Emotion Taster

Arc 4 New Stage: Chapter 38 - The Pursuit

"... RWaaAAAAAAwhgGbht ...!!"

The monster's loud voice roused us, from sleeping to standing on standby. The atmosphere began to weigh, the pressure and rumbling shakes all around sprung up every second.

We both stood on our backs, watching as we looked around each other. The darkness tonight left me and Farrel unable to see clearly. However, the human eye can get used to low illumination due to the shape of its eye mouthpiece. So, in the darkness our eyes can still see blurry.

"Farrel, do you know what the animal just sounded like?" ask me while squinting without lowering the concentration of watching.

"It sounds like a bear, but its volume is like a lion. What is clear is not from the wolf," Farrel replied in a soft voice in a standby position.

"Lion does not live in the forest. Even if there was, there's no way he'd show up at night" I said, chiming in on Farrel's talk.

"Yes, right. But, it was unlikely that it was from a bear. The beast is indeed dangerous and can be ferocious, but more often than not it avoids and just fights the time its cubs are threatened."

"It's still unclear, yes."

Dugkh, dukgh ....

The loud thump shook the ground. The sounds and effects felt like a local earthquake. Knowing this, it can be estimated that the creatures that approach have a large size.

I slowly advanced, picking up the items in the carry bag so that later it would not leave any valuables. Under Farrel's supervision, I was there looking for a flashlight for lighting in the dark of the night.

I might feel the sound of giant footsteps at a close distance. But, I'm sure that those footsteps don't mean walking straight to where we are. It's not like the creature found us, it just went around doing its business and happened to pass by our place.

The roar just now sounded like he was angry, but after that there was no aggressive movement of the creature to lung and blindly the environment. I think he's just doing it as an instinct.

"Sip, there," I murmured, taking the flashlight in the bag and simultaneously carrying the bag to carry.

"Okay, you ready, Ivan?"

"Yes, I'm ready" I replied facing Farrel while nodding. "This place is not safe."

I too was there looking down, saying so while lighting a flashlight for lighting.

"Woi, stupid! Don't flashlight!" said Farrel with a vein but held back the volume of his voice.

"Eh?"

*switch

I don't have a quick response to follow Farrel's orders. The decision to turn on the flashlight was also originally purely my decision. Because he previously said that the night is very dangerous for search due to the possibility of mired, I also took the initiative to use lighting.

However ....

*glance

"Hhh!?"

The bright light from the flashlight made our position so striking. Highlight a quality flashlight that was even equivalent to a fifty-five watt lamp. So, just as I shifted the on button, the motion and sharp eye gazes from one corner pierced me. His eyes were so sharp, big, and glistening in the darkness of the night. From the direction of the plateau, approaching the light source, until finally my position is known.

"RWaaAAAaaAafFgh ...!!"

The sound came from a monster. My reflex made me and the monster look up. He has a large body with a height of more than three meters, a large hand shape to almost touch the ground, and the face of a large fanged gorilla. If concluded, its form is more like the form of a monster ... The ogre?

Farrel there took a quick step, he who realized the position of the monster immediately ran in the opposite direction.

"Hn?"

But he stopped for a moment. At the end of the area before entering the forest, the man turned around and before continuing his hazy act.

"Whoi, Ivan! What'd you? Run, fool!"

I was there to daydream, seeing the shape of the monster in detail out of curiosity. Because the creature does not have the characteristics of animals that live in the world in general. Although his legs are smaller than the upper body which is filled with muscular muscles, but he can stand with his two legs.

"Hhh!?"

"Riv ...!!"

Bugs, bugs, bugs ....

The monster started to move, he ran after me like a starving beast. Along with his sinister roar flapping my ears, I could also hear the sound of trees being slashed by him to open the way.

"Woah, hh, hh, hah ...!"

My chest began to flower, adrenaline over the fear of the appearance of the powerful monster brought my breath and heart beat to a boost. The shaking of the ground, the crackling sound of the tree trunk, and the roar of the monster kept making my body change to survival mode.

My run there was light, but my vision was very limited because it was dark at night. Luckily there was Farrell. He has always been not uncommon to do camping when doing his hobby of climbing mountains. That means, he's sharper in his instinct to walk in the grass of the night forest than I am, following him would be more efficient than paving his own way.

Farrel ran in a direction I didn't know his purpose. He agilely ran past the tree roots, maneuvered on the random terrain of the rocks, and even performed high jumps to avoid other crossbars.

In such a place there are not only large trees, but shrubs and small greenery without wood are also annoying. Several times the leaves from the bush and small twigs hooked onto the clothes interfered with my run phase.

Even ....

"Ivan, lookout!"

"Hn?"

*smack

"Ghuhah!?"

From behind Farrel's body, a short tree trunk suddenly appeared that slapped hard towards the face. The trunk is like growing sideways blocking the path of Farrel. When the man opened the way, he pushed and bent the rod, then continued to release it when he was far away.

Farrel's warning was to avoid the trunk of the tree. The effect of the push he did caused the spring force in the elasticity of the small rod, making the pain will multiply when slapping the face.

"Awf!"

However, darling. I couldn't realize it and got pain in the face.

My run might be interrupted due to the hard slap of the tree trunk, but I still forced my run by enduring the pain while holding my face. The tree had caused one of my eyes to be hit lightly. So, I was trying to run to maintain the phase by looking one eye.

"Young, Ivan. Run fast!" farrel shouted from the front which was getting further and further away.

I was a little annoyed, but also could not protest at hearing the giant footsteps getting closer. So, in the midst of hardship, I tried to strengthen the running energy and drive the speed even stronger.

*trips

"Hhh!?"

Bugs.

But at that moment, I screwed it up. Feet that are forced to run fast are even unstable, the concentration used to increase speed even ends in carelessness. The roots of the tree that became the main field were not visible to cause me to stumble and fall.

"RuWAAahHH ...!!"

The roar of the monster approached, I could see every single tree trunk he had collapsed along with his increasingly clear stature. He could see me, and focused on ambushing straight into my position when he saw my feet tripping.

"I-Ivan!?" farrel shouted from a distance and tried to reverse course to save me.