[Comprehensive] Fire Boxer's Little Chef

Autumn Mountains Momiji.

As the name suggests, the mountain is covered by autumn vegetation all year round, and among them, the most covered vegetation is maple.

Viewed from a distance, the entire mountain range presents a frosty red color belonging to maple leaves, which is thick and cold, unlike the golden warmth of the general autumn vegetation. A daunting sense of dread.

Generally speaking, this kind of mountain range that only grows vegetation in a single season will show the unique atmosphere of this season. From the appearance of this Momiji Mountain Range, it does not have the joy of harvest in autumn.

There is only the meaning of coolness and thinness belonging to late autumn.

"This is the Momiji Mountains. Are there any good ingredients in this kind of place?"

As soon as he got off the train, Ace looked at the Momiji Mountains that were almost completely covered by maple leaves in front of him. The image of the mountains was completely different from what he imagined, which made Ace feel a little disappointed, and he couldn't help complaining.

"Well, don't look at what it looks like on the surface, but there are many rich and delicious ingredients inside. After all, it belongs to the mountain range in the harvest season."

Arup put his arm around Ace's shoulder and explained to him patiently.

"Speaking of which, Aru, you told me that you came here to find chestnut maple syrup. How about it? Do you want me and Wayne to help you find it?"

Ace was only a little tangled up for a while, after all, his main purpose of coming here was not to find ingredients.

Pulling Wayne, who was standing behind the two, to his side, Ace suggested to Aru.

"Well, not for the time being, you two should be busy with other things, you go to your business first, if I haven't found it, it's not too late to help me find it later."

Alu bowed his head and pondered for a while, then quickly shook his head and rejected Ace's proposal.

Although there are many people and strength, he also knows that Ace has his own things to do. In addition, for food hunters, it is more satisfying to find the ingredients by himself.

"Alright, then Wayne and I will go over there first to find out the situation. The Momiji Mountains are only that big in total, and we will meet again. If not, there will be your nose."

Ace didn't insist much, nodded and joked, pointing at Alu's nose.

"I'm going there, so I'll separate here for the time being."

Alu didn't care about Ace's innocuous joke. He pointed in the opposite direction to where Ace and the two were going, and waved goodbye to the two. After a while, his figure completely disappeared from the sight of the two. Inside.

"It is estimated that there are aboriginal people on this mountain. Let's find someone first and ask them if they have seen Blackbeard."

After Aru left, Wayne also turned around and greeted Ace beside him. Just as he was about to leave, he found that his right hand was being held back.

"..."

Wayne glanced at a certain paw that was tightly grasping his right hand, didn't speak, and only signaled Ace with his eyes to let him go.

"There seems to be a similar town over there, let's go over there and have a look."

As if he didn't see Wayne's signal, Ace still held Wayne's right hand and walked somewhere in this posture.

The movement is very natural and cannot be refused.

"..."

Habits are a terrible thing.

After struggling in his heart for a while, Wayne, who finally compromised, didn't say anything, letting Ace hold his hand and walking towards the town he pointed to.

Anyway, no one knew the two of them except Alu.

Wayne thought rather self-destructively.

……

Although the Momiji Mountain Range is a mountain range, it is not as deserted as those high-risk areas.

It is famous for the red maple all over the mountains and plains, and people come here to watch the maple leaves all year round, which is commonly known as red leaf hunting.

Maple syrup is one of the famous products of the Momiki Mountains.

Feeling the strange gazes from others, Wayne stiffened his face, took the maple syrup hot muffins that Ace handed over, and gnawed bite after bite.

The fluffy, sweet and glutinous hot muffins have a chewy feeling in the mouth at this time.

Ace was still holding his right hand, as if he hadn't noticed the X-ray-like gazes from all around him.

"Uncle, I want to ask you a message, have you heard of a guy named Blackbeard around here?"

After finishing the maple syrup hot muffins in twos and twos, Ace began to ask the uncle who made the maple syrup hot muffins about Blackbeard.

"...Brother, you are from another place."

Hearing Ace's question, the uncle who was still making flour suddenly paused, then put down the work in his hands and looked around secretly, then moved closer to Ace, deliberately lowered his voice, as if he didn't want to Let others discover the general.

"Ah."

Ace nodded.

"I advise you not to casually mention that person's name here, otherwise it will cause unnecessary trouble."

The voice of the uncle selling muffins was still low, and the expression on his face became a little weird.

"why?"

Not only Ace, but Wayne became a little puzzled.

"The Momiji Mountains were originally divided into two mountains, early autumn and late autumn, but just a few days ago, there was only one mountain range in late autumn left in the Momiji Mountains. Do you know why?"

The uncle sighed, and did not answer the two people's questions directly, but asked them back with a heavy tone.

"..."

Both Ace and Wayne didn't speak, and they had some rough guesses in their hearts.

"Look over there..."

The uncle's right hand pointed to a place in the distance, and the two looked in the direction the uncle pointed.

It was a very vast and overly flat plain. There was no grass on the plain, only the bare yellow-brown surface. The overly flat plain was completely opposite to the overall steep trend of the Momiji Mountains. It was not so much a natural The formation is more like human-made.

"It was originally the location of the Chuqiu Mountain Range. A few days ago, five people passed through the Chuqiu Mountain Range. It took almost an instant. The Chuqiu Mountain Range became what you see now."

"The leader of the five is called Blackbeard, and he is also the one that the leaders of the Momiji Mountains are now vigorously searching for. However, I heard that Blackbeard and his gang left here a few days ago, but the high-level officials here I still haven’t relaxed my vigilance against him, so my brother, I advise you, don’t mention that person’s name casually here, so as not to cause trouble.”

"..."

……

Wayne followed Ace without saying a word, and Ace, who was walking ahead, was unusually noisy and calm.

There was no communication between him and Ace other than their hands still held tightly together.

"Hey, Wayne..."

There was an atmosphere of silence between the two of them, and they walked aimlessly forward. After an unknown amount of time, Ace, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped and called Wayne's name, wanting to Stop talking.

"Ok?"

Wayne looked up and looked at Ace who was walking in front of him and didn't look back, not knowing what he was going to say.

The held right hand was held even tighter, with an astonishing strength, Wayne frowned slightly.

it hurts...

"if……"

"boom"

Before Ace could speak, a loud noise suddenly came from not far away, which not only interrupted what Ace was about to say, but also successfully diverted the attention of the two of them.

"..."

Ace and Wayne looked at each other tacitly, temporarily put the episode behind them, and hurried towards the direction of the loud noise.

That is the direction that Aru left before.

When Wayne and Ace rushed to the scene, they saw such a scene.

Ah Lu stood on the flat ground, his whole body muscles were bulging, as if he was about to explode at any time, he was in a state of fighting.

It's just that he looked rather embarrassed, as if he had just experienced a hard struggle.

And opposite him, stood an extremely strange creature.

Standing on two feet, the whole body is covered with long black hair, and the head is like a bird's beak, huge and sharp, exuding a metallic luster.

Compared with Aru's bristling hair and extremely alert state, the strange creature standing opposite him behaved very naturally. It raised its finger that seemed to be made of metal and scratched its head, as if it was very comfortable with this situation. distressed.

But even if he showed such a harmless appearance, none of the few people present relaxed.

This strange creature exudes an incomparably dangerous aura, even standing in front of him will make people tremble for no reason.

Wayne stopped in his tracks, he knew that the front was not an area he could easily step into.

Ace seemed to have the same idea as Wayne. After looking at Wayne, Ace finally let go of the hand he had been holding, and looked at Wayne worriedly.

"protect yourself."

After Ace dropped such a sentence, he quickly ran to Aru's side and confronted the strange creature with him.

"Ace!"

For Ace's arrival, Alu was both surprised and happy, and his originally sharp and aggressive aura eased a lot.

"I'll talk about it later, let's deal with this strange guy now."

Ace nodded to Aru, and then assumed a fighting posture, staring at the strange creature in front of the two of them without squinting.

Alu didn't speak, but nodded, as if acquiescing to Ace's statement, and returned to his original appearance in a blink of an eye.

"..."

Looking at the domineering two people who were clearly posing for a big fight, the strange creature standing in front of them didn't react much. It still scratched its head in some trouble, and it seemed that it didn't want to fight with them at all. will.

The two sides remained in a stalemate for several seconds, and then the strange creature covered in black hair suddenly turned around and walked in the opposite direction.

It seems to be leaving here.

"Are you running away, Stajur!"

Seeing the movement of the strange creature intending to leave the place, Aru could not help but step forward and shouted loudly.

Sure enough, after hearing this sentence, the strange creature paused, and then turned around slowly.

Aru immediately resumed his fighting stance.

Unexpectedly, that strange creature just looked back at Alu and Ace, then turned around again, and continued to walk forward, no matter how much Alu shouted behind him, he didn't look back again.

"..."

Standing aside from just now, watching this unfinished battle, a little dazed.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but when the strange creature turned around just now, it seemed to glance in his direction.

He's been paying attention to it since just now, the strange creature covered in black hair gave him a faint sense of familiarity.

It's as if I've been in touch before...

"Wow, what's the matter with this big hole in your body?"

Before Wayne remembered where he had seen this creature, he was caught off guard by Ace's exclamation and his thoughts were interrupted.

Rubbing his swollen temples, Wayne temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart, and walked in front of Ace and Aru in two or three steps.

Then he immediately understood why Ace reacted that way.

Standing in front of Ace and Wayne, Aru, who was much taller than the two, had a fist-sized hole near his chest.

What is surprising is that the vicinity of the hole is not bloody and bloody like the usual serious wounds, but is very flat, like a hole punched in plasticine 1.

But no matter what, there is a sudden hole in the body, which still looks quite permeable.

"It was accidentally injured when I was fighting with the Red Maple Wild Boar just now. It will be fine after a while."

Alu shook his head indifferently, as if he wasn't worried about the hole in his body at all.

"Eh? Really, there is no bleeding, and the wound seems to be shrinking."

Ace curiously stretched out his hand and poked the hole in Aru's chest, expressing his surprise that the wound did not bleed.

"Hey, even if there is no bleeding, it will still hurt, okay?"

Arupo looked at Ace's unscrupulous actions a little speechlessly, and couldn't help rolling his eyes.

On the other hand, Wayne stood aside, his eyes wide open, looking in disbelief at the wound on Aru's chest, which was recovering slowly but was indeed shrinking.

"Alu, why did the wound on your chest heal automatically?"

After all, Wayne still couldn't restrain the impulse in his heart, and asked directly.

"Ok?"

Both Alu and Ace were taken aback for a moment, stopped their slapstick movements, and turned their heads to look at Wayne.

"Probably because there are gourmet cells in my body..."

Aru replied somewhat uncertainly.

"..."

"Gourmet cell, what is that?"

Hearing an unfamiliar term from Alu's mouth suddenly, Ace bit his tongue with some jerky pronunciation, confused.

Different from Ace's bewilderment, after hearing the keyword "gourmet cell" from Aru's mouth, Wayne felt as if he had been given a blow in the head. His originally confused thoughts suddenly became clear like sunlight breaking through the clouds. .

He seems to have found a way to increase Ace's chances of surviving.