Chapter 408 – #409 to Catch a Tiger, You Must Enter the Tiger’s Den (1)
#409 To catch a tiger, you have to enter the tiger’s den (1)
‘It seems that Raonjena noticed, but… She’s being lenient this way?’
She secretly had sex, but it was impossible to fool Raon Jenna’s nose.
In the first place, after having sex with me, her body smelled of me, but there was no way that Raon Jenna, who has an extremely sensitive sense of smell, wouldn’t know.
But Laonzena never said anything about me having sex with another woman. What mattered to her was her love for her, her my love for her, and as long as this heart didn’t change, I didn’t really care who she was.
“Hi-Hi!”
Anyway, Henry, who had pouted his lips, looked up at me again with bright eyes.
“So, uncle teach me! Please accept me as your disciple!”
As for what he had entrusted to me, little Henry proudly asked me to accept him as his disciple.
“What man? I’m busy too man.”
And I flatly declined the request.
“Ehh?! Why!”
Henry’s eyes widened as if he hadn’t thought of my rejection at all.
I want to find and kill Zero as soon as possible. So I don’t have time to devote to a kid.
Of course, since I (my doppelganger) and Siren are in charge of searching for Zero, I can teach the little ones as much as I want with my main body or alter ego.
But why am i
I’d rather have sex at that time!
“How much work do I do? You don’t have time to teach.”
However, I couldn’t express my sincerity as it is in the bud that was growing in full swing, so I covered it up.
A man like me… He’s so kind…!
However, Henry was much more obsessive than I thought (?), No, he was a kid.
“Then I’ll follow you and learn on my own.”
“What? What kind of place is that… No, it’s bittersweet? You’re following me?”
“Since you’re busy, I’ll follow you and learn from what you’re doing. Is that okay?”
“It’s okay, what’s okay? No!”
I was desperately opposed to it because I was afraid that my mobile sex room, the camper, would come in if necessary. But it didn’t work for the stubborn little boy.
“Cheap!”
“Why am I your master, man?!”
“Ku-k-k-k-k-k!”
My girls burst into laughter when they saw me arguing with Henry.
*****
“Hmm.”
He crossed his arms and frowned.
It’s been three days since I interrupted the beastmen’s hunt for humans. And for those three days, Zero and the beasts hid like moles hidden deep in the ground.
No matter what the hell he had done, Raonjena couldn’t smell the beasts.
‘Zero you bastard. Surely he won’t run away again?’
It was Zero, who already had many criminal convictions for running away. This bastard was afraid of me and ran away again.
‘Tsuba really bothers people, this guy…’
[Master! Look over there!]
“Hmm?”
At the siren’s words, I (doppelganger) looked in the direction she was pointing. And he frowned. I’ll have to check it out in detail.
“Go down there.”
[Yes!]
The siren flapped her wings and landed softly on the ground like a butterfly. After descending from her head, I looked at the dead monster with a miserable face.
The dead monster was a large monster with an appearance reminiscent of a caterpillar. The length of the body… I guessed it, it seemed to be about 10m, and the part supposed to be the head was cut off.
I put my hand on the monster’s body. The warm thing seemed to have died not long ago.
It was the first monster I had ever seen, but it was dead, so I couldn’t get the right to level up. Instead, a system message containing other information appeared.
[You have the abnormal condition ‘blood poison’.]
[The attribute ‘Disease Resistance’ is activated.]
[The blood poisoning state is lifted.]
Blood, presumably from a caterpillar monster, was scattered all around. It seemed that the blood contained poison.
I brushed off the poison on my hands and stepped back.
“Renna. There is poison in this blood, so don’t touch it… Huh?”
[Yum yum yum! What is it, Master?]
“…”
I tried to tell him to be careful because there is poison, but Siren was already eating the caterpillar monster from the tip. There was a lot of monster blood around her mouth.
“… Are you okay?”
[Yes? What?]
Siren suddenly tilted her head with an innocent and innocent face as if asking why. No, don’t make that face with blood all over her mouth.
“Where are you sick or not?”
[Yes! It doesn’t hurt at all! Ah! Would you like to eat it too?]
“…”
The Siren tore off her monster’s body with her leg and handed it to me. Um… Let’s take heart.
“It’s okay. Our Ren eats a lot. You can eat all of them.”
[Really? Hit! Exciting!]
After she gave my permission, Siren smiled broadly like a child given her toy, and she concentrated on eating caterpillar monsters. She seems to have a particular fondness for caterpillars, perhaps because she looks like a bird.
‘Originally, bug-types are food for flying-types.’
She nodded her head, recalling the compatibility of a certain game.
Anyway, who killed this monster and put it on display?
There were many candidates, and the most promising among them was, of course, Zero.
If eating was the purpose, she had to have signs of biting off and eating the caterpillar monster. However, although there were traces of deep cuts on the body of the caterpillar monster, there were no signs of being eaten.
In other words, they killed and displayed caterpillar monsters in hopes that someone would discover them.
Of course it’s not certain.
It could be that other monsters with great malice simply hunted them for fun. Premature certainty is unacceptable.
“Blood…”
I noticed that the caterpillar monster’s blood was splattered in a single direction. Am I sensitive? Somehow, the long sprayed blood felt like a milestone. A milestone that tells me the direction I need to go.
“Hmm.”
It was a situation where he was recklessly wandering around this vast land of monsters to find Zero anyway. If so, there is nothing to lose by going in the direction indicated by the blood.
“Ate it all?”
[Yes! I really enjoyed the meal!]
“Aw, that’s cute.”
Wiping the corners of my mouth with wings, the siren tidied up and nodded at me. It’s much bigger than me, but it’s not cute.
“Then let’s go over there.”
[Yes!]
He climbed on the siren’s head again and headed in the direction the blood pointed. After flying for about 10 minutes, I found another dead monster.
“… Look at this?”
The monster I found this time was a monster that looked like a stag with big horns on its head. Its appearance was completely different from that of the caterpillar monster, but the traces were the same as before.
Deep scars all over the body, a severed head, and blood spilled on the floor. There were traces identical to those seen at the scene where the caterpillar monster died.
“You’re a funny bastard. You’re not going to run away now, are you?”
Looking at the same trail in succession, I was now certain who prepared this.
This was both an invitation from Zero to me and a declaration of war at the same time.
“Looks like you’ve prepared a lot.”
It was clear that Zero was aware of my existence. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have made the monster milestone with so much effort.
If that’s the case, you’ve been preparing to catch me for the past three days…
Hehe.”
It was more fun than fear.
First of all, I was happy that this damn chase was finally coming to an end, and I was looking forward to what kind of trap Zero would prepare for the stressful day.
“Are you going to eat this, Ren?”
[No! I’m full!]
“Okay.”
Perhaps because she ate the caterpillar monster earlier, Siren shook her head.
Monsters are good creatures that have nothing to throw away from head to toe. I’ll put it in my inventory and gift it to Peter later.
“Then let’s go, Renah. The direction is… That way.”
[Yes!]
The siren flapped her wings vigorously and flew in the direction I pointed. Siren and I moved along the milestones and got further and further away from the monster hunter village, which could be called the base camp.
“To catch a tiger… You have to go into the tiger’s den!”
*****
“Raonjena.”
“Huh?”
“Shall we talk for a minute?”
“Talk? Well, yes. Good.”
Nodding her head, Raon Jenna put down the book she was reading and got out of her camper. She went out for a walk with her and her for a while.
“What is it? Is it something others shouldn’t hear? What did you come all the way here to talk about?”
“I think I found Zero.”
“… What?”
Her face hardened when she said that she seemed to have found Zero.
The shadow at his feet began to oscillate greatly. It means that the emotional agitation is so great.
“… Where is he now?”
“They’re still chasing them. They must have prepared a pretty grand party. Did you make a milestone with monsters?”
“Monsters? Milestones? What do you mean… Oh, are you chasing them with your alter ego?”
“Yeah. Have you seen it before? Siren. I’m chasing through the sky with her.”
“You’re the only one who would describe the Siren as him.”
Whether she wanted to hide her emotional turmoil or to regain her composure, Raon Jenna tried to crack a joke.
‘I’ve definitely grown up.’
Looking at this look, you can see that Raon Jenna has grown a lot compared to her past.
When I first met Laonzena, she thought I was going to kill the president of the Valencia Association, and went crazy.
What about the black market? In spite of my continued warnings, hadn’t she been overcome with madness as soon as she saw Three and Nine, the enemies who killed her family?
If you think about her brilliant past, you can see her mental growth as she is now trying to keep her calm.
‘Oh, is it because I haven’t seen Zero in person?’
If you see Zero in person, it might turn into a light-on Xena.
“… I want to go too.”
“Will you?”
I was thinking of taking her anyway. Even if she didn’t participate in the battle, shouldn’t she at least see with her own two eyes the horrendous death of Zero?
“Then let’s go. It’s very far there, so we have to go diligently. We’ve been moving all night and we’re still moving.”
“Yeah. Oh, but shouldn’t I tell the kids?”
“Oh Hong?”
Seeing that she thinks of her children even in her emotionally shaken state, it is true that Raon Jenna has grown up mentally. If she was the girl from the past, she would have grabbed me by the collar to guide me to Zero right away.
You’re amazing, Raonjena!
“Don’t talk, let’s go right now.”
“Right now?”
“Yeah. Anyway, since there are two clones next to the kids, I can tell them anytime. And if I tell them everything, they’ll probably try to follow me. Even if it’s me, if there are more people I have to protect, I might make a mistake.”
“That’s right. Okay then, let’s go right now. But the kids can worry, so you have to tell me later, okay?”
“Yes, of course. What do you see me as?”
“Hehe. Look at me as my cool man.”
Huh? What?
“See?
“…”
“I’m kidding~”
At least, it was not Zero, but I almost got cut first.
Anyway, I moved with Raonzena-
Hehe. Do you like the stage once?”
“…”
-I (doppelganger) stood face to face with Zero waiting for me at the top of the mountain.
