Vol 2 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Translator: Sine Nomine

Editor(s): YuNS, AMetroid

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PART 1

I sat in the shaking carriage and sighed lightly

“Really a group of strange people…”

Froe , I could see Alcanretia in the distance

Even the de had some measure of fear for the Axis Cult

What itnessed was probably just a small aspect of them

While I was ihts, someone pulled on my clothes

It was Yunyun, as sitting next to me

…This kid was having the sahts as me?

“Hey, Megue creatures? Let h the ”

She said such unsenti by the

“…Yunyun is so childish I was re…”

“Ch-Childish!+? Hey, wait a rowth is better than yours… Ah! What! Why are you sighing!”

I ignored Yunyun as she shook my shoulder and looked at the scenery beyond the

—The carriage wastowards the City of Rookie Adventurers, Axel

There were five seats per row in this big carriageIncluding Yunyun and ers

I snatched theseat i…

“Hey, it has been an hour Let me have theseat for a while!”

“No way In terms of my body clock, it has only been less than 10 minutes Besides, when I took theseat, you even coht?”

“But it seems so enjoyable to look at the scenery outside the !”

“Of course it is enjoyable I don’t get to take a carriage often… Ah! I see Lizard Runners! There are two Lizard Runners co for the female! Which one in? I’m so concerned…”

“Hey, quick! Change and let me see!”

“Hehe… Your relationshi+p is so good”

Sohing

Or rather, every passenger in the carriage are s at us

As if embarrassed, Yunyun blushed and shrank her body The auntie at the side offered her dessert

“Young lady, have some”

“Then I won’t stand on ceremony”

“Hey!”

I reached out and took the dessert offered to Yunyun, who immediately reacted

The auntie smiled kindly

“Here, there’s one for you too Since you’re going to Axel, are you going to become adventurers?”

The auntie offered the dessert to Yunyun and asked

Overwhelave half of it to Cho at it on her knees

For so the dessert with glowing eyes

“Yes I intend to beco to Axel to find co to be an adventurer too? Your goal is to find weak ht?”

“Eh!? I-I… What should I do? If I’et into trouble… I should find some companions…”

“True Once we used up all our mana, ould be no different from ordinary people Companions are necessary”

“Th-That’s true! Meguumin, uh…”

“If a party has tizards, the party will be unbalanced I hope I can find a party that is lacking a wizard… What, Yunyun? Why are you panicking?”

“N-No! That’s true Tizards in the same party will spoil the balance…”

After panicking, Yunyun quickly became dejected and silently ate her dessert

I looked at her puzzled The auntie smiled

“Both of you have criht? At Axel, both of you will be very popular I hope you can find your desired companions”

Her words caused an uproar in the carriage

“Criic Clanse?”

“We can relax on this trip We won’t get our turn to act”

“Anyway, no e trade caravan”

It see the passengers

“Don’t worry I’ic Clan Even if monsters attack, nobody will be hurt in my presence!”

“Oooh!”

“That’s the Criic Clan for you!”

“Hey, wait, Meguue!”

Yunyun warnedad people

……After a moment of self-satisfaction, a shadow appeared outside the

But there was nothing there…

No Was there so in the sky?

The shadoas cast on the ground, e Then, the shadow became smaller

When I put my head out of theto check, the shadow vanished

Was it a bird? Or a flying monster?

“Hey, Meguain? Let me see!”

“I’ is on a first-come-first-served basis!”

At this tiain

“Hey, elder sister, I can change seats with you”

That was the little girl sitting opposite, as travelling with the auntie

Being accommodated by a child, Yunyun lowered her head in embarrassment

……I should be a bit nified too

PART 2

This trade caravan consisted of 10 carriages It took on paying passengers while transporting the trade goods from various cities

Soe caravan

It was noon now

We stopped to let the horses rest

It was open country from Alcanretia to Axel

Endless grass plains surrounded us on all sides

“So peaceful… Looking at this scenery, it see’s army has attacked the imperial capital is a lie…”

Sitting on the grass plain, Yunyun said as she narrowed her eyes to gaze at the scenery

The other passengers were also sitting on the grass plain to rest So

“Albays way suk things…”

“Don’t eat and speak at the same time”

“Gu… If you keep saying such things, it will raise a flag and attract ic, so that’s fine by me”

“……It looks like we should be ilant…”

As Yunyun atte started to be alert

“If the re journey is without incidents, ill be in Axel by tomorrow afternoon”

“Shut up! Don’t raise any s! We learned this at school! This phrase was recorded in the collection of ‘Unspeakable Phrases’!”

I said to Yunyun as shaking my shoulders

“No problee Based onattacked by monsters is below 01”

“Shut up! Do you really want to be attacked bythis on purpose so you can perform before everyone!?”

Of course, but…

“I say that, butwon’t attract monsters We have so many people, the monsters are not stupid”

“That’s true… but you still—“

—shouldn’t say such strange things

Yunyun never finished her sentence

“Monsters have appeared!”

The adventurers on guard duty shouted as they patrolled the plains—

“That’s why I said! Don’t say such flag-raising phrases! I warned you about this!”

“Wa-Wait, this is not e that there is an attack even with this uards!”

I hurriedly found an excuse to s

The adventurers ere on guard duty went back and forth to protect their employer and the customers

One of them looked towards us

“Great ones of the Criic Clan! I know it is rude to ask this of the customers, but there are too many monsters Can you please help us?”

Then, the adventurer took out the spears stored in the back of the carriage

“Great ones!? Yunyun, did you hear that? He called us noble ones!”

“I-I heard it He said that—! Why are you so excited!? What struck a chord in Megumin’s heart!!”

To be so honored and yet Yunyun still couldn’t catch the drift She took out her staff from her waist

“The terhting for the reputation of the Criic Clan We will lay waste to those monsters!”

I said and raised my staff

The staff I received froic The ruby at its end was eht

The surrounding is a broad open plain

No matter which direction the ic before they came close

“Hahahahaha! My naic Clan who uses Explosion ic! See how I blast this plain into a crater!”

I shouted confidently

“She’s truly great! So reliable!”

The adventurer who took the spear earlier stabbed at the ground What was he doing?

My suspicion was cleared in an instance The ground stabbed by the spear suddenly rose

“This is a s! It is easier for us when they all come at once like this After all…”

At the saround was…

“The eneiant earthworms!”

The carnivorous earthworth and one meter in diameter

“!?” X2

Dumbstruck, Yunyun and I stared at its spectacular fore

I felt the cries and roars nearby were fading away

Ah, I’m about to faint

“These monsters have soft bodies, so they don’t haveas you avoid being sed alive…”

The adventurer was saying so

The giant earthwor this way

This behavior alone was enough to oose bumps

A mouth opened in its pink head…!

—My endurance was at its limit

“Megus! I really do! But there are so ic! Otherwise, everyone will get hit too!”

Yunyun grabbed an the incantation to cast Explosion ic

“Let go ofthis way! It is looking me ahh!”

“I know! I don’t want to get close to it either— Let me handle this!”

Even though she was about to lose her reason before the giant earthworm, Yunyun still raised her staff and walked forward

Yunyun’s hand was full of goose bumps

This giant earthworm should respond to sounds and movements

It aian the incantation

“It-It-It is co over! Yunyun! Yunyun!”

“Stop pushi+ngme as a shi+eld! Fire Ball!!”

With tears streaking down her face, Yunyun released her ic in annoyance!

The power of the e amount of mana was different from those used by ordinary wizards

Following a loud explosion, Yunyun’s fire ball blew up the upper body of the earthworm

“O-One hit!? Criic Clan is so powerful…!”

“She destroyed the giant earthworh endurance so easily…!”

There were sounds of surprise everywhere Yunyun was probably afraid of the disgusting earthworm, so she must have imbued too much mana into her staff

It was inefficient and resulted in an overpowered attack, but this attack brought the cheers of the watching adventurers

An armored adventurer with a sabre came towards us

“We can win easily like this! Great one, my Detect Eneround! We’ll leave them to you!”

“Eh!?” X2

He said and ran off to protect the merchants

E-Even if you said there were round…!

At this tiround nearby started to shake

“I-If it is just these trash, an arch wizard like me won’t need to take action! I’ave us dessert earlier and that little girl, so I will return to the carriage…!”

“If you are an arch wizard, help uht at those earthworms when you speak!”

PART 3

—Back inside the carriage

We and the adventurers successfully drove off the large aiant earthworms…

“Wow! So this is the Criic Clan! It is an eye-opener! It is unbelievable for a single person to kill off so iant earthworms!”

“That’s right I heard that Criic Clansmen are excellent wizards, but I didn’t expect them to be this powerful!”

“Based on what you say, this is still not up to standard for Criic Clan? Too powerful…!”

Yunyun was forced to sit in the ers were praising her ceaselessly She lowered her head in embarrassment

Yunyun had reduced many earthworms to ashes When she recovered her wits, she discovered more than half of the earthworms were killed by her

Since the corpses

And now

Yunyun, who“attacked” by questions like “What is your destination?”

“It is so lucky to have you onboard We will thank you properly e reach Axel After all, you didn’t take on the job of guarding the caravan At least, letso!”

“No… No need… It was nothing…”

She said with a soft voice After being praised, Yunyun was even more embarrassed

As for me…

“Elder sister ht? We can be at ease next time if more powerful monsters appear!”

“……Right When more powerful monsters appear, I will take action At that tiic”

“I’ll look forward to it!”

I sat straight at the o seats away froirl’s praise

This shouldn’t be like this…

Of course, there was an excuse— If I used Explosion ers would be bloay

So leaving it to Yunyun was the right choice— Of course, I was somewhat afraid of those earthworms…

“I heard that Cri, always setting a high profile But you are like a normal person!”

“That’s right Hue ic Clan!”

“When I heard that there are Criht be trouble It see!”

“It-It isn’t like that… I-I’e…”

“You are being ain! You say you are just a dabbler, but you are probably the ic Clansman!”

“That’s right I don’t believe a powerful person like you is ic Clanse naic Clan’s Nuht?”

… …

“Elder sister, what happened? Are you hurt? Were you injured in the previous battle?”

I grinded irl opposite orried

“—Criic Clan’s Number One Wizard, huh I’m a bit embarrassed…”

Yunyun finally left those people behind and came next to me She mumbled to herself excitedly

Ahhh…!

“You merely defeated some trash monsters If there were nobody in the way, I could wipe them all out! So don’t think you have won!”

“I-I didn’t think I have won! It’s just… It’s just that the passengers acknowledged th…”

Yunyun explained hurriedly, but the smile persisted on her face

……So annoying

“Let’s have athe next rest time!”

“Wh-What! A e! Anye haven’t had a ic, it’s tiic Clan’s Number One Wizard’!”

“Ah, then forget it I don’t want to gaic Clan’s Number One’ title in this kind of match”

“Hey, hey, wait! You are trying to run off after winning!”

I ignored the noisy Yunyun and turned my head towards the

“…… ……?”

“Hey, are you listening!? Since you refuse the challenge, I win by default…! …Meguain?”

“…No, I was probably seeing things”

I replied haphazardly to Yunyun, as asking curiously

……I thought I saw a shadow earlier

Maybe a giant bird was attracted by the dead earthworms and flew overhead

When I started to argue with Yunyun again, I had forgotten about the shadow—

PART 4

“Coy!”

“Th-Thank you very much”

“…… ……”

The rest of the journey was uneventful The sun had set and the surrounding was in darkness

The carriages stopped by the lake and we set up camp

Yunyun was invited to the campfire by the merchant leader

“It is so rare for a 13-year-old to be so proficient in ic?”

“No-Not at all Soic, so e…”

“Advanced e! No wonder even the deic Clan!”

It seemed the merchant leader really liked Yunyun

He took a tasty-looking piece of meat from the barbeque pit and offered it to Yunyun

“…… ……”

“……Meg-Megumin, do you want some? It’s very tasty”

I put Chomsuke on my knees and looked at her from a distance She noticed it and said, “Gu…” I felt I would have lost if I accepted the meat

I didn’t perforht because there were other people in the area

If the battle field ider, this wouldn’t be happening

I was the top genius of Cried because of one failure!

“Little sister, come and eat as well You must eat more, so you can be like your elder sister”

“……We are fellow classmates”

“Eh!? M-My apologies How do I say this… Miss Yunyun looked more matured, so…”

“If you have sorowth, please say it”

As I was about to argue with the leader, an adventurer returned from patrol

He was equipped with leather arer, so he was probably a thief

“I con of monsters nearby”

He seemed to have whistled nearby earlier

“assign the ht watch Everyone else rest early Many monsters are afraid of fire, but conversely, fire can attractto the other adventurers”

That person lit a fire and went off to find other adventurers

“Ah, ah I better go along and lead them directly”

The leader added hurriedly and left for elsewhere with that adventurer who made his report

……He was probably afraid of being pestered by me and wanted to escape

Other passengers were fast asleep in the carriages The journey seemed to have tired them out

Yunyun and I remained alone by the fire

“……Hey, Megureat”

Yunyun said excitedly

“Heheh You are praising yourself over soht activity”

“No-Not true! I didn’t think like that Don’t come closer!”

She quickly explained as I approached slowly Then, she recovered and said shyly

“…Think about it When I was in the village, I was just an inconspicuous kid…”

“That’s true I frequently wondered if you were using Invisibility skill”

“Hey, wait… Nev-Never mind— Today, I finally showed my mettle and was relied upon by so many people, isn’t it?”

Yunyun lowered her head and said happily

……I suddenly noticed Cho at a fixed direction

“So, I-I have a bit of confidence now Actually, I wanted to say this after I learned advanced ether…?”

It was staring at a patch of darkness

What was it?

I thought and stood up…

Sos and flew out of the darkness Cho at

“To-Together form a party… Eh?”

That flying thing seized Chomsuke and vanished into the darkness…

“…Chomsuke was taken so easily Is this a new method to hit on someone?”

“Hey!!”

The creature that took Cho from the darkness

Following the piercing sounds of flapping wings were—

“Kyaaa! Giant bats! It’s a colony of giant bats!”

Vulture-sized giant bats attacked in the glow of the campfire!

PART 5

I picked up Chomsuke Bat corpses were everywhere

“Phew That’s lucky You were nearly taken away and eaten by a bat”

“……”

I said to Cho eyes She was panting heavily

“Yunyun, you have been troubled Perform well once more”

“You should help! In this darkness, the other adventurers’ attacks have low accuracy! My ma-ma-mana is about…”

Yunyun staggered and sat down At this time, the leader and other adventurers came over

I wanted to help, but if I used Explosion ic in the darkness, who kne many people I would hurt by accident?

“Miss Yunyun, thank you very ain! This journey depended so much on you I really don’t knohat to say…!”

“Right, you are so powerful! How do you release interic of such power?”

“Hey, you are going to Axel to find a party, right? Want to join my party…”

Everyone was busy praising Yunyun

But Yunyun, who exhausted her mana, seemed to be unconcerned

“It’s late Miss Yunyun have used up all her mana She looked really exhausted Whatever you have to say, leave it for toood rest!”

At the leader’s orders, everyone else dispersed to rest

At this tilanced at me

…… ……

“By the hat did that kid do? She didn’t do iant earthworms too…”

“Idiot She ers”

“Even so, she should have used a bit of ic…”

I listened to such critique as I walked over to Yunyun

Although she was very tired, she still looked at reat satisfaction

“Megumin, hoas my performance?”

What performance?

I covered myself with blanket, closed my eyes, and slept at Yunyun’s side Only the portion of my head from my nose up was exposed

I wasn’t unhappy or dissatisfied because I didn’t act or perform

“So interic is still acceptable? I think it’s quite useful”

“True~”

“Hey, don’t be quarrelsoic”

I wasn’t being quarrelsome!

Definitely not!

“…Uh, I say, let’s continue our earlier conversation… If it’s possible, form a party with me…”

I grinded my teeth atto Yunyun and merely responded perfunctorily

PART 6

The next day

“You have been troubled last night! Wow, Criic Clan is really reliable!”

“No-Not at all… I-I have a lot of faults…”

In the shaking carriage, Yunyun continued to be very popular

She continued to blush and lower her head as if she was not used to being praised However, her voice was slightly louder as if she was more confident than before

I clenched ht after, and turned to look out of the

“Last night, elder sister also went to vanquish the ht? I was asleep, so I don’t knohat happened”

The little girl sitting opposite said innocently

“I’encies I will use ht, I let my minion, that sister over there, to clean up those monsters”

“Hey! I heard that!”

My e, protested

“By the way, that was the second monster attack There shouldn’t be a third time, so let’s relax until we reach Axel”

“How s! Isn’t it said that bad things happen in threes!”

I chuckled in disdain at Yunyun’s anxiety

—After the last goblin had fallen, I sighed

“Phew… It’s finally over But with Criic Clansmen like us here, battle is so easy”

“What is your basis for speaking like you have acco? The adventurers and I did all the work! Megu on the sidelines! I told you so s! It’s all your fault we are being attacked repeatedly!”

I chose to view the surrounding scenery

The place was filled with dead huoblins

……What should I say, this…

This was already the third time the caravan was attacked by monsters… But I didn’t think I was responsible for them

Even so, it was very strange for a large caravan to be attacked repeated in such a short time

……Was it really because of my unnecessary words?

Although it was oblins, the nu The exhausted adventurers panted heavily and sat down on the ground

We were attacked just as we nearly arrived at Axel

……Annoying This trip was really uneasy

Teleport fro to Axel by carriage

A simple trip like this was filled by disasters

It was awith the weird uncle The caravan to Axel was attacked by monsters repeatedly

Thinking back on these encounters—

“Elder sister”

The little girl e her

And then…

“And elder brothers… Thank you very much”

She said and smiled sweetly

Her words brought sround

Seeing her smile made me feel that my hard asn’t wasted

“No need for thanks Defeating these trash ”