Chương 200: Chapter 3: “Forest of Green Needle Trees 2”

The Green Needle Trees that grow most abundantly in this forest, as the name suggests, have leaves like needles growing thick. There are various types of coniferous trees on Earth, but these leaves felt much sharper and more pointed than those. Their sharpness was not just for show; they could easily pierce the skin of most animals. The seeds were also needle-shaped, and although not as hard as the leaves, they still stung.

During the day, the leaves are a calm dark green, but at night, illuminated by the whitish moonlight, they shine a vivid pale green. What produces this beautiful glow is a transparent liquid secreted from the surface of the leaves. Contrary to the beautiful appearance of the leaves, the secretion contains a fast-acting neurotoxin. It enters through the wounds of creatures injured by the leaves, and in the worst case, leads to death.

Luring insects and animals with enchanting light and finishing them off with poison. Using the killed creatures as nutrients, the trees extend their branches and leaves further. Thus, this forest was formed over a long, long time. Esta, sitting on a suitable stone again, is smiling niko-niko, bending and stretching the tips of his feet which had completely recovered. He had Yu pull out the stuck needles and treat him with Qi while he was at it. In his heart, he was also reflecting a little.

You must be careful only about the Green Needle Trees. Uncle had told him strictly. However, since the settlement he lived in was built by identifying an area where Green Needle Trees did not grow, he had spent time only around the settlement since he became aware of things, so he had no real sense of how dangerous they were. That lack of caution led to a painful injury. He feels relieved that the seeds were not poisonous.

"Well then, shall we go?"

"Ei-oh!" Esta, who got up with an innocent reply, was in high spirits in front of Yu. Even though he had prepared himself for solitude all along, he couldn't help but be happy that he made a travel companion so quickly. To him beckoning while jumping pyon-pyon over tree roots spreading at his feet, Yu directed a lukewarm gaze and casually matched his stride. Walking for a while like that. Just as the sun was about to set. Yu stopped abruptly. He stopped Esta who was still trying to go ahead energetically.

"Wait a moment. I'm going to mark the place we are now."

"Is there any meaning in doing that?" Esta tilts his head honestly. He didn't think marking a vast and irregular forest would be of any use.

"Mine is a special one, so it's okay." Saying so, Yu showed a gesture of thinking while staring at Esta's face. Hesitating only a little, he nodded decisively. And he used his ability as a FabL. In the way he was most accustomed to. The slender but sturdy physique became rounded, and the height shrank somewhat. The silky black hair grew smoothly and fluffily down to around the shoulders.

Matching the somewhat spirited eyes and some fearlessness, the face that originally contained cuteness unlike a man changed to emphasize the cuteness more while leaving strong traces. The eyes became softer and larger, and the lips became plumper and glossier. Wearing a faint healthy sex appeal. The loosening pants were caught by the hips that increased in volume. The unisex red shirt, stuffy with sweat, swelled greatly at the chest. From man to woman. Yu accomplished the transformation in just a split second.

"Yu, did something change?"

"That reaction is a first pattern." To the fresh reaction of just staring at her blankly without being surprised at all, Yu, who assumed an exaggerated reaction like usual, was let down. Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author's consent. Report any sightings. Esta directs worried eyes at her.

"Your chest is terribly swollen. Are you okay?"

"Huh?" Yu was slightly confused as such words came out suddenly, but she quickly realized.

"Ah, I see. Could it be, you have never seen a girl?"

"Girl?" To the boy tilting his head with unclouded eyes, Yu was troubled and smiled bitterly. Now, how should I explain.

"Umm. There are two types of humans, you see. Like you." Yu demonstrated transforming again on the spot. The appearance switches in an instant. From a supple female body to a male body equipped with robustness.

"Boys, and." Pointing lightly at Esta and himself, he transformed again and returned to the rounded female body.

"Girls, like me."

"Hmm. What's different?"

"Various things are different. The body shape and such, they're different, right?"

"That's right-." Since that was something understandable at a glance, Esta was convinced immediately. At the same time, many questions welled up, though.

"Of course, since we are the same humans, there are many same parts too."

"Hey. Why is your chest swollen?" Yu slumped. Esta is staring at Yu without averting his eyes jii-. Purity due to ignorance. When asked seriously and with great interest with round eyes, Yu felt somewhat embarrassed.

"You see, it's not swollen. For girls, this part grows naturally as they get older."

"Why does it grow?"

"That is... well, maybe to be able to raise children someday."

"Children?" This time Yu got a headache and pressed her forehead. Realizing that the child in front of her really seemed to know nothing. Yu gently rubbed her lower abdomen.

"People, you see. Everyone is nurtured carefully in a woman's tummy and born. As a child."

"Hee. So they are not born from eggs on their own-." Esta knew the fact that creatures are born. However, since he had only seen them coming out of eggs, Yu's story seemed like scales falling from his eyes.

"Children who are born are very small and weak at first. If left alone, they will die, so someone becomes a parent and raises them."

"For me, Uncle was the parent."

"That's right." Yu didn't know the boy's detailed circumstances, but she nodded for now.

"Then, then! How are children made?"

"Umm. That is, you see. They are made when a man and a woman love each other deeply. Esta, too, must have been born that way."

"Hee!" Esta was completely impressed and stared jii- at Yu's stomach. I was born from someone's there. A man like me and a woman like the current Yu loved each other, and I was made, huh. And there, a further question was born.

"What is loving each other?"

"Hmm. That might be a little difficult for Esta yet." Yu laughed as if to cover it up. Then, turning her gaze far away in a sentimental mood.

"Ehh-. Tell me-." To Esta clinging to her, Yu smiled sweetly nikori and put a finger to her lips shhh.

"This is not something you understand by being taught. Someday you will understand naturally. Surely." So that such a day can really come naturally. Yu thought again that she couldn't leave him alone. I have to find a place where other humans live and send him there. However, Yu didn't know where the new land of life for the boy was, or if it really existed. For the time being, Yu decided to do what she could before the sun set and visibility became poor. After marking with magic, she uses Flight Magic to float up.

Thinking she might find something from the sky where she can see far, she tried to explore from the sky once a day. Flight Magic consumes Mana heavily to float constantly, and depending on the low Tolerance of the world they are in now, it cannot be used too often, but if she understands that flaw and uses it pinpoint, it was a very useful magic.

"What's that!?" This time, even Esta, who didn't know common sense, was astonished from the bottom of his heart. To the ideal reaction, Yu explained with a composed face while suppressing a slightly proud feeling in her chest.

"It's magic to fly in the sky."

"Wow! Amazing! Humans could fly in the sky!" The unknown word 'magic' dropped out of his mind on its own, and he seems to be misunderstanding in a different vector, Yu judged and tried to put in a disclaimer immediately, but.

"Ah, no. Normally, you see."

"Aweeeesome! So aweeeesome!" Esta wouldn't listen at all anymore. Full of emotion and excitement, his eyes are sparkling kira-kira. Thinking there was no need to break his dream, Yu decided to float a sociable smile silently. For a short while, she leaves Esta's side and floats up. So as not to touch the leaves of the Green Needle Trees (since she grazed them on the first day and had a terrible time), Yu ascended carefully halfway with Flight Magic.

When she reached just before the altitude where leaves grew thick, she transformed into a man. Although the effect of Flight Magic runs out and shifts to free fall, he used another technique regardless. The short warp technique he learned in the previous world, Elntia, 《Passtrive》. With this, he jumped through the altitude zone covered thickly with leaves at once.

《Passtrive》 can be used without cost only when he is in the state where his heart is most deeply connected with Lilna, the original user of this technique—that is, the male state. Yu tried several techniques learned from the functions she used while in Elntia and arrived at this fact. It's not that he can't use it at all in the female state where he communicates normal affection with her, but compared to the male time when he can use it with no risk, the burden on the mind and body is considerably large.

Perhaps because spacetime techniques originally bring effects that transcend the real world, for Yu whose ability essence is rooted in the "World of Heart" which also transcends the real world, the compatibility was the worst category. Yu analyzes himself that he might be causing resonance in some form in the part transcending reality when using the technique. There is a tendency that the unintended activation effect of the "World of Heart" becomes remarkably large.

That means not only is the burden on the mind and body remarkably large when using it, but also there is always a danger that the ability leaves control and goes out of control. Therefore, Yu has no choice but to be cautious in its use. Among the spacetime techniques that Yu himself learned by receiving them and can use in principle, there are tremendous ones like 《Spacetime Ruler》 used by Will, but what the current Yu can use safely is probably only 《Passtrive》 (when male) and 《Teleportation Magic》 (when female).

"Nothing, huh." After 《Passtrive》, transforming into a woman again and jumping up further. She looked around from an altitude looking far down at the trees, but the result was disappointing. No matter where she looked, forest, forest, forest. Full of green enough to make her sigh. Ever since she came to this world, it had been like this all the time. She thought that meeting Esta might have been truly wonderful luck. As long as they are in the forest, she can hardly expect other humans.

Since it would be bad to run out of Mana by staying in the sky too long, after finishing the confirmation of no progress again, Yu returned to Esta. The sun is setting. Discussing with Esta, Yu decided to rest on the spot today.