A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life: Volume 10 by Yuu Tanaka

Author:Yuu Tanaka [TANAKA, YUU]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

My monsters started jumping up and down as they joined in on the countdown. I guess they think it looks like fun too.

“Seven!”

“Mmm!”

“Humm!”

More and more people started counting down. Everyone around me had joined in.

“Four!”

“Tra-la!”

“Honk!”

“...!”

Right after the countdown reached zero, the titan arum started to change. The leaves twined around the long stamen-like part of the flower slowly began to open. Then, once it was completely opened, there was a bright flash of light, indicating that it had fully bloomed. Its overall shape looked like a trumpet. To me, it looked like a giant, upside-down Japanese-style parasol. I was more overwhelmed by its strangeness and presence than by its beauty. Aha, I can see it’s called the largest flower in the world for a reason.

“Oh whoops, I have to appraise it.”

I tried to appraise the fully bloomed titan arum. But for some reason, it didn’t work. It wasn’t a bug or anything either, since I could freely appraise everything else. The titan arum was the only thing I couldn’t target. Other players seemed to be having the same problem. An atmosphere of confusion was spreading around.

Then, someone shouted, “G-Gross! It reeks!”

“Urgh... What the hell is that smell?!”

“Yeech, that stinks!”

“Hack! Hurk!”

There really was an off-putting smell. Was this the famous stench of the titan arum? A strange odor like rotting garbage was wafting towards us. I’d known about this smell, so I had prepared myself for it, but the players raising a fuss must not have. There were even some people having a coughing fit, looking like they were in agony. I had heard that the real-life flower smelled even worse, though, so the devs must have reined it in a little. After all, it wasn’t so bad that it was unbearable if you knew it was coming.

“Mmm...”

“Too much for you too, Olto?”

“Mm...”

Olto was pinching his nose with an indescribable expression on his face. He looked exactly like my family dog Fran when she caught a whiff of a clementine, which she hated.

“Hum...”

“Tra-la...”

Reflet’s and Eine’s moods had soured. They clearly hated the smell too.

“...”

Fau was strumming her lute without singing, something she didn’t usually do. The melancholic sounds of her lute strings must have been expressing her current mood. Though that was obvious enough from just looking at her face, which looked over-the-top miserable.

Not everyone was suffering, though.

“Chirp?”

“Hooonk!”

Rick was lightly rubbing his nose as he sniffed the scent a few times. It looked like it was only bothering him a little bit. As for Perca, he didn’t seem to understand everyone else’s reactions. He was tilting his head, looking so confused I was half expecting a question mark to pop up above him. Maybe this was the difference between humanoid- and animal-type monsters. That wasn’t the end of the strange happenings, though.

“Some weird thing appeared.”

“Mm.”

Way up in the air, about thirty meters above the titan arum, there was a violently vibrating black mass. Was it black mist? A swarm of insects? In any case, there was a wriggling clump of tiny things.

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