I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

Lilia, who was standing nearby, put the goldfish she had caught into the bucket that Bronya had projected onto her screen and said to Rosalia:

"Rosalia, you were saying you were going to catch a big fish less than three minutes ago, and you're already saying you're bored."

Rosalia seemed a little angry at Lilia's words and said:

"But that's how it is. It's been so long, and we haven't caught a single fish, even though everyone else has caught quite a few!"

Bronya, standing to the side, was also a bit speechless. To be honest, there were quite a lot of fish here. Lilia and she had caught quite a few, but Rosalia hadn't caught a single one.

Bronya looked at Rosalia and asked:

"Rosalia, did you forget to put bait in the water?"

Hearing Bronya's words, Rosalia looked a little angry and said:

"Of course I put bait in! How could I not put bait in? I would never make such a basic mistake, hmph ╯^╰!"

After hearing Rosalia's words, Bronya and Lilia exchanged a glance, then Bronya looked at Rosalia curiously and asked:

"So, Rosalia, what kind of bait did you use?"

"A frog?"

"?!"

Chapter 526 [The Unlucky Water Dragon]

Deep within the strange forest, Bronya, her lips twitching, looked at Rosalia with a somewhat incredulous expression and said:

"Rosalia, what did you just say you used...? What did you use to fish???"

Rosalia looked at Bronya with an OvO expression, then repeated what she had said earlier to Bronya:

"Frog! To be honest, this is the first time I've ever seen a red frog! And it's so big! One of these is sure to catch a big fish!"

Lilia, standing to the side, looked at her silly older sister with a (?_?) expression and said:

"You idiot Rosalia, who uses frogs to fish...?"

Bronya, standing to the side, covered her face and said:

"No, hunters in this world do use frogs as bait..."

Upon hearing Bronya's words, Rosalia immediately puffed out her unremarkable chest with a proud expression and said:

"See? Bronya said it's okay!"

Lilia looked at Bronya with a puzzled expression, as if asking if it was true. Bronya nodded to indicate that it was true, but... the thing that the frog used to catch was no ordinary "big fish".

Just then, the float on Rosalia's fishing rod suddenly sank, and the fishing rod in Rosalia's hand suddenly bent into an arc as if it were about to break. Rosalia, who was standing on the shore, was almost pulled in, but fortunately Bronya and Rosalia reacted in time and grabbed Rosalia's body to prevent her from being pulled into the water.

Rosalia, who was being held by Bronya and Lilia, didn't seem scared at all. Instead, she grabbed the fishing rod with an excited expression and said:

"Lilia! Bronya! I caught one! I caught a fish!"

The two people holding Rosalia by the side also had a smug look on their faces. They almost pulled Rosalia down, but they were still showing off. If they hadn't grabbed Rosalia, she probably would have been caught by the fish long ago.

"Lilia, I'll count to three, and then we'll pull that big fish up."

After hearing Bronya's words, they nodded to show they understood. Then, with a little effort, Bronya and Lilia pulled up the "big fish" hidden in the river.

To Rosalia and Lilia's astonishment, a giant water dragon, nearly 30 meters long, was pulled into the air by the three of them and then dropped onto the shore. Rosalia and Lilia were also dumbfounded when they saw that they had caught a fish with two legs.

After all, neither of them had ever seen a fish with two long legs.

"Wow! Lilia, look! What a big fish!"

"Yes, and it even has legs..."

Bronya was speechless as she looked at the water dragon, a type of monster that was hopping around on the ground. To be honest, Bronya hadn't expected that Rosalia would actually catch a water dragon, since water dragons aren't always found wherever there's water.

Moreover, this isn't a game; whether or not a water dragon will appear depends on whether the mission objective involves one.

But Rosalia's chances of catching a water dragon from the river were incredibly slim, like a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse.

Then Bronya looked at Rosalia and Lilia and said:

"Alright, be careful. Although this monster looks silly, you have to be careful not to get hit by the high-pressure water jets from its mouth, or it will be a bit dangerous."

Hearing Bronya's words, Rosalia and Lilia nodded in understanding. After all, after the near-disaster during their previous ambush of the Golden Rathalos, Rosalia and Lilia dared not underestimate the monsters of this world.

After the water dragon that Rosalia had fished up bounced a few times on the ground, it stood up. Once it was upright, Rosalia and Lilia looked up at the tall water dragon and said:

"Wow...it's so high..."

Rosalia and Lilia stared at the silly fish face looking up at them with a blank expression, while the water dragon didn't roar but instead opened its big mouth, which had sharp shark teeth, and bit Rosalia and Lilia.

However, Rosalia and Lilia reacted quickly, disappearing into the ground as if to dodge the water dragon's attack. When the water dragon looked up and realized that the two little girls under its mouth had vanished, it had a blank expression on its face, clearly not having reacted yet.

Just then, the sound of gunfire rang out not far from the Water Dragon. Before the Water Dragon could react, a barrage of mechanical dragon bullets hit its face directly. The Water Dragon, caught off guard, let out a scream and quickly retreated a few steps. The attack had just knocked some of the scales off the Water Dragon's head.

"Eat my sword!"

Before the Water Dragon could even recover from the "stun" caused by Bronya's mechanical dragon bullet attack, Rosalia suddenly darted out and swung her Sleeping Beauty Greatsword down hard at the Water Dragon's toes.

"Ow!"

Just from the sound, it seemed like the water dragon's foot was in a lot of pain. At that moment, Lilia ran over and slashed at the heel of the water dragon's other foot. Because the hind foot was a little hard, Lilia couldn't cut off the entire foot of the water dragon. At most, she could only cut through some of the fine scales on the water dragon's leg and reach the muscle tissue inside.

After a few minutes, the giant water dragon let out a reluctant roar, then collapsed to the ground, twitched twice, and remained motionless.

Rosalia and Lilia, who were standing nearby, gave each other a high five and shouted:

"Yay~ Done! (σ≧?≦)σ"

After Bronya removed her heavy crossbow, she looked at the enormous water dragon in front of her and stroked her chin, as if she was thinking about something.

Lilia looked at Bronya, who was deep in thought, and asked:

"What's wrong, Bronya?"

Hearing Lilia's words, Bronya shook her head and said:

"It's nothing, I was just wondering if I could take this water dragon back as food."

Hearing Bronya's words, Rosalia tilted her head and looked at the water dragon lying on the ground, saying:

"Hmm? Can we eat this big fish?"

In response to Rosalia's question, Bronya stroked her chin and said:

"Probably. Let's take the water dragon back first, and then let Youyou's mom and the others try it out."

Chapter 527 [YuYu-chan, the Manipulator of Her Prey]

In the skies of the Monster Hunter world, the Silver Rathalos, known as the "Silver Sun," is flying high in the sky. However, the Silver Rathalos's flight pattern seems a bit off, as if it is hiding from some dangerous being.

Soon, a giant shadow appeared above the Silver Rathalos, and that shadow was Eohaka.

Eyjafjalla used the Steel Dragon's ability to manipulate airflow to fly through the air. Its limbs, resembling those of a Celestial Dragon, spread out like wings, but it didn't emit any dragon breath. Eyjafjalla was currently flying entirely on the Steel Dragon's abilities. As for why it didn't use dragon breath to fly... the answer is simple: Eyjafjalla wanted to tease the Silver Rathalos beneath it. Or rather, the way the Silver Rathalos was desperately trying to escape gave Eyjafjalla a feeling of wanting to play a trick on it.

Seeing that the Silver Rathalos beneath him was flying slower, Yuhaka narrowed his eyes slightly and then kicked the Silver Rathalos in the back with his hind leg.

"Ow—!"

The Silver Rathalos let out a terrified scream after being kicked, and its flight became chaotic. It quickly regained its original flight and hurriedly increased its speed, trying to escape from Ehaka's shadow. Seeing the Silver Rathalos speed up, Ehaka followed with a look of "==w==". Ehaka was now somewhat interested in playing with that strange silver-shelled Rathalos.

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Deep in the ancient forest, Maxie and Ronnie searched for both the trail of illegal hunters and the trail of the Gold and Silver Rathalos.

"Ah...it's not here either. It seems we've completely lost track of them..."

Max scratched his long white hair and looked at the river not far away, saying this, while Ronnie squatted down beside him, looking at the fish scale-like fragments left on the ground, and said:

"Is this... a water dragon's scale?"

Ronnie picked up a broken scale from the side and smelled it. Besides a fishy smell, he also smelled gunpowder. Max, who was nearby, saw Ronnie's actions and asked him:

"Ronnie, have you found anything?"

In response to Maxie's question, Ronnie stood up, looked around, and said:

"Hmm, I think I might have found those illegal hunters who attacked the Gold Rathian last time."

Upon hearing Ronnie's words, Maxie's eyes lit up and he said:

"Hehe~ What a surprise! So, Ronnie, what else did you find?"

Ronnie held up the water dragon scale in his hand and said to Maxie:

"If I'm not mistaken, those illegal hunters probably encountered a water dragon that suddenly attacked them while they were hunting the Golden Rathalos. There's still a trace of gunpowder on this scale, so it seems the illegal hunters had some kind of battle with that water dragon. But..."

Looking around at the traces of the battle, Ronnie saw only some scratches from swords cutting through the ground and the messy footprints of the water dragon. There were no other traces, not even the footprints of the illegal hunters. This puzzled Ronnie. Logically, the weight of the armor and weapons worn by the hunters should have been enough to leave footprints in the soft soil of the ancient forest, but there wasn't a single footprint. This struck Ronnie as very strange.

Could it be that the people fighting the Water Dragon and the Gold Rathian were not humans, but small beastmen like Palicoes or Merlins?

Ronnie was also quite troubled by this, as the problem was simply too difficult to solve. He then turned to Maxie and said:

"Maxie, what are you doing...?"

Ronnie turned around and saw Max lying on the ground sniffing the ground, which made Ronnie's scalp tingle. To be honest, he didn't expect that the "problem hunter" in front of him would do something stupid again.

When Max looked up with a serious expression, Ronnie suspected that Max had discovered some clues.

"I smell a loli!"

Very well! I knew I couldn't trust a single thing about this "problem hunter"!

Ronnie, rubbing his head with a headache, said:

"Hey you, can't you be serious for once—"

"Awooooooo—!"

Before Ronnie could finish speaking, a huge figure fell to the ground with a scream. Ronnie and Max were startled by the sudden fall. After the dust settled, they saw a silver fire dragon slowly standing up. Upon seeing this, Ronnie and Max drew their weapons from behind them. Ronnie held a Nargacuga katana, while Max held the Kirin twin swords.

"Wow, is that a silver fire dragon that fell from the sky?"

Meanwhile, Ronnie, holding a katana and assuming a fighting stance, said to Maxie beside him:

"Maxie, be careful, something's wrong with this Silver Rathalos..."

Upon hearing Ronnie's words, Max carefully observed the Silver Rathalos that was trying to stand up. Although he did not find any signs of ferocity or symptoms of mad dragon disease, Max noticed obvious claw marks on the carapace on the Silver Rathalos's back. Although they were not deep, what kind of monster could attack the Silver Rathalos, which had the title of "Silver Sun," while flying thousands of meters in the air?

Maxie didn't think that flying wyverns like the Thousand Blades or the Electric Wyvern would dare to attack the Silver Rathalos, except for the Silver Rathalos itself.

But it's not breeding season yet, so where do all these Silver Rathalos come from?