11 11 Lets grow Mandragoras ③ (1/2)

”Um, are you sure you won't eat me ......?

From then on, the girl with the mandragora, let's call her Dora-chan for bothersome. Don't ever associate her with the round blue fellow.

At any rate, Dora-chan was sitting at the edge of the garden, watching me poking around in the dirt, but she noticed that I didn't really want to do anything, and gradually closed the distance between us.

I almost stepped on it. As you did so, your head bumped into Jack's head as it was floating in the air.

”I really don't mean it. I really don't mean to. I mean, now that I see you, I don't feel like eating.

Now, for some reason, he is sitting across the desk from me eating in the hut, looking at me and having this conversation.

But you raised me to eat, didn't you? And yet I'm not going to repay you for raising me because I don't want to die: ......

Oh, what a good boy. If only this idea of a girl had any influence on the first killer plant we raised.

Never mind, but do you want something to eat too? We only have pumpkin dishes now.

Oh, no, I can live on soil, light and a little water, basically.

It's like a plant.

I was having an enjoyable dinner with some chit-chat for the first time in a while, and

”Big brother.

Jesus, Jack. I'm telling you, I don't plan on stewing you either.

No, it's not. My brother's house is surrounded.

That was at the same time as Jack's statement. A chill went down my back and I quickly got up from my chair and looked at the door.

At that moment, he kicks in the door and several gruff-looking people come in.

What? Don't bite the bullet on our door, which was already a wreck!

Hey, bro. Is your brother the monster grower that's been making the rounds lately?

What, I'm already so famous? Just as I was thinking this, one of them found a mandragora clinging frighteningly to my back.

Brother! I found you! Mandragora indeed! I'm sticking it to that guy's back!

”Wow, this is amazing. You've really succeeded in growing a mandragora. And the color and the shine of this thing are pretty d*mn fine. This thing's going to bring in a fortune wherever it's sold.

And then there are the raggedy smiles on their faces. They may be adventurers, but their words and actions are completely raggedy.

These guys are trying to steal my mandragora.

Hey, brother, give that one to me. And it won't hurt you. Well, I'll give you some of my money for the sale of the mandragora. How about that?

I can feel Dora-chan's fear as she trembles over her back at the raggedy leader's statement.

If I rejected their proposal, their weapons would definitely come flying at me.

Normally, the best thing to do would be to hand her over here. Normally.

No. What are you trying to steal something that someone else grew? That's stealing. I'll never give her to you!

I can vaguely feel Dora's surprise from behind her back.

Of course, you wouldn't expect me, a stranger I just met today, to do that.

But we didn't know each other today.

I knew this baby from before it was born, from seed.

I planted it in the ground and took good care of it.

The mandragora was slower to grow and sprout than the others. I gave up on them for a while, but I managed them by planting new compost around them and watering them regularly. I had to pull weeds around it, but this one was a real pain in the ass!

So for that reason, I'm more than happy to have raised him, and I was seriously happy when he matured properly!

And frankly, it's pretty emotional! So who will give it to you strangers!

”Okay, then I'm sorry.

And the rag-taggers who listen to my response and take up the fight.