บท 27: The Loli's Angry!

"Libbo.. I'm hungry~"

~Yes~

Looking down on the vast desert, a small girl with tattered clothes and matted pink hair laid still on the sand. Lightly dripping blood from the gash on her heel, her stomach grumbled loudly as she continued to complain to... well technically no one!

"LIBBO~~"

~Yes?~

'I NEED FOOD~~!'

Results for available food:

None

~I hope this helps~

'WHY WOULD IT HELP!?'

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3 hours remaining

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"Ah?!"

Sitting up at the sound of the notification, her expression drastically changed from shock, to anger, to depression then finally back to exhaustion as she plopped back down onto the warm and comfortable sand.

'3 more hours of this starving hell... I was promised food, you know?!'

'*Meeting of the Isekai-Gods*'

'Ok Jaxx, here's the deal!'

*I know what's going on you know, I'm kinda you after all!*

'Ah! That's right!'

*'hahaha...'*

'Ok, back to being serious, how the hell do we get out of this?!'

*Hmm, well Libbo is useless, you're too hungry to do anything and-*

'Wait did you just call me 'you' instead of us?'

*Ah well yea, You're kinda different now after all!*

'Ah, so I've grown as a person, is what you're saying? Aww shucks~'

~No growth detected~

[You are both still relatively the same I would say]

{No}

-AS IF!-

'Whoa~ so this is what it's like to be on the receiving end, weird huh. How does that work anyways? Aren't they in a different dimension or something?'

*Well I would explain it but that would confuse the readers and author-nim is a bit lazy...

Moving on!

I'd say the best thing to do at this point is to grab Miss Mona's attention!*

'Hmm, right. How should I do that though? She doesn't really seem to care about me getting hurt this time around, kinda out of character really...'

*Right! So let's assume that as of now she doesn't care about you... then we should probably attack something that we know will hit HER hard instead!*

'Hit her hard... I don't really know much about her though... Other than she's a succubus demoness goblin hybrid with the pride of a-'

'*PRIDE!*'

'Ah~ To think mother earth would just give up on her promise like this, what a scam of a god~'

Trying to provoke the goddess, she began to roll around on the ground, letting go of her appearance and manners all together as she stuck her pinky finger into her nose and continued.

'To send the very person you called your daughter to an unknown place after promising a reward, then leaving her to get beat up, stripped of their clothes and forced to starve while fighting for her life. What a mother huh~ Not that I would know, with never having one and all~ You'd think you would at least try to be a decent one after proclaiming yourself as one over and over~ and oooveerrr~'

<JEEZ!! I get it so shut it already you ungrateful daughter!>

'*bingo~*'

'Ah~ Miss Mona, you finally decided to show up huh~ Not that it matters, I don't care much for liars and stuff. You know-'

'Well, the hints were all stuff I already knew, as for the mission I WAS BUSY SURVIVING'

<*Sigh* The mission was for you to get a boost on your control over the earth element, and I even gave you the hint about controlling sand better than earth! This is the perfect learning environment!>

'Oh right~ Let me use a whole element I've never used before and know nothing about~ There's that whole saying about teaching a man to fish instead of giving him one, but all you did here was put a pond in front of me and said "Go! Get fish!" Like how am I supposed to without any knowledge or tools?!-'

***They continued arguing for a bit, I'm not gonna bore you with it so here's the short version;

'I didn't have time!'

'Because I'm so tired and starved that I can't move!'

<Don't think I didn't see you use your clothes as a resource! A woman should never resort to that!>

'KINDA HAD TO'

***So on so forth, here we are. Well, they're still arguing actually so I will just entertain you for now by explaining a few things!

[Yay~ Info chapter~ soooo exciting~]

Aren't you literally THE nerd character?

[...]

***

Bing Bing!

Yo!

It's info time people! Let's start with the first and foremost, Fire!

How does it work? Why does she get hungry to the point of fainting? Shouldn't it just use magic or mana? maybe even just make her tired instead?

Well, the answers would be assumed to be;

It just does, this is an isekai don't expect things to be explained. Who knows, its cause author-nim said so. I don't know, probably yea. Theoretically that would make more sense!

[Why aren't those the answers then? They all make sense to me... though they do seem lazy...]

Of course it's lazy, it's an isekai!

But to answer that question, they aren't the answers cause that's boring! As a degenerate who's done nothing but read isekai, I've come to understand a few things and one thing I genuinely hate is when the author expects you to just magically know how the power system works!

So here are your answers people! Read em and weep em!

In this world, there are a few different types of magic!

First off, there's the magic most people know of that uses natural energies that surround you known as essence!

Essence floats about in the air like pollen and clumps around all things living! If you could see it it would probably look like small bubbles that cloud around people, animals and loosely around things like plants and feathers!

Most if not all living creatures are able to use Essence to their advantage of course, but it can be exhausting and is mentally taxing as you have to imagine the essence moving and changing into an element!

Cool right?!

[That is cool! It seems interesting! I wonder what I could manage with that! Essence... Hmm I shall start studying!]

Right! Well just keep in mind that essence has its limits! I won't be explaining them for now however because of plot and stuff sadly but.

[Why not?]

Not sure, author-nim's rules!

Second off there is mana! this works just how you would expect!

Each PERSON has basically a glass of pure energy that they can use to create magic! Even if you're in a void of nothingness you would still be able to cast fireballs even without essence!

The downside? There are more limits!

[Like there being a specific amount that your body can hold right? Also the production rate of it?]

Correct! But there's also one more thing~

{Flavor}

Ding Ding!

[Fl- flavor?]

Righto! If you think of mana being a liquid filling the glass, then tell me! What would that liquid taste like?

[G- grape?]

Could be! Now, what effects do you think would be produced with a grape flavored mana?

[Uh... s- space maybe?]

Who knows?! You are probably wrong though!

[Oh great... thank you]

No problem!

Now! Lastly and the most important to Camellia is the 'beast quirk'

When a beast, beast-kin, animal or monster reaches a certain level in intelligence, strength, purity or whatever it may be, they become able to manifest a beast quirk!

There are different grades to these quirks, just as there are grades to everything, but those don't really matter right now!

As magic has a thousand ways to be used, beast quirks have a few ways to be used a thousand ways!

[I feel like you stole that quote from somewhere...]

Maybe~

A beast quirk can have many different shapes, flavors and can even be a chunk of wood that a gorilla carries around! You name it!

How do they work? No clue! Author-nim said it was for 'plot' again so we might find out later!

What I do know however, is that using the quirk has a cost!

The cost will be whatever the beast decides is worthy of being the currency!

It could be actual money, it could be muscle or fat mass! Or... hunger

[That just sounds like a waste though, why would she choose hunger when she has so many options? Wouldn't the results be the same no matter what she chose as the 'currency'?]

Yup! She chose it because she's stupid and didn't know! though the currency matters very much! The more important it is to the person the more power it'll hold!

And that's why the fuel source she chose was quite good!

[Why's that?]

Well... Let's just say she has a good appetite.

'I was promised food, not danger!'

'Nah! I can't hear you! Too hungry!'

<You! Just imagine the sand being picked up by bubbles then tell it to do an action->

"Ahhh~ Soooo hungry!!"

<Hey, you're being loud! Do you want it to come back while you're this hungry?!>

"Like you would care?! You use me for your entertainment then go to throw me out right when it comes to the reward for my efforts!"

Standing up in rage, she screamed her words out in anger as she threw her hands about in frustration.

"You're all the same! You say you're my parent only to go and use me till I bleed from the ankles!"

"Don't you 'dear' me!!!"

Throwing her hands back as she yelled, some sand seemed to follow her motions, kicking up in the direction she sent her emotions.

"If you wanted to use me you should have at least said so! You promised me an isekai only to send me to this hell and torture me!"

*BOOSH*

Shooting up from the ground behind her, once again the worm stood tall blocking out the sun as it stared down on the prey that burnt its beautiful beak and hurt its pride!

*SQUAAAAA!!!*

Letting out a loud screech it wanted to announce itself to the small ant sized prey! Showing itself as the stronger being! As the one who would kill her in one shot-

"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU CATAPILLAR!"

As she screamed in anger with a few tears in her eyes, she slashed her hand behind her, sending a large blade of sharp sand in the worms direction, leaving a large gash across its stomach spewing blood as it wailed in pain only to fall on its side.

*SQUeeeeee!!*

*Thud!*

***STRONG!

"I just wanted food... I was promised food as a reward, so I tried my best *sniffle*"

<R- Right, and you did your best didn't you~>

"Of course I did! I always do if there's food involved!"

<Mm, right I'm sorry about that! I truly am~ I see that you worked hard here as well, so how about this!>

<<Bading!>>

Rubbing the tears from her eyes, she looked up at the green-ish red screen that appeared before her eyes.

<<>>

Quest time lowered due to completion of secret quest 'Kill the Alaskan bullworm'

Quest complete!

Rewards: Higher Earth Affinity, Basic(+) Earth control, Omnivore

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'Omnivore... So I can live off eating meat now?'

Staring at the screen with teary eyes that now somewhat sparkled with anticipation, a warm smile began to spread across her face.

"Thank you Miss Mona!"

<Mm, No problem dear~>

Her views on Mona rose quite a bit right then! She finally began to acknowledge her as someone with good morals, worthy of her pride... Until her vision started fading to black as she remembered that her body must now be readjusted once again...

"Wh- NOOO!!!!!!"