Chapter 88: Little Gorilla Awakened
For a week, Kaiju and Ember chatted a lot. Their main topic was about leadership skills, but like how chat, most of the time, drifted to another topic, they even talked about Ember’s past life–how he killed a brown werewolf three years ago by himself, earning him a scar on his stomach.
After four days, Snow was finally awakened from her slumber and instantly demanded food, which resulted with Kaiju cooking for many hours, eating in between, for feasts. He was still worried about Little Gorilla’s condition. Snow could only assure him that Little Gorilla overexerted himself, causing him to recuperate unconsciously more than Snow.
Kaiju could only secure abundant foods for Little Gorilla in the inventory–surprisingly, he discovered the inventory could store food, and the quality never changed. The Gacha System explained that the inventory’s time was frozen, except whenever an item was being repaired. Even then, it was only applicable for that item alone.
Afterwards, Snow and Kaiju conversed for a long time with Ember about their battle earlier, which made Snow feel ashamed. Kaiju had to comfort her and finally, he noticed the subtle change by Snow’s behavior–he felt satisfied.
Aqua and Zephyr were always invited by Kaiju to join in with them, especially their conversation, but they simply rejected him, telling him they just wanted to listen. Kaiju did not force them. Unknown to him, Aqua and Zephyr began to like him, too. If only Kaiju checked their loyalty, he would be surprised it went up by ten percent.
It was simply because of how Kaiju remained humble by Ember’s insightful feedback–though harsh, his criticism was on point. In fact, if a battle, similar earlier, occurred once again, and they had to choose between following Ember and Kaiju’s orders, they would not hesitate to pick the former.
Ember had been their leader whenever they ventured outside. Furthermore, Ember learned directly from their Master, Herforao, so they knew they had to trust him. As expected, Ember had demonstrated his capabilities as a leader, and often, as their older brother. Hence, they even came to treat him as their father.
Now, Kaiju was acting like them, so kind and humble, willing to learn from his tamed beast, which came as a surprise to them. Snow was not an exception. She even thought her master must have been obsessed about being a pupil to whoever he thought worthy to learn a lot from.
It was not entirely a bad thing, as Snow came to understand how important learning was, especially if you were under the right teacher. That was how they improved too, continuous learning. Snow slowly began to realize the satisfaction in learning.
