Chapter 205: The Reason for Being Together (1/2)
“If I’m not mistaken, your child doesn’t have a name yet, do you need my help coming up with a name?” Having came up with so many good names for my subordinates in the past, I was rather confident in my naming sense so I decided to offer my services before asking one last question, a question that I had been concerned about all this while: “Oh right, is your child a male or a female?”
“A female.”
‘So it’s a female, great, great, if it’s a she then I don’t need to take her out by accident. My daughter will be safe after all.’
Looking at the two little scamps playing together nearby, Sinmosa smiled a mother’s smile. “Miss–ter Mo Ke, if it’s all right with you, can you name our daughter.”
“You were about to say ‘Miss’ weren’t you…”
“…” She gave me an awkward smile and neither denied nor confirmed that.
‘Bah, I just knew that would happen sooner or later. It’s not even worth my energy to refute it anymore.’
Intending to move on quickly, I threw out a quick explanation of my gender before getting down to her request. “Whatever the case, you just have to know that I’m a male. As for your daughter’s name…how about we call her Lil’Blacky.”
“…”
“Don’t give me that look, I was just joking, livening up the mood and all that…definitely not out of spite for what you did…if you don’t like that name, I’ll just change it so there’s no need for that stare…believe me, it will be good…how about Cinderel?”
The name Cinderel was something I came up with after thinking of that famous fairytale. It was a pleasant sounding name and had a pretty decent connotation behind it. After all, the heroine did marry a prince. And yes, the name was nothing but a rip off of Cinderell*…
“Cinderel?” Sinmosa paused for a moment, giving the name some thought before turning to her husband who had been listening intently to our conversation till now. The two began conversing in the tongue of the hellhounds after which Sasani gave a nod of his head, seemingly pleased with the name I gave. WIth that settled, there wasn’t much reason for Sinmosa to reject either: “My thanks, Mister Mo Ke. Our child will be known as Cinderel from now on.”
Having said that, she turned her eyes back to the little black puppy still in the midst of horsing around with Mo Na.
‘Hmmm really though, what’s wrong with Lil’Blacky, it’s endearing and full of meaning…’
With regards to finding the Purgatory Shadowcats, it was rather simple, just head east. There was no chance of getting lost this time since we had Sinmosa and Sasani to lead us along the way. As an added bonus, we no longer had to waste time on trivial tasks like scouring for food thanks to Sasani. His familiarity with the surroundings meant that hunting was a lot faster as well.
To the husband and wife, leading us around and accompanying us wasn’t the most difficult part of the journey at all., Rather, it was the fact that they had to face their own kin that concerned them the most.
Naturally, it would be best if we passed through the territory of the hellhounds without being noticed but was that even possible? After all, hellhounds were famous for their amazing sense of smell. For strangers like us to even pass through unnoticed was basically…impossible.
On the second day of being in the territory of the hellhounds, we were discovered by a patrol. Coincidentally, the patrolling hellhound was someone Sasani knew, even more coincidentally and perhaps worse so, that person, dog, was Sinmosa’s suitor. Emphasis on the was…
With regards to this particular encounter, one had to first know about a certain life form in Purgatory before talking about this story. The territory of the hellhounds was a mountainous one with steep slopes and rock terrain abound. It was a difficult land to traverse, for us at least.
The land itself barely had any plant life so the roads were mostly blackened stones with streaks of red lava peeking through the cracks from time to time. Within said streaks lived a number of strange insects that could be consumed as meat. However, those insects tasted horrible and most hellhounds avoided eating them unless they really had to. Even in the hardest of times, Sasani would never allow Sinmosa to eat those insects.
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Because those insects were remarkably weak, their souls were extremely fragile as well. The instant they died, their souls would immediately dissipate into the air leaving nothing behind to be consumed.
The hellhounds named these type of insects Meat Worms because of their remarkable resemblance to wood borers, except that they were painted red.Naturally, I avoided them completely, let alone think about eating them. Mo Na on the other hand, was fascinated by them but thankfully I managed to nip that fascination in the bud by force.
Other than those worms, there was another source of meat known as the Flame Devouring Frogs. These frogs were basically the frogs from Earth but with a tunneling ability and no fixed habitat.
They mostly reached the level of One-star with some even reaching Two-stars. These frogs were communal creatures and grew to be as large as a kitten while still possessing an impressive leaping ability. Their meat was known for being delicious so they ended up as one of the main food sources for the hellhounds.
The whole reason why we bumped into Sinmosa’s suitor was because Sasani so happened to bump into them while they were out hunting for frogs as well.
Like that, the two Cerberuses met each other despite both assuming that they would never have to see each other’s ugly mug for the rest of their lives.
“Ruff ruff!”