Chapter 14: 14

Episode 14: Hunting for the Holidays

Translated by AmaLynne

 

「Me, I’m working too hard, I need a day off…」

「Grandpa told me not to give you the day off, but we are on vacation. So, shall we ask you to join us for our fun?」

「If it’s a date with Yukiko, I’m all yours.」

「That’s not gonna happen.」

「That’s harsh…」

 

Today is a store holiday.

Stores are closed, but I am not.

This is because on this day, I go outside of Royal Capital to hunt for magical beasts.

Hunting is my hobby, and it is part of my day off.

I do it because I like it, and my classmates say I am unusual.

Even though it’s also my job, Lara-chan always accompanies me, Bonta-kun also goes along with me this time.

Lara-chan’s family was killed by a magical beast and she was forced to leave her hometown.

She has a goal to become as strong as possible.

Bonta-kun, like me, loves hunting, and he also wants to save money for his own business and to save money for food.

Furthermore, he wanted to learn my style of handling and dismantling prey, so I permitted him to accompany me.

Lara-chan carries a spear longer than her height and is equipped with leather armor.

Bonta-kun was equipped with a large battle-ax and an old chain maille.

He told me that they were originally loaned to him by oyabun-san and given to him as a gift for his employment.

Oyabun-san, you are so kind after all.

It seems that they don’t spare any support for those who are doing their best.

「Hey…are you wooing bird?」

「I’m super strong and show off.」

A child of a family with too much money is a good idea.

The young man, Mirko, was equipped with a specially made longsword of good quality… but with gaudy decorations and shiny metal armor as well.

I wonder if that shiny armor is safe, though, since he spent a lot of money on it and it’s the best defense I’ve ever seen.

If it were a wild animal, it would run away, but if it were a magical beast, it would be attracted to it and gather around.

And they would be attracted to the young man wearing the shiny armor.

「(I wonder if it’s a good thing that there aren’t many magical beasts living here.) Here they come!」

Sure enough, the rabid beast seemed to react to Mirko’s shiny armor.

A rather large wild boar rushed toward the young man.

「You’ve never hunted before, have you?」

He is a protégé of the Starblood family, so he should have hunted magical beasts as part of his education, so why bother with equipment that would offend such a beast…

After all, he is somewhat out of it or naive.

「Me, I’m in big trouble!」

「I know it. Bonta-kun, do what you’re supposed to.」

「I’ll take care of it, landlady.」

Bonta-kun has had a lot of hunting experience during his time as a vigilante.

He wants to be strong and not be underestimated as a vigilante.

Therefore, when he received my instruction, he calmly moved without making a sound of footsteps and struck a hard blow from the side of the wild boar that was coming straight at the young man Mirko.

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He hit it hard, not with the blade of his battle-ax, but with the other side, so it won’t cut, the huge wild boar was knocked out with a single blow.

「I’m saved. Actually, I borrowed this armor from my grandfather’s old armor.」

「I wonder if I’ve grown up enough that I no longer waste my money ordering it?」

「Yukiko, you can’t just order a special piece of armor overnight.」

「That’s true.」

Unlike RPGs, weapons and equipment need to be fine-tuned to the user.

It usually takes several days, no matter how quickly.

How can young Mirko, who heard about hunting yesterday, be able to get custom-made equipment?

「But it fits him perfectly.」

「So you’re in the same shape as your grandfather was when he was young.」

「I, too, was surprised.」

At the same time, why was grandpa using such fancy armor?

In the past, he must have hunted magical beasts in his spare time to pay off his debts, along with his usual business.

He may have used this shiny armor to gather magical beasts and hunt as many of them as possible to earn money.

He is a good-looking old man now, but he must have had quite a hard time when he was young.

「So, how do you want to handle this, landlady?」

「This is the best way. Watch.」

First, as a precaution, I cast a『sleep』on the stunned wild boar.

「Yukiko can do magic. I’m amazed.」

「Though I can’t use offensive magic.」

My guess is that apparently, I can quickly learn magic related to cooking, magic that is useful for cooking.

I couldn’t learn any of these fancy, fireball-flying, kamaitachi, or other such magic.

TN: Kamaitachi (鎌鼬) is a Japanese yōkai often told about in the Kōshin’etsu region and can also refer to the strange events that this creature causes.

They appear riding on dust devils and they cut people using the nails on both their hands that are like sickles. One would receive a sharp, painless wound.

「Next, cover the wild boar’s eyes with this cloth. We’ll dismantle it later, so set it aside.」

「Okay.」

This is a nest of magical beasts, and it would be dangerous and inefficient to dismantle them one by one.

Since there is just the right attractant…a young man named Mirko in shiny armor…let’s quickly capture only the necessary number and move on to other places for dismantling.

「You’re not going to finish him off? If you want, I’ll do it.」

「That’s okay. I’ll take care of it later.」

「Isn’t that inefficient?」

I guess that’s fine if you are a hunter or a huntsman in your day job, but my day job is just a restaurant.

We hunt not to wholesale a lot of foodstuffs to butchers, but to obtain the necessary quantity of quality meat, so our basic rule is to keep the prey alive and carefully process it later.

「Why don’t we just take down a bunch and sell the surplus?」

Young man Mirko is from the Starblood family, so basically he is not wrong in that.

In our way of doing things, it’s not appropriate that way.

「Then, why don’t you secure one of those magical beasts the way you’ve been doing it? You can compare it to how I do it.」

「I see. I’m pretty strong, so I can afford a wild boar.」

We secured three wild boars the same way.

「Oraaa―――! See what I can do!」

Finally, young man Mirko struck a blow with his sword into the heart of a large wild boar and killed it, thus ending the hunt.

We loaded the three sleeping wild boars and the wild boar that the young man Mirko had killed into the borrowed car and moved to the side of the river where there were no magical beasts.

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