“Divine Fruit (神果)?”
Hearing the Turtle’s words, I shook my head in puzzlement. I’d heard of a Sacred Tree, but I’d never heard of a Divine Fruit.
‘Just from the words, it sounds like a fruit that grows on a Sacred Tree.’
If that’s the case—
‘Does that mean that tree was also a Sacred Tree?’
It seemed to imply that the tree I saw back then was a Sacred Tree too.
‘What is this?’
It was strange.
‘It was way too small.’
It was far too small to call a Sacred Tree. Even putting that aside—
‘…Which Sacred Tree would it be?’
Of the five Sacred Trees the old man described, which one was it supposed to be?
‘It wasn’t all that far, either.’
The location was relatively close to Yawol. Of course, there’s a chance Yarang carried me on his back and went far, far away—but I judged that wasn’t the case.
The reason was—
‘The timing doesn’t add up.’
When he carried me, and when I opened my eyes I was back where I’d been.
If you consider how much time passed during that process, it couldn’t have been…