Volume 2 - CH 1

Several days have passed since then. In the meantime I’d been leisurely hunting monsters in the surrounding area. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind continuing to live like this from now on.

But unfortunately the May gacha will end at the end of May. In order to make it in my life in the lower world, I needed to max out all my summoner type skills. Therefore I made my way over to a new area to explore.

I was aiming to go further north. There’s a chance I won’t be able to make it back to my current base. After gathering important things such as seeds and other necessities, I continued further north into the forest.

“Rufina, how’s it looking?”

“Woof!” It seemed that there were no monsters in the surrounding area. Rufina’s ability to detect things by smell was very high. Although I had a detection type skill myself, it was much easier to divvy out individual roles than to try doing everything myself.

We moved along while avoiding monsters along the way. I’ve already hunted all the monsters in this area. Since I couldn’t get any more points from them, there was no need to go out of my way to fight them. While I was thinking that Rufina stopped her feet.

“…Grrr” It seemed to be a monster nearby. As Rufina growled at it, I activated perception technique. The monster was… there.

Hm? What’s up with its magic power? It felt a bit different from usual. Although I could detect it, it wasn’t really a monster. …No, was it a monster? …I’m not really too sure. For now, I’d have to get a closer look.

“Goblia, Rufina, watch our surroundings. Goblia, I’ll leave out luggage to you.”

“Gobu!”

Leaving my backpack with Goblia, I started moving while erasing my sounds. I ran towards where perception technique reacted and furrowed my brow as I peeked out from behind a tree at the situation. There it was.

There were two kinds of monsters there. The first type was some sort of giant crab, and the other were more goblins.

“S, surround it! D, don’t run away!”

“I, I know… gobu!” …It was a group of talking goblins. The fact that they were speaking with human words was surprising, but the goblins seemed to be coordinating with each other to hunt.

…I used perception technique once more. Perception technique indicated monsters on my map in red, while myself and any monsters under my control were displayed in blue dots.

…However those goblins were neither of those instead appearing as green dots. Perhaps that just means that they aren’t currently my enemies?

I don’t really get it. While I pondered that the crab, a giant scissors1, it swung it’s giant claw downwards and blew away one of the goblins.

It seems that giant scissors are pretty strong. Looking at the goblin lying on the ground, I decided to help them.

…I mean they’re the first intelligent monsters I’ve found after all. “Hey goblin, do you understand what I’m saying?”

When I suddenly appeared and started talking the goblins all looked over to me in surprise. “H, human!? Wh, why here!?”

As I used perception technique, among the six goblins all but one of them glared at me. At that moment, the green dots on my map became red.

…I see how it is now. I turned to the still green goblin and dropped it a potion. “I’m still not sure if that’ll work on a monster or not, but that’s a potion. Use this to Heal your wounds, goblin.”

“…”

“O, of course the human’s medicine will have poison in it!” While the goblins were still saying something I turned my attention towards the giant scissors. It swung its claws. In order to block them I swung my sword. Since I’d enchanted my sheep fang sword with destruction technique, the giant scissor’s claw ended up breaking.

“Gyan!?” The effect was a lot stronger than I expected. I drew back my sword and then swung it at the giant scissor’s wrist. After I felt a moment of resistance, my sword easily cut off its claw.

While the giant scissor was faltering I took one moment to bring my sword down into its flesh. “Gy, gyan…”

The giant scissor crumpled down on the spot. After confirming that the light had left its eyes, I returned my sword to its scabbard. …Crab huh. I guess I could have some crab nabe tonight. There are a bunch of different vegetables in this area, so I bet those would be pretty tasty to eat in a pot with crab.

While I was thinking over my dinner plans the goblins came over to me. Among the six goblins, one of them was really staring me down. …Compared to the other goblins, it had far more gallant facial features. From what I could tell at a glace, three of them were male and three of them were female.

“Thank you for saving us…” The goblin I gave the potion to came forward and bowed its head. …He seemed to be the party leader. He was a goblin with a scar running down its eye.

“Well, don’t worry about it.”

“…No, let us thank you. Since our leader got injured, this happened because we tried hunting, with a group who isn’t used to it.”

“…I see. Well be careful.”

“A, about that!” The goblin came closer to me and bowed his head. “P, please! Teach us how to hunt!”

“…” I stared at the group of goblins. The other goblins were bowing along with him. It’s pretty hard to refuse them when they ask so honestly. “Right now I’m looking for a good spot to live. Do you guys know any good places around here?”

“We have a village. There’s around thirty goblins there, and we have houses.”

“…Alright. Then could I stay there for a few days? I’ll teach you how to hunt.”

“R, really!?” The goblin’s eyes sparkled. When I nodded, they started jumping for joy. …They really seem like a bunch of children. I grinned a bit as I thought that.

1. Hasemi means claws, but it also means scissors. The author then named the crab ‘giant scissors’ in katakana. This author’s naming sense…