5-7. Mistake and Clean-up (1/2)

5-7. Mistake and Clean-up

Satou's here. They said that carelessness is one's greatest enemy, but precisely because ones doesn't realize their carelessness that I feel that they would fail.

Things you get accustomed with are the most dangerous, it's the same for any world.

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Now then, shall I pay a visit to our magician comes midnight?

I'd hate to get attacked by the army of ants when the morning dawn ...ants are not nocturnal right?

I go inside the wagon alone, and begin to change my clothes. Since Arisa is peeking, I roll up my smelly sweaty shirt into a ball and throw it on her face. Suffer well in that stink.

I'm still wearing a mantle on the outside, but I change into thick trousers and shirt inside, and also knee-high leather boots. Since I will be trekking the mountain, it'd be inconvenient to wear a robe.

”Sniff, sniff, snifff.”

”Arisa, stop it, that's vulgar.”

This is the first time I saw Lulu scolding Arisa. Still, what the heck is this girl doing?　No, I understand when I see it, but I refuse to acknowledge it.... Aren't you too much of a pervert to sniff on a smelly shirt?

I take the shirt away from Arisa and give it to Lulu.

”I'm sorry, but please wash this when you're doing laundry.”

”Yes, master.”

”Before that, let me enjoy the teens' scent””Auu.”

I poked her forehead before she finished.

”Love is too painful~ please do the punishing in more sensual way!”

”There are a lot of other girls who cry for being defiled, treat yourself better.”

”Uuu~ I'm a maiden too.”

A maiden wouldn't do such things--- At least publicly.

”At any rate, what are you going to do by changing clothes?”

”I'll do some reconnaissance.”

I'm actually going to the magician's place, but I won't say it.

”I will accompany master.”

And so Liza proposed, but I persuaded her to defend the camp. She insisted that I take Pochi and Tama as bodyguards, but when I said that I'd go back before the sun set, she let me go.

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Truthfully, I won't be going straight to the magician's place right away. I want to enlarge the search area before the next pursuing armies come, so I'm going to retrace the course until the area where the rat cavalries was devastated. I should be able to reach it before the sun set if I run.

After I reach a place invisible from the camp, I run at the level where the ground gouged. In just five minutes, I've reached the place where Arisa massacred the ants with her unique skill.

The ants which pile up on one after another are obstructing the road. I lightly jump over it.

A lot of small animals are gathering, perhaps the monsters' corpses are delicious.

Even so, with this many monsters' corpses, it will interfere with the traffic.

If this was a game then it would disappear in time but reality is troublesome.

...Hmm?

...Dang.

I stop my feet, and look back at the mountain of monsters' corpses.

I'm imagining for a bit.

In a highway with scarce traffics, monsters corpses piled up. Corpses which died with no external injury and with only one arrow stuck. Normal person would be interested to know more. And then, the only wagon that has passed this route was ours.

If it's not someone really dumb, they would probably connect the corpses with us.

This is bad.

I change my plan, and indiscriminately stow away the monster corpses in the ants folder inside the Storage. I had thought of dismantling and throw them on the roadsides but I decided to use storage since it'd be too time-consuming.

Since the corpses are not displayed on the radar, I rely on my sight. It was easy to remove the corpses on the open road, but the ones stuck on the thickets a bit away were hard works.

Nevertheless, thanks to me repeating the corpses retrieval with all my effort, the road is cleared from them as far as eyes can see before the sun set.