Chapter 89 I Encountered the World King (2/2)
After lunch, just as I was about to resume the harvest, the spirits suddenly looked unusual.
They began to fly around in a restless manner.
At first, I was worried that the jam cookies I gave them earlier had caused something wrong with their bodies, but my Sympathy Magic conveyed not pain, but a mixture of joy and surprise instead.
[What’s the matter with all of you?]
[ ! ? ! ? ]
[Eh? You want me to follow you?]
[!!!]
The most up-to-date novels are published on lightnovelw_orld.com
[A- Alright.]
I didn’t understand the situation, but the spirits seemed to be trying to lead me somewhere by pulling my hand and beckoning me to follow them, and even though I was confused by their sudden change, I compliantly followed them.
Unlike the time when they led me to the places where there were a lot of berries, they seem to be in some kind of hurry…… Yes, if I had to describe it, it was like they’re feeling as if “they won’t make it in time” to something.
I’ve been following the spirits…… They seem to be advancing deeper into the forest, and the wide, easy-to-walk path we were just traversing before had become more and more like a rough animal trail.
However, the path I’m walking on isn’t so much that I can’t advance because the spirits are clearing the weeds ahead of me.
However, I feel like I’m being led to an unexplored region, and I’m a little anxious about where they’re going to take me.
Well, if there are this many spirits, it’s probably safe to a certain extent but……. Seriously, where in the world are we going?
It’s probably about 10 minutes or so, and as I follow the spirits through the animal trail, the scene in my eyes drastically changes.
No, the fact that it’s a forest hasn’t changed but…… I can see a tremendous number of spirits ahead of me.
It’s a ridiculous number compared to the number that was following me just a few minutes ago, as there are clearly more than a thousand spirits gathered here.
The most up-to-date novels are published on lightnovelw_orld.com
While tilting my head at this unusual scene, I stepped my foot even further…… and there, I found a single tree.
“……It seems that it hasn’t affected you all too much. That’s a relief.”
I can hear a voice resounding somewhere…… but I can’t see anyone at all.
I mean, if my ears aren’t out of whack yet…… I think I just heard the tree in front of me sound like it was talking?
“Oya?”
As if to answer my question, I heard the voice of that tree again…… and it seems like the trunk of the tree was rotating before—— Eh?
[Wha!?]
The tree moved as if it were looking back, and my voice involuntarily leaked out at the sight that met my eyes.
In the tree’s trunk…… just around the center, there was a woman wearing an outfit that was reminiscent of a certain tribe somewhere “buried”…… N- No, that’s wrong. Rather than being buried…… It appears as if her hands and lower body are fused with the tree.
By the way, the reason why I thought the entity fused with a tree is a woman is because of those bountiful parts bulging that they can be clearly seen even on top of her loose, ethnic dress-style clothing.
The most up-to-date novels are published on lightnovelw_orld.com
Well, I wonder to myself why I’m thinking like this in this kind of situation, but if you’re a man, you’ll have to forgive me for not being able to turn away my eyes from those atrocious bulges.
Anyway, that woman was, how should I say this…… an existence with an incredibly mysterious atmosphere.
Her eyes were a beautiful emerald green like jewels, and her long vibrant green hair glitter with the sunlight…… Eh? No, looking at them closely, those aren’t hairs. They’re leaves!? Those small leaves are strung together in layers to form a long hair-like shape.
A body united with a tree, and hair of leaves. If I were to base her with the RPG I used to play, she looks like those “Dryad” monsters.
……Well, she at least doesn’t seem to be a human.
“…………….”
The woman quietly stared at me with her jewel-like eyes.
The woman’s face is quite high up in the air, and perhaps because she’s fused to the tree, it kinda looks like she’s looking down upon me, which makes me uncomfortable.
Who could this woman be? If she’s in the Spirits’ Forest, does that mean she’s a spirit? No, but something is clearly different about her from the spirits I’ve seen so far, yes, something status.
If I had to put it into words, would it be a sense of presence? The tremendous atmosphere, as if a tree so large it pierces the heavens exists in front of me, leaves me speechless.
The most up-to-date novels are published on lightnovelw_orld.com
The woman continued to stare at me for a while, before calmly speaking to me.
“……Are you, by any chance, Miyama Kaito-san?”
[Eh?]
How should I say this… There’s something strange in her voice, and the woman’s mouth didn’t even move and it sounded as if the sound was coming from her whole body, not from her mouth.
However, what was even more shocking was the fact that she said my name when we were supposed to have never met before…… Who was she really?
[……Errr, I’m certainly Miyama Kaito but…… who are you?]
“Forgive my discourtesy. It was quite impolite of me to ask your name without introducing myself.”
Hearing the question that spilled out of my mouth, the woman lightly bows her head once, before she gently smiles.
“My name is Lillywood…… “Lillywood Yggdrasil”. In the Demon Realm, I’m the one known as the “World King”.”
[……Huh?]
The most up-to-date novels are published on lightnovelw_orld.com
As I heard the words that were calmly announced to me, I felt my thoughts completely stopped this time.
Dear Mom, Dad—– In the depths of the Spirits’ Forest, arriving in the place where the spirits brought me—— I encountered the World King.
=======================================================================
Incidentally, Lillywood is the first person to properly introduce herself as one of the Six Kings.
T/N: Kaiou-sama (World King-sama) and her big tummy.
edit: site still unstable on my side so couldn’t post the bonus chapter earlie