Chapter 36: Eat Fewer Poisonous Mushrooms

"We're taking off, are you all ready?"

"We're ready, but Big Bro, why did you drill into the redwood forest?"

Everyone was somewhat confused by Broly's behavior of drilling into the mangrove forest, until the mangrove forest they were standing on began to tremble, and was forcibly uprooted from the water by a tremendous force.

After flying into the high altitude, the children, who hurriedly grabbed onto reliable objects beside them amidst the shaking, finally understood what Broly meant by "be prepared."

Looking at the vines tied around their waists, the children were somewhat speechless.

"Good thing we didn't fall off."

Little fatty Luosang grabbed a wet tree root in time, the vine at his waist snapped taut, yet he nearly rolled off the airborne mangrove forest.

Broly didn't fly very fast; he drew on the experience from two years ago in the Type-Moon World flying with Fujimura Taiga, letting the airborne mangrove forest move steadily in the sky, just like a small floating island.

After the initial panic passed, the settled children all fell silent, immersed in the wondrously beautiful scenery formed by the setting sun and evening glow at the distant horizon.

In the past, most of them didn't eat their fill or dress warmly, striving every day for survival; falling into the hands of slave traders, they were locked in cages, and scenery like this was something they never had the leisure or qualification to admire and experience.

"Sister, it's so beautiful."

Black Pupil sat on the vine, pulling the girl beside her and said.

"Mm."

Red Pupil lightly agreed, endorsing her younger sister's words.

"If it weren't for Broly-san, we might never have seen scenery like this, right?"

This refers to watching the sunset from the sky, but also refers to the fact that the other party saved them and gave them enough to eat.

After all, when you can't eat your fill, you don't have the leisure to appreciate beautiful scenery.

"I feel like I saw Big Bro in the sunset."

"Bang!"

Pony's head took a hit.

"Cornelia-sis, why did you hit me?"

"I told you to throw away those poisonous mushrooms you picked, but you still kept them on you and ate them?"

"I, I didn't."

Pony panicked a bit, hurriedly covering her right pocket.

"You're already seeing illusions and you still say you didn't?!"

"Bang~"

The girl's head took another iron fist from the girl beside her.

"Big Bro is in the forest flying us, he hasn't died yet!"

The poisonous mushroom was thrown out forcefully by Cornelia in a parabolic trajectory.

"My mushroom!"

Under the setting sun, on the flying mangrove forest, everyone looked at Pony with black faces.

Pony then knelt on the mangrove vines in a dejected posture.

Raising her right hand, reaching reluctantly toward the poisonous mushroom flying away.

"Clan Chief, a patch of mangrove forest flew over from the sky!"

While the children in the sky were admiring the beautiful sunset scenery, the tribe on the ground tensed up upon discovering the flying mangrove forest in the sky was approaching their tribe's side.

In the cognition of the people of this world, only flying dangerous species can soar in the sky, and the larger the guy's size, the more dangerous it often is.

"Such a large patch of mangrove forest flying in the sky, the guy hiding inside must be terrifying.

Riparipu, summon all warriors in the tribe. If the monster existing inside the flying mangrove forest wants to attack our tribe, we will fight back with all our might and protect the tribe."

Red Leaf Tribe's Clan Chief Lidriel issued the order; he now only hoped the unknown existence that made the mangrove forest fly was just passing by their tribe.

"Clan Chief, the flying mangrove forest seems to be descending toward our side."

But things always develop in the worst direction; Lidriel's heart sank.

"Prepare for battle."

This person cut his palm with a small knife, using blood to smear four blood-colored marks on his face.

In their ethnicity, this means a blood battle mark.

Seeing the Clan Chief do this, the other warriors all followed suit one after another.

This group's weapons weren't exquisite, but they all possessed the blood spirit to protect the tribe before a strong enemy. And this blood spirit persisted until familiar voices came from the descending mangrove forest.

"Dad, Dad..."

It was the voice of his daughter who had been missing for three months.

"Rivarina, is that you?"

Lidriel shouted.

Without needing an answer, the mangrove forest had already descended to a height where the people on it could be clearly seen.

Rivarina jumped down from the mangrove forest that hadn't fully landed yet, ran toward the tribe's warriors standing ready, and threw herself straight into her father's embrace.

"Rivarina, where did you go during the days you disappeared?"

The man's face showed shock and surprise; he had actually thought his daughter was dead.

"I was caught by the Empire's slave capture team, they sold me into the Giant Tree Forest (Gifnora Sea Tree Forest), but I ran back."

The girl explained.

"Then sister, what about those people?"

Riparipu asked; on the mangrove forest that had returned to the water, there were the figures of many children.

"Second Brother, they are children who, like me, were sold into the Giant Tree Forest by slave traders, and now they are my important companions."

"Wait, how did I become Second Brother?"

"Because I swore a Big Brother."

Riparipu: "Hm?"

"Then how did you all come down from the sky?"

"We didn't come down from the sky; Big Brother brought us flying over. Big Brother saved me, saved everyone, brought us out of the Giant Tree Forest..."

Rivarina pointed in the direction they had come from, trying to describe Broly's power to her father.

The Red Leaf Tribe Clan Chief listened, only feeling his brain somewhat insufficient. Whether it was blasting a broad thoroughfare through the Giant Tree Forest, or bringing a whole Mangrove Forest flying over, both were a bit too absurd.

If he hadn't seen the Mangrove Forest flying in the sky with his own eyes, he might have thought this recovered daughter of his was talking nonsense.

"Yue~"

After bringing the people flying over, Broly only then dry-heaved as he flew out from the woods. His hands had some Redwood Tree wood chips and tree sap; it was precisely the taste of these wood chips and sap that he found somewhat unbearable, the bitterness in his mouth seeming to have increased.

"This is Broly-san!"

Rivarina happily introduced the boy to her father.

"What's wrong with him?"

Lidriel was somewhat surprised that the Big Brother in his daughter's mouth was actually also a child, and upon seeing Broly dry-heaving, he frowned and asked.

"Broly-san chewed a lot of Redwood Tree branches at noon, and then became like this."

"You didn't tell him Redwood Tree branches are poisonous?"

"I did, but Big Brother said the poison tastes not bad."

Lidriel:???

His impression of Broly, from the terrifying figure in his daughter's words who could move unimpeded through the Giant Tree Forest and even bring a Mangrove Forest flying in the sky, turned into a little guy whose brain might have some problems.

"Bring him back to the tribe; I'll get some herbs to detoxify him."

Perhaps because the Mangrove Forest that flew over was full of children, and with his daughter roughly narrating the situation, Lidriel wiped away the bloodstains on his face representing the Blood Battle Mark, and had his son arrange the companions his daughter had made outside to the tribe's vacant area for hospitality.

The Red Leaf Tribe wasn't large, only a thousand-odd population; seventy-odd children pouring in still attracted the gazes of quite a few tribe members.

"Riparipu, where did these kids come from? Are they joining our tribe?"

Someone asked.

"These are the companions my Younger Sister brought back."

Riparipu replied in a muffled, sullen voice.

"Your Younger Sister? Rivarina, wasn't she already dead?"

"Bang~"

The person who spoke those words was punched flying by Riparipu.

"My Younger Sister came back, came back safely. She hasn't died."

(Chapter End)