The hunger in Kai's belly made even him tired of it. He lay on the crystal bed, half asleep weakly.
Damn it, Fleur is so cruel that she doesn’t send food?!
...If this continues, he will starve to death. Not to mention finding an opportunity to escape after his body recovers, he is so hungry now that it is impossible to even get up and take a step.
To die here like this? Meaningless, without glory, unknown to the world, miserable?
"Grrrrrrrrrrrr--" His stomach was still moaning. No matter how philosophical Kai's thoughts were, his stomach would not care about Kai's feelings. No matter how bored he was, hunger would always haunt him. Until--
----
"Ouch?" Kai heard a voice beside him. He turned around and saw that it was the thirty-foot-long big lizard again.
"Aw, ow, aw, aw!" the salamander jumped up and down, making a cheerful sound.
"...You kid is always so optimistic, it's really enviable." Kai said feebly. He was so hungry that he had the illusion that the person in front of him was a puppy.
Puppy...?
The puppy wagged its happy little tail in front of the boy, asking the red-haired boy to take him out to play.
I'm so hungry... I wonder what dog meat tastes like? The boy swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
At that time, he was just a young boy living in the slums. He was dressed in rags and was often beaten until his mouth was swollen and his nose was bruised. There was not a day that passed without him shivering in the cold wind, and he never had a full meal.
The mother, who was already poor, never regarded the boy as a human being and gave him only leftovers to eat, barely keeping him from starving to death.
------I'm so hungry. What's going on with this little puppy that I don't know where it came from?
A slovenly little wild dog with no collar, skinny skin, and messy hair.
Since it is a wild dog, since it is an ownerless thing, there is probably no problem in eating it...
The boy swallowed, his hunger overpowering his guilt. He walked over slowly and picked up the puppy. He pretended to hold the puppy gently, in order to avoid the puppy becoming suspicious. Then
, he stretched his hand to the puppy's neck.
------Choke him to death!
------After strangulation, remove the fur and internal organs, boil it in a pot, and then you can eat it. The boy swallowed his saliva. Even though it was a thin little wild dog, it could at least give him a full meal.
------Kill him. Eat him. Only then can you survive.
In order to live, this is all natural!
Kill him quickly!
Take action!?
"Woo." The puppy licked the boy's face, and its warm little tongue left a moist feeling on the boy's face. The furry little guy moved happily in the arms of the red-haired boy, and its little paws moved playfully.
Picking it up. It is obviously a hungry puppy, but it is so happy. It is obvious that it is about to be eaten, but it is so happy.
"...You're so optimistic, I'm so enviable." The red-haired boy muttered in a low voice.
"Woof woof?" The puppy seemed to understand the boy's words, and he barked twice in agreement.
The puppy's heart was beating loudly, trembling again and again in the boy's arms. The puppy's body was like a small blanket, smooth and soft, bringing some warmth to the ragged boy.
This beating, warm, little form...this is life.
Such a small life, so humble, yet so heavy.
The red-haired boy couldn't help crying.
------How could I eat such a little life?!
The young man picked up half a piece of bread lying beside his bed and divided the pitifully small piece of bread into two halves equally.
He ate half of it in one bite and threw the other half to the puppy.
The puppy ate happily. Judging from his skinny appearance, he might have been hungry for a long time.
"Are you the same as me?" the red-haired boy whispered.
The puppy was just spinning around happily, chasing its tail. They were different, he was much better than him. In the midst of hunger, cold, and despair, he still did not forget his joy. The young man couldn't help but feel that he was not even connected to the puppy.
Not as good as anything.
"...Well, Luke, you can be my servant. I will never leave you wherever I go. Although there is not much to eat, I will never let you starve to death."
of."
you are my friend.
In the rest of his life, the puppy always accompanied the red-haired boy, playing together, going hungry together, making trouble together, and being punished together.
Until the moment of separation.
Kai came back to his senses and remembered memories that he shouldn't have remembered.
There was still thunder in his belly, and his condition had not improved at all. However, the big lizard licked Kai's face and bit his own tail.
(------What are you doing?!)
The salamander pulled hard on its tail!
(------stop!!)
The lizard tore off its tail. The five-foot-long tail was as thick as a man's thigh.
He endured the severe pain, bit his tail, and threw the big tail with tender flesh in front of Kai.
(Eat.)
(Eat, become energetic, and then play with me.)
(------This is to repay your kindness for feeding me bread.)
Tears welled up from the corners of Kai's eyes.
The salamander in front of him was Luke. There was no doubt about it!
At that time, in front of [Kama's Seat], the one who defeated [God] was not Kai, but the puppy named [Luke].
At the cost of saving Kai's life, the puppy disappeared forever from Kai's life.
However, a life cannot disappear out of thin air. Life only disappears from one time and space, transforms into another posture, and appears in another time and space. ------ Life is, as a part of the reincarnation of Kama
And there are gears that are constantly turning.
How the puppy traveled through countless time and space, transformed into a salamander, and came to Kai again - Kai had no idea.
All he knew was that he had once again seen the friend he had forgotten.
"Luke..." The red-haired boy burst into tears, enduring the severe pain in his back, and crawled out of bed. He hugged the salamander and cried loudly.
"------You kid is always so optimistic...it's so enviable!" he cried.
The fire giant Frey was quietly observing from a distance. She clenched a red fruit in her hand. She originally wanted to give this bit of food to the knight, after all, she couldn't really let him starve to death. However, what happened just now,
She was shocked and couldn't go any further.
The sacred salamander cut off its own tail just to feed a humble human being?
She couldn't understand why Salamander loved a mere human so much.
There is no hate without reason in this world, nor is there love without reason.
The behavior of the holy beast goes beyond logic and common sense, and can only be explained by Kama (fate).
But now, even Frey, the descendant of the giant clan who deeply believes in Kama science (astrology), doesn't know how to explain it!
She watched the red-haired knight with tears streaming down his face as he ate the ruby-red tender meat of the lizard's tail raw; she then looked at the salamander that had cut off its own tail but was jumping up and down happily;
------Fulei has no idea in her mind.
What should she do with this strange human boy who is doted on by Kama (destiny) in front of her?