Neighbors in forbidden land

This is a box, right?

I remember seeing humans use it. Like a boat, it is also made of wood. The brown surface is covered with fine burrs, and it was floated and swayed by Goo's head as it moved closer and closer to the sea surface.

"Glug grunt. (Wood, wood.)"

"Ah, Xiaogu is back." Yimi groped through the pile of vines in front of her with her hands, and then strung the leaves she found on the vines in some unknown way.

But the point now is not that.

"Xiao Hei? What's wrong?"

While talking, Xiao Gu hit the box with his body for the last time and pushed the box onto the beach.

"Gurrrrrr. (This, this.)"

Little Goo flopped in the water for a while, then quietly floated on the surface of the sea, staring at Yimi with blinking white eyes.

"A box? Why is there a box here?" Although Yimi's tone was full of doubts, she still turned her back to the sea and continued to move.

"where is it?"

"Strange..." Yimi put the cloak on her body as she spoke, and slowly got up.

Huh?This time it's so fast... The cloak I used last time was better than this time——

I didn't notice until I saw Yimi squatting covertly with a blushing face.

The cloak was not finished at all, only the vines weaved a basic shape, and the hem did not reach a little below the chest, and there was only a small piece of leaves that just blocked the small chest, under which the large snow-white skin was directly exposed to the air , showing a slight pink in the sun.

"……Where……"

"Little black."

"Xiao Hei, if you dare to look around, or dare to laugh out loud... you will die."

"Gulu? (Huh?)" Little Goo shook his silvery white tail in confusion, creating shallow waves one after another on the surface of the sea.

So I saw Yimi squatting, crawling, and groping towards the box in order to block her body, but even so, there are many skins and parts that the cloak does not block...

So I chose to cover my eyes with my paws, but...

Because it lacks a claw tip, it is unstoppable.

... So I had to look at the box as a last resort.

That's a box.

It was a box made of wood.

It was a square box made of wood.

It was a square box made of wood that was partly darker and partly lighter by seawater.

That's—sorry, I really don't know what to look at...

By the way, as long as I don't speak, Yimi shouldn't know that I'm looking at her, right?

Forget it... Yimi said don't look at it.

"If you let me feel your gaze, Xiao Hei, the end will be the same."

Yimi, who continued to "squat and crawl" towards the box, suddenly said this.

I had no choice but to move my claws again, although this did not help to cover my black hole-like eyes.

after awhile……

"This is really...a box..." Yimi grabbed the hem of the cloak with one hand, trying to cover her body better, while the other hand was tentatively groping on the surface of the box.

If you look at it this way...the box is taller than Yimi who is squatting...

"Gurg grunt. (Human, wood.)"

"Xiao Hei, your words are still so strange..." Yimi tapped the box with her right hand, and then pushed the box, "This box...is a bit heavy...There seems to be something inside...Little Gu, you How did you push this up..."

"Gulu Gulu? (Swim, shake.)" Goo turned around in the sea, then continued wagging his tail and blinking at Yimi.

Dialogue is completely untenable.

When you get on the shore, you will only struggle, but when you get off the sea, your speed will become very fast.

"Is that so..." Standing up slowly, he held his chin with his right hand and pondered for a while.

"Where did you find this box?" This question was obviously asked by Xiao Gu.

"Gulu Gulu. (Human, swim.)"

But we can't go together at all.

But to be honest, I don't understand... The things I've heard from other monsters are probably similar to those of Bechymos.

Scared, running away, whatever.

I never knew that communicating with the same kind of little monsters would be more difficult than communicating with humans.

"I think so too..." Yimi covered her face with her right hand, "I thought it had something to do with someone else... Why on earth did I have expectations for Xiaogu..."

"Gollum? (Huh?)"

"Little black."

"Open this box and see what's inside."

"What? Can't it be done?"

I'm afraid that even the box and the unknown objects inside were dismantled together.

"Just be careful."

After Yimi slowly "squatted and crawled" away, I cautiously stretched out a claw tip and poked lightly at the edge of the box.

I only heard a "crash", and the edge of the box was directly crushed by my claws, and the whole box fell apart.

Something round seemed to roll out along the inside, but more seemed to be crushed under by pieces of the box.

...This should work, right?

"Xiao Hei, what did you do..." Yimi asked me with a surprised face.

"Something? What is it?"

A few of them rolled out because I broke open the box just now. They are round and the color is similar to the dirt... But it is said to be round, but in fact the surface is full of pits and pits, just like the dirt. There are pits everywhere...

what is this?

"I don't know? What is so mysterious..."

Yimi cautiously groped to the box that had been shattered into pieces, and took out one from the bottom of the broken pieces of the wooden box and held it in her hand.

Yimi sniffed lightly with her nose, and then played with her hands repeatedly.

"...What does this thing look like?"

It's such a simple thing...

"Earth yellow..." Yimi touched it with her hand again, and then held the thing without moving.

so--

"Goo, oo, oo, oo. (Gnaw, gnaw, gnaw, gnaw.)"

Such a voice came from the sea.

I turned my eyes away from the thoughtful Yimi...

I saw the little goo who kept biting that thing in the sea.

"What happened so suddenly..." Yimi, who was thinking, was also attracted by my voice, but Xiaogu simply ignored my voice, continued to fix the thing on the sea surface with his fins, and then used his fangs to He kept peeling that thing, and swallowed the cut part.

"Grunt. (Swallow.)"

Seeing that Xiao Gu had no intention of stopping, I had no choice but to give up.

After all, they are both monsters, no matter what they eat, there should be no problem.

"Eat? By the way, if Xiao Gu is eating...Xiao Hei, can you see what's inside this thing?"

I looked at the part that Xiao Gu had chipped off with his fangs...

"Yellow..." Yimi murmured a few words in a low voice—

He took a small bite of what was in his hand with his mouth.

Humans don't seem to be able to eat anything!

result.

Yimi moved her mouth and chewed for a few times, then spit it out.

There was a surprised expression on his face.

"Although this is rough...but I have eaten...salad in the palace..."

"It's... a potato!"

But I don't get it at all...

"Potatoes, potatoes!"

Although it's rare for you to be so excited, Yimi, all I want to ask is...

"Goo, loo. (Naw, gnaw.)"

A smile gradually appeared on Yimi's face, and she held the khaki ball called a potato in her hand, and smiled slightly: "Xiao Hei, don't you even know about potatoes? Have you never eaten it?"

Because I don't need to eat, I have never eaten many things in this world.

I guess Yimi has eaten more than me...

In the next moment, Yimi shook the potato in his hand, showing a smile brighter than the sun above the blue sky:

"Little black."

"Let's grow potatoes!"

"Google? (chew, huh?)"

On this desolate land, in this land called the Forbidden Land.

Yimi said excitedly that she wanted to "plant potatoes".

Only me, who was left alone, and Xiao Gu, who was eating potatoes vigorously, were here.

Overwhelmed.