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Chapter 5 - Chapter 4

Back in the world where Simpleton live.

In the forest there's three shadow fighting a monster.

"Son how many times I told you not to charge right away," the father yelled at his son to reprimanded him for doing a reckless move.

"But dad your so slow and talk a lot," simpleton argued back to his father.

"Alright alright that's enough both of you, the beast had already died," the mother intervene to the duo who was going to fight any moment, will is not fight but verbal. "Good job both of you, we have now lunch for today."

They stop arguing if they continue they would be stepping on red line that warned them both. So they started disabling the meat on the beast, it was mix of hound and boar. The head, foots, and tail is like a hound, while it have tasks, nose, ears, body like boar(bhoarnd). While doing a little action behind the bhoarnd.

"Son I been training you for the week but you haven't learned anything from this little survival thing," said the father while whispering.

"Father, I did learn and that's is to kill the beast right away," Simpleton said sarcastically.

"No no son, what I'm teaching you now is to preserves your energy for anytime," the father tried his best to explain to his son.

"Father I can't watch you having fun fighting alone on the beast," Simpleton argued back.

"No son..." he paused for a moments, he then continued "Here son, what happen if we are fighting hordes of monster side by sides, who's going to protect your mother?" the father asked.

"Who's going protect her, isn't her self. she had monstrous strength like a monster already. And remember that day where the trolls was attacking us, she second handle killed the one of the trolls," Simpleton reminded his father while he was on training at the time. Where his mother killed a trolls in one blow.

"Aww"

The father thwacked his son heads with a meat he holding on. "Don't be rude to your mother, if she hear..." but before he could finish his word.

"Mother, father bitting on me right now!!" shouted

by Simpleton.

"You son of..."The father didn't continued his word.

"Bitch, o-oh mother father cursing at me, 'he said son of bitch!" Simpleton reported to his mother.

Glorffia put down her knife on the table and she suddenly vanish in mattered of second but only left behind after image of her, she then appeared on the duo backs.

"We are monster, right? so I can do this," the mother whispered on their ears.

They know what coming but they still want to defended their heads with their hands. Will they have slow reactions than their beloved mother or wife.

BAM!

BAM!

The mother struck down with her both fist of her husband and son.

Aw! Aw!

The duo can be heard like whimpering dog who got injured.

"You know i can hear you far away even your a whispering like a mosquito," Glorffia gave a treated look on her husband and son.

"But father started tho," Simpleton tried to blamed on his father. His father was speechless what his son said.

"I guess you like one more bitten aye" the mother said with a treat to her son.

Simpleton shuddered "No mother," he replied right away. he then look at his father "Sorry father."

"It's okay son, you have to learn from your mistakes from now on," with sarcastic sounds of his father. And the duo become quite for the rest of the day.

...

"Hey father where are we going?" Simpleton asked.

"We going to the autumn forest," his father answered.

"What does look like?" Simpleton was curiosity about where they going.

"As the name implied it was kind of autumn every years, it's kind like a leaves always falling fown but didn't run out for leaves to grow on that trees and always a cold weather," his father tried to explain what he saw back then to his younger days. "You will see when we get there.

"Ah I see," Simpleton look at his mother.

The mother just smiled at him with adored on her eyes on her son. Simpleton got creeped out on how his mother looked at him. He walk faster to get besides on his father who always wore a armors knight. At list his father's was covered of his fave with his armors. Sometimes when they are eating, his father always taking off his helmet and saw the face of anatomy, he got creeped out. That's why everytime they eat he always look away from them and never meet on their eyes or face.

'Shish my family so creepy and also me,' he sighed on his thought.

...

They have been walking around for the last weeks. At that time Simpleton was never missed by how his father taught him to fight and survival strategy, and also the creepiest of his family look.

By now he always waited for his father to finish fight for any monster coming at them. Only came out to fight if someone ambushing his parents. He sometimes hide behind the bushes or the top of the trees like a panther.

They always encountered by goblins, pack of wolfs, deadliest insects and plants, some golems and monkey's or etc. But of course they avoid most them or running away from pack of beast.

Now the duo was felt exhausted but thank goodness their angelic mother or wife has always by their sides to take care of this duo.

...

They almost reaching out on their destination when they finally saw some weathering leaves on the grounds.

"We almost there son," said the father with excited voice while holding his hands on his wife.

Simpleton heard his father voice, he came down on the trees and went besides his mother. He then grab his mother hand while clutching tightly as if this family strolling in the park.

After an hour walks, they have arrive at the autumn forest. There's a gigantic trees where a leaves keep falling down. They are old and weather woods and leaves. On the eyes of this family was is the most beautiful to see even the sky was on red. If the sun ray was here it make more astonishing while the leaves keep falling down. As they are welcoming them in. Deferent weather leaves color was falling down like a snow flakes falling from the sky.

Suddenly a blowing of the wind hit on the leaves that was falling down on the ground, while leaves blown away making a path for the family as if someone inviting them in.

The family was amazed by the sight of how the trees moved and making a perfectly line.

"Let's go, I guess someone's all ready waiting for us," said the father.

...

"Father, are they alive or what?" Simpleton asked, he was curious of how this trees moved.

"Yes son, they are called Mopurr(maple) trient. This also a good lesson son, so I'll teach how to distinguish them from normal tree and monster tree."

Simpleton has a spark on his eyes when he heard that his father going to teach him biological from trees and monster.

"As you can see son the tree stand on vertical and grow from the grounds with their roots that never leave on the ground. Once you pulled them on the grounds, they will started dying. But for the trient it was deferent, they can leave the ground and walk..."

Simpleton listened carefully on his father knowledge with his serious face, as for his mother she just glance at duo who was ahead of them while also gave a little smile.

"So to distinguished them from deferent tree you always look at the trunk, you can see a little splitting apart that look like a legs. And also the branches that look like a libs of human, and human features. Sometimes you can't see from far away..." Simpleton father searching his surrounded, he then a find a unusual tree that has a long slanted hole all the way on the ground, and a two branches that's bigger than normal branches on any part on trunk, it also stretch like "T" shape.

"Son, what do you think that tree is?" The father asked his son while pointing his finger toward the tree he just saw. Simpleton looked at his father where he's pointing his finger.

"I saw a tree.." Simpleton describe to his father what he sees.

"That tree look pretty normal to me father?" Simpleton was puzzled why he asking about the normal tree that has no deferent the other tree he saw in his surrounding.

His father just smirk at him and didn't tell him right away. While Simpleton was on his quest on his father question.

"It's a trient, anyway you have poor observation and slow learning, also you didn't listen to your father explanation at all, kid" said the unknown haggard voice old woman.