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16, Conclusion and Motsunabe (Turning Chapter)
(Author’s note: Update ⅗)
“So? Have you thought of so!?”
“Not yet, but… for now, I’ll do so about the problem in front of me!”
Hi it’s Shuri
In order for ether with Gann-san’s help
My eyes were hurting fro out loud
Right now, I a down the castle’s corridors
Heading for the food storehouse
The first thing I thought I had to solve was to resolve the citizen’s dissatisfaction and weakening the influence of both factions
The reason being, limited to what Gann-san has heard, this castle should have carried in an amount of food which could be described as excessive
I hear they serve as a reserve for the two factions, the first prince and the second prince Since it wasn’t a place with gold, silver or jewels, it ht now’
I think that they’ve done an unthinkable thing, by buying up all the food andsuch a situation
“By the way, are we, still not, at the storehouse?”
“Ahh, after going down those stairs, there’s a storehouse but…
Do you have enough, stamina?”
Yea, this is my limit
Even though we’ve finally reached the stairs to the storehouse, my stamina is already at its limits
I couldn’t say h
After going down the stairs, and opening the door shut with a bolt, I was taken aback
This is ridiculous
Without any cold air to preserve it at all, in this dusty, filthy base, piled on top of each other
The a
Potatoes, white radish, carrots, onions…
Lus etc, were placed in here
It’s just that, there were several items I don’t know
“This completely red bok choy… is this called red choy, this?” (TL: cause bok choy is literally white cabbage, aka chinese cabbage, aka white choy, so red bok choy… hue)
“That? That’s a specialty you can get around here
The sweetness of bok choy comes out when you boil it but, if you boil that, it’s spicy”
S-spicy bok choy?
“What about this deep blue spring onion?”
It’s not green It’s blue
It’s not the green written as in green vegetables
It’s blue Blue like the sky
“Ahh, sky onions huh
Sky onions have a refreshi+ng sourness to them
Fundamentally it’s has a medicinal taste”
M-medicinal taste…
“This, what about this super strange, bouncy, jiggly object?”
What is it, this pink slime put inside a bottle?
“That? I’s nothing rare
The entire clan of the Feudal Lord or Royalty or nobles… well it’s alcohol high class people drink”
“A-alcohol?”
“Yea, you didn’t know? It’s just called Slime Alcohol
Cutting the stu the juice boiled down fro alcohol
It goes down smooth, has a dry taste and the alcoholic concentration is strong”
I’ve never heard of so from a Slime Tree…
WTF, to actually redients of this other world in this sort of place…! Until now I had only stocked up on foods that I know, and I haven’t cooked with thelabe-san doesn’t really like it?
Hn? Spicy?
“This red bok choy, is it spicy?”
“Ahh, the red choy? It is However it’s a refreshi+ng spiciness
It’s not the kind you eat and get disgusted with”
Spicy… bok choy
There’s whole pigs, and cows here
Also a lot of vegetables…
“Gann-san All of these ingredients here
Who do they belong to?”
“All of the food here, in addition to being the eency supplies of the territory, are what the first prince faction and second prince faction have stocked up
You see, the shelf over there and the shelf over there, they’re divided separately right?
That’s how it is”
Hely
In this environment, with this much food
I worried slightly but, I prepared htforwardly
“I’ll tell you straight These ingredients
They won’t last any longer than 3 days”
“What? If you , we do sprinkle salt on them just in case”
“It’s the humidity, temperature and dust that’s the problem
All the ingredients up till no have you dealt them? Did just you eat all the supplies which couldn’t be stored anymore then and there?”
I could feel ever since co stored together with the soups
The underground heat circulates, htly warm room
An environment which hasn’t been cleaned
It really is a breeding ground for ger to rot at any moment
It’s true that if you sprinkle salt on it, it’ll preserve it somewhat
But, there’s a liht
Such a daerms…
“Change of plans
Actually I had only planned to borrow a small amount of food from the first and second princes’ factions but
I’ll be using all the food froency supplies which see bad”
“Oi oi! What are you planning to do with so redients!
Besides, what are you going to redients!”
“I’ve decided
Since there’s whole cows and pigs here”
“Ah, Ahh… Well, they are all here
Literally, with all of its organs and everything but… what do you plan to do? If you dissect that and dispose of it, there’ll be a considerable amount of meat”
“What are you saying
I’ll be using the organs as well”
“What?!”
“Yes, the organs, the meat, the tendons as well
I’ll be using it all”
Spicy red choy, sour sky onions
If I make use of these, can’t I make that?
A massive Motsunabe!
“Everyone, are you prepared?”
Us five co in front of the castle gates
Each of us have already come prepared for battle
Cougar, as well as Teg, Ahrius and Riru
All of us, have already entered battle mode
We look at each other, and nod
“Let’s move”
We stood in front of the gates
“Apologies, ere called in by the Second Prince and have arrived at the castle
This is the letter of verification”
I hand the letter to the gatekeeper
The gatekeeper looks at that, stiffens up for a ate
It’s so easy to understand
I thought without revealing s
“This way”
The gatekeeping points to the side door next to the gate
We went through that, and then saw
The scene of several tens of soldiers lying in wait in the courtyard, with swords drawn
“As expected We fell for it”
Cougar s his teeth
At that time, one man approached us
“Pardon labe-dono”
A
“In accordance with Gingus-sa you”
“Even if we ask for a reason?”
“There’s nothing much to tell If I’m forced to say, it’s about the chef”
It’s going just as Cougar expected, huh
I took a step forward
At any rate Information is important
“What is theof this I was just called here since there was so to discuss
There is no reason for us to accept this kind of unjust treatment”
I tried asking, pretending not to know anything
Behindtoo but he was stopped by Ahrius This guy, doesn’t seeather information
“Let us us-sama Where exactly is the prince”
“I do not plan to speak Just wait in jail”
“Is my chef there, in that jail?”
“It’s not the same place”
Hmm, it seems that he’s not in the ordinary jail
“The ordinary jail, huh”
“Obediently come with me”
“I have sous-sama Let me speak with him”
“Silence The prince is busy”
“I understand that he is working
However, it’s important”
“If you understand, then be quiet”
Alright, so Gingus is working
In other words, it us is working Teg will be investigating that
“I cannot agree at this rate
At least let me meet with my chef”
“This conversation ends here”
“Wait!”
“You can talk later If you want to meet with your chef then be quiet”
…So the infor ends here huh
“…Guys Exchange information”
I tell the others stealthily with a whisper
“Gingus is in his office Shuri is in the special jail as expected
Arrange to confirm the ordinary jail and office Remember the places where you could not confirm within the castle
Operation conditions 『Do not kill』 any of the castle guards Show off gaudily, and make them 『Helpless』
That is all”
“”””Understood””””
At uys behind me responded
That reply wasn’t the one we usually e are with Shuri
It’s the voice e feel the atmosphere of the battlefield, e are about to kill
Level and plain A voice with no emotions
We will not forgive the enemy in front of us
“Ahrius Show theot”
“Understood”
Ahrius walks out in front of us, one step ahead
“W-what are you doing?”
The otiate looked bewild
It’s only natural If suddenly, the arrested targets in front of you takes a stance of resistance
However, they do not plan to let us go either
Ahrius takes out tands fro them to the sky
“My htly different you know?
Release Technique 『Dominate the Airspace』”
At the saic power overflows fro this whole place
And then, that happened
The airspace in front of our eyes, distorted slightly, becoulfed the courtyard
That ss up the soldiers,
“Ka,kaha-”
“I-I can’t, b-breaaa”
“A, ga”
Suddenly, the soldiers were clawing at theirlike they had completely drowned
Some of theround, opening their mouths wide
However, gradually the soldiers fainted
Not knohat she did but…
“Don’t kill them”
“Yes I only made them faint”
Ahrius chose a suitable time at her discretion and waves her wand
Almost all the soldiers had fainted, and the s consciousness, had their eyes wide open
“Kahaa!!”
“I-I can breathe?”
“Hahii… Haa…!”
However, the co soldiers is bad I think they cannot stand up immediately at all, unable to come towards us
“It’s best to not strain yourselves you know?”
Ahrius said, looking at the soldiers who collapsed
Those eyes, co warmth
It’s different from the ones she normally looks at Shuri with
Yes, as if she was just looking at trash, a gaze of scorn
As if to say the people in front of her are inferior to her, eyes of absolute zero
“I have doion’s airspace
Do you know? If people don’t breathe in air, they can’t keep on living In that air, there are many kinds varieties of air mixed in with it
I took only the necessary air, and 『Kept it far away』 fros
Right now, I can only manipulate to the extent of this courtyard but, eventually it’s so I want to dominate all the air of the battlefield with”
I can’t understand it but, in the eyes of Ahrius who had understood 『Truth』, it see, drifting around
Ahrius understood fro, 『People need to breathe in air to sustain life』 I think it’s obvious but, to seize all that air, and dominate it
This is Ahrius, 『Witch of Truth』
“Let’s go”
At Ahrius’ words, we stepped towards the castle
Going through the door which was left open, proceeding forward
“W-wait”
Behind us, someone throws their words at us
It was the guy who, just now, lined up a e for us
Turning around, he was still exhausted to the point where he couldn’t even stand up
That’s obvious Since his breathing was stopped
“I-Is that alright? If so, was to happen to your chef”
“Ha?”
I smiled evilly
“Do you really think that you can even do that?”
The man spaced out as if he didn’t understand my words
“Your superiors didn’t tell you
Our chef, Shuri Azuiven a knife with the emblem of the Newbyst Royal Family carved onto it
And he has such skill that Princess Tebis personally invited him
The food he cooked literallyher
If you cause hare
You people, don’t you know of the Tragedy of Alturia?
Over there, they had invited Shuri and received econo into a food crisis, their food hegemony was taken from them
The question is Can you people do anything to him?”
The man was surprised, hesitant and then covered his face in humiliation
There’s no way you can
There is no way one country can make enemies with, nor lay their hands on Shuri
Although I’ this information I have
Grasping and understanding information, to dominate the battlefield
Standing on the battlefield for adown my foes
Good at strategies and battles as well
That is why I aems』
Calling h
“Let’s go”
I step into the castle
The others follow
“It’s a time to take down a castle”
Now then, co us
“Can you hear us, all you palace guards!!
Since you lay your hands on Shuri, we’ll return that a hundred times over!
If you don’t want to die, hurry up and return Shuri!”
We standing at the entrance, guards rushed out bustling
The numbers, around twenty people huh
It seeive in to our threat
The entrance has stairs in the center; upstairs, there are corridors continuing down left and right, and on the first floor, next to those stair was another corridor On the floor laid a red rug, inferring that they have an unexpectedly wealthy
The appearance of guards running out from inside the first and second floor, closely rese out from their nest
“Ganglabe I’ll deal with this here, su”
Teg says froe amount of arrows from the quiver on his back
Taking out the bow equipped on his waist, then expanding it
This is a peculiar long bow that Riru had invented previously
It’s a collapsible strong bohich once expanded can shoot arrows up to several hundred meters
Opening it with just a shake of a hand, the bowstring using the techniques of , stretches out to either end the sa was said to be ic crystals until it beca at the same time as it activates
The strength of the bowstring was not normal, and at the current level, the only one who can use this boas just Teg
A plain blue bow
That is the bow, Teg adores
“Do you think a thing like a boill do anything at this distance! Everyone attack together!!”
At the encourageant ar down all at once A flood of people If we fight the five people would probably become pieces of meat in seconds
However, that’s if the opponents were normal
“Such idiots, su”
Teg pulls back three arrows at once and shoots
Three arrows accurately hit the sword holding hand of three guards
“Gua!”
“Ouch!”
“Ugu!”
The three guards drop their swords, and fall on the spot
However, the ree in without a care
Even seeing that, Teg was calm
Once again three arrows, pulling back the bow, and shoot
Accurately hitting three people Once again the hand that they held their swords with
Pull back, and shoot
Pull back, and shoot
Pull back, and shoot
As if he was a carefullyarroithout a change in his expressions, held a certain beauty
Even the trajectory of the flying arroere beautiful, hitting just once, with no errors
Teg, without taking even a single step, continued to repeated his actions indifferently
Suddenly, there were only two people left standing
They were turning pale looking at the heap of guards ere squir from the pain of the arrow stuck in their hands
Like a nightmare
It would scare anyone if their subordinates were made unfit for combat in a blink of an eye, unable to even come close
“Hoi~tto”
One of the arrows that Teg released was aimed at the buttocks of the man next to the Guard Captain
Unable to even raise a screaround
Only the Guard Captain remained
Teg calmly nocked in another arrow
“It’s the last one, su”
“W-wait! Please wait! I’us-sama!”
“That’s even worse, su”
Hyun, reverberated the sound of the bowstring
That arrowthe Guard Captain’s buttocks
“Iii,aa,aaaaa!!”
Even the Guard Captain fell to the floor at the merciless attack
Excellent scouting technique Presence Erasing Technique
Above all, with his handling of a bow, the skill of always hitting as long as they are within his recognised field of vision, that ability and unshakeable nerve
『Bow Saint』 Teg There have even been instances he had to display the reason for why he is actually called Saint
(TL: 聖とまで付けられる由来を見せられた瞬間でもある)
Storing his bow, Teg looked over here
“Ganglabe The path is opened, su”
“Ahh, where is Gingus’ office, I wonder”
“On the third floor, su”
“The stairs?”
“Down the right corridor on the second floor, su”
“Understood Shall we go”
We ignore the soldiers crawling on the ground, and go up to the second floor
Walking down the corridor, we didn’t le maid
Most likely, I think they shut themselves away in the room over there Does that e immediately?
Right now it’s fine to ignore theoal to the very end is to rescue Shuri
Before that I us
Making such a showyaction too
It’s possible that he’ll take out Shuri as a hostage, and place him close by but, it’ll be convenient if it’s like that
We, so that Shuri won’t be hurt at the very least, even intentionally let slip the information that Shuri has been invited by Newbyst
It’s troubling if he doesn’t take action
“Ganglabe”
Sst, a scabbard obstructs my advance
Cougar draws out the scabbard, sword and all, fro it to stop me
And then, in front of me was a brawny man
Around the sa a battle axe
A skinheadextra armour, stood in our way
“Cougar”
“Got it So like ‘at’s my kill”
Cougar licked his lips like a snake wriggling around, returning the scabbard to his waist and went out
Cougar takes his sword from the scabbard
Despite that being all he did, why does it look so elegant, so beautiful, so divine
Geez, before I realised, he ended up being so much further ahead of me
“You, are you the strongest person here?”
“That’s right Even aest”
“Hou Then you saying that you confident with your skill right?”
“Of course Don’t compare with the trash up till now
Now that this Adora-sama has come out, you shall die here”
“Isn’t it, arresting?”
“You’ve been so rude until now
I think you can leave behind an arm or two”
“Bring it on”
Cougar prepares his sword
It’s the stance for Juugen Style (TL: Soft sword) I’ve seen it before on the battlefield
With a peculiar stance, both feet at shoulder width, with his heels at half-rise, the left slightly bent behind the other foot, slanting as if aiaps in the ribs with his sword
According to the person himself, he can retreat and advance, so it appears to be a stance suitable for piercing through the gaps of armours
Sliding forth, Cougar takes a step forward
Their distance between each other was about threeabout this nore body and battle axe has distanced himself well The one who has air superiority, is probably Adora(TL: 制空権)
However, Cougar doesn’t need any of those kind of handicaps
At least he isn’t shaking or anything
With his impressive stance, he doesn’t waver