I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 100: Brother

After giving it just a few moments of logical thinking, Timothy decided to point out what most would expect, forging it as an order. "Look, we obviously can't use our own friends as food so their bodies should be buried somewhere."

A random reef shark whom survived this battle, decided to question the foundation of this new authority. "How could we bury all these fish? It would take a lifetime."

Although he was a bit staggered how anyone of this tribe would be picky after such a crazy situation had struck the entire village, the young hero tried to remain in a good mood as he recited. "So digging is a bad idea?"

And then decided to reprocess the plan while a lot of fish nodded in agreement, after a while he stated. "Then we will drop the bodies in the mist. Sure it's a bit far away but none of us could swim deep enough there without dying."

Observing the semi-blank expressions on the comrades for a few seconds with the aims of figuring out the overall motivation, Tim decided to weigh in this decision a tad bit more. "So if you all like this idea..."

A portion of the crowd broke out before he could have finished the sentence, stating their thoughts and beliefs out loud.

"That could work."

"Sounds like a lot of swimming."

"Great."

"It will be so hard to let them go."

Understanding the emotional baggage by at least a bit, the sea pancake also wanted to point out. "The ones that don't have good feelings about carrying their dead friends can sit this one out. Instead, go search for the rest of our friends, I think a few of them are still out hunting for food."

And so, the entire group began moving around at a pace that was almost considered too fast. Tim avoided looking at Marlo's body before a couple of reef sharks dragged it out of the den, this day was hard enough and it had no need to feel more difficult.

As for the rest of this tribe of fish, he did not really feel any connection with them. Apart from a few animals whom he managed to feel the faintest bit of connection.

So technically he could have helped out to drag bodies away, however the wounds on his fins tend to disagree with such action.

One of his fins has a chunk taken off at the very tip and the other one straight on the bottom so it was extraordinarily hard for Timmy to carry an entire body for a couple hundred meters.

Come to think of it, his stamina felt as if damaged and wouldn't quite regenerate even though he wasn't technically doing much, that's when the system notified.

[Host is in a position that demands action to restore sense-of-being. Would you like to hear out statistics regarding your current state?]

At this point unwilling to fight reason, the sea disk just answered. "Sure."

[Health bar = 43/100]

[Hunger bar = 2/15]

[Sleep bar = 8/35]

[Stamina bar = 6/15]

Feeling tired, his brain becoming unable to catch up for just a few seconds, he questioned. "That's pretty bad, what should I do?"

[Your best option right now is to find health-raising food to eat, as to why, I will explain to you later although the base context is easy to understand.]

"Okay... health food, let's see." He answered while at the same time began swimming around the den and located the food pile.

Thanks to the battle it had certainly been messed with, spread around at best since no sane fish would stop to eat in the midst of battle.

A lot of food was tossed around silly until finally he noticed a familiar body, one he still loathed of losing. "Is this a goddamn barracuda?"

[Yes]

After a bit of thought, he decided. "It can't be mine, this is an untouched body."

[System highly recommends consuming this great barracuda. It's effects on health are the highest yet compared to any other animals you have statistics of.]

[You can take a bite off this fish to determine just how much health bars it can give, although we understand what most can give.]

Unwilling to speak out or think, he just answered shortly. "Okay."

And took a bite of the clearly hunted body, afterwards the system instantly processed and notified. [Great barracuda identified, exact effect-led statistics will be stated shortly...]

[Effect on health, +35 bars]

[Effect on hunger, +90 bars]

[Effect on sleep, +10 bars]

[Effect on stamina, +15 bars]

"That's hella helpful." Timmy instantly answered, even spoke out this time.

But when giving a better peek at the barracuda, it wasn't so hard to understand why it gave such perks. With just a peek, it was easy to see that this one was larger than usual, perhaps 1.2 meters long and it's a bit fat as well.

He couldn't think about any fish here, powerful enough to bring down such prey but here it was a huge advantage for the young boy.

Without hesitation, he began chomping down on the fish, using every bit of his power to chew through as the low sleep bar was giving trouble functioning properly.

Energy arose upon every bite, the smaller effects of consuming this animal had obviously started to kick in. But still, although there was a bit of a difference, he still felt like a bag of bones.

After a while, he had consumed countless bites but considering the barracuda's size, the boy barely even managed to make a difference ~ one would think that a small marble shrimp had taken a feast here.

But yet his hunger bar was to the fullest and the most important statistic explained, [Health bar = 49/100]

It was getting a tad better but it still was bad considering what statistics he had before getting into that tunnel, the same tunnel whom was the very base of this large problem.

[Now you should go asleep.]

[The wounds you have will consume a lot of your energy and hunger bar too, faster than usual even. So you can't sleep for long and have to wake up again to feast on this barracuda.]

Although the boy was feeling as if a swimming zombie, he could sense opportunity and therefore for once in a while gazed at the opportunities of disaster. "That's hella nice! I have chances to heal faster now."

Gazing at his surroundings, Tim figured out that each and every sibling of his had showed up in the den now and therefore a request was laid out. "I need to sleep and recover, come here and protect me."