Soukoku: Double white || Transported to the TPN

Part 11

Running endlessly into the forest, all stop at a halt. The rising sun was in sight from the view on the cliff.

"This is our first independent morning...!"

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Letting Dazai go into a forest was a bad idea. Especially when you had to depend on him. 10 minutes in, Chuuya was fed up with Dazai's antics. He often stopped to try eating a new plant and now he has a rash on his arm which he wouldn't stop scratching.

Chuuya pulls some rope out of his pocket. Grabbing Dazai's hands, he takes the ropes and wraps them around, binding them to stop him from scratching and eating random things.

"Chuuya is quite kinky today~"

Chuuya attempts to kick Dazai but misses as the bandage wasting machine dodges to the right.

A puffed out little boy approaches the 2 older ones.

"Dazai, Chuuya, let's eat breakfast!"

In a click, Dazai removed the binds on his arm.

Being dragged by Domenic, the two follow him to the group.

Although given food, they both knew that food was a precious material and snuck the bread in their bags. Chuuya, who lived in the slums and Dazai, who lived in a shipping container, was quite used to not eating for a day.

All of a sudden...

The ground swallowed many people up, transporting them into an unknown biome.

(... At this rate, it will take forever to write down the dialogue so I will just rephrase the words into shorter sentences)

"Emma!"

"Emma!"

"Emma!"

Looking around the group, some children were missing. Emma, Ray and Thoma weren't with the rest of the group.

"GILDAAA!"

"It's Emma!"

"Emmaaaaa!"

The three walked towards the lamp.

"Thank God you're all okay!"

"Look, Emma!"

"What is this place?"

The 17 children stop and look around at the place they were in. It was filled with plants and covered with roots and bugs.

"Let's focus on getting out of here first," Emma advises, pulling a hanging root.

"No good... The roots are weak..."

"It will quite hard getting out of here..."

"Let's look for another exit for now."

"This place is weird..." Ray states, looking while walking slowly.

"Woah!"

A place, almost like a room, was revealed showing glowing plants and more roots.

"AHHHHHHH!" Nat yells in shock, pointing up to some hanging animals.

In realisation, Emma, Ray, Gilda, Chuuya and Dazai automatically grabbed whoever was nearby to them, closer to them, like a huddle.

Slowly all the children were corrected near the large stump, with the tentacle-like roots blocking the exit.

"W-what the hell...?"

"The trees and plants here seem to live of live prey," Ray explains, "They dropped us here and lead us to its hunting ground."

"Stay close," Emma advised.