Chapter 95 - Excavating after Continuing (2/2)
The tip of the sword that was pushed in deeply.
Loren’s brows furrowed at the weird feeling he felt from it.
While feeling that the screaming was too loud, Loren twisted the sword left and right to check it.
Every time he did, the screams got louder, and after a while, he pulled out the sword and almost let go of it in surprise as he saw a hand grabbing the middle part of the blade.
“What the hell!?”
From its size, he could tell that it was a being that was around his or Lapis’ size, not a fairy.
Shuddering that it was grabbing onto the great sword’s blade, Loren slowly started pulling it out of the body.
Usually, the fingers wouldn’t be unscathed, but for some reason, the blade didn’t dig into the fingers that were grabbing it at all, and the arm started coming out slowly and slowly from the wound along with the blade.
“…Disgusting.”
“Loren, what did you pull out of the chief’s body?”
A right arm that was protruding from the body of the chief, who had stopped attacking for some reason.
Judging from the smooth skin and small amount of muscle, it looked like the arm of a woman, but the sight of it sticking out of the chief’s body was abnormal in every way possible.
“What should we do with this?”
“Well…what else can we do other than pull it out?”
At Lapis’ reply, Loren looked at the chief.
The flesh that made up his body was unmoving, making the attacks a moment ago seem like a lie.
He wondered for a moment, looking at the female arm dangling from the flesh, but he eventually stuck the great sword into the ground, reluctantly grabbed the arm with both hands, and started pulling.
Because the body wasn’t that hard, with the owner of the arm trying to crawl out as well, the chief’s body ripped open soon enough, revealing the head and shoulders of the arm’s owner.
Blonde hair close to white wet with blood and fat, and a set face.
As soon as the head was pulled out completely from the body, it started coughing, throwing up something thick with blood mixed in it, and Loren quickly let go of its arm, grabbed his great sword, and ran back to where Lapis was watching.
In the meantime, after continuing to throw up, making disgusting sounds, it stopped and wiped its mouth with its free hand, breathing hard, and then suddenly pulled itself out up to its waist.
Of course, it was completely naked.
And it was the body of a young woman.
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Not even trying to cover her chest, the girl wiped her face with her arm for a while and sniffed her hands, then pulled the rest of her body out and set her bare feet onto the ground.
“Aww, this is bad. It stinks and it’s slimy and I’m covered in blood and it’s ruining my looks.”
The girl, who was checking her naked body, eventually turned towards Loren and Lapis, who were looking on at her from a distance, and called out to them with a smile that contained no hostility at all.
“Thanks a lot, you two. I was worried when I was released by him. These guys don’t seem to cook and eat everything raw, even if it’s a bit rotten, so I thought I was going to die being fed all this garbage.”
When she looked at them with a smile, Loren raised his great sword without thinking.
Her eyes looked exactly like a person’s, but the pupils were purple.
“I’m not going to do anything, so you don’t have to be so tense. I’m thankful for you, after all. If you didn’t pull me out, I would’ve been with this big guy forever.”
“Can I ask your name?”
Lapis asked the girl instead of Loren, who couldn’t speak a word.
After looking at Lapis like she was looking at something strange, the girl answered her question.
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“Looks like there’s a pretty one, but whatever. I’m Gura Gluttony. I used to be called the evil god of gluttony a long time ago, and some adventurer sealed me, but I’ve been revived. Is that good for an answer?”
Lapis nodded and asked another question.
“You don’t have any intentions of getting sealed again, don’t you?”
“Nope. I want to fix my mouth after being fed such horrible things. And I’ve been sealed for long enough, right? It shouldn’t be a problem if I go stretch my legs a bit.”
As the girl named Gura suggested to her, Lapis started at her for a while, but eventually lowered her gaze and told her.
“As you please.”
“Alright. I guess I’ll be going then. Oh yeah, hey mister, what’s your name?”
Loren, who hadn’t been expecting her to call out to him, answered honestly out of surprise.
“It’s Loren.”
“I see, you’re called Loren. Alright Loren. I’m really thankful for what you did for me today. I’ll pay you back somehow. Bye.”
Before Loren could say anything, Gura waved at them with a smile still on her face and kicked off the ground, like she was diving underwater, and disappeared under the ground headfirst.
The body of the chief that was left behind started rotting away, as if many days had passed, and the rotten flesh that was turning into liquid started trickling onto the ground.
“What was that?”
“I don’t know. It seems that because the chief released the evil god, and they’ve been combined together until now, and since the evil god isn’t there anymore, he died.”
As Lapis had said, the chief had become a giant blob of dead flesh.
Realizing that if they didn’t flee from the spot, they would see and start smelling something they wouldn’t want to, they decided to leave the thinking for later and hurry back the way they came.
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Hey guys Kaoto here.
So in the original, Gura talks in Kansai dialect, if I’m not mistaken.I wasn’t sure what kind of dialogue I should use in English, and I’m not really good at separating ways of talking either, so I thought I’ll just do it normally and make a note at the end.
We’re almost done with volume/arc four, with the next chapter being the last one.This one went by pretty quickly.
Since I haven’t touched Hero of Black for a while, even thought I said I would, I’ll try to do something like work on this series one day, and the other on the next, and so on.Hopefully I don’t forget and it works smoothly.
Hope you enjoy and I’ll see you guys in the next chapter!