Demon King Daimaou: Volume 11 by Shoutarou Mizuki

Author:Shoutarou Mizuki [Mizuki, Shoutarou]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

3 - From the Sky Shall Come Terror

Akuto landed in the jungle. He was holding Keena, and groaning in pain.

“I did my best to do what she said...”

“Haha! You were pretty good at falling on those leaves,” Nonimora laughed at him.

She’d managed to land on the ground without any problems at all, by landing on one large leaf after another, letting the branches lessen the impact of her fall. Akuto had tried his best to copy her, but he was carrying Keena, and their combined weight had broken through the branches and sent them almost straight to the ground. If he hadn’t only just run out of mana after landing, they might’ve been badly hurt.

“You okay, Ackie?” Keena asked. Akuto took a moment to move all his limbs around before he answered.

“Looks like I’m fine. But I can tell that you can’t use mana here. It’s being absorbed by these trees.”

“Then we can’t get out, can we?” she said uneasily, “And I only have the right I brought with me.” But then, Korone came down from above. She’d arrived slower than the others, because she was using a parachute. She landed a short distance away, and then began to walk towards them through the trees, bundling the parachute up as she went.

“It seems we can’t use mana here. I’m running off my internal battery, but combat will be impossible for me. I also can’t use my tools. Like all of you, I can convert food into energy, but I won’t last two weeks.”

“That’s rough. Especially since we need to walk out of here.”

Akuto put his hand to his chin. The situation may have been more serious than he thought. But Nonimora’s voice was happy.

“Don’t worry. You can cross the whole island in a few days. And these trees were modified in the distant past,” Nonimora ran over to and climbed up a nearby tree, and then came down holding what looked like a large ball.

“This fruit is edible. It grows everywhere, so you’ll never run out. And when night comes some of the trees glow in the dark, and also give off water.”

She tossed the ball-shaped fruit to Akuto. It had a hard skin, but there was a thin line like the stitching on a soccer ball running along its almost perfectly spherical form. He lightly tugged on it, and the skin came off easily, revealing white fruit inside. He looked at Nonimora, and her face seemed to indicate that he was supposed to eat it. He ripped off a chunk. It wasn’t particularly juicy, and felt like ripping a sponge. When he tried it, it had a taste and texture somewhere between bread and yam.

“I see. It’s pure carbohydrates.”

Nonimora nodded, satisfied.

“Yup. The blessings of nature.”

“But with all the modifications you’ve done, I don’t think you can call it nature...”

Nonimora pouted, as if she was upset.

“You know what’s unnatural? The idea that what humans do isn’t nature. Buildings, Liradans, anything that’s created is natural as long as it’s working in a way that’s true to itself.

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