I'm a Goddess to Be Devoured by the Protagonist - Chapter 81

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Episode 81
Slurp. Slurp.
A moment later, I caught sight of a plant that looked like an inverted Venus flytrap, sucking someone down like a straw.
“Mm~ how adorable it is.”
What in the world was this carefree voice?
I brushed away the plant that had covered someone. Then the form of a god assumed to be Petal came into view.
He was a male god with a delicate frame and pale pink hair.
Petal, looking at us, made his discomfort plain across his entire face.
“Why did you pull me out? I was basking in the affection of my precious little one.”
Precious… little one?
The plant that had been sucking him down hardly deserved such a name. It was simply large and grotesquely formed.
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
A chill crept into my voice of its own accord. How utterly preposterous.
“Nonsense? That’s too harsh.”
Petal placed his hands on his hips and furrowed his brows.
What kind of god was this?
“Come now, my little one. Return to my embrace.”
Petal spoke to the monster resembling the Venus flytrap.
Looking at him more closely, his skin was scraped raw in places. The monster resembling the Venus flytrap seemed to be secreting a weak acidic fluid.
I couldn’t let him receive that affection again and die. I didn’t want anyone to die before my eyes.
Instead of trying to dissuade Petal, I decided to act. It seemed clear he wouldn’t listen to me anyway.
Screech!
The plant resembling the Venus flytrap lost its life to my Greatsword and collapsed.
“How dare you take the life of a plant before me. How wretched.”
I looked at Petal in disbelief.
Did this god not realize he’d nearly died? His body was dissolving in the acidic fluid.
“Are you saying you mistake monsters for ordinary plants?”
Even Sirius, finding this absurd, chimed in.
“Monster or not, something precious is precious all the same.”
At those words, Sirius realized that exchanging further words with Petal would be futile.
This time, I decided to ask the question.
“Why did you enter the Dungeon?”
“Just curious. But now that I see this landscape, I think it was the right choice to come in.”
Petal swept his hand around as he spoke.
Who would actually enjoy entering a Dungeon?
I looked at Sirius. He met my eyes in return.
The thought I saw reflected in his gaze differed not from my own.
‘A mad god.’
In any case, now that Petal had entered the Dungeon, we had to leave together. Or leave him alone in the Dungeon.
I didn’t know what would happen if someone were left alone in a Dungeon. No one in the Unraveling Journey had ever tried to remain in one alone.
“Follow us for now.”
“Very well. I must see more of this mysterious space.”
Fortunately, Petal seemed willing to follow without resistance.
We made our way slowly deeper into the Dungeon.
Before long, we came upon a withered sunflower.
“My, I should care for that.”
Just as Petal moved to step forward suddenly, the withered sunflower lifted its head.
Then seeds densely packed within it began firing off like bullets.
Rat-a-tat-tat!!
While the deafening sound rang out, none of us were struck by a single seed. Every last one had hit Petal.
No—not hit Petal himself, but the Flower Shield he had summoned took the full barrage.
“Quite aggressive, isn’t it?”
Petal murmured in a leisurely tone, as if the shield’s defensive power was considerable.
We had unexpectedly gained ourselves a tank.
“Oh! Seeds!”
Sapphire cried out in delight at the sight of sunflower seeds scattered on the ground. Seeing them, something came to mind.
“Hami.”
I called to Hami in a low whisper.
“Yes, Master? What is it?”
Hami, speaking in similarly hushed tones, popped out from the system window.
“These sunflower seeds here—do you think you and Sapphire can eat them?”
The sunflower seeds reminded me of Hami, who was a hamster, but I hesitated because they’d come from a monster, so I decided to ask.
“Wow, you’re thinking of me even inside the Dungeon? I’m so touched.”
Hami’s eyes sparkled as she looked up at me.
“So if you’re asking whether you can eat these sunflower seeds, the answer is yes.”
I picked up several of the giant sunflower seeds and gave them to Hami, who immediately set about cracking them open with glee.
I offered some to Sapphire as well, but she just rolled them around in her paws, playing with them rather than eating.
Perhaps she didn’t realize they were meant to be eaten.
Hami, using her tiny front teeth to crack one open, held it out to Sapphire. Sapphire sniffed at it and promptly gobbled it down.
“Master!”
Both of them were impossibly cute.
But wait—I shouldn’t be distracted right now.
“Poor thing. You’ve wilted, haven’t you?”
Petal used all the seeds and then channeled Divine Power into the drooping sunflower. Each time shimmering dust fell from his hand, I felt a gentle current of energy.
Was it really okay to leave him be? If something went wrong, the monster might come back to life.
“Oh my.”
Fortunately, nothing like that happened. It seemed that divine power and monster essence were opposing forces—in fact, it harmed the sunflower instead.
The flower’s bloom dropped clean off.
Petal appeared to be a god of plants or flowers, naturally viewing vegetation as children and caring for them instinctively.
“I’ll need to care for the other children earnestly.”
Petal spoke as he ventured deeper into the Dungeon.
Even so, the flowers’ attacks didn’t cease. Petal pressed forward, blocking each assault with his Flower Shield.
Thanks to this reliable tank we’d stumbled upon, none of us took a single hit.
It was a strange thing, really. No one had ever wished for a tank like this.
“I said I would protect you, and I’m sorry I haven’t been able to.”
In the meantime, Sirius was noticeably downcast.
“No, just having you beside me is reassuring enough.”
When I tried to comfort him, he looked at me with warm eyes.
“Why does everything die when my power touches it? It shouldn’t be possible.”
In his despair, Petal’s voice took on a despairing tone.
Did this god not even know what a monster was?
In any case, the three of us moved forward, following in Petal’s wake.
As we traveled together, we suddenly came upon an open clearing with something in it.
There were two large flowers with thick stems, and between them stretched a long rope.
[Times Rope Crossed: 0]
A system window appeared. I couldn’t make sense of it at first.
“You like those flowers?”
Petal stepped over the long, dangling rope.
That was when it happened.
Thwack!
“Ow!”
The rope struck Petal’s leg hard.
[Jump Rope failed.]
Jump Rope?
Only then did I grasp the purpose of that rope stretched between the flowers.
“Sirius, I think I might be able to handle this.”
“No. I can’t ask you to face something so dangerous.”
It was obvious Sirius had no idea what this was. Meanwhile, I had done a bit of jump rope at sports day back on Earth.
But first, let me deal with this cumbersome hair.
I left Sapphire with Sirius, hastily gathered up my long hair that had been dragging on the ground, and stepped into the rope.
Thwack!
Every time the rope hit the ground, I bounced higher.
Sirius watched me enter the rope with startled eyes, but his gaze quickly shifted to confusion.
I tried to interpret what he meant…….
‘Why are you so good at this?’
That’s roughly what it seemed to say.
Thanks, Earth’s sports day.
Even if jump rope practice had been tedious.
[Times Rope Crossed: 10]
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[Jump Rope Count: 30]
Huff… huff… but how much longer do I have to keep doing this?
Salvaging what’s left of office worker stamina.
Even Divine Power couldn’t help with exhaustion, so I was destined to jump rope forever.
The saving grace was that my expression still hadn’t changed. If my despair had shown on my face just then, Sirius might have destroyed the flowers connected to this rope.
[Jump Rope Count: 48]
Please. Just fifty. Let’s make it to fifty.
[Jump Rope Count: 50]
Whether my wish had reached the flowers or not, the rope stopped on the fiftieth bounce.
[Mission Clear]
[You have obtained a Flower Coin.]
[Current Flower Coins: 10]
As a reward for Jump Rope, I’d received something called a Flower Coin.
What kind of Dungeon has a system like this?
The system window told me I had ten coins, but it didn’t actually hand me physical currency.
Not knowing what they were for, I decided to just accept them as something good and move on.
The two enormous flowers that had held the rope had vanished.
I should be able to pass through here now. I retrieved Sapphire from Sirius.
Not that it mattered—Petal had already gone ahead to gawk at the flowers.
“What a pretty little thing.”
Just as Petal had said, there was a beautiful flower before him.
But then the flower moved, its form shifting.
Its true identity was an Orchid Mantis.
“Well, I wasn’t expecting an insect.”
The Orchid Mantis began raking its sharp front legs across all sides of Petal.
His Flower Shield could only protect what lay before him, so it couldn’t block all the attacks.

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