Plus Raises Minus

lll: The Long Journey Officially Begins

"Talk"
'Thought'
「Kumagawa Speech Patterns」
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"「I'm glad Medaka-Chan isn't here, I've been craving meat, and I don't want our food to run away in fear or be covered by her salty tears」"
A grumpy Kumagawa was clearly having a bad morning, even though he still had his smile, it was small and his eyes clearly showed he wasn't in a good mood today

"No need to say that about your Mother, she's clearly pure hearted and kind, I'm grateful to meet someone who would care for all forms of life."
The person that Child Misogi was talking to, while also holding and staying onto their back, was none other than Samurai Jack, and he was trying to defend the kid's, 'Mother', while trying to catch a wild pig to eat, which was carefully walking towards the trap he had set up

"「She is not my Mother, so I will speak negatively about her all I want...」"
Kumagawa narrows his eyes at the Samurai, who could only sigh and shakes his head

'It must be a rebellious phase, I remember experiencing my own moments of defiance with my parents.'
Jack couldn't help but feel bad for the 'Mother' and what she to deal with, though before he could continue to speak with the Loser Kid, the two were suddenly interrupted by feeling and hearing the ground shaking, which made wild pig squeal in fear and run away in fear

"「NO! MY BACON!!!」"
Kumagawa whines and was now extremely upset, the White Warrior was about to calm him and make sure he doesn't throw a tantrum, but once again, was interrupted before he could, this time it was because of a large furry beast running past them, which only shook the ground harder with it's rampaging speed, enough so to make the two trip over from the rough shaking, not only that, but the beast also managed to get one of their foot stuck on the vine rope, which did not slow the beast down, but instead, it started to pull both the Swordsman and Young Minus with them, cause the vine accidentally got tangled on adult man

"Hold Onto Me Young One!"

"「As If I Had A Choice!」"
Kumagawa tighten his grip onto Jack's back, so that the Little Kafka wouldn't fall off, all the while the Samurai used the vine, that was still tied onto the beast foot, to climb upward and onto the large animal, soon the two were on the back of the big creature and no longer being dragged harshly on the ground

"Are you ok, are you hurt?"
After Jack took a moment to catch his breath, he immediately checked on Child Misogi health and made sure he wasn't hurt, who seemed to be distracted with something else

"「Hmph, not yet」"
The unamused Kumagawa quickly point up ahead, to which made the White Warrior follow the finger and looked at the direction he was pointing at, and what he saw made him go wide eyes, because he saw that they were heading towards the edge of a cliff, he reacted accordingly once he saw that they were all heading towards their doom, grabbing the vine again and started to tie it into some kind of lasso, after that he wasted no time wrapping it around in front the beast's legs and gave it a hard pull, which made the large animal fall forward and slides on the ground, the Swordsman pulls on the vine harder, desperately trying to stop them from sliding towards the edge of the cliff

"「Guess we don't need to worry about starving to death I guess, hm」"
Kumagawa simple rest his chin on the head of the concerned Samurai as he watched them get closer to the edge, though before they could completely fall off the cliff, or hopefully the White Warrior could think of a solution at the last minute, a certain blue hair beauty suddenly dropped down in front of them, completely out of nowhere, and grabbed onto the big snow color creature, resulting in stopping them on their tracks in a instant and saved them from certain death, much to the relief of the Swordsman, and slight disappointment of Kid Loser

"Aww, what an adorable animal~..."
Unfortunately Medaka didn't understand what was going on, as she was to focused on hugging, petting and nuzzling the white beast, who struggled and then passed out in extreme fear after seeing and being touched by the Motherly Kurokami, she didn't notice the beast has lost conscious and just continue to show off affection towards it