Translator: mii

First Arc -「The Pair in Labyrinth City」

Chapter 3 -「Lecture」

I focused my sense on my body.

Was I nervous? Was I more excited than necessary? Was there any abnormality in each part of my body?

There was nothing wrong with the sound I heard. It was quiet, extremely normal. Apparently, I didn't feel particularly nervous even when I changed the place to fight.

All I could hear from outside was the sound of blowing air and the goblin's groaning in front of me.

Yuki and Chittsan behind me were watching me and the goblin properly. They didn't make any unnecessary disruption.

I thought that because this was the Labyrinth City, even a goblin would be a slightly different individual, but I was honestly disappointed.

The goblins who I fought against with in the mountain felt much stronger. The threat level of this thing in front of me was not much different from a beetle.

This was a training dungeon that even children could capture. And that was the first enemy. This was literally kid stuff.

I didn't feel intimidated from the goblin who was facing me. The goblin didn't even have enough strength to think that I was disappointed in it.

「Gyahh!!」

The goblin came to me with his characteristic cry. It didn't talk like the guild clerk I met today.

There was no speed or poor in the figure that approached me. It just swing his club up and down.

I could just kill it at its own game, but this battle was like a practice. For now, I tried to avoid the goblin.

After I managed to avoid its attack easily, the goblin lost sight of my figure for a moment, stopped, found me, and the rushed back to me.

It didn't even see how their opponent was moving. It was like the goblin was rus.h.i.+ng to unmoving scarecrow.

There was no feint or counterattack. Its movement was exactly the same. The development would be the same even if I kept avoiding it like this.

As the matter of fact, the goblins I fought against with in the mountain did almost the same thing.

They only saw what was in front of them, similar to a headline wild boar, but the power and speed of those goblins were different. They only had a intimidating feeling, even if just slightly.

This was far lower than that. Its physical abilities and willingness to kill its opponent were completely different. If those goblins were feral children, this one was a delicate city boy?

…Oh well.

I knew that this was not something to be nervous for anyway, so my body moved naturally. The enemy was too weak to become a touchstone. What I should do next was to test the sharpness of this rental item, right?

I s.h.i.+fted my body slightly, avoided the goblin's second attack at the last moment, and brandished my sword.

I lightly cut it's neck, making sure that it didn't reach the bone. This should have finished the goblin, but just in case, I stabbed the sword lightly from behind into the goblin that had fallen from the front with great momentum.

The goblin disappeared into fog, maybe as a signal that it had died. Just like what was said in the lecture, the speed of the magicification was faster than the outside world. It disappeared in an instant.

…The dropped item was… none.

「I finished.」

When I looked back, Yuki and Chittsan approached me together.

「Huh, it's amazing. This is the difference between adults and children, eh.」

「No way, no matter how think of it, the goblin is too weak. What kind of practise is that?」

「Well, well, that's really a kid stuff, nya. It's like a sandbag that will lose even to infants.

It seems like that's a practise for people that never killed living creatures or defeated humanoid monsters, nya.」

A monster placed here to be killed? It was true that the goblin wouldn't even win against stray dogs.

Even in modern j.a.pan… No, maybe some people couldn't beat it with limited conditions. Like they had never used violence, or they had severe trauma.

「Tsuna doesn't have to fight the first layer's small fries, nya. But if you have a hobby of slaughtering goblins, I won't stop you, nya.」

「If that's the case, I'll pa.s.s. After Yuki fights, let's go to the next one.」

It couldn't be helped if I didn't even bother to count those kind of opponents anymore.

「Ah, yeah. That's right.」

For some reason, Yuki sounded evasive.

「What is it? Don't tell me, are you nervous?」

「Eh, uhh… yeah. I did a lot of training, but I didn't have much combat experience, so… well.」

「Tsuna, this is a normal reaction, nya. It's not like Yuki is scared because his opponent is strong, but he's not used to fighting itself, nya.」

「I see, then let's kill the goblins until you're not nervous anymore.」

「For some reason, even if your opponents are monsters, you sound so imprudent, nya.」

You also just said that they were kids play just now, okay.

「For the time being, I'll do my best.」

Yuki said enthusiastically, but he shot the first goblin with his bow and arrow to check the situation, but it immediately died.

After that, it seemed like Yuki broke through his doubts and continued fighting with throwing knives, swords, combatting like he was trying a lot of things. This guy had tons of attack variations, huh.

It was useful in relieving Yuki's tension, so now that I thought of it, these small fries fight might be necessary.

He killed a lot of the goblins, following my words, but the corpses was magicified in an unprecedented level that couldn't be compared with outside world, and they quickly rot and melt into fog, so there was no rolling corpses at all.

Even the blood that the goblins gushed out was magicified together when the main body died to a certain extend, so it took little to none effort to wipe the blood.

After that, Yuki buried nearly a dozen of goblins.

「Oh? Something came out. What is this?」

Yuki said so, and there was something that looked like a card in the place that he pointed with his finger.

「That's a drop item, nya. Try picking it up, nya.」

「Yes… a card?」

Yuki picked up the glossy card-like object. It looked like it could be a plastic or metal from a distance.

「In this labyrinth, at a rare occasion when you defeat a monster, these items or a part of body that becomes raw materials will drop, nya.

Sometimes it just comes out without turning into a card, so if it dropped only arms, it'll be super scary, nya. …By the way, what's written on the card, nya?」

「Err,『rice ball』?」

「Since the trial dungeon is for beginners, there are no good things that is dropped here. Your item is considered a jackpot considering that we're still in the first layer, nya.

If you hold it and put magic in it, the card will become a rice ball, nya. Rice ball is grains called as rice that is cooked and held in palm size…」

Chittsan started lecturing us about rice ball, but since I knew it well, I ignored her.

But why did rice ball came out when Yuki killed a goblin? What a wonderful resource.

Why wasn't this resource available when I was living in the mountain? I would have exterminated a mountain of goblins with this resource.

「I see, so since the rice ball comes from the card, it's not like the food has fallen to the floor. It's not dirty and we can eat it.

But I don't know how to cast magic. There's MP display on the card, but I have never used it before…」

「In that case, hold the card and say,《 Materialize 》and it will become an item, nya. You will consume your MP though, nya.」

Chittsan said so, and Yuki looked at his card for once

「《 Materialize 》」

and said that. Did he already check the consumed MP?

The card flashed and a rice ball appeared in Yuki's hand. It was a rice ball without any nori or anything else.

「Ohh, this is amazing. I used magic for the first time.」

「It definitely enters the magic category, nya.」

How nice, I wanted to use it too.

Were there magics that could be used without using card?

「The consumption MP is… only reduced by one. Chittsan, is the consumption for anything the same 1 MP?」

「That's a good question, nya. Basically, those with large ma.s.s tend to consume more MP.

Once you materialized the card, it can't as a card again, so heavy things are usually carried to the city and then they do the《 Materialize 》there. People also often sell it while it's still a card.」

「It's not bulky, it's light, and it's certainly easier to keep it when it's still a card. …It doesn't have any restrictions, and it's possible to carry a lot of items like regular RPG.」

Don't a.n.a.lyze the system with the rice ball.

If there was a food in front of you, there was other things that you should do, right.