"H... He is calling us humans," Lulu spoke, her lips twisting in amused exasperation, as her sisters giggled in cheerful response around her, the sound light and playful in the quiet room.

"Eh?! Ah, no, I did not mean to say it that way at all — that came out completely wrong!" Benjamin tried to explain himself needlessly, his words tumbling out in a rushed and flustered stream as he waved his hands in front of him defensively. "I’m not being arrogant and saying that you are all below me, or anything like that!"

"Haha! We know what you meant, Benjamin! We were just teasing you!" Martha poked his cheek with one finger as she laughed brightly, her eyes sparkling with mischief and affection. "By the way, getting back to your original question about the monster — the creature I was talking about is called a Grootslang."

"Hm... Can you tell me how it looks like?" Benjamin asked Martha, keeping his gaze fixed on her as he spoke, his eyes gazing deeply into her green eyes as he waited for her response.

"Uh... Ah, this is a tricky one to explain properly, because it is not a simple creature with a normal shape," she shook her head comically back and forth, her hair swaying with the motion, as if she were trying to physically shake the memory loose from somewhere inside her skull. "Uh, let me think... it is something like a mix between a giant serpent and a creature with large tusks... an elephant, perhaps?"

Benjamin nodded slowly, placing one hand on his chin in a thoughtful gesture as he continued gazing deeper into Martha’s eyes, his own eyes unfocusing slightly as he accessed something beyond normal sight.

"Ah... Yes, you are absolutely right, I can see it now. It looks very creepy, I have to agree. A mix of a massive snake body and a type of elephant’s head attached to the front, complete with large tusks curving upward from its mouth and small but intelligent eyes set into that strange, misshapen skull."

"Eh?!" Martha recoiled backward in genuine shock, her body jerking away from him as her eyes widened. "H-How did you know that?"

"Hm? I simply looked it up inside your head, while you were thinking about it," Benjamin dropped casually, as if reading another person’s thoughts and memories were the most natural and ordinary thing in the entire world. "I knew that you would think about its appearance while trying to describe it, so I just waited for the image to appear in your mind. More importantly, is the Grootslang still alive out there? Did you and the others manage to kill it?"

"MORE importantly, how come you can just enter my head? A-And without asking for permission first?!" Martha pinched his cheeks firmly with both of her hands and began pulling them outward in opposite directions, stretching his face as she scolded him. "That is a complete invasion of my privacy, Benjamin! You can’t just go rummaging around inside someone else’s thoughts without asking them nicely first. Okay?!"

By the way, the Grootslang was approximately one hundred meters in total length from the tip of its trunk to the end of its tail.

It is a massive and terrifying black serpent with scales that seemed to absorb light.

But it also had a horrifying tusked head attached to the front of that enormous serpentine body, complete with a very long and muscular trunk resembling that of an elephant, capable of grasping and crushing, or tearing with terrifying strength and precision.

"It is not dead yet," Heka answered Benjamin’s earlier question directly, her voice calm and measured despite the strange turn the conversation had taken. "We fought it for a while in the territory it has claimed as its own. But we soon realized, after a few exchanges, that it was awfully territorial and highly aggressive about defending its chosen home. So we simply let it be and withdrew from its domain rather than continuing the fight."

"You are not concerned that it will cause some kind of mischief later?" Benjamin asked, his tone genuinely curious as he spoke.

And subsequently, he demonstrated his complete lack of concern about the previous invasion-of-privacy complaint by now squeezing the startled Martha’s soft and ample breasts firmly with one hand in deliberate revenge for her cheek-pulling assault.

He continued; "If it is truly as territorial as you say, that kind of aggressive behavior could mean it will hurt anyone who passes through that region, right? It’s quite big too."

"We set up a magical barrier and a monitoring system around the entire range of its territory," Lulu added to the explanation, her eyes fixed dead and unblinking on Benjamin’s groping hand as it continued to squeeze and fondle Martha’s chest without any sign of stopping or slowing down.

She continued; "So if it ever moves suspiciously, if it leaves its domain or shows signs of aggression, we will also move quickly to intercept it and deal with the situation before it becomes a real crisis."

"But we do not genuinely think it will ever come to that, honestly," Heka continued, her cheeks flushing.

Because Lulu pouted her lips in jealousy, then reached out to grab Benjamin’s free hand, bringing it over to her own small chest so that he could grope her breast as well, clearly unwilling to be left out of the attention.

"The creature shockingly turned out to be a rare type of monster," Heka continued, "that could understand spoken words when we spoke to it directly. Honestly, this was very strange and unusual, because for a monster to understand human speech in that way, it would either need to learn the Amazon language through long exposure and study.

"Which seems unlikely for a hibernating beast. Or it would need to possess some kind of magical ability or natural trait that helps it understand meaning directly, bypassing the need for language learning altogether. Both theories would strongly imply that it was not an ordinary monster by any measure, but something older and stranger, and clearly more intelligent than the typical beasts we encounter in the Wilds."

"Ah, what you are describing sounds more like a magical beast than a monster." Benjamin asked.

All the while, he continued squeezing the large and heavy breasts of Martha with his left hand, and the small and petite breasts of Lulu through the fabric of their clothes with his right hand.

His attention seemingly divided between the serious conversation and the playful physical contact.

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