Chapter 35

[You are dreaming, so you will see the person you want to see... Come on, remember.]

[——Is that pure and sinless?]

[Of course not.]

[The touch of the pure things leaves no marks, but the bloody palm prints remain forever in front of the gate of heaven.]

[Think back to those dark moments that were never honest with you, the cruel and true person——]

With this text, the update of the 12th chapter of the comic begins.

Different from the subtle and mysterious meaning in the words from unknown sources, what follows is a pure white with only a few faint lines that lightly outline the outline of "someone" - long hair, half of the face looking back, and the corners of the lips that seem to be smiling but also seem to be sad.

It is indeed a hazy, dreamlike image, like an overexposed memory.

This week I was waiting for the update, because the story from now on would surely be about Xiaoman and Bernardus. Chongyu and his friends chatted and speculated that the cover page might be set in modern times.

But it is not.

A gloved hand fell on the table, and on the exquisite cloth with regular dark patterns, several specially crafted cards were placed one after another.

Several of these cards have been turned over, and because they are the main subject of the picture, the patterns are clearly visible.

The backs of the cards all feature a deep, dark starry sky similar to the previous scenes involving the appearance of the Star God, but the cards depict different characters.

However, the first three cards that were turned over were all badly damaged. No matter how carefully one looked, one could only make out the vague outline of a house and a woman with long hair on the first card, and some dried marks like stains among the white on the second card.

The third card looked like it had been worn and weathered for countless years. The pattern was completely destroyed, with only a little bit of broken crimson remaining at the corners.

This is in sharp contrast to the fourth card that has just been opened in the cover page. The latter is brand new. The man with short pure golden hair on the card is leaning back in a chair bored. The grand scepter, shining jewelry and gorgeous sword are all casually thrown at his feet or beside him, creating a luxurious splendor that makes him feel bored. There is only a long, lively fir branch across his knees.

He held his face and looked up at the card - the one that stood out from the deck, with the same clear pattern, depicting a young warrior in full armor, with a calm face, blue eyes and gray-black hair.

[It’s a little wolf cub]

[Card array? Death list!!!]

[Even though they are censored, I can still tell it’s Mom, Little Fox, and Lasi.]

[Dead (Dead)]

[Who is this fortune teller?]

[Looking at the edge of the cape and the style of the gloves, it seems to be from Winchester]

【It is said that Winchester is not simple! 】

After the title page, the picture shows Xiaoman waking up from a trance, continuing the content of the first page.

The sunlight illuminated her eyes, reflecting a beautiful blue.

Then, a figure appeared in the bright colors.

"Yo." Holding a juicy and brightly colored fruit in her mouth, the stranger greeted her in a vague voice, as calmly as if she was not rummaging through other people's things.

Xiaoman sat up, pressed his forehead, bent one leg, and looked at her: "You are rummaging through my backpack."

"Yes, I smell food. My nose is very sensitive. My mother-in-law said it's as good as that of an animal." The other person took the fruit and took a bite, chewing the flesh with pride.

This is a girl from the Lion tribe. She is not tall but has very strong muscles. She has short, prickly brown hair and shiny, plump brown skin, showing great vitality and strength.

Her clothes were short and simple, but she wore a full set of protective gear such as wrist guards that people who often need to fight would wear. She had a unique colored ribbon on her forehead and a short, heavy fist blade.

"If you are hungry, you can eat, but you have to pay." Xiaoman said to her calmly.

"Hey~ I thought you would be generous in treating me." The lion girl grinned, "Aren't you afraid that I will rob you?"

"You can't do that."

Dark brown and blue contrasted with each other, and the joking expression on the strange girl's face faded away. She stared at Xiaoman, and the tip of her nose seemed to twitch slightly under the detailed description.

——Wolf tribe. But it is just an abandoned tribe. But it is different from those abandoned tribes that have no taste. It is——

Readers are fortunate enough to see her thoughts put on paper, and are able to observe the current Xiaoman from the perspective of a so-called normal and healthy beastman.

There is no smell of grassland, no smell of mountains, and no smell of wind and streams.

So is it a fire? Is it a thunderstorm? Is it... the opposite of the earth, the smell of the world above and below?

"Ah, did I see a devil?" the Lion girl said stupidly.

【Grass. A property.】

[The disabled ones add external elements, which burns the CPU of the child. It's so funny...]

[The judgment based on smell is primary and vision is secondary]

[The smell of grassland refers to the wood attribute. Similarly, wood Feng Shui land, fire, thunder, dark light]

[No affinity with natural elements? Then you are not my kind! Okay, this is very bestial.]

She stood instead of sitting, and obediently stepped back a few steps, leaving Xiaoman's luggage behind, as if she was going to give up.

"Hey huh——" Immediately afterwards, the lion girl took a few steps and rushed towards Xiaoman.

She calculated her punch and it only hit the solid shield. The dark surface was flickering with tiny, blinding flashes of electricity, almost rendering her fist numb.

Dark elements are the most stable and easiest to simulate entities, even better than water in nature. Therefore, swords and shields can be made with them. The reader and Xiaoman have both received teachings from Lazarus.

The shield solidified by the defense spell released silently moved slightly, and cold white skin and blue eyes appeared behind the darkness.

Xiao Man said to her, "If the electric shock is not enough, you can always switch to fire."

[Baby——you are so fierce——]

[The little wolf cub who is not used to asking questions is my master...]

"I'm sorry, big brother!" The lion girl's reaction to this was to prostrate herself on the ground. With the disparity in strength and the loss of the chance to launch a sneak attack, she thought that begging for mercy was the best option.

“…I’m not a man.”

The individual differences among beastmen are more obvious than modern people. Not to mention deer, rabbits, foxes, etc., at least the male features of wolves, lions, tigers, etc. are quite obvious in appearance. So it was the first time that Xiaoman was misidentified as a woman of the wrong gender. She just thought that this child had a really stupid head. She was just a little taller and thinner.

"I'm sorry, sister!!!" the Lion girl said even louder.

Now that one party has made this kind of apology, it will be easy to ease the atmosphere.

[It’s OK to admit it at the speed of light]

Although the action scenes are full of tension, from static to dynamic and then to a sudden pause, this plot is completely lighthearted and unburdened, and readers just laugh at the silly words and deeds of the new characters.

"My name is Yang Lie." The lion girl, who was sitting cross-legged obediently, raised her chin to show Xiaoman a string of complex symbols tattooed on her neck, which were the characters of this world.

Exposing the throat is already a very special act to express temporary submission, although Xiaoman, as an outsider who did not grow up in a matriarchal lion group, does not feel deeply about this.

She just listened to the guy with the complicated name saying, "This is the name my mother-in-law gave me. Everyone has one. You can usually call me Lie or Lielie. What about you, elder sister?"

Before saying the name, Xiaoman paused slightly and said, "Pan."

[The little wolf has grown up (wiping tears)]

[I really want the little fox to see that… there is this distance between me and other people of the same age, and that I will be treated differently! ]

[The little fox gets a hug when he first sees you; the little lion gets a shield counter]

[Shield counter ahh ...

[Lielie looks like a good kid, but he's not very smart...]

"Okay, big sister!" Lielie happily confirmed through the process of exchanging names that he was recognized and would not be attacked again.

She relaxed, folded her arms behind her, and took in the breeze at the campsite that Xiaoman had found, getting closer.

"Where are you going, big sister?"

"Same as you."

"Great!...No, how did you know where I was going?" Lielie opened his mouth in surprise.

"You are a boxer. You are traveling now probably for the competition held every three years." Xiaoman said.

"Big sister is so smart! Although my mother-in-law also says that I am not smart, but smart is something I was born with. I think as long as I don't mess with smart people and listen to my companions, I will be fine. Now I listen to big sister." Lielie nodded.

The communication went on smoothly, but suddenly, the lively smile on Lielie's face froze.

This extremely young female lion warrior jumped up in an instant, and when her feet touched the ground again, she was ready to face attacks from any direction at any time.

Her subconscious mind emitted a series of heavy growls of vigilance, and even the pair of round little ears in the middle of her short brown hedgehog hair stood up.

This series of actions, including the close-up at the end, was drawn with great explosiveness, making many people like Lielie more almost immediately.

[Muscles are great! (Loud praise)]

[Liebao, you are a little ball of thorns full of elastic teeth. You are different from those two beautiful fur balls. You were born to be chewed by your aunt! ]

[This is the body shape of a boxer. At least his arms are thicker than my calves! ]

[Bao is silly but fierce, and is so cute when his fur is puffed up]

But the wind blew quietly, and nothing happened.

"It seems you feel it too." Xiao Man seemed much calmer than her. With his back against the tree, he was slightly defensive and said in a commonplace tone, "Recently I often feel like I'm being watched. I don't know why."

"If you are scared, leave now. I am not asking you for compensation."

Lielie slowly relaxed his tense muscles, and when he turned around, his mouth was grinning again.

"I won't abandon you and run away first. Besides, this guy has no ill intentions!"

Xiaoman watched as she was attracted by a wild bird just after she finished speaking, and then tiptoed quickly to climb up a tree trunk not far away. He couldn't help but be infected by her aimless and lively nature and smiled softly.

The black-haired girl leaning against the shade of the tree took out a small piece of irregular dried meat from her pocket and threw it away.

Even with such a slight smell of meat, Lielie quickly turned his head around and bit the meat jerky.

She licked the meat between her teeth, her dark brown eyes lit up, and she jumped down from the tree with her limbs spread out like a flying squirrel, and the lion's tail behind her swayed as she used it as balance.

[Fuck, this can actually span a large page]

[But it’s really cute! Sunshine, the wild, big trees, and little cubs playing together! ]

[Just looking at it will make you feel better...]

[Pink Star is using her painting skills to overpower us mortals again, uh uh uh]

[I would say that disabled people are closer to humans with special powers. They will treat any animal they encounter as a puppy and try to train it (complex)]

"It's delicious! Do you have any more?" Lielie came to Xiaoman with an attentive look on his face.

Xiaoman first stroked the short hair that swayed under her eyes, then took out a bag of dried meat from her small carry-on space and gave it to Lielie, saying, "If you like it, I'll share it with you. There will be no more after you finish it."

Lielie's reaction was to hastily take out a large piece of dried meat and stuff it into his mouth, chewing it like a squirrel with cheeks full of nuts, while speaking unclearly: "Thank you, big sister! I will save some!"

"...Tsk." The person who was watching this scene from afar uttered such an ambiguous sound.

He stood with his arms folded, his folded golden dragon wings transformed into fragments of light that merged into the spots of light and shadow under the shade of the trees. Even though his entire face was not painted, his extremely long legs and the large, crystal-clear gemstone earrings still exposed his identity.

[This wave is actually observing from the dark]

[Friend: Tsk, I want to see what’s good about this kid]

[Stop talking, stop talking. The more you explain, the worse it gets. Sweep the land with majesty, noble dragon clan——]

[He got angry for a bit, then he still obediently protected her in secret (sigh)]

[Has he never laughed properly? He always looks unhappy. He is so arrogant.]

[A sharp contrast to Lielie! ]

[Nonsense, I laughed at the part about the bento (tea)]

「Ahhh, don’t make me remember——what kind of disastrous combination of tsundere and yandere is——」

Chongyu saw the close-up mentioned in the bullet screen and took a look at it from the album.

Even though she has firmly supported other characters, she has not lost her appreciation for them. In fact, she really appreciates the handsome and flamboyant type of Bernaludos, and has bought several different figures of similar characters from other works in the past.

Unfortunately, even though the comic continues to be popular, I haven’t seen any cosplay of Bernardus at various comic conventions and on the Internet.

...But this is normal. Just restoring the body is too difficult. Unlike me, at least I can still try my best. Chongyu sighed inwardly and switched back to the comics.