Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de Chapter 47

This forest, without having been given a specific name, was simply an area called a forest.

In other words, if you consider Kukrika’s square measure to be around 16 km², hasn’t this forest, which is several times that, around 60 km² – 80 km² in just its square measure?

However, going by Shion’s group’s point of view, if it’s the Miasma Forest, which is the place where Renya descended for the first time into this world, its size extends the size of this forest by several hundred times. Thus it seems it that the people consider it to not be something to the degree of receiving a name.
Usually almost no people enter the forest. It appeared to be a quiet forest, but just now quite a number of people entered inside and a somewhat noisy mood of various people drifted about.

“Just how many parties are going to participate in this?” (Renya)

Pressing his hands against his hips, Renya, in a different appearance than usual, raised his voice in amazement.

With his trousers also having the basic colour of black, he is wearing his usual leather breastplate and arm protectors on top of that. In addition, he has boots, which were reinforced with iron plates, equipped.

While looking at Shion relentlessly thrusting her elbow into Rona, who tilted her head to the side unable to read the situation as she was wondering whether it was necessary for fairies to sleep, Renya, who received that, ended up unintentionally staring at Frau without knowing what kind of material was used just by touching it.

“This Frau, using the fiber grasses she has been cultivating in the garden and the thread of a certain creature, which is living there, has created a cloth with the compiled thread by matching it with her own mana”, Frau explained proudly.

If you only looked, it was a slightly big garden of a mansion around there and had a kind of unchanging, ordinary scenery, but just what the heck is going on in this garden, everyone’s thoughts aligned pretty much.

“Silkworms?” (Shion)

Shion asked while considering for it to likely not be that different, however her question was denied on the spot by Frau.

“It’s different ~no. The texture of the silk is better ~no. However, its toughness falls behind ~no.” (Frau)

Putting aside the durability, is toughness really necessary for clothes? Everyone present at that place wondered about that. But that could be only deemed as something natural.

If you believe her words completely, they possess a certain degree of heat-resistance and cold-resistance and in addition they are self-purifying, albeit only slightly. They possess a self-repair function. While being cloth, it defends against sudden impacts by causing a reversible hardening. It has the effect of considerably lowering the sharpness of edged weapons and protects against blades by letting them slip.
With the effects being a cheat for something you have someone else use as simple clothes, they are moreover massively overspec’ed.

“Isn’t that something precious?” (Renya)

He felt anxious about the origin of the materials, but more than that, Renya was worried whether Frau hadn’t done something unreasonable. However, Frau smiled.

“No problem ~no. It’s something of the level that it can be made again, even if it gets torn ~nano.” (Frau)

Hearing that the same thing can be created once again, Shion and Rona make difficult faces.
If that’s the truth, it’s not unlikely for it to become a situation in which the city’s dry-goods stores hang themselves altogether.

“I see. Thank you.” (Renya)

Giving her his thanks, Renya strokes Frau’s head.

Being seen off by Frau’s smile and with this and that, Renya’s group arrived at the forest, however they have started to setting loose a feeling of disappointment unable to hope for much loot with big number of preceding visitors.

Even though they are still in the vicinity of the forest’s entrance, the struggle for prey has already started. As quarrels between parties are apparently occurring, that only spurs on the clamouring.

“It might be difficult to hunt in the outer circumference parts.” (Shion)

Looking through the gaps in the trees, Shion says while watching with a sidelong glance a group disputing over something.

It’s a monster at a level that the magic stone, which can be looted, is inferior to that of a goblin, but it’s a truly unproductive view of them quarrelling over stuff like who brought it down and how much goes to who.

“Do you have an idea where the forest octopuses live?” (Renya)

“Basically, it should be close to water.”

“They are amphibian?” (Renya)

“I don’t quite understand that word, Renya, but they appear to hate for their body to get dry.”

Then go back underwater, he ended up thinking instinctively, however he reconsiders whether his own part to play a role in would disappear since it would be the job of fishermen to catch them then.

“Let’s catch them in the centre of the forest then as it’s a location that has quite a few swamps in its surroundings.”

“Swamps, eh…?”

Likely those were filled with stagnated water. Once he ends up thinking that it’s probably a scenery you can’t call clean by any standard, his feelings get depressed and complicated, too.

Without a map, it’s extremely hard to walk straightforward in a forest without a path.

Due to Rona muttering “Probably it’s something wild boar-like?”, Shion retorts (tsukkomi) with a backhand blow even though it causes quite the loud sound while heading towards the heart of the forest as the one being in charge of leading them.

In a slightly opened space, a swamp, which was hidden by slightly greenish water, appears.

Renya frowns due to the bit slimy sensation, but even as he brings his nose to the wet fingertip, the level of smelling like mud is just minute, the water doesn’t seem to be as dirty as I expected.

It didn’t look like the sliminess and stench will disappear, even with boiling and filtering.

From within the sea of trees you couldn’t see the sky as the leaves and branches have grown far too thickly.
Although Renya couldn’t see the sun, he guesses that there’s probably still time until sunset going by the blueness of the sky.

“Since we came here with the schedule of 2 days and 1 night, it’s necessary to build a camp-site, but… I want to do some hunting.”

“With a large amount of adventurers having entered the forest, it might be difficult since there’s no presence of monsters.”

Shion looks sullen.
Thanks to stepping into the forest to some extent, the level of tumult in the outer parts was gone, but the monsters, who were hunted and driven away, are probably patiently enduring for the storm to pass by running about trying to escape or holding their breath.

“It might be more efficient to aim for one shot at a big prey, rather than earning income by hunting several small game.”

“Even if you hunt more than 100 goblins, they wouldn’t result in a big amount of money.” Renya says while recalling the defensive battle in the pioneer’s village.

“Renya, adventurers, who said such things and died, there’s too many to count.” (Shion)

Being rebuked by Shion, Renya ducked his head.

He picks up pebbles at his feet while getting up.

Renya, who confirmed a faint response and a small, high-pitched cry, takes out a knife from his bosom and heads towards the thicket, where he threw a stone.

Given that it apparently fainted due to being hit on the head by the thrown pebble, Renya finishes it off by stabbing the vicinity, where he believes to be the head, with his knife for the time being.

“Giant rat, huh? It’s a big catch.”

It was a rat with a length of around 50 cm, once he lifts it with his foot.

“This is a monster, too?” (Renya)

“No, that’s an animal. No magic stone is created in its body.”

The distinction between monsters and animals is the differentiation whether they have a magic stone in their bodies or not.

“By the way, forest octopuses are?” (Renya)

Seen from Renya view, either, be it animals or monsters, was fine with him, but he tries asking going with the flow.

“It’s an animal. It doesn’t possess a magic stone. But even without that, it’s ferocious and attacks even people once in a while.”

While believing that he likely wouldn’t be able to differentiate them by only their outward appearance with him being a person from another world, Renya dropped the body of the giant rat on the ground and began to briskly dismantle it.

Since that’s the case, the most efficient utilization method here is to scatter it as bait for the sake of capturing forest octopuses.

He considered to even ask them to give him just a corpse, but he hasn’t felt good about them investigating his true motive by asking what he’s planning or what for he wants to use it.

It’s different when it’s only forest octopuses, but there might come other monsters being drawn in by the blood scent, he thought, but believing that it will be probably fine if they get the reward for hunting those at that time, he leaves the smell as it is.

Observing Renya, who began to dig a hole, Shion, who somehow felt that today will end with this much work, started to construct a tent in a place slightly away.

The soil at the waterfront was soft. Renya opened a hole, with a depth that a person could get into it up to the hips, without having that much trouble digging it.

Returning the dug-out soil to the surroundings of the jar, he covers it up so that only the opening part peeked out. In the jar are scraps of the giant rat’s corpse, which was cut into pieces. He poured in a little bit of the swamp’s water.

Renya completes about 10 sets of the same thing at a distance, where the light likely won’t reach, even if they used fire at the camp-site.

If it fails, it will fail, that’s the carefree approach he took.

“If I don’t catch forest octopuses, I won’t be able to go all out in tomorrow’s hunt.” (Renya)

Renya mutters while he looks up at the sky starting to be dyed red, once he noticed it.

It’s a life similar to half of it being a bonus.

I’m sorry for Shion and Rona, with whom I’m associating with, however it will be fine for them to leave me on their own accord, if they get fed up with me.
Though I will regret it a bit too, Renya laughed weakly so that it wasn’t seen by anyone.

Chapter end