Chapter 26
At that moment, the barrage comments were like floodwater breaking through a dam, instantly covering the entire screen until it was nearly filled with nothing but screams and exclamations.
[Help, so all that ramming around in the branches was him attacking the leaves T-T the little guy’s combat power is truly incredible!]
[Hahahahaha my head hurts from laughing so hard right now]
[Those adorable little horns really are weapons! I’m dead already!]
[Wuwuwu… Teacher Mimi, those aren’t horns at all, they’re clearly your little lamb braids!]
Up in the tree, after Yomi said that, he noticed the prey Ansius had carried back—a giant electric bull.
Even though Ansius carried it as casually as if it were a pig, when Yomi came face to face with that “pig,” he felt it had smoothly completed its transformation from “pig” into “dinosaur.”
Yomi pressed his lips together slightly.
At this distance, the bull’s horns could be seen much more clearly. They were practically like sharp curved blades, brimming with killing power at a glance.
Yomi lifted a hand and touched his own fake horns, as if waking from a dream. Smiling awkwardly but politely, he said, “What a big cow.”
The monster set down the electric bull and carried him down from the tree.
Once on the ground, Yomi circled around the electric bull and looked at it for quite a while, even carefully touching its horns. Sure enough, there were differences between horns and horns.
Only after Yomi had finished playing with it did Ansius hoist the electric bull up again and continue walking back. Clutching his knife, Yomi followed behind him. After they had walked a while, Yomi spotted some white mushrooms on the ground. He poked at Ansius’s leg and asked whether those mushrooms could be eaten.
Ansius nodded. They were very ordinary white mushrooms.
After confirming they were not poisonous, Yomi happily picked a whole bunch of them. When he could not hold them all, he used a large tree leaf to carry them.
Ansius wanted to help him hold them, but Yomi immediately shook his head. “I can do it.” He could not hunt, so at the very least he had to gather the mushrooms himself.
Seeing that he insisted, the other man simply picked him up instead. The monster held the little person, and the little person blankly held the mushrooms.
[Hahahaha this image is way too funny, Yomi’s expression is priceless]
[The little sweetheart wanted to share the burden with his partner, but his partner just picked up all the burden together with him!]
[Why do I kind of want to ship this, wuwuwu…]
[Teacher Mimi and him are obviously just cooperating for work! Our Teacher Mimi is very professional!]
For Ansius’s original form, dealing with the electric bull could be described as utterly effortless. The “fruit knife” Yomi had contributed was completely useless. All he could do was watch from the side as Ansius’s sharp claws tore through hide and fur, then ripped chunks of meat apart in a few strokes and set them over the fire rack they had built not long ago.
[…I looked away for one second, and suddenly they have fire?]
[Oh come on, with all that inexhaustible strength Louis has, do you really think starting a fire by friction would be hard for him? I feel like if Mimi handed him an ice cube and said he wanted to see fireworks, Louis could rub sparks out of the ice itself!]
[…]
[Hahaha in the other group, Mark and Mond both brought lighters]
[Joseph is over there cooking fish for the slime… while these two are already eating steak! Their life is going pretty well!]
Before the pile of stones at the cave entrance, one big and one small each busied themselves with their own tasks.
After dealing with the electric bull, Ansius did not even rest. He took the mushrooms Yomi had gathered, washed them, and then laid them out beside the meat to roast as well.
Staring at the meat the whole time, Yomi suddenly got an idea. He found some sticks nearby, shaved them into skewers with his knife, threaded the washed white mushrooms onto them, and set them beside the beef to grill!
The monster froze for a moment, seemingly thinking of something too. He lowered his head and looked at Yomi’s little mouth, then at the large chunks of beef over the fire. Immediately, he picked up Yomi’s little knife, whittled several more small wooden skewers in one go, then cut the beef into smaller pieces, strung up several skewers, and roasted them again.
[Grilled mushrooms? Beef skewers? Fine, that’s better than what I’m eating!]
[Our Mimi really knows how to eat. I’m drooling just watching!]
[Mimi’s Daily Life should become a food streamer in the future. I’d definitely watch!]
The mushrooms were done first. Yomi blew on one and tasted it. The flavor was fresh, and the texture was tender and smooth—perfectly to his liking! He immediately handed the remaining mushrooms to Ansius. “Louis, you worked hard today. You should eat more.”
He was much smaller than Snaran, so the amount of food he needed was naturally much less as well. And after personally witnessing Ansius’s fierce hunting earlier, Yomi understood very clearly in his heart that, in this partnership of theirs, the main labor force from now on would absolutely be Ansius.
Ansius looked at the skewer of mushrooms, took one off with his claws, and after eating it, simply kept his head lowered and continued roasting the meat. No matter how much Yomi offered him afterward, he would not eat any more.
Yomi assumed he did not like mushrooms and did not force him. His eyes shone as he stared at the fragrant beef.
[Did I see that wrong? Why did Louis blush after eating the mushrooms?]
[You can tell that? Louis’s original form is practically covered in black scales, isn’t it?]
[Look at his ears. Their color got darker… holy shit, those mushrooms can’t be poisonous, can they?]
[Hahaha the person above is so silly. Louis was obviously moved by the mushrooms that our Teacher Mimi personally picked and cooked!]
The electric bull meat was done roasting and had begun sizzling with oil. The aroma drifted everywhere.
Yomi twitched his nose and quietly sniffed.
…It smelled amazing.
Ansius took down the roasted meat and first handed the smaller skewers to Yomi, secretly watching him with one eye.
Yomi did not eat them right away. Instead, he took out the mushrooms he had not yet finished, put the beef and mushrooms together, opened his mouth wide, and bit into both at once, chewing and swallowing hard.
The fragrance shot straight to the top of his head!
“So good… be careful, it’s hot… this is so delicious!” Yomi said, giving a thumbs-up with his evaluation.
Seeing how happily he was eating, Ansius took up several more pieces of beef and set them onto a large green leaf that was temporarily being used as a plate. Each time Yomi finished what was in his mouth, Ansius would hand him another piece from the leaf after it had cooled enough.
Yomi was eating so busily that every now and then he still had to squeeze out a “I can do it” or “Thank you”…
In the camera frame, the huge, heroic monster used one claw to hand meat to the lovely little person, while the other claw steadily prepared more food. His gaze never once left that little figure.
By the end, Yomi had grown too lazy to use the skewers and simply grabbed the meat with both hands, taking great mouthfuls until his lips were shiny with oil.
[What survival? This is clearly some wildlife documentary about raising a baby! The only thing missing is feeding him mouth-to-mouth!]
[I actually think it looks more like they came on some holiday camping trip…]
[Why am I suddenly so hungry watching this?]
[I noticed one detail—every few bites of beef, Teacher Mimi glances at his mushrooms with a look that seems to say: I contributed too, I hunted those mushrooms and brought them back!]
[Hunting mushrooms, hahaha…]
Yomi had eaten his fill. He had even gotten tired from eating. Wiping his hands, he slumped against the wall. “Louis, take your time eating. I’m going to sit for a while.”
Some time later, after Ansius had finished eating and looked up, all he saw was Yomi’s tiny back.
At the moment, Yomi was bored, and with his back turned, he was playing with that ugly little grass-woven dog to pass the time. When Ansius approached, Yomi immediately turned back, his oily little mouth facing him. “You’re done eating?”
The monster stared at his mouth for quite a long while before coming back to himself. His claw moved as if searching for a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, but he suddenly remembered that there was no handkerchief here. Rising, the monster plucked several feathers from his own back, briefly wove them together a little, and then, under Yomi’s baffled gaze, used the clean feathers to wipe his mouth.
Yomi: “……”
[?]
[Mimi’s eyes are saying: thank you but really no need, it pokes my mouth!]
[Hahaha… if he keeps wiping him like this every day, by the end of one season Louis’s wings are going to be bald, won’t they?]
[Mond’s side is especially funny. He and the movie emperor have already split up and are building separate shelters. Someone said they’re not cooperating at all, they’re just playing a game of who can survive longer… the complete opposite of the atmosphere over here!]
Yomi’s complicated feelings would not show too clearly on his face. During his work at the estate, he had already experienced the Crown Prince’s mouth-wiping techniques. But this was the wilderness after all, and he felt it was necessary to tell him that some things were not absolutely required.
“Louis,” Yomi said as he stood up and licked his lips. With both hands behind his back, he began in a solemn voice, “I can wipe my own mouth casually. Don’t pluck your feathers anymore. Out here, we don’t have to stay clean all the time.”
Ansius looked at him without speaking, and there was no way of knowing whether he had truly taken those words in. Slowly, he closed his claws more tightly around the feathers in his hand.
Now that he was full and it was still not dark yet, Yomi looked around the cave—the place they would be staying in for many days to come—and naturally took it upon himself to decorate it.
He stepped out of the cave entrance and looked to the left, touched around on the right, then went into the grass and in just a few moments came back holding a bunch of flowers, which he arranged into a fruit shell that was temporarily serving as a vase.
The cave might have been picked up for free, but life still belonged to him!
[What is going on over here? Why are they this relaxed? I suggest the production team increase the difficulty! Otherwise it’s way too easy!]
[Easy? Go look at the other group—the painter is practically starving to death already! After Prince Joseph hunted with an elegant posture, he got so exhausted he hardly had the strength to eat. Meanwhile the slime is just stuffing himself madly…]
[Exactly! What do you mean easy? It’s just that our Mimi is good at wilderness survival. The strong never complain about their environment!]
[…] Yomi is good at wilderness survival? If I hadn’t watched the livestream, I might really have believed you!
Toward evening, Ansius put out the fire, cut up part of the roasted beef with the knife, and arranged it on leaves. This was being saved as Yomi’s late-night snack, while the rest would become tomorrow morning’s breakfast for the two of them.
Leia Continent had a huge temperature difference between day and night, and the temperature at night was very low, so the beef would not spoil after just one night.
The sky was about to go dark, and Yomi had already climbed into bed. He also put the little grass dog onto it, because that made the cave feel a bit more like home.
Even if you’re in the wilderness, you can still make things cozy~
The little person sat on the soft leaves and began fiddling with the special phone the program team had given them. Though it was called a phone, it had been custom-made according to the palm size of most Snaran, so for Yomi it was more like a tablet computer.
Leaning against the wall, he raised the oversized phone.
[What’s Mimi doing? Can the camera move in closer?]
[Yomi isn’t playing with the special phone the production team gave them, is he? Oh no, he can’t! The battery on the production team’s phone is limited. Unless absolutely necessary, he should never turn it on—he has to save the power!]
[Don’t panic, the “teacher” in Teacher Mimi didn’t come for nothing. He knows what he’s doing. Look more carefully at what he’s actually doing.]
On the livestream screen, the lighting was dim. But as the camera quietly moved closer, it became clear that the phone in front of the little figure was not even switched on.
On the black screen of the phone was reflected a little face topped with small ram horns.
Yomi looked at his face from side to side, then smoothed down a few strands of hair that were sticking up.
After all, he was on a show. If the conditions allowed, there was nothing wrong with paying some extra attention to his appearance.
[Aaaahhh, vain little Mimi!]
[Honestly though, with a phone that big, for Yomi it really is a giant mirror]
Once the last thread of light disappeared from the horizon, the entire Leia Continent sank into darkness.
The temperature dropped sharply. Yomi had long since gotten into bed, preparing to sleep. He was not dressed very warmly, and was just about to pull up the hay beneath him as a blanket when the giant shadow beside him suddenly shifted toward him. Yomi only felt his body tilt, and then the monster’s claw scooped him into his arms. The heat from that blazing chest made him feel incomparably warm, and his body gradually relaxed.
Well then, let’s just huddle together for warmth like this.
Where he could not see, the monster slowly spread out his wings, easily covering the tiny little person and shielding him from the cold of the entire night.
However, it was not long before the night-vision camera captured a scene that left the audience utterly speechless in amazement.
The monster lowered his head and stared at the little bundle in his arms. Once Yomi had closed his eyes and fallen asleep, the monster silently lowered his head further. After freezing stiffly for a moment, he suddenly opened his mouth and bit down over one of the little ram horns on Yomi’s head!
[?!]
[There is definitely something wrong with this! I do not remember hearing that chewing on horns has any health benefits!]
[What are you doing?! Don’t do that! I’m so scared he’ll fall asleep and then just keep going from the horn and swallow little Mimi whole, I’m genuinely scared!]
[Everyone calm down. Experts say that mangy leopards will steal and eat the young of other wild beasts, so all the beasts on Leia Continent sleep at night with their babies’ tails in their mouths to keep them from being stolen away without their noticing. This is probably Louis worrying about Yomi’s safety. Don’t overthink it!]
[I always feel like some people are deceiving themselves…]
