This chapter hadn’t been edited by AK, but by , furthermore I need to inform that I have less than 1% confidence in my own editing capabilities. So don’t criticize , yeah you can write the wrong sentences in comnt section. I will fix them. This ssage will be shown in all chapters today. Idk why AK and SK (editor of KnM) took a holiday today. It’s a conspiracy, no doubt~
Chapter 28 – That Owl Likes Magical Food
「......And so, it born just so monts ago」
「......I thought it had gotten noisy, so this was the reason」
Elk says while her eyes were still half-opened. She looked sleepy.
No wonder. Most probably the mont she went in deep sleep, she was woken up by the first cry of this guy.
Piiiii! This baby bird had been crying happily.
The egg I picked up from among the pebbles on the outside, bore this baby bird who was perched on my right shoulder and was looking here and there.
It looked like an owl with black and grey feathers.
However, it wasn’t a normal animal, I think it must be a demon.
After all it was just born but it had more than 20 cm tall body.
The size seed too much for a baby bird. Its eyes too were opened from the ti he was born.
It even had all the feathers grown. They were sowhat dishevelled at the ti it ca out of egg, but now they too are completely dry and fixed.
Well, considering the size of egg this must be normal, even so......
Piiiii! Piiiiii! (flatter flatter flatter!)
Holy shit it had already started flying. This bird has many things since birth.
It flew freely in the hut Elk and I were staying in, upon getting tired it perched on my shoulders, then rested and it once again repeats the process.
It has got quite high spirits, though it was born just now.
「Why is my shoulder being used to rest? every ti」
「It saw you first after hatching out from egg, so maybe it has thought of you as its parent, right?」
Wha, sure enough that can be possible.
Certainly the birds have a habit of thinking as the first moving thing they see as their parents, or so I have heard. So that might be the reason.
No, even if it was thinking of as parent, should it use as the resting point?
「Apart from that, it’s crying is noisy, isn’t it hungry or sothing? try feeding it?」
「Ah, at first I too thought that and......」
The rain had stopped so I had went outside, searched in the bushes and caught small insects.
During that ti, this guy was crying on shoulder. The damage to my eardrums ain’t no joke.
I have trained and enhanced my body, so my hearing ability was also better than other humans, so yeah that damn hurts like hell. And still, near the ears this guy continually kept on his Pii Pii Pii Pii Piii......
But, the insects I captured suffering all that, this guy, for so reason, didn’t even look at them.
I caught various like grasshoppers, earthworms, ants, caterpillars, but this guy ignored each and every of them.
I thought it must be that it didn’t want to eat hard things right after being born, so I gave them after crushing them but it too didn’t work.
......In fact, judging from the size of its body, it wouldn’t be bad because of hardness.
Having said that, if this guy didn’t eat anything, no wonder it would die of starvation right after being born. It would indeed make my morning bad.
Just what would this guy eat?
It couldn’t be helped, so I opened the backpack and took out everything edible and presented it.
Then the baby bird moved as though it had found sothing,
It flew towards the『Core』of Sli we picked up yesterday. Towards it which had fallen quite a distance far due to taking out everything from the backpack.
Just like that, it skillfully holding the core with the claw of its legs, started eating by pecking at it with the beak.
Eh, What, does it like that?
Though it was inexpensive, but it can be converted into money, so Elk make a face saying『Ahhh!』,but well......we can just take it once again.
It had been hungry as it finished one whole core in so minutes, and this ti,
「Wai......No!? No, you can’t eat that!!」
Elk, in hurry, gathered all the cores, so this ti it looked at......once again not the food but the『Magic Restoration Pill』which we bought for ergencies.
It was tablet type of dicine, it was made from dicinal plants. Downing it would recover – or rather, it would supplent – small amount of magical power. Quite an expensive item.
Baby bird looked Elk with eyes full of hate because she picked it up.
No, even I don’t think it would be good to the dicine......
......Wait a bit?
Co to think of it, the『Core of Slis』have a small amount of magical power left in them even after the sli dies, so it had been used a lot in dicinal recipes.
That’s why, defeating a sli using magic was considered ideal rather than hurting the core.
In other words, this guy......
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Was the sa as I had thought.
This guy liked to eat anything with magical power inside, or maybe, it could only those things.
I don’t know if this would be only for the baby period or it would continue even after growing up.
Actually currently, it was eating the dicinal plants with magical power in them, which Elk collected yesterday. Once again by skillfully using its legs and biting off little by little.
Elk also consented to let it eat, after all selling these dicinal plants wouldn’t have given much in return.
「Even so, is this, a demon?」
「Maybe it is a demon living in this area? Elk, have you never seen sothing like this」
「I basically keep checking the list of demons in Ritoras Mountains, but I have neither saw or heard about a demon like this. Even more, a demon who likes magical power......」
She said, that demons like that do exist, but not in this area.
In fact, she didn’t even know of a demon who looked like a black owl.
It was an egg when we found it, so maybe it was brought here from so other region?
As for that egg, I checked the wreckage of the shell, it was hard.
Not only hard, it was fucking really hard.
I took a relatively large piece of it, tried to break it by using putting power in my punch, but it didn’t break, oh fuck it, there wasn’t even a crack, almost no signs of any transformation on it.
Looks like the egg wasn’t buried there, but it ca there along with the dirt and sand. It makes sense with this damn hardness.
Even the attacks from Elk’s dagger gave at most only so scratches, unless I punched with quite more power it didn’t break. You know this, this is more harder than steel.
Just how did this guy ca out of that shell.
It finished eating, and had been on my shoulders for a while, but I couldn’t even the ridiculous power from the claws on my shoulder.
Then, leaving the work of tidying up the hut, Elk finally ca back after surveying the surroundings. Along with a troubleso report.
What? Well, due to the rain yesterday, a landslide occurred.
It wasn’t near the hut, so we didn’t had to feel any danger, but do to that the road to going back completely collapsed.
Flat levelled trees, crumbling land, yeah seems pretty terrible.
The scene only stretches, if we tried to pass by there the land collapse at any ti, so we couldn’t use that place to go back.
That’s why, we now had to find a new way back.
According to Elk, there were 3 roads to go to the bottom of mountain.
One of them was the ones which got into party with landslide.
One of the rest 2, goes in between the woods, it has quite a lot of slopes, moreover the ground was muddy, so equally dangerous.
I would be fine, but the sa couldn’t be said for Elk. It wouldn’t be good if she tripped, and neither can I carry her on my back on a slope.
The last one was quite a roundabout route, but it was slightly-sloping, but there wasn’t any terrain related dangers, neither can one trip even with the muddy ground.
However in that case, we would be out of Ritoras Mountains en route.
And we would have cross another place to co back.
And na too......『Crimson Forest』
The leaves of the trees, all year have the red color like that of autumn leaves, so it got its na.
That place has more higher level and frequency of demon appearances compared to Ritoras Mountains, so that place was dangerous area in that sort of aning.
Even so, the danger levels were the sa as that of『Labyrinth of Naga』unless we tread in too deep, furthermore Elk and I have already to completed the exploration of『Labyrinth』to the lowest floor.
And so, we choose the route via Crimson Forest, with safe terrain, not so safe demons for adding up the experience.
......Furthermore, the owl ca with us as though it was natural, it perched on my shoulder and sotis flew here and there.
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In reality, the Crimson Forest had more demons, and also felt like a place with more danger than there.
In Ritoras Mountain, 2 or 3 demons would co out within an hour or so, but here even at most within 10 minutes nurous demons appear.
And, though they didn’t had much difference. the demons that ca out had more high levels compared to the guys in the mountain.
Of course, it wasn’t even enough fo us to break a sweat.
There was red leaves that felt like a bright autumn, it sowhat felt good seeing it. So it remains the whole year like this.
anwhile, in that calming place there was a single demon who assaulted.
It was the red-colored lizard『Red Lizard』.
It was slightly bigger than a『Lizard』, it had grown larger with the help of magical power inside its body, and can throw fire from the mouth.
I who was calming absentmindedly, reflexively dodged that guy who ca from the shade of trees and tried to swing the heel for counter attacking.
But my aim wasn’t that good, so I smashed its tail.
At that mont, maybe it knew it can’t win against , so it literally cut the tail and ran off.
The scales of red lizard can be used as materials in producing ornants, so it was little disappointing. I need to be on guard. Elk too warned .
As for the left behind tail was also quite big considering the size of red lizard. It was about the size of a root vegetable.
And, naturally there was magical power left in the tail, so......
「How is it? Good?」
PiiIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIII!
Just like before, I presented it to this guy. This ti it was little big so I cut it in proper sizes with the help of knife.
No, it wouldn’t be good to go back with only a tail. So yeah, to not feel embarrassnt and for this guy to fill its stomach.
The baby bird, as expected skillfully......(omitted).
It was little but it seed to use the legs, claws and beak a little more skillfully than before. This guy surely grows fast.
And surprisingly, it even ate the whole tail which should of the sa volu as it. Just where the hell did it enter into!?
Demons are strange......there are still quite a lot of thing I don’t know of, yet.
Now that I think about it, I’ve been calling it, ‘it’, ‘this guy’, ‘baby bird’, but......yeah that sure can be tiring.
Furthermore, don’t you feel sorry for it that it doesn’t even have a na even after being born. I’m calling it baby bird, in human language it might be sothing like『Brat』or『Lil’ Lad』.
And so, I have given it a na『Alva』
For a test I tried to call it, it seed happy, after play-biting my ears it flew overhead and did a revolution. Yeah Yeah, it’s good that you like it.
In fact, though this ca late, but this guy is really cute.
I suddenly realized that the sound of wings flapping stopped.
Just like in my previous world, the owls don’t make sounds while flying, and can catch their prey while flying in the darkness, just like assassin.
So it reached that level in only a hour and so minutes from birth. You’re good to go, Alva.
「......Sigh, you completely look like you want to keep it. Well, the mont you gave food to it, you got recognized as the parent......」
Elk sighed on my curiousity and whim. I’m really sorry.
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