375 Gank 1 (1/2)
Chapter 375: Gank 1
Garen descended with the crow, slowly landing on the clearing next to Kid.
He jumped off the crow’s back, and stood firmly on the black soil.
”Where’re the others?”
Kid shook his head. ”I just got here too. Haven’t seen anyone else. I guess they’re en route.” He pointed the giant strawberry ”you want some? This tastes good.”
Garen shook his head. He then immediately saw that Kid’s hand had skillfully dug the strawberry open, reaching all the way inside, pulling a red fruit out with a whoosh.
This piece of fruit looked oddly similar to a heart, it is still beating, and were emitting heat off it.
” This is the strawberry’s heart; you can get a mild immunity to poison from this.” Kid bit down and spoke with a muffled voice.
”A strawberry that grows hearts?” Garen can’t help but to be curious,” where did this Strawberry come from?”
”My mission waypoint was Strawberry Field, there’s plenty of this where I came from, and there’re many more produced every year.” Kid briefly explained, ”I grew up here.
”You grew up here?” Garen did not expect Kid to have these experiences.
”Yeah, I ate these growing up.” Kid answered earnestly, ”Strawberry Farm’s strawberries are very sweet.”
Kid had his mouth smeared with strawberry juice as red as blood.
Garen didn’t mind him, as he continued looking around.
Surrounding him were all those gigantic pumpkins, as the wind blew through the holes of the pumpkin, it made some eerie whistling tunes.
”Hey hey, Nineheads, where are you?” Old Man’s voice can be heard from the black box.
”I’m already here, at Pumpkin Farm, i’m with Kid now.”
”You, and Kid?” He suddenly stunned, which felt weird. ”You, alone? With him?”
”Yeah? What’s wrong?” Garen was confused by Old Man’s intonation, something felt off.
”You stay where you are, I’ll be right there!” Old Man got anxious out of the sudden. ”Please don’t talk to Kid too much!”
Garen was confused, so he turned back to look at Kid.
As if without awareness, Kid was gulping the strawberry in his hand. He kept taking things out from within the odd strawberry, there was a part that looked like liver, a piece of fruit which looked like a lung, there was even a tube that looked like a bronchus. It was all eaten by Kid with huge bites. His stomach was like a bottomless pit, as he stuffed everything inside.
Garen suddenly felt that something was off.
There was a faint scent of blood was let off from the strawberry in Kid’s hands.
He paid closer attention to the strawberry. Although it didn’t look different from a regular strawberry from the outside, but for reasons unknown to him, he could sense fear and despair from the strawberry; as if it was a living thing.
He also suddenly realized that Kid’s black box and crow was not there.
”Kid, where’s your crow?” He can’t help but to ask.
”Crow? You mean that big guy? I don’t know, he was gone once I looked away.” Kid answered honestly.
”Them, what about your black box?”
”It’s here.” Kid took out the black box like it were magic.
Garen relaxed for a while, if the black box is there, then he is not an impersonator.
He tried contacting Kid with his black box, everything was normal.
Soon, a huge crow spread its wings and dived towards them.
Old Man jumped off from the crow, black light lit up from under his feet, which helped him land.
As he hit the ground, he looked at Garen weirdly. Then he looked over to Kid who was merrily eating.
”Kid, it’s rare to see you being so honest this time around.”
Kid wiped his mouth. ” But wasn’t I always honest?”
Garen was confused as he was, judging from the way Old Man spoke, maybe being alone with Kid would be dangerous. Just that there was nothing weird about Kid.
As he saw the the old and young together, like a usual gathering, he did not want to ask further.
Soon, Kitten and Fox arrived. The last one was Red Umbrella, who flew from behind, looking sleepy with droopy eyes as he touched down.
With all six of them here, Old Man began leading the team towards Pumpkin Farm. The rest of them followed him.
The entire farm was engulfed in a thin mist, which looked like it came from the forest. Visibility was poor.
As they walked deeper for a moment, faint music could be heard from their surroundings.
The music was faintly discernible, as though if came from a faraway place. It sounded like a girl was singing in a language not comprehensible to them.
Garen’s heart shivered, that was Endorian, he only understood a sentence or two, since he did some self-learning, he wasn’t sure if it was correct.
The music continued to linger, giving them a clear sense of language acuity.
He began to try to analyze the lyrics, but he had trouble listening to the song clearly enough to make up its contents.
The song suddenly stopped, the piano piece also started getting slightly messy. It felt like a girl who just started playing piano, restarting the verse due to a single mistake.
The music started playing again, on repeat.
Garen looked at others, he realized that there was no reaction, except Kid, who was humming to the girl’s music.
”Kid, can you stop humming? What song was that? Why haven’t we heard about it?” Kitten said impatiently.
”I was humming along to little sister though?” Kid answered earnestly. ”Didn’t you hear? Little sister played wrongly again.” he looked like he was listening in again.
”Here he goes.” Kitten pressed her forehead disappointedly.
”Pay no heed, Kid’s acting up again.” Old Man said quietly.
Garen had a thought. Does that mean they all couldn’t hear it? As he observed each person, he realized that the rest was indeed unable to hear the voice except Kid and him.
He now paid more attention to Kid.
The single file continued moving deeper into the farm, soon, they found the nobilities hiding within one of the giant pumpkin.
The two of them were hunkering down in the pumpkin from the panic, only to relax as they saw the group, and climbed out of the pumpkin.