"Do you know about the four key elements." I began earning a confused look from Centorea. "Thunder. Ice. Water. and fire."

After our encounter with the mizutsune, we thought it would be best to walk back to Hubby's house. Well, when I say 'walk back', I really meant ride on Tafu along side Centorea. But while I did say I'll explain about the Fated Four when we got back, Centorea wanted to know about them now, so I ended up taking up my title as Mr know-it-all... again.

"Four key elements..." Centorea wondered looking up at the sky. "Strange, I thought there was more elements than four."

"There are, but those are the main elements some monsters use." I admitted making myself more comfortable on Tafu's back. "Most of the time, it just breathing a certain element."

"So, what does this have to do with thy Fated Four?" Centorea questioned turning her gaze back on me.

"Because each of the Fated Four use their element as differently as they are from each other." I went on, remembering back to when I fought each of the Fated Four. "All four of them use each element differently from any other monster."

"Such as?" Centorea carried on, probably wanting me to give an example.

"That mizutsune we saw back there, that was covered in bubbles." I explained looking back behind us. "It uses bubbles to help move and slide on land with greater ease, no other leviathan so far uses that method of locomotion."

"It is strange, how something so normal can be used for something entirely different." Centorea admitted, clearly not expecting a monster to use bubbles as a means of moving about and fighting. "So I'm assuming by the name, leviathans are more formidable in water?"

"A leviathan can be formidable swimming in anything." I admitted recalling nearly every leviathan documented so far. "Water, sand, lava. Some monster even fly as if they're swimming in the air."

Wait- Uh oh, I just realized what I'm actually doing. The more I talk about different monsters, the more I'm convincing Centorea to be a monster hunter! Damn it Taiden!

Man, I can understand why Centorea would want to be a monster hunter to impress her 'Master'. But, how on earth am I even meant to train a centaur to be a monster hunter?! I mean, she might have an advantage when it comes maintaining stamina... but everything else, would be like teaching a gravios how to fly!

"Taiden? Is something wrong?" Centorea questioned, noticing how I suddenly went quite.

"I'm good..." I lied, I'm actually tore apart over what to do here! "Just thinking back to what you asked back at the park... I guessing what I'm saying is making you want to be a monster hunter even more?"

In Centorea's defense, she seemed more surprised by my question. Guess she wasn't thinking of that, well, she probably is now. "In truth, Taiden-sama. I'm rather surprised that such a creature is capable of feats as-"

SMASH!

"OW!" What the hell just hit me? Whatever it is, I can feel it sliding down my head!

"OW!" Centorea too ended up feeling my pain as something struck the back of her head too.

Then something else struck Tafu, causing her to bellow in shock. As she reared up in pain, I caught sight of what had struck her, not a nargacuga's tail spike or seregios scale, thank god. But an egg, it's shattered shell sliding down her neck smeared in yoke.

And when I looked at the back of Centorea's head. I could see she too had been hit with an egg, which must mean that whatever is sliding down my head right now... is egg.

"HAHA! That's twenty points for hitting the horse!" A deep grunted voice laughed, a voice I'm all too happy to silence right now!

"Twenty? I scored a hundred hitting the dinosaur!" Another female but rough voice added, followed another egg smashing against Tafu. "That makes two hundred!"

Turning around, all three of us locked our eyes upon both culprits. One blonde spike hair guy, and a black girl. Both of them holding a carton of eggs in one hand, maybe I'll just go smash those eggs into their faces!

"Do thou two mind? We're not causing any issue." Centorea called to both, attempting to talk them down. "It would be appreciated if thou ease this behav-"

SMASH!

Centorea's attempt ended up being answered with two eggs thrown straight at her boobs. Within seconds, Centorea had fallen on her knees in pain, covering her boobs in an attempt to ease the pain. THAT'S. JUST. WRONG! Seriously, hurting a girl's boobs would be like hitting me where it really hurts.

"Centorea!" Was all I could say before another egg smashed against my head.

"What you gonna do if we don't? You can't hurt us, remember?" The black girl called out laughing at Centorea groaning in pain.

"Too bad your spider friend ain't here to help you this time!" the blonde guy added.

Wait- spider friend? Is he referring to Rachnera? Well, after seeing what she did last night, she would easily scares these two assholes. Unfortunately, she's not here. But, Centorea can't do anything because of that stupid law. But there's nothing stopping me or Tafu...

"What the hell, you two! No, what the hell?!" I yelled, earning the two assholes ire. "You don't just throw eggs at the girls! Especially where it hurt the most!"

"Whatever stick-kun. Don't try to be some sort of hero." The blonde guy warn me, and... Okay, I'm not as thin as a stick. "Just go ride off with your ugly-ass pet, no one even wants your type around here."

Pet.

...

"Tafu. Naguru!"

Without any hesitation, Tafu charged at the two assholes. But once she was close enough, Tafu quickly turned around, slamming her tail against the two assholes. For the record, I seriously hope Tafu ended up gashing them. Groaning in pain, both tried to get up before Tafu pinned both of them down under her feet. By the time I had got down from Tafu's back, both were trying in vein to push Tafu off.

"Ow! Ow! Stop, please! We're sorry!" Blondie lied as I walked over to them, kneeling down beside both of them.

"No you're not, not yet." I glared at him, making sure he knew that he had pushed too far.

"Come on, man. You know we were joking, right?" the black girl lied, trying to push Tafu's foot off. "Seriously, just tell your pet to let us- OOOOW!"

Yep, that right there, is the sound of an assholes ribs snapping under an aptonoths weight.

"Unless you want your bones broken, don't call her a pet." I warned stroking Tafu's crest.

"You wouldn't actually do that, right?" Blondie muttered, clearly hoping I wouldn't have Tafu do that.

"You're right, having her break your bones is too boring." I admitted, thinking of something much worse than broken bones. "I could just have her snap your spine, smash your head, stomp on you until you start gargling blood and... Well, we really don't need to go on, now do we?"

"Taiden-sama! Please!" Centorea pleaded, having recovered from her pain. "Cease this act of violence to an end."

End it? They just threw eggs at us! They straight up insulted her! And they were taking advantage of Centorea with that stupid 'can't-harm-a-human-law'. See, this is what I was talking about with Rachnera last night! And I'll be damned if I let these two leave thinking it's okay to keep doing that!

"Are you forgetting what they did?" I snapped at Centorea. "They pretty much made you feel useless. No one has any right to get away with that!"

"And you've made your point clear to them, there's no need to go on." Centorea admitted, pointing out the obvious. "There's being reasonable, and then there's abusive."

Abusive?

Damn. She's actually got a point...

"Yeah, please man!" blondie agreed desperately. "The horse has got- AHHHH!"

And there goes his ribs too, at least now his girlfriend's not the only one with broke ribs.

"What did you call her?!" I growled looking down at Blondie.

"Centaur! I meant centaur!" Yeah, sure you did...

Centorea is right, this has to stop. But, there's nothing wrong in giving the two a warning.

"Tafu. Ofu." And with that, Tafu finally lifted her feet off them both.

At first, both struggled to get up, thanks to having broken ribs. So, as much as I hated the thought of helping these two assholes, I pulled both of them up by their shoulders. But when they tried to move back, I only tightened my grip on both of them.

"Go to the authorities, and let them know what you did here, after you have your ribs checked out." I hinted, feeling them both quivering in my grip. "And should you try to play the victim game, or consider doing this again. Just, remember how it felt, having a monster crush your bones."

Their rapidly nodding heads gave off that they had got the message, and once I had loosen my grip from both of them, they shot off in the opposite direction from us. Most likely to a local hospital, or at least they better.

But when I turned back to Centorea, well, lets just say it's hard not to look where she's got egg on her. And from the fidgeting hooves and how the furious blushing as she covered her top with her arms, it's obvious she's embarrassed by how this incident has left her.

"Are you alright?" Why did I even ask her that? Of course she's not alright!

"Well- Not really." Centorea answered, proving my point.

Then again, I could easily just give Centorea the cover on Tafu. Because I ride on Tafu, I often have a cover under Tafu's saddle, just so it doesn't rub off on her. But considering what's just happened, I guess I'll be carrying the saddle back to the caravan.

Feeling the force of my hands patting against her, Tafu kneeled down enough for me to reach the saddle. After a minute unstrapping the saddle, I managed to get the cover off. Hopefully, it's big enough to fit around Centorea. Why I am even thinking of that? I use this on a aptonoth for chrissake!

"Here, sorry if it's not big enough." I admitted handing the cover out to Centorea.

Doing so only seemed to increase the amount of blushing on Centorea's face, which I'll admit... does look rather cute. Hastily taking the cover, Centorea tried to wrapped it around her chest, although the cover what obvious straining under the pressure. Well, better get back the Hubby's house before the inevitable happens...

"We should keep going to Hubby's house." I hinted trying to reach for the egg still on the back of my head.

"Most certainly." Centorea agreed leading the way.

X Two hours later...

Once we got back the the house, Centorea instantly rush to take a bath to get the egg off her. And while Tafu had licked off most the eggs on my neck, she was still stained in egg. So, I guess it's time for a wash down then.

While I was filling up a bucket with water with a hose, Tafu was still keen to get what egg was left on my neck. Which actually, felt fine... until Tafu bit down on my hair.

"OW! Tafu, that's enough." I snapped, rubbing my hand where she had accidentally bit down.

Luckily, I didn't have to deal with any puppy dog eyes from Tafu this time, she only made her way next to the caravan before resting down on her side, making herself comfortable for her inevitable wash down. At least she wasn't expecting me to lick the eggs on her, that'd just be...

No. Just no.

"TAFFY!"

No sooner, a blue and green blur crashed into Tafu. At first, Tafu grunted in shock. But she instantly calmed down upon seeing just who had crashed into her, Papi and Suu.

While Papi had her wings around Tafu's neck, Suu had rested herself against Tafu's stomach. Defiantly makes a good cushion, to be honest.

"Morning guys." I greeted turning the hose off as I carried the bucket over to the three. "I wouldn't really hug her right now though, she needs a wash."

"Why?" Papi innocently asked hugging Tafu around her neck, until noticing the egg yoke now covering her wings. "Eww! What happened to Taffy?"

"Well-"

Before I could even start, Suu rested her feeler onto her head, which felt rather... strange, like someone had just started looking through a box full of my memories. All though it, Suu just kept a happy innocent smile on her face.

"Someone idiots started throwing eggs at us and Centorea." My words came out. "So I had Tafu snap their ribs in return, serves them right too." Out of Suu's mouth.

She- just read my mind! She actually read my mind!

I'm not too sure whether to be blown away, or to be concerned that she doesn't say anything else I was thinking.

"Um, Suu? Can you, get off me please." I asked, feeling rather nervous over anything else Suu can do.

Still smiling innocently, Suu pulled her feeler off my head, leaving part of head covered in blue slime.

"You- You can read people's minds?" I asked feeling more amazed then nervous, at least now Suu isn't inside my head.

"Yep." Suu simply answered. No detail into why or how or when she started to do it, just a simple yes.

"But if Taffy is covered in egg, why haven't you washed it off." Papi wondered washing her hands in my bucket, sure, go use the water I'm gonna use to wash Tafu with.

"I'm going to." I revealed lifting up the bucket. "It's gonna be exhausting to wash her though."

"Why don't we help?" Suu asked jumping up on her legs.

"If you could, that would be useful." Seriously, that shouldn't be anything wrong with letting Suu and Papi help with washing Tafu. "I'll just go see if I can get a sp-"

Again, Suu had interrupted me from where I had started. This time, her feeler dipped into the bucket. Within seconds, her feeler began to take in large gulps of water, traveling from the bucket all the way into Suu. Is she drinking? Maybe that's what a slime feds on then, water. Then again, she could have waited instead of drinking from my bucket.

"Suu, I do need that water to wash Tafu." I explained as Suu almost emptied the bucket. "So could you stop-"

But once Suu had drank every drop from the bucket, she began to grow. Before she was more Papi's size, but after taking in the water from the bucket, she had grown into a more... adult look?

The more I think about it, the more Suu reminds of... A zamtrios.

A baby zamtrios, or zamite grows larger and grows limbs when it ingest bodily fluid. A bit like a leech or giggi. Even a zamtrios when fully grown, can inflate itself to either crush a person, or just roll on them. But most of time, that's when you hurt a zamtrios the most, because it's so hard to miss when it balloons up!

Tafu through out all this, seemed very shocked by what she had just seen, kind of like me or any other person. Papi though, didn't seem to bothered. Then again, she's probably seen Suu do this before.

Pointing on finger at Tafu, Suu kept her cute smile.

Then all of a sudden, water shot out of her finger, spraying Tafu as she reared up, grunting in surprise. It only lasted for a few seconds, but by the time Suu had released all of her water, and returned to her smaller form, Tafu was now drenched in water. Having said that, at least she's not covered in egg anymore.

"You just washed her in 30 seconds, where it would taken me 30 minutes." I summed up, earning a childish but cute smile for Suu. "... Thanks, I guess."

"You're welcome." Suu chirped happily

"Your presence is being request-."

"WHAT THE HELL?!" I yelled, jumping forward, feeling my heart inside my mouth.

Spinning around, my eyes soon meet with someone I had yet to meet. Lala. To be honest, she actually looks rather normal. At least, once you get past the leather outfit, pale hair, amber eyes, blue skins, and the scythe in her hand.

"Um, I guessing you're Lala, then?" I asked catching my breath. "I was wondering if I'd see you."

"My presence here is absolute, despite my rare appearances." Lala admitted. "This is your first time seeing a Dullhan, is it not?"

Dullhan? If that's what kind of monster she is, then yes. It is.

"Yes. It's just..." I tried to find the words that wouldn't offend her. "You don't really look like a monster girl. I mean, the skin and outfit do-"

Without saying a word, Lala place both of her hands on the side of her head... then lifted it up! Before resting it beside her, still maintaining a dull, but unnerving look. Well, there's the proof I need for a monster girl.

"By my skin and blood, I am a Dullhan!" Lala declared, making sure she had proven her point. "Weaver of the shadow itself, Gatekeeper of the undead, Grim-"

"Okay, I get it. You're a Dullhan." I cut Lala from going on, earning cold glare from her.

"You may dance around death as a daily routine, but I bring death." Lala warned pointing her scythe at me. "So listen to my warning, monster hunter. Do not joke in the face of death, should you wish to embrace it yourself."

"Hold on, how do you know I'm a monster hunter?" I asked, seriously. Did she see what I did last night? "You only just met me."

"One such as myself can see the scars of death written all over you." Lala hinted. "Physically, and mentally."

Turning around, I wiped what sweat was on me from Lala's warning before turning back to face her. But where once she stood, Lala was now gone. Like she was never there.

"Where did she go?" I wondered, looking all around me.

"Papi don't know. Lala just, shows up and then... disappears." Papi admitted, seemingly just as confused.

Maybe Dullhans are relatives of ghost, or at least something along those lines. But scared by death physically and mentally, how could she tell that? Unless...

NO.

It's nothing! I am NOT going back down that road.

"Taiden-sama? Aren't you going to see why you're needed?" Suu asked, bringing me back to reality.

"Yeah." I grunted shaking my head. "Sorry, I was just... thinking of something."

"It's okay." Papi chirped happily flying up into the sky.

And with Papi leading the way into the house, both me and Suu followed beneath her wings. Kind of hoping Lala would not making another surprise appearance.