The Escapades
Episode 41

“Stupid basis! Do you want to make me die? Let go of me!” he kept shouting until it made all the clan residents gather in front of the cave door.

But they did not notice it at all, their eyes instantly locked on the tree inside the cave especially on the fruit. They all began to gulp with great difficulty when recalling the taste.

   “What is this? Quickly let go of my father, do not know manners!” Dranxi came and directly attacked, but it only took one move and she was already crippled by one of the fighters.

Dranxi was made to kneel on the ground with her hands tied behind her back. While Draco was old, standing there with a rope wrapped around his entire body.

   “What happened?” Heaven whispered to ask Paula as she was already standing next to him with her innocent face.

   “Stupid! Clean your face first,” Paula growled when she saw there was juice still left around Heaven's chin.

Heaven did not say anything, he just gulped wide and started grumbling at the juice marks from the fruit he had eaten earlier.

The sun slowly descended and the sky gradually darkened.

But the faces of the warriors as well as the inhabitants of the Lizardman clan were as bright as the sun during the day. Heaven and the others were distributing the fruit from the nobilis tree. They all went into the cave and did not care at all if they had to cram, although the cave was quite spacious but the sense of tightness due to the crowd was unavoidable.

   “Quiet, there is enough fruit for everyone,” said Riander as the mob began scrambling to retrieve the fruit from his hands.

   “Thank you,” said the little Lizardman with hair in front of two on both sides.

   “Sama-sama!” Paula leaned over to extend her hand touching the top of the little Lizardman's head.

The little girl of the Lizardman clan smiled sweetly, leaving Paula angrily half-dead. She was really cute and sweet, if she could Paula wanted to wrap it up and bring it home for herself.

There was a lot of happiness that night that emanated from the faces of the clan residents, one by one they felt like they were drifting as they bit the sweet nobilis fruit. It melted when it entered the mouth.

While on the other hand, Draco was already limp and had no more energy to shout when he saw Heaven endlessly continuing to pluck his nobilis fruit from the tree branches. He kept picking it and did not stop until the nine large fruit baskets were filled with nobilis.

Draco cried inwardly as he saw how many of his clan had eaten his fruit. He wanted to get angry but he did not dare, he did not even dare to breathe too hard when he saw Riander's gaze especially the ice-cold gaze of the white-haired human standing next to him since earlier.

   “Wira!” Paula came up to him and thrust one of the orange pieces at him.

The hero said nothing and simply picked it up, but Paula remained standing there with eyes full of twinkle as if there were many stars there.

The hero looked at her confusedly, so Paula used her eyes to code that she wanted the Hero to also eat the fruit. At first Wira was not interested in the fruit at all, but because Paula kept pushy and acted like a dog wagging its tail as she stared at Wira. The hero finally agreed.

He opened his mouth slightly and bit him a little, but Paula looked dissatisfied at all.

   “What is it? Lookie! Everyone eats it with pleasure, but you, you just bit it a little bit. That's very little even an ant won't be full!” his mouth while poking his lips in front of the Hero.

   “Hey! Don't force others if he doesn't want to.”

Heaven had already finished picking the fruit to fill some baskets belonging to the Lizardman clan. He walked towards where Wira and Paula were, behind him also seen Liam and Bella follow.

This goddamn hero! How could she resist her good intentions, Paula even specifically left one of the most beautiful fruits with perfect maturity just for her. He even had a fight with one of the residents to be able to get the fruit. But Wira really doesn't appreciate it! Huh, Paula is really upset.

He folded his hands in front of his chest and threw away his face.

   “It's done all?” Asked Riander who came last on them.

   “Already!” They answered in unison.

Their gaze then descended on Draco who was sitting limp on the ground, he leaned on the root of the nobilis tree with a sorrowful look mixed with annoyance.

Draco instantly goosebumps as he looks up and sees the horrifying gaze that Riander and his team gave him.

   “A-what do you want?” tanyanya was nervous. His heart was racing especially when one by one they started to grin with sinister faces.

   “What else? You guys have taken my tree, do you want my life too?!” he snaps with anger. Although there was fear in his heart but he still had to maintain his pride as a clan leader.

Heaven sneered, “What is your life really worth?” Paula, Liam and Bella nodded like they already knew the answer.

   “Your tree?” The hero bowed to look at the clan leader up close, it made Draco gulp his saliva nervously.

Before long, Wira re-enforced her body as she said coldly, “Something that belongs to the clan and the residents should not be privately owned.”

Draco became tense when he heard that and as if realizing something, his eyes then looked at the residents of the Lizardman clan across from them. They all look happy, Draco's heart becomes full of excitement as he sees a cheerful laugh and a flash of happiness that they usually only show at festivals.

He originally did not intend to have a nobilis tree for himself, he kept it well for their future generations so that their children and grandchildren could still eat that magical fruit in the future. But greed suddenly appeared and made him forget his original purpose and instead make a big mistake. There was water in his eye sack and there were many regrets that suddenly came from within his heart and made him feel claustrophobic.

   “Aware of your mistake now?” ask Riander.

Draco nodded, his tears fell and he could not remove them as he was still tied up. So he let it down like a small river had been present on both of his old cheeks.

Upon seeing that sincerity, they untied her and Draco quickly wiped away her tears. After all he was still the leader of the great Lizardman clan, where could he be a crybaby.

   “We just want to make you aware of your mistake, because everything is done we will go.”

Riander and his team then turned to leave, but Draco quickly stopped them.

   “Day is dark, the gas from the swamp is very active at night,” explained Draco with his voice of age-consuming raccoons.

   “It is better to wait until tomorrow morning,” he said again timidly.

After some hesitation, Riander finally agreed to stay there until tomorrow morning. Moreover, when he saw that Heaven and the others already looked extremely tired, he couldn't possibly force them to continue on the journey let alone outside it would definitely be extremely dangerous.

   “Good, sorry to trouble again then,” said Riander. Draco just gave a small nod then called Joe and told him to prepare a temporary residence for them.