Other World Assassin Life of a Man who was a Shut-in Chapter 96

Having left Barris Village a few minutes ago,
I was currently running towards Barris forest.
While Shingu was sitting on my shoulders.

 [Oyyy! Nii-chan this is a little too faaaaaaaaassssssstt!! Just sllllllloooooowwww dooooowwwwn a liiiiiiitttttllllle Biiiiiiitttt.]
 [Shingu, stop moving around so much, you might fall if you wiggle about too much. Also, hold on properly]

Obviously, I am not going at full speed since I had this child coming along with me.
The speed that I’m running at now is the same as when I ran with Risa a while back.
Even so, Shingu just kept on making more noise; it was a bit too much.
When I informed Shingu of that,

 [I am completely normal Nii-chan! It’s just that Risa is the abnormal one yooooooooooooooooo!]

After that, Shingu kept shouting all the way up until we reached Barris forest.
Seriously, I really wonder how he plans to defeat the Guros Rabbitsu with that attitude.

 [All right, look we have arrived at Barris forest.]

While saying that, I brought Shingu who was sitting on my shoulders to the ground.

 [a,ahh. We have arrived……...]
 [Shingu, I’m sorry for pushing you right now but we have to set off now
since we have to subjugate the Guros Rabbitsu before night falls.]

When I mentioned the Guros Rabbitsu,
Shingu who was lying on the ground as if his soul had left his body, was suddenly filled with motivation and immediately turned serious and crisp.

 [Yes, let's go Nii-chan!]

And then Shingu and I entered the Barris Forest.
On the way, soon after entering the forest.

 [Shingu, there is a monster over there be careful.]
 [Yes, there are two of them, no there are three of them, right?]

Ho~, Shingu seems to have noticed them already.
As expected he was able to notice them since he had the Sign Detection skill.
But, this is a good opportunity.

 [Shingu, you are responsible for taking care of them.
It shall be preparation for when we face the Guros Rabbitsu.]

Yes, this was because I had never seen how Shingu fights.
It would be better to see it with my own eyes, and this place is perfect to test him.
Hearing my words, Shingu started to laugh as a grin formed on his face,

 [These kinds of monsters do not even server as warm up to me Nii-chan!]

Then Shingu removed his sword from his waist. At the same time, 3 Rabbitsu appeared from the grass and attacked Shingu.

 [Let's go, haa!]

The 3 Rabbitsus attacked at the same time, but Shingu remained quite calm.

First, he cut the Rabbitsu that was heading towards him from the front with an oblique rough cut.
Next, the second and third Rabbitsu tried to attack him from the left and the right but Shingu remained calm and took one step back.
Then, without pausing he cut the second one in the same way as before and then stabbed the 3 Rabbitsu in the heart and thus ending its life.

That was, quite amazing….

His sword manipulation was extremely smooth and skilful, while he maintained the high speed of his sword.
Shingu is probably more adept at handling the sword than any other person I have met in this world; even I cannot handle them as smoothly as he can.
Well, it's not like there aren’t any flaws.
As I was thinking these various thoughts, Shingu had finished his battle and came back.

 [Hey Hey Nii-chan, how was the battle!? ]

He asked me so.
Kuku, this one really is a child.

 [Ah, it was a good fight.
It was frankly more than what I expected, not bad Shingu]

I then lightly stroked Shingu’s head.
That's when Shingu started to act a little shy, but his face was full of smiles.

[Okay. I was able to confirm how good Shingu was, so let's go on ahead now.]
[Yeah, I understand!]

And then Shingu and I started to head deeper into the forest.
A few minutes later.
I could detect the presence of a few monsters ahead of me.
This time, there were 5 of them.

 [There are monsters again, this time it’s 5 of them]

While saying so, Shingu pulled out his sword.
I could see them.

 [Shingu, I shall handle them this time.
I think it is time for me to warm up a little for the coming battle.]

And so I took out the Demon Ripper from the item box.
Shingu saw what I was about to do and therefore sheathed his sword.

 [Ooh, I can finally see how Nii-chan will fight!]
 [How I fight huh, I hope you can see it.]

With the Demon Ripper in my hands,
I moved into the middle of where the five monsters were waiting.
The 5 Rabbitsu who were waiting immediately started to pounce towards me.
When he saw that Shingu became a little impatient.

 [Nii-chan!]
 [There’s nothing to worry about. The fight has already ended.]

The next movement after I spoke my words, The 5 Rabbitsu that were trying to attack me started to bleed from their necks and then fell to the ground as they were. And the fight was over.

 [.......E…Eh??]

Apparently, Shingu was unable to understand what just happened.
Hmmm, were you unable to catch up.
After that, Shingu was stunned for a while.
I asked him if he could follow what just happened to which, he finally regained his senses.

 [Nii-chan, just now how did you attack? Was it maybe by Magic?]
 [Certainly I did use magic, but it was different this time.
It actually quite simple, I just moved a little faster than usual that’s all.]

Well, what actually happened was that I took down each monster at a speed at which Shingu’s eyes couldn't follow. That’s all.
Shingu who heard what I said was more surprised than before, but immediately after he started to speak with enthusiasm.

[Amazing, seriously amazing Nii-chan!! you were moving at such speeds and you didn’t even need to use strengthening magic at all. you are super strong!]

…….hmmm?
A word that I did not know seems to have come up.
What is this 'Strengthening Magic'?

 [Shingu, what is this 'Strengthening Magic' that you speak of?]

As I heard that, it was quite unexpected.

 [Nii-chan, you don't know how to use strengthening Magic?
It’s alright, I shall tell you about it!
Strengthening is a form of Body Strengthening Magic!]

Body strengthening Magic huh…..
It seems to be quite interesting, what is it.
Alright, let's give it a try.

 [Strengthen]

Then I could see that the magic was securely activated and my body seemed to be glowing a little.
This must be what Shingu was talking about.

 [Ooo, Nii-chan, you were able to activate all of a sudden! That is awesome! Dad said that usually, it would take a person months of practice before they could successfully activate it!]

It seems that I have succeeded in activating Strengthening magic from what Shingu seems to be saying.
Indeed, I do feel that my body has become considerably lighter than before.
And when I looked at my status just in case, all of a sudden I could see that my abilities such as Strength and Constitution had increased by 10%. This magic is certainly quite powerful.

 [Shingu, this is certainly a very good Magic. Thank you for that]
 [Eeh, it fine!]

After that, I cancelled Strengthening Magic and then Shingu and I started to head deeper into the forest.

Chapter end