Sweet daily life of Little Tanuki and Qin Che in Love and Deep Space

You sit up, exhale a long breath, and think to yourself: You can't cross that line; your bottom line is very low.

You feel that burning gaze sweep over you again.

Oh no, I forgot he can hear me.

You quickly put the tomato to your mouth.

The sweetness spread in my mouth, it's so delicious! It's a feeling of happiness.

Long frowned and looked away.

After you finished eating, you started fiddling with the rope leading to the top of the cave.

Qin Che just watched you struggle, and when you got tired, you found a comfortable spot on the stone bed to lie down and rest.

Qin Che would occasionally stare at you while you were fast asleep, observing you.

You seem genuinely unafraid of him, and even occasionally instinctively snuggle into his arms in your sleep.

At first, he would always move back at these times to avoid your approach.

But after he hesitated for a couple of seconds, he noticed that the furrowed brows of you, who had been tightly knit in your sleep, relaxed as you nestled in his arms.

Yes, you could say that you haven't had a single good night's sleep since you came into this "world".

You dream of this body's past countless times, and you feel that you are fully integrated with this body.

She is you, and you are her.

You empathize with all her experiences; those things really happened to you.

Hatred, resentment, anger, and disappointment—all these emotions pile up in your heart.

The pressure is so intense that you can hardly breathe, making you even more eager to climb up to the opening and experience the outside world.

Five days later, as dawn broke, you finally climbed out of the cave entrance at the top of the Dragon Cave.

But once you get outside, you realize that there's no breathtaking scenery as you imagined, but rather another dead end.

The lair is bottomless, and one can only see a black city in the distance.

That was the "Tal City" that people called the place where demons roamed.

The desolate city is surrounded by a continuous stretch of crimson, barren mountains, covered with charred forests, making it clear at a glance that there is no way out.

Behind it, only a narrow ridge leads downwards, like the segments of a dragon's spine.

Between the spines lies a bottomless abyss.

Aside from the fresher air compared to the cave, this place also evokes a sense of oppression and despair.

You take two deep breaths and let the strong wind from the cave ceiling slap your face like a hand.

"I want to go there and take a look."

Before you take your run-up and jump, turn your head to look at Qin Che behind you.

"If you can't jump over it, you'll die."

The dragon landed silently behind you, its tone as sarcastic as ever.

"You won't let me die, you can't bear to..." You said this as if you were talking to yourself, because you were not sure about Qin Che's feelings for you now, so you added with a smile: "If a person dies, you can't eat souls anymore."

"..."

"Don't worry, I'm not going to run away." If I could, I would like to stay by your side forever.

You looked down at the view below, "It's just that this body craves that place too much, I can't control it."

It was freedom, that thing she longed for...

No, to be precise, it's what you yearn for...

"As long as you can get down there, it's up to you."

Dragon always looks extremely displeased whenever he sees your smiling face.

But you insist on laughing, even if you don't want to watch.

He floats up to you with his arms crossed, speaking leisurely: "And I also want to see where a 'witch' who associates with demons can go after leaving here."