Brain bloom

There wasn't a single sound of nature; even stepping into the seawater didn't elicit a response or complaint. The stagnant pool remained silent, silently swallowing everything. Apart from the beacons left by dandelions, Mori was tormented by loneliness and unbearable silence.

Her negative emotions became more suppressed and bloated, and then she choked herself to death.

Scented by the faint dandelion fragrance emanating from the seeds in her hand, Mori managed to keep going. This was truly a terrible working environment… She kept trying to calm herself by complaining and taking deep breaths, but strangely, it didn't help at all…

When loneliness and depression reached their peak, making it unbearable for Morito—

"What's wrong? You don't look well."

Suddenly, a familiar voice drifted over – it was Dandelion. She had appeared behind Morishita without her noticing, a hint of worry on her face. She was wearing Morishita's favorite summer outfit, and looked exceptionally beautiful.

Her appearance instantly dispelled Morito's loneliness, replaced by an overwhelming sense of comfort and happiness. Like a person who had been thirsty for three days finally finding a pool of water, he rushed towards it without hesitation. This inexplicable happiness even overwhelmed Morito's consciousness, leaving it hazy.

The dandelion looks so lovely at this moment, and the face that cares about itself looks so beautiful.

"Shall we go? Don't just stand there, come with me somewhere else, it's dangerous here."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Dandelion gave an unusually alluring smile, took Sen Shi's arm, and walked away, her touch cool to the touch. In a seductive voice, Dandelion said, "I've found a very interesting place. Would you like to go down and take a look in a little while?"

"OK……"

A sense of ecstasy blurred Mori's consciousness, and she felt it wouldn't hurt to go along. She looked at Dandelion's legs with loving eyes, wanting to admire that curve... Wait, something's not right, why are they wearing shoes? With the sense of incongruity, Mori suddenly snapped back to reality.

"What's wrong?" Dandelion asked.

"No, I just think you're too cute." Mori's smiling face hadn't faded yet.

"Of course, I am the person you love the most."

"Hmm..." Sure enough, something fishy is going on.

"Let's go, we're almost there."

Feigning compliance, Mori's initial suspicion began to subside. Having weathered so many storms, she possessed a certain level of experience and responsibility, and her quick-witted mind immediately conjured up a number of clever ideas.

Sen asked somewhat shyly, "Princess Dandelion, tell me, what do my petals taste like when you eat them?"

"Hehe, you want me to taste your flower bud? What a lustful little wildcat. We need to get a soft bed, but unfortunately not now, otherwise I would have taken off your little panties."

"Hehehe..."

"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's hurry up, we're almost at that interesting place."

"Hmm, let's keep going." Mori's eyes held a mocking glint. She was clearly asking about the poor petals that the dandelion had chewed and swallowed earlier. But this thing pretending to be a dandelion... it's really lewd.

Afterwards, Mori used his eyes, which were a cheat code from the primordial god, to pretend to stare at the dandelion for a long time with a lecherous look, but he couldn't see the name box, so he could be sure there was a problem.

A few seconds later, at an opportune moment, Mori pretended to suddenly stop because something had come up. "Dandelion" frowned, clearly displeased, but continued acting.

Sen Shi exclaimed in surprise, "I suddenly remembered that I lost something important! It was my baggage, filled with treasures I've collected all my life! I have to go find it—I used special magic, so it should still be intact."

“Since it’s so important… shall we go take a look?” The “Dandelion” licked its lips.

"Yes, yes, this is very important."

"It's okay, let's go."

Recalling the previous coordinates, Mori silently led the "Dandelion" to a place—the place where he encountered the Big Mouth Monster. Almost there, almost at the spot where the Big Mouth Monster's ambush was triggered… Estimating the distance, Mori stopped and pretended to begin searching.

"Oh, it seems to be right here."

"You brought me here..." Dandelion's eyebrows furrowed as if she had discovered something.

"found it!"

With a loud cry of surprise, Mori Toki pulled out his travel bag. In the blink of an eye, it blinded "Dandelion." At the same time, Mori Toki concentrated all his power and summoned a low-level wind spell that he had barely managed to use.

This exceptionally obscene "dandelion" was suddenly propelled by wind magic into the predatory zone of the Big Mouth Monster.

"Your order of Four Seasons has arrived!"

"Oh! Sweet food!" The mouth suddenly lifted, and the spiral teeth crushed down with tremendous force. As Morishi had expected, it really didn't have a brain... Originally, she had made other plans, and if the plan failed, she would launch a frontal attack and a surprise attack.

But once he closed his mouth, the matter was resolved.

The only one who was disappointed was the big-mouthed monster. It chewed for a while and then realized something was wrong, like a picky high school girl who had eaten a bad dessert: "I can't taste the sweetness... I'm not happy."

"Haha, I can't exactly give you a real dandelion to eat, can I? Even if it were a real dandelion, you probably wouldn't like it."

Mori stood at the safety line with a big smile, feeling more relaxed than ever before. It was as if he had defeated a dandelion; regardless of whether it was real or not, it was something to be very happy about. Yes, it was a wonderful start.

At that moment, Sen Shi noticed some movement out of the corner of his eye.

Is it dandelion and... forest?

The dandelion's plant magic bound a struggling forest creature as it walked towards them.

"Oh? Sen Shi is here too?" Dandelion was a little surprised, then smiled.

"Hey, a dandelion? The one you caught..."

She said with a sneer, "This one? I thought it was you, but the acting was so bad. I just asked what dandelion petals taste like, and this thing started spouting adult jokes. It's obviously a fake, so I just grabbed it and disposed of it."

“...Haha.” Mori suddenly felt sorry for Mori, who was just like himself, struggling incessantly.

The dandelion roughly threw the fake strawberry over, and sure enough, it was swallowed up. The real strawberry immediately covered its eyes and pretended nothing had happened.

"This big mouth will devour everything thrown in without exception, which I think is perfect for handling this situation. After all, magic is limited, and a direct confrontation would be a bit difficult... Hmm? You're here, which means you're here to do something similar?"

"Yes...it just ate a dandelion."

She covered her mouth and chuckled for a moment, then asked, "How did you tell?"

"I asked her what my petals tasted like."

"That's definitely the taste of Mori—then, what does mine taste like?" Her face was full of anticipation, proving that she also wanted to know the answer.

"It tastes like Princess Dandelion."

After thinking for a long time, Mori could only answer in this way.

Volume 1, Chapter 395: Daytime in Hell

According to Dandelion, she has no idea what the big-mouthed monster in front of her, who keeps saying the food is bad, or the strange thing that appeared before, disguised as Morishi and Dandelion.

"I haven't been back for quite a while. Last time, things were a bit strange... well, there was this guy who would mutter to you like a devil, but it wasn't that serious."

“I thought these were monsters you were deliberately raising,” Mori said.

"Hahaha, why would you raise these? You're just wasting your time. This pollution has turned the surrounding area into an absolute forbidden zone, and no one will come here... But I can guess what's going on with these monsters."

"Oh?"

The dandelions kicked at the shallow, dark seawater, splashing them repeatedly at the giant-mouthed monster. Each time, the creature mistook it for prey entering its hunting range and excitedly opened its mouth to bite.

After realizing that it was a dandelion teasing it, it seemed very aggrieved, but it still couldn't control its instincts and was completely fooled.

While playing, Dandelion said, "Look, this is nature."

"...Are you saying that nature is stupid?"

"Just as a lush forest has a complete ecological cycle, volcanoes, glaciers, and the deep sea all have their own unique ecological cycles. This is nature. So I think that even the extreme environments here are part of nature."

Sen Shi's modern thinking began to take effect, and he understood what the dandelion was trying to say: the monsters he had just encountered were part of this natural ecosystem.

As someone who experiences all four seasons, she must be marveling at the greatness of nature.

Dandelion, having grown tired of teasing the big-mouthed monster, rested with her hands on her hips: "Later, when we clean up the pollution, these budding ecosystems will be plucked out. Although it's cruel, it will definitely make us very happy."

"You mean... this is fun?"

"Because they want to harm us, which is intolerable."

After making the announcement, she took Mori's hand and began to speed up the seed-sowing operation. In less than an hour, although they encountered several strange creatures that attacked them along the way, the two of them successfully sowed the seeds in all the designated places without any major incidents.

These seeds form a complete circle, encompassing the surrounding area, with Mori and the dandelion standing in the very center.

Pollution is most effectively addressed here.

Sen Shi, with a keen awareness of being an amateur, watched everything intently as Dandelion worked. The task was simple: Dandelion pricked her finger, smeared a little blood on the bean-sized creature, and gently tossed it into the center.

She licked the blood off the wound with the tip of her tongue, and then placed her index finger on Sen's lips, which were already very familiar to her.

"Shhh."

Something seems to be on its way? Dandelion looked on with anticipation.

One second—all was well, and the murky sea remained calm.

Ten seconds later—Sen could vaguely see some ripples on the sea beneath his feet.

Thirty seconds later—where the seed was planted, swirling eddies appeared.

It wasn't until this silence lasted a full minute that Mori, still in shock, finally saw what the so-called pollution-purifying plant looked like—this…this wasn't a plant! It was clearly a person!

From the vortex, a "person" with the appearance of a mature woman but a body as transparent as black jelly stood up. It was completely naked; if you turned a slime into a woman and then poured black food coloring over it, you'd probably get something like this.

So, this is a plant? Sen was filled with confusion.

But it was as helpless as a baby, looking around in fear of Mori, yet it felt a special connection to dandelions. If you didn't know better, from a distance, Mori could imagine that dandelions suddenly had a sister, a beautiful slime girl, but unfortunately, she was mentally challenged.

The dandelion looked at it with reverence: "Hell's Daylight, no wonder it's a legendary magic meant to purify this mess, it's so perfect..."

"Can I speak now?"

"Okay, that's fine."

Sen immediately asked, "How do you plan to purify the pollution, sister?"

With a mysterious smile, Dandelion raised her finger, gesturing for Slime Girl to demonstrate to Mori. The latter obediently left Dandelion's side, then bent down and opened her mouth to drink.

"...This...this is Kuafu!?"

"What Kuafu?"

"...In a myth, Kuafu is the name of a race of intelligent beings, and their chieftain did something incomprehensible but terrifying upon closer examination: he drank dry...uh, he drank dry a whole river, a whole puddle of water, because he was thirsty on the way."

Watching the slime girl gulping down the filthy sea, Mori thought of this story. The so-called purification seemed to be nothing more than opening her mouth and drinking... Strangely, the filth she drank didn't appear in the slime girl's transparent body, but instead disappeared to some unknown place.

Judging from common sense in this world, it should have been converted into energy or nutrients.

After drinking for a short while, the slime girl rubbed her mouth, seemingly tired. She wanted to get closer to the dandelion, but the dandelion pushed her away and made her drink water again.

"See? It's quite tiring to keep it working all the time. At this rate, it would take a whole day to finish. So we'll take turns, switching every six hours, to make sure it drinks water the whole time."