Kujonin Chapter 39

Kujonin
Author: Hanabokuro
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When the blizzard ended, I made a number of igloos and returned to the workshop.
When I opened the door,
"I returned just now-" (Naoki)
"Thanks for your work -" (Marcus)
and Marcus-san's voice called out.
And suddenly I remembered the company I had been at before I came to the other world.
Coming back to my senses,
"Sorry, it looks like the extermination will take some time."(Naoki)
"Oo, I don't mind. As for where to sleep, how is the bottom of the well in the forest?"(Marcus)
It's the place where we had first had tea.
There should be thatched rugs there, so let's put the tea table away and sleep there.
"Thank you very much."

When I explained the snow fox extermination to Marcus-san,
"I see, using the blizzards? How interesting."
"I was thinking that just leaving them buried like that would be fine, but they might dig themselves out, or other monsters might be caught in them, so I'll check it out tomorrow morning, and if it seems I've caught something, I was thinking I'd go trap them once in the morning and once in the afternoon."
"O-, got it. I'll adjust the blizzards. It will also make the refrigerator a little more ideal."
Marcus-san called the glacier area the 'refrigerator'.
It's too foolis.h.!.+

It was time for dinner, so I woke Ayl and peeled Velsa away from her book.
I took off my coverall outside the workshop and spread out the places that were torn; the thread for the shock resistance and slash resistance magic circles had melted.
Is that why Ayl took on those wounds? Or like, did Ayl melt off those threads while fighting? For crying out, this is seriously a pain. What a troublesome person!
Huh? Just a bit ago the snow foxes bit me, but nothing happened…
I quietly took out my Adventurer Card, and when I looked at the back, my level had become 91.
For now, I didn't see anything; I quietly put the card back.
"I guess I'll take the Sewing Skill. I don't have anything else I'm bothered with."
If I raised it immediately it would be suspicious, so for now I just raise Sewing Skill to 2.
At the same time, I also raise Cooking Skill by 2.
One way or another, it looks like it will be used in the future.
There are 27 points remaining.

For now, my Skills are:

Language Ability - Dragonman Language
Life Magic Level 5, CleanUp
Fire Magic Level 1
Compounding Skill Level 10
Search Skill Level 10
Pharmacy Skill Level 10
Alchemy Level 10
Arithmetic Level 10
Magic Circle Studies Level 10
Crafts.h.i.+p Level 10
Magic Tool Production Skill Level 10
Sewing Skill Level 2
Cooking Skill Level 2

Is how it is.
I have no interest in fighting.

I'll fix the coverall later; it's dinner time.

Marcus-san came and set out a hotpot.
The vegetables were picked from the forest, and the meat was unsparingly used from the giant monster meat.
The seasonings are salt and pepper.
Previously the salt seemed to have been made by the indigenous people of this island, but they made canoes and went off somewhere, so now they pull seawater into the dungeon and make it themselves.
It seems that the vegetables and pepper are offered to the well for the dungeon master by the fake elves.
The hotpot's meat was delicious and seemed to just melt; when I asked what kind of meat it was, he said it was meat from a captured field boar.
I've eaten field boar meat before, but for it to be the same meat yet be so different.
The three of us ate our fill, then headed over to the bottom of the well in the forest.

"Naoki has work tomorrow, right?"
When we had tidied the area on top of the rugs, Ayl, wrapped in furs, asked so.
"Aa, I hope it goes well."
I'm watching the ticks inside the bottle.
I had just put raw meat inside.
"Are you really going to raise them?"
"Of course. I've already determined that regular poison doesn't work on them."
"What!?"
Velsa raised her voice.
"Paralysis also doesn't work. Muscle relaxants probably also won't work, since they don't have muscles in the first place, naa."
The raw meat had common poison and paralysis medicine in it.
Pretty sure that tick insecticide used chrysanthemum as a natural ingredient, right? I dug out some knowledge from my previous world.
Are there any flowers bugs don't approach? Tomorrow I'll try asking Marcus-san.
"For crying out loud; Naoki, Marcus-san, just what are you two?! I'm losing my confidence as a monster scholar!"
Velsa seems to have been considerably overwhelmed when she read Marcus-san's book (Records) and talked with him.
Apparently at Marina Port there were too many observers, and she also had rivals, so she couldn't do any experiments that were prohibited by the a.s.sociation. Although I don't know what kind of experiments they would be.
"As for me, as for me-! … snore …. snore…"
You fell asleep? Oi!

Like we were following after Velsa, who suddenly fell asleep after getting all fired up, Ayl and I also slept.

The next day, there was a soft scratching sound early in the morning.
It's the work for repairing the coverall.
Using monster leather as a patch, I patched up the torn spots.
I burned a shock resistance magic circle on the monster leather.
I used magic power to draw the magic circle and burned it in with fire magic.
If this grants the entire coverall with shock resistance, then  not only would this way be a lot faster to make, there are also other applications.
For now I have Ayl, who's woken up, hit me while I'm wearing the coverall, and nothing happened.
"Because there's a level difference! Let me try wearing it!"
I let Ayl put it on as she said, and this time I try hitting her.
She collided with the wall like a light pinball, but
"Oo-! Nothing happened! Nothing happened, but you didn't have to hit it with all your might, right-!?"
c.r.a.p. The acc.u.mulated daily irritations came out.
"Naoki, you leveled up again, haven't you!?"
"N? Yah, a little, na. Really, just a little."
"Show me!"
Ayl demanded that I show her my Adventurer Card.
"Ah, no, it's fine, right? I don't have to for this type of thing."
"Come on, hurry up and show me!"

"Nn? What's up?"
Velsa woke up.

"Good morning, Velsa. Now, it's time for work; work time."
"Velsa! Naoki won't show me his Adventurer Card!"
"What!!? … E? And why is that a problem?"
"It looks like his level went up a~gain!"
"A~, because he single-handedly defeated hordes of echizzen (jellyfishy things) and masmascarl, as well as giant monsters. And so, what number has your level become?"
With both of them pressuring me, I made my confession.
"Ni… 91?"
" "91!!" "
"Oi oi, isn't that completely unprecedented!?"
"And all without taking battle-related skills, just how!?"
" "Weird!! You're a weirdo!!" "
"Am not-!!"
Saying that, I ran to the [Refrigerator] like I was fleeing.

Since I had left the coverall with Ayl like that, I stuck a patch with a cold-resistance magic circle on wild bear furs and entered the glacier zone, the [Refrigerator].
The work went smoothly. I'm glad I took the Sewing Skill.

It's not cold at ll!
Patches are super convenient!

When I used the Search Skill to look for monsters, there was quite a number of monsters buried underneath the hardened snow.
When I dug them up, I only killed the snow foxes.
The incredibly adorable rabbit monsters, the snow rabbits, I let free outside.
Although they came and bit me before running away.
But I've determined that the igloo traps are effective, so once again I make igloos within this area.
While I was moving from place to place and making the igloos, I hunted all the snow foxes I found.
I'd run at them, jump, and stomp them; just like that.
I b.u.mped off 24 of them through traps and hunting.

I went to the workshop, reported it to Marcus-san, and talked about what was next while eating breakfast.
Velsa has already taken up position at the workbench, reading a book.
I a.s.sume Ayl's in the desert.
"How many should I reduce them by?"
"I wonder; I'd like you to reduce them as much as you can, but I wouldn't mind if up to about half."
"Half - how much would that be?"
"500, I guess. If they breed, then even more, naa."
"I think it will take quite a bit of time…"
"Aa, it's no problem for me. It seems like Ayl-chan and Velschan has other things they want to do here, so why don't you stay for a while? Although I understand if you have things you need to do."
We don't have anything we need to do, so we'll be staying for a while longer.