Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang

The moment I realized what Lee Tae meant, I scowled. The river bandits, who had been on edge since I appeared, now looked even more terrified.

The dead man had been walking around just fine yesterday, yet now he had been found as a dried-up corpse.

It clearly wasn’t a normal death.

The sheer unnaturalness of it made my creatures the prime suspects in their eyes.

A person’s body shriveling up like that wasn’t something that happened under normal circumstances. It was the kind of thing supernatural beings might be responsible for, so it was only natural that their fear turned to my creatures.

And since I was the one commanding those creatures, they were obviously afraid of me as well.@@novelbin@@

To them, I probably looked like a demon summoner commanding actual demons.

‘This is annoying... but it’s way too coincidental. I’ll have to clear up the misunderstanding.’

I had been deliberately spreading the idea that my creatures ate people to keep the river bandits in line.

But of all times, something like this just had to happen now.

And with the situation regarding the shipwright still unresolved, this misunderstanding was a serious problem.

Just as I was about to speak and clear things up, the tension among the bandits escalated into sheer terror at the sound of a voice behind me.

— Tsrrr? 『Dad?』

I had told Bini we would go outside after the mist cleared, but since I had rushed out without an explanation, it had followed me.

The moment Bini’s cry echoed through the mist, the river bandits staggered back in horror.

“H-Holy shit!”

“Aghh!”

A seven-meter-long black centipede slithering out of the mist was a terrifying sight.

Especially since I had already scared them half to death yesterday, and now they thought my creatures had actually killed someone.

Some of the bandits fell flat on their asses trying to back away.

To me, Bini’s voice sounded adorably tiny, but to them?

It was pure nightmare fuel.

I had to act quickly before this got out of hand.

I called Hwa-eun over and quickly discussed what to do.

If we didn’t clear things up now, the misunderstanding could become irreversible.

“It seems they think our creatures are responsible for turning that corpse into… whatever that is. We need to explain.”