Reincarnated as a chicken

Tyrant of the West

Day 12

This morning I managed to beg Minerva to let me go out of the cave with her. You would expect that a NEET would prefer to be in the dark quiet cave away from all the monsters, but no! The cave would be too boring!

This NEET would rather plunge into the face of death than waste around in a cave.

Ok, the honest truth was that, it was simply because Minerva was an absolute beast, so I would have nothing to fear in the forest. Especially if she had the [Overlord] skill. She was practically a goddess.

My other priority was finding the remaining twigs. Not because I cared about them or anything. I just felt weird since I lost my connection with them. Apparently they were too far away from me and wouldn't receive any orders from me. That meant they would go crazy in the forest and probably get killed instantly. I couldn't sit by and just let them get killed. It might affect them seeing that two of their brothers were dead. Even if I accidentally killed the first.

Minerva and I had set out from the cave to go hunting for breakfast. Seemed like one Timber Wolf King wasn't enough to last even a night. To be honest I was happy she ate it all. I didn't want the meat to rot away in the cave. The cave was already creepy enough. She must have had a huge metabolism to consume all of that so quickly and still get hungry.

'Minerva-san, how do you go hunting?' I asked her.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Minerva had the [Telepathy] skill, meaning she could read my mind. That meant communication between us was not going to be one sided with only me understanding. She could understand me as well. To think the first being I would have a proper conversation in my reincarnation was a hob-goblina.

"Huh? What kind of stupid question is Tori-kun asking Minerva?"

She snorted at me then looked at me from the corner of her eye. I was currently resting on her shoulder as she walked. Ah! It was nice having a friend at the top of the food ladder once again!

'It's not a stupid question! Minerva is so strong monsters run away when they just sense you! So how do you even get food?'

"Oh? Minerva just targets the monsters that stand there for Minerva. Some monsters run away from Minerva and some monsters just stand there for Minerva to kill them."

'Eh? That's... so they were just petrified with fear and you eat them? That's scary. Anyway, so you eat fanged bunnies and stuff?'

"Bunnies? Minerva hasn't eaten one of those in a long, long time! Minerva just eats wolves and giant lizards and other big creatures."

She put her pinky in her nose and dug out a booger. That was gross, but it wouldn't stray my attention.

'Oi, oi. Did you just admit to being so strong that all the predators in the forest freeze up when you get in close proximity to them?'

Minerva shrugged and her eyes went searching about for food.

'Don't just shrug it off!'

I hit her head with my wing and she giggled.

"Haha, Tori-kun is cute~"

I looked away, hiding my blushing face. Wait! Why was I blushing?! No, wait! How was I blushing? Birds shouldn't have been able to blush, right?

We kept on walking for a while, and I decided that hunting with Minerva was way more tedious than I had assumed it would be. Everything was running away from her. And she would just look on with a smile. We even got to a tree which she smacked and asked if it was faring well.

I assumed it was a Dryad, but it was a regular tree according to [Analyst]. I was getting convinced that surveying a forest on the shoulder of a six year old with power to crumble high rise buildings easily was not really the brightest or safest idea out there.