Riku’s POV
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It had been 3 days since we left on horse ridden carriages to Minestro forest. We were on a hill that overlooked the forest. Travelling with Senna and Angela had been a pain. I was the only one with horse riding experience, so they made me ride the horses while they laid back in the carriage, making me do all the hard work. Senna had tried to kick Angela out of the carriage a few times to make room for me. But Angela is a true bloom airhead. She couldn’t learn how to ride horses even if you gave her a week to practice.
Did I mention that Angela is an airhead? On the first day of our journey, she tried to feed horse’s monster meat when we were resting for the night. I mean… are you serious? Who the hell in the right mind would do such a thing, it is no different from feeding the horse’s horse meat. How did she even become a B rank adventurer? I should have sold her as a slave when I had the chance. Sigh….
Senna is scary. I think that she sees Angela as a rival, she tried to kill Angela a few times during our journey. She tried to poison Angela’s meals and butcher her when she sleeps. But thankfully, airheads are somewhat immune to unpredictable killings. She kept escaping the clutches of death by accidentally dropping her meals on the floor or sleeping in the wrong bed. Soon enough, Senna gave up on killing Angela.
We were on the hill anticipating the sunrise. During our journey, I felt that we somewhat became closer to each other. Actually, scrap that. I still think that they’re both annoying.
“Hey Riku, whose going to watch the carriage when we go slave hunting?”
Angela had a wide smile on her face while anticipating me to pick her to go to the forest.
“Riku is going to pick me, after all I know Riku the best.”
Senna grabbed my arm while glaring furiously at Angela. Angela then grabbed my other hand, I could feel the softness of their chests pushing onto my hands. It felt as if there were two pillows pushing against me. It was a moment of bliss.
I could feel their Angela’s soft ponytail tickling my forearm. Man… they are such a pain to deal with. They are really bothersome.
I decided to let Angela follow me instead of Senna. Something bad would happen if I left Angela alone. After all, she was nothing more than a burden to me and this could be her time to prove her worth. Senna pouted and complained to me that she would be more useful. Though she was irritating me by protesting nonstop, when I said that this was a job only she could do, she smiled and accepted wholeheartedly.
We got ready our supplies to head in the forest. Senna gave me a hug and a deep kiss before leaving before giving a resentful look to Angela. Senna went back into the carriage.
“Let’s go Riku!”
Angela looked really cheerful as we headed off into the forest.
***
Sneaking in the forest was really easy, the guards were really careless by leaving a lot of openings and blind spots. Sneaking in was easy as stealing candy from a baby, not that I would do such a thing of course.
The forest was dark and gave off an eerie vibe even though it was still early in the morning. The sun’s rays could not penetrate the thickness of the tall tree leaves. It was weird though, the forest was devoid of life, the flowers had withered and there was not a monster nor beast in sight. This was really irregular for being the forests that adventurers used to frequent daily.
Angela who was next to me had a happy go lucky expression, she was humming a sweet tune while we were walking side by side, deeper into the forest. But the deeper we went, the more silk threads could be seen tangled around the dead bushes and trees. What could have make such threads?
I walked up to it and touched it. It felt gooey and sticky, as if it were made from the same material as a spider web. Angela walked up behind me to see that I was interested in the webs. She used her right hand and grabbed a lot of them to form a shape of a ball. She tried to throw it at me but it was too sticky and was stuck to her hand. She had a perplex expression and tried to use her head to hit the ball from her hand. I face palmed when she got the sticky goo all over her face. That was a sight that would normally make ones nose bleed or stimulate excitement. But too bad I was immune to that.
“Riku! Help…”
I sighed as I went to help get the web off her face.
***
It had been half an hour since we entered the forest. I felt that we had been walking in circles. The forest was not that big, it was just a border between the beast tribe and the neutral zone. If one were to draw it on the map, it would be no bigger than a dot. It could be comparable to the size of a large village. We should have seen the exit by now.
I felt as though something was following us, could it be Senna? No… the piercing gaze that came from afar felt as though something was analyzing us, inspecting our every movements.
Angela however, still had the same unconcerned look. Looks like she still hasn’t notice anything so far. There should be a limit to how negligent she could be. I should have sold her as a slave…*grumble grumble*
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I put my arms onto Angela and moved my head closer to her face. She squeezed her eyes shut and tilted her head slightly down. Her face turned somewhat red as though anticipating something. But I moved my head to her ear and whispered.
“We are being followed.”
That caught Angela’s attention and she opened her eyes immediately.
“You shouldn’t toy with a maiden’s heart…”
She whispered softly and pouted her lips.
After calming herself down, she closed her eyes and started to concentrate. She was about to cast a chant.
“I call upon Drynir the God of Earth. Let your eyes be my eyes and let your ears be my ears. [[Spirit Whisper]]”
She opened her eyes and pointed in the direction of a large oak tree that looked dry, the wood should be very soft due to the soil having no nutrients. Immediately after she pointed to the tree, I used my Strength Enhancement to use my muscles to the fullest. In the matter of mere seconds, I appeared in front of the tree before I threw my fists at it.
The tree that was weak blew up as if a bomb had exploded. The sound that came from the blow echoed throughout the empty forest as the leaves on the nearby trees started to flicker from the breeze that was caused by the impact. The shockwave that came from contact blew past the trees causing smoke to be produced. And there it was, a silhouette stood behind the fog made out of the punch.
“… That was unexpected.”
The monotone sound that came from the silhouette sounded inhuman, there was no tone in the voice and I doubt that even recorded voices sounded anything close to that.
When the smoke dissipated, there was a naked humanoid standing in front of me. No… it wasn’t a humanoid. It was standing on two feet and had two arms but what shocked me was the eight eyes she had. The eyes she had were parallel to each other. Four on one side, four on the other. Her eyes were pure black, there was only the pupil. There weren’t any eye whites at all, there were no sclera. As to why I know that she was a female, that thing was naked.
I could see the hole in between her legs and although she did not have any hair on her body at all, there was hair on her head. Her hair was short for a girl, it was only up to her chin length and it was shaped in a cute bob style. Her hair was silver colored and had beautiful shades of crimson red highlights blending in her hair.
Her body was really well built. Her body was slim yet showed a toned figure. Her figure was so well built that there did not seem to be any excess fat on her at all. On the left side of her waist was a slanted bright red tattoo which looked like the shape of an hour glass. Her chest area was somewhat lacking, it was really flat. But what made up for her attractiveness was that her nipples were bright pink, as if left untouched when she was a child. She was taller than me, though only slightly taller.
With the naked monster in front of us, Angela could not help but get flustered with a bright red face. While I was staring at her with a straight face. She was undoubtable strong. My godly instincts tells me that I would lose no matter what. I would be screaming in fear if I were a normal human. The fear would be too much.
As a demigod, my godly side prevents me from feeling any emotions such as happiness, sadness or even fear which I should feel right now. Gods are meant to be fair, impartial. If they ever had emotions, it would get rid of their legitimacy thus my godly side prevents such thoughts. While when I looked back and glance at Senna, I noticed she could not feel the monster’s aura. Are airheads immune to presence as well?
“Well… shall we get to it?”
The monster had been staring at Angela and I for a while now.
“We are looking for a female cat beastman. Do you know where she is?”
Even though I had kept a straight face up till this point, I could not help but stutter and speak in a somewhat respectful tone to not offend the monster. The monster paused for a second before nodding in acknowledgement that she knows where the slave was.
“Could you take to where she is?”
Angela’s face glimmered with happiness from her reply and she wanted to know the location of the slave immediately. Unfortunately she could not read the tense mood between the monster and I. She was still chirpy and thought that the monster was friendly.
“Sure.”
The monotone voice ran a chill down Angela’s back. No matter how dense she was, she could feel the hostility from the instant response. Angela got in her battle mode as she took out her staff. I was observing the monster this whole time and could tell that she was about to make her move, she was about to attack us.
In an instant, the monster use her sharp hands and swung them at me like a whip, knocking me back. Angela started to cast a chant while I stood up in anticipation of the monster's next move.
The fight has just begun.
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