“Phoenix, can you get any info from the guy while examining him like you did with the foxes?” I asked curious why Phoenix didn’t request to dive into these things.

“No, I’d rather not as brains on sentient creatures are complex and like I said before I’m not capable of forcefully diving in there and getting things like information so it’s better I don’t.” It replied.

I shrugged as I could imagine that wouldn’t come off too well to our new body either that their savior also inserted his slime into him.

The roasting foxhorn meat started sizzling after a few minutes and I couldn’t even control the drool form my mouth. The smell was a unique smoky smell and the oils dripping down it just made it look so appetizing. I sprinkled some of my herbs onto it which just seemed like overkill as the aroma was divine!

It seems I wasn’t the only one to think so as my little blue bodied guest painfully got up after the aroma got his nose twitching. Should also help ease the situation.

He sat up and stared at me then at the meat skewers before I saw him gulping a bit of saliva down. Seems his stomach was awfully honest despite his current situation. I simply had an indifferent expression even though I wanted to pick the guys brain apart but figured I should show some “friendliness”, I hate people but I also require them sometimes. Sigh.

I stretch out my hand with one of the skewers after it had finished cooking and simply waited for him. Interestingly enough, the guy grabbed it without hesitation which was odd considering I could totally poison his ass twenty feet under. ‘Maybe I have an honest face? Probably, I mean I always thought I looked like a nice guy.’ My thoughts being as vain as vanity incarnate.

I watched him while taking bites out of my foxhorn meat which for the record, are amazing, they were tender and juicy with the oils having a sweet taste and the meat being just the right amount of chewy as they melted in my mouth. Mr. Avatar over here thought the same as he finished the meat without hesitation in a few seconds, seemed to have been starving and I would be too if I had some ugly ass foxhorn bite wound making me bleed to death.

He eyed my third foxhorn skewer, while I completely ignored him and just finished both of my skewers, the shit was divine, I ain’t sharing more especially when I don’t even know what the hell the guy is. After finishing up, I simply pointed at the foxhorn horn in my guests hand while holding out my palm expecting to receive it. He got the message and handed it over after which I simply strapped them to my belt. They were quite the useful things and I could imagine a few late evening barbecues going mildly better now that I got some more tools.

Finally, it was time to get someone talking without exposing my lack of any language skills. I did what Phoenix and I thought the best in the scenario, sit and stare and expect some talking. I seem to make the guy quite uncomfortable and I kind of felt stupid that there wasn’t much else better method to learning a fucking language. I eventually notice he doesn’t talk waiting for me to begin so I simply stretch my hand out in a motion that should universally depict the words “ No, you go first” which is quite similar to what you do when you hold the door open for someone.

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Success, he got the hint and started talking. The language had a weird throaty tone to it as if he was speaking Spanish and French at the same time. It was unique to say the least. I patiently listened in while Phoenix was working in over drive trying to find out what he was saying and I felt Phoenix was getting irritated as the whole issue seemed to be more difficult because there was no point of reference and it couldn’t just “invade” its language center which left me quite disappointed really. Blue man here just kept talking for a good few minutes and eventually stopped when it noticed I was distracted from what it was saying but it was really just the fact that I was frustrated that we didn’t have a fucking proper method to learn this bastard’s language! I wanted to fucking explore not spend my time forcing this blue fuck to talk while the goddamn bastard doesn’t even know I can’t speak to it! This entire matter seemed to go horribly wrong, I was sitting there just wondering why I expected some fantasy fucking method to somehow just magically learn the language which left me depressed at my naïve expectations. I could understand that the past few days seemed to go surprisingly well and I guess that like any other transported being, I would just somehow find an easy way to learn the language, mix into the people, level up and success.

‘This is a fucking waste of time.’ My depressed thoughts were leaking as my face turned into a scowl which didn’t forebode well in the blue man’s mind. It probably didn’t, I was in the mood to just dissect his brain but Phoenix told us that we would be very likely to fail as we aren’t capable of just accessing his language center like it did with me because it needed its main body to be present but it was already with a host.

For the first time since I came here, it felt like reality finally hit me. This was real, the world isn’t that fucking magical, life will be a bitch to you regardless of whether you’re on Earth or the fucking blue man groups’ home world. Doesn’t matter, life fucking prevails at fucking over your fun one way or another. The bastard.

“Sigh” I wasn’t looking forward to what I was about to do next.

I straightened my back and stared at the blue man and felt like this was extremely embarrassing for a world crossing human with galactic god slime but it had to be done. Phoenix also didn’t seem to like that it’s learning abilities weren’t so useful considering written language and speech was difficult to come together without proper references and examples.

“Sigh” I finally point at myself and say” Jupiter “ as clearly as I could possibly sound, this all felt fucking dumb but I had to do it like any foreigner had to. I pointed back to blue man and waited for a reply while my eyes betrayed my embarrassment, my face was just depressed.

Blue man here seemed to be a fucking prick as he clearly didn’t understand why I just did that and just tilted his head in confusion. Well, fuck you blue man, you retarded pile of blue boned turd. I had to for the second goddamn time point at myself and say “ JEW-PIT-ERRR” then point at the blue faced little shit and expect an answer.

Second time seemed to work out a little better as he seemed to understand I was expecting a name and pointed at himself and voiced what I can only assume is his name. “Rikurn” the blue faced little bastard.

I knew where this fated meeting will be headed with Rikurn and I knew neither him, nor me and especially Phoenix was going to enjoy this horrible process called learning a language from a foreign planet and I was depressed at the upcoming work required. No adventurer from those novels or hero from teleportation or reincarnated fucks had to deal with this bullshit triviality yet here I was, about to embark on this bullshit quest to learn this little shit’s language.

‘Where is my traveller’s basic package? Where is my all language 100% GET cheat? Couldn’t they drop a memory chip on my lap with the language? Fucking all novels are bullshit! All authors are con-artists lying to you about the reality of fucking travelling the universe. Though Phoenix did mention that they had universal translator wrist bands that exist but unfortunately, Phoenix didn’t come equipped with that… which was just rubbing salt in my depressed wounds as what was the point of telling me such useless information?’ I lamented in my thoughts while Rikurn seemed to slowly understand that I couldn’t understand the language when I took a few herbs and started expecting the names while motioning towards the herbs and making “huh?” sounds.

I felt entirely retarded.