Chapter 52 - Side Story: Lumi (2)
Generally, weight class difference is an insurmountable huge wall.
It’s not for nothing that people are divided by weight classes even in fighting arenas where those who claim to be good at punching gather.
“Zhubu!”
“Woof!”
Setting aside the scientific discussion of whether bears originally cried zhubu for a moment.
What unfolded before my eyes was.
A great leap that ignored weight classes.
With one punch from tiny Lumi (Level 50, full equipment), the bear’s huge belly fat vibrated and was pushed back slurp.
But the bear didn’t just stand still either, swinging its front paw with a rage-filled serious strike!
“Zhubu…?”
Wow.
So bears’ eyes can show the emotion of bewilderment too.
Lumi, who lightly blocked that seemingly powerful attack with her forearm, then very skillfully switched her posture and gave a shoulder bump, bam!
“Buuuugh…!”
I shuddered watching the terrifying sight of Lumi, more slender than the bear’s forearm, crushing the bear with pure physical strength.
No matter how much level and equipment advantage she has.
How can one hold back exclamations seeing such a marvelous scene of overcoming the physical gap?
“Kyong!”
Ah, geez.
Only dog sounds came out instead of exclamations.
After a few more exchanges like that.
“Zhubu…”
The bear finally couldn’t hold on and flopped down.
It was knocked down just like that.
“It was nothing woof!”
Lumi turned her back on the fallen bear and smiled brightly at me.
Her smile was truly refreshing.
After going through several more episodes.
As if rewriting history–
We went through the process of Lumi scuffling with various monsters of the Great Forest or beast-kin fighters that Lumi had been defeated by, or hadn’t met before.
The baby Lumi who loved peace and walks is now gone.
Only the great warrior Lumi, painted over with violence and struggle, exists now…
Like that, before we knew it, her tiny height had grown vigorously and completed an even more voluptuous evolution into the current Lumi.
I too had grown from a tiny puppy to a large dog size, with my line of sight reaching about Lumi’s waist.
And the stage was a very familiar place.
A place too narrow to be called Darang Dream Land’s parade ground.
“Dog tribe, your name is quite famous in the Great Forest. I, the Wolf Sword Tiger, will accept your challenge.”
“Hmph, you bring along an excessive male. I’ll break your pride here.”
“Myong?”
“Kyong?”
Renatel and Enya appeared simultaneously.
“Master, are they different from the hero friends at our home woof?”
Lumi, perking up her ears, looked down at me and asked.
“Wang!”
I understood Lumi’s intention at once and nodded.
At that moment.
Lumi’s aura changed completely.
“I let you off in the tower, but I won’t here woof!”
Lumi rushed in without any hesitation and landed the first hit, despite the disadvantageous 1:2 situation.
She started decorating the battlefield, avoiding sharp sword strikes and spear thrusts aiming for vital points, without allowing even a scratch on her clothes.
“Kaeng…!”
Renatel, hit in the abdomen by Lumi’s serious punch, flew off bwoong and rolled, crashing into the wall ungracefully.
“Male, what?”
Not a hero friend but just an enemy. And one with a kidnapper background.
Enya was beaten mercilessly like a dog on a hot summer day.
“Kyong! Kyong kyong!”
It was so pitiful that even I had to bark and try to stop her from hitting more.
Then Lumi, who had become the loyal dog of the loyal dog, finally stopped her violent acts and smiled broadly, smiling with blood droplets on her cheeks, smiling with her chest dyed red.
It’s cute and pretty.
That’s fine then.
“Woof!”
Lumi gently flew to me and patted my head.
And the two defeated ones.
“…I acknowledge defeat.”
“You are qualified. Move forward.”
They solemnly muttered even with their eyes turned black.
“Kyong…”
I’m already worried about returning.
Will I be able to hold back laughter when seeing Renatel’s face?
It’ll be a LV.MAX difficulty level of holding back laughter…
[Lumi’s Legend: Miracle of the Great Forest – Episode 9]
[Lumi the Advancing, who brought the Wolf tribe to their knees. Now it was time to gain recognition from the Cat tribe. Arriving at the Cat tribe’s city ‘Nekopia’, Lumi received a proposal to first prove her skills in the arena.]
“Nya! Win nya!”
“Don’t lose to a mere dog nya!”
With the episode update, this time the background changed again to the middle of an arena.
A heated atmosphere reminiscent of the ancient Colosseum.
The audience was filled entirely with fleabags, no, Cat tribe members.
And a huge wall was blocking between Lumi and me.
“Master! Are you there woof?!”
“Kyong! Kyong!”
When I barked to confirm my safety, a sigh of relief was heard from beyond the wall.
I wanted to continue communicating a bit more, but.
《Introducing the new challenger! How far can these insignificant puppies advance! Introducing Lumi from the Dog tribe, and her male, Lulu!》
With the announcer’s booming introduction, the arena was filled with a clamorous uproar.
Soon we couldn’t hear each other’s voices.
《Facing them, the Cat tribe’s champion! Leila! And her tiger, Petra!》
Cheers incomparably more intense than during our entrance.
“Leila! Break that puppy’s pride!”
“Petra will definitely win nya!”
Somehow, an ominous feeling.
《This duel measures not only the master’s skill! But also the combat power of their companion! Will the challengers be able to leave the arena in one piece! Now! It begins!》
“Grrrr…”
“Kyong…?”
I suddenly found myself face to face with a tiger.
“Master! Lumi will come rescue you soon woof! Just hang on a little woof!”
Lumi’s voice urgently echoing from the separated space.
My thoughts accelerated at an unprecedented speed.
Gathering to the utmost limit, I immersed myself in the ecology of dogs.
“Kying…!”
Operation name.
Act cute!
“Kuhung!”
Kyaaak!
It failed!
“Kyong, kyong!”
They say a day-old puppy doesn’t know to fear a tiger, but.
No matter how empty-headed a day-old puppy is, it wouldn’t dare to act up in front of a tiger several times its size, as big as a house.
Based on the quadrupedal controls I’ve become quite familiar with.
Desperately fleeing, and fleeing again!
“Don’t run away nya! Fight back nya!”
Jeers poured from the audience.
“Kyong!”
Leaving a single syllable condensing all sorts of curses, I ran round and round until my paws were sweating!
Fortunately, the tiger was underestimating me.
Instead of immediately swinging its nyanya punch (ouch) to tear me apart, it seemed to be trying to corner me and play with me, a mischievous behavior.
What a detestable lucky big dude.
Then huh?
I can also, huh?
Become rabid!
“Grrrr!”
The moment I let out a spirited shout.
Kuwoong–!
“Kuhung!”
Suddenly the wall was smashed, and with that recoil, the tiger’s body floated in the air for a moment before rolling on the ground.
“…?”
No way.
Did superpowers awaken in me too?
Have I finally opened the Push-Rod?
But…
My vision…
Strength is leaving my whole body…
With great power comes great responsibilityyyy…
“Master is in danger…!”
Lumi was very flustered.
Although in Lulu’s form, Master is Master.
She could tell by the smell.
But that Master’s figure was beyond the wall, beyond this huge wall…!
“Where are you looking, puppy baby? Your opponent is here– Nyaak?!”
Lumi sent the cat woman approaching and speaking to her flying with a single hit, and gauged the height of the wall.
Too high to jump over.
Then.
“I didn’t want to show this form woof…”
Lumi’s complex.
When she concentrates to properly exert her strength, her hands change as if they’re a dog’s front paws.
Among the Dog tribe members Lumi had met, there were no beast-kin who underwent such a change.
She left the Great Forest also because of the uncomfortable gazes from her own kind.
Humans would surely dislike it too.
So she hid it.
Lumi restrained herself even in the most dangerous situations.
Because she might be hated for this.
But now.
“Kyong!”
“Master…!”
Master’s voice, sounding particularly loud amidst the sudden silence that fell, perhaps due to the shock of her sending the Cat tribe beast-kin flying.
He was anxious.
The kind Master.
The Master she thought was fate from the moment she first saw him.
The Master on whom she left marks little by little every day…!
“Grrrr…!”
Lumi’s eyes turned a deeper red.
From her fingertips to the back of her hand, and then her arm, was instantly covered in beast fur.
Maximizing her sense of smell, sniff sniff.
Maximizing her hearing, perk.
She located Master’s position.
Not sure how the other side was, but he kept running around in circles.
And after locating the position of the tiger daring to threaten Master.
Naturally extending from her shoulder to elbow, and then her fist–
Kuwoong–!
Lumi’s fist struck the tall and thick wall.
Crack.
Cra-a-ack-
Rumble–!
Cracks became fissures, soon turning to powder as a huge hole was made in the wall.
What was visible through that gap was.
“Master–!”
One seemingly fainted tiger and.
Master with swirls above his head, also looking dazed.