Taken the qualification to Seeker and finished the shopping, I go back home.
When I come back, I will stop the dungeon search because it"s going to be 12:00 soon.
However, in order to ascertain the feeling of the Tsuruginata I bought, I will try to swing it around in my hands.
Like yesterday"s night, I did the same swings of Kendo and checked the difference with the hatchet, but there seemed to be no problem in particular.
After that, I wrap a cloth as a slip stopper and swing further.
I confirm with my right hand, left hand, with both hands that it not slip, and put it away
in the sheath.
It was just in time.
The rat meat came out again for lunch, however, it still hasn"t been completely consumed, so it might be better to process the remaining part.
I give rat meat to Pochi too.
I took a break and it was enough to move to the cave, one can say it is already a dungeon, so I prepare to dive in the dungeon.
I put a water bottle and rat meat in the rucksack, and enter the dungeon with Pochi.
Of course, equipped with the helmet and the Tsuruginata I bought, the hatchet that I used before is put as a reserve for the time being.
In some cases, it might be good to fight with two swords. (TN: nitoryu)
Two swords, I"m not excited about my chunni spirit. (TN: I"m not sure but I think it"s a pun, the author uses 厨二心 that can be read as chuuni spirit, but literal is kitchen of two hearts or something like that)
When I enter the dungeon, I go to the place where I was stuck previously.
In the way there, I met with a single rat, but now there is no problem with one or two at the same time.
Then, I came in front of the plaza where lots of rats where and I could not go ahead yesterday.
The number of them is great as ever.
Twenty, no, more.
This number of rats, I can not fight directly.
How-e-ver, I don"t have to fight directly!
Therefore, let"s take that out and throw it.
I took off the rucksack, and take out the rat meat from inside.
I take out several lumps of meat cut in pieces.
I take it in hand and scatter across the plaza.
Thereupon, as expected, the rats start fighting for the meat.
Then, they are completely unprotected against us.
"Good! Pochi, now!!"
That said, Pochi heads for a rat.
I won"t be late to follow Pochi.
Pochi ripped the flesh as he bites a rat near him.
And, that rat becomes almost neutralized.
When I approach a rat, I swing down the Tsuruginata, and smash its head.
Even if it wasn"t its head, I cut off its neck and torso. Or close to it.
By doing so, the rats raise their cry, but the rats are so noisy in the fight for meat, and the cry of the rats attacked by us are erased.
Afterwards, we attack them and reduce their number.
Also, because the rats are also attacking themselves, their number are decreasing naturally.
It took considerable time before we killed all the rats.
There are corpses of rats here and there, the number is close to 50.
Were there so much?
Even if one third were self-destruction by the rats, almost thirty were taken down by me and Pochi.
Now, what to do with this big number of rats?
For the time being, let"s secure only the amount that enters the rucksack.
If it"s decided, I drain the blood of as many rats as likely to enter in the rucksack.
For the remaining rats, I leave them for a while.
When the bleeding is over, I packed it in my rucksack and decided to take a break.
I take out the water bottle and drink it.
I pour water into the lid of the bottle and give water to Pochi too.
Then, I saw that Pochi started drinking water swiftly, and I found that Pochi has a dry throat.
After finishing drinking the water, Pochi approaches me and lays upside down.
I also finished drinking, after I put away the bottle, I stroke his back to thank the hard work.
Then Pochi is glad and began to wave his tail intensely.
After the break, I begin dismantling only one rat that is nearby.
What for?
I went to the other plazas where there were a lot of rats, to do the same thing.
To say from the conclusion, this strategy succeeded in the other places.
However, I could not say that I was unhurt.
I don"t know whether the amount of meat spread was small or they were not so hungry, but while attacking, several rats noticed me and counterattacked.
One or two wouldn"t have been any problem, but five of them at once, I got several attacks.
There I noticed that I didn"t feel the rat attack as strong as I thought.
Actually, I didn"t get much damage.
Ah, Pochi is unhurt.
I watched the movement of Pochi, but he smashed all of them before getting counterattacked.
Apparently, It seems that he was crushing them, judging who is about to counterattack.
The number of rats" corpses will exceed 100 in all.
If you don"t count well it seems to be nearly 200.
Because I killed this much, as one would expect there will be changes in my physical ability.
Even if I say so, I don"t know what has changed.
Oh yes, I was fighting with the rucksack on my back.
Do you want to say that it would get in the way if I carry that on my back?
Well, sure it is.
But, think carefully.
Do you think that there is the time for conveniently drop the rucksack at any time?
For now, Pochi tells me when the rats come closer, but there will be sudden hits.
If I carry a rucksack on my back, it"s also to protect my back.
Well, I don"t put down the rucksack for those reasons, and in the middle of the fight with the rats, I did not care much about the rucksack.
The weight of the rucksack hasn"t changed.
However, for some reason, I don"t feel that it"s too heavy.
This may be due to the increase in my physical ability.
For the time being, I looked all the places I explored yesterday.
It"s rather wasteful that it was decided to leave most of the killed rats, but there is no help for it.
I gave up the rats tearfully.
If this was a magic bag, the story would be different.
Eh? What is a magic bag?
It is literally a magic bag. (TN: the previous was in katakana and this is in kanji)
In other words, will you understand if I say item box?
In short, contrary to the appearance, it"s a bag with large capacity.
It may be easier to say that it is similar to a mysterious pocket worn by a cat-shaped robot of a certain manga.
The magic bag also differs by quality, if it"s a good one, the capacity limit is not known so much, however, if the quality is bad, it seems to be little more than a normal one.
But a really good one seems that the price will be higher.
I looked on the net, but even the worst article is hundreds of thousands to more than a million, they are out of hands.
I should luckily find one in this dungeon.
When I confirmed the time, it was past 18:00.
Today"s search is over with this.
Having rats which I could hold in hand, I leave the dungeon.
I went out of the dungeon and had dinner, then feed the chickens and return them to the hut.
I gave the feed and rat meat together.
There is a lot of rat meat.
Besides, there is also a probability that the quality of the eggs may be improved by this.
If that happens, the eggs may sell higher.
I dismantle the rats, but today it took a while to dismantle the big amount of it.
After a lightly swinging, take a bath and go to sleep.
I"m planning to enter the dungeon for a longer time tomorrow.
Oh yeah, it seems that there was a call from the government office.
They seem to come to check if it"s a dungeon.
So, I can not say anything about management yet.
However, they seem to recommend what I said.
If that"s the case, I hope they don"t come up with an incompetent guy.
This is a farmhouse so I don"t want many people to come.
If I can do it alone, I would like to capture this dungeon.
Probably it will be impossible.
If it"s impossible, let"s sell the farm products of the house.
Pesticide-free vegetables are popular with health-oriented people now.
By this, it would be nice if it became popular among vegetable houses.
Don"t know what to do without looking after this?