The Entire Demon World is Fighting for My Favor: A Shura Field 119

Chapter 119

Extra 5: Big Ossi Raises Little A-Ran

【 Reading Guide】【This fantasy extra is a follow-up to Big Ossi meeting Little A-Ran in the future timeline of the main story】

Little Feather, completely unconcerned about what was happening in another dimension, simply held A-Ran’s hand and chose toys.

At this moment, almost all the treasures of Prinskar were gathered together.

Little Feather half-squatted, patiently looking down at A-Ran, and saw the cub hesitantly glancing over these things.

He seemed to want to touch them, but also a little cautious, not as happy as when he was playing hide-and-seek with the little birds in the forest.

“Do you not like any of them?”

After Little Feather softly asked this question, the expressions of the surrounding demons instantly changed.

They couldn’t imagine the consequences if he wasn’t satisfied.

But A-Ran, noticing the demons’ expressions, quickly shook his head at Little Feather, saying that it wasn’t that he didn’t like any of them.

Actually, these things were all very beautiful.

He just suddenly remembered the sneakers that had been put in his backpack.

Although they weren’t as shiny and beautiful as these, he liked them very, very much…

He wondered how Mr. Sootball Monster was doing recently?

Touching a ruby on a gemstone box, Lin Ran suddenly felt that it looked a bit like Big Sootball’s beautiful dark red eyes.

And the ice-blue gemstone beside it looked a bit like Big Snowball!

Thinking of this, the cub became interested and looked at the two stones.

“…”

Eno Gard, looking at the red and blue gemstones, felt a subtle and strange sense of displeasure. He felt that it reminded him of some lingering figures.

But just as Eno Gard was trying to coax the cub into putting down the two gemstones, or simply changing to other colors, A-Ran suddenly stopped in front of the bookshelf at the end.

“This one!”

He looked up intently at a picture book sticking out from the bookshelf.

First graders weren’t particularly fond of reading, but Grandma’s eyes weren’t very good at night, and she couldn’t read storybooks to him.

So Lin Ran could only clumsily read by himself every day, and he would ask the teacher about the words he didn’t know the next day. Suddenly seeing a picture book-like thing on the bookshelf, the little guy immediately stopped in his tracks.

“It’s a historical picture book, won’t you find it a bit boring?”

Eno Gard waved away the attendant who was trying to help him take it down and personally pulled out the heavy, large-format picture book.

It was covered in dust, strange yet somewhat familiar.

A-Ran didn’t say anything, but looked at Eno Gard with his sparkling dark eyes, the anticipation in his eyes almost palpable.

Even his long eyelashes trembled slightly.

It made Eno Gard subconsciously almost curl his wings, he felt like he could agree to any request just being stared at by A-Ran like this!

But a few minutes later, as Eno Gard, sitting in the main seat, tried to hold A-Ran and open the book, he suddenly felt that whoever said this book wasn’t good was wrong! This book was great!

The warm little cub was sitting in his arms, looking down seriously at the picture book as he turned the pages.

Occasionally, after finishing a page, he would look up and tug at Little Feather’s sleeve, asking him to help turn to the next page.

Little Feather, whose sleeve was being tugged by the cub, felt this soft and cute force for the first time and didn’t even know how to describe it.

How could A-Ran be so cute in his childhood?!

And A-Ran was already completely engrossed in the picture book, his eyes glued to the countless strange demon images on it.

After all, the printing quality and story content of this hardcover picture book were far beyond the level of picture books available in the small town’s primary school library in Jiangjia Village.

In fact, this picture book was the illustrated version of the Demon World Chronicles that Lin Ran had once wanted to find in the library. It depicted the many earth-shattering changes that had occurred after the two worlds merged.

When he turned to a certain page, Lin Ran slightly lowered his eyes and looked at the demons in the ocean.

This page of the picture book depicted the flooding of almost half of the land in the human world, and the dangerous mermaid totem was also drawn on it.

“Di- Lan, Ao… Si?”

The cub softly read the name on the picture book, trying to look up at his guardian and ask if he had read it correctly.

He had memorized these four words.

Eno Gard really wanted to say that he had read it wrong, these four words weren’t “Di Lan Ao Si,” but “Strange Fish Man.”

The kind of strange fish man who hid in the water and ate cubs!

“No, this is read as Strange Fish Man…”

“But, ‘man’ isn’t this word!”

But just as he said half of it, he was questioned by A-Ran, who frowned.

He gradually started to suspect that Little Feather, this guardian, might not know even fewer words than him?

He was being looked down upon by a cub.

He closed the book with a snap.

“There’s nothing good on this page, next page…”

Eno Gard tried to divert the cub’s attention from the beautiful fishtail with an expressionless face.

This picture book was really boring, drawing the Scythe Clan so beautifully, could it be that they had been bribed?

He suggested drawing his own image in the very center, the biggest and most majestic.

Then he would slowly teach A-Ran to pronounce his name: Eno Gard Rhine Chiste!

“Little Feather!?”

But before Eno Gard could finish imagining, A-Ran had already widened his eyes and seen a feather floating out from the picture book.

As he caught the falling feather, Eno Gard finally understood where the sense of familiarity with this picture book came from.

Because he had casually thrown this Feather Clan treasure into the book as a bookmark to humiliate Anvers.

He didn’t expect A-Ran to find it now.

“Is this your feather?”

A-Ran didn’t think too much about it and simply compared it seriously, finding that this feather didn’t seem to belong to Eno Gard, nor to any of the little birds he had seen before.

“No, this is the Feather of Truth.”

Eno Gard had subconsciously started to tell the truth.

“What is the Feather of Truth?”

A-Ran, who hadn’t yet noticed anything wrong with the big demon in front of him, asked even more curiously.

“It means that if you hold this feather, you can only tell the truth.”

Eno Gard explained while feeling that it was a bit dangerous for him to continue holding this feather.

As expected, A-Ran pondered seriously after hearing this.

“So… Mr. Little Feather doesn’t like Dilan Ossi, right?”

That’s why he deliberately told him the wrong pronunciation.

Although he was very young, A-Ran had already keenly sensed the big demon’s emotional fluctuations.

Eno Gard: !

Why couldn’t he avoid this fish no matter what!? Was it the Time Mirror’s doing again? ?

…Heh!

The Time Mirror gloated from the side.

Forcibly cutting in line and taking someone else’s timeline would naturally have consequences.

It was originally supposed to be A-Ran meeting Ossi, but this evil bird had cut in line, so it wasn’t surprising that this chemical reaction occurred.

“Yes, I hate him very much.”

Trying hard to resist the magic of the Feather of Truth, Eno Gard was still forced to say these words.

So it was like this.

A-Ran nodded slightly as if he had discovered a very fun reasoning toy.

Wasn’t this more interesting than all the toys from before?

“But why do you hate this Dilan Ossi? His fishtail in the book is so beautiful…”

A-Ran looked at Little Feather curiously and continued to ask.

“Because he’s very annoying, likes to splash water everywhere, and makes my feathers wet. Most importantly, he likes to show off, his personality is very flamboyant…”

Eno Gard started to resist the power of the Feather of Truth, subtly adding his own opinions to the answer.

“The feather in your hand is bending.”

But Lin Ran instantly noticed that the Feather of Truth in his hand had bent.

For demons whose magic was so powerful that they couldn’t be controlled to tell the truth, the Feather of Truth would rather break itself than help them lie!

“…There’s no need for a reason to hate him.”

“Because he will take you away.”

This time, Little Feather finally told the truth word by word.

A-Ran’s eyes widened after hearing this.

Could this Dilan Ossi be a human trafficker?

After silently thinking for a while, Lin Ran couldn’t figure it out, glanced at Little Feather, and found that he seemed very unwilling to be asked about Ossi.

“Okay, then… does the wound on your forehead still hurt?”

Lin Ran finally asked the question he was most concerned about.

Because the cub suddenly noticed that the bandage on his forehead had already slipped off, but the big monster in front of him didn’t seem to react at all.

“Uh… it doesn’t seem to hurt for now.”

Lin Ran, hearing Little Feather’s answer, looked at the slightly bent Feather of Truth, then at the big demon, whose expression was very unpleasant.

“Actually, I wasn’t injured at all, that attack had no effect on me.”

It wasn’t until Eno Gard completely gave up and said the truth with an expressionless face that the Feather of Truth in his hand perked up without bending.

And Eno Gard, who thought that he would be hated by A-Ran after telling the truth, saw that A-Ran actually relaxed and smiled softly.

When the cub smiled, it was like a small, pink snowball melting, with an indescribable softness and shyness.

“Lying is very bad.”

“But it’s good that you weren’t injured.”

The cub’s dark, grape-like eyes looked at the acting demon guardian in front of him, adding a soft and cute feeling.

Actually, Lin Ran just found it very interesting.

He even wondered if he was dreaming, meeting so many strange and cute monsters in his dream.

Or was it because of Big Sootball Monster’s appearance that he started to encounter other mysterious monsters one after another?

“Then can we go back and play with Pepe and the others? I actually still like playing hide-and-seek.”

However, the cub, who was a little tired from reading, finally tugged at Little Feather’s sleeve and expressed his small wish.

Although the house here was very big, it was empty and not as fun as the little friends in the forest.

This time, after a few seconds of silence, Little Feather finally held the cub and flew towards Cloud Feather Forest.

Anvers, who had been anxiously waiting, was incredulous when he saw that the cub had been brought back again.

However, Eno Gard, this usually reckless and dangerous demon, was now playing with A-Ran as if nothing had happened.

As if everything that had happened before hadn’t.

After playing hide-and-seek and getting tired, A-Ran finally closed his eyes sleepily.

When he was held by Anvers, one of his acting guardians, and lulled with a lullaby, Eno Gard, watching this scene from the side, didn’t try to snatch him away.

Because Little Feather found that Anvers was indeed more skilled at holding him than he was.

Although A-Ran wouldn’t struggle when he was held by him, he clearly looked a little uncomfortable, but he held back, not wanting to disappoint him.

And Anvers, holding A-Ran, looked up at the once dangerous demon, hesitating to speak, and many things turned into an unspoken understanding.

But Anvers still took advantage of this rare opportunity, obtained because of A-Ran, to tell the demon in front of him his thoughts that he had buried for many years:

“Actually, I’m really sorry. Back then, I was too weak and didn’t fulfill my duty as the patriarch, letting the Council send you, who was still a cub egg, to the Heights and imprison you. After all, Rhine and Yin Er’s matter should have been dealt with by our generation…”

“Although this might seem like I’m begging for something, but if you can let go of those ordinary demons just because of me, I’m also willing to pay the price for my past mistakes.”

Afraid of waking up the cub in his arms, Anvers’ voice was exceptionally low, as if it would be carried away by the wind the next second.

Eno Gard was silent for a long time.

Until the wind gently blew through the forest, Little Feather noticed that Anvers, whom he had expelled from the territory for so many years, had already grown white hair.

“…You can stay here forever, no one will come after you.”

Hmph, he had long since stopped purging these exiles.

“But I have a request.”

“What request?”

Anvers’ expression instantly became subtly tense.

For example, killing him and taking his core? Or…

“How did you sing that lullaby just now? Sing it to me.”

After saying this, Little Feather looked at the skyline with a sullen expression, unwilling to admit that he was actually jealous that the lullaby he sang was so well-received by A-Ran.

It wasn’t that he had let Anvers go, it was just that this guy was good at holding A-Ran and could sing lullabies, so he had some value, which was why he spared his life.

Otherwise, if he died, what if A-Ran cried!? A-Ran was even so worried when he injured his forehead.

And Anvers was stunned for a long time, not understanding that this was actually his request.

No wonder he had been staring at him fiercely, just because the lullaby he sang was liked by A-Ran?

Pepe, on the tree not far away, chuckled softly, seeing this.

[Ding——Congratulations on completing the quest! Small world demon upgraded to A-Ran’s monster buddy, obtained space-time active coordinate reward~!]

As the Time Mirror’s brightness increased significantly, the demons instantly looked at the mirror in mid-air.

However, this time, the Time Mirror had learned its lesson and deliberately kept its distance from these dangerous demons, its surface already turning azure blue.

[Going to the next coordinate system: Ross Sea!]

[Additional functions will be compensated to the player who was cut in line! According to the map characteristics, A-Ran’s cub form switch can be activated~]

But before the demons could react, the smart mirror “swooshed” and flew to A-Ran’s side, picking up the still sleeping cub and hurriedly running away!

Sigh, it really felt like it was a cub trafficker.

However, just as it successfully sent A-Ran to the Ross Sea, before the exhausted Time Mirror could take out a small cloth to wipe the sweat off its surface, its back was locked onto by several demonic auras.

Time Mirror: …[Cold sweat]

Crap, this didn’t feel good.

And with a “plop,” the moment the cub fell into the seawater, his small white fishtail instantly grew out.

However, he was still a little sleepy, and A-Ran subconsciously hugged his fishtail and landed in a soft, orange sea anemone.

[OMG! Mom, I’m successful, look, I picked up a little mermaid!]

The small orange sea anemone was so excited that it almost cried.

[Silly child, stop shaking your head! Stay still!]

The orange-red sea anemone family also curiously gathered around, trying to see this beautiful little fish.

The sea anemones further away stretched their necks, trying to take a look.

Not to mention the surrounding fish who noticed the commotion.

[Oh, in the ocean, his tail is the color of pearls!]

[He looks so well-behaved while sleeping! Look at his eyelashes, so long~]

[OMG, his black hair is also very mysterious! This hair color is really rare for fish!!]

The seabed was bustling with excitement, and the demons couldn’t help but whisper. One of them even tried to touch the cub’s chubby, pink cheeks.

[Ah——so soft! He’s so cute!]

The demons, completely unaware of the joy of petting a cub, swayed in the seawater.

[Can we draw lots? I also want to touch him!] [Me, me, me! I also want to!] [No, you can’t all touch him, he’ll turn red!]

Everyone wanted to touch the cub, but they started arguing over the order.

Until a few seconds later, a terrifying aura enveloped this area of the sea, and the many sea demons instantly dispersed in silence.

And the original orange sea anemone was instantly taken out along with the sand!

[Ah, I’m moving, eh…!! Your Excellency Dilan Ossi!]

Seeing the black shadow clearly, the sea anemone froze in fear.

If there was a ruler in this sea, it was undoubtedly Dilan Ossi, this monster of the deep sea.

Since the previous leader, Atylanthos, fell into a coma due to a mental breakdown, his younger brother, Dilan Ossi, had taken over as clan leader, but with even more terrifying consequences.

Frequent tsunamis and unpredictable deep-sea turbulence had practically turned the Scythe Clan’s original territory into a terrifying no man’s land, also known as the sea desert.

This deep-sea environment was naturally anoxic, extremely cold, and even sunlight gradually became unable to penetrate, leaving it deathly silent.

Many sea demons only knew to stay away from this forbidden zone, otherwise, once they were caught in it, the only consequence would be complete disappearance.

But this barren deep sea suddenly had a small, soft orange sea anemone planted in it a few minutes later.

And not long after, a beam of warm sunlight was also exceptionally allowed into this deep-sea forbidden zone.

It gently illuminated the little fish in the sea anemone, his pearly white fishtail reflecting beautiful, dreamy colors, the sparkling scales shimmering around his face.

A bouncy starfish plushie was also stuffed into the cub’s arms by the “monster,” like a toy.

And the small orange sea anemone, tightly protecting the little fish, was too scared to speak.

He could only sense that dangerous aura constantly surrounding him, but every time it approached, it would stop.

As if he was holding back for some reason.

Finally, he chose to quietly watch the beautiful cub sleeping in the sea anemone in the darkness, as if the monster of the deep sea had finally found his pearl.

His Excellency Dilan Ossi seemed to be in a good mood.

The small orange sea anemone calmed down as much as possible and, enduring his fear, secretly observed for a while, certain that he had no intention of destroying him, this weak little sea anemone.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have transplanted him along with the sand to this no man’s land.

Just a light scratch from a merman’s sharp claws was enough to unintentionally turn countless sea anemones along the coast into fragments.

But he still seemed to feel that the beige soft sand on the seabed was a bit monotonous.

So, in just a few minutes, a small seabed landscape was created, and soft, luminous butterfly grass was also planted beside it, decorated with a few pink and blue shells.

This guy was like he was gardening!

The small orange sea anemone hugged the little mermaid tightly, feeling a very strange sense of familiarity with this series of actions.

“Mm…”

And in the quiet, deep sea, the cub’s fan-like eyelashes suddenly trembled after he finally had enough sleep, and his small white fishtail subconsciously stretched.

Opening his eyes and looking at the rippling seawater, A-Ran instinctively sat up in the sea anemone.

However, his familiar legs were gone, replaced by a round fishtail!

He widened his dark eyes, tilted the tip of his tail, and examined it for a while. A-Ran was a little incredulous and carefully reached out to touch the tip of his tail.

Was this really his fishtail?

The fairy tale the teacher read in class seemed to have come true.

He tried to understand all this with a dazed expression.

And the black shadow, who had just brought back a pile of small pearls he had collected to give to the cub as toys, found that the cub had woken up and instantly stopped, even trying to disappear into the sea.

Unfortunately, a small pearl had already rolled next to the sea anemone.

A-Ran curiously reached out and picked up the pearl, then looked in the direction it came from.

Was there someone there?

He tried moving his fishtail and swam in the water, but he couldn’t quite control his strength yet.

“Eh…!”

So A-Ran almost fell.

But the next second, he was instantly held up by a tentacle, placed back on the soft sea anemone, and his little head was patted.

As if he was worried and telling the cub not to run around.

And A-Ran, whose head had been patted, obediently lowered his head and let his hair be rubbed. When he looked up to find the other party, he found that the strange guardian seemed to have hidden again.

But he hadn’t eaten anything since waking up, and after obediently sitting on the sea anemone like this, after a few minutes, the cub couldn’t help but feel a little aggrieved and whispered:

“Tummy, hungry…”

These words made the guardian in the shadows instantly freeze.

Crap, A-Ran was hungry!

So what kind of snacks in the deep sea were suitable for the little guy?

The long-forgotten knowledge gap made Ossi freeze, after all, there hadn’t been any newborn cubs in the entire Scythe Clan for hundreds of years.

And in this situation, even the small orange sea anemone was a little angry.

Did His Excellency Dilan Ossi even know how to raise a cub? What was the point of preparing so many flashy things that couldn’t be eaten? The cub was hungry! [Screaming]

As an acting guardian, letting the cub go hungry was unforgivable!