Tranquil Temple(v2)

The Tranquil Temple, a secret village where people of faith reside in peace. The temple, once the center of village life, has been half-destroyed by Aragami, and the interior is filled with snow. The sound of the freezing wind blowing across the lands might very well be the tragic cries of those who lost their lives to the Aragami… The dull light of the moon assuages the grief of those wandering souls.

In the outer edge of the area, a large aragami seems to be heading to the village. This aragami has a tiger-like appearance that has a jet black body with a human face with a cruel expression.

The aragami really stand out due to its menacing aura it gave off making all nearby aragami to back away but some of them, especially monkeys and bird-like aragamis are either brave or stupid as they showed hostility to the black aragami.

"Move"

The black aragami surprisingly spoke but the aragami unfortunately didn't understand this as they even roar in response.

"Idiots"

The black aragami just snorted as he shot red lightning ball towards them. Ignoring the horrible screams of the aragami he continued to walk towards the village.

"Blacky..."

The aragami, Blacky heard a voice coming from his back and he stop his track. He released a helpless sigh as he turned around and walk towards the dead aragamis.

Normally Blacky wouldn't pay attention to these aragami since the monkey taste horrible and the bird is too thin and has a small core. But Blacky can't ignore the voice so he eats the aragami but spit back the core surprisingly. These cores are the most delicious food for aragami but Blacky spit them back out which is unusual for him.

And on his back, a hand was raised and transformed into several black appendages. They grabbed the cores that is extracted by Blacky and returning them to Blacky's back where another hand holding a bag is seen and they store the cores they grabbed in there.

Blacky managed to extract all the cores with the help of the black appendages since they started to dissappear.

"Let's go now Blacky"

Hearing the man's voice, Blacky proceeds to go inside the village until the man on his back said to stop. The man who was wearing a robe jump off his back and started to look around the place.

"Ian"

"..."

"Are you still angry about the book?"

"...I dont know what you are talking about"

"You're still angry"

Ian just ignored what he said as he left Blacky's side and explores the quiet village. The cold wind blew past him revealing his white skin and white hair.

"It's a peaceful yet lonely atmosphere..."

He said calmly as he look at the old buildings covered in snow. Blacky who was silently following him sighed as he recalled the matter about two days on the Sunken Grid.

Blacky tried to read the book that Ian has left since he got nothing to do and curious too but unfortunately what he didn't realize is that due to his massive body and the book being too small, Blacky easily ripped the book apart when he tried to flip the page and at the same time Ian returned naked and saw the ripped book in front of Blacky

Ian lost his cool since books are so rare to find and fight Blacky. He retaliate in return but he was soon sliced into minced meat by Ian's relentless attack over and over again. Fortunately, Ian didn't destroy his core if it was, then Ian can't revive him back no matter how miraculous his ability can be.

Then the rest of that day Ian pouted and flat out ignored Blacky as he sits in the corner crying as he hold the torn book in his hand.

And the following two days, Blacky let Ian ride his back and he just sprinted throughout the journey and only eaten food twice before reaching their destination, the Tranquil Temple.

Just thinking of food Balcky's stomach growled loudly that it echoed throughout the desolate village.

Ian look at him and Blacky look back. The silence continues between the two but it was broken by Ian sighing.

"Just go and hunt aragamis around here. It'll help me a lot if no one disrupted me when I experiment"

Blacky no longer can hold off his hunger as he sprinted through the village to find a prey.

"But don't forget to bring some aragami cores when you return! I'll need it for my experiment!"

Ian saw Blacky stopped briefly before jumping on top of a house and jumping off to the other side.