Kujonin Chapter 44

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Kujonin
Author: Hanabokuro
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I had Ayl pull over just one zombie. I had Velsa identify any specifics of the zombie.
It's a plan to find what kind of medicine is effective on the zombie after capturing it and then spraying that.

"O-i! I brought one-!"
Ayl's work is done surprisingly quickly.
She had pulled a single, one-eyed zombie with a beer bottle in its hand.
Is it weak to mornings, or is it just like that; I don't know which, but the zombie's proceeding speed is exceptionally slow.
"Un, that's a normal 'moving corpse' type zombie. Although there's no airborne infection, it's the type that turns you into a zombie when bitten, na. Recovery magic, recovery potions, holy water, any of those will work."
"For now let's capture it."
As I said that, I threw a torn fish net that I picked up from the beach at the zombie.
The zombie, tangled up in the net, crouched down at that spot and was captured.
To be safe, I took out the pump filled with recovery potion from the item bag and sprayed it, to test its effectiveness.
Emitting a white smoke, the zombie melted.
It's completely effective, but…
"N~ but you know, I'm worried about the amount of recovery potion if we use it on all of the zombies in town."
"We don't have any holy water?"
"None, naa. The we don't get involved with the church in the first place, naa."
"The church in this town might have some."
"Sure it might, but there's a possibility that the holy water is contaminated."
"Then what about salt?"
Purifying salt, you mean?
If it's salt, we use it for cooking, so we have it, but …
"If it's salt water, then we have a lot,"
I say, looking at the sea.
"Let's try it."

When we drew seawater and applied it to a zombie, it wasn't to the degree of recovery potions, but I figured out it was more or less effective.
"If it's like this, then we should just throw the zombies into the ocean."
Ayl came up with a nice idea.
If they're thrown into the ocean, they'll die even if the effect is light.
"But, in this case, who do the experience points go to?"
"Dunno? Well, let's just try it."

"I want to try making an antidote for zombies. This kind of chance doesn't come every day, and it will be useful if anyone gets bit. Naoki, lend me traps for catching masmascarl, and then recovery potions too."
"Ok."
I hand Velsa just the sticky traps that were in the item bag and about half the recovery potion.

Velsa placed the sticky traps in the surrounding bushes and on the road, then entered the building the dragons were in.
Right now, there's nothing inside the building but the dragons.
Velsa also set traps around Water Dragon-chan.

"Now then, what should we do?"
Ayl asked while watching the zombies prowling around the port town.
"For now, maybe they'll swarm if there's fresh meat?"
Let's try it.
Luckily I have a large amount of raw snow fox meat in the item bag, so we'll use that.

After confirming that the zombies swarm towards raw meat, we set up a trap.
Borrowing a fis.h.i.+ng line and fishhook from an abandoned boathouse, with the raw meat as bait, we fastened it to the pillars of the end of the pier.
I had it so that the zombies would fall into the ocean when they leapt towards the meat.
Like the bread in a bread-eating race, I attached a lot of raw meat.
I also used a broken down boat.
Putting raw meat into the boat, I fastened it to the pier with a rope and floated the boat on the sea.
I adjusted the rope so that the zombies who leapt towards the boat would fall into the ocean.
Dividing the work between two people, we sprinkled snow fox blood from the top of the hill within the port town towards the ocean.
From time to time we'd leave a piece of meat; zombies also get expectant, probably.
The last place for the scattered blood is the pier installed with traps.

Lured by the smell of blood, the slow-moving zombies came swarming.
The zombies' movements are slow, so there's pretty much no danger.

Interestingly, the zombified priest who came out from the side of the church, coming towards us, overturned the water jug at his feet and melted by himself.
Looks like the jug had holy water in it.
"That person is today's most idiotic, na."
"Un. After this is just watching the zombies jump into the ocean?"
"Let's see. Then, I'm going to go sleep in the church, so Ayl, go help Velsa. If you have time, I'd like you to pick herbs used for recovery potions."
"Got it. But man, like always, you're not into defeating monsters, na."
"It's extermination, after all."
Handing Ayl the item bag, I head to the church.

Taking some of the holy water-looking water within the church, I put it on the door.
After the zombie priest melted, I saw that there was no presence of monsters within the church with Search Skill, so I thought it would make a convenient sleeping area.
It's the long awaited sleep.
Laying down on the bench, I quickly fell asleep.

"Mr. Komuro… Mr. Komuro…"1

While sleeping, I felt like I heard a voice calling my surname, but there's no one in this world who calls me by my surname, so I went back to sleep.

It was just past noon when I awoke.
I don't have any bit wounds on my body.
When I checked the town with Search Skill, I understood that all the zombies were gathering at the pier.
Leaving the church, while listening to the splas.h.i.+ng sounds of the zombies falling into the sea, I headed back to Black Dragon's school.

'Ya~~wn, I'm sleepy."
Yawing, I sleepily scratched my head.
"I'm hungry. I wonder what the dragons eat. Bugs? A, wyverns, huh?"
Muttering those kinds of things to myself, I went back down the port town's hill.

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This is why I enjoy this story. Zombie extermination? Forget hack and slash, let's just set up a trap and let them do it themselves! The other exterminations didn't make it as obvious, but zombie extermination? I thought he'd at least have to among them to defeat them, but…>