Chapter 90 - #89 Kiyomi (2/2)

When she was done and satisfied, she hopped right in front of me with awe visible in her eyes.

'So...You got your revenge, are you going to join me now?' I asked with a curious smile and my arms folded.

*Chirp* *Chirp* It almost sounded as if she started singing while nodding her head and after that, she bowed her head to me.

'Good, I guess I should give you a name, how about Kiyomi?' I asked with a thoughtful expression.

*Chirp!* *Whoosh!* She started to happily sing while flapping her wings around, almost breaking all branches of trees around us.

She is really more intelligent than others, I can perfectly talk to her and understand her. That was an impossible feat with those wolves previously. Anyway, finally I can travel more comfortably plus she is also quite strong but most importantly, she isn't overly big so her speed is great. Now that I look more closely at her...she slightly resembles griffin. She has 4 limbs and also wings of the eagle, only her beak and head look slightly different but it doesn't make her any less beautiful. There are a lot of images of Griffins but I liked most of them and thought that there can't be an any better combination but this world is really filled with many wonders.

I thought while staring at her and holding my chin.

Kiyomi tilted her head to the side in confusion but I ignored it.

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[Congratulation on successfully taming your first Special-Common Danger Beast]

[+100 NXP to your unique Beastmaster class]

Beastmaster (Lv. 5) 142/160 NXP

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Oh? So she indeed is slightly special. I thought that she is relatively fast for just a common Danger beast. Not to mention her intelligence, there are even twice as strong Danger beasts than her and they have 0 IQ.

'Let's go' I jumped on her back and sat down while telling her to take off.

She immediately did as I requested and when we were high enough, I pointed at the certain mountains very far away from us.

She instantly understood and started flying towards the mountains at an incredible speed.

----Somewhere in the mountains----

”Ha!” A young woman with grey hair and lime eyes was seen practicing with her katana slashes at an empty space.

Despite her slashed hitting just an empty space, each of her slashes generated air pressure enough to slice numerous trees in the row in two halves.

”...Taeko? Don't you think that you are practicing a bit too hard?” A young woman suċkɨnġ on lollipop asked while sitting on the branch of one of the trees. She was observing sweating Taeko with a worried look, even she herself started to sweat just by looking at her endlessly practicing her swordplay.

”Not at all, Chelsea!...If I want to...catch up to him...or at least stay near him...I have to become...even stronger!” She slowly said with pauses for her slashes.

'Sheesh! Can't you at least answer me without swinging your katana every few words? She is really obsessed...Even granny herself is quite worried and we are talking about granny here! She is someone who wouldn't mind to give me training where I would suffer for numerous days!' Chelsea thought with a tired expression.

”Taeko, you know that you must take a break sometimes, right?” Chelsea suddenly asked with a helpless smile while swinging with her legs back and forth.

”But I do have breaks. I have a break for breakfast, shower, lunch, shower, dinner, shower and then I go even sleep.” Taeko finally stopped swinging her katana around and turned at Chelsea with a puzzled expression.

'FOR 3 FUCKING HOURS! How is that even considered sleep?!' Chelsea wanted to shout at her but she stopped herself.

”Taeko, I think that you are taking it too far...Are you perhaps running away from your thoughts by practicing so often?” Chelsea asked with a serious expression while looking at Taeko with narrowed eyes.

”? What do you mean, Chelsea?” Taeko asked with a confused expression.

”Each time we are eating, you seem to space out. And each time I ask you something, we always end up discussing Akashi. Do you miss him that much or are you afraid of something?” Chelsea said and looked at Taeko with a really worried expression. Taeko was indeed behaving very weirdly past numerous days and even Mera was worried but she couldn't do anything about it. She once has forbidden her practice for one day and she spent her entire day spacing out while looking out of the window from the hut built on the surface.

Although Mera found her spacing out face extremely cute, she had no time to fool around so she let her practice since it was the only thing that kept her in focus. Also, it didn't look like she was damaging her health but if she continued like this for numerous days, she would have no time to spend some time with other people.

”...Like I said before. I must be sure to keep up with him.” Taeko thought while looking at the ground before raising her head and replying to Chelsea with a determined expression.

”...Is that really all? Aren't you afraid of something? Like him leaving you or forgetting about you?” Chelsea started bombarding Taeko with questions.

Taeko opened her eyes wide in realization when she heard Chelsea's words. She herself didn't know why she felt like it, she just kept thinking about Akashi whenever she had time. She just wanted to see him once again. But now that she heard Chelsea's words...she no longer had an idea why she was behaving like this.

'...No, I am not afraid of Akashi forgetting about me or leaving me without any notice. It must be something else...' Taeko thought while a small smile slowly appeared on her face which slightly surprised Chelsea.

”I have no idea but I am positively sure it's not about forgetting or leaving!” Taeko said aloud while her voice was filled full of confidence.

*Screech* ”Who is leaving?”

Both Taeko and Chelsea looked at the sky with wide-open eyes when they heard Beast's cry together with the voice of man they knew very well.

When Taeko saw the flying danger beast and man standing on its back with folded arms while looking down at them with a smile, a bright smile immediately appeared on her face.

”Akashi!”

”Akashi?!” Both of them exclaimed but one was of a pleasant surprise while another was of unbelievableness.