ACIEL'S DIARY : INDIGO
SECTION 3.6: START THE SEARCH

Following the flow of birds flying in groups in front, making the air flow as a support for stability and speed to fly high in the sky.

The master with the form of a tiger flashed along the footing of the black clouds on his feet, not too fast but not too slow as well.

Beside us was Beida flying with the flapping of her trunk wings, quite evidently she was trying hard to guide us.

Compared to that, me relaxing on Master's back and enjoying the change of scenery below made me have enough time to relax and think of many useless things to fill the boredom.

"About how I look while flying through the air riding on Master, huh? Man cannot see the Spirit, but he can see me. What in their eyes would I look like sitting hovering? I don't know why things make me curious enough."

Although it was more likely to think if they could not see me because of the powerful flow of Spiritual Energy that wrapped around my body when I came into contact with a powerful Spirit like a Master. There are many explanations about that.

It is better to miss it now.

By the way we are heading to the tenth location which is rumored to be the last location of the appearance of the Huflu nest which contains a lot of high-quality Honey.

After discussing a few things with Beida earlier, I made some re-conditions on the agreement that had been made. I'll get seventy-five percent of the honey we get and the rest will go to Beida.

It seemed that Beida herself did not want it too much, she just wanted to feel the moments where she got the honey. I, who had no other choice, took his advice.

Yeah, I don't have any other choice. That I accept doesn't mean that I want more honey or anything. I really had no choice but to accept it.

Gulp—!!

Unknowingly, a hint of saliva came out on my mouth and dripped towards Master's feathers and moistened them. This is bad, I have to control myself!!

"After such hard training it made me quite hungry. I just patched it up with some snacks and it's still not enough."

Even so, it had been about thirty minutes since we started leaving and there was still no sign that we would arrive.

With this speed, we've already passed through the city where I live. Today the scenery below is also filled with forests and mountains. The settlement is in some far corner.

The sky has changed color due to the refraction of sunlight and makes it reddish yellow. The afternoon came, there was little time until nightfall.

And as I began to feel that bit of unease in myself, Beida finally gave the long-awaited sign from earlier.

He raised one of his slender hands and raised his voice.

"We'll be there any minute. Mr. Leore, you can slow down the pace."

"Yes, I understand."

We slowed down the speed and found a green grass plain, Beida gave instructions to land there and the Master immediately darted down very quickly.

"Urghh—?!"

This tiger directly crashed into the grass plains strongly and created a sizable wind wave, flying many pieces of grass in all directions. It seems that Beida was also affected by the effect and slightly crashed.

"Master, why did you suddenly do it?! It was so shocking and scary!! Then tell me if you want to do something like that, I can fly earlier, you know?!"

I jumped down and the Master changed into a little cat. He jumped on my shoulder and answered.

"Why all of a sudden I want to do it."

"Geez, you can do that."

With a hint of dissatisfaction bubbling within me, I walked closer to Beida who was folding her trunk wings. His face looks tired.

"Sorry about before, Beida. The master slightly lost his balance while flying in the sky earlier and it made him land quite roughly. Are you all right?"

"Y-Yes ... I'm fine, you don't have to worry too much."

"Hmph, though weak you are still a Spirit. If such a thing alone had damaged your body's balance, I was really worried when I saw you planning to get the Huflu's honey."

The master snorted with a mocking laugh.

"Master, what's wrong with you? You were really sensitive. Is Master still mad because I held your tail before—aduh!! You slapped my face with your tail again!!"

"Keep that stupid topic aside, let's get this over with and go home. Aciel, you owe me two meat bakpaos when this is all over, don't forget it."

Damn, this stupid cat is really sulking.

But at least Master didn't stop me when I intended to help Beida and instead help me. I really don't know what's in his head.

"Yes, I'll buy five meat bakpaos later. Master can take four."

"It's good if you understand. Grasshopper, quickly take the route and be a guide."

"Ba-Good!!"

We started to enter the tree area and explore some parts of the forest, there were some occasions when we encountered many spirits but nothing special happened.

It was because I was currently disguised using the Spirit mask that Ebi had given me earlier. Although not as strong as the fur, this mask will help me disguise the human scent on my body and cover my face.

But I have to be careful not to get too close to the Spirits, because there is still a bit of human scent left.

If that happens, the spirits in this forest will not only be targeting Huflu's honeycomb and they will certainly add myself to the search list.

I have to be vigilant and for such a dangerous thing not to happen.

"Despite Beida, I'm amazed you can get all the information about the ten locations of Honey Huflu. Since this concerns the very famous honey, surely access to the information becomes more difficult, right? Can I know how you got it?"

"Oh, I got it from my best friend. One of the masters he served had a considerable interest in that honey. When my friend found out about it, he gave me information about his ten locations just like that."

"Eh? Doesn't that mean he betrayed his master? Is your best friend okay?"

"Well, when I said that to her, she simply replied with a laugh and said that things would not change even though she told me that. Besides he knows if I won't be able to get it myself."

I can see what his best friend is thinking.

He probably wanted to have this grasshopper give up and stop looking for something as dangerous as that after his first try.

But this grasshopper seemed to be quite stubborn, as he did not even stop after failing to obtain it at the ninth location. Perhaps if he failed even after this location, he would do it again at the next opportunity.

I don't understand, why did he go that far?

What was the reason for that was that he really only wanted to enjoy the moment he got the honey? Or is there something else?

Whatever it is, I'll figure it out when I get that honey later.

"Is that so? He's a good friend. I'm so happy for you."

"Yes!! He's really a friend that's too good for me."

With that, we continued our search as we went deeper into the forest.