"Brother Zeff, I've decided, I will work harder and not slack off from now on, and I will surpass you!"
Zefflar looked at Nira full of fighting spirit and secretly nodded, it seems the little twerp isn't that bad after all. Nira finally took the initiative to properly cultivate.
But, the little twerps next words, however, let him know that he was praising her way to early.
Nira said: "So brother Zeff, you have to work harder, so you can in one year, no, six months reach over 2000 Battle Power, in that way we can leave faster."
"You look down on this Father Ah. In one year, this Father will far surpass 2000 Battle Power."
Zefflar slightly irritated used his knuckles to rub Nira's little head.
"Ugh, Hey don't touch and rub my hair peh!" Nira said as she spat at Zefflar, venting her frustrations and displeasure.
Zefflar stopped messing with Nira and said: "Well let's first set aside some task. For the remainder of our time here we will train and hunt some of the primitive life forms in the vicinity of the area. Which will not only solve the problem of combat experience but also eating and living for the next year."
"Yes ah. Now that you say that I'm hungry brother Zeff."
At the mention of food, Nira's eyes were shining, and all the rest of the things like training was directly ignored by her.
Zefflar bitterly shook his head, such a detestable brat he thought.
Finding a place down the mountain they hunted a saber tooth animal, a rabbit, and a giant snake. On the trip back they gathered their space capsules and put them into a nearby cave Zeff created so they can bath, and sleep comfortably on rainy nights.
"Nira, both you and I are going to train today, so go shower and meet me here in an hour, I'll have dinner ready by then."
"Oh!"
Hearing food, Nira hurriedly agreed.
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"A Blood Phoenix Chicken, we can eat full today!" Nira shouted excitedly
"Cawww ~"
The Blood Phoenix Chicken saw the two people in the air looking down on it as if it were prey. Enraged it rushed at them uttering a loud screech. As a descendant of the noble Phoenix and the lord of this area, it was proud.
The angered Phoenix Chicken raised it's head proudly as it soared towards them with the intent to kill. It's ten meters tall body, blood red crown, golden, and scarlet red feathers as sharp as treasured daggers shined with a metallic luster.
"Courting Death!" Zefflar's eyes flickered with a cold gleam, in his hand a scarlet red light flashed and a needle-thin sized energy condensed.
"Let me, let me!" When Zefflar was ready to attack, Nira impatiently demanded and rushed ahead.
Seeing Nira so eager to fight Zefflar shook his head disapprovingly but still nodded towards her.
Dispersing the needle thread beam in his hand: " Then you can have it, but make it quick we don't have time to play."
"Okay!" Nira excitedly said
Looking at the Blood Phoenix Chicken, drool could be seen on the corner of little Nira's mouth. Standing in front of the colossal creature tens of times larger than her, Nira exposed at a greedy grin, not an ounce of fear can be detected from her, "HAHA, be obedient and die fast okay little birdie?"
Nira's young and cute voice revealed savagery, and cunningness which would give the average man goosebumps.
As she was speaking, numerous blue energy blast bombarded the chicken in the sky as it approached.
"BOOM ~"
Upon coming in contact with the chicken they issued a chain reaction of explosions, accompanied by the miserable screech of the bird. The explosions triggered a cloud of smoke, which covered their line of sight. As the thick smoke dispersed, hundreds of square meters of the area were destroyed beyond recognition.
The pitiful Blood Phoenix Chicken subjected to the main force of the attacks was lying prostrate on the ground riddled with wounds. Its entire body was oozing scarlet red blood, scorched and badly mutated it lay there twitching never to get back up again.
"I only told you to kill that Blood Chicken, why the hell did you make such a huge mess? You destroyed half our dinner fool!"
Zefflar fiercely grabbed Nira's ear and scolded her. His voice like a senior talking to his junior that failed to meet expectations, it was obvious he had a soft spot for the brat but put up a front. No concern or sympathy whatsoever was shown about the death of the chicken as well.
Nira rushed to struggle free unperturbed she said:
"Well, brother Zeff you better quickly go hunt more. We don't have much time or we are going to be off schedule."
"Hah, useless glutton!" Zefflar slapped her head causing a bump to form which made her glare at him with indignant, and watery eyes.
"Hiss..."
With a wave of his hand, several energy blades were released and the Blood Phoenix corpse was split into several chunks of pieces. Zefflar picked up the split chicken meat to inspect and picked out the best quality pieces of meat from the chunks.
Back at their temporary place of residence he thoroughly washed the meat inside the ocean, the salt should give it a nice taste along with some fruit juices it let them soak in. An hour later he started a fire and put them to barbecue on a grill he roughly made. Blood red meat slowly turned brown under the burning and roasting of the flames, while the fat juices dripped towards the fire spreading a rich meaty aroma.
Nira's little eyes intently stared at the meat, her little face was flushed from the aroma, her throat swallowing fiercely her saliva from time to time.
"It'll be ready soon brat." Zefflar indifferently stated not at all bothered by her puppy dog eyes.
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"Dinner is served!" Zefflar calmly said seemingly to himself,
Following Zefflar's voice, Nira's tiny little body can be seen scurrying over in a hurry, soon after she arrived at the side of her plate of food. Holding up a piece of barbecue which was much bigger compared to her body size, and madly gnawed down on it.
"Ooh, so delicious, so good, I haven't eaten such great food for a long time." Nira's repeatedly licked her tiny lips, and fingers while stuffing food in her mouth while groaning distinctly.
After the meal, Nira with a huge bulging stomach and a satisfied expression on her face curled up cutely in the sand.
Shaking his head slightly:
"What a troublesome brat!"
Walking forward Zefflar picked Nira up carefully, then dragged her along to the cave. Taking off her battle suit intending to give her a bath, however, the brat turned out to be a brat after all even if she is a Saiyan offspring. A simple bath took as long as an hour complete as Nira kept causing troubles.
After the sky gradually dimmed, Nira and Zefflar lay comfortably on top of bear, and tiger fur with lion manes for pillows.
The night silently passed.