Chapter 84 – Minnalis’ XX Bug Growing Diary
Translator: Ranzan Editor: JackOFallTrades
After being away from the imperial city for a while, we, together with our master, visited several towns on our way.
This is the story of one night.
I took out a big bottle from the bag.
After dinner, I tried sothing by putting plants inside the bottle.
「Phew, it seems it won’t eat normal plants. I thought either fresh plants or…」
Inside of the big bottle was the 『Wall Eater』that master got in the imperial city.
It had a strange shape, but it has a beautiful white color in the bottle.
「Ku-chan, that’s not a sleeping bag, okay?」
I gave it the na Ku-chan. It had a clear body at first so I nad it Cu-lear or Ku-chan.
Sohow, it seed to think that the plants I put inside were sothing for it to sleep on, and it seed to be stretching the plants out inside the bottle.
「Even so, Ku-chan has gotten a lot bigger…」
Rembering how big it was back in the beginning, I nodded after looking at it now.
Ku-chan had started at about an inch long, and now was about the size of a person’s finger, and looked like a pill-bug.
Its color had changed from a clear color to a glossy white.
Also, it had a shiny, slimy liquid that had now disappeared after it grew.
「So, did it eat anything?」
「Master….」
The master ca up beside to peer into the bottle.
You’re too close, master!
If you get too close too fast, it won’t be ready for the surprise…
「I guess it does only eat tal and magic jewels, and maybe at. Even though it did make a bed out of those plants.」
Using the skill of approaching softly, he took a piece of a magic green boar and put said piece inside of the bottle.
Ku-chan turned away from the plants he had ignored and began to quickly eat up the at.
The at was the sa size at Ku-chan, and he seed to smile as he gobbled down the al.
「I know a little about what this『Wall Eater』loves to eat, but why will it eat at and not plants? I thought it would like mulberries or sothing.」
「Mullberries?」
「Yeah, everyone loves those in my world.」
That answer seed to prick at my heart.
A world that I didn’t know and couldn’t share with master.
Knowing the truth about that now, my heart seed to hurt. Maybe not hurt, but dry up a little.
「That reminds …why do you call it『Ku-chan』? You can’t appraise the sex of the bug, so how do you not know it’s actually 『Ku-kun』?」
As master asked sothing I didn’t know the answer to.
「? Ku-chan is a girl though, right?」
In the bottle, Ku-chan had turned away and was now bobbing its head up and down.
「What…I an…either way is fine.」
Master said with a doubtful look, and scratched his cheek.
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「Ah, if you’re going to give it food, let ! It’s my turn for revenge! 」
We were far now from Ermia.
In front of the angry Shuria, there was a small case the size of a shoebox.
Inside was a calm-looking Ku-chan.
「『Kyukyuroo』」
Ku-chan said as it was trying sothing.
Ku-chan by now had beco the size of a small rabbit.
After Ku-chan beca this big, it would make sounds while it shook.
「Here! It’s your favorite delicious at!」
Shuria had enthusiastically cooked and now was holding a piece of orc at that was magic, and had dropped it in the case.
Ku-chan moved around the at as if inspecting it, and then went back to its bed of leaves it had constructed.
「Wha, hey hey! Why won’t you eat my food?!」
Ku-chan loved at and tal with magic in it, but for so reason it wouldn’t eat what Shuria provided. It just didn’t like it.
「Well, don’t worry about it so much, Shuria.」
I couldn’t find any words to tell her so I only had an ambiguous reason like that.
I took the orc at from the case and gave it a hand sized magic gem from Yumis.
『Kyukyuiiiii!』
As I did, Ku-chan seed to spring on it as if it had waited a long ti and began eating away.
Even though it beca bigger, Ku-chan was eating away with a mouth that you couldn’t really see.
However…
「Ah…」
Ku-chan stopped eating the gem when it was half gone.
「What happened to it? It usually eats the whole thing.」
Lately, Ku-chan’s amount of food it ate beca less and less.
It didn’t stop eating altogether, and it did leap onto magic stones like this; it didn’t seem weaker either, but I was worried.
「Do you think it’s fallen ill or sothing?」
「I’ve checked it out and there’s no abnormal status to it.」
Master was squatted down next to the case and looking from the opposite side.
「However…maybe Ku-chan is resisting the scanning of it. Whether consciously or unconsciously. Although I think it’s okay as it’s not faking its status.」
Master turned his head in puzzlent.
『Kyu, kyuiii』
「But, it is weird. I don’t want to see big bugs like this one, but I think Ku-chan’s pretty cute now.」
He rubbed Ku-chan with his finger as he said that.
「You change bit by bit too master.」
「Hm..you have to eat! Eat! Why won’t it eat any more?」
Shuria had worked her butt off putting magic in that at, but the bug just stopped eating it.
Shuria was crying in disbelief, and we were worried that sothing was wrong with Ku-chan.
Then, one day
「…what can this be?」
After one night, inside the case that Ku-chan was in, there was a white shimring egg like a jewel inside.
And, there was no Ku-chan inside the case any more.
「Master, is this egg what remains of Ku-chan?」
「I don’t know…I can’t appraise it.」
Master looked at with a confused face.
「I an, that has to be it, right? This has to be Ku-…」
「Is…is it okay? If Shuria did sothing to it with her food, I won’t forgive her!」Minnalis said.
「Calm down, you two. Even if it dies, you can’t help it. It’s a magic beast, so there’s going to be at least one or two weird things about it.」
Still, master’s face looked a bit worried.
「Hm? The egg just moved.」
Just then.
Shuria was about to say sothing back when the motionless egg started to shake in small jolts.
「Ah, it happened again!」
They were very small little jerks that were happening to the egg, but they did exist.
「…I don’t know what it is, but …it seems that it’s not dead.」
「…」
Anyway, I was relieved.
We looked on a bit worried at the egg, as it began to shake in small fits again.
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Finally, we couldn’t do anything about it, Ku-chan had beco an egg, and we watched it ourselves from ti to ti.
The movents kept continuing, and there was no change in the egg. Since it’s an egg, it has to hatch soti, right?
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