Chapter 10: Sorry, My Hand Slipped

It’s very cold.

It was really cold before I fell asleep, and the drop in temperature seemed to freeze the blood in my body.

My heart started to slow down and my mind was frozen.

Kiana was no stranger to this feeling. Although this was her first experience, she understood what that feeling was.

It was like being thrown into a cold, dark abyss. All I could feel was the surroundings getting colder and quieter, and the light getting farther and farther away… The darkness gradually swallowed up everything, and there was only one person waiting in the deepest part.

die

“ah!!!!”

Suddenly opening her eyes from the abyss, Kiana really jumped up like a wounded rabbit, but what followed was a strong blow to her head.

“it hurts!”

A big red bump immediately appeared on the head, and if it were a cartoon effect, you could even see the heat rising slowly from it.

Kiana covered her head with her hands and half closed her eyes, tears could be seen in the corners of her eyes.

It is dark here, but not too dark. At least you can see that this is some kind of wooden house. However, the height of this wooden house is probably just enough for people to sit up inside. It is quite simple.

The entire hut was barely two meters long, constructed entirely of wooden supports, bark ropes, and a leaf roof. The only thing that confirmed it was a “house” and not a tent was the bed beneath Kiana, but a quick inspection revealed it was nothing more than a large rock barely large enough for someone to lie down on.

And what she just bumped into was the beam of the house (tree trunk).

“Where am I?”

After her mind began to clear up, Kiana began to try to figure out the situation.

“it hurts……”

When I tried to move my body, I was hindered by the pain in my legs. Because the pain in these two places was so vivid in my memory, the previous situation gushed out in my memory like a fountain.

“I fell into a trap, my leg?!”

She forcefully lifted the military blanket covering her body, and her slender white thighs were directly presented to Kiana.

The first thing to be affected were the two dark green plasters located 20 centimeters below her pelvis. They were sticky and had a strange smell. They looked like they hadn’t been completely crushed. There were also some slightly larger leaves and… were those insects?!

Vaguely sensing that this plaster might contain some extraordinary ingredients, Kiana felt her hair stand on end.

“Was I rescued?”

The second after Kiana thought of this, a rather strange feeling came over her, because Kiana’s lower body was not wearing any clothes, although her white lace panties were intact, protecting the last territory of a girl. It seemed that the man had taken off his clothes to save her. But there was also a problem…

“Don’t be a man, don’t be a man, definitely don’t be a man.”

The girl prayed continuously, praying for this to be her first and last wish.

“Are you praying?” a voice appeared in Kiana’s ear.

It’s a remarkably crisp sound, so crisp it reminds me of the “clang, clang, clang” sound of a bamboo flute being gently struck. It’s beautiful and peaceful, but the only problem is that the tone of this voice is male. Male, yes, male! ! ! !

“The so-called God never responds to people’s expectations. Things that are occasionally achieved through one’s own efforts or a momentary burst of potential are also attributed to him.”

At the entrance to the cabin, you can see a slightly slender man squatting there. His face is difficult to see because he is facing the fire outside.

“From my personal point of view, don’t pray. It’s really useless… Huh? What’s wrong with you? Why are you so pale? I clearly replenished your blood.”

The man couldn’t help but start to worry, because he saw that Kiana’s face was extremely pale, and it was getting paler and paler. Her facial expression also showed a large area of ​​stiffness, which was a symptom that only appeared when a person entered a state of suspended animation and shock!

“Is it too cold? Shouldn’t I have taken off your pants? But there’s nothing I can do. Your pants are soaked in blood and I have to change them.”

“Why?”

“Huh?”

The man’s words were suddenly interrupted. Kiana lowered her head and her long white hair seemed to cover her face, making it difficult to see her expression and demeanor at the moment.

Are you enduring the pain in your legs?

It’s hard to explain, because the man remembered that he crushed some insects whose juice had analgesic effect and applied them on the affected area. What could be the problem?

This thought began to occupy the man’s mind. He approached Kiana with some concern, wanting to carefully check what happened to the injury on her leg.

“Why are you a man!!!”

“Hey hey hey hey!”

With a sudden outburst, Kiana pounced straight towards the man like a mad rabbit.

The man did not expect or anticipate that Kiana could still perform such intense exercise despite being injured, and was miserably knocked to the ground by Kiana.

“Woooooooooo!”

The pain and impact from hitting the ground came from behind. The impact that went from the spine through the muscles to the internal organs almost suffocated the man. And as Kiana’s body pressed down, although the girl’s weight did not reach the level that could directly crush him to death, it also made his chest feel unimaginable pressure.

“Why, why are you a man? Why did you change my clothes?!”

Kiana cried and screamed, her hands gripping the man’s neck as she shook him back and forth, her face as red as a ripe apple. Having her girlish reserve and bottom line violated, Kiana acted like a rabbit in heat, completely irritable and irritable.

“Stop, stop, stop!!!”

The man stretched out his hands and grabbed Kiana’s hands. Compared with the Valkyrie Kiana’s super physical fitness and strength, he was also very strong. He forcibly pried Kiana’s hands apart. Because of suffocation and lack of blood circulation, his face was also terribly red, and he was gasping for breath.

“Little girl, haven’t you heard that emergencies are separate matters? I saved you!!! Even though I dug that trap last year (whispering)”

“So it’s you! Wow! You planned all this! You dug a pit and tricked innocent girls into falling into it, causing them to get injured and faint. Then you brought them back and did whatever you wanted to them!”

“Holy crap! What’s the point of this horrible reasoning of yours? You must have been hit on the head by Theresa with a Judas. I didn’t do anything except take off your pants and open your sleeves. Who else would attack someone wearing white lace and having such a strong lesbian vibe that I can’t even look at? Even I have my tastes, don’t I?”

“Wa …

“Stop, stop, stop! I saved you! Is this how you repay your savior?!”

“Then I’ll kill you and then commit suicide!”

“That’s illogical. Stop it, stop shaking it, stop shaking it. My neck is going to break!”

“I don’t care. You’ve already made it so I can’t get married! I’m too embarrassed to see Mei-senpai!!!”

“Oh my god, girl, what you said is very dangerous, very dangerous! What do you mean by being manipulated by me?! Now, stop it, or I’ll fight back!”

“Then you fought back like a beast, fighting back for a misstep (leg injury)!”

“…Please spare my life. Can’t we just sit down and calmly chop the other person twice? Ugh! Chop the wild boar twice before we talk?”

“Wild boar?”

Kiana was slightly interested in the man’s words, or rather, her attention was diverted a little.

Seeing this, the man immediately pointed at the fire in front of his head.

An orange fire burned quietly, emitting light and warmth. Above it sat a grill. It was a rather crude one, a frame made of several thick wooden branches, with a grill pan made of smaller twigs, secured with vine ropes. Several large steaks, now roasted to a golden brown, could be seen skewered on top.

“Yes, wild boar, wild boar meat.”

Worried that Kiana might misunderstand, the man repeated it again.

“Gurgle~~~~”

For Kiana, this was a rather shameful and inappropriate protest on an empty stomach, but for the man, it was a perfect life-saving song!

“Okay, well then, just sit down and take a couple of bites of the wild boar.”

Kiana released her hands from the man’s neck and straddled him, striking a majestic pose and demeanor, regal and elegant like a princess.

“Thank you very much.”

He thought he didn’t need to compete with the girl on this matter, or perhaps it was because his trap was wrong in the first place. The man’s attitude was unexpectedly easy to talk to.

Because they wanted to grill food, the men burned the fire very vigorously. The strong flames provided a high enough temperature, which was quite warm in the weather where the temperature had begun to drop.

“I set that trap there last year to catch wild boars, and I even put a ‘Trap Here’ sign on the tree in front of the trap. How did you fall into it?”

The man who was working on the long-term preservation of raw meat asked this with his back to Kiana.

He was skillfully using a multi-functional tactical knife to cut the ungrilled pork into long strips, and then placed them on a temporary shed set up above the grill to do the boring work of smoking and drying them. But the man had to do this because raw meat would rot in a few hours in the wild. Although roasting food could preserve it for a while, the smoked and dehydrated meat could be preserved for several weeks.

This is especially important in the wild.

“I didn’t see it.”

“…No way, there’s such a big wooden sign there.”

The man who had been working diligently suddenly turned around, as if he was frightened. His eyes looked straight at Kiana, as if he was saying, “Are you kidding me?”

“Humph! Anyway, I didn’t see it! Do you have any objection?”

“…No, not really.”

Apparently, he had given up on correcting the girl’s behavior and continued with his work. However, Kiana seemed to hear him muttering something softly.

“The secret to happiness is not arguing with fools.”

“Who are you calling an idiot?! The one who calls someone an idiot is the idiot, okay!”

“Well, you are right?” The man admitted readily, which made Kiana feel a little abnormal, but after thinking about it carefully, she didn’t seem to find anything wrong.

“…I always feel like something’s wrong. Never mind, I’m done eating. I want more.”

“Well, get it on the grill!!!! Get it on you! What the hell!? Have you finished eating it again?!”

I was so scared that I started speaking Sichuan dialect!

“Yeah, look.”

Kiana held up the wild boar ribs in her hand, which he had gnawed until only the bones were left, with great satisfaction and pride.

Because the man’s barbecue skills are really good, and he also brought his own salt and other ingredients, the barbecue tasted quite delicious.

This was enough for Kiana to completely forget that he had taken off her pants and that she had fallen into the trap, and she could even smile at him and tell him her name.

And because Kiana was eating so happily, her hands and the corners of her mouth were full of grease, which, along with her expectant eyes, sparkled in the firelight.

The man looked at the row of bones under the stone where Kiana was sitting with great horror and swallowed hard.

My goodness, I can’t even eat half a pig even if I’m hungry for a week!

“Um, um, Miss Kiana, you’ve eaten a little too much. Your stomach will be broken.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. I ate a lot, and I’m only six-tenths full now.”

[Oh my god! Where did you come from? You’re a rubber man who can stretch and shrink his entire body at will?!]

“Yes, yes, yes? How much more do you plan to eat?”

The brightness and temperature of the fire were very high, but it was only on the side facing the fire, so Kiana could not see how intense the cold sweat that was dripping from the back of the man’s neck was.

“Woo~~ Mei said that I can’t eat too much at night, otherwise it will hurt my stomach and I won’t be able to eat good food in the future. Just eat until I’m 70% full.”

[To the young lady named Mei, although I don’t know who you are, thank you!]

“Well, give me a pig’s trotter, two ribs, and a large piece of tenderloin.”

Kiana spoke with considerable calmness and in a cheerful tone, and each section would make a man’s scalp tingle, his heart skip a beat, and his breathing pause.

“Is this what you call 70% full? I’ve been hungry for three days and this is all I’ve eaten! Is there a Luffy living inside you?!”

“Luffy? The hero of that comic? Sorry, I haven’t read it.”

[…Apologize to me, apologize to my childhood and the current weekly comics!]

“Haiyaku~Haiyaku~Haiyaku~give me grilled meat, give me grilled meat~”

“Ahhh, consider this my apology for that damn trap!”

He threw several pieces of meat wrapped in leaves to Kiana, and then looked at the food that he estimated he could survive for a week if he didn’t eat enough, and four days if he was full. Or the food that the girl would eat up in one day, the man was once again in a food crisis.

“Hey, hey, what are you doing?”

Kiana’s face was filled with delight after taking a bite of the delicious barbecue. But she was also curious about what the man had been doing since he finished eating.

“Why put the meat so high up? It won’t be easy to roast it.”

“Because I wasn’t grilling at all, I was smoking strips of meat.”

“bacon?”

“It’s just jerky. Even though the taste is terrible, it can be preserved for a long time…”

The man suddenly thought of something and turned his head to look at Kiana’s feet, then looked at her again. The naked look that almost wanted to eat her alive made Kiana feel very uncomfortable.

“What, what’s the matter?”

“No, nothing. I just suddenly felt stupid. What kind of food can be preserved for more than three days?!”

Suddenly overturn the table!

He really overturned the stone slab that served as a table, and in the process, he quickly and accurately grabbed all the cut meat strips and uncut meat pieces on it and stuffed them onto the grill on the campfire!

“Ohhh, what neat strips of meat.”

Each piece of meat cut by the man was of a standard length of ten centimeters, a width of five centimeters, and even the thickness was maintained at 3 millimeters.

The knife skills are so precise that the strips of meat look as neat as processed bacon.

“I retract what I said in the previous chapter. I’m having a very bad day today.”

“Huh?”

Kiana looked at the man in confusion, and she also remembered that she seemed to have never carefully examined what this man looked like since a while ago. And now he happened to be sitting in front of the campfire, opposite her.

Of course, the burning light can also illuminate the person’s physique and appearance very well.

The man was wearing a sand-colored T-shirt and military pants, and his hiking boots of the same color seemed to blend in together in the firelight. Although his height did not appear to be that of a burly man, one could tell from his exposed arms and the muscular outlines that stuck to his clothes that he was quite sturdy.

Looking up at his face, one can see unexpectedly clean medium-length black hair and a pair of extremely clean and bright eyes. It’s just a pity that he has a beard on his face that has not been trimmed for a long time.

The black beard that covered almost half of his face gave his face a kind of biological shadow effect, making it difficult to see his features.

However, Kiana vaguely felt that she seemed to have seen this man somewhere before… and recently.

“Where is it, where is it?”

She began to constantly recall her previous memories. Although Kiana’s memory for specific written knowledge was as good as a goldfish, her memory in other areas was also quite good. She began to search for all the faces she had seen before coming here, but none of them could match the man.

“Eh? By the way, you just said that I got hit on the head by Delisha’s Judas?!”

“puff!”

The man who was drinking water suddenly sprayed water all over his face.

“Ahem! Um, don’t mind me, I was just talking nonsense.”

“Delisha? Delisha Apokalis?”

The atmosphere began to become a little subtle after Kiana said this, and the man looked at Kiana back and forth over and over again.

Because when he brought her back before, he was concerned about how such a foreign girl could appear here, and he also felt that this child looked familiar. Now that she said Theresa’s name, this feeling became even stronger. Especially that silver hair really looked like someone.

“…Cecilia Shaniat?”

“!!!! That’s my mother! You know her! No! Wait!”

Suddenly remembering a possibility, Kiana pulled a photo from her pocket. The photo looked a bit old, with some yellowing at the corners. But the central content was still as fresh as if it had just been taken.

The photo shows a man wearing a solemn and serious military uniform, his eyes are clear and sharp like swords, his face is handsome but as strong as steel!

Moreover, it would be more appropriate to call this man a teenager. Even though she knew that the teenager was already in his twenties when this photo was taken, but… this teenager looked really childish.

He looks like a high school student of about 16 or 17 years old.

But none of this mattered. Kiana ignored the injury on her foot, stood up, and walked and skipped to the man. She didn’t care about the oil on her hands, the man’s horrified look and resistant body language when he looked at her hand, and directly covered his beard and pushed his hair aside.

“captain?!”

“What nonsense are you talking about, kid? Take your hands away! You’ve made my hair all greasy.”

“Wait, wait. Where did I put it? I remembered Aunt Himeko asked me to bring it with me? Ah, I found it!”

After searching for a while, Kiana pulled out a badly folded document from her inner pocket. If Jizi were there, she would probably explode on the spot when she saw this important document folded like this.

“Here, this is for you.”

“For me?! What is this?”

The man took the document with great confusion, and a “Wow, that’s terrible” expression appeared on his face, and then he began to restore the document carefully.

“The appointment letter.”

“Letter of appointment?”

“Yes, Lieutenant Colonel Yao Bingling, former captain of the Special Mobile Forces of the Destiny Organization. The Destiny Organization needs you to return and save the world. This is your appointment letter to resume your original position and become the captain of the 5th Division’s Hyperion battleship.”

“Oh, I see… Wow, my hand slipped~”

After saying this, he threw the unopened appointment letter into the bonfire. Then Yao Bingling showed a rather innocent look and spread his hands.

“What appointment letter? I didn’t see it?”

“What are you doing!!!”