Finding the Sacred Tree

Travel to the Land of Peri part 3

The animal I saw at first glance was the Bomb Pangolin. As the name implies, this animal can make a fairly large explosion depending on the size of the animal.

The characteristics of this bomb pangolin are like anteater in general, but the bomb pangolin has a black color and in the tail there is a slight red color.

Fortunately, what I saw at a glance was quite large in size and might have killed Crocland. Once I knew there was a Bomb Pangolin, I immediately threw my bag all the way and then I ran towards the bomb pangolin.

The bomb pangolin was seen walking leisurely. He still didn't realize I was going to catch him. Then when she realized there was the sound of footsteps approaching her. He looked back and saw me running towards him with a horrible face.

He finally realized that I was trying to catch him. He immediately fell down like a ball. He did that because he would immediately blow himself up and this could be dangerous, because when he had already exploded he would not be able to explode again.

So, I immediately ran as fast as I could to catch the pangolin. For him before the pangolin exploded I had already managed to catch him. But after I caught it, Crocland was already under me while opening his mouth wide.

Honestly, this is what I planned. I'm gonna blow myself up with Crocland. Crocland's scales are pretty hard, so if I blow it outside he'll be fine, and that's why I want to blow this bomb pangolin inside his soft body.

Because it's kind of hard to get Crocland to open his mouth. So I purposely made myself a bait for him to open his mouth. Of course, I will also be sent to the camp and hit by the explosion of the bomb pangolin, but I do not care, because later I will also come back to life.

That Crocland also devoured me along with the bomb pangolin. After I was devoured I immediately threw the Pangolin Bomb into his stomach. Shortly after, the pangolin exploded and made Crocland's stomach erupt like a balloon.

The net was scattered everywhere, blood splashed into the surrounding trees which made the trees become red.

Crocland is dead. He's not moving at all. His body split in two and scattered to different sides.

There I also died, my body was crushed like porridge. And as before when I died. I'm gonna meet that little boy.

Unlike before, when I died he would instantly revive me, but now he was just silent as he stared at me horribly.

"It seems that now you're underestimating death too much, man." He said that while walking away from me.

"Well, how else, you're the one who makes me immortal."

The little boy stopped walking and then faced me again.

"I didn't make you immortal, but you took someone else's life."

"What's!? Whatchu mean? I don't kill people at all, I just kill myself."

"No, you killed someone. Every time you kill yourself, someone else's life will drift to bring you back to life."

"You're kidding, right?"

The little boy simply fell silent and then he set foot on the ground firmly, and then a screen magically appeared. On the screen were two people in different places.

That one person was myself, while the other person I didn't know, was probably someone from another kingdom.

It was footage of me trying to kill myself in a dungeon, and one other person was walking leisurely through the streets of the city.

In the footage it appears that I was killing myself, when I killed myself. The other person who was walking leisurely, suddenly staggered and fell to the ground with blood coming out of his mouth.

After the man died, soon I came back to life. After the person dies, replace the footage of a different person. It was the same, I died, other people died and then I came back to life.

"Stop that, please stop that snippet."

"For all this time you've only taken people's lives you know."

"KUBILANG STOP!" I screamed so loud.

The little boy did not look scared at all, but he immediately stopped the footage by stomping his feet to the ground once more.

"From the beginning I didn't want this you know! You're the one who made me like this! If you don't like me committing suicide then why don't you just take this power!?"

"Can't! You still have to finish your mission."

"Mission? What mission? I don't remember you ever giving me a mission."

"The picture at that time."

"picture? You mean the picture of the seed at the time. What you want from the seed picture isn't clear that."

"Find that seed and give it back to me."

"Huh? Why do I have to do it? What's important to me? Why did you choose me anyway? why not someone else?"

"Because you promised me. You said you would grant 1 of my requests and you wouldn't give up until my request was granted."

"I never promised you anything you know. I've only met you a few times and I never remember I promised you that."

The little boy looked rather sad while bowing his head. Then then he raised his face and returned to his flat expression.

"Now you may not remember, but someday you will remember our promise in the pasture."

I didn't know what the little boy was saying, but when he said that, I somehow felt sad. As if I knew that promise.

"What do you mean...?"

When I wanted to ask more, suddenly there was a hole below me that made me fall inside. As I fell, I could hear the voice of the little boy talking to me from above, he said.

"Just don't keep dying, because maybe the next victim is the one closest to you."

It wasn't yelling at all, because I was used to falling like this. Without shouting, I can think clearly. So when the little boy said that, I immediately thought of my adoptive parents.

He may be right, if I die, my parents can take me as the next victim and of course I don't want that to happen.

*****

Soon I woke up in a pool of Crocland's blood. There I look fine, but I look very limp and like it's one of the consequences if you come back to life.

"I'm back to life, but there are lives that are lost to change my life. This time I have to take care of my life more carefully. I don't want anyone else to die because of me." I looked at my hands full of mucus and blood.