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🕑 Added 2025-03-07 18:03:00 +0000 UTCA Monster You Don’t Know? A Monster You Didn’t Wanna Know. [Part 3]
“Why won’t the fire die out? It’s odd no matter how you think of it, right?!”
The fire continued to sear the knight’s skin cruelly. The knight’s skin became red and swollen quickly, and the inflamed area gradually grew.
“H-Help!”
The knight stretched out his hand that was encroached by flames to seek help from others.
“Oi, what’s wrong?!”
“The fire can’t be put out?”
“Just what on earth is this fire…?”
Leonard, George, and Arban also approached the burning knight and tried to put the fire out, but in the end, nothing worked.
‘This is impossible.
Nothing we do work.’
“Meeow!”
“Ah, Koumei-san? What should we do…?”
Koumei stood up from her loaf position suddenly and stretched her front foot toward the knight on fire.
Then…
splat
“Ah.”
“Ah.”
“Ah.”
She cat-splatted him.
“No, Koumei-san! His arm is what’s on fire! HIS ARM!”
George retorted to Koumei, who pushed the knight’s face down with her paw.
“Mew?”
The poor knight, who had been rolling around on the ground to put out the fire, stopped moving. Perhaps he lost consciousness due to Koumei's cat-splat.
“Like I said, that… Eh?”
“Nii-sama! Look! The fire disappears.”
Emma trotted over from behind Koumei and exclaimed as she pulled on George’s sleeves.
“Eh? How?”
The flames that wouldn’t die out no matter what they did disappeared from the knights’ arms.
“Mew!”
Koumei meowed smugly.
“Koumei-san’s amazing!”
“Meeoow!”
“Alright, hurry and give him medical care! William, c’mere!”
George asked William to tend to the wound. His younger brother might find some clue from this injury inflicted by the monster.
After taking the first aid kit from one of the hunters, William examined the burns on the knight who fainted from the cat-splat. William had been studying first aid diligently ever since the slime incident.
“This is—… Mother! Uncle, too, please take a look. These burns…”
William gasped upon noticing something and called his mother and uncle over. Melsa and Arban’s expressions changed when they saw the knight’s wounds.
“Impossible, how could…”
“This is the Southern Continent, you know?”
Three intellectuals, the Stuarts’ brains, couldn’t hide the astonishment on their faces. They shook their heads after seeing the characteristic wound on the knight’s arm as if they refused to believe their eyes.
“However, this…”
The knight suffered severe burns from his palm to his arm.
Despite that…
“Ah… His clothes… are not burnt?”
Besides the three brains of the Stuarts, Emma also noticed the abnormality. Despite suffering such serious burns, the knight’s clothes remained unburnt. Not even a scorch could be spotted on his knight uniform, as if nothing had happened.
“Arban? Rainbow raccoons also exist in this forest, do they?”
Melsa asked in a trembling voice.
“Y-Yes. Moreover, when we encountered them in the forest earlier… there was one… that I failed to kill.”
Melsa roughly counted the number of people on the lace, then glanced at the flames. She couldn’t help but hold her forehead, thinking they had found themselves in big trouble.
The headcount was too high.
“Eh? What, what? Is it something super awful?”
George asked William after seeing his dismayed mother and uncle. But William was just as dismayed as them.
“But that should have only existed in the Northern Continent!”
William stubbornly shook his head again without answering his older brother’s question.
“That must not exist here… Just how on earth… That being here, where rainbow raccoons also live, the chances are…” William muttered with clattering teeth, desperately denying the answer in his head.
“But William, didn’t we also encounter a similar situation recently? With this much evidence on hand, we have no choice but to acknowledge it.”
‘Just face the fact.’ Emma patted her younger brother’s head until his hair was disheveled.
“Over, too, wasn’t a monster that would appear in Imperial Japan, remember?”
“gasp! Then Nee-sama, does it mean we have to fight that one?!” shouted William. “T-that, that Fire Fox!”
Even though the opponent was no longer an unknown monster, William's worry didn’t ease, but instead became heavier.
“Yup. William, you can’t get cold feet now.”
whack Emma smacked William’s back.
No matter what happened, they had to keep their spirits up.
Because the ignition source of Fire Fox’s flames was humans’ fear.
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Author’s corner:
Crisis: I-I suddenly got busy!
Serious: M-Me too? Busy?
Rom-Com Geeky Lady: That one ugly page I wrote should never be seen by a sound reader. Look closer, Comedy! Find it!
Sir Comedy: Uh-oh! Not good! This isn’t the time to be working!
