Chapter 499: Fubuki's Visit

Somewhere in the middle of a quiet mountainous area.

Here, a tree grows in the form of giant tentacles, intertwined in an area thousands of meters in circumference.

If you look closely, you can see milky white orbs, like spider cocoons, hanging from the tree branches.

In the very center of the forest.

Here was a humanoid tree, standing on the ground, its feet visible as thick roots driven into the earth, stretching who knows how far, a puppet of the sacred Pain tree created by Yeruashi.

Not far from this tree, on a trunk, Lilith, her snow-colored hair falling neatly, was lying down.

Suddenly.

The sacred tree Pain opened his eyes.

"Lilith, go find more monsters, about ten of them, with the same life force as the previous ones, or something stronger."

"Yes, father."

Lilith opened her eyes and flew down from the treetops, bowing softly to the Sacred Tree Pain, then retreated and disappeared into a dark spatial passage.

A few moments later.

With a wave of her hand, she launched a dozen monsters.

As Sacred Tree Pain looked up at the sky, a large number of roots rose up and spat a large amount of milky liquid toward the monsters.

The milky liquid dragged all the monsters at once, and one by one they hung, like prey caught by a spider, around the forest.

Grrrrr!!!

The monsters enveloped in the milky liquid struggled, but were soon completely absorbed by the power of the sacred tree, becoming the sustenance of the sacred tree Pain, and began to transform into White Zetsu.

Once this was done, Yeruashi manipulated the Sacred Tree Pain to close his eyes once again and let him fall back into a deep sleep.

...

City C.

The Crown Resort Hotel.

By an open pool, Yeruashi, who was lying there wearing sunglasses and basking in the sun, sat up and took them off.

"It's progressing very fast, it looks like it will be in the growth phase in less than three days and, at this rate, it could reach maturity in half a month."

Yeruashi cast a thoughtful look.

He stood up, walked to the pool, stretched his body, struck a perfect pose and then jumped into the open-air pool.

The jump was so perfect that it produced only a small splash, and he submerged like a fish for a while before rising to the surface.

At the side of the pool.

A beautiful woman with curly blonde hair approached, with a twinkle in her light blue eyes, and said, "Nice move, you're quite a good swimmer."

Yeruashi smiled brightly and said, "Not bad."

The curly-haired blonde beauty smiled and said, "If that's good, then I don't know what's good enough, my personal trainer doesn't have that level of skill either.... Do you want to come over for a drink?"

Yeruashi swam to the opposite side of the pool, stopped and said nonchalantly, "Sorry, a guest will be coming to me soon."

"It's like this..."

The curly-haired blonde beauty looked at Yeruashi, flashed a smile and said, "Then come have a drink with me tonight if you are free, I live in 003."

Yeruashi replied politely, "If you have time, I'll buy you a peach."

"... huh?"

The blonde was slightly dumbfounded and said, "Okay."

Although she didn't quite understand Yeruashi's words, it must have meant that she would be invited to dinner, right? It had been a long time since she had met a man so impressive at first sight.

Seeing him jump back into the pool, she got up, grabbed her sunglasses and headed towards the hotel.

As she passed the entrance.

She encountered a short-haired woman in a dark swimsuit walking in front of her, and she startled slightly as she passed and then looked back.

"That woman..."

"Looks like the B-class, rank 1 heroine, Fubuki?"

She pondered briefly, but didn't dwell too long, her father was one of the shareholders of the Hero Association, and even S-class heroes were common, so she didn't pay much attention to them.

And just as he stepped through the revolving door and disappeared into the open-air pool, Fubuki took an even glance across the pool and then took a step in one direction.

Soon.

He approached the edge of the pool.

In the pool directly in front of her, the water was so clear that she could see Yeruashi's figure diving in from far away and finally emerging at the edge of the pool in front of her.

Floating in the water, he looked up and saw a pair of soft, white feet and round, slender ankles.

If you look up, you can see two raised twin peaks, and if you look past the twin peaks, you can see a pair of jewel-like emerald eyes, calmly looking down at him with their heads down.

The eyes of the two came into contact.

Yeruashi smiled calmly, without any surprise, and said, "At last the guest has arrived, Miss Fubuki."

Yeruashi's words caused a small ripple in Fubuki's eyes, her brow furrowed slightly as she said, "You knew I was coming?"

"Yes."

"I just saw that you were coming in the future."

Yeruashi smiled nonchalantly, approached the edge of the pool and, with a gentle pressure, slid out of the water, landed at the edge of the pool, wiped the water off his face and walked over to the lounger next to him.

Seeing this scene, Fubuki frowned deeply, then snorted softly and said, "You're too stingy to use that kind of language to stress me out."

Yeruashi smiled slightly.

He did not respond to Yeruashi's words, but walked over to the lounger, sat down, took a sip of the juice that a waiter had brought him, and said, "What did you want to see me about? By the way, you'll have to hurry up a bit, because in about ten minutes there's going to be a disaster in the city, and I have to go and sort it out first."

"..."

Fubuki frowned.

Arrogant!

Crazy!

He didn't pay attention to her at all!

He took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, stood gracefully and stared at Yeruashi, slowly saying.

"As a B-class hero, I heard that someone had overlooked me and was recognized as an A-class hero by the Hero Association, so I came to pay a visit."

"But now I'm a little disappointed, I didn't expect that the one who skipped me for promotion to class-A was a guy who just talked nonsense, it seems that everyone in the association was fooled by you."