Southern Lands (4)
[…]
Winter stares blankly at Yui’s closed door.
I saw Yumi entering the room with a mattress in each hand.
“Ah!”
Yui. What was so good about it, her eyes met her eyes as she came in with a smile on her lips.
She reveals her delight.
[…]
However, the sight of that figure made the winter snow rather narrow.
His gaze turned to the mattress on her bed, which she had slung around her waist.
‘Did you bring a mat too?’
Georeum couldn’t reply to her expression of joy.
It was all the more so when I remembered the uproar that just happened.
It’s already complicated with only Yui, but what if Yumi is like that too?
Even more so, it was obvious that the family would be distracted.
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Wouldn’t the whole house be plastered with beds?
Because of this, Winter shook her head resolutely, expressing her refusal.
[Arr.]
No. Don’t bring
When she let out a voice with such a meaning, her smiley expression changed at once.
Her lips pursed instantly and her cheeks puffed out.
“Mi, Miu Miu…!”
I hate it!
It was the sound of rejection. Refusal to refuse.
Boom!
She slammed the mattress on the living room floor with all her might, as if she was nervous.
Uh woo woo-.
No matter how much energy went into the action at that moment, the vibration I felt was unusual.
[…]
I could feel the sound of the building buzzing and trembling as I rode the ground.
It wouldn’t be strange if the floor collapsed if they showed their werewolf strength just one more time here.
In the meantime, Winter had no choice but to agree, gently rolling his tail.
‘Yes. Do as you please It’s better than having the house destroyed.’
To the innocent surrender of winter,
“Hey-!”
Yumi smiled, showing her white teeth.
It was her victory by exercising her power.
* * * *
But the next day, they went hunting again.
[Kurrurer!]
Tadadak!
Yui. And winter.
They both ran through the slippery asphalt ground, frozen and wet from the snow.
No matter what, rest is rest and predation is predation.
No matter how tired they were, apart from that, they had to go hunting.
As long as they belonged to this earth, it was natural for them as living beings to fill their stomachs and stay away from hunger.
A certain amount of tiredness has already gone along with the leisurely rest of the past half day, so there was no problem with the movement of the body right now.
Bang-!
In fact, winter and his sister’s sense of speed, which rushed like a shot, added a little smoother movement than the previous day.
It was better than yesterday to be able to shoot through the snow as if sliding.
I could see at a glance that my condition had improved considerably.
Since the two of them were moving so fast, the vision around them seemed to be pushed back.
The eyes that stood open on such a winter’s day moved quickly and scanned the objects and objects around them, even at this moment.
‘It’s not here. Not here either.’
A day before we had already settled down here.
Winter came after memorizing the geography of the area.
‘I’ve already remembered some of the smells in my head since I came here yesterday.’
Originally, winter’s previous life wasn’t very good at remembering the road.
Of course, I wasn’t gilchi, but I wasn’t better than others either.
But it was different now.
The natural werewolf’s excellent nose, geographic sense, and general memory for memorizing surrounding objects have greatly developed.
It was like an instinctive evolution and expression for hunting.
What he was looking for were traces of life.
Indications of dark areas, body odor, other things such as hair and footprints. Anything was fine.
They werewolves, with the providence of excellent hunters, were fully capable of pursuing its existence once it was found.
‘Perhaps the traces of the smell I smelled yesterday are in this area.’
Sniff. Sniff sniff.
Georeum and Yui sniffed and turned their heads from side to side.
It was to distinguish the direction of the flowing smell.
While I was searching around for a while like that.
Hooung-.
As the light winter wind blew, I could smell the fragrant body odor permeating the corners of their nostrils.
[Cheer.]
The two of them turned their heads to one side.
‘It’s over there.’
Boom!
They kicked off the ground and ran like leaps.
* * * *
Sniff sniff. Sniff.
The pursuit of the prey was not done simply by looking around aimlessly.
The dents and scrapes of tiny footprints on the surrounding walls and ground, and the size of the guy inferred from them.
Comparing those things, I first had to find out if he was a suitable opponent.
If it was absurdly huge, it would still be a strong enemy that would be unreasonable for them at present, and they had to avoid it as much as possible.
But if that’s not the case, and similar physique and similar strength can be inferred, it’s decided whether to pursue him through tuning and weighing.
If it is also dangerous, dismiss it. Rather than that, they chase after opponents with a certain degree of safety guaranteed.
‘He’s a pretty big guy.’
It was guessed that the opponent they were chasing now was a formidable opponent in their own way.
He was a predator just like them.
However, judging from the lines of clear territory marks carved around it, it seemed clear that it was a fairly strong opponent in its own way.
However, that rather stimulated winter and Yui’s hunting instincts.
The traces of his three huge claws left on an old tree with all its leaves missing and only a pillar remaining. Just by looking at it, it is clear that it is a game that is big enough to compare to a fair amount of bears.
He must have been careful about the approach of other beings and diligently left traces like this.
On the contrary, it became a golden opportunity to track him down.
‘I’m chasing him…!’
Winter and Yui.
Their eyes stood sharp as if sharpened.
Stand up vertically and take in the surrounding environment more clearly.
The deeper I went into the snow-covered ruins, the more traces there were, and the stronger I smelled him.
‘Somehow I can’t smell the scent of mana, but that doesn’t mean I’m not a dangerous opponent. Enough opponents are possible.’
He trusted his instincts.
He was saying that the body would be a decent opponent. If so, that is the correct answer.
A beast’s intuition was sometimes sharp enough to be described as intelligence.
Boom!
After following the thick traces of the smell that arrived, the site they arrived at was in the middle of a ruin in the city center.
In the middle of a wide crossroads.
They stopped in the middle and looked around.
The fact that the smell stopped from here meant that it was nearby.
No doubt. Right now, he was in this place together with Winter and Yui.
[…]
[…]
Georeum and Yui quietly scanned the surroundings, holding back even their breathing.
It was so quiet that all I could hear was the sound of the wind blowing in the snow.
That moment.
Hoo-wook-.
A light breeze blew from right next to them.
However, the ‘heat’ contained in it told us that it was not a normal winter breeze.
Simply put, it was something similar to snorting or breathing.
‘Is that there!’
Instinctively aware of that fact, Winter threw an ice spear at the road where he could see nothing on the other side.
The ice spear that had been blown away with ferocious force got stuck in the middle of the empty air where there was no doubt there was nothing there, and blood splattered.
[…!]
To that out of nowhere scene.
Not only winter, but even Yui opened her eyes wide, revealing her bewilderment.
‘What, what, is that?!’
Embarrassingly.
The ice spear summoned by winter was stuck in the middle of the air.
As if there was something there.
It even seemed that blood splattered out of nowhere from the air, soaking part of the air with blood.
They weren’t the only ones at this intersection.
From the beginning, the ruler of this realm was proudly hiding at the crossroads.
He was hiding by hiding his body transparently.
[Cheerreuk-.]
And to his dismay, what finally appeared was a huge chameleon hiding around here.
‘Ka, chameleon?’
While the bewildered winter blinked.
The guy who flicked his long tongue.
After a while, it seemed to roll its eyes in a jumbled mess, and then it hid itself transparently again.
At the same time, the scent of magical power leaking out was completely erased again. As if it doesn’t even exist.
‘That’s it!’
At that astonishing sight, the winter snow flashed.
Perfect stealth that even erases one’s own magical power.
Even at a glance, it must have been an unusual ability.
Pot!
But at that moment.
A huge tongue that stretched from where it was was protruding like an arrow and aimed at Winter and Yui.