Hmmm, I still don't see one.

"Yeah.. Me too."

Are the monsters really coming? I'm kinda sleepy now.

"Yeah... me too."

Wait.. what's that movement over there?

"Ha! Where!"

Ahhh, looks like it's just wind.

"Shame..."

It's already been an hour since the sun had fall down and I still don't see any monster. Maybe this girl's parents are really just trying to scare her. Or, maybe there's an exact time where they would appear and not just when the night comes? Well, it's not like I'm doing research. I just want to see the monster.

I want to see how different is this world from mine. I also think that those Orcs are enough to say that this planet is pretty different but.. that is that, this is this.

"Kuya, kuya. Just what are we looking for anyway."

Ha!? Why do you have to always have to do this to me? Anyway, when did you even start sitting next to me?

"Ehh? I'm not trying to do anything though. I've been sitting here since you start looking at the outside looking for something. It kinda looks fun so I joined in.

Since the start!? Ahhh! What am I looking for? Isn't it obvious? What else can appear in this forest at night?

"Uhhhmmm. The Orcs?"

This kid is really just a kid isn't she? Is she some kind of an abnormal child or something?

That's not my point!

"Then what is it?"

It's the monster! It's the monster that appears every night and the one I want to see okay!

Isn't she the one who told me there's a monster here that appears at night? This girl really might have tricked me again.

"Ehh!? The monster? Aren't you scared of them? They're monsters you know, they'll eat you, you know? Their gonna pick you up and eat you g..."

Stop! okay, stop! Just shut up for now.

From the scared look I got from her, looks like she's not lying at all.

Honestly, this kid. I don't know how to deal with her at all.

Well, it's not like I'm not scared of the monster. But, I never saw one of them so I want to know what they actually look like.

"But aren't they scary?"

It being scary doesn't matter to me. For me, not knowing the unknown is what's scarier you know?

It's one of the mottos of scientists after all.

Fearing the unknown will only hinder you. What you have to do is know it, meet it, and once you know your opponent. You will be able... ahem.. It's not like I'm trying to beat it anyway..

"Ehhh, you're just gonna cut it there!? That's such a good speech! It's like when my father is talking to our people!"

You're comparing me to a father? I'm still young you know!

What is this kid saying? I'm still not that old you know. It may have taken me 10 years to finally be able to go here but I'm still young.

"Ehhh. That's not my intention at all. But since you talk about you being young. How old are you kuya?"

Me? I just reached my 20. So I'm still not that old okay? What bout you kid, just how old are you?

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Honestly, I was curious about her age too. To me, she just looks like a twelve-year-old kid but she says and does things that the only adult would do so maybe this kid is some kind of elf with longevity or something. Anyway, it looks like she's not an enemy at all so any answer would be okay.

"Oh yeah, I never told my age to you aren't I? Maybe that's why you keep calling me a kid."

She looks like that she reach some kind of realization.

"If I tell you now my age, you won't definitely call me a kid anymore!"

Just tell it already KID!

No matter how you look at it she's just a kid. Anyway, I don't know any adult who would want to be called grown-up you know. Only kids would want to be called an adult.

"Hmp! That would be the last time you would call me a kid! Even if I don't look like it. I'm definitely a complete fifteen-year-old girl.. I mean lady you know!? That means I'm already an adult!"

Ehhh.. No matter where you go, a fifteen-year-old person would definitely still be a kid, right? It's kinda sad that she isn't a loli baba or an elf but I guess normal is also good.

(Lolibaba is a term in Japan that is used for an old person who still looks like a kid.)

Aren't you still a kid!

"No! I'm already considered an adult you know!"

Wait a sec, shut your mouth!

I instantly cover her mouth with my hand and listen to the sound I just heard.

I think I heard a stomp.

"Ehhh, wham in it?"

Don't talk.

Because she tried to talk while my hands are on her mouth some of her saliva gets into my hands.

Ahhh, Yuck! Hey! Stop that!

"Remom youm hamds! I camt speam!"

Shhhh! Don't you feel and hear that stomping? That might be the monster..

I look again at the outside through the hole that I made and didn't say anything.

"Slurp"

(I don't know what the onomatopoeia of licking a hand is okay!)

Huurrhh

Hey!

I instantly removed my hands from her mouth and wipe them off in my lab coat.

Dang, this kid.

"Hmp! You think you could always scare me with the monster? I'm not always..

She got interrupted by hearing the big stomp.

*STOMP!*

"Hi!!!"

After hearing the loud stomp on her own, she instantly clings to me.

I on the other hand instinctively put my hand on my front to shield myself from her.

It might have been my reflex being born from Lin.

One of my hands touched her cheeks while the other hand touch her shoulders.

Hey!

Because of what I've done, the saliva of her that got onto my hands that I somehow failed to remove gets onto her face.

She squirmed and instantly pull out and wipe out her saliva from that stick on her cheeks.

"Yuck!"

Hmp! That's what you deserve kid!

"He!.. be ready kuya. I don't run from this type of challenge you know!"

What challenge is this kid talking about? She's the one who kicked my hands right?

Just try it, kid! I'm ready..

*STOMP*

""Hi!!""

Because of the big stomp that feels like it's so close to us, we felt that feels like there's an earthquake and the sound that something explodes. We both got scared and surprised that we hug each other by reflex.

I told you to keep quiet right? What if the monster heard us? They will eat us you know?

"I know, I know. I definitely will be quiet okay. I will be a good girl so, please. Make the monster go away."

I look at the hole that I made again and saw a giant monster not that far away from us.

It is like the size of the tallest trees here already.

That's definitely freaking scary!

Luckily, it's not coming our way but is just walking past us.

Every step he makes though, the earth trembles, and because of that. The little girl Alruna that I unnoticeably hugged got so scared that I could literally feel her trembling.

"Mama! Mama! help me! Mama!"

She's so scared that she doesn't know that the monster is going away and not going here. She even got the mama calling reflex turned on.

I mean, I'm scared too, all to more that I saw it but she on the other hand is so much more scared than I am.

How do I do this? I think I have to at least lessen her fear.

Hey little kid. The monster is not going this way okay? Don't be scared now.

I tried to calm her down while trying to remove her hands off me. But her grip is stronger than me so I failed to do so.

"No! No! Don't leave me!"

Ahhh... What to do with this kid.

!

Okay, here's another plan.

Hey, you're already grown up right Alruna? You could hug me all you want but don't pee on me because you got too scared okay? I don't have a change of clothes you know?

"Ehhhh? Ahhh.."

After that, she instantly push me back and tried to cover her body with her hands.

Well, I'm kinda the same as her but because she got more scared, I thought I should just let her. But definitely not for long okay. Even if only see her as a kid, I still have a limit you know. Also, if she maybe stays on like that, she might not recover the way she was early on.

Not like I have knowledge about psychology. I think I might just have read too many novels. It might even be useless to care for this kid anyway but still, just the thought of someone having a trauma doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth.

"I'm not scared okay! You're the one who hugged me first right!? That means you also got scared! Not like I got scared unlike you. Hmp!"

Looks like she's back to normal again.

Suddenly she stops moving and looks like she noticed something.

"Also, you called me Alruna, right? You definitely called me Alruna right? Yey! I give you the permission to call by my first name anytime okay. Be grateful okay, not many can call me by my first name after all."

Are they like the Japanese were they more on-call each other by their last name?

Ehh, what are you talking about kid? I never called your name you know?

Anyway, I just feign ignorance. I can't let this kid grow more prideful than she already is.

"No, you definitely called me by the first name. I remember that okay!

That's the usual Alruna I know.