Chapter 31: Numb Wings
Su Ran slept in a half-dreaming, half-awake state and felt the werewolf lying down beside her with a body full of coolness.
But the amount of exercise and mental energy consumed that day was too much; she was really so sleepy that she couldn’t open her eyes.
Plus, now that the werewolf had returned, her heart relaxed, and sleepiness surged even more.
Fortunately, the werewolf didn’t disturb her either, but quietly returned to the bird’s nest, lying down tightly next to her and closing its eyes.
In her sleep, Su Ran felt a continuous stream of warmth transmitting to her body.
In a daze, she felt like she had returned home, and beneath her now was the soft, warm big bed at home.
Sweet dreams through the night, sleeping until dawn.
Perhaps because she went to sleep early last night.
The next day in the morning, when Su Ran woke up, the sky outside was still dimly lit.
She opened her eyes, and her just-awakened brain was still a bit foggy.
A wheat-colored meat wall lay quietly in front of her, rising and falling evenly with breathing.
After a while longer, she reacted that the meat wall in front of her was the werewolf’s chest.
She raised her hand to cover her eyes and rubbed them, feeling a bit more awake.
When she turned over to lie flat, she suddenly felt like something was pressing on her body.
She turned her head to look and discovered that it was actually the werewolf stretching out one wing to cover her body.
Su Ran raised her hand to touch the wing; it was smooth and soft, and the closer the wing was to the back, the warmer it became.
Did the werewolf keep the wing covering her body all night last night to keep her warm?
No wonder it was so warm during the night.
While Su Ran was curiously exploring the werewolf’s wing, the soundly sleeping werewolf beside her suddenly, without any warning, stretched out an arm and pulled her into its embrace.
Su Ran’s action of stroking the wing paused,
The arm encircling behind her, restraining her body, was strong and powerful; the warm skin in front was tightly pressed against her forehead. Between her breaths, a faint fragrance wafted.
Fragrance?
Su Ran doubtfully sniffed hard again.
It was indeed a fragrance.
A bit like floral scent.
She carefully raised her head; from this angle, she could only see the werewolf’s sharply defined chin.
This wolf’s body smelled very fresh; it must have taken a bath. So what was this fragrance from? Something it used while bathing?
Was it purely for this pleasant smell, or because it had cleaning effects, or some other effects?
Su Ran sniffed hard again at the floral scent between her breaths; after smelling for a while, the fragrance gradually faded, but she could still smell it.
She decided that after getting up later, she must figure out from the werewolf what it used; what if she could use it too?
Since she had decided to live well here, now she must have 100% curiosity toward any thing in this world.
Su Ran carefully and slowly crawled out from under the werewolf’s wing.
When she sat up, looking at the werewolf’s still-open wing, she inexplicably felt that the werewolf’s action was like an old mother hen protecting her chicks.
She didn’t know if maintaining this pose for one night would make the werewolf’s wing go numb from poor blood circulation…
Su Ran slowly got up from the sleeping grass pile.
Last night, sitting here, she had unknowingly fallen asleep without even laying out the sleeping bag.
No wonder in the first half of the night in her dream last night, she felt the temperature was colder than the previous days.
She walked around the soundly sleeping werewolf toward the bird’s nest entrance.
The light inside the bird’s nest was dim; only near the entrance was there clear light.
When she was about to reach the bird’s nest entrance, Su Ran suddenly discovered that at the place where she had put those two baskets of beef yesterday, sometime unknown, a pile of wild fruit had been added, piled up overflowing.
Among the wild fruit, there were youyou fruit, red fruit, and green fruit, and under this pile of wild fruit, a sweet leaf vein tree leaf had been carefully laid.
Even beside it, there were a few mint grass leaves placed.
Su Ran picked up a golden youyou fruit; the fruit’s surface was smooth and very clean, probably washed.
This discovery made her heart suddenly tremble.
She had a feeling she couldn’t quite describe.
But she knew that from this moment on, she could no longer treat the werewolf as just a meal ticket, a protective umbrella, or a stepping stone to utilize for surviving smoothly in this world.
She could tell, whether it was after discovering she didn’t eat raw meat and proactively going to find youyou fruit and sweet leaf vein tree leaves for her to eat,
Or after eating the salty beef jerky, thinking of going to find salty-tasting kelp for her.
Or every time after she made something, the werewolf respecting her personal space and items.
Or this beastman’s natural, inadvertent care and those silent concerns.
All made Su Ran feel deep guilt toward her previous utilitarian thoughts about the werewolf.
Even if those utilitarian ideas were merely to survive in a strange world.
Perhaps,
No, definitely, she should also give some sincerity to the werewolf.
Not the kind toward a favorite pet, nor the kind of condescending sincerity from self-proclaimed superior creature.
But equal, at least the kind of sincerity between friends.
“Woo~”
A soft sound carrying thick sleepiness came from behind, sounding even a bit coquettish.
Su Ran turned her head and met the werewolf’s gaze just as it turned over.
With a thought, she suddenly blurted out to the werewolf: “Morning, Gray.”
“Woo?”
Hearing Su Ran’s voice, the werewolf seemed to wake up all at once.
It moved its ears, its pair of eyes looking at Su Ran wide open, seemingly not understanding the meaning in Su Ran’s words.
That dazed appearance reduced some of the sharpness on the werewolf, paired with that handsome face that could make countless girls excited and scream; instead, it looked full of cuteness.
Not to mention anything else, coming to this world, in terms of feasting her eyes, she had profited big time!
“Good morning~ Little Gray Gray~~”
Su Ran said it to the werewolf again; the werewolf was stunned for a moment, opened its mouth: “Ao…… Ran, Ran!…… Woo?”
The werewolf tilted its head, seemingly suddenly remembering Su Ran’s name, but was completely baffled by what Su Ran said before.
“It’s nothing.”
Su Ran smiled, didn’t emphasize the greeting from before, but instead walked over, reached out to touch the top of the werewolf’s head, and smoothly straightened the messy hair on its head.
And by now, the werewolf seemed finally fully awake.
It suddenly stood up from the grass pile, hugged Su Ran, and without surprise, gave her another lick-face greeting.
Then it let go of Su Ran, but its facial expression was somewhat aggrieved as it pointed to the one wing behind it that hadn’t been retracted, softly mumbling to Su Ran: “Ran Ran…… Ran Ran……”
The voice carried urgency and grievance.
Seeing it like this, Su Ran couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
This silly wolf’s wing had actually gone numb from holding it open…
