Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 9 - Chapter Int1

Chapter intermission 1

Intermissions: The Misfortune of Puta Town [First Part]

 

"Kena! I've found the trace . This animal trail must be the one goblins use . "
"Alright, good job Gadi . I'll treat you to a lot of ale when we come back . "
"Tsk, you stingy . Get me better liquor will ya . "

Gadi picks up a branch and stabs it on some fallen leaves, but I don't see where the trace is at all .

"Hey, Gadi . Where's the trace . "
"You have knotholes for eyes? It's a goblin dung there see?"

Gadi poked me, but she also properly told me . I didn't need to have my head grabbed and pointed to the trace though . . .

Close, it's too close!

The dung will stick to my face!

It's hidden well behind the fallen leaves . How is she even able to find this hard to find location .
Crap, Kena doesn't look amused .

"Stop playing around, let's go quickly . "
"Alright . "
"Uy~"
"Okay, wait for me . "

I hurriedly pick up the luggage that have been thrown on the ground, and shoulder them . There are strings for hanging luggage on my right artificial arm, so my left arm is free . Having one of my hand usable while walking on a slope like this is really useful . I'm not losing my balance and rolling down the slope like before .


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"Lower your head more . "
"Ouch, tell me before you hit me . "

Pomi who's hiding with me hits me on my head . Pomi is quick to use her hands .
We're currently preparing a surprise attack on the goblins that we've finally found . Looks like they're making a stronghold inside a cave in the mountain . The two goblins that are guarding the entrance are chewing some kind of raw meat .

Kena who's moving from the other side has given a signal .

Pomi and Gadi use short bows to attack the two goblins outside the cave . The arrow released by Pomi pierced the goblin's mouth, killing it in one blow . However, Gadi's arrow was slightly off the course, and hit its arm without defeating it . Pomi shoots another arrow in a hurry, but it's slightly too late .

"Gugyorau, guru, geroraa"

Damn, the surprise attack's failed .
Pomi's arrow hit the goblin slightly after it shouted . It's a single strike to the temple . Pomi's bow skill is amazing like always .

The goblin's shout has stopped, but the inside of the cave has become noisy .
Kena and Bahana cut the bushes, and give the signal to attack in front of the cave, we also break out of the bushes to assault .
Goblins that are rushing out of the cave fall victim to Kena's and Bahana's short spears . Both of them kill the goblins in one blow . The other goblins are attacking the two, but they use the chance when the goblins are startled from their friends' deaths and kick them to open some distance .

I also deal wth the goblin's attack while hiding myself behind the shield attached on my artificial arm . My weapon isn't as long as the two's, so if I don't block it each time, it'll be a simultaneous killing .

I cut the goblin's thigh that I can see from the gap on the small shield with the keepsake sword which has broken tip . Usually, it only gives a small wound, then I finish the opponent after they've been weakened, but it's a bit different this time .

Slash .

While seemingly hearing such sound, my sword easily cut to the middle of the goblin's thigh . What?　With this sharpness .

"Kon! Don't stop moving!"

The goblin that's fallen from Gadi's kick jumps from the ground toward me . Moreover, it's attacking from the side where I've just swung my sword . The correct answer should be to push the goblin in front of me and use the recoil to escape behind, but it's impossible .

This powerless me is barely able to retain my physical strength .

If I had power like Kena and the others, I could kick well, but if I raise my foot now, the shield will be pushed and the goblin will pin me down .

In the end, the goblin fangs pierced my side while I was thinking round and round . I screamed by reflex . I remembered the acute pain when I was bitten before .

The pain doesn't come no matter how long I wait . The goblin that has bitten my side opens its mouth big trying to chew my body .

"Kon, elbow it with your arm with the sword!"

I strike the goblin's head in accordance to Kena's advice before I can think . The goblin that's surprisingly easy to shake off is then killed by Pomi who has rushed over with her short sword .

"Thanks, Pomi . "
"It's fine already, just concentrate . "
"Okay!"



I slash the goblin that's clawing my shield, and finish it off . I usually need to slash for more than 10 times before I can defeat one, but now I've defeated it in just three slashes .

"Alright, Gadi, watch for other goblins coming out of the cave . Bahana and me will hunt the goblins that are coming to the entrance of the cave . Pomi and Kon are to cut the smoking green wood--oops, Kon, you've been bitten by the goblin right, heal it first . "

Huh? Come to think of it, it doesn't hurt .
The mantle I've got from noble-sama has been dirtied by the white drool of the goblin, but there's no hole on it . There also isn't even trace of goblin's fangs on the white armor which has protected my side .

"I'm gonna bandage you, take off your armor . "
"About that, I'm not hurt, Pomi . "
"Huuh? That can't be right? That goblin bit with all its might didn't it!"

Pomi rolls up the mantle violently . She consented after she checked that there was no blood flowing from my side . The line of sights from the other tree gather from that exchange .

"Hey, Kena . This kon boy really isn't hurt . "
"I thought that it was just a normal wolf leather mantle, but there's something smoothly stitched between the leather . Seems that this protected him from the goblin's fangs . "
"Hey, stop stretching the mantle . "

It'll be expensive to ask someone to fix this .

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I'm gathering the branches that Pomi has cut with a hatchet into a bundle the size of my arm . There's a lot of fallen insects due to Pomi recklessly cutting the branches . I'd welcome it if they're the round caterpillars, but rhinoceros beetles have shell that's hard to remove, and not really delicious, I don't like it .

When we've finished gathering the green woods, we go back to where Kena and the others are .
Kena cuts the thin smoking stick that she's bough from the alchemist in just the right length, and stab it on the gathered green woods . Finally, she soaks it with a little bit of oil, and ignite it with a tinderbox .

Yellow smoke begins to appear together with the fire .

Ueeh, it stinks .
Additionally, my eyes are drizzling .

Pomi who has received the bundle from Kena, throws it into the cave .
Five goblins appear one after another from the cave, chased by the smoke .

I desperately swing my sword to the goblins that have come out .



"Kena, the smoke is coming out over there . "
"Tsk, there's another exit huh . Gadi, go with Bahana to the other exit . "
"Eeh~, my share will decrease . "
"We're going to equally share this batch, so stop complaining and go . "
"Aye yo~"

Gadi quickly rushed to the place where the smoke comes out, and Bahana went after her after a long delay .


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We hunted total 21 goblins from that cave . I only defeated three goblins . I don't have any injury unlike before, but my sword didn't quite reach the target, so it took time to beat them . I want to become skillful like Kena and the others fast .

Huh?

"What's wrong, Kon . "
"Un, something is glittering on the mountain over there . "
"Where?"

Gadi sharply noticed me who had stopped moving involuntarily from the light on the mountain . There's no more light from the place I point my finger at .

"It really glittered . "
"Ah, you did well to find it . That's probably a reflection of the sunlight from a speartip . "
"Is it other magic hunters?　We had told the boss that we were going to attack on this mountain, and there shouldn't have been anyone that came here for 2-3 days . "
"Maybe some people are chasing goblins from the opposite side of the mountain?"

It'll be bad if we scramble for monsters from other magic hunter group . If it's Gouts group, they will surround us and take the magic cores that we have gotten just now .

"The one beyond that mountain is the twin mountain . There is no magic hunter who will recklessly go the mountain where the Hydra appears . If there were people with such backbones, they would have gone to the labyrinth city to become explorers long ago .

If I'm not mistaken, hydra is a legendary monster that appears in old tale, or against heroes and the knights .

However, that means, who was there?


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"Who is it?"

Kena points her spear tip to a bushes .

"It's me, me . Don't shoot the arrow . "

A big rabbitkin man with one eye, along with five beastmen from various races .

"What, it's just Orudo huh . Aren't you guys going to the mountain on the north?"
"Yeah, that was the objective, but . . . . "

Kena presses Orudo who's hesitating to say it . Kena is arrogant like always .

"Katabane said that there was a strange group on the twin mountain, so he surveyed it, but apparently, that strange group is heading to Puta town . These guys have families there, so we decide to go back at once . "

Hee, beastmen think of their families after all .

"Oy, you sure 'bout it?"
"Yeah, there's no mistake . "
"Oy oy, stop them . "

Katabane, who is a flightless birdkin with feathers only on one of his side, points at the glittering place from earlier, and utters something to his companions .

"You guys, I'm talking with Kena here . Save the racket for later . "
"Boss . It's not about that . Katabane said that there was a hydra among that group . "
"Haa? Is that group running from a hydra or something?"
"Kena, that's not it . No one can get away from a hydra in the mountain . "

Err, please talk more clearly .
I look around for someone that can teach me about it . My eyes meet Pomi's . Unfortunately, Pomi doesn't seem to know about it too .

"In other words, that huh . Some people who keep a hydra like some pet are heading toward Puta town . "
"Seems to be it . "
"Eeh! That's terrible . "

I finally understand Orudo's talk . Even though I'm just surprised for a bit, Gadi hits my head . Fufuhn, it doesn't hurt thanks to the helmet from noble-sama . As if she's heard that words in my mind, Gadi pinch my mouth on both side from behind and pull it .

Iuaires .