Vol 2 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Episode 5: A Get-Together (親睦会)

Dawn of the next day, after returning from the firefox village I find myself alone in the forest.

Being here for the third day, the Firefoxes food was in my opinion, portions of tossed away meat and potatoes the Elves didn’t eat. But that has reached its limit and now I have to find new game for them.

To addition to that, there is an event that is scheduled for noon today. The event is going to be using meat as part of it, so I need to be sure I get enough of it.

I need to work at reversing the negative impression the Elves have. Even though there is a proper amount of dried meat that is reserved in the village, for some reason people still believe that portions are being reduced because of the Firefoxes.

The reason for the portion being a problem is mutual, there is sympathy for the Firefoxes, but there is still some resentment.

I have to be careful of all the trivial things so that it doesn’t grow into a large fracture between the two.

The fix is easy. If I harvest enough game I can suppress and even remove that feeling of unfairness that everyone has.

I sharpen my senses.

「【Enhanced Perception】」

Mana integrates with wind as I activate my special magic that expands my perception. Even though the air is limited in this place, I can still obtain information from about 300 meters around me.

It is a very good, high level general purpose magic. Since Elves have an affinity for wind no other races are able to use this spell. Even if they could the difficulty is high enough that even Elves need considerable training. You do need the sense for it, if you don’t have the talent you can’t use it.

I showed Lucie how to do it. That girl has talent, but her form and ability right now is limited to a 100 meters. Recently, she has started to grasp the gist of it, so I think she is going to be improving faster.

「If I don’t find some game soon…」

I reinforce my body and jump between the trees while maintaining my【Enhanced Perception】, I confirmed using【Enhanced Perception】that there was no game nearby.

My hunting efficiency was remarkably higher compared to other Elves since I was moving at high speed and searching at the same time.

Other Elves use up considerable amount of time just searching for game.

「I found you!」

A round plump wild boar was about 250 meters ahead hiding in the bushes.

The bush is a blind spot which is certainly a place they can hide in. But as long as there is air in the area there isn’t a place that I can’t find them.

While I work out the distance, I start moving toward the point.

It’s going to be problematic if that guy notices me.

「The line of elevation pa.s.ses through here.」

Even I can find a ideal sniper point.

The distance from the wild boar’s low field of vision with obstacles not interfering is around 200 meters. There is a only one route my arrow can take through the trees, and it’s only about the size of a baseball.

Since it’s around 200 meters away there is no way it’s going to notice me from here.

A 200 meters is not a shot a normal hunter is going to be able to take right.

But, it’s not like i’m normal anyway.

「【Program】」

I use 【Enhanced Perception】and then【Program】, one of my specialist whole body magic-craft magicks.

In addition to the my five senses, 【Enhanced Perception】gives me other various insights and information that allows me to calculate the best theoretical action to take.

Furthermore….

「【Wind Evasion】」

I bless the arrows so that they don’t get influenced by the wind.

Since I am using body reinforcement I can set and pull the crossbow with just my hand.

I also want Lucie to learn how to use body reinforcement, but it’s a difficult and considerably dangerous technique.

If you use body reinforcement without taking into account the strength of your own body it would break it without mercy. If your body doesn’t have strength up to a certain point it will distort and make your body weird.

Even recently when the five hundred soldiers attacked, from what I saw, I didn’t even strengthen my body 1%.

「GO!!」

As I said that, I pulled the trigger of the crossbow.

With【Program】the arrow drew a parabola, and cleared through the ball sized hole.

The arrow was traveling super fast at 360KpH, but I was still able to track it with my keen Elf eye-sight.

The arrow I shot penetrated the wild boar’s eye and gouged it’s brain.

Even with a single arrow, if I shoot at vital points I can take out big game with one shot.

The boar that I was aiming for didn’t even know what hit him.

「Welp! How about I get about two more then head back!」

I’ve been at this since this morning, I better hurry back to help prepare for the noon event.

Yep, two more is the limit I think.

After I field dress and remove the blood from the wild boar, I leave it and switch to getting the next prey.

Because carrying a 100-kg wild boar to the village would probably break me, I use 【Reincarnation Recall】to call up Deet ability to use【Item Box】. It’s not effective to hunt without my Elf wind magic so I have to stay as Cyril to hunt.

If I return completely from being Deet, I cannot use 【Reincarnation Recall】for 12 hours, if I do I will get a whiplash to my soul that can be horrible. If I were to receive such a response like that right now it would leave me unable to hunt.

So I have to keep on using【Reincarnation Recall】 until I finish hunting.

Even though I am selfishly using it for good, 【Reincarnation Recall】does have a considerable limitation.

Such as if the empire were to attack, I can use【Reincarnation Recall】and increase my magic power as Deet, but I can only sustain it for about an hour.

It would end very badly if I couldn’t win within that hour. Of course, just using【Reincarnation Recall】is not enough to give certain results on the battlefield. Well… No I shouldn’t, if I use it to its limit the whiplash would leave me unable to stand. Trying to lead everyone of Elucie in that state would be harsh, right?

With【Reincarnation Recall】I could smash the first wave of enemies… Afterwards when the second wave comes, I can probably give off the impression that I can still be in command, I think?

I really can’t use 【Reincarnation Recall】 as a defensive measure. If I am going to use it, it will be for a.s.saulting an enemy base. I can inflict heavy casualties and then quickly withdraw.

If we have to defend though it is the guaranteed choice. The low population of Elucie makes it impossible to have reserve forces. With 【Reincarnation Recall】I am in essence equivalent to about a thousand reserves. So i can afford to be a bit reckless cause of that.

It would be the absolute last resort to use 【Reincarnation Recall】as a defensive measure, we would have to be completely cornered and at our limit.

「Welp! That will be three.」

Even while thinking about it I move my body. I reached my goal for today, getting one deer and two wild boars.

「Someday, I do want to hunt with everyone, but it would be tough, wouldn’t it…. 」

I let out a sigh.

I would completely take everyone’s motivation away if I were to hunt with everyone. It takes those guys days with 4 or 5 working together to get something. If someone were to come before them within an hour with three animals taken down, they would get mixed feelings about that right…

Anyway, the fields need to be cultivated. Roreu and co would have to go over several times over several months to develop the fields. If I turning into my dwarf form it wouldn’t even take an hour for me to completely do it.

But, I won’t do that. Roreu and the others would receive a blow to their pride they wouldn’t be able to recover from; I would end up completely taking the work away from them. It’s a respected job in the village so I will leave it alone. Even if their efficiency is bad it’s a must for their pride to be satisfied. If I don’t do it in this way, they will become completely dependent on me. If i’m gone the country will become weak and decadent.

I field dress the two wild boars and drain the blood from them. The deer I just drain the blood out of it and then stuff all of it in the 【Item box】as is.

I keep the deer intestines to be used in some of the cuisines.

I stow away the 3 carca.s.ses in the 【Item Box】, with one breath I start running at full power.

Raising the total amount of magic power with Deet’s level raised, the speed was all together faster even when I am an Elf.

I Returned to Elucie, I took out the game that was in the 【Item Box】and I turn off【Reincarnation Recall】 turning back into Cyril.

Since I was Deet for only a short time there wasn’t much of a whiplash. Somehow it doesn’t seem like it will interfere with my usual activities.

Yesterday the Firefoxes were preparing for the event. This morning I wanted to help and talk to them.

Since it was around that time, breakfast should be finished I think.

I am a little early before the time we agreed on, I think i’ll call out to them. Thinking that I knock on the door to the workshop.

「Yeeees?」

I heard a bright silly voice call out.

「Kuu-ane-sama! Welcome Back!」

Then the door opens with energy and a naked girl flies into me.

Now that I think about it, Kuu called the girl Kemin. She is about two years younger than me, she has distinctive chestnut colour short hair and a cute appearance .

Compared to Lucie and Kuu she was not as good, but it was cute enough to me.

Without thinking, I stroked her head.

Judging by the bright appearance of the girl, Kuu hasn’t told them of the village. I’m sure she intends to tell them when she is calmer.

「Sorry I made a mistake, you’re not Kuu.」

I was completely distracted with Kemin who was hugging me, but I switched my attention to the inside of the workshop; there were Firefoxes who were naked or were wearing only undergarments.

Many of them were holding half-dried clothes.

Taking in the situation they were was.h.i.+ng themselves and their clothes this morning just before we were suppose to meet. I happen to catch them them in the middle of them drying themselves and their clothes.

They were using fire magic to dry the clothes. Well, using low temperature so that clothing doesn’t get damaged.

They only had the clothes that were on their backs they didn’t have anything else decent to change into.

Since it takes time to make clothing in the village, i’ll have to get a change of clothes for everyone when I go shopping.

「Cy~, Cyril-sama. s… sorry. I made a mistake.」

Kemin is in a hurry and is also disarrayed, but why isn’t she letting go of me and her tail is wagging around a lot.

Wait is she… that…? A girl pervert…?

「I came at a bad time didn’t I, i’ll come back later. Hey can you let go of me? With you clinging to me like that I can’t go about. Here, everyone behind is also embarra.s.sed.」

After my eyes had a healthy dose of it, I averted my eyes, but even so it must be tough for the girls.

They would have raised a scream or speak badly about me, but they were just using both hands to hide themselves.

「I am sooo sorry…..! I’m just going to like leave… kay?」 -Cyril

「If you can do that, it would save us. Well then, since you’re going to come back later」-Foxes(possibly Kemin)

「Please wait outside!! soon…! Well be out out soon!!」 -Foxes

And then, without trying to hide I close the workshop. I retrace my steps back feeling thankful for closing that door.

「what the h.e.l.l was that…. that…」

That amount of girl tension being so high made me completely dumbfounded.

I came back after three minutes, Kemin came running along out of breath.

She brought along two other Firefox girls who were also the same age.

The two girls with faces blus.h.i.+ng were fidgeting with their bodies.

「so? Cyril-sama, what kind of business do you have?!」

Kemin raised a healthy voice.

As usual, her tail was wagging around.

「It’s okay not to be so anxious you know. I came to ask if it would be okay to start the noon event preparations a little early. There is a lot of work to do and I want to hurry and help even if it’s only a little.」

「If it’s for Cyril-sama it would be our pleasure, I will call everyone soon, kay!!」

「Thank you. even with all that’s happened you’re all looking very healthy, aren’t ya.」

「Its because I had a chance to talk to Cyril-sama.」