Mengya and Stinky Fish had no way of knowing Chis's panicked, bird‑startling train of thought, much less imagining that it was a batch of newly born Little Slimes that, by sheer accident, frightened off that terrifying swarm of bugs.
Only after they had, with extreme caution, repeatedly scouted around and confirmed that those terrifying bugs had truly left completely, did they dare, trembling, to feel their way back to the harbor.
They didn't want to return to this place where a nightmare had just played out, but they had no choice.
If they didn't come back to gather some supplies, they probably wouldn't even make it to High Castle Fortress.
However, the scene before their eyes was still far more brutal than they had imagined.
The flames they had seen from afar earlier had mostly gone out.
It wasn't that anyone had put them out; it was simply that almost everything that could burn had already been burned to ash.
