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I had discovered something while dividing myself. If I do it too much at the same time, I risk damaging my own soul. You see, to divide me, I take a chunk of my phantom and a tiny bit of my soul with each little snake clone. This doesn’t seem like a big problem because I got a bunch of soul and phantom to spare, but if I continuously do this, I might risk weakening myself by taking too much soul… Phantom doesn’t matter, but Soul does, so I have to keep it balanced.
If I make too many clones, I need to heal for the moment using Undead Healing and rest a bit to calm down the soul and mental exhaustion.
Anyways, I just need to be careful, and that’s it.
I had given the kids a clone each, so the clone could be used to keep them safe, while they also named it as if it were a tamed ghost snake monster… I don’t know if they will grow by themselves, but they do feel like me and share the same mind and consciousness with me, so… it feels as if I were living multiple identities. They don’t know I am Grape and Medusa after all!
Heh…
Suddenly, the two snakes smiled a bit rather maliciously. This was my smile, actually, which got shared with them…
Oops.
The kids didn’t notice it, though, and thought the snakes were just being cute or something. This made it possible for me to keep my farse, hehe.
Maybe I should gift a pet snake ghost to everyone so I can keep an eye on everyone’s daily lives as a total creep.
But that would be not good, so I better not do that… I called back my snakes and fused them into my body except for Grape and Medusa, which are my new two identities as “tamed” pets.
After the kids played with the snakes, they got hungry again. I had forgotten to feed them.
My bad, my bad, I actually just don’t have a stomach, so I don’t feel any hunger, but I am just gluttonous and like to eat because it’s tasty and fun.
“Now, let’s go eat something because you two are starving. Let’s stop the caravan for now and have a break! The people we are carrying also need to be fed,” I said.
“Alright!” Shouted Laura.
“Sure!” Said Takeshi.
“You three are sleeping way too much. Wake up already!” I said as I woke up Lucifer, Emeraldine, and Partner.
All three of them were very tired and woke up sleepy, even Lucifer and Partner, who are supposedly tireless Undead. I guess when you get tired mentally, you really just want to take a nap for a few hours.
“Uwah! W-What happened? Huh? Did I oversleep?” Asked Emeraldine.
“You sure did! Now let’s go prepare something to eat,” I said.
“Eat! Food!” Shouted Partner.
“I want to sleep some more… that wasn’t near as enough!” Exclaimed Lucifer.
“You’re sleeping later. Now come eat with us, grandpa,” I said.
“I am not a grandfather!” Shouted Lucifer.
“You’re being a bit too much now. Let’s just go eat. Don’t be like that~” I said, waving my hand and walking away with the twins and the girls.
Lucifer followed us from behind while mumbling words angrily. He had woken up grumpy like always.
We made the Undead Horses stop moving, which we had gotten from the dead horses I had accidentally killed, which belonged to the first wave of soldiers that attacked me back inside the duchy. I had picked up their corpses and made them into Zombie Horses, which are tireless and don’t need food too. Perfect.
However, we still feed them some fruits and let them eat grass, which they could somehow. After that, we gathered the people around us and began to cook something.
We still had a few dozen sandwiches, cakes, pastries, bread, and more that we got from the cafeteria, alongside all the food and provisions I had stolen from the rich guy houses, which I had gathered inside my cheat Inventory.
I began to distribute the food around to the people so they could eat something quickly. Then we began cooking something more filling: boar meat and bone soup, which was rich and had a lot of flavors. It had potatoes, onions, and carrots, alongside some salt and spices.
The people enjoyed the sandwiches and other food, and then we distributed the soup, which was the main dish and would fill their bellies the most.
It was nice that the trio had to hunt down beasts at night, so we had a lot of boar, bear, and other beasts’ meat to cook and make a lot of soup. The big chunks of meat were very generous, and everyone got their fill with them too.
Due to my own irresponsibility, I had only given the people some bread and water last night, and I went to sleep like nothing, completely forgetting I should have given them some more food.
So this morning, I apologized to everyone deeply, but everyone stopped me and said it wasn’t necessary.
“Please don’t worry, you’ve done so much for us already….”
“That’s right. The food is already good, and we already got our bellies filled!”
“Yes, it was very tasty… Can I have seconds?!”
“Sure! There’s more soup where that came from… I’ll make sure to give you extra meat and potatoes to fill up that belly,” I said.
“T-Thank you!”
The people all asked for seconds, and we ended cooking all the meat they had hunted overnight. After all, there were over 40 people, that’s not easy to satisfy.
The soup was also tasty for me too! I ate various bowls myself. The boar and bear meat was surprisingly tasty, and the potatoes, onions, and carrots boiled with them really filled up my belly. Well, I don’t need to fill my belly…
After everything was over and everyone got their bellies filled, we packed things up and continued our journey across the road. I sat down at the entrance of the leading caravan, and as I glanced at the grassland in front of me, the calming breeze soothed my heart, and I just closed my eyes and relaxed.
It’s a nice day today.
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