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Hassan, a local from the swamp
040 – Swamp Local Hassan #7
problem.
What is it in this world that is cold yet warm, solid yet soft?
The correct answer is Hippolyta, soaking wet in the stream.
Hippolyte, who was struggling in my arms, had a fragile and soft side that was hard to imagine for a Silver Tier adventurer.
The pressure of my chest, which is softer than I imagined, and the presence of something that stands out among the soft things and stabs my body hard are very strong.
“Ugh-!”
『Name: Hippolyte Heavensinger Lv. ?? 3
Status: Boiling Blood》 Moonlight Allergy》 Severe Menstrual Pain》 ????》』
As I thought about stopping Hippolyte from screaming, my eyes quickly scanned the letters floating in the air.
I thought I became stronger by subduing Hippolyte. It turns out that Hippolyte became weaker, Shiva.
Level 3 is exactly the same as Luna, who was being torn apart by goblins. In other words, it is the level of an ordinary adult with strength, agility, and stamina all set to 1.
I don’t know why the level has dropped so much, but I think it might be due to one of the factors listed below.
Boiling blood? Moonlight allergy? I have no way of knowing what any of these mean. But I do know about period cramps, because I have a younger sister.
By then, my sister would be on edge, like a bear that had starved for several days and had become sharp and ferocious.
Anyway, I was wondering what this was, so I was silent for a moment.
Card grab-!
Hippolyte bit my finger, and I let out a small “Aaak” and pulled my palm away.
“Eek!”
Shit, my finger hurts so bad. I’m not kidding, I really thought it was going to fall off.
Hippolyte’s jaw was so strong that she could crunch down the hard biscuit. It was really fortunate that it didn’t get cut off.
Still, it hurts so much that tears well up in my eyes. Thank goodness there’s no bleeding.
“You’re trying to attack me! This body has already sworn chastity to Diana, the goddess of girls and hunting! Don’t you know what happens when you attack a woman who has sworn chastity? You idiot!”
“No, no, I didn’t mean to attack you…!”
“You weren’t trying to pounce on me? Then, what’s that huge thing you built? That’s clearly evidence of a man lusting after a woman’s body…!”
“This happens to anyone who sees a naked woman. It’s a misunderstanding. Am I crazy enough to attack a Silver Tier adventurer!?”
“I see, it was me, my body that turned out that way…!”
“No, that’s….”
Shit, I feel so wronged I could cry. Where and how should I start explaining?
“I heard that Samaritans secretly abduct and force marriages by covering up for the opposite sex. You, weren’t you planning to do that too?”
“yes!?”
You’re saying that you’re kidnapping and marrying someone by falling for them? Didn’t you say that Samaritan men keep their chastity?
Those Samaritan bastards are like this and that. They are truly a bunch of savage bastards. There is a reason they are looked down upon everywhere.
From now on, I think I should reconsider calling myself a Samaritan. Of course, that’s only if I get through this situation safely.
“… Anyway, I’ll close my eyes just for this one time to see what you did during the day. It’s not uncommon for sexual desires to flare up with the excitement of killing. Cool your head with some cold water there, savage.”
Car camping – Chalpak.
I was afraid that something big would happen. Hippolyta gathered herself up, got up to the water’s edge, gathered her clothes, and disappeared into the bushes.
Even forgiving the man who tried to attack her? Is it possible for a Silver Tier adventurer to have such mercy?
Or is it because she is a Silver Tier adventurer that she can be so generous? In many ways, her tolerance is as vast as that of Elfriede, who is of the same rank.
No, but in the end, you still couldn’t resolve my misunderstanding. You’re a mess. Should I be happy about being forgiven for a crime I didn’t commit?
I tried to follow Hippolyte in a hurry, but he was nowhere to be seen.
* * *
After many twists and turns, I returned to the tent and saw Luna sleeping soundly, breathing deeply.
I just tap-danced on the threshold of life and death, and now that I see this guy sleeping so calmly, I feel like the noose of death is finally far away for the time being.
I lay down with my back to the wall, just like Luna, who had turned her back to the wall. The feeling of the small of my back touching through the clothes was so touching that I almost cried a little.
As expected, a small and fragile girl has a way of touching a man’s heart.
I don’t know when I fell asleep while thinking about this and that alone, and it was dawn, full of fresh air, that I came to my senses again.
When I opened my eyes with a slightly empty feeling, Luna was gone.
I also roughly armed myself and went outside the tent. There were already several people who were up, gathered in groups of three or four, talking with serious expressions on their faces.
“How do you do it?”
“You’re really big. Didn’t you consider that you might be punished by the guild?”
Shit, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but for some reason my chest feels so prickly and hot that it feels like someone’s holding a fire under my butt.
No, I’m really innocent when it comes to Hippolyte. But, will people listen to that? My opponent is a Silver Tier, and I’m an Iron Tier, crawling on the bottom. The right to speak and the impact are by no means equal.
“Ahem, what are you talking about?”
As I pretended not to care and joined in on the conversation, the faces of the men who had been chattering among themselves suddenly became silent. Damn, were they really talking about me?
I was so scared for only a moment.
“They say there’s an adventurer who escaped all night.”
What I’m hearing is a story I never expected.
“Huh? Are you running away?”
“Yeah! You cowards! You were scared at the thought of meeting the Pluto cultists, huh?”
You weren’t talking about me. Okay, that’s fine. While I was sighing in relief, the men added a few more words.
“Jack Knife the One-Eyed and Kragg the One-Armed escaped during the night. They looked a bit uneasy the whole time.”
“No, it’s too early to conclude that he ran away. Anyway, let’s wait and see what the pursuers say. The police chief has a few useful guys looking around, so they’ll probably come up with something.”
The dawn of the second day began chaotically with stories of two people disappearing through the thick fog.
I was worried that my story might come out and that Hippolyta, who had changed her mind, might report me and have me castrated. Fortunately, that didn’t happen.
“What are you looking at, Samaritan? Are you in love with Rene?”
“Yep, I’m in love.”
“Then clear the snow.”
The Maidens of the Sword just ignore me. If they had heard from Hippolyta, they wouldn’t be treating me like a cow or a chicken.
By the way, where did Luna go?
I looked around, chasing the pink hair through the smoky fog.
At that moment, Luna appeared from afar, cutting through the fog. In her hands were two creatures as large as the palm of her hand, each holding a hind leg in her hands.
“Hassan, look at this. It’s a shaman toad…!”
“Hey, I was worried. I thought you were gone too.”
“Disappeared? I went to catch them. But more than that, Hassan, you shaman toad! You guys are so fast that it’s hard to catch them, but I caught them? Their bodies are lighter than you think!”
In Luna’s hands, who is making a fuss, there are ominous-looking toads with fluorescent bodies and black dots squirming about.
Thick-.
Shit, what kind of toad croaking is that? If there really is a god in this world, he must have made the world really hastily and stirred it up with his feet.
Anyway, I was worried and nervous for one reason or another, but I felt a little better after hearing Luna’s cheerful voice.
“So anyway, when they suddenly jumped in, I jumped in with them and caught them!”
“Well, well, good. So what effect do they have? Like, are they elixir ingredients or something?”
“Shaman toads? These kids aren’t used anywhere. I just caught them to keep watch and get bored. Now, I have to let them go.”
So it was Luna who released the toads she had caught.
Two toads lying on the weed-covered stone floor of an abandoned temple appear to hesitate, but soon jump up to an unbelievable height.
Dreg-.
“Shit, shit!”
But damn, I never thought she’d jump up and pounce on me. So I panicked and shook myself off, and Luna also hurriedly spread her palms towards me.
“Ha, Hassan! Don’t let it touch your bare skin!”
However, Luna, who placed her palm on my body, stopped moving for some reason and flinched.
“Huh, huh… .”
Thick-.
Kabi-.
The toad babies soon ran off somewhere. As I was sighing in relief, Luna, whose face was red, asked me.
“…are you okay?”
“Oh, yeah. Damn, I’m surprised.”
“Oh, thank goodness… They’re poisonous. They make your skin itch when they touch it. I’m used to it, so it’s fine, but…”
“poison?”
It was fine, but suddenly when I heard that, my whole body started to itch. But it was just my imagination. They only touched my clothes and didn’t touch my skin directly.
“Ha, Hassan… . Hey, I’ll pray at dawn… .”
Luna was about to say something to me as I was checking to see if there was any itchy or swollen area on my body.
“The vanguard is back!”
“The Department Head is back!”
A half-naked man carrying a huge hammer returns between the tents with a shout that cuts through the fog. Then, in a rather serious and heavy voice, he opens his mouth to report the situation.
“Jack Knife, and Kragg. I found their footprints. But the fog was so thick that further pursuit was impossible.”
“Ha, you really were a jerk. You fucking cowards.”
“If the number of people decreases, the amount of money we share increases, so it’s good!”
“Quiet. The report isn’t over yet. The last traces of the fugitives. I found this near there. Everyone, please look at this.”
The officer in charge of lifting something high up. Thanks to that, I could see the thick hair growing between the guy’s armpits, and I felt like my eyes were being attacked, which was horrible. What the hell are you showing me in the morning.
“What a wicked armpit!”
“Look at that fur. Is that really human? Or a centaur?”
“It seems that it is true that the blood of the Department Head is mixed with that of a non-human. After all, the power he has shown so far is far from that of a human.”
“No, look at this, not my armpit. This is on the palm of my hand.”
So, once again, his gaze fell on the palm of his hand. There, he saw a small ornament that could be called a necklace or a brooch.
What is that?
As for me, even if you asked me to look, I wouldn’t know what that is. Are they just showing off something pretty they picked up off the floor?
Well, if I found something like that, I would show it off to others. Luna would even catch a useless toad and show it off.
Everyone wants to show off what they have achieved to others.
“Uh, that’s….”
However, a strange sense of tension begins to spread among the adventurers, and it seems that this is not an ordinary object.
At that moment, Hippolyta, who had been wearing all her armor, crossing her arms, and keeping her mouth shut, opens her mouth.
“The daffodil sign. It’s the symbol of Pluto.”
“Yeah, there’s a high chance that there are some socialites nearby. I’m really going to have to be on my guard from today on.”
* * *
“My ladies, I don’t think we can go any further in this carriage. The horses won’t move forward at all. Even if I whip them, they won’t go.”
The coachman pulling the carriage expressed his displeasure. Even when they were really whipped, the horses silently stuck their hooves into the swamp and did not move an inch.
Purruk-.
I know because I’ve been whipped a bit.
Being whipped and not taking action means you really don’t want to work or you don’t have enough strength to move your body.
And only when I receive an order where I think it would be better to disobey the order and get whipped.
Anyway, the horses are on strike. They are guys with a strong spirit of labor struggle for no reason.
It’s done.
The fog was so thick in front of us that we couldn’t see even an inch ahead of us, and just imagining how difficult it would be to get out of here on foot without a carriage made me feel exhausted.
Chlap-.
Hippolyte was the first to get out of the carriage. She stroked the long forehead of the black horse and spoke casually.
“Beasts have great intuition. They know that there is something ahead that they don’t want to encounter.”
“As a coachman, I’ll say this. These guys aren’t very smart. They just don’t want to move forward. Think about it, they’re walking and walking in the mud, and they’re pulling a heavy carriage. I don’t want to move either.”
“We’ll find out when we get there. Anyway, everyone get off the carriage! We’ll continue on foot from here!”
“Ah-.” The adventurers grumbled and got out of the carriage.
Of course, sitting on the stopped oxcart would have been a waste of time, so we chose to line up and continue advancing through the fog, following the instructions of the Silver-rank adventurers.
But walking through a muddy, foggy marsh with no visibility whatsoever was more terrifying than I could have imagined.
And the mental fatigue was compounded by the fact that there was a cult nearby. Then someone muttered.
“I don’t know what’s going to pop out. If even an arrow flies, we’ll all die-.”
“A foggy floor where you can’t see even an inch ahead. It’s the very bottom of hell, Tartarus.”
“Fuck, aren’t we already walking through hell after losing the night?”
One or two adventurers cracked a joke, but the mood only grew more gloomy. The only one who wasn’t affected by this mood was Luna.
“The weather is nice. I think of Ideope. This damp, humid smell. The fog that doesn’t let the sun in. Even the soggy ground.”
Luna’s values seem to be quite different from others. Is this multiculturalism or something?
“Shhh- quiet. There’s something nearby.”
At that moment, Hippolyte, who had been walking in front without any obstruction, stopped walking. At the same time, all the twenty or so people stopped at once.
What the hell is that? A swamp goblin?
It was at that moment that I tightened my grip on the twin swords with such tension.
“Whoaaah-!”
“Ugh!”
With a shrill scream, several men disappear into the deep swamp floor in an instant.
“Damn it-. It’s too late. Everyone, draw your swords!”
Erigerrur… .
Soon something with thick hide, a long tail, and sharp teeth emerged from the swamp with glowing green eyes.
“Damn, crocodiles! There’s a bunch of crocodiles!”
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