with a smile.
"But however alert and sensitive you are, you shouldn't treat me like this! I did save your life, after all!" Two or three seconds later, the smile gradually faded from Ruri's face, and he spoke coldly to the sabertooth tiger.
After hearing Ruri's words, the sabertooth tiger stopped growling as it had before, and its expression softened considerably.
"That's more like it! No matter what, you shouldn't try to intimidate me. Let me tell you, I'm a hundred times stronger than you, perhaps even a thousand times stronger. The reason I didn't kill you just now is simple. You're different from other wild beasts. Your strength is outstanding among them!"
"That's also why I want you to become my Summoning Beast!" Ruri said, looking at the sabertooth tiger, which had now relaxed.
Once he finished speaking, the sabertooth tiger nodded, as though it understood what Ruri had just said.
"All right, that's more like it! Wait here for me. I'll go get the boar carcass ready. Once that's done, we'll