"Are you serious?" The third princess couldn't help but furrow her eyebrows.
"Yes." Duke Lorelei nodded.
"…" The third princess squinted her eyes. "The tribe outside the kingdom… a tribe that is not completely human… Are they half spirit… No, wait. I believe I have heard something about this in history. Are they perhaps… half animal?"
"How do you know?" Duke Lorelei was surprised.
The third princess let out a long sigh. "A thousand years ago, to ensure humanity's survival, our ancestors were experimenting with something that built us, fusing humans with animals.
"They were trying to imitate the demons. After all, demons possessed animals and turned them into beasts. Meanwhile, they tried to make a half-human, half-animal. The original purpose was to use this to fight against the demon, but there were two problems.
"The first problem was that these people were unable to have a spirit. More details were unknown, but this was the major reason they were abandoned.
