"Kunemon's Nest"
Day 1
Time: 2 PM
You attempt to snag some more food before departing, but a group of ModokiBetamon who had been busy play-fighting over meat threatened via growls for you to go away. It seems they did not appreciate how you knocked out their kin, and any further hunting for food or attacks upon their kind would provoke a retaliation by a half dozen more in the area. Despite this, you do manage to grab one last DigiMushroom on your way out and back towards Kunemon's nest.
As you arrive at his nest, Kunemon is busy taking a nap, as he usually does. His kind are mostly nocturnal anyways, so him sleeping during the day isn't too bad, but he still should have been up by now. You are amazed that such a lazy being has managed to become so powerful, but while you are not sure what his secret is you know that you would rather be dead than mimic his sloth-like behavior.
Under the comfort of his tree you curl up and force yourself to sleep, getting what rest you can to work off your present fatigue and injuries. Sleeping can be wasteful and let other Digimon take the best pickings of food, but it was necessary to recover from wounds faster than one otherwise would making it a necessary evil to survive...so you sleep, intent on waking up soon to go back out and gather more food while you can.
"Awake now, hmmm?"
You had been drifting into consciousness when you feel a poke on your head from an insect's beak. You crack open your eye and look up to see Kunemon down on the ground beside you, having left his favorite perch atop his tree. The day's light is dimming as the sunset beckons
"Get anything good today?"
He is trying to get you to give him some of your food, as you generally do after hunting all day. You reason that he is giving you a safe harbor where you will not be attacked, so it is a worthy tax of sorts, though the thought of just handing food over to this lazy bum has always irritated you. You gain roughly as many DigiMushrooms here in this safe region as you would normally give him, so it is not oppressive, though it does cut down on what you have to fill your own belly and forces you to go look for more food than you otherwise would. But where else would you sleep? By the ModokiBetamon who would happily kill you as you rested?
So, you need to give Kunemon something to eat as the tax of the day, lest you meet a less favorable fate than forking over food. Depending on what you give Kunemon he may react differently, with better food perhaps even earning you favors while worse food could irritate him. Ultimately you decide to give Kunemon your sole piece of Meat out of what you have on you, while you decide to have the near tasteless DigiMushrooms in your bag. This will make Kunemon happier, while you can stomach a less than ideal meal right now.
He joyously takes it off your hands, "That'll do!"
The small bug tears into his newly acquired food, leaving you to snack on your DigiMushrooms. You do so quietly, taking on a pensive look as you contemplate the battle you just fought. That ModokiBetamon could have beaten you had things gone differently...a sign that you needed to keep growing stronger.
"Kunemon to BlackAgumon, are you reading me?"
You blink and turn to see that apparently Kunemon had been trying to talk to you. His lack of visible eyes keep you from discerning his expression, but you can tell by his voice he's not all too mad.
"I was saying, if you intend to go out and get more food, I heard of somewhere you might want to look. South-east of here there's supposed to be a clearing, but you got to go through some thickets of trees to get there on foot. I checked it out before I went to bed and found a bunch of Blue Apples there."
Kunemon crawls up his tree and from it retrieves a small mound of Blue Apples, which he shows off proudly.
"I took all the ones I found. I've got more than I want, so have one."
He tosses you one from his collection and you catch it, accepting the gift graciously. Perhaps if you had not given him the meat he'd have been stingier about sharing this with you.
"Apparently there aren't any Digimon there. Strange, isn't it?" Kunemon suggested. Yes, it was indeed odd that no other Digimon were there. Very strange indeed, if it has a bounty like what Kunemon was revealing...
"To get there you'd have to go South and get past the Goblimon who live there, then go East," Kunemon shrugged, "Or going East from here, I suppose, but there are some nasty Digimon that way. The Goblimon from the South are going to be attacking the Center of the forest today for the food there, so you might be able to sneak South and get more apples tonight. Normally there'd be way too many for you, but you might have a chance this time."
He goes back up to his tree, content with the food he has and showing no desire to leave at all today.
"Your choice, but if you go to the Blue Apple patch you had better bring me one. Finder's fee."
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