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[biteoffherhead]

[Just another day, another time for Moro. Though usually quite content to keep her distance from humans (despite her growing fondness and affections towards the captives of Luceti, she was still incredibly hesitant to be trustful), today it seems she's lounging around just outside the village boundaries. She's even stretching and rolling around, participating in very casual behavior, not very typical of her usual demeanor.

Of course, these slightly embarrassing behaviors are only viewable from a distance, as she quickly regains her dignity and sulks into the cover of the trees when someone approaches too close.

The second half of the day is spent idly hunting. Because it's best to stock up on fatty reserves for the winter anyway. You might get that funny feeling of being followed...]

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[hiken_ace]

[Crap, did he do something wrong?]

A-ah, yes I am. Is ah.....that bad?

[biteoffherhead]

[We're going to carefully dance around the direct answer to that.]

That foolish boy seems intent on getting himself killed with his tomfoolery.

[hiken_ace]

[He chuckles.] He is pretty stupid sometimes, huh?

[biteoffherhead]

Undoubtedly.

[hiken_ace]

Ah, if he's done anything stupid that harmed you, put you in harm's way, or anything else, I apologize for him. [Bows.]

[biteoffherhead]

[Moro laughs, and it's not a very comforting sound. It's cold, and dark, and bitter, even when it's good-humored as this one.]

That boy could not dream of harming me!

[Sure, he tried to drag her around, sure, he gave her a good hard punch, but she is tougher than nails and more stubborn than an ox.]

[hiken_ace]

[That's....kind of an unsettling laugh. Oh, well. He'll go with it.]

Yeah? You must be unbelievably strong, then.

[biteoffherhead]

Of course. I am the guardian god of the forests. I will crush any who harm this forest in my jaws!

[hiken_ace]

Ah... [Good thing he didn't burn down the forest when he got here.]

Do I have permission to stay here, then?

[biteoffherhead]

As long as this forest is unharmed, I will find no reason to kill you.

[hiken_ace]

I can guarantee you that I wish to cause no harm to this forest.

[biteoffherhead]

It's expected of you to know this pact. Did Luffy not teach you?

[hiken_ace]

No, but I wouldn't try to harm any forest regardless of whether you guarded it.

[biteoffherhead]

Then having a penalty for doing so will hold no impact on you, then. Good.

[hiken_ace]

[He smiles.] You must be a very good guardian.

[biteoffherhead]

It is not my natural role. But without the Boar Tribe here, or in my own forest, I must stand and take the role.

[hiken_ace]

The Boar Tribe?

[biteoffherhead]

The Boar gods. Their role is to guard the forests against demons and all who would defile them.

In my world... the humans slaughtered them. All of them. With their guns and fires and explosions.

[hiken_ace]

[He goes quiet. Goddamn, why are some humans such bastards...]

My sincere condolences. Some humans are just.....the scum of the earth.

[biteoffherhead]

They'll suffer. It will be their undoing.

They plan to kill the Forest Spirit. He will take back the lives he had given before he dies. And everything will die.

[hiken_ace]

What the-- [Oh WHAT. No.] How sick can those bastards get?

[biteoffherhead]

[Careful, you're getting her all stirred up!]

They desire the iron in the soil. They believe that if they kill the forest, kill the very gods themselves, they will be without challenge.

They ignore all of what their hearts deeply know, to satiate this greed. This greed that humans are consumed by, so deeply! A greed that all humans will succumb to.

[hiken_ace]

.....[She's (?) absolutely right. Humans let greed get in the way.]

Even I would never do that. I grew up in a forest. Like hell I could ever kill it.

[biteoffherhead]

But you are at fault for doing nothing to stop it.

[hiken_ace]

No, but I'm sadly a member of that race.

And I should still apologize.