episode_0007

My whole body feels tingly.

The poison penetrates the skin and seeps inside.

It’s not a very pleasant feeling.

But instinct focused more on the sense of crisis.

“!@%$%!@”

The taste of grass fills my mouth.

It’s a smell that I usually find unpleasant.

Every time I chewed and swallowed the vine, something like juice spread throughout my mouth.

“···Let’s go!”

All my senses are in disarray.

I can’t even hear Nabi’s voice very well.

My body is becoming more and more numb.

I don’t know how far I dug into it.

I can’t even open my eyes to check.

‘Come to think of it… this guy’s size…’

Maybe it was a hasty decision.

Considering the size difference between him and me…

‘Can you eat all of this?’

The fundamental question arose too late.

But there is no other way.

The best thing to do was to move my dull body as much as possible.

“Still, I think I ate quite a lot···!”

This is what it would feel like to dig up wild greens in the forest and eat them.

Fortunately, I didn’t feel hungry.

It was clearly not an amount that could be eaten in one day.

“!@$!#!!”

The taste is gradually changing.

To be exact, it seems like I’m adapting.

The tingling taste felt like some kind of sauce.

“…!@$”

How many dozens of minutes had passed?

I’m tired of even closing my eyes tightly.

The tingling sensation has completely disappeared.

I opened my eyes to check if I was dead or alive.

“Ah···”

As soon as I opened my eyes, what I saw were red vines.

For a moment, I wondered if I had fallen into hell.

“Are you alive···?”

Not only my hands, but my whole body is covered in poison.

Of course, the vines I was eating were also poisonous.

But strangely, I didn’t feel any pain in my body.

It took me a few seconds to realize what was happening.

It was different from the dulling of sensations just before death.

I was completely acclimated to the horrible situation of being soaked in poison.

[Oh my! You don’t have the ability to tell what’s edible!]

[Your ‘Toxic Resistance’ skill has evolved to the next level due to your desperate eating habits!]

At that moment, I was assessing the situation like an idiot.

I noticed that the guy wasn’t attacking.

“Did you harm it···?”

It’s not that there is no movement

Even now, it was spewing poison every now and then.

Of course, it was no use.

“Looking at the decreased response··· It looks like they caught it somehow.”

“@#%@···”

It seems like all of his attacks are poisonous.

It would have been out of the question for poison to not work.

“Fortunately, it’s a plant, so it doesn’t hurt… If it had jumped and fallen, it might have been a little dangerous.”

I felt a sense of belated survival.

The body that I thought had become dull was damp.

It wasn’t a very pleasant feeling, but the thrill of surviving washed it all away.

“I guess the vines originated from the head. It looks like the vines at the end were pretty loose as the beginning was cut off.”

I looked down at the mess of vines.

There was something like fruit there.

“···Do vines bear fruit?”

There is no one who can answer my questions.

The nun below probably doesn’t know this either.

There are many unique plants in the world, so it wouldn’t be strange for them to bear fruit.

Of course, whether it was safe was a separate issue.

“···Want to try it?”

I feel like a street dog.

I saw the fruit of the vine, which is poisonous in itself, and thought of eating it.

It seems like my eating habits have been seriously ruined over the past few days.

But I’ve come too far to suppress my curiosity.

“Glutton! Are you okay?!”

“Ah··· Sister. It’s okay! Your movements have slowed down, but just in case, don’t come near me.”

I gave a light warning and looked at the fruit again.

The red fruit is clearly warning us not to eat it.

“I’ve already endured the poison… If I eat a special fruit, I might gain some strange abilities. This guy will probably stop when this fruit disappears.”

Surprisingly, there was no resistance.

Now I feel like I can eat anything.

He sunk his teeth into the fruit that was as big as his face and swallowed it down his throat.

“Eww··· Eww··· Kkeuup··· Hoo··· It tastes very spicy. Is this the taste that berries usually have?”

The taste was pretty good.

It felt like the spicy flavor was exquisitely restoring my tired body.

The huge fruit disappeared into my stomach in an instant.

“!$#···”

The vine monster slowly collapsed.

As if there were several vines from the beginning.

“Thank goodness! Glut!”

“Okay, wait···! You can’t come yet!”

He barely managed to stop Nabija from running towards him.

Unlike me who had adapted, there was nothing good about coming close.

From the beginning, I was covered in poison.

“Ah···”

“I think I somehow adapted with my abilities··· But it’s dangerous for Butterfly.”

“Oh, that’s right. More importantly… Are you okay?”

“It was a bit warm earlier, but now··· it’s so damp that it just feels uncomfortable.”

“Something worth wiping···”

There’s no way that could happen.

For a moment, I noticed Nabi’s clothes, but it was absurd.

Of course it will be an eyesore.

“Rather than that, let’s think about going out.”

“The monsters came from over there, so I guess I should go over there···”

“The monsters that will come out in the future will be a problem.”

Poison might be better.

Because poison is something you can adapt to.

I couldn’t imagine myself defeating the monster that Tristan had defeated.

“It’s sad that the guy who just spewed poison might be better.”

“Still, I’m glad I survived.”

I sighed at the thought that there was still a long way to go.

“It would be nice if there was a way to escape the monsters···”

“That would be impossible. Even with Mr. Tristan, who was called a warrior, it wasn’t easy to avoid battle···”

“Still, we have to break through somehow.”

“Ugh··· I wish this monster would wander around and eliminate monsters.”

I thought it was a vain hope.

But that vain hope turned out to be an unexpected hint.

“Ah! There is a way!”

“···?”

The moment Nabija looked up.

I gave him an evil smile.

“I happened to eat that guy’s fruit and my strength increased.”

*****

The dungeon that Tristan challenged.

The dungeons that Glut and Navia were in were notorious for their brutal difficulty.

Even the guild was basically just neglecting him.

Because it was so different from the surrounding dungeons and monsters.

There were at least intermediate level or higher monsters swarming around.

It’s not a level that a frontier adventurer can challenge.

Tristan’s challenge was quite unusual.

“Krrrr···”

A green monster that walks slowly.

Although they looked similar to orcs, their power was on a different level.

There were countless adventurers who fell while letting their guard down.

Even if you fight with all your heart, you won’t be able to match up to someone who isn’t a high-ranking knight.

It even had intelligence.

Some entities even used swordsmanship to defeat their enemies.

Intelligence, senses, body.

There is no part that is inferior among the three.

If Tristan were to face him, he would be a tough opponent.

“Huh···! Ugh···”

The guy was walking again today, looking for prey.

The prey were afraid of the sound of his footsteps.

There was something that caught that guy’s sense of smell.

“Kreuk···?”

A human scent mixed with something.

And it wasn’t just one person.

It also smelled like the female human he liked.

The guy quickened his pace as he pursued a rare prey.

Boom! Boom!

“Krrr···!”

The other person probably hasn’t noticed yet.

Because humans have a weak sense of smell.

I thought I’d rush in first before he ran away.

But the circumstances under which he met her were unexpected.

“Krrr?!”

“Another one is here.”

It was a strange thing.

The thing I thought was prey came running towards me naked.

Normally, humans either run away or fight back.

Sometimes they rush in to take the initiative.

But there are no cases of running like crazy naked.

The running man was difficult to understand.

“Kururururgh···!”

Of course, what comes out is laughter.

I thought the prey was rushing in cheekily.

The moment he strained his body to deal with it simply, the monster realized the identity of the smell.

“Kreuk···?!”

It was a smell I had smelled near the center of the dungeon.

The pungent smell of poison stimulated the monster’s survival instinct.

“Krrrgg···!! Kruk···!”

I couldn’t understand it.

How can a weak human being withstand that poison?

The monster froze in an outrageous situation.

The running human and Glut’s actions also scared the guy.

His face was tinged with madness.

‘Hug me.’

A human running towards you with his arms outstretched as if to embrace you.

It’s a posture that seems to say, “I want to be hugged.”

The monster felt fear at that sight.

“Krrr···!!”

I couldn’t even think of attacking a running human.

The act of being poisoned is a serious problem in itself.

I had to run away no matter what.

From a human who looks like a madman.

“Kruk···!! Krururur···!!! Kruk···!!!”

The posture prepared to rush in was still facing backwards.

The mouth that had been roaring with confidence was now begging for its life.

But the guy’s pleas were never heard.

I didn’t even know anything about human language.

Even if I could, the chances of the other person listening seemed extremely low.

“Krrr···!!”

As time passed, the monster’s desperate screams echoed within the evil dungeon.