bookworm

“You’re all happy, but does that mean I’ll have to keep feeding all of you for 1,500 years?”“What are you saying? Of course you will. You are our master. As a master, you have a responsibility to your familiars.”Fel, guy, don’t make a face like I’m saying something crazy here. I did consider that I’d be with you guys for a while, but if it’s going to be 1,500 years, won’t they get tired of the food? From what they said just now, they’re not even close, though....So that means, for 1,500 long years, I’ll have to keep cooking and feeding them? Well, even I’m attached to them after being with them through so much, so maybe I should just give in and accept this as fate? It might be hard, but it’s probably not going to be that bad.Well, I’m fine with cooking, but they’re all going to have to get their own ingredients. It’s not like I have the ability to get the meat they need myself. I’m putting my foot down!◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇The next morning, Fel and the others were as full of energy as usual and made a fuss right from the start, saying, “We want dragon meat!” But as anybody else would think, dragon meat right from the start of the day was way too luxurious.I calmed them down by reasoning that if they ate it too much, it’d disappear in an instant, but even so, they still looked like they wanted it. I promised to make it for lunch.So for breakfast, we had meat soboro omelets using prepared meat from storage. I made the omelets filled with meat soboro, sandwiched them in bread rolls, and topped it all with some ketchup to finish. The sweet and salty meat soboro matched well with the omelet and bread for a delicious taste.Fel and the others (well, just Fel, really) kept complaining that there was too little meat though. I just told him to suck it up because he’d be getting dragon meat for lunch.After talking it over with Fel and the others, we decided to take it easy until lunch, and then head for the forest to hunt in the afternoon. Actually, they all wanted to go to the dungeon, but we had already conquered it before, and I had somewhere I wanted to go, so I convinced them to just go to the forest in the afternoon.It seems like all three of them are itching to get into a dungeon since we’re in a dungeon city. I might be forced to go in again at this rate, won’t I?For now, we were just taking it easy, and just as I’d promised, I served them dragon steak for lunch — luxurious dragon steak sandwiches, to be exact....Lightly toast some white bread and spread butter on one side of one of theslices. Spread mustard on another slice and use the bread to sandwich a thick dragon steak toppedwith some shredded cabbage and garlic flavored steak sauce...After seeing it in its full glory and smelling its appetizing aroma, even I caught myself salivating.Thus, all three of them had their fill of dragon meat. Fel alone got a special sandwich without any cabbage though.After filling up on dragon steak sandwiches, we headed to the Adventurer’s guild in order to give presents to Ugohl, who seemed tired from work, and Elrand too, while I was at it. I went with sandwiches because they seemed easy to eat on the job, and part of the reason I went with steak sandwiches for lunch was because of that. So I made some extras for the two of them, and with sandwiches in hand, it was off to the Adventurer’s guild.◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇The employees were used to us, so they immediately led me up to the 2nd floor and the guildmaster’s room without me having to say anything. When I knocked and opened the door, I found both Elrand and Ugohl silently going through paperwork.“Ah, Mukohda, please wait just a little bit,” Ugohl said while writing something on a piece of paper. “Sorry to keep you waiting. Was there something you needed?”“No, I’m sorry for interrupting you while you’re busy. But I’m also the reason why there’s so much work, so...... Here, for you.” I produced the dragon steak sandwiches from my Item Box and handed them to Ugohl.“This is......”“They’re sandwiches with red dragon steak in them,” I said, and Ugohl’s eyes went wide with surprise.“D-Dragon meat......”“Yes. It’s not much, but please eat this and do your best.”“Dragon meat... Even a king would be lucky to taste it once in a lifetime.........”Huh? Really? I just got it, so all I did was make some extra while I was cooking up lunch for Fel and the others. But, hearing that, I guess it really was a little extravagant to use dragon meat. I probably should have gone with red boar or cockatrice, huh?“*Gulp*......C-Can I really have this?”“Of course. That’s why I gave it to you.”Don’t hold back, just stuff your face.“Th-Then......”“WAIIIT RIGHT THERE!! W-What about mine, M-Mukohda? Don’t I get any?!!”Aw come on Elrand, stop making a face like you’re about to cry. I have some for you too.“I have your share right here Elrand, just calm down,” I said, putting down a dragon steak sandwich in front of him.“Yes! It’s red dragon! Red dragon! To think I’d get to eat red dragon right after having earth dragon! It’s nice to have friends, isn’t it? You’re the greatest friend I’ve ever had, Mukohda!”Geez, stop getting so worked up. Even though you were about to cry earlier, now that you have a dragon steak sandwich in front of you, you’re all smiles.“Ah, also, this.” I handed Ugohl and Elrand each a basket full of treats. “This is the same pound cake I gave you before. You two like sweet things, right?”“Wow! Thanks!” Elrand, who did like sweets, peeked into the basket and celebrated.Meanwhile, I whispered to Ugohl: “Your basket also has red dragon meat in it, Ugohl. Please share it with your family.”“Are you sure about this?” he whispered back.“This time you and your family were the most troubled because of this. It’s only a little reparation, but......”“Even though you were also troubled by that idiot guildmaster... Thank you so much for everything, Mukohda. But are you sure it’s okay not to give that idiot guildmaster any red dragon meat?”“Do you think he’d be able to cook raw meat?”“......That’d definitely be impossible, huh?”While Ugohl and I were whispering to each other, I heard Elrand go, “Huh?”“What’s wrong?”“Hmmm?” Elrand, who had been all smiles, was suddenly looking back and forth between the sandwiches frantically while letting out confused noises.I tried calling out to him. “Elrand, what happened?”“Uhhh, is it just me, or is Ugohl’s dragon steak sandwich thicker, Mukohda......?”The reason Elrand was looking around so much was because he was comparing his sandwich to Ugohl’s.“............It’s just your imagination.”“Really?”“It’s your imagination.”That’s right. It’s just his imagination. I totally didn’t make Ugohl’s dragon steak any thicker or anything. Honest.“More importantly, you haven’t had lunch, right? You can eat it as a snack while you’re working, so please enjoy.”“Hah! That’s right! Well then............” Successfully distracted, Elrand quickly bit into his dragon steak sandwich.“S-So good...... The earth dragon was good, but this is also delicious. Ugh! I-I’m so happy~!”Oh come on, don’t cry while you’re eating.“Hahh...... Let’s just leave that idiot guildmaster alone for now. Once he’s done eating, I’ll make sure he works properly. So I should eat now, too.”Ugohl also bit into his dragon steak sandwich. “It’s incredibly delicious. I never thought the day would come where I would be able to taste dragon meat......” Ugohl was savoring each bite as if he was unable to fully express how much the flavor moved him.As someone who’d recently been eating dragon meat fairly regularly, it was making me feel like running away.“Uhh, well then, I’ll be leaving now. Please do your best with work,” I said before quickly leaving the guildmaster’s room. Fel and Dora-chan, who were staying quiet, followed me.“Yaaaaawn~... Finally, it is over.”《Whew, we finally got away from them.》 Dora-chan was so wary of Elrand that he spent the entire time hiding behind Fel.Sui was, as always, napping deeply in my bag.“That’s all I wanted to do, so let’s head to the forest.”“Indeed.”《Let’s go.》◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇As soon as we reached the forest, all three of my familiars happily started hunting. I gave Fel the magic bag (extra-large), so they’d probably be fine. And while they were out......“Time to practice butchering. What should I use? ......I still have a lot of monsters that haven’t been taken apart yet... Of course, there’s more cockatrice and red boar, but there are also the ones that Fel and the others got before we came to Dolan......”I checked the contents of my Item Box.Wyverns: nope.Wild bison: this is also a little too big, I think.Golden sheep: this one has golden wool that seems valuable, and I’m not confident I’d be able to take that off cleanly, so I shouldn’t lay a hand on it.Giant horned boar: as if I could butcher an entire light truck-sized boar by myself!Rockbird: well, it’s big, but I think I’d be able to manage it.So, it’s between the cockatrice, red boar, and rockbird, huh?“Right, let’s go with the rockbird. I managed to butcher the cockatrice and the red boar already thanks to Elrand’s instruction, so let’s try something new this time.”Pluck off all the feathers, and... in goes the vampire knife. Of course, all the feathers and other stuff that will sell go into the Item Box.I cut and sliced the rockbird with my mithril knife while remembering the steps to butcher a cockatrice.“Whew. This seems about right.”Some of the cuts I’d made seemed a little rough and jagged, but for the most part it went well.After appraising its innards, I found that while they were edible, they were disgusting. Oh well.Meanwhile, Fel and the others returned.“Welcome back. You were fast today.”It was rare for them to be back while the sun was still high in the sky.“Yes. The area around here lacks any good prey.”“Ahh, Dolan’s a dungeon city, so maybe it’s because there are so many adventurers around? It’s not as if all the adventurers are in the dungeon all the time, after all.”The fact that there are so many adventurers probably means that monsters around here get hunted pretty regularly. Still, there’s no way Fel and the others got nothing, right?When I checked inside the magic bag...... many indigo-colored cows spilled out. They weren’t that big, but they had horns and looked exactly like black wagyu cows, only with indigo hides instead of black hides. When I used Appraisal on them, they turned out to be C-rank monsters called “blue bulls.”“There’s kind of a lot here for there not being any ‘good prey.’”“Indeed. We did find a herd of blue bulls. They are numerous, if nothing else.”《You know, Sui went pew-pew at the blue cows and got a lot of ’em!》《These ones were basically all taken down by Sui. I found a huge bird, so I killed that one.》Is this the huge bird Dora-chan’s talking about? It was a huge turkey-like beast that seemed about 2-meters tall. When I appraised it, I learned that it was a B-ranked monster called a “giant turkey.”In the end, there were thirty-eight blue bulls and four giant turkeys in the bag.“There’s actually a lot in here.”“Yes, well...”With this, I now have quite a lot of unbutchered monsters in my Item Box, so I guess we should get them taken care of in the guild. I was just about out of beef, too. Even though I learned how to butcher for myself, there was a limit to how much I could do by my lonesome, after all. It really had to be the guild if I was going to ask a place to take care of a bunch of these.While throwing the blue bulls and giant turkeys into my Item Box, I remembered something I had realized when I had been checking my Item Box’s inventory earlier. Elrand had asked for me to sell the dark balls and other stuff that would make for good weapons and armor that I got in Aveling’s dungeon whenever I arrived in Dolan, but since he never brought that up again, they were still in my Item Box.What should I do with these? I don’t really care myself, but I guess it would be best to try asking the Adventurer’s guild tomorrow.◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇The next day, when I went to the Adventurer’s guild, I was shown to the 2nd floor immediately. Both Elrand and Ugohl had tired expressions on their faces.“Huh? What’s wrong?”“Sorry for interrupting your work, Ugohl. To tell you the truth......” I gave him the gist of what Elrand had asked me to do in Aveling.“Why didn’t you tell me about this sooner, you idiot guildmaster?!”“Why? You know you kidnapped me and confined me like this as soon as we got here, Ugohl. And I’ve been so busy with work since then that I completely forgot.”“Idiot guildmaster. Don’t make me out to be some kind of kidnapper. The entire reason we’re stuck in here is entirely your fault because you ditched your work and went to play.”“Grrrr......”Elrand, when will you learn that you can’t win against Ugohl?“So, what did you get from Aveling’s dungeon?”“Here, take a look.” I showed him the list of what was left.“From what Elrand said, you’d be looking for dark balls and anything that can be made into weapons and armor...” I said, pointing to the list, while Elrand explained the uses of dark balls to Ugohl. “So I think they’d sell for a pretty good price.”“I see. From what I’m hearing, they’d be great for use in a pinch. If we explain what they do beforehand, they should be pretty popular.”After looking at the list for a while, Ugohl asked to buy all of my venom tarantula venom sacs, venom tarantula (special individual) venom sacs, killer camel cricket paralyzing poison, giant killer camel cricket paralyzing poison, giant cockroach paralyzing poison, gigant cockroach exoskeleton, gigant cockroach claws, dark balls, and the big bronze iguana (special individual) skin.I thought that he was going pretty heavy on the poison, but from what Ugohl said, poisons (especially the paralyzing kinds) were always in relatively high demand among adventurers, so he wanted to get some while they had room in the budget.Thinking about it, it certainly was a good idea to try to paralyze monsters before finishing them off, so it might be a good thing for adventurers to have. I didn’t need it, though.“Alright then, I’ll go prepare the money immediately.”“Ah, wait there are some monsters I want you to butcher, so can you handle that at the same time?”“Well then, let’s head to the storehouse, shall we? And I’ll have you produce the items I just asked for as well.”“Me too, Ugohl!”“No. You stay here and do your work properly. If you ditch this, I won’t be responsible for what happens. Now then, let’s go, Mukohda.”Sure. That was awesome, Ugohl.Before Ugohl’s might, even a formerly-S-ranked adventurer and guildmaster like Elrand could do nothing.◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇“Well then, see you again tomorrow after noon.”“Yes. At that time, I’ll have the monsters butchered and the money ready.”I had asked them to butcher two wyverns, two wild bison, three golden sheep, seven blue bulls, and one giant turkey. I kind of thought it might be too much, but Dolan had a lot of butchers employed, and when I had asked Ugohl, he had assured me it would be no problem, so I went ahead with this list.With my current stores of meat, it should hold us for a while. And with all these different kinds of meat, I feel like there’ll be a lot of variety to enjoy. Now then......“Hey, do we really have to go?”“Of course.”《As if we wouldn’t!》《Dungeon!》Of course we’d end up going back into a dungeon. Just popping into the forest for a bit could never satisfy the three of them.“All right, but we aren’t going down into the deeper floors, got it? We only go as far as just before the field dungeon floors. We went to the trouble of renting a nice house, so we’re going to come back up by tomorrow. You hear?”“Indeed.”《I get it already.》《Dungeon, dungeon!》Do they really get it......? Still, I don’t have the ability to stop these people since they’re so excited to go, so oh well. Let’s go, I guess.Chapter 3: Dolan’s Dungeon, AgainWe were in Dolan’s dungeon for the second time.Of course we completely skipped the first fifteen floors that were rife with adventurers, and even beyond the 16th floor, there was nothing that could oppose Fel and the others. Given that, I talked them into starting from the giant’s zone on the 22nd floor.With that decided, we headed to the 22nd floor in a quick dash. Each floor’s boss had been defeated by Fel and Dora-chan in a single hit, and it didn’t take that long to get to where we were.“Sui, we’re at the 22nd floor.” I called out to Sui, who was still in my bag...《Yayy! Sui will beat lots!》...And it popped outside.In front of us was a familiar giant tunnel-like passageway, walled with exposed rock. As we went forward like we owned the place, we found a large hole on the right. In a wide, dome-shaped room, a bunch of trolls and minotaurs were lurking.《Sui will go—!》 Sui said, before leaping in without waiting for a response.《Aww... I was too late,》 Dora-chan muttered, sounding frustrated.“Now now, you can just go next time, right? Just leave this one to Sui.”《Tch! Oh fine!》We watched Sui fight from the entrance of the room. The over 3-meter-tall giants raised a battle cry when they noticed Sui. Even so, Sui didn’t falter.*Pew-pew-pew-pew-pew*Sui shot one Acid Bullet after another, felling the trolls and minotaurs. Its aim was terrifyingly accurate, precisely piercing large holes through heads or chests. Sui, who’d leveled up, was far too strong an opponent for mere trolls or minotaurs.《Master — they’re allll dead!》“Oh, that was fast. That’s awesome, Sui.”Well then, let’s pick up the drops and move on to the next fight.Everyone helped pick up the drop items, and we moved on to the next room.◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇We proceeded quickly, with a lunch break in the middle, until we reached the 24th floor. It was clear that all three of them fighting together was far too much for anything around, so they’d been fighting in turns, but even so they made it look too easy. After all, all three of them had leveled up since the last time they’d been here. Even alone, they were massacring the giants in a flash.I had also leveled up, but I still couldn’t even be compared to them. All three of them were so strong, neither the trolls, nor the minotaurs, nor even the spriggans in the giant’s zone could make for decent opponents.So in the time it took to get to where we were, I had managed to retrieve a huge number of drops, including several gems dropped from spriggans.I’m feeling like it’s about time to go back to the surface, but they’re probably not satisfied yet, huh?《Right! I’m next!》 Dora-chan excitedly flew into the room.*Thudsshh-thudsshh-thudsshh-thudsshh-thudshh*Dora-chan, clad in Fire magic, freely flew through all the giants, opening up large holes in their bodies as he went.《Not yet!》*Thudsshh-thudsshh-thudsshh-thudsshh-thudshh*With holes pierced through them by the fast-flying Dora-chan, the giants in the room kept falling. The trolls and minotaurs and spriggans all tried to attack Dora-chan, but he was far too fast, so there was no way they’d even come close.*Thudsshh*Ah, the last spriggan just fell.《It’s over! So, the way I fight’s pretty cool, isn’t it?》Ahh, sure, of course. You don’t need to look so smug. More importantly hurry up and start collecting drops.Everyone helped to pick them up, but even so, that took longer than it took Dora-chan to finish the fight.《Master — Sui is hungry—.》“Indeed, this is probably a little soon, but it would be nice to have a meal.”According to Fel, there was apparently a safe area a little further ahead.“Then let’s stop exploring for today and have dinner there.”We headed for the safe area that would be our camping spot for the night.◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇Now then, what should we have for dinner? I do still have stuff I pre-made, but it’s not quite enough for how much Fel and the others eat... Oh well, I guess I’ll make something.We were the only ones in the safe area, so I felt free to bring out my magic stove.“I’ll get dinner ready, so just drink this and wait,” I said, pouring some cola I bought into deep wooden dishes for Fel and the others.This should buy me some time. What should I make? It’s gotta be something easy and quick to make, right?I rifled through my Item Box.That’s right. Let’s use the rockbird I just butchered. Something simple using rockbird......... Ah, let’s do a super easy soy-sauce-and-mayo grilled rockbird. That will only require me to massage in some flavors and grill it. On top of it being easy, it doesn’t generate a lot of dishes I need to wash, so it’s a great idea. And it’s delicious, too.I already had everything I needed to season the dish on hand; all I was missing were the spring onions to sprinkle on top as a garnish. It wasn’t really necessary, but having it improved the looks as well as the taste. Once I bought the spring onions with my skill, I started cooking.~◇~◇~◇~First, pour in mayonnaise, soy sauce dashi, and grated garlic (from a tube) into a vinyl bag and mix it all together. Then, take some rockbird meat that’s been cut into bite-sized pieces, poke holes in the meat with a fork to help the flavors assimilate better, and add it to the bag.Once that’s done, massage the marinade into the meat and let it sit for about ten minutes. (This time, I used soy sauce dashi, but mentsuyu also works.)After that, start grilling the meat from the skin side on a heated frying pan, and once it’s well-browned, flip the meat over and grill until the heat cooks into the center. (The oil in mayonnaise serves double duty here, so there’s no need to oil the pan.)~◇~◇~◇~I plated the cooked rockbird before sprinkling on some finely chopped spring onion to finish the dish.Since it was so easy, I used all my burners to their full potential and made a lot.I already knew how it tasted, but I still did a little taste test since I made so much.“This rich flavor is good too.”In keeping with my preferences, I added in a lot of extra mayonnaise to make it taste even richer.Truthfully, I should probably have held back on the richness, but I just find it so irresistible... Uhh... yeah. L-Let’s just not worry about it today.“It’s done~.”I put the plates full of food down in front of the three of them, and they all jumped on it as if they’d already been waiting too long.“Hm, this is good. I love the rich taste.”Fel likes that I added in extra mayo, huh?《This is great!》Dora-chan also seemed to love the richness that came from extra mayo and was eating with gusto.“So delicious!”Sui also seemed to like it, as the slime jiggled a bit as it ate.Mayo and soy sauce really make for a great combo.◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇*Sigh*... Oh man, I sure stuffed myself.The mayo-and-soy-sauce-flavored meat was way too good, so I ended up eating too much.Though I had made a huge amount, Fel and the others asked for several more helpings, and we ended up easily eating all of it.《Master — Sui wants caaake...》Sui, you’re still hungry?《Oh, something sweet, huh? Great idea.》“I will eat too.”You too? Dora-chan, Fel? Well, I did promise them cake twice a day, and they hadn’t asked for any yet today...I opened up Fumiya’s menu with my skill.Oh, they’re starting a new event.“Looks like they’re holding a strawberry fair.”“Hm? Strawberries? You mean those red fruits?”“That’s right. They’re the ones that are always on the cakes you eat, Fel.”《Strawberries! They’re sweet and tart and delicious! Sui wants looooots!》Sui loves strawberries too, after all. Still, lots huh? Lots might be impossible, but I could give them an extra one for three total. They’ve exercised a bit in the dungeon, after all.“Well then, I’ll get you guys three today. What do you guys want?” I showed them what was on the menu for the strawberry fair.“I will have the usual,” Fel said, but...“...Wouldn’t you like this one better?” I pointed out a limited premium shortcake.“How is it different?”It didn’t look that different, but apparently it used wheat from Hokkaido and pure fresh cream. Also, it seemed to use huge, specially bred and selected strawberries. I explained as much, convincing Fel. “All right then, I will take this one.”Just the word “premium” induces desire, doesn’t it? So that’s three premium shortcakes for Fel.“What about you, Dora-chan?”《I was gonna ask for pudding, but that looks good too.》Dora-chan seems a bit lost looking at the menu. If that’s the case, then this should fit Dora-chan perfectly.“Then how about this? Strawberry pudding-shortcake.”《Ohh! That exists?! Right! I want that! Give me three!》 Dora-chan’s eyes were all sparkles at the prospect of the wonderful combination of pudding and strawberry shortcake.So that’s three strawberry pudding-shortcakes for Dora-chan.“What about you, Sui?”《Ummm, uhhh......》Sui, seated on my lap, was looking through the strawberry fair menu and trying to choose as if its life depended on it.《Master! Sui wants this one!》 Sui used a tentacle to point out a strawberry roll cake, which looked cute with its pink strawberry cream wrapping up actual strawberries.“This one? What else?”《Umm, this one, same as Uncle Fel!》 The next one Sui pointed out was the same premium shortcake that Fel had asked for. Sui had probably just heard me describe it to Fel and thought it sounded good.“Sure sure, this one. What about the last one?”《The last one...... this!》 The last treat Sui asked for was a strawberry pie that had custard cream within its pie crust and lots of strawberries on top.“So, this one’s last.”I checked out with the cart full of treats for the three of them.“Okay, here it is.” I put all their cakes on their own plates and served them out.Everyone seemed to be enjoying their cakes very much. I watched them eat as I relaxed with some drip-bag coffee.“So peaceful...... Even though we’re in a dungeon.”◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇“Haahh!”My mithril spear ripped apart a minotaur’s belly. Along with the minotaur’s death cry, its innards spilled out of the new hole. The minotaur fell and, after a few seconds, disappeared.“Ugh... I totally saw everything......”I picked up the dropped meat and put it in my Item Box before going to look for my next opponent.Right now, we were in the huge boss room of the 25th floor, the last floor in the giant’s zone. Of course, up until now we’d encountered basically no problems, so since this was the last boss room, I decided to try fighting a little myself.“Guoohhh!”The troll I found raised a hearty battle cry as it headed towards me. Thus, my next target would be a troll.As one might expect, my three familiars were completely handling all the other monsters, and the troll was the only one coming towards me.That’s so helpful, man. Right, let’s make sure to kill this troll.“Fireball!” Magic didn’t work great on trolls, but I slammed a volleyball-sized Fireball into the troll anyways, since it would also serve as a distraction.“Ggarggh!” The Fireball exploded. But the troll wouldn’t die from just that much....Just how tough are these things?While the troll was still faltering because of the fire in front of it, I swiftly approached it from behind, and I used my mithril spear to cut off both of its feet from around the ankles in a single swing.“Gaaahhh!” The troll screamed as it fell to its knees.And quickly, I aimed for the troll’s neck and...... *Slice* I guillotined it using my mithril spear (made specially by Sui) with its amazing cutting edge.I don’t care that people might say that attacking it from behind is unfair. I’m a wimp, after all. I’m going to take any advantage I can get.The troll dropped its hide. I picked it up and put it in my Item Box, and that was when Fel contacted me telepathically.《A big one is coming towards you. Try fighting it.》Whaaat...... Wait, if he says big......“Gggaahhhh!”“IT REALLY WAS A SPRIGGAN!”A spriggan, which was even larger than a minotaur or a troll, approached me with thudding footsteps.《You have the Perfect Defense skill given to you by the gods, do you not? There is no need to be so afraid.》“NONONO, THAT THING’S JUST SCARY I’M TELLING YOU!”《It is fine. Do it.》IT’S NOT FINE! I’m a Japanese person, from peaceful Japan, you know?! Even if I have Perfect Defense, it’s just impossible to tell me to not be afraid when something that huge is coming at me!None of my other familiars came to help; they must have been looped in by Fel.Fuuuuuuck~! Fel you bastard, I’ll remember this!“Guooohhh!”“Fuck! All right — for now, Fireball!!!” I launched my life’s greatest Fireball, sinking almost half my magic power into it. The over 1-meter wide Fireball cut through the air before it hit the spriggan, which became a ball of fire itself.“Gh! Ghghgaaahhh!” The spriggan, engulfed in flames, flailed about. It rolled around on the ground, desperate to put out the fire, and before long it stopped moving.“............Is it dead?”“Ghgohh......” As soon as I thought it was dead, the spriggan popped right back up.“Geh!”The spriggan glared at me, looking incredibly angry. And......“Ghggoooooohhhh!” The spriggan, now berserk with rage, screamed before coming at me once again.“OF COURSE THIS WOULD HAPPEN———!” Using the rest of my magic power, I created three volleyball-sized Fireballs and shot them at the spriggan.