Chapter 17 (1/2)

Seventeenth Episode 〜 Dangerous Hunting and a Mysterious Experience

It has been several e

The secluded scenery that can be seen froed considerably, su its end has become moderate and russet leaves cover the mountain surface

Considering to tiround, two years may have passed since I first came to this world

The clear weather of the autumn season when cool and cold air mixes

It could be said that the clied, training in the spear continues

Recently I’ve been separating fro off by

And thus, today seems to be the same

“Shuya,to you today?”

“Eh, I don’t mind”

“Yoshi+, then I’ll ask you to gather, degoza fruit, perri herb, so sou bees”

“Hai hai Roger”

“Nn, nya!”

Rollo the black cat interrupted us there

“Rollo”

“Divine beast-sa for Shuya”

“Nya…”

Rollo’s ears lay down Even without touching her feelers, I understand how she feels Rollo wants to go with me

“Rollo, I’ll play with you when I come back”

“Nyanyanyaa”

Rollo purrs in response to my promise

Extending a feeler toare conveyed

『I’ll wait』『Play』『Love』『Play』

Mostly it is just the fact that she wants to play

Aside fros tied to the belt on my waist

After I fix my equipment I climb down the ladder

I walk across the s over treacherous footing, a forested area spreads out and a river is visible

I continue deeper into the forest beyond the fast flowing rapids of the river

The place where grass can be harvested is further ahead

Because I’ve been uren I’ve completely memorized the route

So, I’rass

Later is the degoza fruit

I must be careful about the bear…

The degoza fruit grows thickly in this area

I arrive at the place where the degoza fruit grows

The red fruit is spread all over Pinching the red fruit lightly I place it in theat my side

Then, suddenly, I’s

–I activate grasping police There’s a ic essence reaction

It is a bear Chi〜, you showed up in the end

This reaction must be the bear…it see to the side…

When I throw the rowl

“Fugogaaaaaaaa! Guooooooooo!”

The bear’s eyes become blood shot

With a grohich shakes its throat, pushi+ng out a chest swelling with muscles and covered in fur, the bear spreads its arht

Standing on two feet

the bear raises both arms

The body of the bear brings together fororilla and skilled karate practitioner

The bear is big, alround

It is a little over four ht…

A huge mouth, and claws that look brutal

The bear looks at aze…

White breath co with saliva

It’s extreitated

Do you not like that I’oza fruit?

“Gaa”

It turns to face es at me with tremendous speed

Facing the direction of the charging bear, I hastily extend my black spear towards the bear’s chest

However, there is a hard sound and the black spear I thrust out is repelled by the bear’s claws

“Gafa-”

As the bear roars intensely it swipes at me with its other set of claws

Quickly I turn the black spear and block with rear of the metal bar, but the bear’s claws are unexpectedly heavy

Further the left half of its body

My center of gravity lowers and my posture collapses Then the other set of claws co into me

“Iteeeee-”

On the side of ht shoulder, the claws cut deep into upper back part, I fall and stagger back, to roll back

My blood is scattered across the plants and roots of the degoza trees

I taunt the bear that hasn’t had enough to co its favorite red fruit, I hile s them

Do I look tasty like this…

Such a bear leans its body forwards and showing its fangs prepares to release a roar

-I can’t be eaten so easily!

I roll to the ground avoid the bear’s head

The bear hits its head on the ground, hard

Having hit its head, the bear releases a rough unsteady breath However, the bear shakes its head back and forth and again springs at me

I thrust while sitting on the ground, without letting go I move the black spear vertically To the jaw of the bear that ju up the butt end of my metal spear like an upper cut The sharp teeth of the bear sla back

The bear is bleeding heavily from its mouth

Its jaw seems to be broken It’s from the shock of the butt end of my spear

Eh, success

Seeuoo” while shaking its head back and forth

The Degozabear shakes its head back and forth

Scowling at such a bear, I stand up quickly while using the black spear like a walking stick Blood streams down my arm from my injured shoulder and flows over the black spear The wound see but blood is still flowing out

Right now looks like a good time to test it

It’s a chance to use my blood

I stretch out my injured arm I activate <bloody chain=”” feast=””> at the sa fro chains spiraling around the bear

The blood chains both move differently

From a bystander’s perspective they seem to move in a spiral, the blood chains seeether to form an intense rotation inside

The degozabear which repelledto do the same with my blood chain, with no such trouble the blood chains is shot to attack froh the bear’s hand, it stabs through and pulverizes the bear’s arm

“Guyaaaaaaaaaa-”

The Degozabear issues a shriek of pain

I understand the response well The blood chain caves in the bear’s ar up the bear’s flesh inside while chunks of flesh fly out Chainsaw, es into the bear’s arm

With the sound of its flesh and bone being destroyed, the right hand of the bear swells Finally the ht shoulder

What wonderful power

M down

Ah, it’s gone

Thinking the , the blood chain disappears

I look at ht shoulder I can’t see too much, but the wound in my shoulder seems to have closed up

The wound has co

Once the source of blood is gone, the blood chain seems to disappear

“Gigaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The bear roars while scattering its blood

“Annoying-”

While coolly swearing I shoot <chain> at the bear from my left hand

The nor bear

The degozabear falls back and collapses

It would be easy if I normally used <chain> from the start

However, because I’ve beco the spear I wanted to defeat it that way

However, such a thing does not matter

Blood chain is too strong The power of firing the normal chain is already adequate, the power of the blood chain earlier wasand pulverizes it

<bloody chain=”” feast=””> will become a poeapon

Since it can’t be used without receiving an injury it’s still not good enough…

Ma, it’s a fact that the bear was strong

It’s still a hard fight one on one

While co I let the chain disappear I take a knife out fro I threw aside earlier

And now, it is time to dismantle it

There should be a ic stone

I continue dis the bear with my knife

I don’t forget to suck its blood either

Unfortunately, there are no ic stones in the bear’s ans can be used as materials

I put it to the side like that with ans to the eyes, I fill the bag with its hide and any of the meat that seems edible

Because I haven’t collected all of the degoza fruit yet I finish collecting the on to the next location

I walk through the forest until evening is near

The objective is the rassento herb, white leaves that grow in bundles in the trees

Around this rassento herb a buzoku bee seems to have made its nest I look for the points shi+sho told me about