Chapter 182 (1/2)
Kanako, Melissa and Doug had been assigned to Legion as subordinates, but the work that they had been given was no ordinary work
“First of all, you’re to be constantly under our surveillance,” said Minuion’s personalities
“… Hitois’ Melissa, her ion had no intention of concealing the fact that their job was to supervise Kanako and her companions rather than act as their boss
It seeht of countless, pink, huether to form a sphere… or perhaps it could be described as an enormous ball of flesh with hu out of it in random places
“You say that our work is to be under surveillance… Isn’t there anything else? We’re not asking to be in charge of so dissatisfied “Also, what is that eyeball? You didn’t have that until today, right?” he asked, pointing at an eyeball about the size of his own head that was buried inside Legion
Legion’s various personalities began explaining
“This is Vandalieu’s, an eyeball of the De-distance Control Skill, he can s froht now Vandalieu is outside the range for the Long-distance Control Skill”
“We’ve borrowed it fro we can keep it inside us! We haven’t had it transplanted into us! We’ve just made a dent in our body and put it inside there!”
“I-I see… It’s the kind of stuff that would disgust in, but I’ muttered
“So this is the effect of the Guidance Skill, is it?” said Kanako “It’s inconvenient that it can’t be used consciously, but it’s far superior to my Venus in terms of duration and the breadth of its effects”
Despite hearing Legion’s explanation, they were only a little surprised rather than shocked In fact, they even had slight positive e pupil
As Kanako said, this was the effect of Vandalieu’s guidance As the De’s eyeballs were a part of Vandalieu, they felt as if the eyeball was Vandalieu himself
The fact that they had been ion’s true for that this was the form of the people that they had known frouidance’s effects No uided members were, they all felt a sense of friendshi+p and unity with each other, which had softened the psychological blow to Kanako and her co you can’t tell us about?” asked Melissa
“No, we need your help for the experiuns, weren’t you?” asked Ghost… the one whose existence hadn’t been known by the reincarnated individuals, including Kanako, right until the very end
“Well, I suppose so,” said Doug
The three of theeon It was the sa in until they were guided by Vandalieu
In this Dungeon, Melissa took ai echoed out, and the fired projectile buried itself inside Legion’s enormous body
“… Did you ht in the rily
“Hht you ion’s body
It seeion felt no pain
“Well then, aim for our eye next The white of the eye is fine, but hit the pupil if you can,” said Legion, ht I’ll shoot your eye… How troublesome,” Melissa unpowder and a new bullet, took aier
A gunshot rang out onceDeround
“Not even a scratch… That pupil is harder than bulletproof glass or fortified plastic,” said Melissa
“You guys, stop teasingupset!” said Hitomi
TLN: Hitomi’s name is the same word (and kanji) as the japanese word for “pupil”
“Sorry, Hitomi, it was kind of funny,” said Pluto “Still, it’s just as you’d expect of a part of Vandalieu An ordinary gun can’t pierce it even with a direct hit Well then, test the biggest one next If I recall, we should have a big gun that’s over twice the size of an ordinary rifle”
“I can’t hold that thing You do it, Doug,” said Melissa
“Yeah, yeah… Here I go!”
Having to use the Hecatoncheir’s telekinesis ability to support the enor’s eyeball in Legion The barrel spewed out flames and a thunderous noise, and the projectile sank into the surface of the eyeball The recoil left Doug’s arms and shoulders nuh,” said Legion
The bullet hadn’t pierced through the Deion’s flesh; it had stopped against the eyeball’s surface
“At this rate, on’t be able to inflict even a scratch unless we replace these lead bullets for bullets ical unpowder andand Melissa were testing whether the prototype firearms that had been left in the workshop in the deepest cha fired
All of these firearms were the creations of Zakkart and Hillho had worked with him, so they had enormous historical value Kanako and her coht for them to handle such precious itearn had replied “Zakkart created them to be used as weapons, not as works of art or ornan you ork”
Gufadgarn are that all of Zakkart’s relics were precious iteers
A the relics, she knew that these firearms were not particularly iht these fireareon, followed Zakkart’s handwritten explanations to load theion and the Dearn had preserved the firearunpowder, they were still usable despite a hundred thousand years having passed
But ere they using Legion and the De fired at, Legion could offer their thoughts on the weapons As for the Deh-Rank monster
“But it won’t pierce an eyeball even with a direct hit… Is this real life?” Doug wondered “Even if Zakkart and Hill built these after co to this world, their function shouldn’t be that different froroup had been doing their best to not draw attention to theht was only Rank 7; he ondering if there was a problem with the firearms themselves Even if the firearms were old-fashi+oned and the eyeball was massive, he seemed to find it difficult that the eyeball’s surface could stop bullets
Gufadgarn thought for a ’s question “It is true that Zakkart created these guns after co to this world, but it is unclear as to whether their performance is equivalent to that of the matchlock firearms of Earth Unfortunately, I do not kno effective matchlock firearms are in Zakkart’s world or yours”
Zakkart, the creator of these guns, had been the ineer at his s But naturally, he had never built guns before Hillho had wanted to be an actor, had only ever seen props of guns
Thus, Zakkart had used his vague knowledge, created gunpoith Solder’s help through trial and error, and finally built these guns after uns were referred to as matchlock firearms and there were many similar parts But the truth was that they were no more than imitations… parts of the wood had been replaced by Adamantite and Mythril, too
Thus, even Zakkart had been unable to say for certain whether they were as effective as the originals
“In fact, you three and Legion should be uns than Zakkart was,” said Gufadgarn
Kanako, Doug and Melissa looked at each other, then their faces fell a little
“I see But I’ve never fired old-fashi+oned guns before, either I’ve only used assault rifles and auto
“We haven’t even done that It’s not that we can’t use theic more often when it caood at using guns were ‘Super Sense,’ and ‘Odin’ Murakauns as well There were others like the ‘Gungnir’ Kaidou Kanata,’ too,” said Kanako “What about you, Legion? Ereshkigal always carried a gun with her, so I thought she was quite the gun ion shook their heads
“The only ability I had was reflecting attacks I received with Counter, so I had to carry a weapon at all tial “It was like a replacement for a stuffed toy, and an accessory to look cool I wasn’t a un around like a stuffed toy, but as you knoe never learned how to handle guns like you guys Most of us could barely e to not shoot ourselves in the feet”
“… Valkyrie and Izanami really did shoot theun, the recoil knocked her off her feet She’s never held a gun since”
“Shade, you were supposed to keep quiet about that, right?”
“How dare you reveal a maiden’s secrets?! You traitor!”
Several fe the head that seemed to be made of Shade’s flesh
Incidentally, as a for But she was so terrible with guns that her instructor had told her never to use them if possible
In suuns, but they weren’t truly knowledgeable about the perfore situation
“We can at least suggest points to iress could be uns any more modern than this would be impossible,” said Kanako “At most, we could try to build revolvers if we could build bullet cartridges and fuses”
Doug and Melissa were in agreement They had no confidence, because before they were reincarnated in Lae from other worlds could not be applied directly in this world
Each world had different laws of physics, such as the existence of Mana and the relationshi+ps between attributes Thus, any scientific knowledge gained in their original world was of no use here if applied directly
In fact, there was no telling ould happen if iteht directly into this one
Modern weapons in particular could explode if shaken slightly, or si to Aran, handheldthat Aran hadn’t mentioned ould happen after they were fired
The unpowder that Zakkart and the other cha materials fro However, it was difficult for Kanako and her coe directly
“Vandalieu wishes to knohether guns can be used effectively in Laarn
“He wants to hear how useful you think they’ll be if their performance is improved You’re the only ones who came from another world and lived in huion
With the purpose of this experiment explained to theuns for a while
They tried Adamantite and Orichalcuunpowder, the firepoas only slightly better than ordinary bullets and they still didn’t pierce the De’s eyeball
The conclusion they came to was, “It’s doubtful”
“They’re not suited to being weapons for adventurers Carrying theht attract otherto you,” said Doug “Fro, the iainst Rank 3 or 4 monsters, but they’d only inflict scratches on ht in the eyes or the mouth”
“Past Rank 5,able to fire rounds in quick succession is a big downside,” said Melissa “Also, e special abilities And once the monsters are Rank 10 or above, I’ theets are huainst ordinary soldiers and adventurers up to D-class Considering that they likely won’t knohat guns are, they ht work on C-class adventurers If they could be ht be feasible to carry one for defense,” said Kanako “But I think their biggest advantage is that they’re easy to learn how to use, just like crossbows, other than the fact that you could use the gunshot sounds to intimidate your enemy”
The three of theuns were about as useful as crossbows
Unlike hunters on Earth, adventurers would encounter and fighta matchlock firearm took more time and effort than a crossbow Thus, they did not make for reliable weapons
However, if used on humans, they could be useful as most people would not be able to tell that it was a weapon at first glance But this trick would never work on the sa the effort it takes to unpowder and bullets, and the fact that they’re difficult to use, I think crossbows are better,” said Kanako
“You’re right… Even if Vandalieu turned these into Cursed Weapons, they probably wouldn’t be able to reload themselves, either,” said Izana a heroic s turned out like this!” said Valkyrie
“I see,” Gufadgarn said with a nod, see not to care that Zakkart’s relics had turned out to not be useful “Zakkart also gave up on ’s army due to a uns for himself and the other champions, and then stopped his research on them It would not be easy to make them overco Zakkart couldn’t do it, so there’s no way that we’d be able to do it?” Doug said sarcastically