Chicken-Matango

is a King Trumpet-Type Mushroom, a species that has the most unique and potent abilities of all the types of mushrooms, being able to shrink other creatures when in danger.

Appearance
Chicken-Matango has a form of a giant mushroom with deep black eyes.

Personality
Chicken-Matango are very timid, and largely avoid being seen by humans. When in danger, they manage to escape by releasing spores that shrink other creatures.

Plot
After Meliodas, Ban, King, and Hawk leave for Vaizel, Elizabeth and Diane head into the forest to find ingredients for dinner, where the princess finds a Chicken-Matango. Diane, considering it an ingredient, tries to grab it, but the creature, realizing itself to be in danger, releases spores that shrink both of them, allowing Diane to enter the Fight Festival in Vaizel.

Abilities and Equipment
These mushroom-like creatures' spores possess an ability of shrinking other creatures, an ability that is the most potent and unique of the abilities possessed by the spores of all other mushroom-like creatures. The effect lasts approximately half a day.

Trivia

 * The term "Matango" certainly pays homage to  "Matango"  (マタンゴ), a 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda in which a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms.