This chapter is a bonus update for "Naming It Is Enough"'s ten-thousand reward.
"Oh-ho!"
Rio landed in front of Liszt and immediately started yelling at him. That movement and tone meant it was hungry and wanted Liszt to feed it beef.
"Want some beef?"
Liszt's expression remained blank, but his actions were resolute. "Rio, I know you're very smart and can already understand what I'm saying. Now I'm giving you two choices. First, keep resisting my orders and acting free and undisciplined—then starve to death. Second, obey my orders, let me ride you, fight shoulder to shoulder with me, and you'll have all the meat and potions you can eat."
Rio took a step back and bared its teeth. "Oh-ho!"
It refused both choices.
"Then go hungry." Liszt did not waste words. He turned and left, though he still had to guard against Rio suddenly rebelling—yet with his current strength, the still-young Little Fire Dragon was no match for him. The Little Fire Dragon simply lacked too many combat methods.
Seeing Liszt head down the mountain, the Little Fire Dragon froze for a moment, then snorted disdainfully like a horse. Flapping its wings, it flew toward the foot of the mountain.
It was going to hunt for itself.
But after circling through the woods at the mountain's base again and again, burning down a small patch of Human Skull Trees, it did not spot even prey as large as a rabbit. It barely saw a few wingless birds that cried something like "dodo," but the dodos burrowed into their holes from several hundred meters away, vanishing without a trace.
"Oh-ho!"
It roared unwillingly, but to no avail. Even after night had fully fallen, it still had not found a single bit of prey. It wanted to fly off Dodo