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Skeleton Knight, in Another World (Web Novel) - Volume 8, 「Bonus Chapter - Ponta’s trial」
Volume 8, 「Bonus Chapter: Ponta’s trial」
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Translator: Silver Editor: Namorax
The Dragon King’s Tree, sitting at the top of a small mountain.
The branches on this massive tree formed a canopy so large that only a few beams of sunlight managed to reach the mountain it occupied.
When the wind blew, the swaying of the tree’s branches caused the patches of sunlight to shift in a glittering pattern.
The sound of people working managed to reach even this slightly remote area.
Currently, craftsmen from the People of the Plains and Mountains were working on the Blade Heart Clan’s former compound.
Unlike the stone walls, the wooden roof had been damaged beyond repair after years of exposure to the elements, and the craftsmen were working on making a new one.
Once the roof was attached, the renovations could begin in earnest.
While imagining what it’d look like in the future, my gaze trailed downwards.
The weeds surrounding the compound had been neatly trimmed, and the lawn had been expanded by a large margin.
In the center of the meadow, there was a small grass-colored lump restlessly shifting about the place without worry.
“Ponta, I found some delicious chestnuts and fruits〜.”
When Ariane’s familiar voice reached the green lump, two disproportionately large triangular ears and a fox’s face sprung up.
This was the spirit beast called Ponta.
“Kyun☆”
Reacting to Ariane’s call, Ponta lifted herself up and slowly made her way toward the origin of the call.
Usually, her fluffy white-tipped tail would sway behind her, but something seemed different this time.
Since I was always with Ponta, I didn’t notice this change until now.
Simply put, she had become more rotund.
It was like watching a medicine ball bouncing through the meadow.
The fluffy fox had become nothing but fluff.
I quickly overtook the ball-like Ponta and voiced my concerns to Ariane in a gentle tone.
“Ariane-dono, can I borrow those nuts and fruits for a moment?”
I held up my hand and asked her to hand over the chestnuts and red fruit she’d been using for a while now.
However, Ariane held them behind her back and gave me a suspicious glare when I asked her for the food.
“Hold on, Arc. These are for Ponta, I won’t hand them over.”
She knew I wanted to take Ponta’s snacks away from her and adamantly refused to hand them over, but my hand remained outstretched.
In the middle of our exchange, Ponta started rubbing up against my leg and looked up at me with a strange face.
“You see, Ariane-dono. Would you mind giving Ponta her snack without kneeling down to make it easy for her?”
She seemed caught off guard and incapable of grasping my intentions when I changed the nature of my request.
Ariane must have been overlooking Ponta’s changes till now.
However, after rolling one of the nuts around in the palm of her hand for a moment, she held it out for Ponta to jump at.
“Ponta, do you want this delicious treat?”
Ponta’s nose began to twitch as she caught the scent of the fruit Ariane held out for her.
“Kyun!”
Ponta moved to Ariane legs and was left wondering if she was gonna receive the treats or not, after a while, she looked up at us again before she finally tried used her spirit magic to fly up like usual.
While her spirit magic produced a rising air current around her body, the flow was only capable of lifting her a feet centimeters of the ground, nowhere near the height of Ariane’s hand.
Ariane’s golden eyes popped when she finally noticed Ponta more rounded form watching the fox’s struggles.
“Thanks to your excessive feeding, Ariane-dono, Ponta has become so fat that she can’t even fly with her own magic. Something has to be done immediately.”
Ariane raised an eyebrow as I said that.
“Hold on! Didn’t you buy an entire sack of beans for Ponta we went to Landfria, Arc!? Don’t tell me you forgot about that!?”
I turned my gaze skyward to avoid her accusatory look.
“Did I? My memory isn’t that good, so I can’t seem to recall anything like that……”
When I commented on my faulty memory, my helmet suddenly spinned before returning to its original position. Quite the unforgiving tsukkomi.
It was at that point in our exchange that Chiome appeared.
“Ponta, so here you are. What happened between you two?”
She was a bit confused as her eyes wandered back and forth between us, but Ariane called out to her when she saw Chiome was carrying something red.
“Ah! Chiome-chan, what are you holding!?”
Chiome tail swayed a bit, and her cheeks pinked a bit when as she held up the red fruit in her hands in response to Ariane’s question.
“I found them on my way here and thought I’d pick some for Ponta.”
“Kyun! Kyun!”
Ponta tail began to wag when she heard that.
Chiome’s slightly narrowed her eyes when she got a good look at Ponta.
It looked like she noticed the seriousness of this problem like I had.
Up until now, everyone had been separately giving Ponta snacks.
The result was Ponta’s current inability to fly.
It was very likely that she wouldn’t be able to float anymore if things continued as they were now.
There was only one thing to do.
“Sorry, Chiome-dono. For the time being, you’re forbidden to give her any food without my knowledge. If Ponta gets any fatter, she won’t even be able to float anymore, let alone fly. For Ponta’s sake, we’ll do the same. We must harden our hearts.”
“Kyun!?”
When I asked for her cooperation, Chiome looked at Ponta’s rounded face before giving me a serious look and nod.
“That may be true… I’ve been careless and gave her too much food.”
“Chiome-chan isn’t the only one to blame……”
When Chiome’s tail began to hang down limply, Ariane shrugged and accepted some of the guilt.
Ponta seemed to be uneasy as she read the atmosphere and bobbed her head back and forth between us.
I interrupted Ponta’s glances when I picked up her slightly heavier body.
“Well, let’s get some exercise in to help with your weight loss.”
“Kyun!?”
When I said that with a chuckle, Ponta twisted her whole body and looked to Ariane and Chiome for help.
However, that hope was immediately crushed.
“Rest assured, I’ll compile a exercise regimen based on my extensive training to help Ponta regain her original graceful body.”
“Kyun!?”
At Chiome’s offer to provide additional training, Ponta struggled to escape my grasp, but her plump body made it easy to hold on to her.
When she realized there was no escape, she craned her neck, flattened her tail, and let out a sad cry.
“Ky〜〜uh…”
Well, even without imposing severe exercises, running around the forest and strict dietary restrictions would be enough for her to return to her normal weight, but since everyone was set on helping Ponta, I kept that fact to myself.
