Isekai ni Kita Boku wa Kiyoubinbode Subaya-sa Tayorina Tabi o Suru Chapter 177

I was tired as h.e.l.l after the fight, but as it was now my turn to watch, I had no choice but to stay awake until morning . Thankfully, no one had ordered a second s.h.i.+pment of monsters, and so I was left to sit there in peace and in boredom . It was better if you moved a little . Staring into the flames in this state was like begging to be put under hypnosis .

When the sun rose, I covered the hypnotizing flames with a pot . Then I filled the pot with water and took out some vegetables from my bag . It looked like cabbage . I tore it up by hand so that they became smaller pieces . When the water came to a boil, I dumped the meat into the pot . I had an a.s.sortment of spices that I wasn’t quite sure of, and had to taste the soup as I added them and removed the sc.u.m from the surface . I had also bought something that looked like pepper at the market yesterday, and so I cut it up and dumped it in as well . It looked spicey . Once everything looked nice and soft, I added the cabbage at last . When the color of the leaves turned vibrant, it was ready .

“Daniela . Morning . ”

“Mmmm…fine…”

Daniela emerged from the pile of blankets . She then crawled out of the tent and dunked her head into a bucket of water that had been prepared . Breakfast would be served once she was finished .

“I tried to make a spicy soup this time . ”

“Thank you…mmm…it is so spicy . ”

“Yeah, I just told you…”

Well, it was always hotter than you expected . I get it . …Yeah . It really was spicy . But good .

When the food was done, we washed the bowls and put everything away . We would take a short break and then get ready to leave . Take down the tent, extinguish the fire, make sure we didn’t leave anything . It was all so very familiar to me now .

And so our camp ended . And we started off for our next destination .

This had become a regular thing for us quite a while ago now . Fighting monsters, talking with ruffians, and even killing humans . Things had changed inside of me . After all, even monsters were living creatures .

Still, traveling with Daniela was fun . And it was wonderful how we would meet new people .

There were more days now that I looked back at my time in the convenience store and thought of how idle it had all been . But there were pleasant customers, the manager was a bit strange, but pretty . And there were good things that had happened . Though, I was still stabbed .

In the end, I just loved to travel . But…

“This is horrible…”

“What are we going to do…”

We were currently in the middle of a rainstorm .

We hadn’t been walking for more than ten minutes when the clouds started to darken . By the time I had become genuinely worried, drops of rain began to fall . We looked for a place to wait until it stopped, but the town was still quite far off, and we would be drenched when the rain really picked up . And so we set our eyes on a large tree . No sooner had we arrived, than the landslides began, as if waiting for the perfect timing .

Of course, this roof of leaves was not waterproof, but it was better than nothing . We used some branches and cloth to make a kind of tent…thing . To ward off the rain . Thanks to it, we avoided being drenched through .

However, the cloud was very large, and the rain showed no signs of stopping any time soon .

It was still morning, and yet the sunlight seemed to have vanished, leaving a darkness close to night time . Occasionally, there would be bursts of light between the clouds . But mostly, we saw nothing but the horrible rain .

“What the…”

“We will not be able to move like this . Forcing our way forward will only result in us getting sick . ”

True . It wouldn’t be too bad if we could wipe ourselves dry and soak in a hot tub . But that wouldn’t happen . We needed an inn for that . And I wasn’t going to look for an inn in this weather .

There would be no bathing for quite some time . Our bodies would get colder and our strength leave us . We would have no medicine and nowhere to buy any . Well, the Appraisal gla.s.ses might help me find some, if there was any to find .

In any case, falling sick now could have grave consequences . And so we decided to stay here and wait .

“Huhhh… If only we could have reached the town…”

“It cannot be helped . These things happen . ”

Daniela pressed her shoulder into mine . Yes…there was nothing to do . I guess we could fool around since no one was watching . Yes, we might as well .

Daniela had been whispering sweet words into my ear, but then she stopped . Why…?

“Asagi . Monsters . ”

“…”

“Come on, get ready . ”

“They have the worst timing…”

“We can continue this later . ”

“Oh, well . Time to kill . ”

I straightened my back and picked up the devil sword that I had leaned against the tree .

“To be precise…”

“Eh?”

“Someone is being chased by a monster . ”

“You should say that first!”

I pulled the hood over my head and ran towards the approaching presence . They were thankfully coming towards us, and right into my detection area . So now I knew where they were .

I may catch a cold by doing this, but that was nothing compared to a person’s life . Even if the cold turned into something worse and dangerous . There was plenty I could do before that happened, and it was easier to help save a life before thinking about any of that .

And so I ran . And so I nearly died . I was running without having a clear view of my surroundings, searching for the presence of the human and the monster . That’s when a covered wagon appeared before me and nearly ran me over . My eyes met those of the driver, but Legs of the Forest Wolf kicked in instinctively and I dove to the side .

Then it rushed pa.s.sed me . The monster chased after it . From what I could see, it looked like a boar . But there was magic as well . It was definitely a monster . I had never seen them before, but I knew their name . Iron Boars . They lived in the empire and had fangs as hard as iron . And very sharp as well . Sharp as a sword . Dangerous things .

Something must have caused them to become aggressive . Perhaps the wagon had been in a rush to return to the town since it was raining, and they had gone through enemy territory .

“But there’s no point in thinking about that now . ”

I frantically used Legs of the Forest Wolf to chase after the wagon . It didn’t take long, and I slashed at the giant body from the side . Blood flew in the air and merged with the rain . The thing lost its balance .

“BBMORGH!!”

“Stop!”

I thrust my sword into the neck of the iron boar as it thrashed . It took all of my strength to pull it out, but when I was done, the iron boar was dead .

“Phew…”

Another life is gone . However, it had to be done to save that wagon . That was how the world worked . I had to follow the rules as a citizen . When in Rome, etcetera .

“Hey!”

“Hm?”

I looked up and saw the wagon . Someone was waving at me . And it wasn’t the driver… 

And so I grabbed one of the legs of the iron boar and dragged it towards the wagon . Even though it would have usually been too heavy, Legs of the Forest Wolf allowed me to advance while holding onto it . Of course, my hand would be weak and shake uncontrollably later on .

“You saved us! You have!”

“Well, I couldn’t just ignore you . ”

“It would have been quite terrible if this wagon were any slower than it was! Really!”

The merchant-like man took my hand in his iron grasp and shook it wildly up and down .

“I wish that I could do something to repay you, but I don’t have anything that I can give you . ”

“Oh, don’t worry about . We just happened to be in the area . ”

I pointed at the tree .

“We were waiting for the rain to stop . ”

Among other things .

“Ah, I see . Yes, you would get quite wet if you attempted to reach the next town like this!”

I was quite wet already!

“Yes, yes . This is quite the chance encounter . Will you not ride with us then?”

“Oh? Do you mean it?”

This was fantastic . We would lose no more time!

“What do you say?”

“Thank you! Uh, I am Asagi . An Adventurer . ”

“I’m Tanjelin . A humble merchant . ”

And so through this merchant, we had obtained a means of advancing through the rain .

Helping people really paid off .