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"Hello, is this Mr. Dawu?"

After Dawu answered the incoming call from the communicator, the appearance of a boy in a white hat flashed on the screen—it seemed that because of his unstable body, the boy in the picture shook for a while, and then stabilized quickly pose.

"Ah, sorry, I didn't seem to hold it steady just now."

Dawu who heard the words smiled thoughtfully: "Is it Yuuki? It's okay. Did you encounter anything that needs help? I see that you seem to be in Meteor Falls now."

Yuuki widened his eyes in surprise, and looked behind him involuntarily.

"This... ah, sorry, I'm a little surprised..."

"Haha," seeing Yuki's reaction, Dago couldn't help chuckling, "After all, I often go to that place."

"What, did you see a rare stone there? If so, I will definitely rush over there immediately." He couldn't help but tease, and then saw the boy's expression on the screen become a little weird.

"For rare stones... maybe there are."

Yuuki was sitting on top of a boulder with his feet dangling in the air.He rested his elbows on his knees, held the communicator in both hands, and looked at the screen with a serious expression—after all, he was talking to his idol, so he was definitely nervous.A mandible ant huddled by his side, seemed a little afraid of falling from this place.

As for why the two of them were brought to such a place where they "can't get down for a while"... There is no doubt that it was Ibuki's masterpiece.

——The cause has to start from the previous battle.

When he saw the huge and bluffing battle from the top of the rock wall, Yuuki thought that the opponent would be Ibuki's friend—or, even if he wasn't a friend, he could be regarded as a good acquaintance up.After all, in his opinion, the ones worth going all out to fight against are definitely existences that can be called "friends".

But Ibuki's subsequent actions made him very surprised - Ibuki raised his collar, shook the sand on his body, and waved to Yuuki who had just landed with a smile.

"Come here."

Yuuki was puzzled, but walked over obediently.

Ibuki naturally reached out to put her hand on his shoulder—the strength seemed a little strong—to embrace her, then leaned slightly before Yuuki was about to slap her hand off, and said next to Yuuki's ear:

"Stay behind me and don't talk."

——From her deliberately lowered voice, which seemed to be whispering intimately, Yuuki could clearly hear a kind of lack of self-confidence that was very rare for Ibuki.

Yuuki's expression turned cold, and then he noticed that Ibuki was half-turning his body, and the position was just between the sight of himself and her opponent's probing—this was an obvious protective gesture.

Yibuki put down his hand and took two steps forward.

"It looks like I've met someone I know - I'm afraid I can't continue the fight today, what do you think?"

"—Oh," but the other party nodded thoughtfully, interrupted Ibuki's words with a protracted tone, and then showed a meaningful smile, "Do you think you can still Walk?"

——So now, no matter how sweet Ren Youshu is, he can realize that these two people are definitely not in a friendly relationship like "friends".

"You can't keep me." Yibuki's tone remained firm.

"But you can't protect him." The other party was already smiling a bit cunningly.

As for what kind of agreement the two of them reached later, Yuuki didn't know at all.All he knew was that when Yibuki handed him the two stones in the end, his expression could be called entrusting a will.

"This piece... well, I think you should know what it is." Ibuki took out the giant metal monster mega stone from the third episode, which was followed by the third episode and has been drifting away to the current No.20 third episode. , handed it to Yuuki, and sighed, "Please help me return the big miscalculation, and this—" With her other hand, she pulled out a piece of irregular shape, ugly color and not too small size from the bag. An unknown stone, "—take it along, it's an apology."

"...Although Mr. Dawu likes stones very much, I don't think you can get good impression points with just such a broken stone."

"Who wants his favorability points!...No," Yi Chui curled her lips, looking at the expression on her face, she seemed to be a little bit pained by sending this stone, "The research value of this thing is not much less than the mega stone, for this they The German people know better than that."

"..." - these words are really not convincing.

After Yuuki took the two stones and reluctantly stuffed them into his backpack, Ibuki bent down and picked up a mandible ant from his feet.

"As for this one—it was originally intended to be given to you." This time her expression was much gentler, "I know you have always liked elves like desert dragonflies,..."

"That's really sorry, I don't even know about this kind of thing." ——It's completely habitual.

Ibuki, who was continuously attacked by complaints, instantly put on a serious face, and the mandible ant that had been handed to Yuuki retracted.

"That's fine. It's all right."

"..." - Hey, I just spit out a sentence subconsciously!

Yuuki stretched his hand half way up and neither let it go nor let it go, he froze in the air in embarrassment.

"?"——and the mandaw ant, who was totally unaware of the situation, opened its mouth slightly and tilted its head to show off its cuteness.

Originally, Yuuki wanted to follow Ibuki and the others to Meteor Falls - of course, he followed them secretly - but Ibuki soon found out.

"What's so strange." Ibuki put a straight face, put an elbow on Yuuki's shoulder to prevent him from escaping, and rubbed the top of his head by the way, "I think you probably forgot—— Who was it that took you to play in the wild when you were a little kid, and who taught you these wild knowledge and skills?" Then she sighed, using a voice that could still be heard even though she lowered her voice. A very clear voice complained: "Dr. Odaroll is simply using me as a child's nanny."

"..."—I don't need to refute "nanny" or something, but you can explain to me what "a little bit of a little kid" means? !

Then Ibuki commanded the desert dragonfly, and brought Yuuki to the top of this boulder—although there was no danger, it was definitely not a good place to come and go freely.After carefully letting him sit on the ground, the desert dragonfly flicked its tail and threw the mandible ant over.

"Take care of it."——Ibuki, who was under the rock with his head up, waved his hand and threw it lightly with a smile.

——Then followed that person into the cave of Meteor Falls.

Yuuki always felt a little worried.

To Yuuki's surprise, the smile on Dago's face froze almost instantly after he saw the stone that looked inconspicuous except that it was too big and ugly.

"Where did you get this stone?" Dago asked casually—but Yuuki felt that the aura unintentionally exuded when he said this was a bit scary.

"Actually... Senior Ibuki gave it to me," Yuuki stammered slightly, "She said it was an apology for taking your mega stone for so long—the mega stone of the metagros is now Also here, she asked me to give you these two stones together."

Dawu was silent for a while, and his tone softened slightly: "That is really an expensive compensation."

So what exactly is this stone——Yuuki opened his mouth, but still felt that his question was not suitable to ask now.At this time, Dawu finally regained his usual calmness, so he had to retract the question that almost went out of his mouth.

"Are you in Meteor Falls right now... Can I trouble you to wait for me at the nearest Qiuye Town? ——There is no need to go through Meteor Falls, so the itinerary is relatively safe, and I will arrive soon."

Yuuki pursed her lips and nodded.

——Then you are worried about senior...do you want to say it?

The author has something to say: I seem to have forgotten to say it before... The position of Chapter 12, which was originally reserved as a side story, has been changed to a character introduction. If you haven’t noticed but are still interested, you can go back and take a look——but If you read that chapter directly without reading later, it will feel a bit spoiler_(:3 Hey, did I say it too late (.)

From Chapter 2 to Chapter 12, I completely corrected a typo and corrected the sentence by the way... Because I wanted to save the first time to motivate myself ("It's been almost a year and only a few chapters have been updated!"), so Chapter 1 was not moved.There are not many specific changes, but if you look at it now, each chapter is more coherent than before (o'?ω-)b