I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

Looking back, it seems I was seriously injured, but...

Milia raised her hand and looked at her right hand, which felt no pain. She felt as if she hadn't been injured at all. Milia didn't think that her encounter with the dragon slayer was a dream.

"Milia?"

Milia looked down and saw Yuhaka's little head looking up at her, nestled on her chest. Yuhaka was sitting on her slender lap, which made Milia blush, because she remembered that neither of them were wearing any clothes.

The sight of those little girls (one of whom is legally married) hugging each other is a little embarrassing and makes your heart race...

Slightly blushing, Milia looked away from Yuhaka's innocent gaze, glanced around, and said to Yuhaka:

"Ahem, um... Youyou, did you save me?"

Upon hearing Milia's words, Yuhaka paused for a moment, then shook his head against Milia's chest and said:

"No~ Yes, Rokubei, and everyone else, saved Miria."

"Rokubei?"

Upon hearing this name, Milia recalled that her father's old companion cat was called something like Thirteen. Could it be a Palico?

However, Milia soon stopped thinking about those questions because of one particular issue.

She is still naked.

Milia coughed and asked Yuhaka:

"YuYu-chan? Um... where did my equipment go?"

Hearing Milia's words, Yuhaka tilted his head in confusion and looked at Milia, saying:

"Equipment? OwO?"

Seeing that Yuhaka looked a little confused, Milia explained to him carefully:

"It's the clothes I was wearing before..."

Upon hearing Milia's words, Yuhaka raised his big tail and showed an understanding expression. Seeing that Yuhaka understood, Milia breathed a sigh of relief, at least she didn't have to be naked anymore.

But when Yuhaka threw a bunch of tattered hunter outfits in front of her, Milia was dumbfounded.

When Milia picked up her original hunter gear, she found that the armor was so tattered that it was practically unwearable. After all, the bandages she was wearing provided less coverage than the tattered armor.

Milia was immediately dejected and struck an OTL pose on the haystack. After all, not only was her hunter armor completely unusable, but she had also lost her one-handed sword and shield, and her hunter's knife was nowhere to be found.

Well, looks like I'm going to go bankrupt again.

Seeing Milia's dejected look, Yuhaka, who was squatting nearby, reached out and patted Milia's head. When Milia looked up and saw Yuhaka's silly OwO face, she felt as if she had been mocked. Although Milia knew that Yuhaka wasn't making a mocking face, she was still a little angry. She grabbed the (OwO?) Yuhaka and rolled onto the haystack, giving him a big kiss on the hair.

Mmm! It smells so good!

Yuhaka looked at Milia, who was lying on the bed hugging him, with a puzzled expression. Then, as if realizing something, Yuhaka suddenly understood what Milia wanted to do: she wanted to sleep!

Immediately, Yuhaka began to sing a lullaby.

"The gaps in Qinghai stretch endlessly across the sky..."

"Jump off the moon's boat..."

"Silent light falls silently..."

"The stars are melting there..."

"It reminds me of a dream that has vanished from my mind..."

"The night sky is flowing..."

"Gradually melting..."

[This is from Rie Kugimiya's "How I Feel," it's a really good song. I used to listen to it to fall asleep in my high school dorm all the time, it was 100% effective at putting me to sleep.]

When Milia heard Yuhaka sing a lullaby, she was stunned for a moment. However, the lullaby seemed to have a magical power that captivated Milia. Then, Milia felt increasingly sleepy and eventually fell asleep.

"?"

After feeling that Milia had fallen asleep in Milia's arms, Yuhaka climbed out of her bear hug. He then straightened Milia's body and curled up on her to sleep.

Meanwhile, Zelus, watching Milia and Yuhaka from the side, looked at them with a hint of envy and jealousy and said:

"What a pair of sluts! If I didn't have a physical body in reality, I would definitely teach you a lesson."

Then Zelus touched her chin and looked at Yuhaka, who was sleeping on Milia, and said:

"To be honest, I didn't expect this little guy to use the [Heal] skill to heal that legal loli. I thought that if I didn't tell the little idiot, he wouldn't know how to use it."

[Heal]: Consumes pure essence to heal the user and friendly units within range, restoring a certain amount of health.

Because it requires consuming pure essence to heal others, Zelus didn't dare tell Yuhaka about this skill. Zelus was worried that someone might take advantage of Yuhaka's innocence to do something bad. However, with her there, there shouldn't be any problems. If all else fails, she could use her system privileges to stop it.

Chapter 62 [Yohaka's Clothes]

Milia, panting as she held her one-handed sword, stared at the enormous dragon-slaying creature before her. Then, with a single blow from the dragon-slaying creature, she was slammed aside. Just as Milia tried to stand up, she suddenly realized she couldn't move.

"What's going on?! Move your body!"

Just as Milia fell to the ground, Zhanlong, who was standing nearby, slowly walked over. Seeing Zhanlong slowly approaching her, Milia tried to move, but her body remained motionless. Just when she thought Zhanlong was going to devour her, Milia saw Zhanlong walk onto her body and sit down on it.

"what?!"

Startled awake, Milia abruptly opened her eyes and looked at the fabric on the tent ceiling. She asked in a puzzled voice:

"Dream?"

However, after feeling the weight on her chest, Milia looked up and saw Yuhaka curled up asleep on her chest, occasionally wagging his big tail.

Upon seeing that the culprit behind her nightmares was Yuhaka, Milia immediately wanted to say "mmp" (a vulgar expression), but fortunately, her good manners allowed her to swallow the words back.

After nudging Yuhaka, who was sleeping soundly on her with a =w= expression, to the side, Milia stood up to stretch her slightly uncomfortable body. Soon, Milia reached out and pinched her right hand, which had been broken by the Dragon Slayer. Finding that she could feel it and there was no pain, Milia removed the wooden strip used to fix her right hand and then checked the bandages wrapped around her body.

Especially the wound on the bandage on her chest. Milia clearly remembered that her chest had been slashed open with a large gash. There was a huge cut on the hunter's chest armor. But now she felt no pain at all, making her wonder if she had been hit by the tail blade of the dragon slayer or if she was dreaming.

However, recalling the red blood spurting from her chest, Milia knew very well that it wasn't a dream. After thinking for a moment, Milia unwrapped the bandage from her chest and quickly opened her eyes to look at her chest.

"...No...wounds??"

Looking at the smooth, delicate skin on her chest without a single mark that looked like a scar, Milia couldn't help but feel very puzzled. She clearly remembered the feeling of the dragon's tail blade slicing across her chest, like cutting through a monster's muscles with a one-handed sword.

But how come there's no wound at all? Did the Palicoes who saved me use some kind of secret medicine to heal me?

After all, only rare medicines like secret elixirs can easily restore injuries like fractures. Of course, she heard all this from her friend. As the mascot of the Hunter's Guild, she knew quite a lot about what senior hunters knew. These weren't things that needed to be kept secret, so she didn't care much about them.

But now it seems I should be glad that the dragon slayer didn't spit lava at me or use its high-temperature tail blade to attack me?

The former is probably dead, or at least half-dead. Even if he doesn't die, he'll probably have an unsightly scar on his chest.

However, Milia could now breathe a sigh of relief. Soon, Milia removed all the bandages from her body. After seeing that there were no wounds or scars on her body, Milia was completely relieved.

"Ok?"

Milia picked up the animal skin clothes made by Nanachi that were placed to the side out of curiosity. Looking at the hat in her hand, which was made of some kind of monster skull and had a rather peculiar shape, Milia could tell that the hat was made of monster skull, some small wooden boards and monster fur. It did not look like something made by Elf or Meru.

However, it is quite practical. Most of the monster skulls are quite hard, making them suitable as helmets. The small wooden boards and fur strung together with straw rope at the back of the skull can also withstand some attacks from behind. It can be seen that the maker put a lot of effort into making this armor.

It is both aesthetically pleasing and practical.

Milia tried on the hat and found it was quite heavy. She wondered if wearing the hat would stunt her growth.

Thinking of all this, Milia immediately took off her hat and put it aside. Then, when Milia picked up the clothes next to her to put them on, she suddenly realized that there was a large gap in the back of the clothes.

Milia was immediately stunned. Why expose her back? Was it because the small wooden plank and fur on the back of the helmet saved on materials?

When Milia took the pants, she noticed a problem: there was a big hole in the back of the pants. Looking at the hole and the big tail on Yuhaka's buttocks as he slept with his butt sticking up, Milia immediately understood the purpose of the hole.

With a sigh, Milia put down the pants she was holding and went to her tattered hunter armor to look for something. Soon, Milia pulled out a pair of panties stained with blood. After seeing the "miserable" state of the panties, she threw them aside, and Milia looked at the top of the tent with a "the heavens are against me" expression.

"Milia? What's wrong?"

Yuhaka, still half-asleep, came to Milia's side. Seeing Yuhaka awake, Milia looked at him with a savior-like expression and said:

"Youyou! Do you have any other clothes?!"

Upon hearing Milia's words, Yuhaka paused slightly, then nodded and said to Milia:

"Yep!"

As she spoke, Yuhaka went to the corner of the tent. Then, Yuhaka lifted the cloth covering a box and took out a fur dress. Milia, who was standing to the side, stared wide-eyed at the red box marked with the Hunter's Guild's X-shaped symbol. She hadn't expected Yuhaka to steal the red box used for support by the Hunter's Guild. However, after seeing that the box was a bit worn, she breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, the red boxes that the Hunter Guild provides to hunters are maintained, and they will be repaired immediately if they are damaged. After all, there was a case where a hunter died because the supplies inside were lost due to a broken box. The Hunter Guild has started to pay more attention to these things.

"Milia, here you go."

After Yuhaka handed the animal skin dress to Milia, Milia thanked him with a relieved expression and put on the dress.

However, Milia eventually realized that the skirt was still too short.

Chapter 63 [Milia: Even the cat eats better than me!]

Finally, Yuhaka took out a reindeer skin and wrapped it around Milia's lower body, otherwise, with Yuhaka wearing that short skirt, Milia's little butt would be visible if she stuck her butt out.

Milia was stunned by the sight outside as she stepped out of the tent. A whole bunch of Merucats were busy with their own things in front of her. It turned out that she wasn't in the Elfcat House but in the Merucat House!

Good morning, meow~

A passing Merlin carrying a fishing rod greeted Milia and Yuhaka. Milia instinctively greeted the Merlin in return. This relieved Milia, as at least some Merlins were friendly towards hunters. While there were Merlins and Elfs that were hostile to hunters, at least they wouldn't encounter them here.

Finally, led by Yuhaka, Milia arrived at the cafeteria where Merlin lived.

"Oh dear, Miss Hunter, are you awake? Why don't you rest a little longer? You were seriously injured yesterday, meow."

While cooking, Granny Origami, the cat, nodded at Milia, who looked well. Milia, looking embarrassed, scratched the back of her head and said to Granny Origami:

"Oh... I'm all better now. I was able to recover so quickly thanks to your medicine (a secret medicine, though Merlin and the others don't actually have it). Thank you so much!!"

As she spoke, Milia bowed to Origami Grandma and the others in gratitude. Origami Grandma, a little embarrassed, waved her hand and said to Milia:

"Oh, meow, it was just a small favor, meow. When you were swept downstream, you were caught by our fishing nets. You were quite badly injured at the time, but I didn't expect the hunter's recovery speed to be so unbelievable."

"But you've recovered from such a serious injury so quickly, you must be hungry, meow. Here, have a bowl of porridge to warm yourself up, meow."

As she spoke, Grandma Origami placed a bowl of porridge in front of Milia. Milia looked at the porridge with meat and vegetables in front of her and was immediately surprised. Of course, Milia was not surprised that the porridge had meat and vegetables, but that it contained rice.

In the town of Scylla, rice is only found in restaurants and cat restaurants, and only some wealthy hunters can afford it.

Of course, the main reason is not that rice is too expensive, but that there are no villages around Scylla that are suitable for growing rice. The only place suitable for growing rice is the area around Stream Town.

However, Stream Town is far from Scylla Town, located in the western part of the continent. Because of the airships, trade is not a major concern. But rice requires a lot of land to grow, and because of the monsters, these places are rarely used for rice cultivation, so rice production is basically limited.

The amount of rice available in the town of Scylla is very limited, and sometimes even if you have the money, you can't buy it.