Having moved about in the swamps for a while, Mew and Aldos arrived at the lizard men village without any problem.
The village looked a lot like those backwater villages, they were simple and build to last in these lands. All the little huts were made of wood and straw, standing on the few places of swampland that was firm beneath the feet.
Looking around curiously, Mew could only see a few of the lizard men, only being elderly, young ones and weak females. The warriors of the tribe were not here.
[Ains must have taken them into his ranks I suppose.]
Mew hummed as he played around with the lizard men childern.
He always had a soft spot for childer, more so than for grown ups. Maybe it was because they were more innocent and lively to play with than adults. They were really sincere and looked at the world differently than adults. They were a lot like him in that regard, though he liked to make life more like a game than anything serious.
[Let's play a game of shadow tag. I'll be it. When I step on your shadow, you will be it and you have to step on someone else' shadow. Understand? Yes? Then let's play!]
Taking the form of ambipom, Mew laughed in joy as he and a dozen lizard men kids began to run around. The general layout of their playground was just the free space between the huts, enough to move around and avoid the tagger.
Like this, Mew played for a few hours, up till the point the kids were exhausted, but with a big smile on their faces.
"Played enough Mew-sama?"
[Yeeees]
"Then where do you want to go to next?"
[Um.... Let's stay here for a little while more and visit Ains afterwards. I heard there are a bunch of monkeys that entered his home, so I wasn't allowed to come back yet. Though he did invite me to visit the village he's building, so I mercifully accepted his end of the bargain.]
"I... see. Then we will visit him a bit later."
[Indeed. I wonder what those monkeys look like?]
Mew thought out loud.
*
At the Great Tomb of Nazarick
The supposed monkeys Mew was thinking about, humans, were fighting for their lives at the sight of skeletal knights with magic armor.
Other humans, mercenaries, were fighting and losing badly in a battle against Ains.
One of the escaping humans was caught and killed by Shalltear.
The more unfortunate ones had been trapped by Kyouhukou, a living giant cockroach accompanied by more than a few million of his kin.
It was truly a disheartening sight and one Mew luckily had no knowledge of.