episode_0107

Cockatrices are huge beasts.

But Juul is not an ordinary person either.

‘If I had to choose, Jules would probably be more of a monster.’

As Dennis said, a crescent moon appeared in the sky, and the dark forest entrance became even darker.

The cockatrice that Jules found was not as flashy as the male he saw at the beginning of the forest, and its body was noticeably small.

Judging from his frayed fur, he looks old.

Have you been kicked out of the group? Although it clearly has a beak, it has long jagged teeth inside, and even its tongue is serrated.

As Jules said, the cockatrice just stayed silent like a bird suffering from night blindness. The hunt ended with Jules beheading the cockatrice.

Like a rat eating a chicken.

and···.

“How does that thing move?!”

“So? I guess Pluto came down because of resentment.”

Jules makes fun of Shir, who freaks out.

This is because the cockatrice jumped up after its head was cut off, and spun around in a daze as if drawing a line, spraying blood.

“···How are you alive?”

Julias was examining the strange figure like a scientist, while Dennis looked confused as he alternated between sections of the cockatrice’s head and neck.

Blood flows out of the cut cockatrice’s neck to the rhythm of its heartbeat. He soon collapsed from excessive bleeding.

“Wait a minute.”

As Jules approached the fallen cockatrice with a sad smile, only Dennis took something out from under the cockatrice’s body.

“···There are eggs.”

Compared to the size of a cockatrice, it is a fairly small egg.

Because it was barely the size of an ostrich egg. Jules grins.

“It’s also delicious when boiled. Let’s take it with us.”

Dennis looks at Al with reluctance and shakes his head.

“···I feel a presence. It’s a fertilized egg, not an unfertilized egg. I think they will hatch in a few days. It must be difficult to boil and eat.”

Jules’ expression became reluctant.

It seemed like it was a prey that I had chosen to catch.

“There were no males around? What happened?”

“Because cockatrice stores male semen in its body. Dennis. Could you give that to me? Cockatrice is a specimen that is difficult to find.”

When Julias asked me to examine the cross section of the severed head, I could feel sympathy on Dennis’s face.

“Well, there is enough meat, so there is no need to eat eggs.”

Suddenly! Sigh! Crack!

Jules began dismantling the cockatrice with a sharp knife, and Julias began examining the chicken’s severed neck and head.

Dennis── Why did you put the egg in your backpack?

I think it would be better to pretend not to see it for now. Jules and Sur, who have a good sense of smell, will soon notice the cockatrice.

“Hae… I was wondering how he moves, but he still has a brain? Is it possible to move even if there is only a little bit of brain left?”

Julia put his hand deep into the severed cockatrice’s neck, took out the brain stem and fondled it.

He had a very perverted expression.

“Don’t touch that.”

“God, I took it out because it was fascinating!”

Surprised, Julias quickly threw away the brain stem.

─Fujik!

I threw it so hard that my brain stem exploded like a tofu that had been dropped. Even though he exploded, he was surprised and looked at me.

There was no sign of the firewood catching fire right away, and the gluttons were quite hungry. For a while, we obtained kindling and firewood, added oil given to us by Schwein, and lit a big fire.

Grumble!

“There’s no need to put it that big, right?”

“Yes? Oh, it’s because I didn’t see Julia eating a meal. Since you eat it in such large chunks, you have to make a big fire to bake it.”

Julias smiles brightly.

“No, I already baked it all.”

“···Yes?”

“Just come and eat.”

“You didn’t even light a fire?”

Julia lazily takes my hand.

My hands are slightly hot.

“People think that Dragonia controls fire, but in reality, it controls heat. Just like I melted the spider web to prevent the tree from catching fire.”

“···Dealing with heat?”

Heat is a concept of energy.

So doesn’t that mean Dragonia can also remove heat? Now I know how Grace and Julia were able to walk around in robes so casually in the South.

When I saw the burning fire, I felt completely empty.

Let’s say it’s rough, I’ll have to put on Maiarna.

“What are you going to do now, Julia?”

Julias tilts his head and looks down at me.

“You have to decide that.”

Why did I decide that?

At that time, was your offer to help me a serious offer?

“If I go to Horus, I won’t be able to see him for a few years, right?”

“Maybe. Maybe I won’t be able to come back.”

“Then let’s go together until the end.”

This trip will probably be the last contact between me and Julia.

“Sihyeon! Bring some spice!”

“Oh, yes!”

*

After leaving the Black Forest, the journey, which should have been a series of hardships, became much easier. It’s thanks to Julia’s magic and wickedness. Needless to say, it’s magic.

Yeokrin literally chased away all the small animals.

In addition to pests, animals such as snakes, and even flying insects that used to cling to the body without knowing why, became reluctant to join the group.

and···.

Beep!

The sound of chicks crying came from inside Dennis’ backpack.

It finally hatched. It is a baby cockatrice.

Jules looks back and tilts his head.

“Hmm? I think I just heard a chick crying?”

“···Isn’t it too big to be called a chick?”

All eyes in the group turned to Dennis.

In the end, Satan arose. Dennis immediately receives the gaze of his companions and speaks without hesitation.

“At that time, I brought a cockatrice egg.”

People’s expressions became strange.

When Dennis unwrapped the bag, a chick the size of a chicken, filled with chicks, popped its head out.

That’s a baby cockatrice.

I placed my hand on the back with the hand on the wing and looked up at Dennis. Juul, seeing this, smiles and takes out a dagger.

“Great! Did you hatch them and then bring them to eat?”

Such a crazy, gluttonous monster!

Of course, the soft stuff was delicious.

“No.”

Jules tilts his head.

“Then why did you bring it?”

“I’m trying to raise it.”

···You want to raise a cockatrice?

Jules seems to have the same question as me. Even the eyes of Julia, who had not shown much interest, became interested.

“You want to raise a cockatrice? A wild beast that has too many uses?”

“Yes. Raising children from a very young age can help limit aggression.”

“What if I fail?”

“If I can’t handle it, I’ll have to release it.”

Julia shakes her head.

Then he started looking at the cockatrice with a look in his eyes that made him want to dissect it again.

“Dennis. If you’re a direct descendant of the Moon Priest, you’re a collateral, right? Accidents happen in an instant. Is there any guarantee that the cockatrice will not attack others?”

“No.”

“Then why do you do such dangerous actions?”

Dennis, who stroked the head of the cockatrice that was squealing loudly, continued speaking.

“Because I felt such a strong desire for life that I, a Banpoon collateral who could only sense the presence of animals, could feel it.”

After hearing the words that followed, Julias and Jules remained silent, unable to say anything. It is well known that Moon Priests are animal lovers.

But it is a wild beast.

If an ordinary person decides to raise a tiger or something like that, the people around them are unlikely to like it. It’s just that it’s awkward to talk about it.

“Even earthworms have a strong desire for life. Before it’s too late, try to think rationally instead of emotionally.”

Jules sheathes the dagger.

When Juul stopped talking, the atmosphere became difficult to argue with. Only Shir slowly slows down his steps and approaches this way.

“Sihyeon, what is that? Are you going to eat it?”

Perhaps because they spoke in Elvish, Shir, who couldn’t keep up with the conversation, clings to me.

“Cockatrice cub. It’s not something to eat, but I think Dennis is thinking of raising it.”

Shir flinched, then quickly approached Dennis.

“Can I touch that?”

Is it because he is the only person in the group who is not negative? Dennis looks at Shir with a faint smile.

“Handle with care.”

I think I saw that figure somewhere.

Where did you see him? Oh, he left me like that.

If I lose interest, I wonder if Shir will throw the cockatrice away── Shir glares at me.

Shir looks away as if I am not his priority. Dennis threw away the broken cockatrice egg from his pack, held the cockatrice with both hands, and held it out to Shir.

“Ah!”

However, the cockatrice shook off Shir’s approaching hand with its own finger and jumped off the pack.

──Fuzzy!

Even though he fell from a high place, he didn’t appear to be injured.

The cockatrice began toddling behind Dennis. When Sur, who was shocked, did not give up and carefully held out his hand, the cockatrice pecked his hand.

“Ugh?!!”

Shir started the game and fell asleep.

For a guy who hasn’t even seen the light of day for 5 minutes, he’s pretty tough. Dennis picked up the cockatrice again, put it in his backpack, and started walking.

It looks like there’s still some time left for Shire.

“···I haven’t touched it yet?”

Dennis smiles bitterly.

“I’m sorry, but I guess I don’t like you. I feel that.”

Jules smiles and looks at Shir curiously.

“There is a saying that the purest thing in the world is a young animal. Sur, didn’t the cockatrice respond to the appetite in your heart?”

“Eh!?”

Shir is startled.

Could it be that he was really thinking of eating the chick?!

“Shir. Should I look at a chick that hasn’t even seen the light of day in a while, and whose fur hasn’t even dried, that way?”

As I rode Juul’s momentum with a little bit of sincerity and laughed and sarcastically, Shir approached me one step at a time───.

match!!!!

“Keuuu…!”

He hit my back.

*

Cockatrices seem to have an imprinting effect just like chickens.

He started following Dennis around. Feeding was a problem, but Dennis is the Moon Priest’s collateral.

I was able to determine the locations of all kinds of worms without Juul’s help, and when I turned over the fallen leaves, earthworms and other bugs came out wherever I turned them over.

“He eats things like that well.”

The cockatrice endlessly repeated eating and cumming as if its anus and mouth were directly connected. And in these few days, the cockatrice became as large as the Brazilian chicken, which is said to be the largest in the world.

Of course, it’s not that he’s that fat.

The cockatrice began to develop a sleek body shape similar to that of a dinosaur.

‘Baby schema is the rule in this world too.’

Eventually, the cockatrice left the pack and began following Dennis. Shirr pecked away, but he couldn’t do that to me.

They are having a hard time with me because of the disgusting pieces.

“Sihyeon.”

“Yes. Why?”

Jules turned his head to look at me, and there was something like a stone tower made of bones piled up around him.

The pebbles are not piled up like coins, but are tightly intertwined as if they won’t fall over even if you kick them.

“From here on, the wild people and natives live.”

Native?

I’ve heard descriptions of wild people, but I’ve never heard descriptions of indigenous people.

“What kind of people are indigenous people?”

“Unlike Yunaira’s demi-humans and wild humans, it is a completely disconnected group of tribal-oriented demi-humans.”

A disconnected tribe? Are you talking about cavemen?

“They may be friendly to me, but not to you. If you go alone, you could be targeted. If it’s possible, I’ll find it, but be careful because you might end up in a bad situation.”

The Southern Ain live at the tribal level rather than at the village level. It was likely that there were indigenous people who had not yet reached the age of civilization.

But I never imagined that humans would be hated even by the natives. Why on earth am I being hated so much?

“Yes. I’ll be careful.”

“Lee, I think it would be okay to some extent if you exposed the bracelet. Even if an Ain who can speak Elvish is a native, they tend to be part of the group.”

Dennis gives advice while stroking the cockatrice.

If things are going this way, it might be a good idea to take some advice.

At least if you see the bracelet, you won’t suddenly get stabbed to death. Now I want to avoid getting shot or kidnapped again.

“It’s okay if I swear at you, right?”

I was very irritated due to the travel alone, but I had no intention of staying silent if people treated me with racial discrimination. I never draw my weapon, hide behind the line with Julia, and curse at her.

“Don’t act like a scared hedgehog. No matter what the young children say, you just have to not join in.”

“I’m that kid too.”

oh. Julia looks at me with her eyes wide open, rubbing her chin with her hand as if she is quite surprised.

“Oh, is that so? Now that I think about it, you are not a child but a lump of blood.”

“I don’t think it’s that much. From Julia’s point of view, isn’t everyone here a child?”

Julia grins and looks away from me.

“Uuhuh! The stupid ahaha that is taking the lead. Did you hear?”

Jules ears flutter, and he glances in my direction.

“Sihyeon. From now on, when you call Julias, call her grandmother.”