Chapter 34 (1/2)
Thirty-Fourth Episode〜 I Want to Use the Lantern
Translator’s Corner: Sorry for not having a chapter yesterday I iped out the day before and couldn’t focus Today’s chapter is fun though Enjoy~
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There are very few adventurers acting solo and it seeroups
Solo adventurers like me seem rare
Well, I am not actually solo, my partner is Rollo
Such a Rollo is walking sloith her feelers extended cautiously in the air
Rollodinu is in her black panther form (TL: Fun fact, panthers are actually black leopards, so calling them black panthers is redundant)
Rays of light are shi+ning beautifully off her black fur
As I walk through the passage surrounded by black thorns while watching Rollo… The sudden sound of fighting- jumps to my ears
I do not forget to search forpresence detection
I detect an awful lot of ic essence
I am curious so I quickly head in the direction of where I hear the sounds of fighting co from
When I pass through the thorny cave, there is an unnatural hole in the ground Uhyo, ants are vigorously appearing from the unnatural hole
The swarm of ants surrounds the adventurers one after another
The adventurers nuht
This is a lot of ants, it looks dangerous
There is an adventurer whose movement’s stand out
Defending their co one ant after another
However, they seem to be hopelessly out nu one after another
-I should help
“Rollo, don’t interfere, just clear away the ants in the surrounding area”
“Nya!”
I raiseattention
I release a battle cry towards the ants
Rollo also attacks an ant
The length of the ants’ antenna is around one meter
Their heads have two thin antennae and theirmandibles
Six legsthe adventurers
The “yellos” that are “proof of subjugation” are evident on their forelegs
“Helping ize-“
While stabbing, and killing the ants with ht-ish adventurer who seems to be a shi+eld wielder
“No way, thank you-“
The knight speaks grateful words to me
Their visor is lowered so I cannot see their face
They are wearing half plate ar sword in their hands
I can see themana in their arms and their feet
They see moji
The knight throws another ant to the ground with precise movements
They quickly bring up their sword to defend against an ant, and then swing their long sword down, splitting the ant in half
To protect the injured adventurers
Impressive movements
“Is that so, then, I will slaughter the ants without reserve”
The knight silently nods to my words
I continue attacking the ants while nodding slightly
After confire into the swarm of ants
The black spear easily goes through the head of a nearby ant, killing it
While pulling out the black spear I deliver a spinning kick to the abdo
Then I turn my body on the tips of my toes
Using thekick, and bring the spear crashi+ng down in the ant’s head
Further the black spear horizontally I ht, pulverizing it
At that time, Rollo enters
She res
The movement serves as a restraint
After re it, she strikes the ant’s head with her feeler bone sword and slaughters them quickly
She is fighting efficiently As one would expect of a divine beast
How about I entrust the small fry to Rollo?
Even though I think it is lazy, I begin using the black spear simply The blade of the black spear is thrust into the head of an ant
In no time, almost twenty of them are defeated
Before long, there no more ants nearby They must have been exterminated
Rollo returns to
She scratches with the feeling of 『This fur is scratchy, Nya』
The adventurer I helped also seems to have defeated the ants
Corpses are laying all over the ground
The knight as fighting hard before talks to me
“Thank you My name is Quiche Bakunda Call me Quiche”
I identify them as a woman from their voice
Since their visor is down I cannot make out her face, but I can see her eyes
Fair light green
“No, no, this ari You ari”
“Thank you”
“Thank you for earlier”
The adventurers ere bitten and injured by the ants speak energetically
“N, Nyaon”
Rollo cries from my shoulder as if to say 『It’s only nyatural』 and turns a proud face to the adventurers [ED:” nyatural”<- really??=””>
“Waa, cute”
“This black cat-chan”
“I saw it earlier! This cat is strong, ne~ It got bigger”
Rollo juround to meet the expectations of such a child
She brings her head near the child’s s with Rollo
Judging from the voice of the injured adventurer, the child’s appearance still has a way to go before they are an adult
The child is of a race with scaled skin
Why are there such young children here…
Such a question floats on my face-
The feht raises her visor and removes her helmet
There is no wind blowing, but beautiful long light green hair flutters as her face is exposed
Green eyes, a tattoo of a bee is visible on her cheek
A green jade-like jewel is in an earring on her long ears
Elf She is a beautiful wo to you Purple!)]
I htly surprised expression because the Elf woins to talk
“Were you surprised? Anyways I brought these ones froe】 They’re still newbies…”
“Hino Village?”
“Aah, near this insect e in the forest It may be easier to understand if I say it is near Mt Burdock”
“I see “I came directly from 【Hector】”
“Is that so, well, from that fort city…With such skill I suppose you must be a famous adventurer”
“No, no, not at all Apart fro to harvest ‘this’?”
I raise a hand and lightly point a finger at the remains of the ants
“A, aah That’s right”
Without waiting for an answer, I silently collect the yellos
Using the Kukri sword, I cut through the shell of the ant’s abdomen
The carapace seems bulky so I only collect the small claws and the antenna
After I finish collecting most of it I talk to Quiche
“So, why are such children here?”
“These aren’t children”
“Really, we’re D ranked adventurers!”
Hearing what I say the lizard faced child playing with Rollo answers in a rough voice through her helmet
Quiche smiles at such a childish reaction
“Arri, Taku Be quiet But, it is like that These children are full-fledged adventurers in the village They want to defeat the queen of this insect shrine that always hare the upper levels, so I ca”
“Adventurers? Sorry for earlier”
I look at the short newbies and apologize
“Uun It’s fine as long as you understand”
The girl says in a tender tone
I talk to Quiche while cracking a smile
“However, won’t it still be dangerous? Even this was dangerous”
“That’s right My thinking was optimistic I have no idea ould have happened if Shuya didn’t show up…”
She see
But, it should be rare that ants appear in such large numbers…
Hmm, I already finished one request quickly
“But it was good to be saved In which case, with this I-“
“Wait We cannot part without returning the favor”
“N〜, I took a request, so I intend to go to the middle level now…”
See surprised by my words, Quiche’s eyes widen and she blinks her eyes
“W-what, you’re going to hunting on the middle level solo?”
Rollo is there too…
Rollo see her head with a hind leg
Ma, I guess it is called solo
“Aah”
“It’s too dangerous You saw the group from before, do you expect them to only appear one at a time?”
“Well But, everything is experience Didn’t you see my movements earlier? I won’t easily ‘die'”
I ain
I won’t die even if I want to
Quiche nodded as if understanding
“That’s true, however I want to return the favor…”
As, this Quiche woman is very loyal
“N~, your thanks is enough Ah, if that’s the case, then properly, return those young girl-…no, those adventurers to their village”
Intentionally speaking lazily, I walk further in with the black spear against ht shoulder
Rollo follows
“Ah, wait”
“N?”
Hearing her behindaround
“I understand We haven’t reached an agreement, but I will return the favor sometime soon Now, thank you That’s all I have to say”
I raise a hand without looking back and respond, “Ou,” as I walk forward
“Quiche You face is red〜”
“Ah, it is Perhaps, the cool onii-san, she’s the ‘L’ word〜〜”
“Don’t you think Quiche has such a face…”
“It’s really red〜”
“Quiche…”
“W-hat are you saying! Please don’t say stupid things, let’s quickly return to the village”
After parting froh the upper area while defeating ants
There is an opening in the thorn with a descending stair case, below seeer middle level There are a lot of small rooms other than the open space
I re
The small black rooed like the mesh of a net
A lot of ant inhabit the co around
It’s an ied honeycomb structure
At least, it does not seem the nest of ordinary ants
As I descend the stairs it become dim
I have <night vision=””> but I light the lantern for the ti
I brought it with much effort, so I must use it
Oh, I found an ant A group of adventurers is fighting against an ant
It looks like the long armed ant
It is ht to hold them back
There is a long sharp-looking hooked claw on the end of its forelegs
It looks like it would be painful if it hits Its body see
A shi+eld carrying warrior attracts the long-aric user behind hi a weapon with both hands brings down a hard attack from the other side of the ant
The cooperating adventurers finish defeating the long-armed ant
They remove the white claw, antenna, and carapace of fallen ant
While looking at the various adventurers, I search for ene pheroh the middle level
As I advance through a passage of twisted black thorns, again I find a ic essence reaction
This is from around the corner
Do these “ants” intend to raid me?
It looks like an ambush
The -armed ants on each side from around the corner
I act without a hitch
I collect mana in my feet and advance
A long-ar sharp white forefeet extending to the sides, so I thrust out the black spear powerfully penetrating its abdomen
Repeatedly, I drive in the blade of the black spear to gouge out the sto white limbs
White entrails hang out froed ant falls to the ground
I deliver a final bloith <thrust>
I kick the ground so hard with <fighting ht above I launch the spear at the long armed ant’s head
The black spear drills through the sky like a rising dragon
The h the jaw of the ant like a spiral drill, penetrating its Clypeus [ED: Palate changed to Clypeus for anatomy reasons]
The black spear reaches the brain, co the head of the ant
The destroyed head is torn off and flies through the sky like a firework
The body of the long ariant
For a moment, I consider the extent of such a spectacle…
The long ar still like a daruma
White viscous liquid begins to overflow from the severed neck, and possibly from the inertia, is collapses to the side
“Nya, nya~”
N? I turn when I hear so like 『No, Nya』
The way Rollo is walking seems dissatisfied
She swipes at the fallen corpse and begins the play like this by knocking around a white leg
Playing around, it kind of looks like this one is playing ice hockey?
“Rollo, this isn’t a playground?”
“Nyao”
“I understand Make sure Rollodinu works hard next time”
With brightened eyes, Rollo responds lively with a “Nya!”
S
Since the carapace is too wide to fit into the bag I do not take it
Finished collecting, I advance through the dim middle layer
Rollo looks excited and has begun to search for prey with her feelers extended
Ou, there is a presence detection response
-Magic essence
Once again, a long-armed ant in discovered
I visual confirs
I also look over at Rollo, she has adopted the loling posture of hunting
Seeing Rollo’s stance to the side I can understand that she is excited
Slowing extending a foreleg, she is advancing slowly
Despite appearances, she see it