Chapter 137 – Exploring the Anthill.
We were forced to stop by the human detector, Jimmy chew.
“It’s a crossroads.”
We stopped in front of a road that split into two, left and right, and we looked at each other’s faces. To be precise, I looked at Elina’s face.
As the party’s eyes gathered, Elina began to think about where to go.
When you have to make her choices like this, entrusting her everything to her will add to the stress. She needs to take care of Elina, so it’s good that she takes her burden off of her as little as possible.
“Mr. Beck said earlier that she likes to follow the wall on the left, so shall we go left first?”
“Ah, I see.”
In my opinion, Elina nodded her head as she drew her map on the paper she was holding.
“Great. Let’s go left.”
When he finished drawing the map, Visil lit up the path with a torch and urged him by stabbing Jimmy in the buttock with a spear.
“Ugh… ! Don’t keep stabbing me with a window… !”
“Shut up and walk!”
I lead Jimmy with her arms tied behind her, and if she slows down even a little bit, I stab her in the butt with a spear.
Vishil stabbed him quite often, probably because he had accumulated a lot of resentment for being beaten earlier, and because of that, Jimmy’s pants were stained red.
“Huh… Her ass hurts…”
“Wouldn’t this happen if you shut up and walked when they told you to take the lead? Why do you earn your own money?”
“Now I will walk on my own… Please stop poking me…”
“Think of what you did. Do you think I can trust you?”
“Ughhh…”
The sound of Jimmy crying echoed through the cave.
Sick bastard. You should have behaved well. I don’t know what a bastard who goes solo without a party believes in and messes around like that.
“Then why did you go around messing around like that? Ok?”
“It’s because if you look down on them, you get caught…” . I didn’t mean it!”
“Shut up and walk!”
Jimmy turned around to answer my question. In that moment of hesitation, Visil nervously stabbed her spear.
“Walk without stopping! Because you are useless except for this!”
“Hohohoho! It looks like a good match for a man like a bug!”
Seirwyn laughed heartily, as if the situation had been extremely pleasant.
Covering her mouth with the back of her hand, her pretty voluminous breasts swayed every time she laughed.
Ugh, it’s been over an hour since I haven’t touched her breasts, and I can’t feel his head rolling.
It’s Natalie… Rowin… !! I miss you!!!
My hands have to constantly touch the female body. ‘Cause I’ve got the disease that makes me a fool if I don’t touch a woman!
She took Elina’s hand as she walked beside her as the next best thing.
“Are you okay? Aren’t your eyes blurry?”
“Ah… Thank you for your concern.”
Elina smiled.
Favorability is copied!!
“Sniff sniff… Doesn’t it smell strange?”
“Smell?”
Fade, who was walking behind Visil, frowned at her and said,
“What can I say… Tart… ? Clumsy?”
“Um… ?”
As I walked along, sniffing her nose at Fade’s words, I started to smell something strange.
“Oh, it smells a bit disgusting.”
“Oh, it seems to be getting wider here?”
Visil moved the torch to the left and right of her and looked around her.
Hearing that, I looked around and felt that the walls of the cave, which had been wide enough for three people to walk side by side, had suddenly widened.
Little by little, it widened and a huge pupil appeared.
“Your pupil?”
“Since it’s an ant nest, isn’t it a room made for some purpose?”
“Ugh… ! Smell!”
The disgusting smell that I had been feeling from before entered my pupils and made it worse.
“What the hell…”
“Aaaaa!!!”
Jimmy, who was walking in the front, thumped her butt.
“What’s the matter!”
“Pooh, sissy corpses! Free me! Release me!!”
Shocked by the corpse hanging from her feet, Jimmy, who fell over, went mad and started begging for the rope to be freed. Seeing that, Visil swung her spear and slashed Jimmy’s claw.
– Pleasant!
“Swallow your mouth!”
“Ah!!”
“Looks like you need an education!”
“Cheuk! That stop… !”
Ignoring Visil who was beating Jimmy, I examined her body.
It was the head of a middle-aged man with brown hair. Where did she sell her torso? The severed side of her neck was severed as if it had been ripped off roughly, and her spine was pulled out long.
As if she had been dead for some time, her eyeballs were hollowed out and her cheekbones cut away so that her molars were visible.
Examining her head, she raised a torch and pointed it at the cavity.
The light from the torches barely reached the walls, and inside the wide pupils, which looked white, were piled high with the carcasses of animals and people torn in this way.
“Woo-wook…”
Seeing the mountain of corpses, Seirwyn vomited.
“Perhaps this room is a room where food is collected…”
“So, is this person the mercenary who failed the previous request?”
“Perhaps. Or was it someone who went out to gather nearby and got caught? Eww… Now that we’ve confirmed that this side is blocked, let’s go back.”
I looked around the room to avoid the pile of corpses, but I couldn’t see any other way than the way we came in.
“It’s fortunate that there are no ants.”
“Something is strange…”
“What?”
Fade, who was looking around the pile of corpses, tilted her head curiously.
“Mr. Receptionist. Were the only mercenaries who originally explored the anthills were men?”
“No, there must have been a few women.”
“The corpses here, not only humans but also animals, are all males.”
“Huh?”
I tilted my head at Fade’s question.
“Is there a reason there are only male corpses?”
It wasn’t because he was a man. There’s no reason why you can’t see a woman’s body.
“Wasn’t the woman eating everything because her body was so tender?”
“Eww… No… It’s something I don’t even want to think about…”
Elina barely opened her mouth. She shook her head excitedly and replied.
“In the case of giant ants, they capture females and use them for breeding, regardless of whether they are humans, animals, or monsters.”
“Yes?”
“Maybe the women who aren’t here are in the caterpillar room.”
What a terrible world. At least I can understand the goblins and trolls targeting human women. They are cubs with limbs, walk on two legs, and look similar to humans.
But, even bugs. Even bugs use humans as mating targets.
Vomiting comes out… !
“Eww…”
“There’s nothing more to see here, so let’s get out of here. It’s a place I don’t want to be anymore.”
Elina shuddered in horror and hurried her steps.
I also agree. I don’t want to stay in a place that stinks like this.
Turning her steps, she went back the way she came and took the right path at the fork.
She walked a little along the road to the right and stopped again.
Square square square.
Square square.
―――․
Silenced by the noise coming from far away, the party looked at each other’s faces.
“For now, it’s a quiet confirmation. Seirwin-san, what kind of magic can you use?”
“Lah, Lightning Bolt.”
“What else?”
“There is only one.”
Pestilence. It’s only a difference between a lower class and an intermediate class, but the difference between Natalya and Natalia, who can use various magics, is too great.
“Save it as much as possible. You write when I tell you to write.”
Seirwin nodded at my instruction.
I had just come to see a mountain of corpses. The sound of ants can be heard in the distance, but a commoner dares to give him instructions.
Even in this situation, if you think about it, you’re really crazy.
“Fade and Visil form a front in front of you. If the ants come in, you have to block them well with a shield. I kill them one by one Elina-san, is the only magic bullet you can use?”
“Ah yes…”
“Is it different from the lure scent you used before coming in?”
“Yes. It’s something that explodes like a fire bolt or lightning bolt and damages the surroundings.”
“Great. Let’s save that for now.”
“What do you do this fuck?”
Visil pointed at her Jimmy, whose ass had become bloody.
“Um…”
To be a troublemaker I’d like to put it in front of her and tell her to use it as a meat shield, but if I say that, Elina’s favorability might be compromised.
“He is in the middle of the ranks. It will be difficult if you leave it at the back and then run away.”
“Pooh, release me! I can fight too! I’m a 3rd class mercenary!”
“Shut up, you fucking bastard!”
Maybe the ants could hear it, but I put my fist into the thrush of the screaming fun kid.
Are you crazy?! This!
“Let’s approach carefully.”
Fade and Visil, who raised their shields, started walking slowly.
I didn’t know when the ants would come out, so I walked carefully and nervously, and sweat started to flow down her face.
“…”
“…”
“…”
When patience reached its limit, wide pupils appeared.
Square square.
Square square square.
The sound of the ants could be heard from a distance beyond the curtain, where the light of the torches had not yet reached.
Square square.
Square square. Ugh… Square.
Square. Uhhhhh… Square square.
“… ?”
A mysterious sound was heard among the sounds of the ants.
The sound gets closer and closer. Torches flickered away, dispelling the darkness that greedily engulfed the surroundings.
The darkness that had retreated in that way would step in again when the light from the torches weakened a little, then hurriedly retreat again, repeating.
A silhouette of something was seen in the darkness of the pupil.
A sound came from it.
“Gulp…”
Finally, the identity of the silhouette was revealed.
“Ugh…”
“Oh my god…”
White things squirm here and there. Larvae, the size of an adult man’s torso, were wriggling and crawling.
And between them, I saw the figure of a person.
