episode_0282
by fnovelpia
-The movement has stopped. I think we’ve arrived at the nest.
‘where are you?’
-It’s about 1km away from here. Wait a minute, let me give you directions.
As soon as Maria finished speaking, the path toward the nest appeared as a translucent yellow line. And the destination where Roland was presumed to be was shown as a red dot.
It was similar to the previous New Kind where the direction of the enemy’s gun was indicated by a red diagonal line.
-The route is temporary. The exact way to the nest is not known, so just refer to the direction.
‘okay.’
Every time I received this kind of support from Maria, I couldn’t stop my SF feelings from filling up. It was similar to the feeling of the HUD of a car or fighter jet being overlaid on my field of vision in real time.
I hurried my steps with Janey on my back.
Although the route shown by Maria was slightly modified from time to time, it boasted great accuracy. And after following that path, I was finally able to arrive at a place where there was a red dot that marked the Divine Beast’s nest.
The place where my steps stopped was in front of a tree so huge that the top could not be seen. A red dot was on one of the tree’s branches.
“What tree is this big?”
I tilted my head back completely and looked at the sky. All that was visible were branches and leaves extending from the huge tree.
A tree that appears taller than most buildings. I know that the tallest tree that exists in reality is a little over 100m in height, but this tree seemed to easily be twice that tall.
-The top cannot be seen because it is obscured by tree branches, but it is at least 260 meters high.
‘260m? It’s taller than the 63 building. ‘This is a tree?’
Perhaps because it is a huge divine beast, the tree it chose for its nest was also of unusual size. It was impossible to even guess how old he was.
‘I would believe this even if it were a world tree.’
It was so thick that a person with a weak constitution would be out of breath just by running a circle around the tree.
I asked Maria before climbing the tree.
‘How about Roland? ‘You haven’t already been attacked by Shinsu, right?’
-are you okay. As expected, there is a cub, but it is not strong enough to harm him. The mother threw Roland into the nest and flew away again.
Fortunately, Roland’s situation, as reported by communication, did not seem to be very dangerous. Still, we didn’t know when his mother would return, so we had to retrieve him quickly.
“Jane, hold on tight. I can’t hold your legs while you’re climbing a tree, so you have to hang on to them yourself.”
“Yes. Okay.”
Janey tightened her arms and legs around my body. Anyway, even if she squeezed with all her might, there was no need to worry about getting hurt.
Pow! puck!
I wielded the Heavenly Palace Fireball in my hand and smashed it into the huge tree trunk in front of me. However, the thickness of the tree was so huge that even if I used my internal energy to plunge my hand into it, it seemed like I could only penetrate the bark.
I climbed up a height of almost 200 meters in a rock-climbing posture, digging my hands into the tree bark.
Whiing…
There was a bit of an unpleasant wind blowing as we climbed up to the high place, but that was handled with Janey’s special abilities.
After a few minutes, I was able to put my feet up on the branch where the nest was located.
“… This is my first time climbing this high.”
Janey got off my back, speaking in a slightly trembling voice. I seemed to have a mild fear of heights. Most of the buildings in Fallen Kingdom Aka were low-rise buildings, so it was not strange that I had not known that I was afraid of heights until now.
“Please hold my hand?”
“Yes… It’s a little better. Let’s go quickly.”
Janey’s trembling as she held my hand disappeared. It seemed to calm down quickly thanks to the thick branches.
Still, I had to be careful because it was a structure where I could slip in an instant if I took a wrong step.
“That is the nest of the divine beast.”
The nest located in the middle of a tree branch appeared to be made of leaves and thin branches. It appeared to have been made with thin tree branches as a frame, and leaves were used to create a soft seat.
But as I got closer to the nest, I heard a strange sound.
Crackle!
“What does this mean?”
“… It sounds like something is being knocked on.”
It sounded like hitting something hard.
Suddenly an ominous thought occurred to me. A scene came to mind, where Roland’s metal frame, whose limbs had been disassembled, was being chewed like a bone by Shinsu’s cub.
‘no way… ?’
I said to Maria as I ran toward the nest.
‘Maria! Roland says it’s okay!’
-Oh, that’s…
Before Maria could finish speaking, she leapt in the same running position and stood on the rim of the bowl-shaped nest.
And the sight I saw was beyond my expectations. On the disappointing side.
“?”
-It’s the sound of Shinsu’s cub tapping on the battle suit.
“Beep?”
Round face and body. Short beak, round eyes, and chubby belly. A flawless chick was nestled in the nest, tilting its head.
Of course, looking at the three pairs of short wings like the front legs of a Tyrannosaurus rex and the white fluffy fur with a subtle blue tint, you could still tell that it was a chick of a divine beast. And above all, the size of this chick was larger than that of most people. It looked almost the same size as a racehorse.
“… You’re here.”
“Oh, were you there?”
When I heard Roland’s voice, I turned my gaze and saw Roland underneath the chick, or rather, the Shinsu’s chick.
Someone went through a lot of hard work, even rock climbing and climbing a tree, but seeing the guy who I thought was in danger lying down in a comfortable position made me laugh for a moment.
“What are you doing there?”
“… It is not moving so as not to irritate the cub. If you make a cry calling for your mother for no reason, it will be a big problem.”
“Well… ”
‘I don’t think this level of professionalism is normal… ‘
-Android does its best at what it does!
‘Why are you so proud?’
While I was quietly observing the situation, Janey, who belatedly came up to the nest, saw Shinsu’s baby and her eyes sparkled. I seemed to be captivated by the sight of a giant chick with a lot of fluffy fur.
“Cute… !”
“Well, it’s cute.”
However, the chick, which had suddenly appeared in the nest and was looking at us with jet-black eyes like obsidian, soon seemed to have lost interest and started poking at Roland’s battle suit with its beak again.
Crackle!
Then the noise we had heard as we approached the nest began again. It seemed like he thought the battle suit Roland was wearing was a shell of prey and was trying to peel it off.
“… Now, take it out, give it to me, won’t you?”
“Sigh… Yes.”
Roland’s words stop as he shakes his head every time his beak hits the head of the battle suit. I approached him, trying hard to suppress my laughter.
And I was able to discover an unexpected fact.
Every time that chick-like baby pecked the battle suit with its beak, scratches appeared on the surface of the battle suit.
The battle suit was made of an alloy from the science fiction world and was strong enough not to be scratched by a decent amount of pistol bullets.
However, simply by pecking with the beak, the surface of the battle suit is chipped away little by little. Despite its cute appearance, surprisingly, its beak seemed to have vicious attacking power.
‘Now that I think about it, the mother said that Roland had holes in his stomach and shoulders even though he was wearing a battle suit.’
-that’s right. Emergency measures were completed immediately, so things are okay now.
Although you can’t see any damage from being crushed by a chick, it looks like it was taken care of somehow.
I put Roland in my inventory before his electronic brain got a concussion.
“Pyeong?!”
When Roland, who was sitting on his back, suddenly disappeared, the startled new beast flapped its six wings.
I tried using the ‘Contract’ skill on the spot, but it didn’t work, probably because they were very wary of me as they were meeting me for the first time.
“… After all, it just doesn’t work.”
“How about going down under the tree first?”
“Okay.”
I had no choice but to first do as Janey said and pull him down to the ground. Janey doesn’t like staying in high places for a long time, and even if you lure her with food, you never know when the mother spirit will return if she stays in the nest.
“Beep? Pyeong?”
Even though I came around to kidnap him, Shinsu’s bastard couldn’t understand what was going on and just tilted his head.
It was able to handle the weight, but because it was so large, it was not easy to lift it stably. When going down the stem, I felt like I had to roughly hold the back of the neck with one hand.
“It may not be possible to carry the person who would be the owner on its back, but rather, it would be the first summoned animal to ride on its back.”
“But I think it looks cuter like this?”
As I was walking on the branches while talking to Janey, a strong wind suddenly blew up.
Fluttering~
Whiiing!!
“!”
“Janey!”
As I lowered my posture so as not to be shaken by the Shinsu’s baby, I saw Janey, who had lost her balance, fall to the side of the tree branch.
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