Chapter 7 - First Friend (1/2)
Cecil was thoroughly dumbfounded with the unfamiliar scene that he was currently witnessing.
The girl that was right now underneath Silver was a half human half beast, the so-called demi-human from the novels he's read.
The girl had golden eyes and platinum hair. She screamed something earlier, but Cecil couldn't make out what she was saying.
It felt like she was screaming in a foreign language, it was probably the native language of this world.
'Crap, doesn't this make information gathering and blending in even harder? If I don't know this world's language how the hell am I supposed to get by?'
”Ugh, another problem added to my already long list.”
I mumbled as such while holding my head.
”D*** ***l **! ****s*!”
'Ugh, there it is again. I really can't understand a thing. I tell Silver to get off of her.'
”Silver, it's okay. She's not hostile.”
Silver responds with a bark and gets off of the young girl. The girl, after being freed from Silver's claws backs away quickly.
”* *** ** ****y”
”Ugh, I don't understand…”
”****?”
”Can you understand what I'm saying?”
”**** *** *** ******?”
'Crap, this is going nowhere. How the hell am I supposed to communicate with this girl.'
”Raa!”
”Huh? ** **** ********** **?”
”Grrr, raaa!”
”**** * **e, **** **** *** ** *** ** e****.”
”Woof!”
Silver starts barking at the girl and she responds rigidly to Silver's barks.
'Huh? Silver can communicate with her by barking?'
”Woof!!”
Silver turns toward Cecil and barks, indicating something to him. Cecil stared back at Silver dumbly.
'Silv, although you can understand what I'm saying, but I'm no dog! How am I supposed to get that?!'
Judging by how the beast girl was 'talking' to Silver, they seem to be holding a conversation.
”Silver, if you can communicate with her, ask her who she is and what's she doing here.”
”Woof! Woof, woof, woof!”
”** **** ** **y, * ***** ********* **** *** * **** ** *** **** ** ***.”
”Woof! WOOF woof!”
”Eeehh? ** *****t **********d w*** ** *****g?”
”Woof!”
”****, ** **** ****** **?”
”Woof… grrr woof!”
”Oh! **** ** * **** ****!”
The two seemed to be seriously communicating. Only problem with this situation is Cecil can't understand what ever it is they were saying.
With Silver barking and the beast girl blabbering on about something. Cecil shrugged and returned to sit by the fire while continuing to grind away at the bone knife with the rocks.
Seeing that Cecil's returned to sit by the fire, Silver comes back and lies down on the spot across from him.
The beast girl follows behind Silver and sits next to him. Cecil thought that the girl would just up and leave when they let her off earlier.
Cecil took another look at her, then shifted his focus back and continued grinding the bone sword with the rock.
Suddenly the girl starts trying to talk to him again.
”***! *** *** ****** *** **d******** * ***d ** *****g?”
Cecil raised his head and looked at her with a confused expression.
”** *** ***e…”
'What the heck, is this girl mocking me or something?'
”Raahh!”
After Silver barked something at the girl, in the next instant, her face changed and it looked like she just saw the most unbelievable thing in the world.
With the girl's change in expression, Cecil's face turned even more confused. Cecil started wondering just what Silver said to her to make her face changed like that.
'Man, if only I could communicate with her somehow.'
”Woof! Raahh!”
”****, ** *** *** ** *** **** *** ***ch ***.”
”Woof!”
The two started talking again and Cecil turned his focus back to grinding the bone sword.
A little after that, Silver got up and came over to Cecil and nudged him on the leg.
Cecil looked at him questioningly and Silver waved his head towards the bear meat still hanging close to the fire pit.
”You want me to give her some?”
”Woof!”
Silver shakes his head up and down.
”Okay.”
After receiving a confirmation, Cecil gets up and walks over to the roast bear meat and cuts off a portion.
'I guess this is enough for her to eat.'
After cutting it up, he picked up a flat rock that he washed earlier and placed the meat above the rock.
Since there were no plates, Cecil had found and washed a couple of flat-sided rocks. They acted as plates.
Cecil then brings the meat to the girl and she accepts it with both hands.
”Hey, careful. It's still hot.”
”****? ***** ***!”
'Man, what a bother. I never thought it would be so hard to talk to someone.'
After handing her the meat, the beast girl stares at the meat and then back at Cecil. She looked at him again and then pointed towards his waist.
Cecil follows her finger and sees that she was pointing at his bone knife.
”You need this?”
”***!”
She nods her head.
”Hmmm….”
Cecil glared at her vigilantly. Seeing Cecil looking at her like that, the beast girl starts panicking and waving her hands while talking in that indiscernible language again.
”**! * **** **** *** ****! * **** ***** *** ** *** ****!”
”What?”
”Woof, woof!”
Silver barks at Cecil, he glances back at him and Silver just stares back.
'I think he means it's okay?'
”Okay, here then.”
”***** ***!”