Chapter 40: A Hero’s Fake

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/41/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Back in the capital, I go straight to the Adventurer’s Guild.

“I’m hoooome.”
“Welcome back. How did it go?”
“For now, please take these.”

I dump out the goblin canines I hunted.
Uwah. That’s quite a pile. I might have overdone it.

“My, a lot… wait a moment.”
“Also I have something I want to talk to Glad about. Is he in?”
“He has a visitor right now. But for you it should be fine. He’s in his room; go try.”
“Okaaay. Thanks.”

I head for the back room as told.
The guildmaster’s room is… here, I think.

I knock and go in, and Glad and Kanon are there.
Ah. The visitor is Kanon.

“What, it’s you. What’s up?”
“I have something to consult Glad about. Kanon, hello.”
“Good afternoon. I’m glad you look well.”
“…You, consulting?”

A smiling beauty and a bearded muscleman looking sour.
Kind of a funny picture. Continue reading →

Chapter 39: The Black Hero

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/40/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I have Ring search for monsters while I fly high, and hunt goblins one after another.
High-speed approach, one-hit disengage.
I’ve gotten quite used to it.

When I take one down I come to the ground once, snap the canine, and put it in the item box.
I’m deliberately not counting, so I’m looking forward to the tally.

Flying is a bit tiring, though.
I couldn’t use magic so I’d never experienced it, but once mana drops past a certain amount, it seems fatigue sets in.
Safer to put rests in between, maybe.

I confirm there’s nothing around and come down for now.
A bit tired. And it’s actually cold when you fly.
Maybe I should buy a winter cloak or something.

I sit on a fairly large rock and nibble some of the dried sweet potato I keep on hand.
Sweet. If I can use the item box, putting food in that might work too.
Come to think of it, living things are no good, but how far does that go.
Whether a bled carcass will go in is a big deal, I think. Continue reading →

Chapter 38: The Golem and the Item Box

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/39/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

To make up for loafing yesterday, I come to the Adventurer’s Guild first thing.
It isn’t that I went back to sleep right after dinner and woke up too early.
…It’s fine. They say children who sleep, grow.

“Liza, morning. I came to take the coal-mine request.”
“Oh, you’re early. Wait a moment… here.”

I read the request form she hands me.
Yep, exactly what I heard yesterday.
A golem-subjugation request in the coal mine. The proof part is apparently the golem’s core.
Notes say it’s so hard ordinary weapons won’t even scratch it.
Hnn. Well, shall I try.

“Then I’ll take this.”
“There have been injuries, so you be careful too, Ouka.”
“Nn. I will.”

She waves smiling and sees me off.
Come to think of it I’ve never been to a coal mine. I wonder what it’s like.
Well, I’ll go without letting my guard down. Continue reading →

Chapter 37: A Laid-Back Day

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/38/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

In the end I didn’t make sundown yesterday, and I stayed a night in Asura.
The just-caught grilled fish was delicious, so I’ll call it fine.
It’s fish in season now, apparently; the taste is mild but it’s fatty, and every bite the savor of fish wells out. A good grilled fish.
You can’t eat that kind of thing except in a port town.

So, the next morning. I leave around dawn and arrive in the capital before noon.
First I decide to take the wyvern fangs to the Adventurer’s Guild.
The proof parts smell a bit, actually. I don’t want to go back to the inn carrying these.

“Chiwaaas.”
“Oh, welcome back.”

I head for guild reception and Liza is smiling softly, same as always.
A feast for the eyes. I feel better.

“I’m home. I hunted wyverns, so please take these.”
“Yes, I’ll take them… wait. Hey, this is all of them?”

Liza takes the bag and asks.
Her face looks a bit twitchy, too.

“This is all of them.”
“…I see. A pack of wyverns this time. I feel like my common sense is going to go strange.” Continue reading →

Chapter 36: A Pack of Wyverns

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/37/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I pop out of the hole I dug on the way in, and the sun is still high.
If I head back now I should make the capital by sundown.
…I’m really tired today.

I don’t want to meet monsters, so I fly high.
At this height I can see the surroundings all at once, so I feel safe.
I’ll look at the nice view and go home at a leisurely pace, no rush.

That’s what I thought, but.
There’s a pack of wyverns over that way.
And they seem to be attacking something.

“…Haa. Ring.”
“—Multiple demonfolk: under attack.”
“Demonfolk? Demonfolk, the ones in the war?”
“—Affirmative.”

The long war between humans and demonfolk.
It only ended three years ago; the memory is still fresh.
My town didn’t take damage, so it doesn’t feel real, but.

“Hmm… well, anyway, shall I go.”

I dive straight in at the same altitude. Continue reading →

Chapter 35: Mr. Box Golem

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/36/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Nuaah… I’m still a bit unsteady…
I don’t know if it’s the recoil from just now or if I’m hungry, but maybe I should have rested a little more.
But I don’t want to hang around too long in ancient ruins.
You never know what will come out.

Almost at the entrance. Let’s go home already.

“—Ouka! That floor—!”
“…Heh?”

Ring’s voice, unusually hurried.
The next instant the floor goes buiin, and the view I was seeing changes.

Ha? What?

“—The warning was late. A transfer trap.
—Confirming present location. Numerous mana readings in the vicinity, caution.”
“…Anyway I get that it’s dangerous. Ring.”
“—Sakura-Drive Ready.”

“Ignition… they just keep coming, huh.”

Bones well up from the ground, boko boko.
Skeletons, but a lot of them. More than ten.
Every one is armed with sword and shield.
Anyway, shall I punch through them.

“Now then. Shall we dance together, you bones.” Continue reading →

Chapter 34: Soul Shift

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/35/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I run into skeletons a few times, take them down without trouble, and reach the room I was aiming for.
The range going up means I don’t have to run, which is very convenient.
The hitch that power drops the farther it goes hasn’t changed, though.

“Now then. Ring, this room?”
“—Affirmative: there is residual mana of Ouka’s.”
“…Then, well, shall we go in.”

A little tense, I put my hand on the same kind of round thing that was at the entrance.
A gachari, and the door opens.

Inside it’s like a warehouse. All sorts of boxes stacked up.
It’s messy so it’s hard to tell, but the room seems fairly wide.
In among that, one iron bed is sitting there.
Lots of metal plates and cord-like things attached.
…What is this. Looks hard to sleep on.
But I feel like I’ve seen it.

“—Ouka. There is a designation on the metal-plate portion.”

Nn? The plate, this? There is something written.

Type-0 [killing Abyss]

…This is me, right? Continue reading →

Chapter 33: The Ancient Ruins

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/34/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

It’s a fairly famous story that at the Heroes’ and Demon King’s final battle, “God-Demon Annihilation” and the Demon King fought hard enough to change the terrain.
The earth split, the sky tore, and a new mountain range was born, they say.

Well, that’s the kind of story that Hero… or rather, Tsukasa, would do.
And that final battle was fought near Gernika’s old Demon King castle.
And not far from the old Demon King castle were the ruins I was aiming for.

Or rather, they were buried.

“Hey, Ring. There’s no entrance, is there?”
“—Searching… buried in earth. No other entry or exit hits.”
“For real.”

Well. If a fight on the level of a natural disaster happened nearby, a buried entrance isn’t strange.
One big sigh. Can’t be helped. I’ll do it.

I take a stance with the handgun-type devices. But what I’m using this time isn’t mana rounds. A big drill.

Kyuiiiiiin…!

A high sound, and I grind away at the ground. Continue reading →

Chapter 32: The Gravekeeper

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/33/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Early morning, before the sun is fully up.
I wake to the noise.

I get ready and go outside, and even at this hour the town is full of life.
Stalls are already out; everyone is moving around busy, but somehow cheerfully.
I buy breakfast bread at a stall along the way and walk eating it, and I hit the harbor right with sunrise.

The sun comes up from the wide sea’s horizon.
The waves catch the morning sun and glitter. Pretty.
Lots of sailors are going in and out of the ships, and the unloaded cargo is being carried toward the market.

I sit on a big rock, eating bread and staring vaguely, and a big splash goes up in the distance.
A water monster, maybe. It’s huge.

…The fact that I think it looks filling might mean I’m a bit far gone. Continue reading →

Chapter 31: Mother

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/32/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

When I show my face at the guild, Liza worries about me like crazy.
Apparently my eyes were still red. I messed up.
Unnyu. I thought the swelling had gone down.

“Ouka, are you really all right? If something happened I’ll go raid them, you know?”
“Please don’t say dangerous things. You’re the only comfort I have.”
“Oh, excuse me. But I am actually worried?”

Same as always. She smiles at me, warm. It settles me.

“I’m all right. If something happened I’ll settle it myself.
Ah, but if it gets to where I can’t, please help me.”
“Say so properly when that happens, okay?”
“Yes… ah, I’m going out for a bit, so please tell the guildmaster too.”
“I see. Take care.”
“Okaaay. I’m off.”

I leave the Adventurer’s Guild, go straight through the city gate, and then.
Once I’ve checked there’s no one watching, into the sky.
I fly a little slower than usual. Continue reading →