Eat Fewer Poisonous Mushrooms

"About to take off. Are you ready?"

"We're ready, but Big Brother, why did you crawl into the Mangrove Forest?"

Everyone was puzzled by Broly crawling into the Mangrove Forest, until the Mangrove Forest beneath their feet began to shake and was forcibly ripped out of the water by an immense force.

Once they soared into the high altitude, the children hurriedly grabbed onto anything sturdy nearby amid the shaking. Only then did they understand what Broly meant by being prepared.

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

"Good thing we didn't fall."

Little Fatty Losang had grabbed a wet tree root in time. The vine around his waist snapped, and he had nearly rolled off the rising Mangrove Forest.

Broly did not fly very fast. Drawing on the experience he had gained from flying with Fujimura Taiga in the Type-Moon World two years ago, he kept the airborne Mangrove Forest moving steadily through the sky, like a tiny floating island.

After getting through the initial panic, the children gradually calmed down and fell silent, immersed in the breathtaking sight of the setting sun and glowing evening clouds on the distant horizon.

In the past, most of them had not had enough to eat or warm clothes to wear. They struggled to survive every day, and after falling into the hands of Slave Traders, they had been locked in cages. They had never had the leisure, much less the right, to admire and experience such scenery.

"Older Sister, it's so beautiful."

Kurome sat on a vine and tugged at the Girl beside her.

"Mm."

Akame softly responded, agreeing with her Younger Sister.

"If it weren't for Broly Big Brother, we might never have seen a sight like this, right?"

She meant watching the sunset from the sky, but she also meant that he had saved them and given them enough to eat.

After all, when one could not even fill one's stomach, there was no leisure to appreciate beautiful scenery.

"I think I can see Big Brother in the sunset."

Thump!

Boni got smacked on the head.

"Sister Ke'er, why did you hit me?"

"I told you to throw away those Poisonous Mushrooms you picked. Did you still keep them on you and eat them?"

"I-I didn't."

Boni panicked and quickly covered the pocket on her Right Side.

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

Thump~

The Girl got another iron-fisted blow to the head from the Girl beside her.

"Big Brother is flying us through the forest. He isn't dead yet!"

The Poisonous Mushrooms were hurled away by Cornelia in a powerful arc.

"My mushrooms!"

Under the setting sun, everyone on the flying Mangrove Forest stared at Boni with dark expressions.

Meanwhile, Boni knelt on the red vines in a defeated crouch.

She raised her right hand toward the Poisonous Mushrooms flying away, reluctant to let them go.

"Tribal Chief, a Mangrove Forest is flying toward us from the sky!"

While the children in the sky admired the sunset, the tribe on the ground grew tense after noticing that the flying Mangrove Forest was approaching their tribe.

In the understanding of people in this world, only Flying Danger Beasts could soar through the sky, and the larger they were, the more dangerous they tended to be.

"A Mangrove Forest that large is flying through the sky. Whatever is hiding inside must be terrifying.

Riparip, gather all the warriors in the tribe. If the monster inside that flying Mangrove Forest intends to attack our tribe, we will fight with everything we have to protect it."

Rideriel, the Tribal Chief of the Red Leaf Tribe, gave the order. Right now, he could only hope that whatever had sent the Mangrove Forest into the sky was merely passing by their tribe.

"Tribal Chief, the flying Mangrove Forest seems to be descending toward us."

But things always went in the worst possible direction, and Rideriel's heart sank.

"Prepare for battle."

The man sliced open his palm with a Small Knife and smeared four bloody marks across his face.

Among their people, this meant a fight to the death.

Seeing their Tribal Chief do this, the other warriors followed suit.

Their weapons were not particularly good, but they all possessed the resolve to protect their tribe in the face of powerful enemies.

That resolve lasted until a familiar voice came from the descending Mangrove Forest.

"Father, Father..."

It was the voice of his daughter, who had Disappeared three months ago.

"Rivarina, is that you?"

Rideriel shouted.

No answer was needed. The Mangrove Forest had already descended low enough for them to clearly see the people atop it.

Rivarina jumped down from the Mangrove Forest before it had fully landed and ran toward the tribe's warriors, who stood ready for battle. She threw herself straight into her Father's arms.

"Rivarina, where did you go during the time you were gone?"

The man's face was filled with shock and joy. He had truly believed that his daughter was dead.

"I was captured by the Empire's Slave Catching Team. They sold me into the Giant Tree Forest, the Jiffonora Sea Tree Forest, but I escaped and came back."

The Girl explained.

"What about those children, Younger Sister?"

Riparip asked. There were quite a few children standing on the Mangrove Forest, which had fallen back into the water.

"Second Brother, they're children like me, sold into the Giant Tree Forest by Slave Traders. They're my important companions now."

"Wait, how did I become Second Brother?"

"Because I acknowledged a Big Brother."

Riparip: "Huh?"

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

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

Rivarina pointed in the direction they had come from, trying to describe Broly's incredible strength to her Father.

As the Tribal Chief of the Red Leaf Tribe listened, he felt as though his brain was not enough to process it. Whether it was blasting a clear road through the Giant Tree Forest or flying over with an entire Mangrove Forest, it all sounded far too absurd.

If he had not seen the Mangrove Forest flying in the sky with his own eyes, he might have thought that his long-lost daughter was talking nonsense.

"Blegh~"

After bringing everyone over, Broly finally flew out of the forest with a dry heave. His hands were covered in wood chips and sap from Redwood Trees. The smell of those wood chips and sap was making him feel sick, and the bitterness in his mouth seemed to have worsened.

"This is Broly Big Brother!"

Rivarina happily introduced the Boy to her Father.

"What's wrong with him?"

Rideriel was surprised that the Big Brother his daughter spoke of was also a child. Seeing Broly dry-heaving, he frowned and asked.

"Broly Big Brother chewed a lot of Redwood Tree branches at noon, and then he became like this."

"Didn't you tell him that Redwood Tree branches are poisonous?"

"I did, but Big Brother said the poisonous taste was pretty good."

Rideriel: "???"

His impression of Broly changed from a terrifying figure who could move unhindered through the Giant Tree Forest and fly through the sky with an entire Mangrove Forest, into a Little One who might have something wrong with his head.

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

Perhaps because the Mangrove Forest that had flown over was filled with children, and because his daughter had roughly explained the situation, Rideriel wiped away the blood on his face that represented a fight to the death. He then had his son arrange for the companions his daughter had met outside to be hosted in an empty area of the tribe.

The Red Leaf Tribe was not large, with a population of only a little over a thousand. The arrival of more than seventy children still attracted the attention of many tribe members.

"Riparip, where did these children come from? Are they joining our tribe?"

Someone asked.

"They're companions my Younger Sister brought back."

Riparip answered in a sullen voice.

"Your Younger Sister? Wasn't Rivarina already dead?"

Thump~

The person who said that was knocked to the ground by a punch from Riparip.

"My Younger Sister is back. She came back safely. She isn't dead."