🌹The Crimson Tyrant: Chapter 10

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Once lunch and classes were over, the quartet of students and their talking cat gremlin walked around the school and headed into the forest behind campus. Just as Trey had said, there were trees just practically brimming with chestnuts. Grim couldn't stop drooling at the sight of them.

With that many trees, it would be enough to cover the 300 tarts they needed to make for the Unbirthday Party. "Whoa! There really are chestnuts all over the place here! With this many, we could have all-you-can-eat Mont Blanc...Hehe!" Grim chuckled as he hurried over towards the tree that was closest to them.

He climbed up onto the branch and grinned at the nuts that have fallen on the ground. "Ah, wait, Grim! Be careful, chestnuts have-!" Alice tried to warn their feline friend, but she was too late. "Let's get picking—Oww!!" Grim exclaimed as he tried to pick up the chestnuts, only to yowl in agony.

 "Let's get picking—Oww!!" Grim exclaimed as he tried to pick up the chestnuts, only to yowl in agony

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Now his little paw pads were painfully stuck onto the spiky husks of the chestnuts. "Ffgna! The thorns pricked my paw!" he shouted as he shook the chestnuts off his paws.

"Oh, you poor thing." Alice said sympathetically as she cradled Grim's paws tenderly, causing him to wince. Alice then gently rubbed the sore paw pads before lightly kissing them, causing the little feline-like monster to blush slightly. "There. Does that feel any better?" she asked sweetly.

"Uh... y-yeah," Grim answered, a bit bashfully. "I mean, not that it hurt in the first place, y'know! It really didn't!" Ace and Kira both snickered at how flustered the little furball got, the former lightly nudging the latter in the side with his elbow.

"It doesn't seem like we can pick them up with our bare hands. It'd be handy to get a basket or something to put them in, as well." Deuce said. "Wouldn't the botanical garden have stuff like that?" Ace suggested. "Let's go take a look." Deuce replied.

The trip to the botanical garden was short, and as soon as they stepped through the glass doors of the domed building, the girls found themselves stunned by the appearance and the sheer, majestic size of the botanical garden.

The trip to the botanical garden was short, and as soon as they stepped through the glass doors of the domed building, the girls found themselves stunned by the appearance and the sheer, majestic size of the botanical garden

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The botanical garden was like an enormous jungle and was in the perfect temperature for all the plants and flowers. A small clear river flowed throughout the garden with several bridges left and right. All around them, there were tropical plants all over the place.

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