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If you walk along, it goes thump thump.

I stepped outside, walking thump thump with the mini reapers in the humid, sweltering jungle that felt like it could be touched.

Without being seriously affected by the heat like a human would, and perhaps because I didn’t even need to breathe, the jungle had its own fun to wander around in.

If I were human, I would have probably felt too hot and humid like in a sauna to want to move.

This jungle created by the green moon had a lot of amazing things.

Starting with giant ferns to twinkling star-shaped fruits.

Besides, all the animals living here were dinosaurs!

Except for the ugly Tyranno, it was truly an impressive jungle.

However, as could be seen from the appearance of the Tyranno, it seemed that the dinosaurs in this jungle were not recreating the actual dinosaurs that once existed.

It must have been created from a blend of people’s imagination and expectations.

It was only natural.

A Tyranno with feathers, lips, and belly fat couldn’t possibly be real!

If that Tyranno were real, it’s clear that the K-Pg mass extinction happened because the Tyranno was too ugly.

It’s divine punishment, divine punishment.

‘Is the Tyranno not showing up again?’

I was currently wandering the jungle, searching for the Tyranno.

I hoped my favorite Tyranno would appear, but if not, I had come up with a useful method.

The method was inspired by how the golden reapers were bullying small dinosaurs to make dinosaur hats.

If a feather-lipped, belly-fat Tyranno appeared this time, I’d have to turn it into a proper Tyranno.

Just pluck out all the feathers, cut off the lips, and remove the belly fat, and it would be done!

Hehe.

But no matter how much I wandered, there were no signs of a Tyranno appearing, so I decided to sit down under a tree filled with star-shaped fruits.

I had been curious about the taste of these star-shaped fruits for a while.

With a spatial cut, I sliced the star-shaped fruit in half!

Then I cut the fruit into small pieces and popped them into the mouth of the black reaper sitting next to me.

The black reaper seemed incredibly moved that I was sharing food, munching on the fruit with an expression of delight.

But the grin on the black reaper’s face quickly began to shrink.

It was a cute reaction unique to the black reaper that could morph its body this way and that.

‘!!!’

Perhaps because the fruit was very sour, the black reaper squinted its eyes and stuck out its tongue.

Hehe, so cute.

I gently tugged on the black reaper’s tongue sticking out of its mouth.

By the way, a sparkling beautiful fruit, but it seems to lack flavor.

I placed the tasteless fruit that failed the black reaper test on the ground.

The black reaper then made a face as if saying ‘I was tricked!’ and lunged at me, biting me with a playful ‘ank!’

‘?’

‘Mom?’

As I wrestled with the black reaper, the golden reapers rolling around in the open lot began to approach with question marks floating above their heads.

It seemed they thought I was playing with the black reaper.

I isolated the black reaper who was biting me with a spatial cut and transferred my intentions to the golden reapers.

‘The black reaper is mad that I’m eating delicious fruits all alone.’

While doing so, I distributed the star-shaped fruits to all the golden reapers in the open lot.

Hehe.

Thus, I was able to imprint the scene on my mind of the golden reapers collectively sticking out their tongues and grimacing.

Of course, afterward, the angry mini reapers bit me like leech sharks and clung to me for a while, but it was a satisfying prank.

*

Strange, twisted monsters began walking out of the deep woods.

“Welcome. It’s been a while.”

“Welcome. It’s been a while.”

“Welcome. It’s been a while.”

Unlike the dinosaurs I had seen until now, these monsters looked like they didn’t resemble proper living creatures.

Dried blood stuck to the control room’s white outer wall.

A faint scent of blood wafted through the air.

Yet, the voices of my companions sounded eerily identical and calm, sending shivers down the woman’s spine.

Mingming’s attitude toward those monsters was also different.

Unlike other dinosaurs, mingmings had a strong tendency to avoid fights, but strangely, they didn’t hide their hostility toward those monsters.

The woman hid her body behind the now-large, fluffy back of the mingming, not daring to take her eyes off the grotesque dinosaurs.

Suddenly, the monsters closed their mouths and began spinning their heads round and round.

In one direction, continuously.

Until the ‘human head’ stuck to the monster’s body could no longer withstand the spinning and fell to the ground.

“What is this?”

“What is it?”

“Is it this?”

From the human head that fell on the ground, strange-sounding words flowed out continuously.

The monsters slowly began to move toward Mingming and the woman.

As they watched that frightening sight, the woman gripped the green grass of Mingming tightly.

At that moment, the monsters began to charge at Mingming.

“Miiing!”

As Mingming let out a loud shout while radiating golden light from its eyes, sprouts began to spring up from the ground and started to wrap around the monsters.

‘!’

The woman, who had expected Mingming to be just a slightly odd-looking creature with nothing special, was taken aback.

What Mingming displayed just now was truly an object ability.

‘So it’s an object….’

The woman felt a little down, realizing she could no longer call Mingming by that name.

However, the ropes made of sprouts were not able to properly capture the monsters, breaking every time they moved.

What followed was a melee battle between a raptor-like monster and Mingming.

The raptor’s hooked claws tore into Mingming’s skin, while Mingming’s gigantic hands crushed the raptor.

The fight that seemed like it would continue until one side died reached a standoff as the raptors began to retreat.

Mingming’s skin was deeply gouged as if the sharp hooked claws had taken bites out of it.

From those wounds flowed blood, enough to form puddles as it would have immediately killed an ordinary animal.

Moreover, its size, which was once as large as an elephant, had now shrunk a bit.

“Miiing. Miiing.”

“What should we do…”

The woman tried to stop the bleeding on Mingming’s wounds, but pressing down with her clothing was not enough to stem the flow.

On the other hand, the raptors, with their regeneration abilities, had not a single scratch.

When bones broke, the bones branched out like wood.

When skin tore, nearby body parts stuck together.

When some parts of the body disappeared, bubbles began to swell endlessly in their place.

They were becoming increasingly grotesque with each regeneration, but regeneration was still regeneration.

“Miiing.”

As Mingming looked up at the sky with tear-filled eyes, darkness began to descend upon the jungle.

The grotesque monsters also looked up at the sky.

Just moments ago it had been day, but now it had turned to night.

And in that sky, a particularly large green moon was rising.

*

I was riding a giant Tyranno clad in black armor, roaming the jungle.

After wandering here and there, I found the ‘real’ Tyrannosaurus rex.

Not the ‘fake’ with feathers or lips, but real!

Although I thought of turning the fake into a real one even if I met one, encountering the genuine article was definitely preferable.

Since I wasn’t very skilled, the chance of messing up during the Tyranno’s cosmetic surgery was quite high.

Of course, training it was incredibly hard.

This Tyranno, being a reptile, kept trying to bite me and wouldn’t listen to commands at all.

It was so ferocious that even when I stabbed it with the black reaper’s great sword, it quickly showed its aggression.

But I managed to solve that problem with my brilliant intellect.

I named it the black reaper armor!

Just as an exoskeleton supports movement, I used the black reaper armor to support my entire body!

No matter how strong a dinosaur might be, it could never compare to a black reaper.

Basically, it was the black reapers that were moving the Tyranno now.

Hehe.

As I roamed around on the Tyranno, I heard an urgent voice from a golden reaper.

‘Mom!’

Turning my gaze, I saw mini reapers that had followed me hanging on to the golden reaper, looking limp.

‘?’

What on earth was going on?

I modified the Tyranno armor a bit to make it look like a bed and laid the mini reapers down.

When I checked on the fallen mini reapers, all of them appeared to be very sleepy.

Could it be that something went wrong after coming to space?

Aside from the lively golden reapers and the slightly tired but still mobile black reapers, all the mini reapers had lost consciousness.

‘Mom….’

‘My siblings are sick….’

The golden reapers were looking after the mini reapers with worried expressions.

I also felt the gravity of the situation and tried to open the mini reaper garden, but it wouldn’t open.

Perhaps because we were in space, I was in a drastically weakened state, and it seemed it was also because of the area of the green moon.

I had to either break the green moon or escape from space.

One of those two problems needed to be resolved.

Could the mini reapers break through the atmosphere?

If the golden reaper was sick, I could just hurl it to Earth, but it was a tricky situation.

Just then, the green moon began to rise in the sky.

‘I found it!’

*

The monsters looked up at the sky.

From the sky, the gaze of the creator of everything in this jungle, the green moon, was felt.

The moon that had fled into space.

The moon that held the most power.

But a moon that had lost its self.

Due to battles with long-abandoned former companions, the lost self of the green moon was being reborn.

And from that gaze, it could feel it had chosen them, not the old companions.

The twisted flesh of the monsters chosen by the green moon began to tear and burst.

What emerged was the most alien being in this jungle.

A head that soared as if to touch the sky.

Countless limbs made of the bones of various creatures coming out from the old torn flesh.

‘Now we…’

And an endless stream of power was flowing in.

[It is the green moon.]