Now I am not a fury, just like most of you, I assume. But boy do you really need to prepare to become one. Cat girls are real here, and they are fricking cute. People called them meadow grazer, because as the nickname suggests, most of their folks are nomads who travels from one meadow to another so their tamed monsters could graze upon that green, delicious, watery, grass.

Yes, the beast folk can tame up to three different monsters, and they are the only one who can do it. Humans have tried, with magic and whatnot, but the fact that humans are still buying their tamed monsters as a steed to this day speak volumes of how successful the attempt to duplicate the beast folk natural ability is.

Some scholars called it kin magic, it is a magic that could only be used by a certain species. Needless to say, the meadow grazer kin magic to tame monsters is very impressive. Considering that there is no non-magical animal here, to the point where even squirrels can shoot out fur needles. Keeping monsters that was not tamed by the beast folk inside city walls is simply too dangerous, people have tried, and they paid the consequences in full. That's why humans have no animal farms, that's also why the butcher shops always posting up hunting quest at the guild, they only get their meat from the monsters the adventurers have killed.

Now, human being human, they naturally will try to enslave a portion of the beast folk so they can have their own tamed monster without giving those cat ears any goods or coins, and they did, but failed miserably. The reason seems quite obvious if you think about it. Remember, them meadow grazer can shepherd hundreds if not thousands of tamed monsters from one meadow to another, certainly they could also lead them as a stampede to lay waste to most human forces if they battled in the open field. Human have Archmages, yes. But those overpowered magicians are so seldom taking orders from nobles, especially if the order is to clean up their mess.

Just don't fight them in the open field, duh? Oh? Holding up inside the city? That could actually work. After all, one tribe could only have so many tamed beast, it would be hard to lay siege to a city with area of 30 km2 with only a thousand monsters. If only they won't call another tribe for aid when we do that... and even if the city could withstand a siege from two or more beast folk tribes for several weeks, reinforcement will almost never come. After all, whatever help that may come from the outside have to face the sieging forces of meadow grazer in the open field.

I am not saying the meadow grazer is invincible, Human always find a way to kill things we don't like, including another human. It is just that such victory against the meadow grazer would cost the nobles who wanted to profit in the first place too greatly. No, the cost becomes too unbearable not because the nobles would have to spend thousands of human lives, but because they have to spend thousands of beast folks lives.

You see, even out in the wilderness, one tribe of meadow grazers could only consisted of few hundreds beast folks. And one beast folks could only tamed up to three monsters. So the business model of slaving just thirty or sixty cat ears is not feasible. They had to spent thousands of human lives and thousands of golds but would only acquire so few. It is simply cheaper to just buy the tamed beast directly from the tribe without invoking any bad blood.

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There were a number of other reasons that justify that enslaving the meadow grazer is bad idea and infeasible, but that is the gist of it. And that's how the peace between human and meadow grazers were achieved.

Back to my circumstances, so there is this cat girl that I really like since I came to this world, specifically this city. Her name is Lona. Black-furred, black-haired, big-breasted, yellow eyes and porcelain skin. She is so cheerful and goofy, always makes her coworkers and the patrons of the shop smile and laugh. I first met her when I was trying my luck applying as a shop staff. Remember my persistence on coming back to the same shop every other week and asked them for vacancy? Well, ninety percent of that was because I wanted to meet her. She was permanent staff in the shop, apparently had been working there for four years.

With an iron will and horny feelings, I gritted my teeth and refrained myself from applying to adventurer guild. Really, why would I want to risk my live when I finally found someone I love? For half a year I tried to land a decent job, to no avail. But I didn't give up and bid my time by working as an odd balls who ventured to the city everyday asking street vendors and random people to hire my free hands. Fortunately for me, they never shy away to pay me pittance to do the work that they didn't wanna do.

Touched by my endless effort, and disturbed by my persistence, the shop owner finally gave in and hired me as the shop handy man. I was so happy back then, because I would finally able to meet Lona everyday. That happiness only lasted three months though.

One day, there is this man, a staff of one of the city office, who started to frequent the shop and not so subtly tried to court her. Remember that time I told you about an official who talked about city office staff salary? Yeah, it is the same guy. He was flaunting his income to her. What an ass! I can do that too if I had money! But alas I didn't.

Look, long story short, after sometime, Lona married that guy. Surely you can imagine how devastated I was? I spent 6 months... SIX MONTHS! Just so I can see her so often as a coworker. And that guy just walking into the shop almost everyday and woe my Lona! Needless to say I immediately became a miserable wreck. My work quality and speed took a dive, and the shop owner who wasn't happy about me taking too long to move on and spent too much time being down fired me.

Heartbroken and Walletbroken, I decided to apply as adventurer with reckless abandoned. I took every hunting quest I could, and vented my anger on the monsters. Either I successfully got rid of my frustration or got killed in the process, I didn't really care. Fortunately, there was this veteran adventurer gentleman who recognize the sadness in my eyes, and kept an eye on me by teaming up with me on every hunting quest I took. He quietly guarding me from fatal blows and keeping me alive.

At one particular night, when I was about to drown myself in the river of ale like any other nights, he initiated a deep conversation with me, and easily got me to share my circumstance. He sympathize with me and share his own history. "Marriage is hard, especially for men like us who get average face and thin wallet. If you are a considerate man, you'll fear for what kind of hard life you'll drag your loved ones into. But if we wait too long, a rich inconsiderate bastard will steal our loved ones and potentially throw her into miserable life where she will be treated as belongings. Be strong, young man. Guys like us are a dime a dozen. At least let this old bones teach you how to gradually move on."

And then he proceeded to lead me into a broken and abandoned house. If not for an assassin who ambushed and killed the old man that night, I think I would become more than miserable for the rest of my life. Since that event, I was able to move on. Really, I have to find another girl to fall in love to, so she could take away my virginity, least it was taken by a man instead.

It was only three months later that I got news that the assassin finally had been captured. He was the old man best friend, they were equal both in wits, skills, and strength. Rumors had it that his motive was revenge, because the old man had raped him.

What a scary place I got transported into...