Chapter 7 - First Friend (2/2)
After handing her the knife, Cecil thinks back on the words that the beast girl just said.
'I think it means thanks?'
”Hey, does ***** *** mean thank you?”
”****?”
When Cecil asked her that, it was the girl's turn to look back at him questioningly.
”Raaahh! Woof, woof!”
After Silver barks at her, the girl's eyes light up. Then she starts nodding her head up and down quickly with a smile.
”***, ***** *** ***** thank you!”
”Okay…”
'Heh, my first word in another world was actually thank you.'
Cecil smiles a bit and turns back toward his seat.
Seeing him smile, the beast girl's eyes light up even further. She then starts cutting up the meat and begin stuffing them down into her mouth vigorously.
'Woah, aren't you one hungry little thing…'
Cecil after seeing her puffed up cheeks and the wide smile on her face, involuntarily lets out a smile.
'Heh, how cute.'
He then continue grinding the bone sword.
In only a couple of minutes, the beast girl had finished the entire slab of meat.
When Cecil was observing her eating, he turned astonished at how agile the girl handled his knife. It was plain to see that she was pretty adept with the knife, despite her young age.
Not like he was one to talk, considering how adept he was at handling various weapons.
”Heehh, you're pretty skillful aren't you?”
”Thank you *** *** ****!”
”You're welcome.”
'Well I guess practice makes perfect, maybe I can ask this girl to teach me the language of this world.'
”Hey, can you teach me?”
”****?”
Cecil tries gesturing to the girl what he wanted.
After 5 minutes of an exhausting back and forth exchange, she finally got the gist of what Cecil was trying to imply.
”****, *** ***** *** *** ** ****!”
She nodded her head in affirmation but then she pointed towards the pit, more precisely towards the slab of meat hanging above the pit.
”Okay, I give you meat, you teach me.”
”****!”
Cecil gestured towards her again, and the girl nodded her head vigorously while giggling.
”Well, I guess I finally have a goal to work towards to for now.”
'It'd be cool if I could follow this girl back to the place she's staying at, but I feel like it's too early since I can't even communicate with her, what happens if there are others like her? It'd be pretty awkward and it might even cause a misunderstanding.'
”Umu, ** **** ** ****!”
”Huh?”
After saying something, the beast girl walks over to Cecil and hands him back the knife. After that she grabs a hold of his outstretched hand and tries to pull him up.
”What do you want?”
The girl starts pointing to somewhere and tries to convey something to Cecil.
”What? Do you want me to follow you?”
”Woof!”
”Huh?”
Silver comes over and starts to nudging Cecil from behind. Silver was trying to push him forward, it was like Silver was telling him to follow the girl.
”Okay then, if you say so Silver.”
After agreeing with Silver, Cecil then gestures to the girl to wait.
He turned around and quickly packed up all his stuff.
It was a good thing that the fur had already dried. The smoke from the fire had also flushed out any bugs that were still crawling on it.
Cecil quickly stuffed all his belongings into his make-shift bag. He also grabbed a huge leaf from a tree and wrapped it around the bear meat and stuffed that into the bag too.
After finishing all that, Cecil looked towards the girl. She was staring at him with curious look on her face.
”What's wrong? Let's go?”
Cecil gestured to the girl that he would follow her. The girl gave him a smile, grabbed his hand, and pulled him along while pointing at the direction from earlier.
Cecil followed and let himself be dragged by this platinum haired 3 tailed girl.
'I don't know where she's taking me, but I have a feeling that it's the place where she lives. If there are any other people like her, I hope my presence wouldn't cause a misunderstanding.'
The worst possible situation would be that her fellow kinsmen would attack him just because Cecil was a different race from them.
The girl turns her head around and points at herself. Then she started saying something to Cecil.
”Lu***.”
”Huh?”
”L**ia!”
”Lu*ia?”
”**! Luci*!”
”Lucia?”
Having her name said properly, the girl gives a satisfied nod and says her name again.
”Lucia”
”Ohh, you're Lucia?”
Pointing at her, Cecil then says the exact same word he said earlier.
She nods, and starts pointing back at Cecil while asking something.
”*** ***?”
Somehow, Cecil knew what she wanted. So he points to himself and says.
”I'm Cecil.”
”Ce~cel~?”
”CE-CIL”
”Ah! Cecil!”
Cecil smiles at her after she said his name right. Then he points towards Silver.
”This is Silver.”
”Silver!”
'What the? Isn't this just total bias?!'
For some reason, Lucia was able to pronounce Silver's name properly right off the bat, but had some difficulty pronouncing Cecil's name.
”Haha, Lucia, Cecil, Silver!”
”That's right, I'm Cecil, this is Silver and you're Lucia.”
”Hihihi!”
Lucia starts smiling and giggling happily after saying each of their names.
Cecil thought, she looked real cute smiling and laughing like that.
'So my first friend from another world turns out to be this platinum haired, golden eyed, 3-tailed beast girl named Lucia, huh'