Loving The Cursed Werewolf King-Chapter 494: Gathering Foods For Abigail
"Hi, Arielle!" said Abigail, who was still sitting on Luffy’s back.
"Hi, Abigail. I’m sorry, I didn’t see you coming," Arielle replied.
Abigail smiled and nodded. "It’s okay. I was quite entertained by your efforts earlier. Truly extraordinary."
Arielle blushed. She just nodded because she didn’t know what to say.
"Arielle, your hair?" asked Luffy who saw the change on Arielle’s hair.
"Ah, I asked Lord Otis for help to cut my hair earlier because having long hair is really annoying, and a lot of parts are damaged by the fire," Arielle replied.
"You can get burned? I thought you were the Moon Goddess’ child like Otis? But how did you get burned?" Abigail asked, cutting Arielle’s sentence.
Otis then explained about the incident yesterday where Arielle, who planned to take him away from Xieno’s punishment, actually made the dragon mad, so he spit fire at Arielle.
Arielle’s body couldn’t be burned by fire, but the dragon’s fire was on a different level. Her power had not been able to help the girl to protect herself, so it was Otis who helped protect Arielle. Unfortunately, the girl’s hair was caught by Xieno’s fire and many others were burned.
Abigail gasped as she covered her mouth with her hands. She shook her head in disbelief.
"Maxieno still has a bad temper," Abigail commented, feeling sorry for Arielle.
Arielle was truly touched by Abigail’s concern. From the girl’s caring attitude towards her, it seemed that Maxieno had not told Abigail about Arielle’s status as the wife of the man who killed her mate.
"How was your meeting with Maxieno? Will he replace Xavier to look after you while you lay your eggs?" asked Otis.
Abigail shook her head. "I’ve stopped asking him to take care of me for the past three years, even though Xieno is Xavier’s older brother, but the man isn’t my mate, so I guess it’s useless. That’s why I decided to keep my children in my stomach. I will just wait for them to hatch without incubating them again," said Abigail, while stroking her big belly.
"Then, what about your food supplies?"
"Maxieno said that I would find you here, so I was told to ask you to provide it as usual."
"Ah... I see.. but it’s almost nighttime. To gather a lot of food for a few more months won’t be enough."
"I can help!" Arielle said.
Abigail shook her head. "You should rest, Arielle," she said.
"No, I’m still very strong, Abigail. I want to help you," Arielle said.
"Besides, Lord Otis promised Luffy to bring him one chicken while I don’t have any chicken here, so I think we need to gather food together. I also don’t want to be constantly brought food by Lord Otis from the castle. I don’t want to upset Maxieno because the food rations have to be given to me," she said, making Otis laugh.
"Well, since collecting the needs of Abigail who is pregnant is an urgent matter, then we should do it with more people. Let’s start collecting food," said Otis.
Arielle and Otis walked through the forest. Abigail just sat on Luffy’s back, following them from above. First, Otis took out a large sack that was behind his ribbed cloth belt.
Arielle’s mouth formed an o, amazed to see the many things that were on the old man’ body, starting from cloth, bandages, ropes, to some very small folded sacks.
"What are you bringing all that up for?" asked Luffy who saw Otis open a sack and give one to Arielle.
"Oh, I don’t know when I ran into dragons who were a little troublesome. So, I brought things that I found useful, like this sack when encountering dragons who distribute their prey, ropes to tie young naughty dragons and drag them to Xieno, a pocket knife to cut fruit and so on," Otis replied.
Luffy lowered Abigail to sit on a rock while watching Arielle and Otis picking fruit on a fairly short tree. Then, the young dragon transformed into a human and climbed an apple tree. He picked a fruit at the top that neither Arielle nor Otis could reach.
They collected various kinds of fruit. Arielle was stunned when she saw Otis shoot one of the flying birds with a fireball. Then, they sat together to enjoy a pretty delicious grilled bird. Lord Otis also took Arielle and Luffy into the forest to find more fruit.
Arielle frowned when Otis did not hesitate to burn rabbits, deer, or other animals.
"Abigail needs to eat. Before she was pregnant, she was famous for her hunting abilities. Her name was Abigail The Hunt. She was one of the best hunters of the dragon clan, but since she became pregnant and lost her mate, Abigail stopped," said Otis, who put the body of the hunted rabbit into a sack filled with meat.
"I... feel sad that Abigail has lost her mate."
"Losing a mate is a very painful thing, Arielle. I myself do not know how it feels because I never met or found my mate. I saw it myself how the dragons who lost their mates fell into depression and chose to commit suicide. For them, a mate is almost like a part of their life. Abigail is a very strong woman because she survived ten years alone while getting pregnant.
"For the dragon clan, getting pregnant is a sensitive thing for them. Thus, the pregnant dragons choose to be alone and only accompanied by their mate. But Abigail, she was alone. I tried to negotiate with Maxieno several times to be Abigail’s guard temporarily while Abigail was pregnant, but Maxieno refused. "
"Why? Isn’t Abigail the mate of his brother?" asked Arielle.
"It’s true, but dragon logic and human logic are different. Maxieno certainly respects Abigail as his brother’s mate, but Maxieno once told me he doesn’t want his mate to feel jealous because he has taken care of another pregnant dragon besides his own mate. He doesn’t want to hurt his mate’s pride. You know how high the pride of dragons is, right?"
"Oh, Maxieno already has a mate? Is it Violet? The beautiful purple dragon?" Arielle asked curiously because when she visited the castle at that time, she saw Violet on Maxieno’s lap.
"Oh, no. Maxieno hasn’t met his mate yet. Even until now, he had met all the women in the dragon clan, but not a single woman there is his mate. Violet is just a... er... woman who accompanies him. That ’s all."
