Return of the Fallen Volume 10 Chapter 66
Shin wanted a Golem that could move and keep up with his speed so that he could have someone proper to spar with. Kazuki didn’t have a problem with this but there were other important things to do first.
“If I make such a Golem will you stop bothering me?”
Shin smiled.
“Of course, hehehe.”
Kazuki agreed to do it but later for now he decided to fix up his world. The mural he created in memory of his brother and the others were ruined. With a wave of his hand, the flow of power changed on planet Kai and everything that was damaged was fixed brand new as if nothing had ever occurred in the first place.
“Now, shall we go eat?”
Mei jumped up and down in excitement.
“Let’s go let’s go let’s go!”
Returning to Glacious’s tiny world, Alutra was already waiting with Detra. The two were chatting happily about something when Kazuki and everyone else appeared.
“Kazuki come and take a look at what I found.”
Alutra waved him over and revealed a small ball of fur in her hand and it was colored in red and black.
“This is?”
There was a tiny creature on Alutra’s hand resting calmly in her open palm. The creature was something Kazuki had never before seen. It was round almost like a ball and had tiny paws and big eyes. It looked like a monkey and a hamster fused together and even had a short tail. The moment Kazuki saw it, he had a look of confusion. He had covered the entire world with his aura at one point and had sensed all living creatures and he had not felt the presence of this thing before. Not only that but the small creature surprisingly was giving off a small amount of aura as well.
Before he could say anything, Shaila, Asuna, Nunully, Kimi, Mei, Lamia, and Tsura all rushed past Kazuki and surrounded both Detra and Alutra as they pined, and gushed about how cute the little furball was.
Shin slapped Kazuki on the back to tease him.
“No longer popular huh?”
Out of all the women, only Triska stood back with Shin and shook her head as if she felt disgraced for being a woman herself.
Kazuki slapped Shin’s hand away and walked over.
“Alutra, what is that and where did it come from?”
Alutra shrugged.
“I don’t know what it’s called but as for where it came from, well, one of the planets out there.”
Alutra pointed toward space but following the direction she pointed in, Kazuki discovered not a single world in that direction.
“You’re not even pointing at anything.”
“Hmm, well I don’t remember which planet exactly I just know this thing was all by itself with nothing else. I went with Detra at first but everything she was doing was just work for you and that was boring so I decided to explore a little myself. I went to a few nearby planets and stars but there wasn’t much around so I went further until I heard this little thing crying out.”
Danny noticed something off right away.
“You heard its cry in space. How is that possible?”
Alutra shook her head.
“This little guy spoke directly into my mind. I don’t think he was calling for anyone in particular but his cries really got to me so I knew I had to help him. I raced over and found him on an empty world and he was just so pitiful by himself and was clearly hungry and had been neglected. I think he was abandoned. The second I saw him though, I knew I needed to show him to Detra right away and so I quickly returned here. I wasn’t paying attention from which direction so I don’t recall the exact location, sorry. But forget that, that’s not important. Kazuki! look at how cute he is!”
Alutra shoved the tiny creature in Kazuki’s face repeatedly.
“Look look look! I just had to help this little baby.”
Shaila promptly hooked her arm around Tozu’s and spoke with unbridled passion as she told him.
“Dear, I want a child of our own. Don’t you think it’s time?”
Tozu didn’t shy away in the least as he hugged her back.
“After achieving this strength, there is not much else to want for but I’ll admit, a child has been on my mind as of late.”
Shaila squeezed him even harder and lifted him off the ground.
“REALLY!?”
Tozu scratched his bald head as he nodded.
Sasai on the other hand could only roll his eyes at the lovey-dovey couple.
At the same time, Kazuki felt something was off about the whole situation.
“You were wondering in the depths of space and just so happened to be called out by this creature. Not only that but this little thing actually has the capability to call out through the mind and even enough power to call out and enter a Demigod’s mind of all things. I can even feel an aura hidden deep within this small creature. This is odd, no, this is plain suspicious.”
Alutra shook her head.
“What are you saying. This innocent little baby is suspicious, Kazuki you go too far.”
Not just her but All of the women seemed to have a say about it besides Triska and Detra.
“All I’m saying is that something doesn’t feel quite right. Are you guys really disagreeing?”
“Of course we are. Kazuki this baby was crying out for help, how is that suspicious. How can you be so cold?”
(Of course, Kimi is disagreeing with me, what’s new.)
“I’m not being cold, just thinking things are a bit too coincidental.”
Kazuki wasn’t too paranoid but things just didn’t seem to add up. He wasn’t alone as Danny added.
“For a creature to be on an empty world, just how did it survive, how could it survive. Was there no food, no water? How can a creature that’s clearly a child have an aura and communicate through the mind? That is a high-level technique. Also, I sense no magical energy inside this creature. Are you telling me an infant survived on an empty world with no power and called you from space?”
Alutra scoffed.
“What are you talking about it has magical energy I can feel it. As for surviving, I told you it was hungry, who or whatever abandoned it must have done so recently. As for it having aura and being able to call to me, there are many mysterious things in all the Realms, this is simply another one and is not rare at all. Right, Detra is the only other one that has traveled and explored this Realm, she would know what I’m talking about. Tell them, about how there are as many mysterious as there are stars in the sky.”
Alutra looked at Detra and Detra was at a loss at first. It was true that there were an untold number of mysteries but she had never seen or discovered such a creature in all of her time in this Realm. She who had seen and traversed this Lower Realm more than any other and yet she was in the dark on this creature’s origins.
In the end, she was just honest.
“I have not personally seen this creature before but Alutra isn’t wrong. There are a number of mysterious things that even I still don’t know nor have I encountered but these things do exist. I can feel them. I don’t know what this thing is but there are plenty of times when infant creatures are birthed into this Realm with strange and undeniable powers. Whatever this creature is, its parents must have been strong to pass on such power at such a young age. If this thing really was found on an empty world with no food and no one to look after, it most likely was abandoned. If that’s so, well, I don’t really know from there. At least Alutra saving it shouldn’t be considered a bad thing.”
Alutra smiled at Detra before hugging her happily.
“Exactly what Detra said. I saved it so it’s not your concern anyway nephew.”
Kazuki raised a brow.
“I thought we agreed to call each other by name.”
“I call you what I’ll call you if you try and take this away from me.”
Mei and the others stood in front of ALutra as if to protect the tiny creature. Kazuki could only shake his head.
“Whoever said I was going to take that thing away. Aren’t you misinterpreting what I said? All I said was it was suspicious. What you do with it, that’s up to you but just remember what I said, it appearing out of nowhere on an empty world. Things aren’t adding
Kazuki’s words stopped here because Alutra was still giving him a grief-stricken look as if he had just stolen from her.
(It possess no danger to me or anyone else here so it should be fine. As long as I keep a watchful eye on it and make sure nothing strange happens, I guess it doesn’t matter if she keeps it or not.)
“Keep it, don’t keep it, do what you will. Just stop pouting, will you? You’re supposed to be my aunt, not my little sister.”
Alutra and the other girls started cheering as Alutra declared.
“Yay, we won!”
Kazuki ignored this foolishness and sat down at the table. A drink appeared in his hand and he started to drink right away.
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