Part 2
The eagle finally lifted his head, looked at his blue eyes, and asked in confusion: “Don’t you hate eating meat?”
He had caught so many kinds, and he hadn’t taken a single bite, preferring to eat the sour fruits. He was really hard to raise. Sigh, who told him to be his female from now on? He could only let him do as he pleased.
“I don’t hate eating meat; those meats were raw. I eat cooked meat.”
“Raw… cooked, what does that mean?”
His eyes looking at Yu She were full of question marks. What raw or cooked? Everyone caught prey and ate it just like that. Eh… wait, it seemed not everyone did. The tribe’s priest ate differently from everyone else. The priest also looked very fragile. Could the meat he was talking about be the kind the priest ate? But he didn’t know how to prepare it like that.
The female wouldn’t run away to find another male because he couldn’t find the food he ate, right? At this thought, he secretly tightened his grip on the flesh where the female’s human torso and snake tail joined.
“It means using high heat… never mind, you wouldn’t understand even if I told you.”
Yu She thought even if he explained, he wouldn’t get it; he’d just show him next time.
However, to the eagle, these words sounded like the female was dissatisfied with him and meant to leave. His hand gripped even tighter, a fierce glint flashing through his eyes.
“Why are you grabbing so tightly? Your body is so hot.” As he spoke, he wanted to climb down.
It was right around noon now, and the primeval forest’s sun was several times stronger. Yu She was naturally a snake, a creature that preferred cool shade, while the eagle’s body was boiling hot, like a furnace.
“You are not allowed to leave.”
Yu She’s loosened tail was forcefully wrapped around the eagle’s waist again. He tried to break free a few times but couldn’t, meeting the eagle’s somewhat fierce gaze. The eagle had been so easy to talk to that it made him forget this was actually a fierce wild beast.
“Fine, fine, fine, I won’t leave, alright?”
Hearing this, the eagle loosened his grip.
“Do you have a name, eagle?”
Yu She pushed the hair on the eagle’s back to his front, finally satisfied as he slumped bonelessly against his back.
“No.”
He lied. He did have a name, given by his fathers, but having been driven out of the tribe, he didn’t want to use that name anymore.
“Then… I’ll give you one. Let’s call you Ying (Win). I’m Yu She, so you can be Yu Ying, alright?”
As he spoke, he twisted around to face the eagle again.
To think that at the beginning he couldn’t even walk, and now he was wriggling around so skillfully.
Could it be that he had a talent for being a snake? After awakening his inheritance, he inexplicably knew how to do many things.
Ying smiled foolishly at the beautiful face twisted in front of him and said: “Alright.”
The two beasts couldn’t make it back, so they found a tree hollow nearby and made do for the night. Ying was injured, and Yu She was worried about letting him go out hunting alone. When Ying went out, he climbed onto Ying’s body and told him to take him along, both to practice controlling water and ice during the hunt and to act as an assistant to Ying.
Yu She used water to block the path of a large rabbit, and Ying delivered a fatal blow from high in the sky.
Ying grabbed the rabbit and brought Yu She back near the tree hollow. After slicing off a piece of meat with his sharp claws, he turned into a human. Holding the dripping meat, he hesitated, unsure if he should give it to Yu She.
Yu She, on the other hand, gathered a few branches together, used an ice blade to scrape off the bark, and watched Ying standing there dumbly with a piece of meat, frowning in deep thought again.
He really couldn’t understand what this big silly guy was thinking about every day. His brain wasn’t the best, yet he sure thought a lot. He poked Ying with a branch: “What are you standing there like an idiot for? Skewer the meat on this.”
He handed the branch to Ying, then used a half-melted ice blade to drill a hole in another branch, and started drilling wood to make fire.
Ying stood aside, holding the branch skewered with meat in one hand and tearing off pieces of rabbit meat to eat with the other, watching Yu She busy himself for a long time with nothing happening.
After a while, Yu She finally managed to drill out a tiny spark.
Ying found this spark somewhat familiar and wanted to lean in closer to see. Unexpectedly, the wind brought by his approach blew out the faint flame.
Yu She looked dejectedly at the branch in his hand, and the culprit who extinguished the flame even leaned over to wipe his soot-stained face.
“It’s all your fault, I drilled for half a day for nothing.”
Yu She wrapped his tail around the hand reaching over and glared at this big silly guy.
Ying untangled Yu She’s tail, stroked it fondly a couple of times, then gently placed it aside. He took the branch Yu She had been drilling with for half a day and asked uncertainly: “Do you want that thing that can destroy everything?”
Hearing his description, Yu She was stunned for a moment before realizing he was probably talking about fire.
He nodded: “Yeah, you have a way?”
Ying hesitated for a long time as if having misgivings. Finally, under Yu She’s expectant gaze, he aimed his hand at the branch. Lightning flickered in his palm, the branch instantly blackened a patch, and then caught fire.
Yu She exclaimed in surprise. So Ying’s ability was lightning; that was so cool! He wouldn’t have to worry about starting fires in the future. He happily took the burning branch.
“Ying, you’re amazing.”
Ying didn’t understand why the female was so happy. His ability was viewed as ominous by the people in the tribe, because the things brought by lightning would destroy everything. He only found out he had it after using it in an accident, after which that patch of forest vanished.
He himself was also somewhat wary of this ability that could reduce everything to nothingness.
After that incident, the people in the tribe avoided him when they saw him, and his fathers forbade him from using it again. This was the first time he used it since then, all to please his female.
Not only was the female not afraid, but he also seemed very happy.
Yu She didn’t know the twists and turns in Ying’s heart. He joyfully roasted the meat, thinking he could finally eat cooked food. Only after half a day did he notice the big silly guy was spacing out again.
“What are you doing, Ying? This is called fire. Food that has been roasted by fire for a while is called cooked.”
He clamped the branch with the meat onto the previously set-up rack, pulled Ying over, and popularized knowledge to this primitive man… primitive eagle.
Ying appeared very worried. He looked at the female’s excited face and hesitantly opened his mouth: “But, this thing… fire will destroy the entire forest, and everything won’t be able to survive.”
He looked at the dancing flames with concern, not knowing what to do in a while. He wasn’t worried about anything else; he was afraid that when the fire grew large later, he and the female wouldn’t be able to run away.
Fire spread very quickly. They had tried many methods, and pressing it with wood or blowing with wind would only accelerate the destruction.
He still told the female about these terrifying consequences, wanting to run away before the fire got big. However, he saw the female laughing for a long time after hearing it. He felt a bit angry and a bit wronged: “Everything I said is true.”
Ying didn’t know how to prove it to the female who didn’t believe him.
After laughing enough, Yu She wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes. First, he flipped the meat over, then carefully considered his wording to explain the conditions for combustion to Ying.
He thought it over and decided to prove to him first that fire could be extinguished. He picked up a few more branches from the surroundings, lit one in the fire, then raised his hand to condense a stream of water. The water poured over the fire, and it quickly went out.
Ying looked at him in disbelief. The female’s ability could extinguish the terrifying fire.
Translator’s Note:
- Female (雌性): In the context of beastman (獸人) web novels, “female” refers to the partner capable of bearing children, regardless of whether they have a male or female human body.
- Ying (贏): Yu She gives the eagle the name “Ying” (贏), which means “to win.” This is a homophone for the word “Eagle” (鷹 – Yīng).
- Drilling wood to make fire (鑽木取火): The primitive method of creating fire using friction.
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