Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 139

Chapter 09: Even I can be aware of the time, place, and occasion

Eating it… Huh? Why did it reach such a conclusion?

While my head was filled with question marks, Uru asked a strange question in a very casual way.

“Fumu, is your meat delicious?”

[As expected, I have never eaten my own meat. The only answer I can give is, I don’t know.]

“That’s true too.”

Uru asking, ‘Are you delicious?’ to the person(bird?) in question sounds terrible, but isn’t there something strange with Jizu who answers seriously to her…! ?

“Wait a minute! Why did you think I was going to eat you?”

[? Didn’t you come here in search my meat?]

“I said that we had no intention of fighting, right? We just happened to end up here when we were trying to cross the mountain!”

[What, then just say so. It’s confusing.]

Why is this my fault…! ?

In middle of the atmosphere that has become completely chaotic, I will ask all that I can.

It even answered Uru’s terrible question, unless it was an even more ridiculous question, I felt like it would answer anything, and that’s exactly what happened.

“Ah, by the way, King of the Sky, why are you here?”

[In short, it’s because I’m hungry.]

“Hungry……?”

That was a surprising answer.

Since Jizu has a huge body, it probably needs a lot of prey to maintain its size. But if it is hungry, it can just eat the monsters flying around, so why is Jizu holed up in a dungeon like this… Oh, I guess it’s just using the dungeon to rest, and actually it is just coming in and out of the hole in the ceiling to hunt.

[I’m eating those too, but my main dish is this.]

“…!”

When Jizu shifted its body a little… I could see a glimpse of the magic stone that was probably the core of the dungeon under Its belly. And it’s a super big one. It’s probably about 20 centimeters in diameter. I wonder if I can convey just how big that is if I told that the low quality magic stones that I usually see are only one centimeter long, and even the good ones that used to be dungeon cores are less than ten centimeters long.

I thought to myself, ‘It looks like a parent bird incubating its eggs,’ but I kept it to myself. Instead, a different word popped out.

“Wow… I want it…”

[I won’t give it to you.]

Well, that’s right… But I want it so badly, I really want it. If a magic stone that big could be used as an energy source…!

Maybe because I was looking at it in jealousy, Jizu snorted and said something like this.

[If you want it that much, bring the Wind God with you. This thing has grown this large because he’s slacking off.]

“Eh… The Wind God-sama was sealed away.”

[………… What?]

This Jizu-san, It seems that it hardly ever moves from this mountain range, and on top of that, It had been sleeping all the time ? It said that can sleep for years at time ? and had no idea of ??the current situation.

… Well, it’s a legendary monster that only appears at the end of the world, so it’s a dangerous situation to see it normally.

To summarize the reasons why Jizu mentioned the Wind God here, because the Wind God doesn’t manage his territory, monsters randomly spawn in large numbers everywhere, small fry monsters take the blessings of the earth (resources), and that makes Jizu’s food supply decrease, so it often gets hungry…

That’s when I finally understood why there were no monsters in this dungeon. It was because Jizu was taking all the resources to fill his stomach. I guess it’s also possible that they don’t go near it because they’re afraid of being eaten by Jizu.

However, this statement… That there is a connection between gods and monsters, wouldn’t it be quite shocking if other people heard it…?

In fact, Fricka, Regulus, and Liese were frozen in shock. Uru… Yeah, she’s not even looking.

Well, since it has wisdom and reason, and is not hostile to us, it is probably a special monster.

Even so.

… What on earth are monsters…?

Looking at Zephyr and now at Jizu, the common sense that I had that ‘monsters = things that must be defeated’ is crumbling away.

Huh? Isn’t ‘monster = material’? … Hahaha.

If I don’t start to think properly instead of making decisions based on fixed ideas, we’re likely to face a painful situation later on.

But even if I think about it now, I don’t think I can come up with an answer. So I decided to move on to another topic.

“Well… If the magic stone is no good, can’t I at least get the feathers that are falling around…?”

[If it’s something that’s falling, it’s fine.]

“Hyahoo!”

I couldn’t help but let out a cry of joy when I received permission. At this time, Uru muttered with a bitter smile, “Here we go again…”, but I don’t think you can talk about other people after reacting to the word meat!

I ran around Jizu and picked up the dozens of fallen feathers.

[… I said it was fine, but are you sure you’re going to take them all with you…?]

“Something so precious and beautiful, I cannot leave it alone!”

[… I-I see.]

Jizu made a sound of exasperation as I continued to pick things up, but it seemed like it was convinced by my insistence.

In fact, these feathers are very beautiful, so I should also use them as decorations. In the game, there were only a few of them, so I used them all as catalysts, but if I have this much, I might be able to use it for other things… Well, first I need to raise my level to handle them though.

Incidentally, this kind of conversation was happening behind my back, but I was so excited that it got in one ear and out the other.

“Are you embarrassed?”

[Ugh… Wouldn’t you also be happy if someone told you that your scales are beautiful?]

“…… You have a point.”

In contrast to me, who was excited after acquiring a large amount of unexpected valuables, Jizu was beginning to look somewhat tired… S-Sorry, did I was having too much fun?

Whether it knows that I’m breaking out in a cold sweat or not, Jizu spoke in a listless manner.

[Are you satisfied yet? It’s time to go.]

“S-Sorry, one last thing. Do you know of a path to the east?”

Even looking around the cave, all I see is the hole we came from. Should I turn back and find a fork in the road? Or worst case scenario, do we have to go back to the entrance?

I thought it would be too tiring to go back that far, so I asked Jizu, but it gave me a reply that only could be expected from a bird.

[You should just go through from above.]

… Well, you see, I can’t fly.

Perhaps it realized that before I could reply, it continued like this.

[Oh right, people can’t fly.]

And just when I thought it would point to another way.

[In that case, I’ll just make you fly.]

“Huh?”

What are you talking about? But before I could speak anymore.

Our bodies floated up.

“Eh? Eh?”

[Farewell, peculiar miko. Hopefully my?? won’t be needed??]

Jizu was saying something, but the wind was getting stronger and it was blown away before I could hear it.

And with no time to listen again.

“Waaaaaaaaaaa!?”

We were carried high into the sky by the wind.