Chapter 4 (1/2)
04.LITTLE GIRL HUNTS BEARS
No matter what kind of world it is, there is always a difference in strength. And in that, things are cla.s.sified from good to bad. Obviously, this was applied even for mercenary jobs.
It is said that even if it was a common nameless mercenary, each month, he would get about two hundred thousand Goldin by going to the war. It was a job that you easily risked your life at, but having only one life, the reality was that most times there really weren´t many people working at this business and only desperate people would apply for it.
If one was to enter in a mercenary group, half of the reward would be taken, but being a cooperative body, there is great advantage in the group, and there was also the fact that if one didn´t have an outstanding fighting prowess, there were better chances in surviving by joining in a mercenary group. If one had an outstanding fighting prowess, it was also possible for the person to become one of the leading figures of the mercenary group.
Besides that, although it was obvious that you would get even better rewards by going to war, even if fantasizing about getting rich in one go, the truth was that mercenaries worked for the sake of keeping themselves alive, and so most of the people believed that it was fundamental to earn money in a reliable way.
Inevitably, things would go differently from expected and the number of deaths would get higher than what it is expected to be. However, if it is about machiini pilots that it is being talked about, the situation would be completely different.(TL note: -.- ->それが結果として戦場を分別の付いた戦いへと変えていて、死者数は考えられているよりも実はかなり少ない。<- not=”” sure=”” about=”” the=”” accuracy=”” here=””>
According to the estimations of the wager of a machiini pilot nowadays, even if it is a common and nameless one, they would get paid two million Goldin monthly. If one had enough strength to have received a nickname, depending on the negotiations, the amount could increase even more.
However, even if it was a nameless machiini pilot, if you brought down one enemy machiini, you would get a reward of four million Goldin. Besides, if you were able to get a machiini without destroying it, you would receive an additional ten million goldin. And so, machiini pilots were targets of envy, and at the same time, were targets that were worth a killing of money.
And so, although this was obvious, it was common that machiinis would the ones to beat other machiinis down. And so, they would go to the battlefield on their own will, and while making their names, at the same time, they would become appealing prey for other people. It was the reason why they were called the flowers of the battlefield.
With that being, most of the eight million nine hundred thousand Goldin of the reward Bela received was took up the money from the three machiini pilots. Because the bandits were opponents that would make one fight seriously, although the amount of money wasn´t much, she got the amount an average mercenary would earn in years in one go.
The little girl Bela, who had this great amount of money at hands right now, had gone deep into a mountain range.
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“Hya!”
Bela was piloting her Machiini [Ainandina], running through the mountain range while carrying enough money to modestly live half of one´s life in comfort.
The ones that were following her were three giant bears of about five meters. They were savage beasts known for its extreme danger in the Ishtaria continent and were called greater beasts. The giant monsters that were following the machiini Bela was piloting were bigrobears, which were very violent even among the other bear races.(TL note: Is greater beasts a good name?)
“”They came in a batch, huh.””
With the field of vision being transmitted from the spiritual stone and shown at the crystal eyes that were at the head of the machiini, Bela stepped on the left foot pedal with all her strength.(TL note: 感応石 = spiritual stone would be accurate? I can´t find a translation for this anywhere. From what I could find, this would be some kind of magic stone.)
And then, momentarily inclining forward, the giant of more than three meters did at turn while scattering clumps of snow and earth from the ground. With the suspension system at its waist being loaded, silvery smoke intensively spurted out from its pipe, but even so, its balance wasn´t broken.
Bela had used all the frana she had acquired from the two machiinis of the bandit group she had destroyed to strengthen [Aiandinna]´s waist. This had effects, such as the damper of the suspension system being able to absorb impacts better, and the structure of the legs that had become st.u.r.dier and thicker than before. But these legs endured an impact it couldn´t completely absorb.(TL note: f.u.c.k this sentence. It made me want to hit my head on the wall at the time. Just saying ¬¬)
[Ha, go flyiiing!!]
And then, doing drawing an arc filled with intense centrifugal force, the war hammer hit the bigrobear who was approaching [Aiandinna] from the front at the head at full force, splitting into two and having its contents fly into the air.
[Hyaha!]
In answer to that, Bela showed a smile. However, although she was able to kill it, because the force of the swing at full power [Aiandinna] did was still too much for it, its stance broke apart.
[Show me some guts Dinna!!]
Bela was already prepared for this from the beginning. Skillfully stepping onto the pedals left and right, while regaining its posture and preventing it from stumbling down, in that manner, it fell onto the corpse of the huge bear that was still heading towards her, receiving its impact. However, Bela´s aim wasn´t only to stop the machiini´s movements. Strongly pressing the foot pedal with full force with her posture still like that, moving to the side, she had the bigrobear´s carca.s.s fallen at the ground.
And then, the remaining bigrobear that was coming from behind crashed at the bigrobear´s carca.s.s that [Aiandinna] had laid there.
“”Gaah.””( ガァアッ)
The giant bear that had been following [Aiandinna] with full force until now had fallen down to the ground because of the impact. While looking at it with the side of her eyes, Bela looked at the remaining bear that was coming.
[Is it a brat!?]
Looking at the last one that was most likely a child bigrobear, Bela laughed.
[Haha, aren´t you just scared!?]
While saying that, in response to the bigrobear that was obviously faltering, Bela increased the speed of [Aiandinna] in one go. Falling in fear, without being able to deal with those movements, the bigrobear had its heart pierced by the sharp pike part of the war hammer.
And then, the sound of the roar of the giant bear echoed through the mountain range.
That attack was a fatal one without doubt. However, no matter how much she had pierced it at its weak spot, there was no way the giant beast would stop moving all of the sudden. Pulling back from the child bigrobear that was violently using its last strength to move,
Ignoring the bigrobear child that was fallen and had bubbles made of blood going out of its mouth, Bela looked at the last bear.
[Are you angry? Well, you would be angry with that, right.]
While saying those words, shaking off the blood of the war hammer by doing a swing with it, the iron soldier [Aiandinna] turned at the last target and licked its lips.
It seemed that the bigrobear in front of its eyes had become angry in reaction.
That would be understandable. The bigrobears had gone after the iron giant in front of its eyes since it had suddenly invaded their territory. Those guys wouldn´t attack human villages, and there also weren´t any humans nearby for them to be attacked. They had got attacked unreasonably, and now it had its family stolen. However, in the nature, which the strong eats the weak, such was the obvious.
The first to die was the father, which had its head cracked. The one to have its heart pierced should be the child. And so, Bela presumed the one in front of her eyes was probably the mother. Normal bears wouldn´t meddle themselves in raising their child, but the bigrobear was a curious race in which the parents would raise their child. Because of that, it felt deeply melancholic.
However, Bela´s eyes weren´t showing sympathy or sadness. With her view s.h.i.+ning in naked killing intent, she went forward with the machiini [Aiandinna], rus.h.i.+ng towards their last prey.
And then, after two weeks, the sight of [Aiandinna] carrying more than ten pelts at the city of battle slaves, colossus, that was at the north of the Ruuin kingdom.
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The city of battle slaves, Colossus. It was close to the national borders of the kingdom, and it was a city that had many times changed its subordination to different countries and kept its existence through the times. Since its formation, it already had seven hundred years of history.