We entered Gavin but the ambience was off. We were all thinking about our discovery of yesterday.

  It shouldn’t matter as we belong just as much here as the other races but our feelings didn’t match up with reality.

  Gavin looked…bigger than I remembered. It was as if the ocean had receded and the city had taken advantage of the extra space.

  The ocean breeze was salty as ever and the seagulls were being assholes as usual. There seemed to be more than the last time I was here. Have humans relinquished this city to the seagulls? Some seagulls were flying away with whole meals.

  Wait did that seagull steal a baby? What the fuck is going on?!

  I sniped the seagull with a [Frost Arrow] and caught the baby.

  Greg, are seagulls carnivorous?

  Well, they eat fish but I’m unsure what they would do to a baby…

  Surely, they wouldn’t eat it right?

  None of us knew exactly what seagulls eat. But we were literally stuck babysitting now… it wouldn’t stop crying.

  Hey there little one, can you tell us who your parents are? And damn this baby is ugly!

  That’s so rude! You can’t say that to a baby! Give him here!

  Is it a him? I think it’s a ‘her’.

  Raishin was about to pull down the baby’s pants and diaper when I stopped him.

  We already blew up Jarn’s state secret, let's not add to our crimes. Come on little one who are your parents?

  Greg took the baby from me. It’s a baby! He won’t be able to talk!

  Wow, human babies are so useless…

  Greg smacked me.

  Humans aren’t under as much pressure to survive as our races are so they can afford to have their babies…. Incompetent. We will just have to use this baby’s traits to determine its parents.

  I found them!

  Raishin said as he pointed at an ugly blobby image of a fish.

  Wrong species but looks quite similar besides that.

  You guys are assholes, did you track the flight of the seagull?

  Uhh, it came from that way!

  I said as I pointed toward a lighthouse in the distance.

  We might find the parents if we head that way.

  But what if Gully is a tribute to the seagull god? We will have to fight an angry seagull god. I like my food not stolen.

  Hmm, Raishin has a point.

  Gully? And what? There is no way that you two are this silly, come on!

  Gully kept crying and drawing attention. Greg and Gully were also gaining a lot of female attention.

  Hey Greg let me try that!

  Absolutely not! You’re not going to use an infant to get women!

  Wow Raishin, you disappoint me, and holy shit Gully shut up!

  I took fried pheasant leg out of my dimensional pocket and stuffed his mouth with it.

  Agnis! He has no teeth! You can’t feed him meat!

  I’m not feeding him; I’m shutting him up!

  Ugh, both of you would make for terrible parents…

  I asked around if anyone knew who Gully’s parents were. They all live in the same city, why does nobody know?

  Agnis, can you hand me a towel and boiled milk?

  Wow, Greg and you call us assholes! Assassinating a baby with poison is even worse!

  Greg sighed. Agnis please… I think he’s hungry…

  I pointed at the pheasant leg in his mouth.

  He has no teeth…

  Fair point.

  I aided Greg in Gully’s assassination by handing him boiled milk.

  Never thought I would use Secret Weapon #2 on a baby… I might have to lay low now as I might become an international criminal after this…

  Go make sure Raishin doesn’t do anything stupid while I feed this baby…

  I left Gully to his fate and caught Raishin lying to some women.

  Yeah, that’s my baby!

  I smacked him.

  I’m sorry ladies, this guy is lying, do you by any chance know the parents of Gully?

  A short brunette cocked her head. “Gully? What a strange name.”

  Well, we found him and since babies can’t talk, we had to give him a name.

  “Ah… I did see a couple not too long ago, they seemed freaked out and were cursing at seagulls, maybe try them.” She pointed to a general direction.

  Oh, very helpful! Thank you! As thanks I will give you this; you’re probably interested in that edgy guy over there, right? He loves literature. Do your worst… I mean best!

  “Uhh ok… what a strange guy.”

  The women went over to Greg and I scanned for a panicking couple.

  I almost got them!

  I don’t think so, you know nothing about babies.

  You don’t either!

  I pointed at myself. Do you see me pretending to know and even claiming that I have a baby? No! and lets go I found the panicking couple!

  I dragged Raishin along.

  The seagulls really had it out for them, they banded together and tried to steal the wife from the husband. A simple [Fireball] turned them into dinner.

  The seagulls have become merciless, are you guys, ok? We have found Gully.

  “Ohh thank you! You saved my wife! And who is Gully?

  Wow they even forgot his name!

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  Well, we decided on that name…

  The wife came at me and clasped my hands. “Oh, thank goodness you found Katherine!”

  Wait Gully is a ‘she’?

  Maybe we found the wrong parents.

  “We didn’t know what to do after some seagulls whisked her way!”

  Sounds like we found the correct parents. Come with us our friend is looking after him…her…

  I collected the fried gulls and led the parents to a group of women.

  Hey! Backoff! We need to get to Greg!

  The women didn’t budge so I had to unleash a special weapon, one that works extremely well against women.

  Nilah! It’s your turn! Turn your cuteness to the max!

  Nilah got out and fluffed up her fur. It didn’t take long for the group to break up and surround Nilah. While Nilah was stealing mana, we could get to Greg.

  We found Gully’s parents. You mean Katherine’s parents…

  I like ‘Gully’ more…

  The parents reunited with their infant. It made me wonder. How do parents recognize an ugly baby like this as their own? Is it instinct? Or are all human babies ugly? I surely hope that Katherine gets a glow-up as she will be in deep shit if she stays like this. Then again, she’s an infant I suppose she will be fine.

  She will grow up and die of old age before this world goes to shit. At least I hope so.

  “Thank you so much!” the wife said as she embraced Gu…Katherine. “Is there anything we can do to repay you!?”

  Do you have a sist…

  Greg floored Raishin.

  There is no need to thank us and ignore this guy here, he got dropped on his head when he was a kid.

  While Greg was talking to the parents of Kath, I started to formulate a plan on how to get Nilah back without having the attention shift to me.

  How about she transforms into a snake or a spider?

  The women ran away after Nilah turned into a large spider and I easily collected her.

  That was easy.

  Some women were staring at me while I stored Nilah in my dimensional pocket.

  This situation made me think of my mother. We were practically babies when we got kicked out of Hourai. We’re not far from Kath’s age by our race’s age standard.

  Would our moms have reacted the same?

  I walked over to the parents.

  I’m not sure if this is appropriate but here are the seagulls I fried, they were the ones that tried to abduct your wife.

  I handed the seagulls to the husband. “Uhh, thank you. We will enjoy them during dinner as revenge.”

  The humans seemed confused but it worked as they accepted the fried seagulls. We waved at them as they headed off.

  Don’t get kidnapped again, Gully!

  Her name is Katherine…

  We ducked as several seagulls flew over and unloaded their droppings on a nearby building soon after.

  This might be the seagull capital…I thought that humans were the dominant race on this planet…

  Yeah, I think they’re acting like this as humans’ morals prevent them from retaliating against animals and the seagulls are taking advantage of that.

  Ah Wild Fang mentioned that a while ago.

  I torched several seagulls that were up to no good.

  I’m hungry…

  I handed the fried seagull and some spices to Raishin.

  Ohh thanks!

  Might as well get your tails and ears out as both of you are very much acting like beast kin… I wonder how nobody has discovered yet that you were beast kin before we made it public…

  We walked through the city of Gavin. The destination was either the port or the AA, whatever we would get to first.

  I knew where the AA was but it wouldn’t hurt to walk around a bit. Maybe we can save more abducted babies in the meantime.

  A lot of adventurers in this city. Are they also here for the ‘missing fishermen’ quest?

  I halted when realization set in.

  What’s up Agnis?

  Aagh! Why didn’t I notice this earlier? This is a trap!

  Elaborate.

  The ocean is extremely dangerous, everyone who deals with the ocean knows this, now if a boat of fishermen sets out and they don’t return, what would the reaction be over here?

  That the ocean claimed their lives. I see what you mean. So, this mission is attempting to lure in people who don’t know much about the ocean then?

  Ugh, it’s probably like the quest with that shitty sandstorm island… but then there is something with a ghost fish…

  Hmm, do you mind if I gather information and in exchange for that I don’t want to come near the ocean?

  I can’t promise anything but I won't put you on the ocean if there is no need.

  Greg’s seriousness got dialed to 11 and he [Shadow melded] away.

  I feel so stupid! I’ve been on the ocean so many times! It should’ve been clear that missing fishermen should be normal… I felt like assassinating the asshole who put up this quest.

  Greg might have gone to investigate because he predicted this. I hope that Greg kicks his ass on my behalf.

  Now that I know this is a trap, I need to find out the intent. What a pain in the ass, it sounds like a curse.

  Targeted assassination? Will Toxic Donkey be here too? Or is it aimed at me? Wild Fang has a high chance of appearing. I can understand why someone would assassinate Toxic Donkey but not Wild Fang, he’s such a cool dude.

  It might sound arrogant but they might be aiming for me. would things work out if I don’t go?

  It’s hard to determine that, if we go to the ocean on a boat and something happens, I’m the best bet on getting them to safety but nothing strange will happen if I’m not on board… I think. And if I’m their target, nothing will happen if I’m not on board.

  But…that’s assuming that the assassins are morons as they should consider the option where I don’t show up.

  Something tugged on my sleeve.

  Hey Agnis wake up! Look there! A fish market!

  The presence of fish snapped me out of my thoughts and I looked at the fish on display.

  Hey hey, look! It's a crab with 4 sets of claws! Raishin said as he picked up a strange creature from a stand.

  Do you mean 4 claws or 2 sets of claws? It might be mutated it also looks very odd for a crab… it reminds me of those weird creatures that have frequently popped up lately.

  Is it even edible?

  I activated my Elgards eyes and thoroughly inspected it. I also added some other filters as everything changes the moment, we want to eat these things.

  Hmm. It looks like a crab but that’s the only similarity it shares with a crab, what is this thing even made of?

  The more I inspected this ‘crab’ the less it looked like a crab especially after I noticed something disturbing.

  Hoo boi, this is bad. Shall we just grab a ship and move to a different continent?

  What did you see?

  So, this ‘crab’ isn’t made out of matter we’re familiar with.

  So, it’s not a crab?

  It’s not a crab, nor does its molecular structure suggest that it’s from this dimension. And that’s being generous because I’m not sure if this thing is made out of… molecules…

  I took the ‘crab’ from Raishin and tossed it back on the stand.

  Better not eat it, who knows what it will do to you.

  So, the PB, the Rabbitfish and the bukkers were the same?

  Dunno but there is a high chance they were, a good thing that we never ate any.

  So that mollusk with 8 bird wings there is also the same? Raishin said as he pointed.

  Whoa that looks messed up but yeah, I think we should be careful on what we eat now. There is a lot of normal fish but some things don’t belong here, quite literally as they’re not from this dimension… what a pain in the ass. All is fun and games until it starts messing with my food!

  Raishin and I went through the market and were careful with what we bought. I put a tail on duty to check all the food I had stored in my dimensional pocket. It would be nice if our problems came at us one by one and not all at once.