Chapter 10 Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend
It’s been a few days since Nakuji’s arrival. I don’t know what it normally eats but it was getting thinner. On the other hand, after the liquid has built up high enough and touched Nakuji once, I saw the poor fella wriggle in pain and decided to absorb the liquid enough for it to move to a higher place.
Initially, I did it to ensure that it could survive for long enough before I absorbed it and reap its surface sticking powers. However, it started to grow on . While I was feasting on the frogs and shellfish that fell, Nakuji remained unmoving. For so reason, I grew fond of its peculiar wriggling and seeing it so lifeless made feel bad.
I tried to leave so of the creatures that fell for it but Nakuji never moved. I was beginning to worry when the liquid that Nakuji normally produced beca thinner and lesser, causing it to slip a few tis. Those were so close calls.
Luckily, salvation ca in the form of a half-eaten worm. Nakuji moved for the first ti since it escaped being digested. I imdiately understood that it ate worms.
With my new and improved catching technique, I held the worm up with my sand long enough for Nakuji to get to it.
The mont Nakuji ate the worm, I looked into its tiny eyes and we ca to a silent agreent. Both of us wanted to get out of this bird and even though we did not know each other, we had a common enemy. This was reason enough to place our trust in each other.
It soon beca a routine for to catch food for us. While Nakuji bid its ti, I resud my intense training trying to increase my absorbing and transforming stamina. I’d certainly improved a lot since I first started but there was still a long way to go. Nakuji took care of guarding the food supplies during my food coma by using its body as a net to collect all the new things the bird ate. So fell through but there was never a problem of starvation for us. Things progressed smoothly and before long, I was able to transform a part of into a living creature for the first ti.
I credited the new ability to the countless of frogs and shellfish that the bird ate. Absorbing them allowed to draw on their powers. However, my new found abilities had limitations. My transformation was unstable at best and I could manage to transform only one part at a ti. For example, I could draw out the power of a frog’s tongue to catch the falling food for a short ti but I could not transform myself into a frog.
The only reason why the transformation ended prematurely was due to the foul liquid. It quickly dissolved the tongue I’d ford and I had to rest to create another tongue. Sotis, not even sleep was able to recover my transformation ability. I needed to absorb more creatures to be able to form another tongue.
Nakuji seed slightly impressed with my new ability and decided to show a few tricks too. It wasn’t a very impressive or useful trick but it was still amazing. From within Nakuji’s body, many tiny worms ca out. They were able to stick onto the side of the bird’s stomach like Nakuji and avoid getting digested too. Those tiny worms climbed upwards and disappeared not long after they made their appearance. The awe soon turned into disappointnt but I didn’t bla Nakuji.
Nakuji looked at smugly and that left puzzled. What could a few worms from his body do anything to a bird this huge? Nevertheless, we continued our perfect teamwork to survive yet another day in the bird’s stomach.
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