Volume 4 Chapter 9.2 (1/2)

Volume 4 Chapter 9.2

Editor: Weasalopes

Makoto now understood why no one around her had used such beneficial magic before after hearing Tatsuya’s explanation. If such a spell didn’t work on dungeon monsters, obviously no one would use it in dungeons. Maybe someone she knew could use it effectively, but it had been nearly a year since she tried field hunting and got blasted off here. That was also a boss hunt, so there was still a high probability no one would have the opportunity to use it.

Digressing, once you learned Oxide Circle, you would find that the spell only had enough range to block off the mouth and nose of rabbits near Wulls and only enough time to possibly suffocate them. Also, the spell didn’t affect the body so it had no binding capabilities. You instead had to either have someone restrain the target or use a binding skill or spell of your own and then suffocate the target. Repeat the process thousands of times and your proficiency would go up by one. This was the reason why Oxide Circle was stuck as one of the minor spells.

「Well, we diverged a bit there, but I assume none of us are participating then？」

「Nope. We don’t even got a reason to, do we?」

「Gotcha. Then we don’t do anything in relation to the tournament, yes？」

Hiroshi’s mannerisms were a bit dodgy when Tatsuya confirmed this, and Tatsuya did not let that slip by his observant gaze, glaring at Hiroshi.

「You’re planning something sinister again, aren’t you？」

「Sinister, more like a prank really」

「What in the world would that be？」

Tatsuya questioned Hiroshi, whose gaze wavered midair as he attempted to explain. While it was truly worthless, Hiroshi figured it would affect many things if implemented properly, so he had to express it in a way to where he wouldn’t get shot down.

「Well, I’m still formulating it, but there’s two things I wanna do」

「Oh？ Such as？」

「First off, this is a good opportunity to get ahold of the practice weapons Haruna-san made and tweak ‘em to where we sell ‘em at a street stall. And I do got the permission from the guild.」

「Well yeah, it’s not like we have practical uses for them, so might as well sell as many as we can. What’s the other thing？」

While a bit taken aback at how wholesome, or normal, the request was, Tatsuya commented while keeping his guard up. This was Hiroshi they were talking about; who knew what he was thinking this time. Seeing as the other members were also somewhat on guard, you could tell no one trusted Hiroshi on even a matter as seemingly simple as this.

「The other thing is also related to takin’ care of the tweaked weapons Haruna-san made.」

「If that’s the goal in mind, I don’t think you need to try anything else……」

「But just sellin’ that stuff ain’t no fun at all」

Sure, Haruna’s creations were nothing great, but she still couldn’t bear the thought of someone messing around with them, so she scolded Hiroshi with her own objection, to which Hiroshi responded with the gut of only the most talented entertainer to combat her objection. Seeing this version of Hiroshi behave all jittery only made everyone feel more at unease.

「’N so, for the other thing I wanted to tackle……」

Leaning forward, Tatsuya and the others just waited with nervousness and unease for Hiroshi to continue with his rather grandiose-sounding plan.

「Don’tcha think it’d be fun if some nobody won the tourney with the power of equipment？」

「Heck no! That’s going overboard and you know it！！」

As expected, Hiroshi was always up to no good.

「Periodic message, periodic message」

Rainy contacted Layotte, while feeling relieved inwardly that her weight had not gone up this week.

『Anything different as of yet？』