Chapter 533: Attempts (1/2)

A small frown began to crease his brows as Captain Don wrecked his head, trying to think of a way to talk to the beast. Apart from animalistic, predatory howls, roars, and unintelligent snickers the beast hasn't spoken anything, despite making it clearly obvious it was highly intelligent with a full set of emotions.

He was capable of hate, disdain, arrogance. Most likely it could be angered, it could feel rage, but at the same time, it had to be able to feel the opposite ends of the spectrum as well. It should be able to smile, feel happiness, and love. If it could taunt with just a look, it should also be able to smile or look longingly at its mate.

Still, there were no attempts at communication from the creature at all. At first, they thought that it was incapable, but later they dismissed that thought. If that were the case, and it would communicate through a different method, either using some sort of gesture-based system or through a more abstract, psychic method it would have no use of facial expressions.

This made Captain Don and the rest of the team come to the conclusion that the beast, for whatever reason, simply refused to speak.

Yet without hearing its language, it would be extremely hard to attempt to decipher and attempt anything proactively from their side.

With no other choice, they could only try to speak to the creature and hope it could understand them.

The thought made Captain Don heave yet another sigh, as he turned to look at the 4 pairs of dark dots sprawled out at the upper part of the creature's face and speak in a cold, somber tone.

”Hey.” Captain Don decided on the simplest approach; he throw a curt greeting towards the creature raising his arm in the air to convey the motion just a bit more hoping the creature would understand it.

Looking at the creature's face, he waited for a bit, waiting for some sort of reaction from it before continuing.

Seeing as the creature did not react in any way and just kept its creepy gaze over him, Don sighed.

”This is going to be much harder than I thought…” He muttered under his breath. Looking back at the creature, he pondered for a bit before beginning to slowly speak whilst making sure he articulated and gestured every word, every sentence.

At first, he slowly introduced themselves, explaining that they were from another plane, another world, and have come to this realm with no hostile intentions. Though he made sure to not speak about the truth of the matter, Don instead explained that they were in search of their missing friend who have somehow landed alone to the far north, northeast.

When the old man, pointed towards the direction where Aiden, the Young Master should probably be, the beast finally had a change of expression. The so-far insipid, stoic, emotionless look changed, transformed into a slight, displeased-looking frown. Its gaze shifted towards the pointed direction for a bit, before as if nothing happened, it returned over to the captain with the previous stone-faced look from before.

Still, the small movement it made was still caught by the captain. He wasn't sure if he did fully understand what he was trying to say, or more than the direction he pointed at was familiar to it. Still, at least there was some reaction finally, which he could start working with.

Don pointed back towards the far distance again. Focusing his gaze on the creature, he slowly spoke.

”Do you know, what is in that direction, hmm?” He asked, focusing on the twitches, the movements of the creature's facial muscles, prepared to catch even the slightest twitch.

However, this time, there was no reaction from the creature, its eyes didn't follow the direction the old man was pointing at, its face retained its rigidness. It was as if it either didn't understand or just simply ignored any further attempt from Captain Don.

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After some time, Captain Don had to give up for the night. After that momentary slip from it, the creature had no reaction at all. Its 8, dark beady eyes were fixated on the captain, not moving in the slightest. It did not respond to any question, no matter what or how the captain tried to phrase it.