Chapter 53: Nicely Caught

Chapter 53: Nicely Caught

===A Certain Undead With Communication Disorder===

I left the city along with the female Holy Knight.

For various reasons, I ended up investigating the reason behind this abnormal monster parade along with her.

Eh, it was not like I was happy that I was not doing this alone, you know?

But refusing her at this point was literally impossible.

She was the most important factor in realizing my goal after all.

I absolutely couldn't piss her off in this kind of situation.

Well then. First thing is where to start

The female Holy Knight spoke while looking around in every direction.

Eh?

Could it be that she came along without even knowing where we were going?

Unable to let her remain ignorant, I pointed toward the forest at northeast direction.

Over there.

Eh? How did you know?

Well that's the place with the most monsters so far So the source of the monster parade must be somewhere in that direction inside the forest.

Okay, let's go in that direction.

Thus, we were walking toward the forest.

And just as I had expected, the number of approaching monsters increased exponentially.

We finally arrived at the entrance of that forest while crushing through those hordes of monsters.

To be honest, things would be far easier if I unleashed my miasma since that alone was enough to scare all the monsters around me, saving a lot of time needed to defeat those incoming monsters one by one.

But the reason I chose the hard way was that the female Holy Knight would literally pass out the moment I unleashed my miasma.

When I was looking into the depths of the forest, I caught a glimpse of so many monsters inside.

It seemed that the forest itself was overflowing with monsters.

I see, the number of monsters is definitely overwhelming.

Are you okay?

Don't worry about me.

I jumped to block her way in a hurry the moment I saw the confident female Holy Knight about to charge forward recklessly.

What are you trying to do?

I'll walk in the front.

As expected, my pride as a man wouldn't allow me to let a girl younger than me lead the way.

Moreover, I had this almost indestructible body.

I-I have a tougher body than you after all

After that, we were knocking down one monster after another while advancing deep into the forest.

What a huge forest.

I had no idea how much time it'd take for us to find the source behind this abnormal monster parade at the exact location either.

But I knew that the number of incoming monsters would increase sharply if I approached the correct location.

That was the only lead I had to find the reason behind this incident.

At worst this might take few days

Don't worry about it. Despite how I look, I've lost count of how many times I camped in the wild.

I also had no need to eat and sleep, but

No matter how many times I thought about it, our paces were greatly different. I definitely could locate and arrive at the source of this strange event within a single day.

Wait. Something is

GURUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Suddenly, a giant lion-like monster leaped from the shadow of the trees.

But wait, upon a closer look, its face looked like that of a human with a bad hobby.

Be careful. It's a manticore?! Its tail can spit extremely powerful poison!

Show me your inju What?

The figure of the kid stumbled down easily when she tapped lightly on its shoulder.

This is

It was not a child.

It was just a lump of the entwined root of a plant that resembled a child.

Uuuu uuuuu

And the source of the crying voice was, right below her.

Hah!

The next moment, the ground beneath the female Holy Knight vanished, and her figure was already floating in the air.

When I looked at the vanished ground, there was a dagger-like fang No, a thorn lying in wait inside the ground.

It was a man-eater plant.

The root that look-like a kid that we saw before was none other than a trap created to bait humans.

The plant which resembled a giant venus flytrap was about to eat the female Holy Knight who was falling down with its dragon-like jaws leaves.

Dammit.

I jumped at once.

I closed the distance at once and caught the female Holy Knight right before she got eaten by the carnivorous plant.

But at this rate, I wouldn't make it in time to pull the female Holy Knight away before the predator plant's jaw-leaf closed.

It was a snap decision; I decided to jump into the jaw myself.

At the same time, I embraced the female Holy Knight to protect her from the sharp teeth as the jaw-leaf closed.

Upon a closer look, numerous small thorns were growing inside of the leaves, and those fine thorns were stabbing my body.

Moreover, a fluid that looked like the plant's digestive fluid or venom was gushing out from all directions.

A Are you okay?

Eh, close, your face is too close?!

I was extremely flustered upon seeing the female Holy Knight's well-ordered face from close by.

Moreover, it might be an act of God, but our bodies were so close right now as if we were glued together.

Maybe I wasn't the only one feeling unwell in this situation.

Naturally, I wasn't referring to my body; I was referring to my mental state.

If this kept going on, I might dieI mean my heart.

I had to do something about this situation immediately!

BON!

When I tried to knock my fist lightly on the predator plant's leaf, I found out that it blew off far too easily.

I kicked the other leaf to jump out from the inside and threw out the female Holy Knight immediately.

AAAH, CAN YOU LET ME OFF WITH A MORE NORMAL METHOD?!

She was complaining to me. But sorry, I was at my limit, my heart almost exploded (though, it stopped beating a long time ago).

Anyhow, thanks for saving me from that predicament.

DDDDDD-DON'T WWWW-WORRYYYY.

Are you okay?

NNNNNNN-NONONONONONO PPPPPPP-PROBLEEEEEM!

I was so flustered that even I had no idea what I was talking about.

At that moment

It seemed that the digestive fluids of that predator plant were quite strong.

Although it was far from enough to kill me, it seemed my clothes were done in by those digestive fluids, the back which directly exposed to those fluids had melted

Swish.

The front parts of my clothes which survived that ordeal dropped down to the ground due to a light breeze.

As a result, now I look like a per*vert who exposed my naked figure in front of the female Holy Knight.

~?! YOU DAMN FLASHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!

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TN: How bold, a DATE!!!