The Seirei Gensouki Spirit Chronicles
Chapter 3: The Connection

“Are you awake?” Rio gently tried to shake it.

“Mother ... father .. sister,” muttered shyly in Japanese.

Rio furrowed his brows at the unbearable feeling within him. Is he having some kind of dream? He could only imagine what kind of dream it was. A warm and gentle day. Live in happiness, every day. Maybe it was such a dream .. But the dream would not last long. As if

proving her theory, Latifa was getting more and more crying and buried her face into Rio's chest.

Her small body fit snugly on Rio's chest, and her porcelain-white skin seemed so soft; fragile enough to be broken with a single touch, as if holding a glass doll. At the same time, he carefully stroked her beautiful, pale orange hair,

unravelling. Her cute fox ears were moving, twitching happily as she did. For a while, Rio continued to calm Latifa like an older brother who

calmed his crying sister.

“Nngh ..”

Finally, Latifa's breath subsided during sleep. Rio sighed in relief. He was still clinging to his robe, but he saw no need to pull away from it, so he let it go. Suddenly, Rio was overwhelmed by mental fatigue. They ran every day, hoarding fatigue until it manifested as drowsiness that gnawed away at his consciousness. Rio slowly blinked his thick eyelids and let the sleeping darkness distract his mind.

The next morning, when Latifa woke up, she found herself clinging to something warm and comfortable. He rubbed his cheek towards her in a half-conscious daze, only to come to a realization once he reluctantly pulled his cheek away from it. After a few blinks, he realized what

it had been attached to him, and was frozen in shock.

There before he was a boy with clear features – Rio. He breathed peacefully as he slept. How, when, why did he stick to me? Coherent questions passed through his head one after another, causing Latifa to fall into a panic.

K-If you think about it ... I .. cry ... It's not ... dream, right …? He took a deep breath to try to calm himself down as he recalled the events of last night, but he could not determine what had become a dream and what had come true.

However, she was sure that someone had embraced her and comforted her with their warmth. Considering the situation now, that incident was probably the reality. As soon as Latifa reached that conclusion, a shame that was hard to express with words surged forward. His heart is pounding. He gripped Rio robe with both hands and hesitantly fixed his gaze on Rio once again.

“Fwah ..”Latifa pale cheeks flushed in an instant, and she inadvertently let out a puzzling sound.

“Hair ... very black .. She looks .... like her? Like that big brother .. like onii-chan ... ”

She tilted her head as she looked at him curiously.

“Ehe. Onii Chan.”

Latifa buried her face into Rio chest once again, happily letting a smile appear on her face. His actions were like little puppies furiously looking for affection. After noticing Rio's scent and feelings for a while, Latifa slowly raised her head to look at him..

“Good morning. Sleep well?” Rio greeted her gently, looking at her with a somewhat troubled face.

“Fweh ?! Ah, I .. I'm sorry! Whoa! ” Latifa stuttered in apology, jumped in panic and banged her head against the low roof. Rio rubbed Latifa head gently.

“It's okay, I'm not angry. This place is narrow, so you have to be careful. Are you hurt?”

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More than two months had passed since the night Latifa cried in her sleep. Right now, Rio and Latifa had crossed the Nephilim Mountains and passed through the vast wasteland above it, continuously heading east. Without a map, they would have to find a way out, sometimes taking detours and sometimes retreating. But they must be moving forward, bit by bit.

“Rio! I'm sorry, but I can smell weird! It smells like the blood of a wild beast!” As the two of them ran across the plateau, Latifa called out. He had lost a lot of his stuttering words from conversing with Rio in the past two months.

Rio, who was running in front, threw the sign with his hand and stopped. As a werefox(half wolf), Latifa's sense of smell was above Rio's, even as she enhanced her senses through the charm of her physical body. His nose is able to identify any scent and process information accurately. That was why Rio put his trust in Latifa's olfactory, requesting that she tell him whenever he smelled something suspicious. However, shouting it out loudly was not an idea

finest.

“Blood of wild animals .. There may be carnivorous animals nearby. From where the aroma— ” Just when Rio was about to ask Latifa for further details, her heightened sense of hearing gave rise to the shrill cry of a reptilian creature.

“What was that ..?”

“Is something wrong?”

Seeing the sudden perceptive expression of Ri0 made Latifa tilt her head in confusion. After about ten seconds of pause, Rio discovered the origin of the strange sound and looked at the distant sky above them. There was a terrifying creature that flew, black, like a bird. They tucked their wings and swooped to Rio and Latifa. Once they reduced their air resistance to an absolute minimum, they closed the distance between them and Rio in the blink of an eye.

“Is it a bird …?! Latifa, they came at us from above!” Shouted Rio, prompting Latifa to pull a dagger from his waist. However, he was extremely lacking the range to fight with an enemy that could fly through the air.

Moreover, Latifa was incapable of magic other than Augendae Corporis, so she had no other effective means of attack. Thus, he could only glare at the group of flying creatures as they approached. Her small body was shaking.

“It will be fine. Don't move!” Rio said, manipulating the essence in his body to form two ice lumps in his hand. Then, he swung his hand and threw the blocks

ice is like a rock to a bird.

Giant ice beams shot through the sky like cannonballs, colliding with the creatures as if they were absorbing their bodies, before smashing and flying the terrifying ferocious beast.

But the group of creatures itself is still full of life. Without stopping his breath, Rio launched the second round. It hit two creatures from the group in the sky – and one of them landed near Rio and Latifa. Rio looked at her, before widening his eyes in surprise.

A dragon? No, half dragon ?! The identity of the bird-like creature that had attacked Rio and Latifa was half dragon–similar to a dragon in appearance and was said to be a member of the dragon family. This flying makhul in particular consists of the smallest subspecies of the half dragon: Winged Lizard

three meters.

seriate...

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