Chapter 27 Everyone present felt that they were wandering between life and death
The garlic in Yu's hand was not held firmly, and it fell to the floor, trying to roll towards the black leopard.
Afraid of offending it, she quickly squatted down and moved a few steps to retrieve the garlic back into her arms.
The leopard's eyes followed Garlic from the moment he saw it. Unlike leopards, black panthers don't often look mournful. Even if they are aggrieved, they usually can't tell.
"Eat... do you want to eat?"
Anyway, Yu first stretched out his hand and the garlic on his hand a little towards it.
"..."
The black panther glanced at her, raised its front paws, and walked towards Yu's direction alternately from left to right.
Yu tried hard to look calm.
——Don’t show panic in front of the ‘predator’.
The black panther did not poke its head forward to smell the things in front of it like other animals. Instead, it raised its left paw with an indifferent expression and patted the garlic on Yu's hand to the ground in the distance.
The head of garlic rolled all the way over there, hit the wall and bounced back a few times before stopping. The black panther in front of her didn't even look over there.
[If you were being rescued, you probably wouldn’t face others so fiercely...]
Yuya didn't dare to hide back, and stood there tremblingly as he held the garlic.
The Black Panther took a few steps forward, lowered his head, and opened his mouth to Yu's hand.
[…Is it… because it doesn’t want others to live here…]
It doesn't matter if one hand is missing. If you get emotional and take action, you may become worse off later.
If you eat it, you can at least run out of the house when it bites it off and lure it away...
[But that would be...]
Yu closed his eyes tightly, not thinking about what was happening with the hot and humid gas that was getting a little closer to his hand.
[...Run into the kitchen and let Hinoki hold a bag of flour and slap it on its teeth. At least it can restrain it... I heard that animals seem to prefer to pick fat places to eat, so compared to Hinoki, I...
It’s easier to be eaten.]
Yu had also heard before that no one had lived here for a long time.
And the old couple from before also disappeared a long, long time ago, so...she wouldn't really believe it if no one wanted to live here during this period.
Except for being a bit old and having a strange aesthetic, the rest of the place is pretty good, and the interior space is also very large, and there is a small yard...
…
[Didn’t everyone who came before have been eaten???]
Yu felt his finger being bitten by the black panther.
The leopard's tongue was not very hot, maybe because her hands were warmer due to emotional problems... She felt a little cold.
And its tongue also has barbs.
The barbs on the tongues of big cats are more threatening than small common domestic cats and wild cats.
The wrist was bitten by its fangs, while the fingers and palm were held in its mouth.
pain.
Both my wrists and hands hurt.
Yu wanted to pinch the other person's prickly tongue so that he could not lick his hand as if tasting it, but he was also afraid that the other person would open his mouth and bite his hand off or step back——
Either the hand is completely gone, or the skin and flesh on the hand are scraped off by the barbs on the tongue.
"By the way, today——..."
Hinoki quickly finished frying a dish based on shredded potatoes. After putting it aside with the lid on to prevent the heat from dissipating, he began to roll out the pancakes.
At this time, Hinoki looked out of the kitchen with a rolling pin and a small ball of noodles. What he saw was his little brother who was not related by blood, crying silently, and his hand was being held by an unknown hand. The little leopard bites.
(?※ There will be no quotation marks and explanations after that. When others call Yu, he is him. Therefore, when writing about Yu as him, most of the time it is described in the eyes of others (perspective), and subjective cognition has convinced him that he is him. In the case of men, they will still write 'she' in ordinary interactions.)
"That..." Hinoki's hand holding the rolling pin trembled slightly, but he was very sensible and did not swing it at the black panther immediately.
Because judging from the current situation, Yu's hand is not broken yet.
But that’s not necessarily the case if you do it yourself.
"...Brother, what should I do..."
After hearing Hinoki's voice, Yu made a voice of grievance that she had never imagined, as if asking for help.
Although the leopard hasn't even eaten half of her fingers, it's still so stressful.
[If you want to bite, bite quickly...]
The barbs on the tongue stick to the soft palms and fingertips, and it looks like licking but not very much. I wonder if it is a leopard that wants to eat gracefully... slowly biting it off or something.
There were many guesses, but she had no idea what it wanted.
"What, please calm down...!" Hinoki quickly stuffed the rolling pin into the front pocket of his apron and touched Yu's hair, "You, too, calm down..."
He trembled and stretched out his hand towards the leopard's head.
The black panther glanced up at him.
"I, I don't mean any harm -" Hui tried his best to show a smile that he thought was very kind.
The Black Panther still held Yu's hand in his mouth and did not let go, so Hiroyuki touched the Black Panther's head without any hindrance...
It looks like a long-haired variety, but it doesn't feel particularly plush. It has a kind of... how should I put it?
For example, in the past winter, I wore black or white clothes that felt a little hard but were so velvety that I wanted to touch them again.
Hinoki didn't know how to describe it anyway, so he couldn't help but rub its head along the edge.
"..."
The leopard released his mouth.
Yu was able to take back his hand.
The black panther increases the strength of its jaws little by little, so even though Yu's wrist was pressed against by the sharp fangs, there was no bleeding, but the skin where the teeth struck was very red.
The skin on the palm of my hand was scratched by the barbs on the leopard's tongue. Some places also turned red, and blood could already be seen in some places.
The black panther turned and stared at Hinoki.
Hino stretched his arms to protect Yu behind him and looked at the leopard very nervously.
"..."
There was no longer that noisy growl in the Black Panther's throat.
Its two front paws first moved back a little, then relied on its hind legs to support its body, put its paws on Hinoki's shoulders, and opened its mouth again.
Hinoki closed his eyes, but did not lower his arm protecting Yu.
Yu clutched the hem of Hinoki's clothes and didn't dare to look.
"……ah……"
Yu heard this voice.
Not from cypress.
"……I'm not……"
Hui heard the creature in front of him speak human words, and opened his eyes in shock.
"It used to be like this..."
The black panther's paws were still on Hinoki's shoulders. Yuya behind him opened his eyes again, and what he saw was that the paws were relaxed after retracting his nails.
It's plush and looks easy to pinch.
The black panther kicked his hind legs behind him a few times, put his front paws back on the floor of the living room, and walked to the old photo next to the sofa with elegant cat steps.
"They would all make me... bite my hand, saying they were playing with me..."
The Black Panther people don't speak fluently, but they are all prepared before speaking, so apart from speaking a little slower, they don't sound stumbling.
"..."
Yu poked his head out from behind Hinoki and looked at the leopard, but his hands were still holding onto Hinoki's clothes.
She saw what the leopard was looking at.
She had seen that photo before.
[Isn’t it because you have grown up!?]
She was relieved to find out that the leopard was not really vicious.
"Because you... haven't had teeth like this before, right? Is that you in the photo? The teeth at that time should be... unable to bite or something, right? Now..."
As Yu spoke, he noticed that the black panther turned his attention back to him and silently closed his mouth.
Although I want to rua, my hand hurts.
"Um, I'm not very sure... Anyway, you are the 'まぐろ' in the photo, really black... Miss? It's a pity that we can't communicate with those two... but we will live here from now on. , if, if we did something wrong, please give me some advice..."
Hino retracted his hand and bowed to the black panther seriously, lowering his head.
Heyu's "please give me some advice" was just a casual remark. This... was something he couldn't be more serious about.
If I don't come here to give you some advice, I really don't know how I'll die if I get into trouble... Well, I think I can guess...
"...Really dark?" Yu frowned and looked at the black panther.
[It’s such a simple and direct name...it’s really quite dark.]
Wait a moment,
[Miss?]
Yu suddenly raised his head and tugged at Hinoki's clothes frantically.
"Brother, this one is called Zhen Hei, is it a female..."
can not tell.
Because the sound is very low.
"Well, when I checked in, the person in charge said this... He said that the owner of this house changed the house to a different look because of a quarrel, and began to live apart. Later, he rescued a dog that lost its family and owner. The young psychic beast, because the other's fur was very dark, named it True Black. He took it to the hospital for examination and found out that it was a female black panther... But not long after that, the two people... "
"Roar--"
The black panther named True Black roared threateningly at Hinoki, as if to tell him to stop talking.
"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mention your sadness..." Hinoki shrank his neck and quickly lowered his head.
Zhen Hei seemed to be frowning, but his face was completely black except for his eyes. Only the tip of his nose and the fur on his ears were slightly lighter in color. Overall, it was still hard to see his expression clearly.
It waits for the cypress with its golden, majestic-looking eyes.
Hui lowered his head and didn't dare to raise his head for a while.
[It turns out I don’t know how to get along with people...]
Yu breathed a sigh of relief and then became excited.
This is a! Big! Cat! Oh!
"Brother, it seems to be okay. Can you continue cooking? I want to chat with it for a while. By the way, how about cooking more? It's so bad, are you picky about food?"
Yu wanted to drive Hinoki back to the kitchen to care about the cat, but then he thought it was dinner time, so he called out its name as if he were close to him.
"No...eat them all..." The black panther blinked a few times, raised his paws to pull at his ears, and finally put his paws on his forehead.
[cute.]
"Well, I'll prepare something else later..." Hinoki smiled politely at Zhen Hei in the distance, then squatted down and slowly took away Yu's hand holding his clothes, "...I want Pay attention to your safety and be sure to call me if anything happens...!"
After he whispered instructions to Yu, he stood up and nodded to them again, and returned to the kitchen.
"Wait a moment, I'm going to wash my hands. It's not good to keep it like this..."
Yu grinned and waved his hand that was bleeding from being licked and bitten at Makiro next to the sofa, and ran to the bathroom on the first floor.
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[But this voice...eh?]
Yuu washed his hands and sorted out what had just happened.
"..."
[I remember the one who came to pick me up before had the same voice...ah???]
She thought back to the length of her body that she had just seen standing up with her paws raised.
...It seems like the president can confront that strange 'person' from before?
[You actually pretend to pick up other people’s children and take them home? That’s amazing.]
It is indeed a creature that grew up within this worldview.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
20.01.01.-7-
Suddenly, I remembered the first time I ate chicken feet with pickled peppers around 2008. I was admitted to the experimental class of another school in the fifth grade, and then I was directly promoted to the experimental class of junior high school. I lived with relatives quite far away, and my own home was also demolished. My parents went to live with my grandma, and my father and I went to my father’s daughter’s house. Their house had a huge house called Wangwang. I started to correct my teeth when I was very young, because when I was a child, my front teeth were replaced. When the teeth were removed, they were solid, just the four front teeth (.). Even after they were anesthetized, it still hurt a lot to pull them out. When I pulled them out, my head moved forward with the force. I pulled them out for a long time, and then they were corrected, so I... I feel like a 'companion' to it. When I ate pickled pepper chicken feet for the first time, I was a little curious when I saw the white ones, so I bought it and ate it in the house. It looked at me (she is a little girl, but she is super fierce), and I I gave it a little bit to eat together, and then both of us cried because of the spicy food. Fortunately, I liked milk and bought several bags, so I filled it with milk. I was afraid that it would be spicy and cause an accident, so I poured the milk into the bag and gave it to drink. I opened another bag and wanted not to eat it but I couldn't waste it. When I was struggling, it looked at the chicken feet in my hand while crying and laughing. I gave it a little more and then I thought it was okay. I can do it too, so we cried together again because we were being teased. We were afraid that our parents would think there was something wrong with us, so we closed the door and ate and drank milk together (separately) and cried together...
Then I didn't dare to eat it for a long time. It was in good health, but it was very fierce. Later, it became so protective of food that it became so fierce that it would be a vicious person so I gave it away.
I actually bought a bag but I was hesitant about eating it.