Chapter 285 – Horseman of Death (11)
Stella was the quickest to respond to the chief’s words.
[Already?]
[Already? You have to say ‘now’. While we hesitated, ‘already’ 5 people lost their lives. If you add the victims of Plusmirror Village, there are 7 people.]
Stella frowned at the sharp retort.
[Is it true that I thought soberly? It’s good to have more people to siege Nukelaby. Still, it’s hard to completely enclose its habitat.]
[I will call fresh water to cover one side of the formation.]
It was said that it was Stella who seemed much more fluent and wiser because it was a word she used often, but the chief answered right away as if she thought she would say it.
The fur between Stella’s eyebrows deepened.
[Chief, are you insane? You are the Chief.]
[And you are a warrior.]
A snowball fight ensued between them. WA! Watch the fire across the river!
The problem is that it’s a bit too close to cross the fucking river.
I am also a cushion of thorns, but what about the other party members? Except for Dana and Hi Romain, they were too busy to notice. Let’s not have a family fight after inviting a fucking guest.
[Can the Chieftain generate that much water?]
[If there is cooperation from Hiro Main over there.]
When the eyes of the warriors gathered at the sudden point, Hyromain almost hiccupped. When he suddenly looked at him, he deserved it. Alice patted him on the back.
I don’t know how you explained the fact that one horse was missing and the number of mysterious strangers increased.
[… Understood. Let’s do that.]
At that time, Stella, who had been contemplating with her lips firmly shut, spoke.
She then let out a sigh of relief.
[Whew. Until the blood dries from the head of the chieftain, my hardships are clear.]
“Thank you for understanding, but that’s the skin tone. Now, warriors, prepare for a rematch.]
The chief laughed happily and ended the meeting.
Apparently, the execution date for the operation was set for tomorrow.
Personally, I want to fight after I’ve done everything, but we were in a position where we couldn’t relax.
It’s been 2-3 months since Tyrsi went missing.
I could have saved it if I had moved a few days faster, but I didn’t want to regret it.
As the warriors rise, we remain. It was because I had been told that beforehand.
“Everyone. Closer.”
We went and sat down as the chief ordered. She said.
“Sorry for talking in our own words. The others barely speak Britannia.”
“No, what? I understand. What you said was not much different from what I heard earlier.”
Since we were outsiders, we were given a rough explanation so that we could follow the situation.
‘Did Nukelaby be afraid of fresh water?’
It is said that it is because they avoid flowing water like a river.
Reason? I don’t even know why.
Still, even the guys who are active now show that tendency.
Why is the cub that crawls out of the sea after drying the crops afraid of the water?
It is said that it is because Nukelaby is an evil spirit that is dragged and held by a god called ‘Sea Mother’ and escapes when summer ends. I don’t know if it’s real, but it’s a tradition.
Maybe she doesn’t like being dragged to the sea on fresh water.
The guys who appeared this time also bypassed it when the village shaman made a water stream flowing through the ground.
“Tomorrow, Hyromain and I will cover the eastern side of the site believed to contain Nukelaby with fresh water.”
The chief explained, pointing to a clumsy map that seemed to have been made by the village.
“Even though there is a distance, there is a river in the west, so if you conquer the eastern side, the Nukelabi’s movement path will be limited.”
“North or south,” He said.
“Yes. And I want you guys to be my escort or the west side.”
East or west. It is a safe zone with fresh water.
The chief spoke as if it were natural.
“I am not asking you strangers to risk your life. It’s up to Stella and the warriors in our village to get rid of its main body.”
“Chief, can you entrust your life to us?”
“… I mean, the town will be against it anyway. Could you take care of the west side, if you can be excused?”
“I will.”
“Thank you. Please take good care of me.”
“No, we are.”
So we went out to prepare for the fight to come.
Of course I wasn’t worried. I’m going to repeat the expression I gave a while ago, but this time our role was to watch the fire across the river.
You just have to keep an eye on Nukelaby coming from the other side of the river, which is literally in the west. It was the least dangerous position, so I wasn’t uncomfortable.
Still, when I think of my unhappiness, I feel uneasy about just letting go. Let’s get ready to fight.
Thinking so, I looked back at High Romain.
“By the way, Professor, are you all right? It must be dangerous.”
“It is always dangerous to be recognized by the descendants of Erinn. Well, it’s better than asking me to hunt ogres.”
Right true This man was also a field scholar.
A different world scholar is a combat job. Even more so when it comes to field work. He is truly a magician.
Magician High Romain laughed.
“There are more reliable colleagues there. The kid who used to be my travel companion can now really talk to me and fight with me, right?”
“Yes! In the future, I will help you with my work too!”
Alice shouted brightly, raising her hand. She was one of the most jovial girls I’ve ever seen.
But it seems that he doesn’t know the human world yet.
Congratulations! Private horse became a graduate student!
A unicorn graduate student, who would have known? I never thought I would choose such a thorny path as soon as the curse was lifted.
‘What if that bastard goes crazy after 20 years and becomes Professor Unicorn or Henir Takari?’
Let’s just hope it’s not. I silently made the sign of the cross.
Couldn’t Hi Lo Main have lost her means of transportation and instead got a lab room slave with lots of money and no salary?
Love is so scary Somehow it didn’t look like anyone else, so I looked at Dana.
Then, a bright smile, which I had never seen before, returned. Damn, she’s like a lovely wife. What are you splitting?
I will not be your slave! You will be the master of your home!
“Oh? Looking forward to it. But if you want to help me, should you learn to write first?”
“You can learn! If I help you, the number of days you can sleep at night will increase!”
Hi Romain laughed at Alice’s bold aspirations.
A late night lab room with only the two of you, a beautiful female professor and an early morning rendezvous.
It is a genre that goes back and forth between horror and romance depending on the point of view.
It’s 5D horror for me, a current job, and it’s like a dream romance for a naive unicorn. I prayed to God for good luck on their future path.
How much is the hardship? The path of love is to walk willingly.
‘Congratulations on the collection, Alice.’
Live strong even in the lab room.
***
People are divided into those who like exercise and those who hate it.
If I had to categorize it, I was the latter. It’s not that I hate it, but I’m the type that doesn’t voluntarily exercise when I have free time. That was until I was on Earth.
But, after coming to this world, was it from the time I started taking Professor Brahmaton’s ironing course? Before I knew it, I was getting a taste for metal.
Didn’t even people who hated exercise taste the health while seeing the muscles getting bigger?
Machos who are addicted to metal and neglect their families and go to the gym on weekends!
At some point, I was also stepping into that realm.
Thanks to that, even though I have a dangerous fight tomorrow, I came to Auror and trained in new skills all day long.
Even then, you are not tired and feel refreshed. If this is not Hell Chang, what else is it? It was as if the company had been ironed on the eve of a project on which the fate of the company was staked.
However, after a long time sweating and immersing myself in training, I feel quite happy.
“Let’s fuck with the weight machine!! I lost half of my life to be heavier than my wives even with just 2 or 3 discs!!”
Of course, since it was a different world without weight equipment, all I did was Balinese dance with my favorite singer, Mimi-chan.
In order to put into practice the martial arts advice to become one with the spear and the water child, I tried to make a ssang show.
─Bung-Bung-Bung-Bung!!
Let’s start with the results.
Didn’t get anything
“Fuck.”
It feels like I just practiced [Guerture], Which I do every day, for a long time. It was simple swinging and stabbing practice, not the second half of the advanced difficulty level.
If an Auror comes out after practicing for a day, who can’t be an Aurorman?
I also wanted to become a recognized mithril class, but now it was only about the level of mithril or higher.
‘I wonder if it’s okay to think that my average skill is around platinum.’
If you hit the ultimate, you can catch a master level, but the start deal is a bit long, so I don’t think I can use it alone. Even if the runaway state is out of the question.
I spent the rest of my time under the moonlight in conceiving and trial-and-error of new technologies.
It may be a bird for a night or so. For me, who is both a master and a superman, staying up all night on the first day is not a problem. If you just distribute the face and get some healing from Dana, you’ll be full blood in no time.
The sound of spears cutting through the wind and beast repellents spewing out decorated the night in Ulster Village.
The night passed like that, and dawn dawned.
***
We broke through the forest early in the morning and camped on the riverside.
Since it was said that it was impossible to send a scout to Nukelaby—if they were discovered, they would chase and kill them—, so they risked uncertainty and quickly prepared formations.
─Glance.
I looked at the pocket watch. More than 30 minutes have passed since the operation started.
Already, Stella was going to raid the place where Nukelaby was located with carefully selected warriors. Her boss of her nukelabi evaded her, so they’d descend this way or south of her.
‘Since he’s not an idiot, I’ll probably go south.’
If that happens, the Ulster warriors, including Tarzan Man, risk their lives to buy time until Stella arrives.
Then, when a signal flare is fired in the sky, we also participate in the battle and help the hunt. Until then, wait here.
If you come this way, you can fire a signal flare saying that you are here.
I felt guilty because it seemed like we were sucking too much honey while others were risking their lives. Even though we are outsiders.
“My husband’s face is dead. Isn’t that because you’re scared?”
Dana understood my mood and cracked a joke. I giggled as I put the ointment in.
“Actually, I was scared. My husband is allergic to metal, so he shouldn’t be stabbed with a knife.”
“Husband, let’s use our brains sometimes when talking to me? At best, the performance is good, and it rusts.”
“Even if it breaks down, it will be better if you open the lid and blow on it.”
“If you pick it up, you can’t close the road, so who’s in charge?”
Deutsch’s pair of snow shoes also sacrificed himself to summon Odin, the god of heaven, so wouldn’t I be able to do something similar?
Of course, my life is not worth testing. I quietly lifted the window.
He didn’t run away from his wife’s rip-off by colluding with the world.
It was because I heard the sound of hooves that were so rough that I could hear them. Fran, who must have heard the same sound before me, raised her ears and focused, then shouted.
“Footsteps are small! Probably not the big guy you hear about!”
“It’s a chore! I’ll make it into a honeycomb☆!”
Lalilula pointed at Ringling with Number 4’s finger towards the place where the sound came from.
I also loaded 〈 Lightning Missiles and 〉 with the weapon spear. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been able to practice this magic lately, but the number hasn’t increased since last time.
─All right, all right!! With a violent clatter of hooves, a skinned monster sprang through the bush.
“Aaaaa!!!”
He was already in a dying state, no matter how many times he was hit on the way. The head of the humanoid body connected to the horse part even has an arrow stuck in it, and it’s a bastard that can be searched for at a glance.
There is a baby who doesn’t die even after growing an arrow on his head?!
I caught my guard and fired a volley with the 〈 〉 arrows I had loaded.
“It’s so-so-so-so-song-i!!”
─Pajijijik!!
A bolt of lightning burned Nukelaby’s torso. Ralilura’s 〈 arrow 〉 blew a hole through his torso, and the human part fell off from Nukelaby’s torso.
─Thumb!
─Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!!
When he lost his human part, which was a two-minded body, Nukelaby started running madly, leaving only his horse body.
You can’t even read the expression of a horse with a face that only shows eyes. However, as I calmly prepared for the second shot, I was more impressed with the unstoppable speed than expected.
“Senior, isn’t he backing down?!”
Lalilura shouted as if she noticed the same thing.
I agree. The river was right in front of his nose, but he showed no signs of stopping. What? Is the information wrong?
─Plop!!
Nukelaby’s horse body evaded a dodge shot and threw itself into the river.
Even though it was different from the oral tradition, it was very different. Our party was tense as we delayed our formation. It was to be wary of jumping out of that river and attacking, but even after waiting, he did not come out.
Veronica, who was preparing the magic, muttered in dubious doubt.
“Jump into the water… Did you do it voluntarily?”
“… Awesome! No! Look at that!”
Fran, who was listening to the power of the rune, shouted.
I looked there and was impressed. It was because Nukelaby was swimming in the lower reaches of the river, far away from here.
─Splash, splash!
The body that had been stripped of skin was being healed little by little, as if the river water was a potion.
The skin regenerated was a beautiful horse with white skin and blue eyes.
The ‘cured’ head turned away as if afraid of something.
If it were on our side, we would understand, but that direction was where he had fled. Confirming that, Dana opened her frowning eyes and murmured.
“… Kelpie?”
Kelpie. A river demon that takes the form of a horse and eats people.
When I heard that murmur, I was able to notice.
——That the prerequisites for the strategy had collapsed.
