“You’re expecting. Expecting me to tame this child.”

“I don’t just expect, I believe. I believe you can tame this child.”

“Well, I’ve never raised a child before.”

In her past life, dealing with children had been hard. Having never been treated like a child from her youth, she didn’t know how to interact with one.

“Unicorns are so fast, no horse can catch up.”

Kevrant held Lishi’s hand.

“I want to ride these children with you.”

Lishi tried to imagine herself riding the dazzling unicorn with Kevrant.

But she couldn’t imagine it. Because she had never ridden a horse.

‘But…..’

There might be times in the future when Lishi had to ride a horse on her own.

Having a unicorn would be useful.

“Alright.”

Lishi responded.

“Let me be the master of this child.”

+++

Lishi returned to her room with a stack of books from the library.

[Fun! Fantastic Animal Dictionary], [Legends of the World], [Creatures of Legend], [Real Existence of Fantastic Animals], [A Beginner Hunter’s Dictionary of Legendary Creatures]

Most of them were thirdrate books that you read for fun and then discarded.

The fascinating subject of unicorns was included in every book.

But since most of them only described its appearance in a few lines, she couldn’t find out about the unicorn’s habits or tastes.

Among them, the information that shocked Lishi was,

[The staple food of unicorns are live mice.]

‘No way….. do they really eat live mice?’

She didn’t want to imagine the small and cute creature chewing on a mouse.

“Lady Iris, what are you reading so intently?”

Erwell, who had been fidgeting as if he was uncomfortable sitting still, asked in the momentary absence of Christina.

“Do you know anything about legendary creatures?”

“I learned a bit as an elective when I was at the academy…..”

“What about unicorns? Did you learn what they like?”

“Unicorns? Uh, that brat….. no, they’re not so great. They enjoy eating large insects.”

“Oh…..”

Now it was insects.

Lishi didn’t want to see the unicorn eating insects either.

“Unicorns were said to exist in the past, but they were known to have bad temper….. no, not very good, and unicorn meat is said to be good for the body. Especially unicorn horn. If you eat it, it’s said to bring the dead back to life….. so they were indiscriminately hunted and eventually became extinct.”

“I see.”

“But why unicorns?”

Lishi hesitated whether she should tell Erwell about the unicorn.

It seemed that only Kevrant and his shadows knew about the existence of the unicorn.

“I received a foal as a gift from the Earl. As I watched the horse, I became interested in unicorns.”

In the end, she lied.

Erwell nodded without suspicion.

“A foal. Foals are gentle. If you scratch their neck a little, make eye contact, and feed them carrots, they’ll be tamed in no time.”

That didn’t seem likely.

“But have you named the horse?”

“Not yet.”

“You should start with naming it. You have to give it a name to get close to it.”

Lishi had never named a creature before.

Therefore, she couldn’t think of a name that would suit the small and pretty unicorn well.

“It’s a white horse, what would be a good name?”

“A white horse? Then Whitey. Whitey.”

“….Ah, yes.”

Erwell’s naming sense wasn’t any better than Kevrant’s.

Lishi closed the book and stood up to leave the room. It didn’t seem like she would learn more about unicorns by reading the books.

Descending the stairs, she bumped into Nathan rushing up.

“Ah, sisterinlaw! Good morning.”

Nathan stopped in his tracks and bowed.

“Good morning, Nathan. Where are you going?”

“The captain has something for me to do. Oh, right. Sisterinlaw, I heard you got a unicorn?”

“Yes, it turned out that way. Do you have any advice?”

“Um. Advice, advice…..”

Nathan crossed his arms and furrowed his brow.