Neighbors in forbidden land

When I flew back, I found that Yimi was lying on the ground, with her upper body supported by her hands, her face facing the ground, her body trembling uncontrollably.

I didn't even control my strength and landed in a hurry, ignoring the smoke and dust that was blowing up all over the ground, and followed Behemoth's body with my claws.

As a result, she just slammed one hand at me, and then obviously struggled to get up from the ground.

"Cough! Vomit! Ah... this fruit is really unpalatable... Ah, Xiao Hei, you are finally back."

Always felt that something was not right just now?

"It's okay... Xiao Hei, you don't need to worry about it..."

Where did the fruit on the ground around her go?

"I said you don't need to worry about it...have you found anything else to eat?" Yimi wiped her mouth gently with her hand, then lowered her head and asked me.

"Meat? What kind of meat?"

"what?"

Is it a beast?Big, big beast.

"Beast... Behemoth... I haven't heard of it... Is it more fierce than a wolf dog?"

Is it more fierce than a wolfhound?

"Compared with tigers and lions?"

Tigers and lions... I haven't even seen a shadow...

"Xiao Hei, did you do such a dangerous thing? Let me see if you are injured—"

As a result, Yimi stopped abruptly in the middle of her words, and slowly lowered the hand that was originally raised because of a little excitement.

Because she couldn't see Yimi at all.

silence.

It was really just a small matter, so I broke the silence with a voice.

After another short silence.

"...So it's that shell meat that has been exuding a fishy smell since just now?" Yimi raised her head slightly, and gently pinched her nose with her right hand.

Is there a smell... I don't even feel anything.

"This thing smells so strong... Hurry up and deal with it."

The next moment, Yimi trembled all over, and then coughed lightly:

"Little black."

"Excuse me, how do you usually eat meat?"

I usually don't eat meat.

Yimi's attitude seems to be a bit different from before, but how is it different...

Always feel like angry?

Seeing the drastic change in the expression on Yimi's face, the terrified expression told me that I seemed to have said something wrong again.

"Yeah, yes, say, Xiao Hei, you usually eat... eh? Raw?"

In the end, Yimi gave up pinching her nose with her hands, but covered her face with her right hand instead, and sighed deeply:

"Little black."

"I'm telling you..."

I nodded and listened carefully to every word Yimi said.

"Although I know that the living conditions here may be a bit difficult, but ah..."

I nodded again and listened more carefully to every word Yimi said.

"I don't care how you ate, Xiao Hei, but from now on—"

"—No more raw food, Xiao Hei, do you understand?"

Not to mention not eating raw food, as long as you ask, I can eat nothing.

Oh no, I don't eat anything, I don't need to ask for that.

"Since I heard it, go and cook the meat of this shellfish before eating."

Ah, right.

"This..." Yimi hesitated a little, "Isn't it just roasted with fire? Wouldn't it be fine if it's cooked?"

fire?

If I remember correctly... Sometimes there will be bright lightning in the sky, and if it falls to the ground at an extremely fast speed, sometimes it will hit the plant just right, and then there will be flames.

At that time, a lot of plants were burned...

I looked up at the bright sunny sky, and there seemed to be no lightning right now.

I remember that human magic can also produce flames, and there were humans on that ship before that fired flames at me.

but I do not know how.

Of course, I also know that there is another way to make fire.

Big big big big big big fire.

A fire that never seems to go out.

forever.

"Xiao Hei...haven't you lit a fire before?"

I don't need flames either.

No need.

"What do you do when it's dark and you can't see?"

Seeing things at night is indeed not as clear as during the day, but it is enough.

It is the same whether you can see it or not, just lie on the ground and do not move.

"...Then leave this matter to me."

"Isn't it just flames? I've learned such a simple magic before." Yimi seemed to smile when she said this, then stretched out her right hand from under the cloak covered with leaves, and raised it in front of her .

"Hmph, keep your eyes open, just don't burn the cloak on me..." Yimi said, straightening her right hand forward, opened her palm, and began to mutter.

Not the language of humans, nor the language of monsters.

It is a language that I cannot understand. It is the spell that every human being who can use magic and even every monster who can use magic will speak when manipulating magic.

So I listened to what Yimi said and widened my black hole-like eyes as much as possible, staring at Yimi's right hand, hoping to see flames emerging from there.

Because, I have never seen humans use magic at such a close distance!

Then, until Yimi's incantation stopped——

Nothing happened either.

Uh... haven't you started yet?Maybe it's magic that takes a long time to prepare?But the expression on Yimi's face was also a little flustered, as if he felt that there was no flame, so he shook his hand vigorously and then resumed the straight hand posture before, and recited the mantra with a louder voice.

Still nothing happened.

"How... how... I obviously succeeded many times!"

Yimi tried repeatedly as if she didn't believe the result, and even changed her posture and other incantations, but the result of each attempt was the same as the first time.

"How come... My failure rate is already very low, so how can I fail once after saying so many times..."

"How could it be...Could it be—" Yimi's words stopped suddenly, and then she covered her closed eyes with her own hand, trembling all over her body.

"Is it because of these eyes again!"

This should be the first time I've heard Yimi make such a loud noise. She tremblingly grabbed her long light orange hair with her left hand, gritted her teeth but didn't say anything more.

Eye?

What happened to Yimi's eyes?

"I can't do anything... I have nothing..." Yimi lowered her hands as if she had no strength, lowered her head and slowly squatted down, but she didn't respond to my call.

I don't understand why Yimi became like this.

Is it because you can't use magic?

if it is like this.

"..."

"..."

No reply, no action.

She just lowered her head and let the long light orange hair cover her body.

"..."

I grabbed Behemoth's flesh with my claws, and flew directly to the east.

This time, it's going to be faster.

I was flying in the sky at an extremely fast speed, along the mountains where I used to write my diary, and while I was flying, I used my eyes to confirm the words I carved with my claws on the mountain wall.

Many days have passed, and the rocks on some mountain walls have collapsed and the words have completely disappeared, while others seem to be blurred by the wind and rain.

But soon, I also flew over this mountain range, and there was a huge deep ditch close to the mountain range, about several kilometers in length, and over a hundred meters in depth. Looking down, there was only pure darkness.

Darker than night.

This ditch is still here...

I flew over the deep ditch and headed east. There were fewer and fewer plants on the ground and less and less soil on the surface.

The ground gradually turned into uneven black rocks similar to the color of my body. No matter where I looked, I could only see black rocky land.

And the south is still the sea.

From here, you can gradually see a few monsters crawling on the black ground, but when I came, they all scattered and fled.

...that's not my purpose.

I took the meat of Bechymos and continued to fly east.

black ground.

This is true for a long distance.

until here.

The black mountains covering the entire skyline can already be seen, getting higher and higher in the field of vision.

You can't see it until you get close.

This is a mountain with a height of nearly [-] meters.

I don't know how long the stretch is, but it is estimated to be over a million meters.

And the height... Even if I am in the air, I can't see the top when I look up, because these nearly [-]-meter-high mountains have penetrated the clouds and pointed directly at the blue sky.

It's something left over from that day.

I speed up and fly upwards, keep going up the sloping hillside, pass through the clouds until I have passed the top of the mountain, and then accelerate down, piercing the clouds.

Then—on the other side of the mountain, under the clouds, there was a black ground covered with fiery red light.

There are huge cracks and countless deep grooves between the ground and the ground, and within these cracks and deep grooves are red flames of different brightnesses shining.

If I have to say so.

This is a sea of ​​flames.

Haven't been here for a long time.

For a long time.

I continued to fly forward and found a raised mountain peak. On the top of the mountain peak was a large crater with billowing smoke constantly, and a dark red light was flowing in the crater.

A dark red light that is different from the light of the sun.

This is the mountain called Volcano.

The flames turning inside seem to be called magma.

I don't care about these.

I am not afraid of fire.

I directly grabbed the meat of Bechymos and rushed into the magma.

In an instant, I was surrounded by churning magma, and there was only dark red in front of my eyes. The meat on the claws seemed to be making loud crackling noises, as if there was still thick black smoke.

Eh?

correct?

What is "cooked"?

Through the magma, I watched the gray-red meat on the paw, which was constantly emitting black smoke, slowly turn black and even twisted... It seemed... smaller?

blah blah blah!

I lifted off as fast as I could, leaving the churning magma.

The meat on the left paw has lost its original appearance and turned into a large piece of scorched black, while the meat on the right paw can still be seen some grayish red, but even so, it is covered with large areas of scorched black .

The same place... Even if the two pieces of meat are billowing black smoke.

...It should be considered familiar, right?

If it doesn't work, just run again?

I hurriedly used the fastest speed to return to Yimi's side holding the meat that was constantly dropping magma.

When I returned to Yimi, Yimi had already stood up.

"Little black?"

"Xiao Hei—why is it so hot all of a sudden?" Just as I landed, Yimi suddenly started to move away from me, and even raised her hand to block my direction.

"What a fire this is! It's so hot, cough cough! Okay, choke! Cough cough!" As a result, Yimi not only stayed away from me, but also kept coughing on the side.

It seems that a little black smoke from the meat on my hand drifted to Yimi!

words of fire.

Don't know if water can kill it?

I hurried to the beach in two steps, and threw the meat in my hand directly. The moment the sea surface touched the meat, a lot of white gas was generated, accompanied by a loud "噗—呲".

After confirming that the meat was not smoking, I hurriedly fished the meat out of the sea, and returned to Yimi in two steps. "Cough! Phew..." Yimi's cough seemed to have eased a lot, "Xiao Hei, what kind of smell is this? Weird?"

odor?

I don't know... I don't have the ability to distinguish smells either...

Maybe……

"Are you ready?" Yimi asked with some doubts.

I slowly put the meat of Bechymos in front of Yimi,

So Yimi touched Bechymos's flesh slowly, and then quickly retracted her hand.

"It's still hot..." Yimi touched the blackened meat again, "This meat...is so big...what kind of beast is this?"

"...Forget it, it's okay, Xiao Hei, you gave me such a big piece? How can I eat it?"

"Isn't this natural... Although I don't have any expectations, I still ask, are there any knives and forks here?"

While talking, I gently chopped the meat in front of Yimi with my claws.

After hearing my movement, Yimi turned her head to the other side, and sighed softly: "There must be no condiments..."

Now this size should be edible, right?

So Yimi picked out a small piece of minced meat from the pile of minced meat that was much higher than her eyes, threw it into her mouth, covered her mouth with her hands and chewed continuously.

"This meat is so hard, so hard to chew, and so bitter. Is it burnt, and the taste is so strange... It's different from beef and chicken..." It took Yimi a lot of time to put the meat on the meat. After Shemos swallowed the meat, he gave a series of comments.

Looks...still inedible...

While I was thinking about what else to look for—

"...but...for now, it's a little bit more delicious than that fruit..." Yimi's face seemed to be redder than the pile of meat in front of her, and she pursed her mouth slightly and said in a low voice.

"...For the sake of your hard work... I will praise you...I allow you to eat with me...but remember to stand behind me."

That's it.

So that means, okay?

"Isn't it natural to be thankful..." Yimi's voice became a little softer.

"Actually... I just want to... thank you..."

"...Little Hei."