Fedyenka stood still. She got close to the beast to touch it. She did not want to hurt it even a little. The beast grabbed her with it's mouth and threw her away. She got slammed on the cliff. She stared at it and still resisted herself from hurting it. She felt a temptation to hurt it. Her mind was getting psychopathic. She suddenly started giving it a death stare with her scarlet eyes, which's pupils had become small. She opened her mouth and charged her right hand with mana. She went towards it slowly. Phantom came out of nowhere in an instant and stroke it on the biggest jade of it's body which was on it's back. It fell on the ground, letting out a big sigh.
"Woohoo! The jadehead is dead!" said Phantom.
"What the hell was that?" said Fedyenka.
"You got raged up there, I liked it! Anyway, it's real name is Sahayashm. It was a male, which is probably as old as me. It has the scar I once gave to one of the Sahayashms."
"Why does most things has 'yashm' in the end?"
"Yashm comes from the word yashumu which means jade. This place's specialty is jade. You can even see it on the animals. I hope you have already noticed that jades are pretty cheap here."
"No I didn't study much about jades."
"Hmph..."
Yuri called out for them. His voice sounded really frail.
"Why does his voice sound so frail?" said Fedyenka.
"Let's go check." said Phantom.
They rushed to the source of voice and found Yuri beside some small cottages. At first Fedyenka thought that it's a village but her thoughts changed when she counted. There were four cottages.
"*cough* *cough* Sorry I mixed up some wrong ingredients. Thanks to me, I had some preparations for such accidents." said Yuri while slowly pouring something on a pot.
"What are you doing?" said Fedyenka.
"I was making some stew!"
"And...what kind of stew is that supposed to be?" said Phantom.
"Er...Um...cold stew!" said Yuri.
"Did you get that tone of voice from Fedyenka or did Fedyenka got that from you?"
Yuri stared at Fedyenka proudly. Fedyenka narrowed her eyes and stared at the scene with an annoyed face, while scratching her hands. Fedyenka started to feel as if she cannot breath well. Phantom was going to walk away from that place but then he looked back and said,
"DON'T WASTE MY MATERIALS. That's the smell of dry ice. Did you try to melt it?" said Phantom.
"Well yes, I wanted to try some experiments and then you two appeared." said Yuri as if he was not even a little bit guilty.
"You could even die *cough* *cough*" said Fedyenka.
Phantom took Fedyenka away from the place. They came near a mountain stream. Fedyenka could finally breath well again. She asked them why they could breath fine but she couldn't. Phantom replied that their organs are modified like Fedyenka's. Fedyenka can overcome more dangerous situations than this but she could not take this one well because of her immature organs. He also blamed her luck, because she always gets hurt.
"You guys are the reason why I got hurt so many times." said Fedyenka.
"That was necessary." said Phantom and started throwing pebbles. Some of the pebbles were colorful. Fedyenka started to feel bad about it. She asked Phantom about the pebbles.
"You wanna know about these? Well I used to come here a lot when I was young. I used to have this...friend of mine. We used to bring up bottles of various drinks made of colorful glasses and crack them for fun. After a long time, my friend, my brother died. The only things left were these pebbles which later got created by the shattered glasses." said Phantom with a soft tone of voice. Fedyenka has never heard him talking like this before. She sat by him and said,
"Your life got ducked up..."
"He he. Where did you learn that? Did you browse through the internet a bit too much? Be careful, internet can keep you away from touching grass." said Phantom.
"Do sages touch grass? I only see them touching books and techs and nothing else."
"You ain't wrong but that doesn't apply to me. I'm more of an outgoing type."
"Yeah I can see that. Hey Phantom."
"Hm?"
"Is your name really Phantom?"
"It was given to me when I was young and frail. I was about to die but I lived so they started saying that a Phantom took over my body. From that day, my name became Phantom."
"What was your name before that?"
"They used to call me a rotten pig. I used to eat anything they gave me so they added the 'pig' with the 'rotten'..."
"Oh...Um..."
"Hm?"
"Never mind."
"Just spit it or else I will choke you."
"Dude-"
"SPIT IT!"
"Okay okay. What I was going to say was, you really used to hate me right?"
"Why? Feeling bad about it?"
"No. Just asking. You peeps are good with acting so it's hard to tell whether the things ya'll say are the truth or not."
"Then what's the point of hearing those from me?"
"I think I will get a clear answer now."
"Well I was at a frail state of mind so you took the chance. Pretty smart. Anyway, here's the thing. I have always hated you and I always will. You are the eyesore of my life."
"Why am I an eyesore?"
"Well, you are OUTE's key after all. OUTE was created by me and the bloody first and second sage yet it will now soon be used to kill me. I have seen so many kinds of people, that I cannot put too much trust on you. Especially when you are the gift of the god."
Fedyenka went silent. She pondered about Phantom's words for a while. They sat still there for a long time. Fedyenka started drawing something on the ground whilst Phantom was still throwing pebbles.
"Why are you throwing these pebbles when these are so precious to you?" said Fedyenka.
"Heh. These will never go down. These will always come back. What comes here once never goes back they says. Except, if it comes from the entrance and goes back from the entrance."
"Oh..."
"What are you drawing?"
"Uh...N-Nothing" said Fedyenka and started wiping on the drawing. Phantom stopped her. Her face got red. She felt an embarrassment.
"Huh...I guess this one is Yuri. This one is Kristen and this one is you standing beside Yuri. Qiang is no where to be found, I am delighted. Where am I?"
With an embarrassed plump face she replied,
"I..."
"You ruined the part where you drew me."
"Yeah."
"...You idiot, your drawing skill is good then why ruin it?"
"I was embarrassed."
"I wAS EmBaRraSsED. *sigh* At least you were honest."
Phantom told Fedyenka to come with him. He said that he will dismantle the Sahayashm. When Fedyenka asked him about where it was kept after killing it he replied that after they rushed away from the place, Qiang moved it away. Fedyenka once again asked him then Phantom replied that she will know when she will know.
After a short walk, they went back to the place where the cottages were set.
"Where is it?" said Fedyenka. Phantom moved her head to the right. She saw a big beast laying on the ground. Qiang waved at them while dismantling the beast. Fedyenka looked around it and found a pile of jades. Qiang left the rest to Phantom and took Fedyenka away saying,
"I will leave the rest to you. I have several things to tell her, you understand right?"
"No, you brat. COME BACK. OIII! AAREE OY!" said Phantom shouting with a raged face.
Qiang looked at him and gave him a smile. Phantom threw a jade at him. Qiang moved on a tree with Fedyenka in his hands and said,
"WHAT IF IT HIT FEDYENKA!?!"
"You effing simp..." said Phantom with a stern face.
Fedyenka stared at him and said, "You do seem like a simp though..."
"I only simp for you."
"So you are a simp."
They both got off from the tree and started walking. Yuri said to Phantom,
"Who's gonna tell him?"
"Wasn't he there when she said that?" said Phantom while cutting the meats on a piece of wood with a sharp knife.
"He was setting up your blaster."
"Shit."
Whilst Phantom and Yuri were busy chatting about Qiang and his stupidity, Fedyenka and Qiang has reached a place which was green and had plain leaf green fruits. There were small creatures who were asleep. Qiang told her that they will be awake any moment.
"So, what did you call me here for?" said Fedyenka.
"To show you and tell you somethings."
"Oh..."
"Not excited?"
"A little bit. Whenever I get excited something bad happens afterwards..."
"Aw...Anyway, it's almost dark. I prepared a place for us to eat."
"Eat what? You can cook?"
"Yep! I am a good one too."
"I didn't know that."
Meanwhile Yuri and Phantom were looking for the reddest meat on it's ribs, they saw that a huge part has been taken. Phantom looked towards the place where both Qiang and Fedyenka left from and shouted,
"QIIAAANGG!"
Fedyenka and Qiang were having a lovely chat about their likings. Suddenly, Fedyenka remembered something.
"Wait...I feel like- BEA! Where is she!?!?" said Fedyenka with a startled face.
"She is fine. Your- ahem. She is fine, don't worry. You will see her fixed up after a week or two." said Qiang.
"Oh...What have I done."
"You did nothing wrong. If you kept Bea a while more over there, she could have gotten blasted if you kept her there for too long."
"How did you guys find her?"
"Well we found her on the edge of the cliff. The tourists saw her being injured."
"Injured?"
"Yes. Even a robot can get injured."
"Don't you call it being displaced or broken when it's a robot?"
"I use words of my own."
"Oh. Okay. So, she really will be fine right? Can I go see her?"
"Uh...No. Yuri is taking care of her. She will be fine."
"Oh...Okay."
"Mhm..."
Fedyenka and Qiang stayed silent for a while.
"Oh, they are about to be awake! The sun is setting. Come with me." said Qiang and backed away with her, holding her hand from the jades. The jade started moving. Then they blasted and created an explosion. Fedyenka got injured, once again. Fedyenka could not see anything except the surroundings being all black.