"You just gave me an idea."
Hearing Toriko's suggestion, Fang Mo's eyes suddenly lit up. "Since nitrous oxide won't work, why don't I add some fruity flavor to the Air Fruit?"
"Make the erupting air carry a fruity fragrance?"
Seeing Fang Mo suddenly say that, the others loosened their grip on him slightly. Sunny, in particular, actually began considering it seriously. "Hmm... if it's the sweet fragrance of something like Rainbow Fruit, it might not be a problem?"
"No, don't believe him!"
Just as the others began to waver, Toriko hurriedly shouted, "...This guy won't give up until he gets what he wants! He's lying to you!!!"
"What..."
"Nonsense. I would never lie to you, okay?"
Fang Mo refuted him with complete conviction. "If I'm lying to you about this, then I curse myself to wake up one day with my balls growing on my face..."
"Tch."
Hearing that, the three of them could no longer bear to look and let go.
"Woohoo~"
Seeing that no one was stopping him anymore, Fang Mo immediately broke free of Toriko's grip and stabbed the Air Tree in front of him with a knife.
"No, why did you guys let go?"
On the other side, Toriko helplessly facepalmed and sighed.
"But he said that..." Sunny scratched his head. "I mean, even Fang Mo probably couldn't accept having that kind of thing growing on his face, right?"
"Let's hope so."
Toriko took a deep breath, then turned to look at the nearby Air Tree.
And the moment he looked—
He froze.
As mentioned before, the trunk of the Air Tree looked somewhat like a gigantic bottle.
But the crown was different. Countless branches extended outward from the bottle's mouth and drooped down. These branches were also extremely strange. There was not a single leaf