Chapter 35: Traitor! (2/2)
As we walked for a few hours, the rat suddenly jumps over a tree and rushes to the top.
What are you doing now?
It begins scratching the branches above, and then something from above falls over my head.
Bump!
Ouch!
Well, it didn't really hurt.
I glance at the thing it threw at me, which fell over the ground.
It is…
A pear?
It looks like a pear, but it is blue.
Wait, these damn pine trees have hidden fruits atop their branches?!
Is this what the monkeys eat?
I glance up above as the rat-monkey begins to throw more fruits to the ground.
A few minutes after, there is over 20… I think it emptied the entire tree.
It quickly jumps over the snow while carrying to pears with its little hands.
Which it begins to eat rapidly, juice coming from them…
Hey, you are rather useful I guess.
I never thought I would ever find any type of fruits within such a cold place, but I guess it is a magic world for something, these pears might be magic too.
Alright, time to eat something else than bitter herbs and meat I guess.
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A Fruit that grows over the top branches of the Pine Trees, it is sweet and juicy, but very hard to get.
Slightly recovers Health Points and Mana Points.
…
Oh?! Does it even double as a healing item?!
Unlike the rat-monkey, I have a giant jaw, so I devour the whole pear in a single bite.
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
So sweet…
Sweet!
And juicy…
Ugh.
This is so fucking good!
I had been eating trash this whole time!
Even tears begin to flow out of my eyes as I devour the pears in large quantities, at the end, I ate most of them but stopped myself before I was to leave my little friend without any.
Hey, don't look at me like that! I left you two more! You are small, so you don't need to eat that many anyway.
It glares at me with anger, but then it grabs all the fruits and jumps into my back again.
I guess it gave up.
Man, I feel stuffed now, and I didn't even need to actually hunt.
I think I didn't get as many calories as actual meat, but it was still something I would consider a full meal.
Good enough for now.
It was still not late yet, so I decided to hasten up the pace as we continued through the snowstorm, which was getting stronger.
Well, we are Ice-type Monsters, so we are unaffected by such things anyway, heh.
As the hours go by, I also practice my Mana Cultivation technique, which I have learned to do while walking, although while fighting it might not work yet.
Like that, I get another little bonus after many hours.
Ding!
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Nice, what I like about this is that I don't necessarily have to kill any monsters, I can simply and gradually grow stronger as I become better at manipulating Mana around my body.
However, just as I was celebrating, I heard tremors.
An earthquake?
But the rat-monkey is beginning to get scared.
And a sudden roar resonates all around…
”GROOOOOAAARRR…!”
BOOM!
A sudden gigantic figure emerges, just a bit smaller than the ice bear.
It is… a giant white gorilla?! But it has the head of a rat…
Wait, is this your father?!
You traitor!
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