Publishedat 26th of August 2019 02:31:34 PMChapter 177
I was tired as h.e.l.l after the fight, but as it was now my turn to watch, I had no choice but to stay awake until morning . Thankfully, no one had ordered a second shipment of monsters, and so I was left to sit there in peace and in boredom . It was better if you moved a little . Staring into the flames in this state was like begging to be put under hypnosis .
When the sun rose, I covered the hypnotizing flames with a pot . Then I filled the pot with water and took out some vegetables from my bag . It looked like cabbage . I tore it up by hand so that they became smaller pieces . When the water came to a boil, I dumped the meat into the pot . I had an a.s.sortment of spices that I wasn’t quite sure of, and had to taste the soup as I added them and removed the sc.u.m from the surface . I had also bought something that looked like pepper at the market yesterday, and so I cut it up and dumped it in as well . It looked spicey . Once everything looked nice and soft, I added the cabbage at last . When the color of the leaves turned vibrant, it was ready .
“Daniela . Morning . ”
“Mmmm…fine…”
Daniela emerged from the pile of blankets . She then crawled out of the tent and dunked her head into a bucket of water that had been prepared . Breakfast would be served once she was finished .
“I tried to make a spicy soup this time . ”
“Thank you…mmm…it is so spicy . ”
“Yeah, I just told you…”
Well, it was always hotter than you expected . I get it . …Yeah . It really was spicy . But good .
When the food was done, we washed the bowls and put everything away . We would take a short break and then get ready to leave . Take down the tent, extinguish the fire, make sure we didn’t leave anything . It was all so very familiar to me now .
And so our camp ended . And we started off for our next destination .
This had become a regular thing for us quite a while ago now . Fighting monsters, talking with ruffians, and even killing humans . Things had changed inside of me . After all, even monsters were living creatures .
Still, traveling with Daniela was fun . And it was wonderful how we would meet new people .
There were more days now that I looked back at my time in the convenience store and thought of how idle it had all been . But there were pleasant customers, the manager was a bit strange, but pretty . And there were good things that had happened . Though, I was still stabbed .
In the end, I just loved to travel . But…
“This is horrible…”
“What are we going to do…”
We were currently in the middle of a rainstorm .
We hadn’t been walking for more than ten minutes when the clouds started to darken . By the time I had become genuinely worried, drops of rain began to fall . We looked for a place to wait until it stopped, but the town was still quite far off, and we would be drenched when the rain really picked up . And so we set our eyes on a large tree . No sooner had we arrived, than the landslides began, as if waiting for the perfect timing .
Of course, this roof of leaves was not waterproof, but it was better than nothing . We used some branches and cloth to make a kind of tent…thing . To ward off the rain . Thanks to it, we avoided being drenched through .
However, the cloud was very large, and the rain showed no signs of stopping any time soon .
It was still morning, and yet the sunlight seemed to have vanished, leaving a darkness close to night time . Occasionally, there would be bursts of light between the clouds . But mostly, we saw nothing but the horrible rain .
“What the…”
“We will not be able to move like this . Forcing our way forward will only result in us getting sick . ”
True . It wouldn’t be too bad if we could wipe ourselves dry and soak in a hot tub . But that wouldn’t happen . We needed an inn for that . And I wasn’t going to look for an inn in this weather .
There would be no bathing for quite some time . Our bodies would get colder and our strength leave us . We would have no medicine and nowhere to buy any . Well, the Appraisal gla.s.ses might help me find some, if there was any to find .
In any case, falling sick now could have grave consequences . And so we decided to stay here and wait .
“Huhhh… If only we could have reached the town…”
“It cannot be helped . These things happen . ”
Daniela pressed her shoulder into mine . Yes…there was nothing to do . I guess we could fool around since no one was watching . Yes, we might as well .
Daniela had been whispering sweet words into my ear, but then she stopped . Why…?
“Asagi . Monsters . ”
“…”
“Come on, get ready . ”
“They have the worst timing…”
“We can continue this later . ”
“Oh, well . Time to kill . ”
I straightened my back and picked up the devil sword that I had leaned against the tree .
“To be precise…”
“Eh?”
“Someone is being chased by a monster . ”
“You should say that first!”
I pulled the hood over my head and ran towards the approaching presence . They were thankfully coming towards us, and right into my detection area . So now I knew where they were .
I may catch a cold by doing this, but that was nothing compared to a person’s life . Even if the cold turned into something worse and dangerous . There was plenty I could do before that happened, and it was easier to help save a life before thinking about any of that .
And so I ran . And so I nearly died . I was running without having a clear view of my surroundings, searching for the presence of the human and the monster . That’s when a covered wagon appeared before me and nearly ran me over . My eyes met those of the driver, but Legs of the Forest Wolf kicked in instinctively and I dove to the side .
Then it rushed pa.s.sed me . The monster chased after it . From what I could see, it looked like a boar . But there was magic as well . It was definitely a monster . I had never seen them before, but I knew their name . Iron Boars . They lived in the empire and had fangs as hard as iron . And very sharp as well . Sharp as a sword . Dangerous things .
Something must have caused them to become aggressive . Perhaps the wagon had been in a rush to return to the town since it was raining, and they had gone through enemy territory .
“But there’s no point in thinking about that now . ”
I frantically used Legs of the Forest Wolf to chase after the wagon . It didn’t take long, and I slashed at the giant body from the side . Blood flew in the air and merged with the rain . The thing lost its balance .
“BBMORGH!!”
“Stop!”
I thrust my sword into the neck of the iron boar as it thrashed . It took all of my strength to pull it out, but when I was done, the iron boar was dead .
“Phew…”
Another life is gone . However, it had to be done to save that wagon . That was how the world worked . I had to follow the rules as a citizen . When in Rome, etcetera .
“Hey!”
“Hm?”
I looked up and saw the wagon . Someone was waving at me . And it wasn’t the driver…
And so I grabbed one of the legs of the iron boar and dragged it towards the wagon . Even though it would have usually been too heavy, Legs of the Forest Wolf allowed me to advance while holding onto it . Of course, my hand would be weak and shake uncontrollably later on .
“You saved us! You have!”
“Well, I couldn’t just ignore you . ”
“It would have been quite terrible if this wagon were any slower than it was! Really!”
The merchant-like man took my hand in his iron grasp and shook it wildly up and down .
“I wish that I could do something to repay you, but I don’t have anything that I can give you . ”
“Oh, don’t worry about . We just happened to be in the area . ”
I pointed at the tree .
“We were waiting for the rain to stop . ”
Among other things .
“Ah, I see . Yes, you would get quite wet if you attempted to reach the next town like this!”
I was quite wet already!
“Yes, yes . This is quite the chance encounter . Will you not ride with us then?”
“Oh? Do you mean it?”
This was fantastic . We would lose no more time!
“What do you say?”
“Thank you! Uh, I am Asagi . An Adventurer . ”
“I’m Tanjelin . A humble merchant . ”
And so through this merchant, we had obtained a means of advancing through the rain .
Helping people really paid off .