I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

"Uh... let's just take it back and keep it at home. I don't know if it's some kind of rare creature, but it's never wrong to take it with us."

As he spoke, the leader of the afro-haired group took out something that looked like a fishing net and wrapped the Originium worms on the ground. However, at that moment, a monster's roar suddenly came from not far away from the four members of the afro-haired group.

"Um?!"

"This voice is..."

"No way..."

"here we go again……"

The four members with the afro looked towards the direction of the sound and saw a shattered dragon emerge from not far away, roaring at them. Seeing the shattered dragon coming towards them, except for the leader with the afro, the other three drank stamina-enhancing drugs at an astonishing speed, then grabbed their spears and ran in the opposite direction of the shattered dragon.

"What?! Wait for me—!"

With a leaping hammer strike from the Brachydios, the boss with the afro was slammed into the ground along with the Originium Bug in his hand, and the green slime exploded as well.

[Food] ←Reference: Sekiro

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In the world of Arknights, Ehaka reverts to her first form and puts on her own animal skin cloak. The main reason for reverting to her first form is to reduce energy consumption, and the second is to make it easier to wear the animal skin cloak that symbolizes the monster on her body.

Soon, walking in the desert, Yuhaka saw a man-made structure that didn't belong to this barren land at all—well, it was a highway.

Yuhaka looked at the road beneath her feet with many cracks in confusion. Although Yuhaka didn't know what a road was, her "knowledge" told her that it was a road for vehicles and that she couldn't just walk across it. She had to use the crosswalk, or she would be hit by a car.

"?Owo-one-one-owO?"

However, after looking around, Yuhaka couldn't find any trace of the white striped zebra crossing, which greatly troubled her. Just as Yuhaka was thinking about how to get across, Zelus, who was watching from the side, said to Yuhaka with a disappointed tone:

"My silly little thing, can't you just jump over it?"

"OДO?!"

Yuhaka looked at Zelus with a surprised expression, as if wondering why he hadn't thought of that idea.

Chapter 80 [Apulu Party!]

"Hey!"

Yuhaka slightly bent her little feet and hopped across the road, but just then...

"Apulupai!"

boom! boom! boom!

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire and a burst of gunfire made Yuhaka, who had jumped into the air, freeze and fall with a thud in the middle of the abandoned road.

...Let's go back to about ten minutes later...

"Angel of Power!"

Texas, who was steering the vehicle, shouted this to Exusiai, who was sitting in the passenger seat. After loading her submachine gun, Exusiai said to Texas:

"learn!"

Then, Exusiai leaned halfway out of the passenger window and shouted at the large group of wandering mercenaries riding off-road motorcycles and ATVs behind their van:

"This is a return gift for you!"

After speaking, Exusiai pulled the trigger, and the gun in her hand burst into a series of "rat-a-tat-tat" sounds, with dozens of bullets flying towards the wandering mercenaries who were hot on their heels.

"what--!"

"Ah! I'm bleeding all over the floor!"

"I've been shot—!"

Many of the wandering mercenaries were shot and fell off their off-road motorcycles, only to be run over by armored off-road vehicles that either didn't have time to dodge or didn't even try to dodge.

"The target has Lateran's muskets! Send the armored off-road vehicles forward to hold them off!"

After the leader of the wandering mercenaries, who was directing the battle from inside the armored off-road vehicle, gave the order, the armored off-road vehicle behind accelerated forward to provide cover for the wandering mercenaries who had no hard armor, while the wandering mercenaries riding off-road motorcycles and four-wheeled vehicles hid behind the armored off-road vehicle to avoid Exusiai's attacks.

After seeing the rogue mercenaries opposite her switch to armored off-road vehicles to defend themselves, Exusiai stopped firing and shouted at them:

Wow! That's a foul!

Exusiai could see that the windows and tires of those modified large off-road vehicles were covered with armor plates, and her own weapons simply couldn't penetrate those armor plates!

Faced with Exusiai's accusations, the leader of the wandering mercenaries inside the armored SUV was speechless and even wanted to laugh. Then, the wandering mercenaries inside the armored SUV opened the roof window, took out crossbows, and pulled the triggers on the van in which Exusiai and the others were riding.

"Huh?!"

Seeing a large number of arrows flying towards her, Exusiai quickly shrank into the van. The arrows hit the back and top of the van and became embedded in the top, but did not completely penetrate it.

"what?!"

Seeing that the armor-piercing arrows he had specially bought at a high price on the black market had failed to penetrate the outer shell of an ordinary van, the wandering mercenary leader was furious. Then, not being stupid, he decided that if he couldn't penetrate the vehicle body, he would shoot the tires. He didn't believe that the van could run for long after its tires went flat.

After hearing the sound of the arrows striking the ground stop, Texas anticipated that the enemy would probably aim at other parts of the vehicle. She then bit off the Pocky stick in her mouth and said to Exusiai and the others in the van:

"Looks like modifying the car was the right thing to do, but now everyone hold on tight, we're about to accelerate!"

After saying that, Texas shifted gears and slammed on the gas, instantly increasing the car's speed. Exusiai and the others inside the van gasped and quickly grabbed the handrails to prevent themselves from falling.

The van accelerated suddenly, instantly creating a significant gap between itself and the mercenaries' vehicles. Seeing that their target vehicle had distanced itself from them, the mercenary leader immediately ordered his armored off-road vehicle driver to give chase.

However, because the armored off-road vehicles were equipped with a lot of heavy armor, even at full throttle, the distance between them and the Texas continued to widen.

Enraged, the wandering mercenary leader ordered his men:

"Quick! Split into two convoys and flank them from the side. I refuse to believe that there are still two Lateran on the other side!"

Soon, the wandering mercenaries riding off-road motorcycles and four-wheeled vehicles, who had been hiding behind the armored off-road vehicle, split into two groups and surrounded the van where Texas and the others were.

Texas, who was driving the van, naturally noticed the wandering mercenaries splitting into two groups, and said to Exusiai:

"Exusiai, you're in charge of the enemies over there. I'll take care of the rest."

After saying that, Exusiai, in the passenger seat, switched the weapon in her hand and gave Texas an OK sign, saying:

"OK! Leave it to me!"

Then Exusiai turned to Croissant, who was protecting the cargo in the back of the van, and shouted:

"Croissant, could you please throw me the weapons from that box over there?"

Upon hearing Exusiai's words, Croissant quickly handed her a gun that looked like a semi-automatic rifle from her spare weapon case. Exusiai took the weapon and thanked Croissant. Then, Exusiai pointed the weapon at the convoy of wandering mercenaries outside the window and said:

"watch out!"

Exusiai aimed her weapon at the two wandering mercenaries driving the motocross motorcycles at the front and pulled the trigger. With a "bang" of a gunshot and a "bang" of a tire bursting, the motocross motorcycles driven by the two wandering mercenaries immediately went out of control, and then [the motorcycles were destroyed and the mercenaries died].

Of course, Exusiai didn't care whether the two wandering mercenaries lived or died; without a vehicle, even if they were alive, they wouldn't be able to catch up.

Exusiai then launched the same vehicle destruction attack on the other wandering mercenaries' off-road motorcycles. The wandering mercenaries attacked by Exusiai also raised their crossbows and attacked the van that Texas and the others were riding in.

However, at high speeds and on uneven ground, the accuracy of the wandering mercenaries was pitifully low. Even when arrows hit the van, they were stopped by the modified vehicle body of Texas. Texas then pulled out his Originium Sword, the one that looks like a lightsaber from Star Wars.

That Originium Sword is actually similar to the Originium Staff, but it's more like a consumable item than the Originium Staff.

Texas pressed a button on the hilt of her Originium Sword, then threw it toward the convoy of wandering mercenaries. The sword immediately fired out a large number of lightsaber-like objects that pierced through the convoy of mercenaries one by one.

However, just as Exusiai was shouting "Apu Pupa" while attacking the convoy of wandering mercenaries, Sora, who was sitting in the car, suddenly noticed a petite figure lying on the ground on a cracked, abandoned road in the distance, looking at the van rushing towards her with a bewildered expression.

Chapter 81 [Penguin Logistics is still missing Croissants and Blue Angels]

"Texas-senpai! Watch out! There's a little kid lying over there!"

Upon hearing Kong's words, Texas quickly turned her attention to the area in front of the van. She then saw Yuhaka slowly getting up on the road, dusting himself off, clicking his tongue, and frowning as he said:

"This is troublesome... Croissant! Open the car door and pull the child in!"

Croissant nodded quickly and said:

"I understand, I've got your back!"

Croissant opened the side door of the van and was suddenly attacked by crossbow bolts from the wandering mercenaries. Fortunately, Croissant had her own shield, which blocked all the arrows.

"Tsk, what a nuisance."

Texas, who was driving, quickly turned the steering wheel and pulled out another Originium sword, throwing it towards the convoy of wandering mercenaries. The barrage of swords threw the convoy into a panic. At that moment, as Texas drove the van past the bewildered Yhaka, Croissant grabbed Yhaka's fur cloak from the side door and pulled him into the van.

"Empty, catch!"

"Huh!? Yes!"

Croissant threw the Ehaka in her hand to the empty spot, and Sora quickly opened her arms and hugged the Ehaka, whose body was curled up and whose legs were tucked between its big tail.

Croissant slammed the side door shut and then shouted to Texas:

"All done, Texas!"

Upon hearing Croissant's words, Texas addressed everyone in the van:

"Alright, hold on tight, it's time to shake them off!"

Then, amidst everyone's panicked gazes, Texas stepped on the gas.

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

About an hour later, Exusiai leaned out of the car window to look behind her and, finding no trace of the wandering mercenaries, said to Texas in the driver's seat:

"Texas, it seems like those wandering mercenaries have been shaken off."

Texas nodded, took a Pocky box from her pocket, and then, as if smoking a cigarette, put a Pocky in her mouth. Turning to look at Sora, who was sitting next to her in the back of the car, she said:

"I'd rather know who it is than those wandering mercenaries?"

Upon hearing Texas's words, everyone's gaze turned to Yhaka, who was sitting next to Sora. Yhaka, in turn, looked at the four members of Penguin Logistics in the car with a puzzled expression.

“Owo一一一owO?”

Yuhaka was puzzled as to why these people looked somewhat like him (referring to their animalistic features).

Croissant, who was standing nearby, curiously pulled down Yuhaka's hood, and then the four people in the car saw a black-haired loli with cat ears appear in front of them.

Exusiai: "Hmm?"

Texas: "Uh..."

Croissant: "Ah..."

Sora: "Hmm... don't you guys think this child looks familiar?"

Upon hearing Sora's words, Exusiai, Texas, and Croissant all wore puzzled expressions. Exusiai, Croissant, and Sora then stared intently at Yuhaka's blank expression before turning their gaze to Texas, who was driving. Texas, sensing their gazes, turned back and looked at them with a puzzled expression, saying: