Nero, who was beginning to have a headache, thought of a way to convince them to let her stay in their group.
She couldn't even communicate with them, not to mention, being able to convince them to let her participate in the hunting party?
Nero sighed as she thought, 'I can only try to convince them to let me join their group by making gestures.'
Not knowing if it would work or not, Nero stood up. They looked at her in surprise. Seeing that her injuries seemed to have been healed, they didn't try to stop her.
Nero first bowed to Choko, who had used the ointment on her. Which made her smile kindly at her.
After that, they started looking in her direction strangely. Yeah, Nero pointed his index finger at each of them, then at herself with her thumb. So, she pretended to be fighting with something or someone.
Although I found it a bit comical, they imagined she wanted to say something to them.
After doing that for about 10 minutes, they seemed to understand more or less what she meant.
"You want to hunt with us?" Choko asked her; making almost the same gestures as Nero and pointed to a Slime not far away.
Nero's eyes lit up when she saw that the woman in front of her, seemed to have understood what she meant. Nero nodded quickly in response.
"Is it okay if she joins us?" Choko despite wanting to let Nero into their group, still had to have the consent of her team.
"Yes,""Jana said, "I don't see any problems."
"Well," Jair said, "I don't see any problems either."
They then looked at Breno. Who replied immediately afterward, "I don't mind letting her join our hunting party."
Seeing their reactions, Nero could see that they accepted her. It made her smile. The face of them was stunned, seeing her beautiful smile, it made them delighted.
"How cute!" Choko said and hugged Nero as she stroked her long pinkish white hair.
"Huh?" Nero wondered, "What the... why is she hugging me?"
In the end, even Jana couldn't resist and ended up hugging Nero too.
Nero was baffled by the actions of two girls. 'Didn't I just smile?' She thought, and then a sweet smell emanated from the two women.
Breno and Jair, who saw their actions, only sighed in helplessness.
After they calmed down, Choko and Jana stopped hugging her.
Nero sighed, finally relieved they're no longer hugging her. All 5 of them intertwined their eyes and came to a mutual understanding. Even though they talked to each other, they still had to make a gesture to try to communicate with her.
Jana pointed to herself by saying, "Jana."
"Jana?" Nero repeated.
"Yeah!" Jana nodded happily.
"Me, me!" Choko also started pointing at herself by saying, "Choko, I'm Choko."
"Ohh." Nero nodded when she pointed at her, "Choko."
"Yes, I am Choko!" She smiled.
Jair also pointed to himself with his thumb, "Jair."
Soon after, Breno said, "Breno."
Nero pointed to each of them by saying, "Breno, Jair, Jana, Choko."
"Yes, that's right." They nodded.
Nero pointed to herself and said, "Nero."
"Ohh, Nero, right?! What a beautiful name!" Choko smiled and hugged her again.
Nero sighed and began to wonder if Choko thought she was a body pillow or something.
Jana exclaimed, "Choko, stop clinging to her, you'll scare her!"
Reluctant, Choko walked away pouting.
"Should we go back and defeat the group of slimes we were attacking before?" Breno suggested.
"Hrm." Jair said, "We don't know her ability yet, so let's take it easy first."
"Right." They agreed.
"Shall we?" Choko signaled them to start walking.
Nero nodded and started walking with them.
On the way, they came across some slime monsters, that range from level 1 to 3. But they were all defeated by just one attack from them.
Jair only needed a single swing of his sword to take out these slimes. Each attack was precise and efficient.
Choko wore a red glove, much like a piece of armor, but it was reinforced which made it disproportionate to her small hands. The power behind her every blow was powerful! She managed to destroy everything she attacked.
Breno gripped his spear and made a quick jab against the slime. It was right to say that slime was easily killed by him.
Jane held her wand, as she conjured up fireballs through it. With a flick of her wrist, she flung them slime monsters: killing them with ease.
In the end, Nero didn't even have time to react.
What surprised Nero, was that although they were also using looting on the slime bodies, it took a long time. In cases of level 2, it took them on average 1 to 2 minutes to loot the slime bodies.
'Is that card the reason they can do that?' Nero wondered when he saw them holding a card when using loot.
Choko realized they didn't leave anything for Nero. She pointed at a pink slime not too far away, "If you want, you can attack it."
Nero nodded. She took a rock from her inventory. She saw that they could do it with their cards too, so she didn't think they'd find it strange if she did.
Although not one of her favorite sports, Nero even watched a few baseball matches, because of that she knew more or less a good stance to throw stones.
Nero was in the launch position. Her feet, hips, shoulders were all aligned and relaxed; she then bent her knees slightly. Fixing her eyes on the pink slime, Nero gripped the stone; twisted her body; advanced with her foot along with the release.
She threw the rock so fast, it surprised everyone who was watching. They couldn't help but raise their eyebrows in amazement and mouths agape.
After all, this was the first time they saw anyone doing this for hunting. Even if slime wasn't strong, it doesn't mean they're killed using a thrown rock.
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• You defeated the Plant Monster: [Pink Slime] Rank F: Level 2.
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Nero nodded, pleased to see the new window that opened in front of her. 'My hits have increased a lot.' She thought as her long hair moved from the wind blowing by.
{Edited By: KaylaDarkfire}