187 – Living in the desert with the villain (4)
“Hey, is it Rex? Why don’t you practice sleeping away from mom and dad soon?”
Monia said so, but Lex clung to Chester and refused Monia’s request.
“… … After all, I had to do it on a raft last time!”
When Monia hit the ground with such regret, Chester put Rex next to him and lay down with a hollow smile.
Monia lies there crying when Chester knocks on her side, across from Rex.
“So sad?”
“But lately I’ve been taking care of the kids and preparing to leave the island… Well, there was no time.”
“It doesn’t.”
Chester nodded at Monia’s words and smiled bitterly.
Chester and Monia are both strong-bodied and mentally sound men and women. In addition, it is a superior item that is difficult to find easily even if husbands and wives search all over the world. Of course, youthful sexual desire and healthy desires flare up between men and women like this.
It wouldn’t be strange if sometimes they ignored everything and only fell in love with lust, but the situation they were in didn’t allow that easily.
Still, I lived enjoying a hot night in my spare time, but when Rex intervened, it became ambiguous. Still, you can’t do that in front of a child!
Of course, with Rex showing up, Chester and Monia couldn’t have a naturally blazing hot night.
On the raft, I tried to stare at the time Rex passed out due to motion sickness, but when I tried to move a little, Monia’s motion sickness became extreme due to the swaying of the hook, and in the end it failed.
“But if you do it now, you’ll hear everything outside.”
“I can’t see you… !”
Does it matter if Monia can be heard as long as she can’t be seen? Or is it because I haven’t been able to do it for a long time, so it’s piled up so much that it’s so confusing that it’s difficult to make a rational decision?
Chester knows the power of desire.
Desire is a driving force that helps people accomplish the impossible, but at the same time, it is also a demon that loses their rational judgment and pushes people into the pit of mistakes and despair.
It is common for people to become stupid because of desire.
Knowing that, Chester hugged Monia and comforted her.
Monia, hugged by Chester, calmed down and breathed quietly, as if she had lied about crying or saying something strange earlier.
“It’s damp.”
He probably breathed quietly.
You have to get used to dealing with your desires.
It is dangerous to get caught up in desire and lose rational judgment.
From a young age, Chester followed his father in training to control his desires and cultivate patience, but even so, he felt himself swept away by his desires at times.
Desire is such a powerful and difficult enemy.
“Monia, do you remember what I said when I shot the bow?”
“You can’t always hit the target. Don’t get obsessed with hits. Mistakes happen all the time, unforeseen events happen all the time, and sometimes everything goes wrong, as if the world imposes unreasonable pain on me.”
“right.”
“It is difficult for people to properly control even their own bodies, so you should try to control your mind as much as you can.”
“right.”
“Be at peace. Take your time. Always maintain an upright and firm spirit so as not to be shaken.”
“right.”
“By the way, Chester said he could be very powerful when he exploded.”
At Monia’s words, Chester grinned.
“You know I lift the spirits with War Paint, right?”
“yes.”
“Intentionally elevating the mind, intentionally creating greater strength. It even controls emotional outbursts.”
After hearing Chester’s words, Monia nodded in agreement.
“I will work hard.”
“yes. Are you having a hard time right now? Can you still stand it?”
“yes. It’s for Lex.”
For Monia, the action was valuable in connecting deeply with Chester. To accept Chester’s love, being, soul into oneself. He placed the greatest value on it.
“Monia.”
“yes?”
“Do you want to go see the pyramids?”
“The ancient ruins you were talking about earlier?”
“yes. I would really like to go inside, but… … .”
“Then let’s ask Urgo.”
Monia said, removing her face from Chester’s chest and stroking Rex, who was sandwiched between them.
* * *
The next morning, Monia, who came to Urgo, said,
“Does the debt I was aiming for still remain?!”
“What came all of a sudden… … .”
Urgo, who was getting up and sharpening his axe, suddenly lifted the tent and came inside.
Monia looked at Urgo and said.
“Pay your debt!”
“It is true that I am in debt. I did something bad to you … … So, how can I pay you back?”
It was embarrassing, but it was true that I was in debt. A little help in the desert will not repay the debt owed to them.
Urgo was feeling the weight of what he wanted to do to them.
Even more so as I know firsthand how painful the loss of a family member is.
“Then put my family in the pyramid!”
“Hey, sorry.”
When Chester follows Monia in and apologizes, Urgo says it’s okay and looks at Monia.
“Do you want to enter the pyramid?”
“yes!”
“I get it. cooperate.”
“what? Can I accept it so easily just because it’s an ancient ruin?”
After accepting it so calmly, Monia, who was rather embarrassed, opened her arms and said this.
“What are the ancient ruins?”
“Uh, culturally valuable… … .”
“It’s just a big old building.”
There are those who regard ancient ruins as sacred, and there are also scholars whose eyes are turned when looking at ancient ruins, saying that they have great historical and cultural value.
But to Urgo, ancient ruins were just big, old buildings.
Originally, the value of an object is different depending on the person.
“There seems to be a tribe in this desert that holds pyramids as sacred, but at least not us.”
Saying that, Urgo woke up and started breakfast with Chester and Monia.
“In fact, it’s not uncommon for warriors known for bravery in this desert to challenge the pyramids.”
“Hey.”
“Some tribes even challenge themselves to survive in the pyramid for a week as a coming-of-age ceremony.”
“Is there a place like that?”
“They regard the pyramids as tombs, and staying in the pyramids for a week is a ritual to endure death.”
Urgo approached the head of the women of the scorpion tribe under the sand and explained the situation.
“So take out Monia, take it out. I’ve been taking it for a while Well, go.”
“I understand, dear wind.”
“Well.”
Urgo, whom Monia had taken away from the women’s work, went out to train with Monia, just as they did on the first day of their stay with the tribe.
“Sending you guys to the pyramids is no big deal. But there is one condition.”
Monia climbed onto the wide feet that Chester had been given to wear while living in the tribe and asked Urgo as she raised her fingers to tidy up Rex’s hair.
Rex melted languidly, as if Monia’s touch was good for arranging his hair.
“What are the conditions?”
“Become stronger.”
Urgo said calmly.
“I can’t see my friend die, so at least the two of you together should be strong enough to defeat me.”
Urgo said so calmly.
“That is the condition.”
* * *
The giant snake lazily swam in the desert underground. While swimming, there was a case when a large, bright yellow stone mass mixed in various places in the desert collided with the body, but at that time, it turned sideways to avoid the stone mass and passed.
People called it gold and valued it, but it was nothing more than a nuisance to a giant snake that saw tens of thousands of them while swimming in the desert.
While traveling through the desert, the giant snake found a strange hole.
It was so square that it would be correct to call it an ‘entrance’ rather than a hole, but the giant snake found the first hole curious and put its face into it.
When I put my face in, to my surprise, even though it was underground, all the sand disappeared and a wide, empty space appeared.
Surprised, the giant snake continued to swim inside and inside, wondering what was inside.
It was filled with cool air that made it hard to believe it was a desert, and at the same time, it was slowly losing its shape because it was worn out and collapsed from enduring for a long time.
Fortunately, the area near the entrance was worn out over time, but the deeper you go, the more intact the structure appears.
Of course, the giant snake, which does not attach value to buildings like historians and archaeologists, pushed away all the traces left on stone statues and walls with its body and went inside.
How the hell did you get in?
Suddenly, a human-sized object appeared in front of a giant snake.
It held in one hand a sword staff with a blade called a kopis at the tip of a staff, and in the other a shield with a pattern of the sun.
Its body was shining with a brilliant golden light, and its face was not that of a human being, but that of a black dog with blazing red eyes.
The giant snake opened its mouth wide and rushed at terrifying speed to eat the snack that suddenly appeared.
[I am Anubis, the guard in charge of El Dorado, a military research facility in Kramshu Kingdom.]
However, the human with the head of a dog calmly let out a recorded voice, not paying attention to the terrifying snake.
[The Unauthorized enters the fight for elimination after three warnings. Step back.]
cooong!
Soon after, the giant snake attacked Anubis with its wide open mouth, but was blocked by a huge, translucent golden energy shield from Anubis’ shield, and had no choice but to stop.
[Warning. back off I warn you. back off … … I will remove the intruder.]
The next moment, the tip of the sword staff seemed to glow, but the snake’s head turned into black ashes and flew away.
[Confirm the suspension of vital reactions… .]
After scanning the giant snake to make sure it was dead, Anubis returned to his place.
[The intruder has been removed.]
On the way back to where Anubis was originally, the costumes typical of desert tribes were strewn with blood and were full of rotting corpses.