Chapter 6 (2/2)

This forest seems to mostly have low level monsters, so the monsters I was attacking were all really small.

And they weren’t even ugly – they looked like baby bunnies or wildcats.

So, look.

Would you be able to hit a cat or a dog or a bunny?

If there’s a normal girl out there who likes beating up cats, please introduce me.

And it was even worse with insect-type monster.

I got so freaked out by them that I just couldn’t attack.

It was like, my body felt totally drained of energy.

Anyways the gra.s.shopper-like insect was flying around, so to try to shoo it off I picked up a stick and waved it around but then I hit the bug by accident.

I could feel the bug’s body being crushed under my hand… ugya~ｇｙ＆％＄＃＋＊！！！！！

I didn’t want to feel that kind of shock again so I threw my weapon (which was just a tree branch) away.

Which brings us to the subject of magic. I could kill using fire or ice.

[Fire]

[Blaze]

[Fireball]

With stuff like that I could burn.

And of course, I wouldn’t have to see a corpse!

As for ice…

[Ice Crash]

[Ice Dust]

[Frost Shatter] (TN: lit. “freeze and shatter”)

In an instant, the enemy would freeze up and then shatter into dust-like particles. There’s no corpse that way, either.

I didn’t chase after anything that ran from me.

There were normal animals in the forest too, like bunnies and foxes.

When they got too close to me, they would scurry away. So it was all OK.

On the other hand, monsters, no matter how weak, would attack me the moment they saw me.

Monsters were my enemy.

But like I said, I didn’t really want to kill them.

If they came at me, I had to fight. I’m too slow to be able to run away.

I didn’t want to die, so I had to kill.

I didn’t want to think about it too much, so I burned or shattered all the corpses.

Well, I know. It doesn’t really make a difference.

I, Kanzaki Misuzu, mind feeling like tofu, a reborn human, got to thoroughly experience the feeling of taking life away from a living thing. (TN: I’m blanking out right now on a better translation but the tofu part literally says “tofu mind”).

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