*PLOP*
GEH...HEH...HEH....
No more... Why is he still training?!?!
It's been 12 days since Roy and Mr. Aldis left. As Rei predicted, Saria snuck away, leaving her mom a note that said she'd travel with Roy and his dad to help, since Mr. Aldis was not in the best condition to care for others. Saria's mom was upset...but she trusted Mr. Aldis to "discipline" Saria for leaving. Apparently she and Mr. Aldis were SUPER close, since Saria's mom says "He would know that I'd never agree to this"
Doggy sensei and Rei have been decorating my secret spot. They put some logs here and there so we don't damage the trees that are hiding this spot from the monsters lurking in the Forbidden Woods, And Rei hung a rack of weapons on a low-hanging branch, 'cause he hasn't figured out what he wants as a second weapon.
He even built a small rack of weapons for me! They're my sized! Wow, kids in a medieval fantasy world are amazing.
Doggy sensei is doing something to the thorny bushes and tangled vines that block the river I kept hearing. The splashes I hear...the fishes sound large! Lots of meat on 'em, I'm sure of it!
But...that guy... Rei has been training like his life depended on it! If he doesn't stop soon, he'll die!
I gotta give him a piece of my mind!
"MRA!! Mra mra mra!"
"Haha! No way! I'm okay! Promise! Hah...hah... All'a this mana...will help me grow! I just...gotta- *Cough*"
I walk over to his kneeling, sweaty body with my newest trusty wooden sword and...*Whack!*
"Ah! Hey! Meowbo-"
*Whack!*
I'm not Meowbo! I furiously whack his big hand with my powerful wooden sword until he drops his own.
"Hehehe, okay! Okay, I promise to stop...and... EVENTUALLY... give you a proper name."
"Woof.(Seems he misunderstood my teachings.)"
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Oh?! Doggy-sensei has come ba-AAAAGH! Why does Doggy sensei have a scratch on his front paw...and-and...
What the heck is that giant slithery thing in its mouth?!
"Woof.(Stop panicking. The Eel just moved a little fast, and I've yet to recover. I got cut. But I caught this Eel.)"
An-An EEL you say...that slithery thing with horns and razor sharp teeth, it's like...FOURTEEN times doggy-sensei's size! How did they catch-!
...
...I don't wanna go fishing anymore. I'll get eaten.
"Woof.(Honestly, I'm surprised. The Forbidden Woods have a reputation for housing mutated monsters of terrifying size, but this one's just a small worm. Maybe the little guy's somehow connected to why a weak village is allowed to exist so close to it.)"
*SPLOTCH!* *THUD!*
"Mn? -!! WOAAAH!"
Doggy-sensei smirked as they dropped the massive eel on the floor beside me. Water splattered about, its leathery body creating such force upon falling that my feline form flew into the air a little. Rei examined the coated corpse with childish awe.
"Is thin...edible?!"
"Woof(I think so.)"
Doggy-sensei nods and Rei forgets his fatigue(though the sweat gives it away.) He readily starts a campfire before doggy sensei stops him.
"Woof.(Not Here.)"
I dunno if he understood doggy-sensei, but he grabs the eel and drags it back to his camping grounds while mumbling about who in the village knows how to prepare eel. Meanwhile, I am doing my post training meditation!
That's right! Doggy-sensei taught me how to properly gather mana! Sometimes when I'm finished, my throat and butt always get itchy, though. Hm, I wonder why?
...
Whatever!
I'm not ready for "mana conversion" yet, apparently, so I need to properly intake mana when I'm exhausted to speed up recovery. Heh, If the stray cats from Adventurer's city ever learned that my sensei was a dog, they'd probably start a blood feud with me.
'We didn't raise ya to learn from no smelly canine!'
Or something. Speaking of...
Mrah! Nya! Mrao-ha!!
I need to keep practicing the cat fighting techniques I remember. Switching between four-legged and two legged fighting sounds very hard, but I can't forget my roots--
*COUGH* I mean my instincts! M-My roots are human...
Anyway! I'm not supposed to take in too much mana, it seems. According to Doggy-sensei there was once a puppy with monster blood in it that got 'drunk' on drawing in mana and lost control of it's inherited monster dna. When the dog woke up, all of its human loved ones were missing and only blood stained the wooden cabin.
It sounds sad...but I dunno what that's got to do with me.
...
*GASP*
Was Doggy-sensei telling me I have monster blood?!
...
Pfft, yeah right. If I had such convenient stuff, where was it when that one-eyed goblin attacked me?! Mrah, probably a warning that 'mana' can be a little dangerous if not used properly.
Speaking of...
I gaze all around the clearing - beautiful streams of mana in the air twirl around the practice logs and through those newly built racks. So beautiful. How can something so magical exist? Doggy sensei said that mana exists everywhere and can't....NOT exist. If so, then gosh have I been missing out SO much on Earth! I could've seen this beautiful view ages ago...!
I return to Rei's campfire, but before I know it, two bulky arms have already lifted me under them. Some villager I never speak to is holding me. If I recall, he was the local village expert on fishing, retired fisherman Pierre.
"That's a mighty fine Dreaded Moray you've got yerself there, Feline. I hear you found a nice hidden fishing spot an' Falias caught it? Heheheh~ leave it to a cat to know the greatest fishin' spots!"
...Heheh. Nyahaha! So that was a Moray Eel! Keep praising me! I'm humble enough to accept it all!
"Decent size for a small feast. Just requires a bit o' work, cleanin' out the parasites an' poison. Its fangs can paralyze wit' some neurotoxin, so they sell well. Can't let yerself get bit."
Nya...that sounds like thunder fang...
...WAIT! P-Parasites?! Poison? That reminds me of the Chameleon Hydra, is EVERYTHING in that Forbidden Woods like that?! Had I kept that river for myself, would I've just fed that fish instead??
Mrah, I might've wound up with a parasite in my tummy...oh maybe...if it kept healing me like the Hydra's parasites...
*GASP* I could be invincible! I gotta fin-!
"Heheheh~ Yer lucky Falias can withstand some poisons, cat. I bet even that eel's parasites are large enough to gobble ya!"
"..."
*Sniff*
I have a long way to go... Master doggy sensei! Hurry and make me powerful!
