Chapter 10

Treepod Adventure  (コボク・アドベンチャー, Koboku adobenchā) is the 10th chapter of the Dai Dark manga series.

Characters

 * Avakian
 * Zaha Sanko
 * Shimada Death

Summary
Six years ago, Zaha made Shimada's model for homework. Some kids surround him, wanting to take his skull package, but see the model and take it. They beat Zaha and the kid eventually brakes Shimada's model, commenting there is no way he has friends. Other kids see a Photoleum approaching and the kids run. As they leave, Zaha comments that he didn't even felt their attacks due to the Skin of Darkness, but he will need to remake the model. Back at his room, Zaha remakes Shimada's figure, while Avakian comments that Shimada is "Death" himself and he must hope to not see him again, however Zaha sleeps while dreaming of Shimada.

The next day, the kids see an abandoned ship drifting in space known as a "junk ship. They comment its unknown from where it came or what era, but has treasure on it, with Zaha guessing there are bones on it. The Photoleum informs them that they will be visiting a star today using the Treepod. He explains it is property of the Photosfere, so there are no spacelings or danger on it. The teacher tasks the kids to split in small groups and write a report about it, but as Zaha has no friends, he wants to write the report alone and is allowed. One of the kids made fun of Zaha for that, but in that moment Shimada Death appears and steps on the kid. Mx. Photoleum detects unauthorized pretense and attempts to activate the alarm mode, but Shimada uses one of his abilities on it, shrinks himself, and causes it to register him as one of the new students. Shimada explains that he was in the garbage ship eating antique Flesh of Death and decided to visit Zaha and gives him bones from the ship.

The Photosfere kid tries to invite Shimada to his group, but moments later everyone is put to sleep. Some men the enter the ship, commenting they were trying to kidnap kids from the Treegun and can't believe how easy it was to enter the Treepod. As they are about to start kidnapping the sleeping kids, Zaha, Avakian and Shimada are awake, with Zaha commenting he will give Shimada a feast. Zaha then starts killing the men and taking their bones. Avakian realizes that Shimada knew of their presence and tells Zaha that Shimada purposely took control of Mx. Photoleum, making them go out and invite the kidnappers, so that he can eat some fresh meat, but Zaha is fine with that as he got some bones.