After a short trip, Siquioce and his party climbed back up
the entrance slope and into the warm embrace of the sun's rays. Humming in
contentment, Kantuta clasped her hands together and stretched her arms, trying
to absorb as much sunlight as possible.
"Ah, it feels good to be back. I wonder if Bo will be as
happy to...hey!"
Kantuta stopped stretching and looked to the right, where Bo
was found sleeping against a fallen tree.
"Unbelievable! He was sleeping?! While we were risking our
lives in that cave, he was SLEEPING?!"
Clenching her hands tightly, Kantuta stormed over to the
slumbering Urosite, leaving deep, muddy footprints in her wake. Once she
reached the lizard, she raised her staff and bonked Bo over the head with it.
"Wake up, you lazybones!"
Crying out in surprise, Bo fell on his side before sitting
up and looking around in confusion. After getting his bearings, he rubbed his
sore head and looked up at Kantuta with wide eyes.
"Oh! Adventurers return?"
"Yes, we have, in fact, returned. You wouldn't be so
surprised if you actually cared to stay awake and wait for us!"
Kantuta furrowed her eyebrows, poking Bo's leathery belly
with her staff.
"How did you even fall asleep, anyway? Surely, the quakes
kept you alert!"
"Quakes?"
Bo tilted his head.
"What quakes?"
"'What quakes'?!"
Kantuta parroted, widening her eyes in disbelief. After looking
between her travel mates and the Urosite wordlessly, she holds her head and
groans before facing Bo with an exasperated expression.
"You're just hopeless...anyhow, that's behind us. What
matters now is that we found something interesting while we were down there."
"That's right," Yuchauzh added, "As it turned out, there was
a overgrown excamole causin' a ruckus down there. We caught it in the middle of
chowing down on a giant pink crystal."
Hearing this, Bo gasped and lurched his body forward,
looking up at Yuchauzch in astonishment.
"Giant pink crystal?! Is heart of jungle!"
With this information being known to them, Kantuta and
Yuchauzh stepped back in surprise before the former smacked her head.
"Oh, so that is what it was! How could I be so blind to the
truth?"
"So, that ground-dwelling giant was makin' a snack out of
the jungle's most valuable resource?" Yuchauzh asked, holding his chin.
"Yes!" Bo replied, "That why jungle die! But adventurers
defeat mole, right?"
Kantuta nodded and crossed her arms.
"Correct. It was a struggle, but we managed to subdue the
excamole, return it to normal, and make it spit out the crystals that it
injected. No thanks to you..."
Paying no heed to the last part, Bo got up and raised his
hands to the sky, giving the party a wide, toothy smile.
"Huzzah! Adventurers do good! No, heroes do good! Elf,
orc, and fish save jungle!"
Bo chuckled, placing his hands behind his back as he paced
around.
"Oh, Bo can't wait to share good news. Urosites will be so
happy! But first..."
He spun to face Kantuta, giving her a mischievous grin.
"Elf have promise to keep. Elf
say she pleasure Bo, right?"
Kantuta's eyes became like saucers as she stared straight at
the lustful Bo, unsure of how to respond. After some time, she let out a
hopeless sigh and looked at the ground, only barely meeting Bo's gaze.
"Right...I did agree to that, didn't I?"
She closed her eyes and took another breath in, wringing her
hands together anxiously. Following a long pause, she opened her eyes and
turned her attention back towards Bo.
"If we are really doing this...I do have one request."
"A request?"
Bo narrowed his eyes slightly.
"What is it?"
Gathering more of her courage, Kantuta gulped and locked
eyes with Bo, drumming her fingers together in the process.
"If I am to have this...intimate interaction with you...I want
something in return. You see, I have heard that a rare plant, the Talonroot,
can be found in this area. If you happen to know where I can find one of those
flowers, I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me in the right
direction."
Bo narrowed his yellow eyes even further, letting out a
contemplative hum as he considered Kantuta's request. A few seconds of thinking
later, he shrugged.
"Sure. Bo can give elf what she wants. But only if she gives
Bo what he wants."
Feeling a slight sense of relief, Kantuta smiles and bows in
gratitude.
"Oh, thank you, thank you very much. Well, then..."
Blushing, she sits down on a nearby log and folds her hands
over her lap.
"I suppose that I must hold up my end of the bargain. Yuchauzh,
Siquioce, look away."
Despite being partially out of the loop, Siquioce obediently
turns around, firmly keeping Kantuta and Bo out of his sight. Yuchauzch, on the
other hand, only averted his gaze partly, still keeping his head turned enough
to get a glimpse of the action.
Before Kantuta could voice her anger, she felt Bo's clawed hand dive into her robe through
the hem of her torso, causing her words to get stuffed by a shocked gasp. Turning
even redder, she closed her eyes and quivering mouth in an attempt to stifle a
moan as Bo's hand travelled lower, getting closer and closer to her sensitive
zone until...
"...Hey! Where is cloaca?!"
Blinking her eyes open, Kantuta looked down at Bo, wearing a
confused expression.
"M-my...cloaca...?"
Bo rummaged around some more, eliciting another gasp from
Kantuta before frowning.
"Elf no have cloaca! Just weird slit! Gross!"
Shaking his head in disappointment, Bo removed his hand from
Kantuta's clothes, prompting her to let out a breath of relief. Wiping his hand
against his skin, he shuddered before crossing his arms.
"Darn it...Bo wanted mate with cute elf. Why she have such
weird organ?"
"Wait a minute," Yuchauzh interjected, "Can't you just—"
Before Yuchauzh could finish his
sentence, he was met with an elbow thrust to the stomach from Kantuta. As her
associate doubled over in pain, Kantuta rested her and gave Bo a sympathetic look.
"Oh, I am so sorry, Bo.
Unfortunately, it seems as though our bodies are incompatible. How regrettable."
"Yeah..."
Bo hung his head, looking dejected
for a while before looking up with a hint of hope in his eyes.
"Can Bo at least have kiss, like
he asked?"
"What? Erm...sure, I do not see
why not."
Clenching her hands again,
Kantuta closed her eyes and strengthened her resolve before tenderly bending
over and placing a kiss on Bo's scaly head, recoiling slightly at the rough
texture.
"There. Is that satisfactory?"
Bo simply stood still for a good
minute, staring straight ahead like a statue. A moment later, he started
spinning around like a drunkard, wearing a dopey smile as he held his cheeks
with his scaly hands.
"Oh, is very satisfactory. Bo
never feel so good. Bo feel so loved..."
As Siquioce and Yuchauzh ogled
at the woozy Urosite in a mix of curiosity and amusement, Kantuta smirked and
rolled her eyes.
"Well, at least you are enjoying
yourself. Now that I have fulfilled your request, would you be so kind as to
escort me to my flower?"
"Hehe, of course."
Bo turned to the left and
pointed forward before wobbling away, still wearing that dazed smile.
"This way..."
As their guide made his way off,
Kantuta turned to face Siquioce and placed her hands on her hips.
"Well, that was fortunate,
wasn't it? I got to avoid an embarrassing situation AND I am about to receive a
gift! It seems that Lady Luck is smiling upon me today."
"Yeah, seems like it."
Siquioce looked past Kantuta and
towards Bo, who was still on his way out of the white forest.
"Well, we had better get moving.
We wouldn't want to miss out on this flower of yours, would we?"
With that, Siquioce begins
squelching after Bo, leading Kantuta to skip after him. As his teammates departed,
Yuchauzh huffed, tapping his log against his shoulder a bit before begrudgingly
following Siquioce.
"Well, that was anticlimatic..."