To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 6 (eBook)

Itsuki Mizuho (Autor)

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2023
250 Seiten
Distributed By PublishDrive (Verlag)
978-1-7183-8807-9 (ISBN)

Infos

For a new source of income, Nao and his friends decide to harvest and sell precious wood to carpenters in Laffan. In order to reach the area of the forest where precious wood grows, however, they'll have to traverse dangerous terrain and contend with all sorts of threats-even monsters. Is the reward worth the risk? Follow their new adventures, including swimming sessions and a competition to see who can make the best inspiel sauce, in this sixth volume! Also contains two side story chapters.

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Touya had once again been careless with his words, and he hastily turned away from Natsuki and back toward the viper. “Okay, time for my Appraisal skill. The materials we can retrieve from a bind viper are its skin and meat... Meat, huh? I have a hard time believing that the meat from this viper is edible, given how tough it is.”

“You’re being way too obvious with your attempt to change the subject, Touya,” I said. “Well, it’s true that this bind viper doesn’t look like it would taste very good...”

I felt kind of bad for Touya, so I decided not to roast him for his mistake. I poked the dead body of the bind viper with the butt of my spear. However, its skin bounced back in an elastic way. It felt kind of like a rubber tire.

“The skin is quite tough,” said Touya. “Do you think you can slice through this, Yuki?”

“Uh, with my kodachi? Hold on, I’ll test it out,” said Yuki.

Yuki tried to slice through the bind viper with her kodachi, but to no avail. She did manage to slice open the viper’s skin, but her attack wasn’t able to cut very deep. On top of that, this was the result of her attacking a dead and immobile bind viper, so any attacks with her kodachi would probably deal even less damage during actual combat.

“It would definitely be impossible to slice off its head like this,” said Yuki. “Maybe it actually was a strong foe.”

“Well, I can smash a bind viper’s head if it gets pinned to something like earlier,” said Touya. “Do you think you could slice through a bind viper, Natsuki?”

“Me? Hmm. Haruka, lend me your kodachi for a bit,” said Natsuki.

“Sure, feel free to use it,” said Haruka.

Natsuki had learned martial arts back on Earth, and now she also had the Level 1 Katana Wielding skill. The rest of us watched to see what would happen. Natsuki lowered her hips, breathed slowly for a bit to relax, then suddenly whipped out the kodachi and slashed the bind viper’s body. All of Natsuki’s movements had looked very refined, and even an amateur like me could tell that she was much better at this than Yuki. However, Natsuki was only able to slice through half of the bind viper’s body; the bones of its spine stopped her blade.

“Whew. I don’t think it’s possible to slice through a bind viper with this kodachi,” said Natsuki. “I couldn’t even slice through a dead one, so it’s probably very difficult to slice through their spines.”

“Yeah, they definitely seem like they have hard spines,” I said.

“However, it might be possible to power through using the weight and centrifugal force of a polearm like a naginata,” said Natsuki.

“Tomi might be able to make a naginata for us if we place an order, but I’m not sure if we actually need one when we already have magic.” Besides, a weapon like a naginata that requires a lot of space to swing around probably isn’t a good fit for settings like this forest.

“Mm. In addition, bind vipers tend to appear alone most of the time, and spears can pierce through them just fine,” said Natsuki. “Touya-kun can handle the task of finishing them off.”

“You can place an order for a naginata if you really want one, Natsuki. We can think about it some more after we’ve made some elemental metal,” said Haruka. “Let’s start to gut this bind viper. One good thing about this is that it looks like it’ll be easier to gut than the other animals and monsters that we’ve slain up until now.”

“Mm, it’ll probably be similar to gutting an eel, though I’ve never done that before,” said Yuki.

“Opportunities to gut eels are rare for ordinary people,” I said. “Actually, wait, didn’t we catch some eels ourselves? What happened to those?”

“They’re still stored in our magic bags. It’d be ideal to eat them as fresh as possible,” said Haruka. “I hope we can get our hands on some soy sauce at some point in the future.”

So we had actually had an opportunity to gut eels before, but apparently Haruka was saving them for the future. I felt like eels were only delicious if they were prepared through the kabayaki method, so until we had some soy sauce to spread on them, there was no reason for us to force ourselves to eat them.

“I think bind vipers will probably be easier to gut than eels,” said Natsuki. “Their very toughness should make it easier to separate the bones from the meat.”

We retrieved the magicite from the remains of the bind viper’s skull before opening it all the way to the tip of its tail and extracting and discarding its internal organs. When that was done, Natsuki pulled on the viper’s bones; they fell out easily. The only work that remained was to separate the meat from the bones, but...

“Well, then. This meat certainly has a strange color,” said Haruka.

“Yeah, it really does,” said Yuki. “I thought the meat would be white... It doesn’t look very appetizing.”

The meat of the bind viper had a vibrant red color. That was typical of mammals as well as some types of fish, like bluefin tuna. Maybe we didn’t need to worry about it too much.

“Orc meat is probably better purely in terms of taste,” said Natsuki. “Meat from bind vipers is sold for about the same price due to low supply, but the skin sells for a lot more.”

“Yeah, the dark green color of the bind viper’s skin is definitely beautiful,” I said. “By the way, is anyone here scared of snakes?”

Snakes and spiders were the most common candidates for animals that people disliked and were scared of. However, none of the girls had screamed during our battle against the bind viper. As for me, I couldn’t stand things like caterpillars. If we ever ended up fighting some kind of caterpillar monster, I was determined to use my magic to burn it to a crisp.

“I’m a bit scared of snakes, but it kind of goes away with snakes this big,” said Yuki.

“Mm, size is definitely a factor,” said Natsuki. “It also applies to things like spiders.”

“To a certain extent, it’s just a matter of getting used to things. We almost vomited from our first attempts to gut animals and monsters, after all,” said Haruka. “Okay, there we go.”

Once Haruka had finished gutting the viper, she wrapped up the skin and stuffed it into a magic bag. She did the same with the remaining meat, which she had crudely sliced into cuts of similar size. Once she was done, she breathed a sigh of relief and then used the Purification spell to clean all of us.

“Whew, that should be it. Okay, let’s try to fight the next bind viper with our magic this time,” said Haruka. “If we can’t easily slay bind vipers with magic, then harvesting precious wood from deep areas of this forest will definitely be too hard for us. Can you find one, Nao?”

“Yeah, I’ve managed to locate another one,” I replied. “It’s some ways from here, but follow me.”

Natsuki threw her hands in the air to get our attention. “Oh, before we do that, there’s something I want to bring up.” She started to search through her backpack. “I actually made some healing potions with my Pharmacy skill yesterday, so let me hand them out.”

She distributed a few bottles that were each about half the size of a vitamin drink. The liquid inside was a bit greenish.

“Oh, so you succeeded at making some?” I asked.

“Mm, I did,” Natsuki replied. “Up to this point, my Pharmacy skill hasn’t been of much use, but it should be from now on.”

“Well, I think your Pharmacy skill has already helped us just as a backup plan,” I said.

The medicines that Natsuki had been making were things like digestants and painkillers—the kinds of medicines you’d find in the first aid kit in an ordinary household—which had helped us feel safe. We had been lucky so far in that thanks to the Robust skill, none of us had ever had to resort to medicine.

“They should heal injuries, but they won’t be as dramatically effective as magic,” said Natsuki. “Pouring some of the liquid onto an injury or drinking it will work equally well, but it tastes very bitter. To be more specific, it’s just as bitter as herbal medicine.”

“I see,” I said. “Herbal medicine, huh?”

I was a bit confused by the comparison; I couldn’t remember if I had ever drunk any herbal medicine. However, Touya must have known what it tasted like, because he had a look of disgust and pain on his face.

“Do you know what herbal medicine tastes like, Touya?” I asked.

“Yeah, I do. It’s usually prescribed in the form of granules, but the proper way to consume them is by melting them in boiling water to drink them,” said Touya. “The herbal medicine that I drank was described by my pharmacist as very bitter, so...”

Touya had a distant look in his eyes and grimaced, as if recalling its bitter taste. According to him, the proper way to consume herbal medicine was slowly, over a long period of time, but he had taken everything that was prescribed to him at once and had avoided herbal medicine after that experience. That being the case, I probably wouldn’t be able to force myself to drink herbal medicine, especially since I really disliked powdered medicine. It was unlikely that I would have to drink herbal medicine in this world, but potions existed here, so if they had a...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: To Another World... with Land Mines!
• Reihe/Serie: To Another World... with Land Mines!
• Illustrationen: Itsuki Mizuho
• Übersetzer: Itsuki Mizuho
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: childhood friend • Game elements • Isekai • Light Novel • Magic • Reincarnation • Survival
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-8807-1 / 1718388071
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-8807-9 / 9781718388079