"Why are you laughing? You're hilarious. A hero, you say? You? You think you can face hundreds of millions of bugs all by yourself? Ha! What a joke!"
As he spoke, the kid suddenly raised his head. The sharpness in his gaze took me by surprise—it was a fierce, commanding intensity.
It was enough to make anyone uneasy.
"Would a great hero do something like this?!"
As he spoke, the kid raised a hand and pointed straight at his own butt, then challenged me.
"Would he do something like this?! Huh?! Look at it—it's a bloody mess!"
After that, the kid fell silent, lowered his head, and went back to eating meat.
I opened my mouth, but in the end, I didn't argue. I just fell silent.
One sentence from the kid had brought me back to my senses.
Yeah... I'd been through so much. Why was I picking a fight with a little kid?
Sigh... It seemed that I really was emotionally unstable and irritable during my period.
Speaking of my period, at least I had Tuanzi now, so... my menstrual blood got eaten right away. It didn't make me feel especially uncomfortable, but it still felt weird.
I shook my head, turned, and walked back to the campfire. I cut myself a piece of roast meat and took a bite.
As I chewed, I thought it over... If the kid accidentally let my identity slip, that could cause trouble. I'd better remind him to keep quiet.
"Kid, just treat what I said earlier as a joke."
He paused, said nothing, and lowered his head to keep eating. But his eyes looked a little unfocused. After a moment, he suddenly looked up at me.
"Are you on your period?"
"Pfft—cough, cough, cough..."
I was chewing on a huge piece