Chapter 28: Hunting Transport Squad Assembly

In this Gifnora Sea Tree Forest full of Danger Beasts, the fact that Man-Eating Flowers can prey on wild beasts and even Danger Beasts proves their petals' biting force is nothing to scoff at.

But strong as the force may be, it depends on who you compare it to; Broly pried open the petals of the Man-Eating Flower biting the girl crying for help with great ease, rescuing the girl who had been swallowed.

The girl dropped to the ground, scrambling on all fours to the edge of the flower bush where the Heterochromatic sisters were, looking like she had not yet recovered from the shock.

【Doing good deeds without leaving a name, call me Red Scarf!】

This information flashed through his mind; Broly jumped down from the Man-Eating Flower's petals, but before he could land, the Man-Eating Flower whose prey he had stolen opened its petal-maw wide behind him and swallowed him whole.

After Broly was swallowed, the Man-Eating Flower's bud trembled once, but that was it — no more movement came from inside.

"That idiot."

Akame waited at the edge of the flower bush for a while; seeing no sign of the boy emerging, she couldn't help but curse.

"Kurome, you stay here."

"Sister, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to save him."

Akame said.

"Why bother with him?"

Kurome grabbed Akame; she did not want her sister to take the risk.

"He saved us; I have to return the favor."

"Then I'm going with you to save him too."

Akame failed to persuade her sister to stay in a safe place, so she could only bring her along.

However, Man-Eating Flowers are only dangerous when they have not yet fed; while in a feeding state, they ignore creatures passing by outside.

The Man-Eating Flower that swallowed Broly was on the periphery; the surrounding Man-Eating Flowers all had something in their mouths, so the two sisters encountered no danger and arrived right beside the terrifying giant flower.

However, they could not pry open the flower's mouth directly like Broly; they could only take their knives and hack at the Man-Eating Flower's roots and rhizomes.

Plants feel no pain; although it is a dangerous plant, it did not react to this. The two sisters spent some effort before they managed to chop off the upper half of this Man-Eating Flower.

Then, they continued poking at the thick, substantial petals with their knives, and after struggling for another while, they finally opened a small window in the petals.

"Are you alright?"

Akame poked her head through the opened window and shouted.

"I'm fine."

Broly replied from inside.

"Fine? Then what are you doing in there? Why aren't you coming out?"

Kurome also tiptoed, leaning by the small window to ask.

"I'm drinking something; almost finished, coming out right away."

"Right away" it was indeed; the large bud was pried open from inside by Broly.

"What are you drinking?"

Seeing he was unharmed, Akame breathed a sigh of relief; Kurome asked.

"Don't know, but I saved you some; this is sweet, has a fragrance, tastes great, you two try some."

Broly held a piece of soft inner-core petal leaf in his hand, holding some crystalline liquid that smelled of floral fragrance.

This was precisely the Man-Eating Flower's nectar; normally this plant relies on its nectar to attract creatures wanting to drink it.

Powerful creatures can get a free ride, while weak creatures get eaten as prey by the Man-Eating Flower — a bit like a combination of pitcher plant and Venus flytrap.

The Heterochromatic sisters: "..."

The two of them were thinking about saving someone, while the saved person was inside drinking.

"Sweet, Sister, this is good."

Kurome was younger; she couldn't help but take a sip.

"Don't drink random things; what if it's poisonous?"

Akame scolded, yet she also tasted it.

This pair of sisters also had the glutton attribute; they quickly divided and ate up the nectar Broly had brought out from inside the bud.

This scene stunned the rescued girl, but she soon came to her senses.

"Can you help save my sister? She was eaten by the flower next to this one."

She pleaded.

Akame and Kurome exchanged a glance; they had already noticed that while the surrounding giant Danger Flowers were eating, they would not attack people. Just as they were about to agree to help, Broly moved a step faster than them, directly pulling down the Man-Eating Flower next to them and using brute force to pry open its petal-maw.

He reached in, grabbed a foot, and directly yanked out the girl inside, but by this time the girl pulled out was no longer breathing.

"Sister!"

The rescued girl ran over, crying as she embraced the girl on the ground; Akame walked over: "I've seen drowning victims; she might have been unable to breathe because of the stuff inside the bud."

"Can you save my sister?"

"Don't know, but we can try."

Recalling the methods she had seen adults use to save drowning people, Akame performed some first-aid measures on the non-breathing girl.

"Cough, cough..."

After Broly finished drinking clean the nectar inside another Man-Eating Flower and squeezed out from the bud, the girl's sister was actually revived.

"There are others."

Broly quite liked sweet things; since he could drink nectar and save people, he did not refuse.

Therefore, the Man-Eating Flowers on this side suffered; food they had just swallowed not long ago was now forcibly taken back.

A total of seven children were rescued; except for the relatively unlucky one who plunged headfirst into the nectar and nearly drowned in it, the others were all still alive when rescued.

Broly harvested five more Man-Eating Flowers containing tasty liquid, but he did not drink them directly; instead, he dismantled the buds with nectar at the very center, looking like he was packing them to take away.

Broly had originally wanted to pack more flower buds, but after dismantling a man-eating flower bud that still had undigested beast bones inside and smelling the foul stench emanating from the nectar within, he gave up on continuing to open them.

The nectar of the man-eating flower is essentially a digestive fluid; it possesses corrosiveness when digesting things, and it smells bad and tastes bad.

"With so many things, how do you plan to carry them all by yourself?"

Akame looked at the boy's appearance of wanting to take everything, large buds and small buds alike, and couldn't help but ask.

"Hmm..."

Broly was indeed somewhat troubled; the miscellaneous items weren't heavy, but their volume wasn't small.

"Got it."

But Broly soon had an idea, directly handing the washbasin-sized flower buds to those children who had been rescued.

"You all help me carry things and follow me; later I can divide you a bit to eat."

Three boys and four girls looked at each other; they, who had been rescued from the man-eating flower's mouth by Broly, had no objections.

"Wait, where are you going? That's not the direction of the forest center?"

It's just that the direction Broly walked in was somewhat strange, so Akame asked.

"I heard some sounds; there should be prey there."

The delicious nectar activated Broly's hunting instinct; he planned to go find new prey.

He didn't know where there was prey; there were too many complex scents in the forest.

However, he had ears, and his hearing was fairly sharp, able to hear some movements in the forest.

Thus, Broly, leading a group of children about the same age as himself, began an unmatched hunting mode in the Gifnora Sea Tree Forest where Danger Beasts abounded.

Of course, only he alone was responsible for hunting; the others were just helping carry ingredients.

"Save..."

*Slap~*

"Help me carry things, later I can give you a mouthful to eat."

In this process, those children who were treated as prey by Danger Beasts were also saved because the Danger Beasts chasing them were hunted by Broly.

Then, they also naturally became ingredient porters for this strange hunting party.

Compared to venturing into the crisis-ridden forest, following the powerful Broly was an obviously safer situation, not to mention the other party also said he would divide them food to eat.

The Gifnora Sea Tree Forest is very large; hundreds of children thrown in are like stones thrown into a lake — they can't stir up any waves at all.

A large part of the children here died not long after entering the forest; those able to hold on until now are all children with decent skill and luck.

"What's going on? How come not a single person has come out yet?"

As evening approached, on the open space in the forest center, Bill was a bit restless.

"Don't be anxious. Although this forest doesn't have very strong Danger Beasts, the density of low-level Danger Beasts is very high; eliminating those children who rely purely on luck has some difficulty. It's normal that no one has come out yet; let's wait a bit more."

Gozuki spoke thus, and waited until the sky darkened before finally a few children passed through the woods and arrived here.

(Chapter End)