"Wasteful."
"What the hell do you know?" Jiu Ming rapped the White Fox girl on the head, stuffed the vine's main root into the Gap, then drew Laevateinn and stabbed it into the ground. A wave of scorching heat surged through the entire canyon, and the vines rapidly withered yellow. Before they could dry out completely, great flames erupted from the ground and swallowed every last vine.
"There. From now on, this will probably be an ordinary canyon."
"You really are brutal." The White Fox girl gave a dry clap as she spoke to Jiu Ming, who stood off to the side like nothing had happened. "Not only did you cut off their roots, you even went straight for total eradication."
"If we didn't clean this place up, it wouldn't change much." Jiu Ming shrugged. Even though he had dug out the main root, the offshoots remained. They could survive perfectly well without it, and might even grow a new main root. Leaving them here would only cause harm, so it was better to deal with them.
As for damaging the environment?
This was a remote grand canyon to begin with, so there was no need to care. "Don't you think all those piled-up corpses are an eyesore?"
"...Yeah, but after that fire, not even ashes are left."
"Dust to dust, earth to earth. I gave them the best possible ending." Jiu Ming spoke solemnly, and White Fox rolled her eyes at him. "Go on, keep pretending."
Jiu Ming's solemn expression changed, breaking into a broad grin. "Alright, back to business. Since we've decided to do something, if we can settle it quickly, there's no need to drag it out."
They had only just left the grand canyon when White Fox stopped. "I'm hungry."
"You were scared half to death