Pickle for your thoughts? (Dungeon meshi x reader)

Well, things could be worse

⚠️WARNING: From here on there will be MANGA SPOILERS so if you haven't read the manga I HIGHLY suggest you do because it's peak. You can find the manga online and start reading from chapter 53!⚠️

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Old friends.

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Kabru looked at the barometz in front of him with an hand on his chin. "So. . .is this a monster or. . ." He muttered with a slight edge on his tone as his blue eyes slowly trailed toward the pitch black ones of a short gray-haired elf by his side. Mithrun said nothing for a couple of seconds, looking at the sheep in disguise with a rather blank look.

"Barometz are vegetables that grows on a terrain rich of mana" his deep monotone voice came through his chipped lips not portraying any type of feeling on the matter. "So they are not a monster? Who eat these anyway?" Kabru repeated tilting his head as his eyes narrowed back on the monster-vegetable-animal.

"It depends. Some carnivores people won't eat it because they consider it a plant and vegetarians won't eat it because they consider it an animal"

"This mean. . ."

"No one eats it"

Kabru reflected on his words deeply, closing his eyes to concentrate better. Then, with a quick 'fuck it' he embraced the sheep, trying to get it off the plant "Well if it's not a monster then I have no problems eating it"

"Though technically since it grows inside the dunge–"

"Not a monster!"

He was tired of having to eat those damn creatures crawled from the deepest layers of hell. No way. He won't re-live his damn trauma by eating the cause of Utaya's fall, his home. . .sure someone could see it as some sort of form of revenge but not Kabru. He refuse to become like that psychopath of Laios!

Just the thought of those omelet made by harpies eggs. . .

If he must he will eat Barometz until the rest of the Canaries will find them.

"By the way dire wolves are usually the primary predators of mature Barometz." As Kabru brought his sword out to cut the base of the sheep his body immediately froze. Silently he whipped his head toward the short elf, his expression drenched in worry. Why didn't he said that earlier!? And not even a second passed that low growls reached his ears, making his body stiffened like a wooden plank.

As he cut the Barometz down a pack of twelve wolves suddenly came out from the forest around them and quickly surrounded their figures. The animals bared their teeth, saliva dripping down their mouth at the sight of the mature sheep. "Woah!" Kabru exclaimed taking a step back and clunching the just acquired food in his arms.

There was no fucking way he will give up the only normal looking food he was able to find. If he have to eat one more walking mushroom he would genuinely be like 'fuck it' and let the Canaries do whatever they wanted with his party. I'm sorry but that poor boy was already stressed out on his own, one more brick and he is gonna collapse.