"Okay, got it. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, filling the sky with little stars..."
Flower Mushroom hummed a strange tune, stretched out a tentacle, grabbed a little girl, and lifted her out of the basket. Then came a splash, as if water had been sent flying, followed immediately by the girl's shrieking wails as she struggled in boiling water.
Yet Flower Mushroom paid no attention, just as Green had no idea how many times he had cooked mushroom soup without ever caring about the mushrooms' feelings. This was the evolutionary rule of the Endless World.
"Shining brightly in the sky, hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm..."
Still humming, Flower Mushroom extended her tentacle again. This time, everyone was terrified, desperately dodging, screaming, and crying.
"Eh?"
With a soft sound of surprise, Flower Mushroom's tentacle bound Green and lifted him up before her eyes. Green blinked, neither communicating by will nor struggling, simply staring back at Flower Mushroom.
After a long while, Flower Mushroom called toward the other side, "Granny, is this little girl dead?"
Following Flower Mushroom's gaze, Green saw a gaunt, withered giant wolf hundreds of meters tall, dressed in old clothes. She wore black-rimmed glasses and held long metal knitting needles in her two wolf paws, knitting a sweater.
Hearing Flower Mushroom's words, Wolf Granny shifted her gaze from the sweater in her paws and looked at Green dangling from Flower Mushroom's tentacle.
"Hm? Bring her over and let me see."
Flower Mushroom skipped over and handed Green to Wolf Granny. Clutched in a furry wolf paw, Green did nothing but stare continuously into Wolf Granny's eyes. It was exceedingly strange.
Wolf Granny kept turning him over in her paws. Meanwhile, Flower Mushroom skipped back to the basket. Amid an endless series of splashes, desperate screams rose and fell, along