“The other plants don’t look as pretty, though. Oh, and also, little human? Ai-chi told me to tell you that we’ve got the flower. It’s in the bag.”Pam casually said as he pointed to the magic bag that Cherry was holding with his tail before climbing onto the adventurer’s shoulder. Because unlike the blinking duo, that baby Wyrm knew that their task had been fulfilled, and they’d likely head home soon.“By the way, little human? How do you know about Ai-chi? Can you see spirits as I do?”Serein, who was wondering who this ‘Ai-chi’ that the young hatchling was talking about, finally realized that he’s likely talking about Aiston, the spirit that took a raincheck on their contract just a couple of minutes ago."I… No, I can't see Ai-min now. But, hmm… You can say that I befriended him when I fell asleep earlier."Trying to put up a smile despite how vexed she felt, Serein hummed to herself.'That jerk– So, he could have notified us earlier that we've acquired the flower, yet he didn't d
"Oh! Oh! Over there, little human! Ai-chi told us to climb that part of the cliff and get to that crevice over there!"'Oh?'"Is that so, Pam-min? Ai-min says so?"The wyrm nodded before then added, "He also told me to tell you that he's gonna guide us safely back to Ceva-chi! Ehehehe~ Little human, you made a great friend! And now I am friends with Ai-chi too!"The young hatchling giggled delightfully. He was absolutely elated to gain another friend aside from his two brothers.He giggled again, feeling giddy with how fortunate he was since meeting his little human and accompanying her around. Thinking about this, he rubbed himself against her cheek with an adorable grin.And at this sight, Serein smiled brightly herself as she patted the small head gently."Good for you, Pam-min. More friends~"Internally, that adventurer wished for the young’un to get even more attached to them so that it'll be easier for her to kidnap— ahem, convince the three of the dragonic race members to trave
Since Cevahir did have 'save points' in his lair, a teleportation spell could easily be cast. As a matter of fact, he was only still around and hadn't done that yet, despite getting injured, because he was worried and waiting for Pam to return.In all honesty, he wasn’t expecting them to continue on their journey. He had told Serein to get the young wyrm out of harm's way, not really caring if the two humans would get injured at the moment.Two mere human women he met for less than a week; it was good enough that he didn't despise humans enough to kill them on sight.If anything, he was enticed with rage when he realized that the two were not fleeing off the scenes as he instructed. Furthermore, they took Pam with them.Cevahir was definitely enraged.However, to his dismay, he couldn’t follow their track as easily with that old snail bastard standing in the way.And that's how he ended up having no other choice but to fight this punk with the best he could.Although, even his best pe
Serein had to hide her grin as she compared Sam to those tsundere 2D characters she usually saw in countless anime and mangas. It was quite adorable if you asked her, which she didn't expect as she felt rather bored and annoyed with these characters whenever they appeared in front of her.‘I think it's because he's cute.’She nodded to herself. Indeed, adorableness would make any personality loveable. Not to mention how she liked reptiles.A biased thought it might be, but who cares, right?Her silly opinion on this didn't concern anyone anyway.—Or so she thought.“Awww, you think we’re cute, little human? You’re cute too!”Pam praised after the soft breeze that she felt had been confirmed to be Aiston passing notes to Pam on what Serein was thinking.“Ahem.”Blushing lightly, Serein cleared her throat. To which, Cevahir found it amusing that the girl would get shy over this rather than her loud stomach earlier.“Yes, I do find you two cute, in addition talented, and from the lack of
In the midst of the knight’s intense rambling, it wasn’t his childhood friend slash liege who stopped him from continuing with his crazed murmuring any further– no.It was someone else. Or, to be exact, a certain soft yet unsettling yelp coming from the expected–“Little Human!”“Oh, hey!”Pam and Sam exclaimed in worry as the adventurer staggered a bit before rooting back on her spot while wiping the black substance that tainted her pale lips as if nothing significant ever happened. Or well, the young lady was definitely expecting this turn of events, looking at her terrifyingly calm demeanor.“What did you do?” While Cherry hastily helped Serein to get seated, Cevahir asked in suspicion because this disgusting smell he caught a whiff of was definitely not the smell of normal blood. Rather, it was the smell of rotting blood. There was no way he would mistake such a major difference.Injuries would usually lead the victim to let out some fresh blood unless it was contaminated by pois
The red path, known to be more of a trail for a one-man journey, was located in the neighboring kingdom led by a tyrant of a king. The path that originated from the Northwest side of the Blaphemos Woodland was undoubtedly closed off. No one ever dared to approach the entrance except for equipped officials who exploited their claim to the 'safe land.'Looking up to ask for confirmation of his second guess, he was met with another cough instead. Harsher this time, and it definitely made the adventurer lose more blood – if that nasty black goo still counted as blood anyway.“You idiot,” Cherry grumbled in annoyance to mask her worry. “Seirin-shi, you’re such an ignorant fool.”Glaring at the weary adventurer, the mage tried to use her healing magic to help the guide.“Aye, it’s fine. There is no need.”Serein waved her free hand in dismissal, trying not to croak out her reply and tainting her own words with a rasp that would definitely cause these people to give her even more unnecessary
Dawn arrived, and the first thing that Serein noticed was the black line flowing down from her nose– it’s dripping.‘A nosebleed?’Followed by that, she then realized the aching she felt all over her joints.“Uh-huh…”Well, either way, after wiping the abnormal nosebleed away, she tried to stand up as discreetly as she could while testing the limit of her motoric control.Seems like she won’t be able to do anything extreme with her current poor condition.‘Well, this sucks for sure.’Scoffing once she realized that she couldn’t even go as far as jumping without causing a brain-splitting headache, Serein was rethinking her whole reckless plan and was about to rearrange it to suit her current messed-up condition, but to her luck, she wasn’t as quiet as she had thought.“Serein-shi?”The knight, who seemed to awaken from his barely rested state– he woke up but looked very sleepy still– sat up and blinked away his sleepiness almost immediately to stare at the other silhouette in this dark
“Ah, our sleeping beauty is awake? I apologize for not noticing your holy presence, your highness.”Glancing, Serein could see the mage getting seated, presumably having been eavesdropping for a couple of moments ago from how stable her breathing was now compared to someone who supposedly just woke up from their deep slumber.“Cut the flattery, Serein-shi.”Cherry, who didn’t know the reference to ‘sleeping beauty,’ thought that it was mere flattery when it was more of a form of teasing from the adventurer. Not that it mattered much–“Back to my question, what’s with Sirens? Are you planning to hunt something that has vanished for the past decades?”—Well, technically, she’s not exactly right about this.After all, Serein did remember one Siren that was planned to be in her original novel. Though she had forgotten the Siren’s name and the exact timeline on when the MC should meet them, that adventurer remembered doing a lot of research about the said being before putting them into the