I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

Upon seeing this, Yuhaka was immediately struck by an exclamation mark and a question mark, but he quickly recognized a similar reaction from the big green bird that had stepped into the electric shock and paralysis trap last time.

"paralysis?"

In its third form, Yuhaka tilted its head and looked at the convulsing little Poison Dog Dragons, saying this. Just as Yuhaka was wondering if there was something wrong with the orange, sweet slime, a monster about the size of a water beast suddenly jumped out of the water, opened its big mouth, and swallowed two little Poison Dog Dragons in one gulp. The other paralyzed little Poison Dog Dragons were slammed away by the suddenly appearing monster's fat body.

"OwO??!!"

Yuhaka was surprised to see the huge creature suddenly appear. Of course, Yuhaka was not surprised by the monster that suddenly appeared, but by the fact that the monster that appeared was a large monster that looked very similar to the little frog. That large monster was the adult form of the little frog, the "Gan Frog".

Seeing the frog, which was about the same size as the water beast, Yuhka's mouth watered. At that moment, Yuhka was thinking about how big the frog was and how to make fried frog legs. The amount of frog legs was enough for Yuhka in his third form to hold and eat with both claws.

"~?........O△O?!"

The frog, having just swallowed the paralyzed little poisonous dragon, seemed to sense a gaze upon it and looked in the direction of the gaze. It then saw Yuhaka drooling and was immediately startled. Seeing Yuhaka's enormous size (Yuhaka in its third form is usually standing upright, like a human, creating the illusion of a large body), the frog panicked and hurriedly tried to slip away into the water.

However, the frog's obese body made it difficult for it to move on land. Yuhaka pounced on the frog and grabbed its large tail, but because of the slippery liquid on the frog's body, Yuhaka lost his grip and the frog slipped away.

“QwQ.......”

Yuhaka watched the fleeing frog fall silent for a while. Then, thinking of the large number of small frogs in his dimensional cave, Yuhaka lost interest in the fleeing frog.

“Po Pa Po Pa Po Pa Po ***~~”

Then, singing a ballad, he looked at his big tail and slowly walked towards the direction of the worm tunnel he had dug.

Just hours after Yuhaka left the Misty Swamp, rumors began to circulate in Misty Village about a mysterious song coming from the mist.

................

In the Water Cave Village of the Melu Cat Home, Granny Origami, the kitchen cat, watched as Yuhaka, in his first form, wearing only an apron and using a metal tong, fished out a perfectly golden-brown fried frog leg from the oil pan. After placing the fried frog leg on a plate, Yuhaka asked Granny Origami to taste it.

"Hmm... Lady Youyou did a great job! You're even faster than when I was practicing making cat food at Granny Cat's place back in the day, meow~"

Hearing Origami Grandma's words, Yuhaka puffed out his chest with a smug expression, then handed a plate of fried frog legs to Rokubei, who was lying on the ground beside him, and said:

"Rokubei, have some fried chicken leg!"

Rokubei, lying on the ground with a large pregnant belly and a look of utter exhaustion on his face, waved at Yuhaka and said:

"Boss Youyou... I... I can't eat anymore, meow..."

Upon hearing Rokubei's words, Yuhaka shifted his focus to Rorota, who was standing nearby, and handed the prayer mat in his hand to Rorota, saying:

"Rorota! Eat fried chicken leg!"

Lorota glanced at the fried frog legs in Yuhaka's hand and immediately felt nauseous. However, Lorota quickly covered his mouth and turned his head away, refusing to look at the fried frog legs in Yuhaka's hand, and said:

"YuYu-chan...I can't eat anymore, meow!"

When Yuhaka heard that her two friends wouldn't eat the fried chicken legs she made, she gave them a look that said, "Kids, Mom is very disappointed in you." After all, the Primal Zerg were creatures that ate a lot.

Seeing that his friend couldn't eat anymore, Yuhaka picked up a fried frog leg that was about the size of a dog's leg and started to bite into it. The crispy golden skin and tender frog meat created a crispy outside and tender inside texture. In addition, the frog meat itself had a unique sweet juice, which made Yuhaka really like the frog meat.

Well... this is also why juvenile frogs are preyed upon by all sorts of monsters, and even adult frogs will encounter attacks from other, stronger predators.

Fortunately, the sweet frog has a strong reproductive capacity; otherwise, in the dangerous Misty Swamp, those sweet frogs would probably have been eaten to death.

After finishing the fried frog meat in his hand, Yuhaka licked his fingers and prepared to go look for the frog that had escaped last time.

Chapter 22 [The Strange Tales of Misty Village]

In the village of Misty Swamp, on the edge of the Misty Swamp, the four members with the afro were sitting at a square table in a restaurant.

After several hours of mining in the cave, the four men with the afro finally changed out of their hunter suits into alloy armor suits. The leader of the afro-haired group leaned back in his chair and sighed, saying:

"Ha... I finally collected all the azurites. Damn, I'm exhausted."

The second brother, with his afro, lay sprawled on the table like a salted fish and said:

"Yeah... The underground caverns in the Misty Swamp are cold and dark. You need a hot drink every fifteen minutes. A hot drink costs at least 250 zirconia at the general store, and the taste... just thinking about it makes me want to die of spiciness. Not to mention there are those annoying thieving cats like Meru Cat down there."

The third brother with the afro pushed up his glasses and said:

"No, none of the above are too big of a problem. The most troublesome thing is that white electric dragon in the underground cave."

Upon hearing what the third member with the afro said, the three present recalled the terrifying scene of being preyed upon by the White Electric Dragon. At that time, the four members with the afro planned to split into four groups to collect the Azure Stone, but they did not expect that there would be a White Electric Dragon in the hunting area of ​​the underground cave!

Although the four members with the afro hairstyle saw traces of the White Lightning Dragon in the mission request, they didn't pay much attention at first. At worst, they could just throw a bunch of Fertilizer Orbs at the White Lightning Dragon's face if they encountered it.

But who would have thought that the white electric dragon would actually lie on the top of the cave like an alien and ambush them!

All four of them had experienced being swallowed by the White Lightning Dragon, and the feeling of being swallowed by the White Lightning Dragon was not fun at all. You know, the smell from the White Lightning Dragon's mouth... could suffocate them.

Although they eventually died, death itself wasn't a big deal—the items in their backpacks wouldn't be lost—their physical condition would be reset upon death. In other words, all their cat food, roast meat, and hot drinks were essentially wasted.

Now, when they go down into underground caves to mine, they don't dare to turn on the olfactory synchronization function, for fear of smelling that unforgettable odor again.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Your fried frog legs have arrived, meow~"

Just as the four members with the afro recalled the terrifying smell of the White Lightning Dragon, a Palico wearing a scarf dress and a chef's hat placed a large plate of fried frog legs on their table.

"Please enjoy your meal, guests~"

After saying that, the Palico responsible for delivering the food left.

When the four members with afro hair saw that the fried frog legs they ordered had arrived, they immediately snapped out of the terrifying smell of the white electric dragon's saliva.

"Oh my! This sweet scent is a lifesaver for my poor nose, which has been ravaged by the White Electric Dragon."

"Let's eat! Let's eat!"

"That frog's leg is huge!"

"Hmm...it smells surprisingly good."

The four men with the afro immediately grabbed fried frog legs and started eating. While they were eating, the second-in-command with the afro looked at the other three and said:

"Have you guys heard about that strange tale of the mysterious song emanating from the Misty Swamp?"

The leader with the afro grabbed a fried frog leg and looked at the second leader with the afro, saying:

"Huh? Is that true? I haven't seen this message on the forum."

The second-in-command with the afro waved his hand and denied it:

"No, no, no, I didn't see this rumor on the forum, but I heard it from the residents of Misty Village and the NPC hunters."

The second brother with the afro continued:

"I heard the news came from a hunter who gathers herbs in the Misty Swamp. According to him, he was gathering herbs for antidote in the Misty Swamp that day, as usual."

The second-in-command with the afro waved the fried frog leg in his hand, half-closing his eyes as he looked at the three people present and said:

"But one day, while he was collecting antidote herbs, he suddenly discovered the bloody skull of a small frog."

Hearing what the second brother with the afro said, the fourth brother with the afro shuddered and said in fear:

"Uh... It sounds weird, but it's not unusual to see the remains of a small frog in the wild, right? After all, small frogs are considered low-level monsters in the Misty Swamp and are easily eaten by other monsters, aren't they?"

The second-in-command with the afro shrugged and said:

"Yes, you've fought the little frogs before. They're very easy to deal with. Even an ordinary villager with a farm tool can easily kill them. But don't be afraid of what I'm about to tell you."

The leader with the afro patted his chest, striking a pose like a police officer, and said:

"We are hunters, we are not afraid."

So the second brother with the afro continued:

"The hunter didn't pay much attention at first, after all, quite a few little frogs were preyed upon by other monsters in the Misty Swamp. But..."

The second-in-command with the afro paused for a moment before continuing:

"The hunter kept finding more and more mangled heads of baby frogs as he went along. If there was only one baby frog, this wouldn't be unusual, but the baby frogs that the hunter found were all the kind that had no bodies, only mangled heads."

Hearing what the second brother with the afro said, the third brother with the afro looked at the third brother and said:

"So, you're saying those little frogs were all killed by some kind of monster?"

The second brother with the afro nodded and said:

"Yes, I heard from that hunter that the tooth marks on the skulls of those little frogs were made by little poisonous dinosaurs."

Hearing what the second brother with the afro said, the fourth brother with the afro immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"What? I thought it was some kind of demon or monster, but it's just a little poisonous dog dragon."

The leader with the afro looked at the fourth leader with the afro with a speechless expression and said:

"I know you're afraid of ghost stories and stuff, but you should know that there are no monsters or ghosts in Monster Hunter."

The fourth brother with the afro waved his hand and said:

"I understand, second brother, please continue."

The second brother with the afro shrugged and said:

"If it was a small poisonous dog dragon that gnawed on it, where did the rest of the corpse go? You know, the teeth of a small poisonous dog dragon are not suitable for crushing hard bones."

"Well... the hunter was puzzled by the situation when, at that moment, a strange child's singing voice came from the mist. At the same time, a monster shadow larger than a female Rathian appeared in the mist, along with four eyes that shone with an orange-yellow light."

boom--

As soon as the second brother with the afro finished speaking, a thunderous roar echoed from the sky, as if foreshadowing...

"Thunder! Time to bring in the laundry!"

Chapter 23 [The White-fuzzy Beast (named by Yuhka)]

Many players are quite interested in the strange tales surrounding Misty Village, but there are very few quests in Misty Village (because most quests are only available to hunters specific to Misty Village), and many players cannot accept any quests, so they cannot go to Misty Village to investigate the rumors.

...............

Meanwhile, Ehaka was crouching in the grass in his second form, quietly observing the frog's tracks. Ehaka had been tracking this frog, which he had locked onto, for several hours.

Because Yuhaka failed to catch the sweet frog last time, he became wary of it. Last time, the sweet frog's slimy mucus prevented Yuhaka from catching the big, fat guy.

This time, Yuhaka doesn't plan to use his third form to deal with Ganwa, but rather his second form. As for what form he'll use... you can guess.

According to Yuhaka's observations, the daily activities of the sweet-smelling orange mucus are very simple: it spits out a sweet-smelling orange mucus to set traps, and then hides in a secluded place to wait for its prey to take the bait.

This orange slime is a tool used by the frog to lure prey. Originally a neurotoxin, the orange slime has undergone a special transformation during evolution.

It affects the brain signals of creatures that smell, causing an abnormal appetite for orange slime. However, this smell has little effect on rational beings such as humans, but will elicit a strong reaction from instinctive wild monsters.

Soon after the frog set up the trap, a wild boar, attracted by the sweet smell emanating from the ground, came to the spot of orange slime and began licking it. After a short while, the wild boar, just like the little poisonous dragons last time, was paralyzed.

The frog in the water seemed to sense the movement on the ground, rushed out from underwater, bit the wild boar's body, and then swallowed the wild boar whole in a few bites.