{Everyone, feel free to say whether these chapters have been fun enough, and let me know if anything needs improving! Also, special thanks to reader Ice and Fire for the gift. I have something to do tomorrow, so I'll probably take a day off and post an extra chapter the day after!}
Meanwhile, Dottore's segment carefully made his way back to a secret base in Sumeru. Besides him, three other segments with different personalities and genders were there.
Back in the rainforest, Dottore's segment walked up to a giant tree and lightly kicked one side of its roots. The tree's bark immediately began to squirm, slowly opening an entrance wide enough for one person?
Dottore's segment cautiously looked around again. Only after confirming that no one was nearby did he enter. The bark immediately squirmed shut behind him, leaving the tree looking completely ordinary from the outside.
"Oh? Looking so cautious-did you get your hands on some interesting material?"
A teenage Dottore with a piece of candy in his mouth looked curiously at the young adult Dottore as he asked.
"What material could he possibly have? Just some insignificant trinkets, nothing more."
A middle-aged Dottore spoke while conducting a cruel experiment on a Fungus strapped to an operating table.
As he spoke nonchalantly, he used a scalpel to dissect the living Fungus, without administering any anesthesia whatsoever!
"Hiss-"
The Fungus's mouth had been sewn shut with thread. Unable to scream at all, it could only watch as its body was gradually cut to pieces...
"I don't think this useless segment is capable of anything. You'd be better off relying on yourself than expecting anything from him."
The teenage Dottore mocked the young adult Dottore, staring at him contemptuously with dark red eyes.
"True enough. All he does is fiddle