Kakarot and the others followed the old man, walking lightly toward the great tree at the very center of the village.
Along the way, the villagers' friendly gazes were like warm sunshine,
falling on them and filling their hearts with warmth.
As Kakarot walked, he silently scanned his surroundings with his keen senses,
but aside from a few Beast King auras as powerful as Hades's had been at the start,
he detected no particularly powerful presence, which only further stirred his intense curiosity about the island's secrets.
"My young friends, seeing as you managed to reach this place, you must all be strong."
The old man's voice was gentle, yet weathered by the years. "But this island holds quite a few stories unknown to outsiders."
Kakarot gave a friendly smile and asked,
"Sir, everything we've seen along the way has struck us as wonderful,
with humans and animals living in harmony, and these treehouses that look as though they grew naturally.
Could you tell us how all this came to be?"
The old man tilted his head up slightly, his eyes full of feeling, and slowly said,
"All of us originally ended up stranded on this island after shipwrecks.
Two sacred white deer already lived here. They were the parents of our present Mountain God.
At first, we survived here under the protection of those two white deer, though there were still some dangers.
Later, the Mountain God was born, and by chance,
she accidentally ate a wondrous fruit-the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Model: Elf.
After that, everything began to change in wonderful ways."
Lilith's eyes instantly lit up, and she asked curiously,
"Wow, so the white deer is the Mountain God? What changed after she accidentally ate the fruit?"
The old man nodded with a smile and continued,
"The