Ohanabatake no Maousama

The way back is dark, so be prepared for the lights .. The place where the monsters told you was behind the lord's residence.

“What's in this place?” Standing in front of the monster-grown green wall, not listening to the Lord's muttering. The mountain, where no huntsmen could enter, had little road, and the shrubs hindered progress.

However, the monster told him nothing to do. "Please open the way"

Then how about the grass and trees moving themselves and starting to make a path? To cause such a thing with just one word, rather than chanting a magic, is a scene that can only be considered a fairy. ...... Actually, the plants around here were magically applied in advance, but the lord did not know it.

The monster walks gently through the untouched mountains, heading to the top of the mountain. The lords followed quietly, and by sunset, they reached the highest point of the mountain.

"Hmm, it looks like this is the top. Please wait for a while." With the words of the monster, the surrounding trees move toward the foot and the visibility near the top of the mountain improves. This resulted in only short grasses growing around, but someone suddenly noticed something abnormal.

"… Ah, this is it? Pepper !?" If you look at it, all the grass that you thought was a whole-grown grass was the sprouted peppercorns. All the peppercorns whose feet grew and fled from the city had gathered here.

"This is what the monster is telling us to show," said the lord muttering.

"Now, peppers. It's time to become one with me!" With the shout, the pepper buds began to grow and grow all at once. The extended vines all wrap around the body of Montes Q, forming a giant green cocoon.

At the moment when the sun completely disappeared from the horizon, the giant vines began to stretch toward the heavens as they pierced the cocoon while making a belly and buzzing sound. The vines grow faster and faster, increasing in thickness, piercing through clouds like a bean tree in a fairy tale, and aiming further upwards. I can no longer see the tip of the vine from below.

The lords look up at the sky as if they were stunned, but the voice of a monster resounds from their ears.

"Listen, Son of Man. The curse of the earth can no longer be solved by anyone. However, it is too pathetic to keep this city being called the Cursed City. So I will be the guardian of the city in this place, turning the curse of the earth into another. ''

How merciful! No way to save this city from curses until you transform yourself into something like this! However, it seems that the curse itself will not disappear just by changing the effect. You won't be relieved until you hear the changed results.

"Well, what is the curse on the city !?" The only cursed effect is the pepper that has been moved to my location. In other words, pepper moved away from me will not be cursed. '

In response, the lord clouded his face.

"Yes, but ... then you won't be able to bring pepper into the city. After reprimanding merchants, can't residents of this city use pepper ?!"

Then we cannot wipe out the image of a cursed city. The inability to handle pepper will cast a dark shadow on the future of the city.

But the monster immediately denied it.

Cosmic "Okay. That's why I became this huge pepper tree. From now on, if the pure heart of your blood prays, I will make pepper rain everywhere in the city. The city no longer needs to seek pepper from anywhere else as long as I can. Rather, you can make a profit by selling excess pepper to nearby towns. "

I was so impressed that there was a groan of emotion from the mouths of those who were present. And the monster began to tell them what to do.

"Is it OK? If you sell the pepper you just sold, pray to me. And then it rains pepper, plunges the pepper market in the city and punishes the merchants. Also give the common people pepper. You can't sell pepper, but there's no law not to give it free of charge. "

That alone cannot kill the merchants deadly, but it can help the commoners. In addition, let the merchants bring the curse from the earth to the fore, and spread that the curse has been blessed by the fairy who appeared before the lord. The lord's reputation will rise and the merchant's image will crash to the bottom of hell.

"A tip for you. I say that revenge should be done slowly and surely. "" ... advice, I'm sorry. "I don't want merchants to die right away. If that happens, the city's economy will be in turmoil.

You have to look out for young and talented merchants who don't like to work with them first. Then grow young shoots and turn them into large trees. Just like a pepper tree in front of you.

-Both merchants must be moderately wounded and gradually decay and die as a nursery for new trees. The lord secretly licked his tongue and wondered how to cook the dreadful merchants.

The story of one man's revenge begins here.