Chapter 06 : Fear of the Death King Crab
(TN Lilykroats: We no longer have an editor :c , I’m doing my best to fix everything up)
Those who mountain climbed to a certain extent could understand, but by careful observation in any mountain you should find something called the animal track pathways.
Some animals pa.s.s through a narrow width smaller than their own body “How can they get through you ask?”, Well for example, you pa.s.s on a road of about 20 cm in width by squishing through.
If you observe the gra.s.s in a finer detail you will notice that it is easy to judge whether animals living in the forest are using it on a daily basis due to slight distortion and falling leaves covering the tracks.
Early in the morning, after having eaten the soup porridge made with the wild boar last night for breakfast, we went for a walk in the forest.
I wanted to speak to Rurutina immediately in private, just us alone, I was a little surprised though when Altina followed me while I was not aware of her presence.
The Redheaded girl Altina is extremely taciturn(Shy/Dandere) compared to her other sisters, but that way you do not mind using it too.
Altina suddenly crawled on the gra.s.s so I imitated her while letting out my breathing sound.
My big fluffy appearance was feeling kinda pleasant and the corners of my mouth moved further.
k.u.ma:”this time……”
Yes. What is it?
Altina:”What are you looking at?”
she asked with a puppy brown eyes while gently tilting her head. It was a charming behavior like a shiba inu, while she was pointing at the ground.
k.u.ma:”Look over here, do you see this round dirt here, this is a deer’s animal track pathway, so I will try to put up a trap and catch a deer”
Altina: “My older sister dug a pit fall before, but I could not catch anything.”
Altina had a sorrowful look when she remembered that time when they were on the brink of starvation, She slowly wiped up her nose and tears away.
k.u.ma:”Oh, perhaps you probably put the trap on a place that is not an animal path, a skilled hunter will have difficulty in tracing out the topography of the area no matter how skilled you are, but this time it will be a locked trap”
Altina:”Locked trap …?”
Altina looked with a pondering face.
This is a good enclosure to set it up. Closure traps does not require such a difficult task that will exhaust the body. It just hangs from overhead by the branches in the animal path where the animals pa.s.sing by will get caught up on the rope as it tightens as they move.
Although there are a lot of promising enclosures to set it up at, but fundamentally it’s not necessary to run around the Yamano(TN:山の “Yama no” means mountain) all day and just set up traps anywhere from our point of view so that we will have no need to chase the prey, it is highly profitable than wasting energy.
Observing roughly on the animal path, we found out that there are quite a lot of deers in this forest.
Indeed, it is in the guidebooks that hunters like boars more than deer.
j.a.panese hunters cook and eat them on the spot when they take their prey down, so as to not make any momentum elaborate. It is whether they decide to grill, boil it up or eat it with sashimi.
Deers are a common to see animal in forests, sometimes deer population increases abnormally in recent years in j.a.pan and can be easily seen even at the foot of a mountain to a residential area of a rather low land.
It will be unusual for you if you haven’t been to the Tanzawa Mountain in Hadano, over there you will see thousands of deers enough to give to make you nausea.
Anyway, there are lots of deer and a lot of meat that can be taken from one animal, but there are still blood on it.
The more you grill it, the harder the meat will be, so you can not afford to grill it and eat it with a hunter’s way of preferring a simple guide.
Humans, eat anything, but people like it better to eat some delicious food, so it was decided that hunters prefer to hunt wild boars as they encounter one than deers.
Another example of the reason for being disliked is that the deer have abnormal ticks.
I think that it is possible for people who have captured a deer and disa.s.sembled it to understand this, but they fall from the fur as if they scattered yellow powder. I has this trauma for the first time.
On the other hand, boars have very few of these parasites. Pigs, unlike deers, rolls around the ground adhering mud to the body at places where dirt and the like have acc.u.mulated around the mountains, called Nuta field, and exterminating them by rubbing the body against the trees.
“Well, there are various reasons, but you have to accept whatever prey is captured.”
You have to keep yourself from starving and get seven types of food on a continuous basis.
There isn’t much time to mention what I like and dislike.
I cooperated with Altina to set up a Rope trap in here and around the forest.She is a bit taciturn (TN:dandere), but follows instructions fast and her skill on setting up traps became easier, so the was trap finished sooner than I thought.
I do not have a clock, I am polar bear, so I can not measure the time well.
Artina looked strangely wondering while having a glance and glance on the left looking at her wrist as she has a human like body. As I approached her, as my face is getting closer,my nose caught a nice smell from her.
k.u.ma: “Is something troubling you?”
Altina: “I was just think about something”
k.u.ma: “ohh I see, sorry”
Once we set the enclosure trap, we will return to the cave and had a small pause.
Lara, Lana, Lalo:
“k.u.makichi-sama”
“Let’s play, I wanna play really bad”
“I am also want to play”
The triplets jumped on my body as soon as I returned.
Mother. Somehow, I feel like I became a dad coming home from work overnight.
Rurutina: “Here, Hey!, you guys, they just came back and feel tired, don’t bother them”
Like a mother scolding her child regardless, I stopped Rurutina scolding the triplets, and I started playing with them.
Although it does not mean that there is anything troublesome to do when playing with then.
If you throw something like a towel while sitting, the triplets will come to you like a puppy playing fetch.
We played along with the children who chewed on it.
Lara, Lana, Lalo, as the three girls crawl and groan at each other, pulling the towel back and forth, stretching it hard.
Rurutina, who was angry at the beginning, also got a gentle look and gazed at the places we were playing.
Really, I feel like I’m playing with my puppy.
It was a trick to occasionally lose against them.
After killing time for a while, I decided to head to the river.
Rurutina:”Dear k.u.makichi, where are you going to go today?”
Rurutina who followed me with a Piko Piko sound later asked.
k.u.ma:”It’s just the river, I was thinking about catching some fish and eat it today.”
Rurutina:”Well, I’m looking forward to seeing fish for the first time in a while, everybody, well everyone, k.u.maKachi will catch some fish for lunch.”
Lara, Lana, Lalo:
“O fish”
“Oh fishing”
“Oh is a fish”
The triplets had a sparkle on their eyes on me as I walked around, they circled around me and started chasing me.
Like expressing their joy, the little tail stretched taut towards the sky, and moved to the left and right along the way. (TN: Tail wags like an excited puppy)
As usual I thought it will be enough for fishing.
I wondered about how to fill their stomach with some familiar fishing methods and while moving to the fishing ground with an exciting footstep, the creatures that I have not seen until now are standing in the center of the stream of river Was settled.
What’s this?
No matter how you look – is it a crab, but a big one?
Rurutina: “k.u.makichi-sama, the big crab in front of you is dangerous – that is the Death King Crab.”
Rurutina gave me a warning and groaned as “huh”.
It is certainly a big deal. It was almost a joke seeing crabs of a certain size as big as a calf were moving it’s claws like a pair of huge scissors.
An object like a symbol of a Kabuto music as it is a transition to another world was written on it’s back by a green moss, but the color of the sh.e.l.l is mosaic but it’s presence is not really a magical beast, it is quite disgusting to me.
As I was deep in thought, I saw the other girls near us from the crab and I said.
k.u.ma: “Would you please go somewhere safe from here?”
Altina: “Well, come on. we haven’t seen the real thing for the first time.”
Rurutina: “Oh, hey! What are you doing? Stop it! Altina!”
the Blonde Altina has raised a stupid voice.
Turning my line of sight to the crab, I thrown a river stone to the Death King crab which was showing signs that It’s about to attack Altina and the Triplets.
Oh, it seems I have good control at throwing the stone straight to the crab, at this rate it will hit the crab and scare it.
OR NOT …!
It was outraged by the bruised from the stone, the huge crab came running at a tremendous momentum towards us as it tilted It’s body tightly. I have an extremely bad feeling about this?
k.u.ma:”Rurutina run away”
At the same time as I shouted, Rurutina hugged Altina and ran to the back.
The triplets were rapidly running away to the shadow where plants grew thick.
Well, although it’s quite disgusting, I had to deal with this Big crab.
To be honest, it is the biggest thing that I saw it’s amazing but it can’t be helped.
I will win this fishing ground.
k.u.ma:”Wow!”
When the Death King crab approached, it roared and started use it’s scissors towards me.
I have no idea how sharp it is, but I might get seriously injured if it caught my arms and injure me badly.
I swiftly made a back step as fast I could and measured the distance between me and the crab.
Lara, Lana and Lalo
“Do your best, Mr. k.u.makichi”
“fight on”
“Fighting”
Below Rurutina, I hear the cheers of the dog eared young girls the triplets. That’s it. I can’t lose after seeing something that cute. Now what shall we do?
The crab runs wiggling with a pair of scissors to me while making the “shaka shaka” sound that could injure my arm and body.
f.u.c.k. It is disadvantageous use my hands. If I use my claw attack and bite to decide the outcome, a sh.e.l.l as thick as that extent,I’m confident that it will be broken with a single blow, but the problem is that the crab is quite moving way to fast.
There is a limit from keep running away silently. I picked up the stone as big as a baby from the running river and threw it down like throwing a baseball with great momentum.
I heard a loud noise as it hit, a crickling sound and the sh.e.l.l of the disgusting crab got dented. At the same time, a happy cheer spranged up from behind.
here–!
I quickly made a leap from the ground and jumped up and succeeded landing brilliantly behind the crab while dodging the scissors at Death King club.
And reacted to attack at a crack wound on it’s scissor like hands, I broke it off using my finger.
However, the enemy also counterattacked, legs like a sharp pointed spear stuck in the gap piercing straight at me.
When I jumped and dodge out, I picked up a big rock that caught my eyes and struck it down to the Death King crab’s sh.e.l.l just like smashing a hammer down.
A cracking and. An outrageous sound beeps through as a huge sh.e.l.l is from the crab, fell down.
Okay, the effect is outstanding!
I threw up the stone with full power and hit the sh.e.l.l so many times and it stopped moving after the tenth hit, so I breathed out for a long time.
I want to take time to relax a bit after the dangerous life and death battle, it’s a Death King Crab.
Rurutina:”You did it, it was amazing, it was a big victory of Mr. k.u.makichi”
Sorry. Rurutina came out and hugged around my waist.
Rytina:”Awesome, k.u.ma sama”
Always the discreet Rytina got excited and clung to his back.
Altina and the triplets are shouting victory cries from the throat and climb on my back. It is not an playground field, really.
Anyway, I am glad that you could keep your dignity by being badly bullied by them in a short time.
You see, a man is winning and it’s a woman’s business to support. being looked at with admiration and respect are pleasant to have.
But the actual problem here is a pretty good encounter rate with other beasts.
I do not understand it due to anything k.u.mA has come up here and there.
This time I thought that I was a good strong polar bear.
If it was the human body, I would absolutely be packed with muscles, seriously.
(TN: we was fluff not muscles @[email protected])
I finished defeating the mysterious Death King Crab for the time being, so I decided to do fishing as planned.
While everyone was watching, I picked up a huge stone and threw it on to the stone in the center of the river.
The resulting shockwave drives the fish underwater into a fainting state, it works well to make it float on all sides and floating around is a great luck to the audience, and Rurutina is unexpectedly smiling.
Altina:”It’s amazing, It’s a stone flying. The fish floats by itself”
Lara,Lana,Lalo:
“This is a miracle of a kamisama … I wonder …”
“Shugo Iyo – I have plenty of fish”
“Osakana fish”
Altina is pulling up to and holding a floating fish in silence.
Following that, everyone also took up nature’s fortune as well as here.
It is also ma.s.sive this time. I counted as many as eight hundred fishes.
Doing it at the same place might wipe out the entire population of fish here and it is scary.
I have to change places next time.
This time I have a lot of fish taken off so I will eat half of it and try to dry half of it for storage.
But before that, the little children made a crying plead to eat it so we made the grilled fish first.
Even if you say I said to grill, I used a tree branch and just pierced the fish into it while arranging it radially, surounding the fire.
There was nothing particularly difficult, so we did it with everyone.
Regardless of Rurutina, knowledge will be forgotten if we do not inherit these living skills by letting the triplets memorize it.
Rurutina:”Oh, it’s delicious”
Rurutina moved her cheeks from the freshly baked fish and hid her mouth like elegance.
Everyone:”Delicious,”
The fish, which had as many as forty, fell into the stomach of everyone in the blink of an eye.
As I was satiated, I decided to dry the fish.
First rush out the fish’s organs collected.
It is human feeling that I want to distinguish between meat disa.s.sembly, everyday use and hygiene in consideration to keep it clean.
However, since there are only three knives, I tried to make a stone knife that also serves it’s role for the time being.
It is a stoneware.
Although obsidian and others are most suitable for making a knife, anything that is easy to allocate for the time being is good.
There are lots of Good looking stones here, so I choose a stone that fits in my hands.
Hold down the stone to be a knife and hit the other part of the stone like a hammer on the other side. If you hit it rhythmically, it splits into a sh.e.l.l shape and a pointed part appears. (TN: Making primitive tools by smashing one stone to another in order to make a sharp edge)
Since I have plenty of time, I taught her slowly to a child which should be something she can not do.
After all that, they learned so easily with my instruction.
Without slowing down, we could quickly create a tremendous number of knives.
(TN: took me whole morning to translate but it was worth editing~ )