Chapter 267

Death isn't frightening; rather, it's the moments waiting for death to arrive that are most heart-stopping.

Broly's words made the Wormmon below tremble even more violently, because the implication was practically saying he might eat it later.

Thinking of the fate of still being eaten later, Wormmon lay on the ground and began crying wuwuwu.

Broly felt somewhat baffled.

"I already said I won't eat you, so why are you crying? Could it be you need me to say I'll eat you for you to stop crying?"

At these words, Wormmon immediately stopped crying. Broly stared wide-eyed at the green fat worm below, feeling this Digimon might really have a screw loose, needing him to say vicious words before it would quiet down.

"Speak. What exactly is going on? Why did I become the so-called Gluttony Beast King in your mouths?"

Broly drifted down from the sky, tossed the DarkDramon he was holding onto the open space beside him — sending a booming sound and incidentally bouncing the group of Baby Digimon sitting on the ground into the air — and asked the three Child Digimon before him this question.

Wormmon, Palmon, and Lalamon exchanged a glance; ultimately Lalamon, who could barely maintain a standing posture and some calm, spoke up.

"That's what we heard some other Digimon in the forest say..."

After Lalamon's explanation, Broly felt his reputation had been ruined by rumors.

The reason he had the title Gluttony Beast King was because earlier, when he hunted and cooked some bad Digimon, he was seen by other Digimon.

And weak Digimon have connections among themselves; as the number of Digimon Broly caught and ate increased, his title — Gluttony Beast King — gradually spread among the weak bottom-dwellers in the forest.

Gluttony referred to his ability to eat.

Beast was because no other Digimon were willing to believe a guy who could easily defeat some Champion Digimon would be a human.

Since Broly wasn't human but was treated as a fellow Digimon existence, then one who could easily defeat Champion Digimon could only be a Champion-or-above Digimon.

The Digital World is vast, nearly the same area as the Real World, but Digimon that can naturally evolve to Mega in this world are not many.

Every Mega Digimon, aside from those that can't fight, can be said to be almost a Dominant existence.

Digimon that are Dominant existences, other Digimon will affectionately address with the suffix "King," like Son Goku King, Vamdemon King, that sort of thing.

Broly gained the elegant title Gluttony Beast King through his ability to eat, and there's definitely a misunderstanding here — for instance, he only targets bad guys, violent Digimon.

But regarding this information, for Digimon not targeted as prey, it's an undistinguishable matter.

They only know Broly defeated some powerful Champion Digimon and cooked and ate them; they don't know he wouldn't target Digimon who aren't bad guys.

As for why Salamon became Dobermon, it's probably similar to how rumors distort after spreading for a long time.

Compared to the Holy Beast-type Salamon, other Digimon are more willing to believe that beside the even more evil and powerful Gluttony Beast King follows a cold, ruthless, Champion-level hound-type Digimon.

"Broly isn't that kind of person; the guys he ate are all bad guys, violent Digimon."

Now Salamon spoke up to refute the rumors of the brutal Gluttony Beast King, and Lalamon and the others looked at each other in dismay.

"What, you don't believe Salamon's words?"

With Broly pinching his fist in a warning inquiry, Lalamon and the other Digimon reacted and hurriedly shook their heads.

"Salamon-sama is right; we really shouldn't believe baseless rumors. Gluttony Beast King, you're actually a very merciful and kind Digimon..."

"I'm not a Digimon. Forget it. When saying this, won't it make you feel forced?"

Hearing this, the answering Digimon hurriedly shook their heads; Palmon even patted his chest and guaranteed, "We absolutely aren't forced; what we say are all true words from the heart."

【From the heart is also true heart.】

Wormmon nodded repeatedly in agreement; as long as it wasn't eaten by the Gluttony Beast King before it, it would say anything at this moment, unconditionally agreeing with any refutation Salamon spoke.

Even if Salamon now said Numemon's feces is a delicacy, it, Wormmon, would agree with this view without hesitation.

"Good, as long as it's not forced."

Broly nodded, his gaze subconsciously drifting to the large and small bags full of fruit beside the group of Digimon.

Following the boy's gaze, Lalamon thought "uh-oh" and quickly improvised: "These are fruits we picked, prepared to offer as tribute to you, Gluttony Beast King."

"Yeah, yeah, these absolutely aren't fruits we sneaked into your territory to steal while you weren't home; we, we're actually helping Dobermon, uh no, helping Salamon-sama pick fruit."

Palmon stammered in agreement, making Lalamon so angry her hand petals opened.

If the timing weren't wrong, Lalamon would really want to turn around and beat this pig teammate.

Same Child Digimon, why does Palmon have no brain at all.

Could it be this is the difference between Digimon evolved from Goblimon and Seedmon?

"Then thank you very much."

Suddenly, Broly expressed thanks.

"Eh?!"

The next moment, surprised exclamations rang out simultaneously.

【He actually believed it?】

Lalamon stared wide-eyed, and its thought was the thought of the other two Child Digimon as well.

"Abu, they probably just have winter coming early; due to insufficient food stored for winter, they came over here to pick fruit."

Salamon exposed the truth, and the reason it knew this was because it used to do the same.

When winter food was insufficient, it would also venture onto Gotsumon's territory to steal fruit from the fruit trees here.

The lie exposed by Salamon, Lalamon, Palmon, and Wormmon — their whole hearts rose to their throats, nervously watching Broly.

"So that's it; these fruits were picked for themselves, not for me."

【Bad, gonna die!】

The three Child Digimon trembled all over; the Baby Digimon had similar reactions.

"However, they did help me some; thanks to them, I picked a lot of big fruit."

Salamon shook the vine bag in its mouth, and the fruit inside were large and gave off a fragrant scent.

"Helped, huh..."

Broly pondered, then came to DarkDramon's side; the other had some movement, seeming about to wake up.

Broly swung his fist, and the moment the DarkDramon lifted its head from the ground, he once again used physical striking means to send the baby-like sleeping DarkDramon on the ground back into a baby-like sleep.

"Do you all want to eat together?" "Eat what?"

Palmon subconsciously asked.

"Does this even need to be said?"

Broly patted the side with his hand, and the DarkDramon's dragon head, which had fallen into a baby-like sleep, retorted in turn.

Except for Tokomon, the other Digimon all fell somewhat silent; we Child/Rookie Digimon, can we eat DarkDramon right now?

Ah, no, as Digimon, how can they go eat other Digimon?....

"Ow, smells so good!"

At night, the roasted-cooked external data of the DarkDramon directly benefited a group of Digimon with empty stomachs.

And these Digimon went from initial resistance to shouting the famous line "smells so good," taking only a single meal's time.

They rapidly completed the transformation from doubting Broly, to understanding Broly, to wanting to become Broly.

Especially some Baby Digimon, after absorbing enough data and evolving into Rookie Digimon on the spot, the situation was even more so.

"Gluttony Beast King, truly a merciful good King."

"I'm Hikarimon, oh no, now I'm Biyomon, willing to follow the Gluttony Beast King, serve the Gluttony Beast King..."

On the spot, there were newly evolved Digimon who pledged allegiance to Broly, and for weak Digimon like these to pledge allegiance to strong Digimon is a not-uncommon thing in the Digital World.

In the Digital World, strong Digimon being lone wolves is fine, but weak Digimon either band together for warmth or find a strong Digimon to be their boss.

Of course, finding a boss has risks; meeting a reliable boss is fine, but if you meet an unreliable boss, they might get displeased and turn around and solve you, that's all possible, Zulimon died so wrongfully.

Watching Broly constantly feeding Tokomon food, every single Digimon present was envious without exception.

"Serve me, what can you do, get on the grill yourself, roast yourself, then give me to eat?"

Broly looked at the red bird bowing before him, wanting to pledge allegiance, and asked with some confusion.

Biyomon: "..."

It just wanted to swear fealty to a boss, not be eaten by the boss.

"I know where there are still bad Digimon."

The red bird turned its brain, thought of something, and said.

"Gluttony Beast King, if it's bad Digimon, I also know some."

Wormmon hurriedly said, it was afraid it might be eaten afterwards.

Broly: "???"

He originally didn't want to take any Digimon subordinates, but these Digimon wanting to follow him gave out not-bad conditions.

"In the forest center there is a large lake, occupied by a group of Scorpiomon; they don't allow other Digimon to drink at the forest lake without their permission; if they want to drink, they must pay sufficient drinking water fees."

"In the forest west there is a group of Kunemon, they and I both evolved from Minomon, only our tribe reveres peace, while the Kunemon tribe likes violence.

They destroyed our Wormmon tribe, intending to guide all Minomon in this forest to evolve into their Kunemon, a group of nasty-tempered, evil-doing fellows!"

Wormmon directly exposed its own tribe's hostile tribe, making Broly look sideways with suspicion at whether this big green worm had ulterior motives.

"Kunemon, I know them, back when I was still Nyaromon, I accidentally intruded into their territory and was chased and bitten by a group of Kunemon; fortunately, those Kunemon ran slower than me, letting me escape."

However, with Tokomon's words, it didn't matter what other thoughts Wormmon might have.

That night, guided by Wormmon, Broly found the Kunemon clan in the forest west, a tribe of thirteen Digimon resembling Great Horn Beetles, who had no power to resist before the Saiyan and were directly knocked out and brought back.

Broly had this group of Kunemon get on the shelf, roasted thirteen skewers of big worms, and Kunemon after roasting tasted like chicken and were crispy-crunchy, very delicious, which made Broly look forward to the Scorpiomon's taste.

The next day, he ran to the Forest Lake side to deliberately draw water.

Then, he was blocked at the lakeside by three Scorpiomon that emerged from the lake.

This group of Champion-level Mollusk-type Virus-species Scorpiomon didn't have very good tempers; they came up and tried to extort him.

"Although this Forest Lake wasn't dug by us, and the water wasn't guided in by us, but because we live in this lake, to draw water here you need to pay us tribute; anything works, as long as we feel your thing has value."

"Then I'll trade fruit for water, okay?"

Broly took out a big fruit and asked.

"What junk, do we lack tree fruits?"

The forest has nothing, just lots of wild fruits.

Whether they taste good is one thing, but Scorpiomon don't lack this stuff.

"But on me, temporarily there's nothing better than fruit; if not, I don't want this water of yours."

Broly poured the water back. "Heh, the water's been polluted by you, and you still dare say you don't want it?"

"Steal our water, and can't produce good stuff for us?"

"So, are you prepared to be killed by us?"

The three Scorpiomon spoke one sentence each, looking at Broly with gazes full of malice.

They usually like to drag land creatures underwater, then watch them struggle to death in the water.

Before it was just some Digimon, but now a human boy came, and they didn't know what kind of despair this human boy would show after being dragged underwater.

"Not even returning the water works, just like this you want to kill me? Truly, you Scorpiomon are indeed bad Digimon.

Then, are you prepared to be eaten by me?"

If Scorpiomon spoke reason, Broly might still feel troubled, but they don't speak reason, which suited him perfectly.

In no time at all, the three Scorpiomon were knocked out by Broly.

Broly directly dragged them ashore, chopped wood and made fire on the spot and roasted the three big squid.

The Scorpiomon's taste was extremely fresh and delicious, worthy of being seafood-species Digimon.

Even Tokomon ate and felt it was more delicious than the previous Virus-species Digimon.

(Chapter End)