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The gorgeous garden of the academy, greenery all around the place, trees growing merrily, and some bees buzzing happily.
In a joyous place such as this, under a young tree, surrounded by bees, huge squirrels, giant birds, large animals, and a unique energy beast that resembled a rose, a healthy youth looked fearfully at all these creatures that had an angry expression.
He didn't know the reason he was in this situation. He had done nothing to be in such a situation. He was innocent. Picking flowers for a thank-you bouquet was no crime right?
Why would they be this angry when his crime was nothing? He couldn't understand the reason but… he could see the anger and resentment in the eyes of each and every creature surrounding him.
They were all angry, he didn't know why but they were genuinely angry… and though they had not harmed him yet, he knew even a wrong breath could lead him to his end.
So, he was just standing there, stuck to the tree, waiting for a knight in shining armor to come to his rescue.
And funnily enough, the knights in shining armor did actually come to his rescue. Though by that time, he had made the little mistake he shouldn't have and was on the ground with his normal clothes torn to tatters.
"Stop, stop, stop! What's going on here?!" Eon shouted as soon as he reached there and took in everything that was happening.
The fat boy was on the ground, the creatures were dancing around him, a little fire was burning on the other side and the rose-like creature was on top of the boy, with an angry frown on her face.
"Oh lol… we also had Bitter Roselisas in this garden?" Rein also reached the area in question and as soon as she saw this scene, a fun smile spread out on her face.
She was trying to hold back her laughter, and Eon couldn't help but shake his head at her reaction.
Someone was getting prepared as an offering here and she was laughing. What a cruel person…
"Just what-"
"Peeeeep! Peep! Peeeep-peeeep!"
andasnovel.com [ "You mean he tried to assault your children?" ]
He couldn't believe what he was hearing, and Rein can't hold back her laughter as she listened to what this creature was trying to say.
"She's cursing at him, darling. He probably tried picking up her babies after mistaking them as simple, bigger flowers."
He could understand all the languages, but she can see and understand the meaning behind those words even if they weren't used correctly. And after hearing what she said, Eon finally understood what exactly was happening.
"Oh, honey…"
He stored Asta back in his white crack and walked closer to the surprised rose-like little humanoid creature with leaf-like hands.
[ "He made a mistake, I understand. But isn't this extreme? What's this ceremony? Are you going to turn him into fertilizer or offer his soup to the lord father?" ]
The inhabitants of this garden refer to the great ancient tree as lord father, and what he said might sound cute, funny, or normal from the way this was going on but, seeing it from a literal perspective…
'Scary.'
That was the only word he could think of right now. But of course, even if these creatures wanted to do that, Sir Quesnel wouldn't have let this escalate further.
"Peeeeeeep! Peep. Pee-Peeepep!"
[ "He did what? No, that's surely an exaggeration, right?" ]
"Peeeep! Pep!"
From the look, one could imagine this creature as a certain creature with Roselia's name from a certain legendary show that just came to an end recently.
But anyway, she was angry right now. The boy not only tried picking up her children, he actually…
"Oy Ball. What the hell kind of inappropriate thing did you do with those big-looking flowers? From what she's saying, I think you deserve this."
"I'm innocent! Please save me, captain! Ple- akhum!"
She choked him with a vine, that thankfully wasn't thorny. The boy really was in a tough situation.
"Hahahahaha! It was worth running all the way here. Hehehe-haha~."
And Rein was now laughing uncontrollably without caring about the creatures here or her darling, or the scared boy.
"Rein." Eon looked at her with his one eyebrow up, and, knowing this was a look that wanted a quick explanation, she tried stopping herself for a moment, failed miserably and laughed even loudly, tried again, and after a stronger attempt this time, she finally managed to speak up.
"Haha, he just tried picking up the flower-like creatures at first growing from the ground, but you know how the young Blue Roselisas are born from the ground, he must have failed to take them out so, haha, that boy tried licking them ptfff, he licked the flower heads. You get what I mean right, ptffff, flower heads, khehehe."
She continued laughing after that, and Eon looked at the boy on the ground with a weird expression.
"…"
And the boy looked at him with a pleading gaze, requesting him to save him from these dangerous creatures.
"Let's go, Rein-"
"Vice captainnnnnn!! Ahem! Pleaseeeeee!"
Eon really wanted to leave him be and let them do whatever they wanted with him.
He wouldn't die for sure and Sir Quesnel would save him from any great harm so there was nothing for them to worry about.
But, what would you do with a person that goes around licking strange things growing from the ground? What if that thing was poisonous like many other things in this garden?
He surely might have been in a bad condition, so… even after knowing the area he was in right now was not safe for flower picking he was going around licking flowers that were obviously not flowers, then he was the most sus person he was seeing in his entire day…
"Peeeeep! Peeeeeeep!"
[ "Wait what?" ]
"Really? Direct attendant?"
Even Rein stopped laughing at what the rose-like creature had said. It surely was surprising for them.
"Peeeep! Peeee-Pee-pepep!"
[ "Oh…?" ]
"That actually explains all these creatures. And if we are talking about the eastern side, then it's definitely the overseer of the greenhouse."
"You are unlucky, Ball. You fell too deep."
"Akum! Please…"
Apparently, there were beings that oversaw all four sides of the outdoor garden and this Roselisa was a direct attendant to the one that looked after the eastern side of the garden where the castle's east wing greenhouse was situated.
And this boy had practically assaulted the children of one of the few attendants of a super strong being. Eon knew it wouldn't be easy to get him out of this mess, and even more to convince a mother that had seen someone do something very inappropriate to her young children.
"Akhum!"
If anything, she would have killed him long ago if she wasn't restricted by the great ancient tree, and she was a (Green) ranked creature that can use green magic, so she had all the power needed to kill one weak criminal.
And aside from her, there were around thirty more energy beasts here to help her, so he himself would have been in tatters like his clothes if this was wild and not their academy garden.
It was a bad experience but at least, he wouldn't go around licking things after this day.
He had learned his lesson, probably, so there was no need for the extremes.
Besides, Eon needed this weird bastard, so he had to bargain with a wounded mother.
And since she was a plant-type energy beast, he thankfully had just the thing that could help him in this situation.
But he couldn't take it out carelessly with his laughing fiancée around.
"Rein." He looked at her again and this time, with only the look in his eyes, she knew what he wanted her to do.
"Do it quickly and tell her to put it away."
She didn't have a very good expression right now. And she walked back after saying that quickly, so it was easy to tell she didn't want to be here when he took that thing out.
She was stronger now, physically and mentally, but still, she preferred avoiding his <Drop of natural recovery> fertilizer. That thing was still the most disgusting thing for her in the world.
But for a plant, it was nothing less than holy water.
So, as soon as Eon took out a very tiny crystallized version of that thing, the blue eyes of the blue rose lit up and she looked at him with a new different expression than anger.
[ "I know he has made a mistake but, I believe he didn't know they were your children, or even that they were energy beasts and not 'flowers'.
As you can tell, he is innocent. And yes I agree he should be punished for that but, what you have already done is plenty, no?
Just look at him. He's weak, not particularly liked by Mana or nature, and he's just normal, right?
We can talk with your master but, if you have heard of us, we are special guests of the lord father, and also the Queen, so I request you to understand.
Just tell us what kind of punishment you want for him, and he will make sure to repent. And he knows what wrong he had done so he is and will be sorry for that.
Please consider this as a token of our apology and please, just overlook this one mistake of his." ]
It was a request, but, the Roselisa was instantly charmed by the little green crystal in his hand.
"Peeeeep…"
[ "It is yours, of course. Just give us that boy. We need him." ]
"Peeeeeep… ppep! Peeeeep! Pep! Peeee-pe-p!"
[ "Of course. He will be forbidden from that area itself. You do not have to worry about that." ]
"Peeep… Pep!"
After giving Eon a last sad expression, she kicked the boy and he flew back and crashed into the tree behind them.
-Dhum!
"Pep."
She extended her leaf-like hand and asked for the unique thing that was nothing like anything she had seen in her entire life.
[ "Ahh. Please store-" ]
Eon wanted to tell her to put it away but, the rose, without waiting, just put the little crystal in her mouth and gulped it down.
"Eh?"
It was his first time giving his unique fertilizer to a plant-based energy beast so he didn't know what would this thing do to her.
He knew there shouldn't be any problems or strange changes considering the little dosage but, he was still looking forward to what would happen to this rose.
But, after it ate it, there wasn't much change in the creature, aside from the change of her look that now seemed to be high on ecstasy.
'It's… not good for them.' He knew something new about his unique fertilizer now. And though he would have loved to check what a greater dose of it could do to the plant creatures and if it could cause any physical change, he knew this was neither the right place nor the right time to do that.
So, without waiting for Rein to come back here, he slipped back, picked up the fat boy easily, bowed to the rose, and gave his goodbye to all the creatures present there, that thankfully thought nothing could be wrong here since Eon possessed such high affinity with nature, and slipped away from that place.
He was hoping she could remember their little deal after coming out of her little fantasy world… or there were others that listened to their conversation anyway so they would be fine, so!
The rescue of the fat boy, Ball Marvin, the one that possessed a special innate skill to control gravity and a latent talent for fighting and protection, was successfully carried out.
And though he had been hurt a little, he was safe now.
They were out of a complicated situation that they knew wasn't fully concluded just yet. But for now, they were at least out of the immediate problem.
And the one that caused them to burn this much energy on this fine afternoon, was just about to wake up from his little, painful slumber…
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