Interlude 2.13: Lions mother part 1

-Break-

Two weeks later

Location: Campsite

Φ Giddy in line, I say, "I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait."

Charles behind me says, "Is this because you finally went over your quota."

"Of course, it is, now I can get some extra food and stop being just skin and bones."

Walking up to the beastkin serving food, I say, "I completed over my quota this time, you can check with other beastkin if you doubt me."

The beastkin says, "It doesn't matter, we no longer do extra food for hard work. All the means have been standardised again."

Hearing this shocks me to my soul so intensely that I freeze and collapse over to the floor. But in that state, the beastkin throws my water and potato at me knocking me out.

As Nero lays on the ground in defeat, Charles takes his food, picks up Nero and walks away.

Then sits him against the wall of the campsite where he slowly feeds him. To all the onlookers around, the sight is almost identical to how a mother feeds her child.

-Break-

Depressed I walk towa