25.
Ah, is this it.
This is called cooking.
While spouting such nonsense and roasting the meat, Ophis's gaze seemed focused solely on one place. Somehow it looks like drool is dripping from its mouth, or is that an illusion? When I subtly turned the meat here and there, its gaze followed.
Seems like it wants to eat.
"Want to try it?"
Nod.
Ophis obediently nodded its head.
Pleased with that honest reaction, I also offered the food, and Ophis, who received the dinosaur meat with its tail, examined it here and there before lightly swallowing it in one bite. Honestly, given our sizes, unless it's a considerable amount, it's only about one mouthful.
"Is it tasty?"
"Is it tasty?"
"Why are you answering with a question there."
"?"
When I asked if it was tasty, why is it answering with a question instead.
26.
I didn't expect a grand reaction, but with no reaction at all, I'm actually more deflated.
As if that was that, I focused on my snack. But Ophis's gaze naturally returned to the dinosaur meat I was cooking, and I looked at Ophis with disbelief.
"No, why again."
"....."
What is this.
Does it want to eat?
But there was no particular reaction like it was tasty or anything.
Wait, it couldn't be that it doesn't even know what tasty means, could it? Thinking about Ophis's reaction earlier, it seems not entirely impossible, which is even more absurd. In the end, I sighed and gave half to Ophis.
I don't know if it has something resembling an expression.
Ophis silently accepted and ate the dinosaur meat I gave.
And it's absurd that it's staring blankly as if asking for more.
What about your conscience?
27.
Having nothing to do again today, I start lazing around in the Dimensional Gap.
Exercise and meals are good too, but sometimes, lazing around without any thoughts like this is best for mental health, I think. Especially since Ophis is the only one I can communicate with. On top of that, Ophis answers in short phrases, so conversations don't properly flow.
Well, I've gotten used to that part by now.
While having such random thoughts, I saw something in a corner of the Dimensional Gap.
Rarely, the Dimensional Gap is being broken... .
No, is that the Dimensional Gap creating something like me and Ophis?
Out of curiosity, I went there.
28.
Then what appeared there was a creature with 7 heads and 10 crowned horns. Each head consisted of a dragon, bear, leopard, lion, etc., clearly a non-uniform life form at first glance.
What's that?
Is it some kind of chimera?
And my eyes met with the creature's.
Uh, hello?
29.
The creature suddenly let out a roar and charged.
30.
Hey, this bastard?
Suddenly throws the first punch out of nowhere?
As if not to be outdone, I charged at the Chimeramon and started my first real fight in dragon life. What I did with the dinosaurs couldn't even be called a fight, but this Chimeramon is pretty strong?!
As if I can't lose, I claw, breathe, and use Dream abilities.
Whether this Chimeramon also has some special ability or not, the wounds on my body aren't healing properly.
After tussling for several hours like that, Ophis suddenly came to help, perhaps because it was noisy.
This is the power of bonds (ganging up), Chimeramon!
31.
In the end, Ophis and I succeeded in knocking down the Chimeramon together.
Ouch, that hurts.
If Ophis hadn't helped, it might have been quite difficult.
Finally, I asked the bound Chimeramon.
Why did it attack suddenly.
"?"
Then Chimeramon sent a look as if asking if that was even wrong. What, is it a crazy bastard? It threw the first punch out of nowhere and doesn't even know it did wrong? But Chimeramon still has an innocent expression, showing it doesn't understand why it was wrong.
Ah, I get it.
This Chimeramon is also from the Ophis faction.
I sighed in frustration.
32.
A new resident has appeared in the Dimensional Gap.
Its name is Trihexa, apparently.
It sometimes acts first and thinks later, so I'm disciplining it by hitting it first.
33.
"Fooooooooood!!!"
"Make it yourself."
"Keeeeeeeeeh!"
It thinks kindness is a right.
Like Ophis, after getting food from me a few times, it now naturally whines for me to make food. When I was dumbfounded and told it to do it itself, it threw a tantrum and went out to the Dimensional Gap while saying something like a third-rate villain.
Ha, finally a bit quiet now.
I'm a bit worried about that crazy Chimeramon going outside, but what could happen?
34.
Retract previous statement.
That damn Chimeramon started hunting dinosaurs to eat, and because they didn't taste like what I made, it started throwing a tantrum and having a fit outside. I panicked and went outside to stop it, and in the end, I had no choice but to settle it by making food.
Why do I have to raise two kids?!
35.
"Food."
"Foooood!"
"Don't you have hands, don't you have feet?!"
At my shout, the two said nonchalantly.
"No hands and feet."
"Me neither!"
"You have them!!!"
Ophis looks like an Eastern dragon, so you could say it has no hands and feet, but Chimeramon boldly lies that it has no hands and feet when it clearly does? When I looked at it in disbelief, it hides its hands and feet behind its back.
As if that would hide them?
Letting out a sigh, I prepare meals for the two.
Ophis likes sweet things like candy or chocolate, and Chimeramon demands meat unconditionally, as if advocating for carnivores. I don't know about Chimeramon, but how would Ophis have solved its meals without me?
Somehow I feel like I dug my own grave....
36.
Recently, I went out of the Dimensional Gap to watch the dinosaurs and found out something.
It seems the kids are only similar in appearance to the dinosaurs I know, but they're not real dinosaurs.
No, right?
Why is a dinosaur breathing fire from its mouth? When it swings its claws, something like sword energy comes out, and some exist that create something like a sonic boom when running fast. It was clearly a gathering of heterogeneous monsters, and in many ways, it's a culture shock.
Or is it just that I don't know, and originally dinosaurs were all like that???
I hope not.