After that, Shell Girl no longer dared to fly around recklessly.
Her range of movement quickly shrank to within five meters of Chen Shouyi. She cautiously looked east and west.
Sometimes, a strange little bug would crawl out of the ground, startling her into shrieking and jumping at every little thing.
Shell Girl had lived on that deserted island since she was little. There had been pitifully few living creatures there—not to mention animals, even insects had been scarce. Most common were the shells on the beach and marine creatures with shells.
But she had long since grown used to those creatures and was no longer surprised by them. Even when they were gigantic by her standards, she was not very afraid. Most of the creatures in this forest, however, were things she had never seen before.
At first, whenever Shell Girl cried out, Chen Shouyi would help her deal with it, stomping to death every insect that frightened her.
But after doing so again and again, he became thoroughly fed up. The smaller insects were only about the size of flies, while the biggest were no larger than dung beetles.
Even with Shell Girl's size, she could send one flying with a single kick if she were just a little braver.
In the end, Chen Shouyi simply snapped off a small branch, sharpened one end with his sword, and handed Shell Girl the little stick—less than ten centimeters long, not quite a short spear and not quite a Short Sword.
"Next time you see a bug, stab it."
"But good giant, bugs are fierce! They'll bite me!" Shell Girl took the little stick and spoke timidly.
I never saw you being this timid when you lost your temper before.
Chen Shouyi was speechless inside, but encouraged her. "You even