Chapter 30 Robbery
Kadi, sitting in the tree watching the group heading downhill, couldn’t help but laugh.
With just one sentence, just one single outcry, they all believed it was true and ran off in a cloud of dust. (Kadi naturally didn’t realize his cry had somehow mixed with Spirit Power, which gave his outcry a strangely mesmerizing force.) This would give the guy in the cave below freedom to move around, and he wouldn’t be trapped anymore.
Kadi sprung down from the tree and found the battered scarecrow. In a flurry, he removed the ill-fitting vest and jacket wrapped around its sorry body and haphazardly put them on himself.
This way, meeting that guy might feel a bit more friendly, hehe.
Kadi felt that, as a monster, it was essential to appear friendly when initiating contact; he had to find common ground. Otherwise, acting as he used to around small creatures would definitely scare the other party. Since he couldn’t change his appearance, he could compensate in other ways; wearing the other’s clothes seemed a good choice.
Don’t underestimate this seemingly nonsensical act. Kadi, the monster, wasn’t reckless. Otherwise, his restless little heart would have exposed him long ago, scaring off a bunch of Treasure Hunters at Guru Mountain’s Dawn Peak.
The clothes retained the scent of the guy in the cave. This familiar smell could earn a certain amount of recognition from him, Kadi thought.
Kadi had leisurely studied many things while loitering around Guru Mountain. Scent was one of them. In the process of rummaging through birdhouses and flipping over insect nests on the mountain, Kadi had unconsciously identified many different scents. His sense of smell had also improved significantly, uncovering the secrets of numerous scents. For instance, some ants communicate through scent, determining whether the other ant is a nest mate or a competing enemy. Even the seemingly weak deer would mark their territories with a peculiar scent. The smell of the droppings left by a tiger in the mountain often scared away nearby jackals looking for food...
It was evident that scent was important, especially if it was a familiar one.
Even if the guy in the cave knew nothing about scents, it was okay because these clothes also retained his Spirit Power. Although Kadi didn’t fully understand what this "Spirit Power"—a term Kevin and the old-timers often mentioned—really was, having heard it spoken of so many times had instilled in him a certain awe for it.