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“Isn’t that a little harsh? Besides, they may not obey us.”

“Then what can be done? Are you going to go in that room and pick up those slimy things and stuff them into sacks?”

“Don’t even joke about that! Just the thought of touching those things makes my skin crawl!!”

Everyone could agree with that.

 

But there was nothing that they could do.

They would have to wait for Kuders to reach the revolutionary idea he was searching for. And then he would stop this eerie ritual of his.

 

It was as the guards came to this defeatist conclusion.

 

“Ah…”

“Hey, wait!!”

Someone had just walked passed the guards.

And without a moment’s hesitation, the intruder stepped right into the cell that had become Kuders’s own demon world.

 

“I thought it was strange that you were staying quietly in your room for once, and this is what I find!? How dare you fill this cell with such disgusting things! Damn you!!”

He shrieked as he trampled over the squirming flowers. It was the man with the angry eyes that had pushed Kuders into this cell on the first day.

 

“Ah, Mister Zanahoria. You must excuse me, I’m very busy right now.”

“It’s not Zanahoria! Zanatoria!”

Kuders smiled and raised a hand towards him. The man name Zanatoria had short orange hair, just like a carrot. And he now mercilessly swung his fist at Kuders.

 

“That hurts!”

“You invited it with your words.”

“But I think Zanahoria suits you. It’s easy to remember because your hair is like a carrot.”

Kuders continued to nonchalantly unleash such inconsiderate words, and so Zanatoria went behind him and grabbed him from the back.

Then…

 

“It’s not fine with meeeeee!!”

“Oooooooo!?”

Kuders was picked up and thrown back.

A corner of the dark and wet room thumped and shook as he fell to the ground.

 

“Wow. It is no wonder they call him Cabello Fuego. He stepped into that hell without hesitation and threw that nuisance to the slimy ground.”
“But…did he just hit his head? He could die.”

 

And yet, in spite of the guards’ concern, Kuders picked himself off of the sticky floor as if nothing had happened.

And then, without even trying to wipe away the goo that dripped from his hair, his eyes opened wide.

Shudder.

…There was such an abnormal light emanating from Kuders’s eyes that everyone shivered.

 

Oh, damn it! Has the blow to his head caused him to go mad?

Such thoughts raced through their minds. They stared at him with wide eyes, even as they backed away. And then Kuders opened his mouth and muttered.

 

“Yes. I have decided.”

“Eh? What is it you’ve decided? Have you decided to be sold off quietly?”

Zanatoria said with a mixture of ridicule and hope. However, Kuders’s response was as unpredictable as always.

 

“No, I’m going to plant some watermelons.”

Uh, what, you…why…watermelons?

The words were so confusing that the minds of everyone watching went completely blank.

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