My Pet Human Got Kidnapped by a Wild Human

Chapter 47

「Cuckoo~koo~kooo~」

「Cuckoooo~kooo」

「Cuck~cuckooo~co~co~cooo~cooooo~co」

Slair rubbed his head and opened his eyes. It seemed like he had fallen to the ground, and the surroundings were dark. However, pairs of eyes surrounded him, and he blinked every now and then. He sat up and felt like he was sitting on the back of something, and something thin wrapped around his waist.

It must be a herd of Geo breasts. They were still matching forward, and soon they entered somewhere relatively empty. Some fluorites on the ceiling, emitting a faint light just like the Geo breasts’ eyes. A giant, black figure lying in the center is surrounded by various stones and tree roots. It must be the leader of the group. It looked like a giant crab but had a tiny tail dangling.

「Ore crab?」 Slair was a little surprised. The ore crabs were gregarious animals, and he was kidnapped by them. But it was strange they would do such a thing. Ore crabs were timid and known for their non-aggression. Inside their hard outer shell were a soft inner core and delicious crab meat. Dragons often use their meat to make pet food. Yet, some dragons went on a different path and kept them as pets.

The creature’s habit was to lay eggs in metal ore, and hatchlings would use that ore as a shell. They usually feed on plant roots, and they would find new matching ore when it’s time for them to molt. Therefore, the appearance of each generation was different. The hardness and thickness of the ore determine the ore crab’s defense. Thus, the crabs with bigger and better quality ore held a higher position in the community.

「Cuckoo？」 This kind of creature was not very bright, and their language was not complicated. Nonetheless, Slair gathered most of the information from packing those delicious canned crab meat, except for the introduction in the book. He imitated their voice kindly, hoping to figure out what was happening.

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The ore crabs ignored him. The most giant ore crab crawled its way over slowly and gently lifted Slair’s chin with its vast pincers. It was so big that Slair could feel the tips of its pincer snapping against the sides of his neck, and he had no doubts that his head would fall off with little force.

After a while, the giant ore crab backed away. It let out a 「Cuckoo」, which felt like a confirmation, or maybe it was a command. Then the group of ore crabs moved again, crawling along the tunnel.

Although Slair was bonded by ore crab’s tail, he could still move slightly on its back. He stood up and pulled out a piece of fluorite quietly.

The ore crab got caught by Grieve, a member of the aftermath team that was going to seal the hole. His teammates were lurking around, waiting for an opportunity to rescue him. They were the weaker group among the ore crabs and were not being taken seriously. Still, they had a good relationship with each other.

While fumbling, Grieve suddenly found some fainting light ahead. If he moved forward for a bit longer, he would arrive where Slair met the ore crab boss. At this time, Grieve heard 「Cuckooo-cuckoo」sound again, and he was surrounded by ore crabs. Clods of various sizes slammed on him at once. Grieve drew his sword and slashed around. As the fight went out, he stepped on something where the earth suddenly sank and revealed another large hold. Grieve and the ore crabs on him slid down the slope. Their flight caused the tunnel to collapse and blocked the original path.

Ore crabs left many cuts on Grieve’s body, and many of the crabs were cleaved in half by Grieve. The tunnel was full of delicious crab meat aroma. When they stopped sliding, they found a pair of red eyes, the size of oil lamps, staring at them. With lighting from the ore crabs, Grieve recognized it was a poulperat. Its teeth were sharp and reflected cold light, the stinky saliva dripping on the ground.

『Not here…』after searching the entire village, Rhett and Alex finally realized something was wrong. They grabbed the phile bird’s wings and asked what was going on.

Phile bird was pissed off. It took the two dragons back to where Slair and Grieve disappeared, pointed to and fro. Finally, he spewed pyro breath at the place and almost cost a frost fire. Rhett hesitated momentarily, secretly turned his right hand into a dragon claw, and started digging.

『Oh， there is a hole here!』 Rhett jumped up 『 So, you told me they were not trying to find a sneaky place to fool around but fall in the hole?』

The phile bird covered its head with its wings and nodded in pain.

『My poor, poor little Slair!』 Both Alex and Rhett jumped in immediately, followed by phile bird. With phile bird’s flame, they could see everything clearly– It was a dead-end ahead, but there were two forks little above the end.

『You go left, and I will take the right.』 Alex said 『Whoever finds them, roar.』