EPIC OF CATERPILLAR

C18: the cocky witch

[Day 21]

When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was tiny humanoid feet over my face.

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"Geehh... What is this...? Ne...Nereid...! Get off me...!"

It was no other than the water spirit that I summoned yesterday, Nereid. She was sleeping over my body, and despite her tiny body, she weighed quite a lot. Perhaps it is because I am tiny too.

"Maaaaa... Maaaaste... ten more minutes... gehehehe..."

"Gaahh! Get off!"

BUMP!

I quickly threw Nereid using a little bit of my Strength stat, but she was blasted over the cave walls several meters away.

BOOM!

"Gyyaaahh!!!"

"Gueeeehhh! Master is so mean...! Why do you bully me, master? Gueeeeehhh!!!"

I quickly noticed that she lost quite a considerable amount of HP just by crashing on the walls.

"Aaah! I-I'm sorry...! Don't cry! I hate crybabies! Here, I'll heal you...!"

I quickly healed Nereid back until the pain was completely gone.

"Snif... Snif... Master is so mean... I just wanted to sleep more... Snif... Snif..."

"Sigh... Stand up, I already said that I was sorry, come, let's go eat some delicious food to get you in a good mood!"

I slowly carried the crying fairy, most of my servants and slaves working around looked me with weird expressions.

"What are you looking at?! I didn't do anything! Go back to your works!"

"Y-Yes, Master!"

After arriving to the kitchen and telling Wagyu and Rimuru what happened, they quickly went to look for some food and beer.

After having a fulfilling meal, I left the drunk Nereid in the kitchen, were she started to babble on how mean of a Master I am.

I had a small meeting with every Squad Leader (Excluding Slave Leaders), and we talked about how many troops we had left and how many we lost.

Total Troops:

43 Slaves (Around 22 are battle capable).

20 Undead Warrior Trolls.

78 Monkeys in the beginning, lost 19 in first war, and 6 in the second war. 53 left.

28 Crimson Wolves, lost 5 in the first war, gained 4 puppies later, lost 4 in the third war. 23 left.

9 Ice Wolves, 2 lost in the second war. 7 left.

5 Slimes.

2 Mythical Elemental Spirits.

5 Wyverns.

After analyzing the total number of troops and causalities, Kizuato sighed.

"Sigh... Indeed the monkeys are still the ones who had the biggest casualties, we must improve their armor and leveling speed, we must use this small window until the next wave to train!"

I wondered about the current monkey fertility rate, and was pleasantly surprised that most female monkeys were already pregnant, including the Cooking Leader Chokumotsu! That one really surprised me; she had her whole face red when she admitted it to me.

"So who's your partner, then?"

"Oh, hahaha, it's a member of my cooking team, he's still a nameless monkey, but he's a lovely man that threats me very well, he also has exceptional cooking talent!"