In front of the human-faced fruit tree.

A pig-headed monster about two or three meters tall slowly walked into the human-faced fruit tree, and then picked two fruits from the fruit tree covered with human-faced fruits and put them in his mouth.

Let's chirp, chirp.

The human face fruit, the size of a human head, was eaten by it in this way.

"Catch some more humans, and then grow more human face fruits, as long as I keep eating them, I can become a big monster, hahaha, my luck is really good, I can find such a powerful fruit tree."

The pig-headed monster is fat, and the demon body is like a ball, and it doesn't look like a powerful monster at all.

However, there was only one youkai here, but suddenly a second voice was heard.

"Yes, as long as you give me more human nutrients, then I can give you more fruit and more power."

The one who made this sound was the human-faced fruit tree in front of the pig demon, although it had no eyes and mouth, and it only looked like a dark-colored tree, but it did speak.

The human-faced fruit tree is also a monster.

"Okay, okay, I know, I'll catch more humans, I've eaten so many fruits, ordinary mages are just my food, and no one can stop me."

The pig-headed monster snorted coldly, and was able to say, 'No one can stop me,' and it seemed confident in its power.

"Then good luck, you have killed so many people, there will definitely be exorcists, witches and other demon slayers to come and catch you, and you may even be targeted now, and when you die, I will not be able to move," the human-faced fruit tree seemed to remind the pig demon.

"The exorcist, it's just a stronger human, the witch, it's just a weak woman, it's better for a woman to come, hahaha" The empty-eyed pig demon didn't take the reminder of the human-faced fruit tree in his eyes, and even his tone was a little excited when he heard that there was a witch.

It seems that he is still looking forward to the arrival of a shrine maiden.

"Alas, I hope there won't be a powerful demon slayer coming."

After saying this, the human-faced fruit tree stopped making a sound.

……

Xia Ruo and Tsubaki walked all the way up the river, and then at the bottom of a cliff, they found a lot of fallen human face fruits, and it seemed that the human face fruits fell from above.

If it fell from the mountain, then the human face fruit tree should be on the top of the mountain.

The location is found, but how to get up? If you want to climb a mountain, how long do you have to climb?

"It's so high! This mountain is too steep, it doesn't look like it can be climbed at all, how did that monster come down and catch people," Xia Ruo looked up at the towering peak, a little puzzled.

"Maybe youkai can fly, that's normal," Tsubaki looked at the location of the mountain with a solemn face, and she felt a hint of danger from the position of the mountain.

"I could feel a strong evil aura, and a sense of unease."

Hearing Tsubaki say this, Xia Ruo's face also became a little more serious, since Tsubaki said so, then the monster on the top of the mountain is really dangerous, after all, the fog demon he met last time, in Tsubaki's mouth, is just a little monster with strange abilities.

"Since you all feel the danger, it's very likely to be a powerful monster, why don't we go back and prepare well first, find some helpers or something," Xia Ruo's first thought was to stabilize first.

It's not cowardice, it's steady.

Preparation is Xia Ruo's character, he doesn't like to challenge something he is not sure of, and he doesn't like to fail, let alone something that can die in the real world, even if it is playing a game.

Xia Ruo once played a game to fight a black dragon boss, and prepared the resources and consumables that could slaughter the three black dragons before fighting the black dragon.

"There's nothing to prepare for, and preparation can't improve much combat power, since it's already here, there's no need to be afraid."

Obviously, Tsubaki is not the same person as Xia Ruo, she is the one who has come through countless dangers.

Since Tsubaki said so, Xia Ruo had no way to persuade her, so she could only support her decision in this case.

"Then let's go together, and I'll protect you as much as I can when the time comes."

Hearing Natsu's words to protect herself, the corners of Tsubaki's mouth hooked slightly, but her smile quickly put away, as if nothing had happened.

Tsubaki shook his head, then looked at Xia Ruo, with a rare hint of tenderness in his tone, "But this demon removal is indeed a bit dangerous, I can't take care of you if I bring you, so you just wait for me here obediently." ”

Well?

Obedient?

Xia Ruo always felt that Tsubaki's tone of voice to herself now seemed to be talking to a wayward child, and she couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth, what did this mean, she always felt that from her words and tone, the relationship between the two was obviously closer than before.

But did the shrine maiden think of herself as a vexatious child?

"I can be a helper too!"

"Good, obedient."

“……”

Burst!

Tom covered his mouth again, but it was obviously too late, and the laughter was already out.

Xia Ruo wanted to say something, but Tsubaki was obviously worried about him and didn't want to take him anymore, only to see Tsubaki pull out a paper figure from somewhere, and then with a flick of two white fingers, the paper man turned into a giant bird and flew into the sky carrying Tsubaki.

Tsubaki flew away, and Xia Ruo could only stand in place powerlessly.

"Just flew away?" Xia Ruo looked at the towering mountain peaks blankly, he just wanted to climb the mountain to catch up, it is estimated that halfway through the climb, the matter has been solved.

"Meow."

Tom tried to comfort his master, he thought it was good, Tom didn't like to fight such terrifying monsters, although it seemed that those monsters were stupid, not as good as it.

"You really didn't take me."

This kind of demon removal daily with a small plot, don't you even plan to give a shot?

Tsubaki left directly without taking himself with him, in fact, Xia Ruo was not very angry, after all, he could feel that Tsubaki was worried about himself, but Xia Ruo was more worried about Tsubaki's safety at this time.

After all, in the original work, Tsubaki's fame is quite big, and he blows it very strongly, but the record is really a bit embarrassing, no one has ever fought, and the combat performance is even more embarrassing than the record, and he was beaten by all kinds of tricks.

As the saying goes, the blackening is twice as strong, and the whitewashing is three points weaker, but Tsubaki's performance is not very strong after blackening, and the most eye-catching thing in the whole plot is just a curse on the bellflower, and then he has been abused, pulled by the bellflower's hair, and cursed by Kagome's rebound. In layman's terms, it looks awesome, but it always rolls over.

All kinds of black history made Xia Ruo involuntarily want to worry about her.

"I'm so worried about Tsubaki," Xia Ruo was really worried, but looking at this steep mountain wall, he really couldn't climb it.

"If only I could fly."

"Meow."

"Huh? Tom, how dare you mock me! ”

Xia Ruo frowned and glanced at Tom, who was doing nothing next to him, and suddenly had a good idea in his mind.