I'll be up in the morning.
Hmmm...?

　I woke up with Miu rocking me.
　Yesterday, I laid down right after changing fire watch with Aberto Sarges' group, but I couldn't fall asleep. Thanks to that, I'm still a little sleepy.
　I washed my face in the river near where we camped and woke up completely. The sky was already beginning to lighten.
　The sky was already starting to lighten up, and Abelto looked around.

'Then let's go. We have to manage to find the tinder grass today.
"I'd better take care of the area from here. You never know where you're going to find turfgrass.

　This is a fireweed that is said to grow in mountainous areas. I think Rose is right, we've already reached the point where we can call it a mountainous area.
　There's a possibility that they could be growing around there. Let's be careful.
　We continued on our way, watching carefully.
　After three hours of walking, the forest came to an end, and we could see some rugged rocky areas around us. Probably around here.
　There are some grass-like plants growing around, but they don't seem to be fireweed. Moreover, the grass is growing behind large rocks, so it's difficult for even my evil eye to find it.
　There are some rocks taller than a gallon of rock, and the visibility is very poor. It's hard to find this thing.

What should we do?　Do you want to spread out and look for them on your own?
But the Firelizard may be there. It's not safe to move alone.
But we can't just sit around looking for them. The sooner we split up, the better. If we don't wait around here, we'll be late tomorrow evening.

　Mr. Dom and Mr. Sarges responded to Abert's suggestion. It's true that even if we find the fireweed, it would be a disaster if we can't find it in time.

I'll find it on my own. There's no better way to waste time than sitting around goofing off like this.

　Garon said, and then he left us and began to search the area. This is true.

As usual, you are a selfish person.
'But he's right too. Time is running out as we go along.

　Following Garon, Mr. Surges began to search away. We looked at each other and decided to spread out.
　I climbed up on top of the highest rocky area and looked around with my evil eye. After all this time, do you think it's safe for me to find this?
　If searching for the haystack is part of the test, I'm not the one who should be talking...............but I don't know.
　Let's hear what you don't know!
　Send an email to the chieftain.

　Pic.
▶ ▶Firewheel grass, me gazing at you, no problem?

　The chieftain replies.

　Bleep.
▷No problem. Mission accomplished.

　Yeah, looks like he's okay. Okay, well then, I'm going to seriously look for it.




　It's not here.
　I've been looking for several hours since then, but I haven't been able to find anything at all. Is it really on this island?
　The purpose of the test was originally to judge the test by its actions in response to the request, so it didn't matter what the request was in the beginning, and there was no fireweed to begin with.
　 It's possible that he picked up all the fireweed around here the day before and left it only in places that are hard to find, right? He has a bad character, you know.
　But he has a bad character, but he's not someone who says to go get something that isn't there. If Her Majesty says it's there, it must be there.

'Oh, it's you. My back hurts from looking down so much.

　I look up and stretch my hips. My back hurts from bending over so much to look at it. I put my hands on my hips and leaned far back.
　Heaven and earth are reversed. I have a soft body, and even right behind me I can see like this.... Huh?
　There was that thing on the rocky ground behind him that looked upside down.
　A large lizard body with rugged red-copper scales. A thick tail and sharp claws. It is staring at you with its vertical eyes, characteristic of reptiles.
　Without averting my eyes, I half-turn my body to face it and turn around.
　As soon as Tenchi returned, it jumped at me.

''Whoa!''

　I ducked the body hit while rolling to the side. I threw the stick shuriken I took out of my pocket, but it was easily flicked off by the red scales. Hard?
　Flames erupted from its body, as if it was angry at being attacked. There's no doubt about it, it's a Firelizard!

It's just not your lucky day that they found us before the turret grass...

　He pulls out the ninja sword at his waist and holds it in his reverse hand. I wonder what I'll do. Even if you apply poison to the blade, the fire is likely to vaporize it, and it's doubtful it will sting before that.
　A drop of water is a good idea. It's a very good at water seclusion, so you could have used water to eliminate it. I'm good at the art of fire suppression, you know.

But I can't run away from them. There is no one to look at, so I'll just do it without hesitation.

　First of all, I went around to windward and threw a small bag of dark butterfly scale powder that I had planted in my cuff.

''Ssshhh!''

　Receiving the sight-robbing scales on his face, Fire Lizard flails around like a madman. As expected of a fire lizard, there's no fire coming out of his eyes, so he can't protect them either.
　Now is the perfect time to be out of sight of the surroundings.
　I lifted up the large rocks that were falling around me and threw them one after another at the fire lizard. I'm going to use blows against a hard opponent. This is common sense.

"Geez!　Gag!

　After taking a few rocks the size of watermelons to my head, Firelizard was definitely getting weaker.
　I'm not proud of it, but I'm strong. I can throw a rock of that size with no problem. You might hear people saying that as a girl, but it can't be helped. It comes in handy in many ways.

Guaaahhhh!
Whoa, look out!

　Firelizard spits fire from his mouth. It's the same kind of fire that the Blood Liger fought yesterday.

''Konnyaro!''
Gah!

　I threw more and more large rocks at the Fire Lizard one after another.
　Eventually, the fire that was coming out of his entire body disappeared and the fire lizard stopped moving. Covered in a large rock, with its tongue sloppily sticking out, the fire lizard had died out.
　Alright!　Complete and total victory!　Huh?　Isn't that just like a burglar?
　No, no, no, no, no, you have to win!　A ninja will use any means to achieve his goal, because he's a hyper-rationalist!
　I'm going to poke the dead Firelizard. It's not hot anymore. It's more like cold. That's strange.
　I think this Firelizard could be a material for something, but I don't know. Maybe it's skin?　If that's the case, I might have hurt him too much with the rock.
　Maybe Miu or Rose would know.
　If the Firelizard is here, then the fireweed must be nearby.
　Just as I was about to go looking for it, there was an explosion of light in the sky.
　An explosion, but only a light. Even though it was noon, several blinding flashes of light shot up to the north.
　Is that light magic?　
　 I took one look at the corpse of the Fire Lizard lying on the ground and started to run towards the place where the flashes of light had struck.




　When I ran to the place where the rocky terrain was hollowed out like a ravine, Burgess, Garon and Dom were surrounded by many fire lizards.
　To be precise, they were driven into what looked like a ravine and attacked from the front and back.
　The Fire Lizards were spewing out flames from their bodies, and their attacks were surpassed by Garon and Dom-san in front and behind them.

''O light, come, shining barrage, light arrow!

　From behind Garon's shield, Sarges-san shoots arrows of light.
　The three arrows of light hit a few fire lizards in succession, but they didn't seem to have much effect as they just blew them backwards in a big way.
　The strength of the magic is proportional to the magic power and skill level that the sorcerer can put in. Although I can say this, it seems that Mr. Burgess cannot use such a strong magic.
　I'm sure you can defeat some of them if you pour all your magic power into them, but it's useless if they run out of magic power and fall.
　I threw a couple of sticks at Dom's group.
　The stick shuriken didn't pierce the hard scales, but it seemed to catch their attention. As the Fire Lizard turned around and showed an opening, Dom-san's battleaxe was swung down.
　As it was, he swung his battleaxe covered in fresh blood wide to the side, checked the other Fire Lizard and the others, set up his shield, and set up his guard again.
　Soon after, Miu, Rose and Abelto also arrived, and it became a group fight between the seven of us and the Fire Lizards.
　However, since the three of us in the ravine are sandwiched between the Firelizard, what should we do?
　It's not that I don't have any hands - well, I was told not to stand out........ Oh yeah, that's enough!　I don't blame you for this situation!

Mr. Dom, hold your shield and hold it up!

　The Dom-san who was told to do this didn't seem to understand the reason, but I held my shield in front of me anyway, as I was told.
　I took out the special item from the pouch on my hip and threw a projectile at the group of Fire Lizards that were in front of Dom-san and his friends.
　The next moment, with a loud explosion, several of the Fire Lizards there were blown up into the air. The shattered pieces of rock also exploded in the area and hit the shield Dom-san held up with a gunshot.
　The sound of the explosion was so loud that the Fire Lizards had stopped moving. Dom-san, Garon, and everyone else had stopped too, though.

''All three of you get over here while you still can!
'Oh?　Oh, oh!

　We ran through the fallen Fire Lizards to meet up with Garon and the others in our direction.
　We decided to run out of the ravine-like rocky area and intercept the pursuing Fire Wizard near the exit. In this place, we wouldn't have to worry about them getting behind us.

"Hey, kid. Don't we have any more of that guy from earlier?
Don't call me a kid. I've got a few more shots, but...
Then get the hell out of there and throw it!
You know what?　Those bombs cost a lot of money to make!　I'll have them with some granting magic and stuff, and even that one shot is expensive!　There must be three silvers in it!　That's three sumptuous meals, gone in one shot!　Do you understand, you muscle idiot!

　I said so without thinking as Garon spoke up, and Rose grabbed me from behind.

Hey, calm down!　I know it's expensive, but it's a thing of life. We'll give you some when the reward comes in...

　Really?　I'm not going to pay you afterwards, okay?　This isn't the knight's equipment, it's my own money. It's not going to be paid for by His Majesty.
　I took out the rest of the Kouga branded bombs from the pouch, having gained the assurances of all of them. Three rounds in all. It's impossible to defeat all of those Fire Lizards, but I think it would be easy to put a stop to the Fire Lizards that were blown up by the explosion.

''Blow it up!

　I'm going to throw the explosive bombs into the area where the Fire Lizard is as dense as possible.
　Boom!　Boom!　Boom!　And with a loud bang, the Firelizard was blown away, and the damaged guy was stumbling around on the ground.

'Now!　Make sure you take out the wounded ones first!

　I follow Garon's voice and kill the fire lizards one by one with everyone else stuck in place. Maybe it's skin or material, but this is not a situation I can talk about.
　I also thrust my ninja sword into the soft throat and belly of the upturned Firelizard.
　The Fire Lizard was confused by the explosive bullets, some of them were fleeing, and some were already in no condition to fight.
　Eventually, Dom's blow knocked down the last individual, and we sat down on the spot.

''That was a close call...''
Quite so. If it weren't for that girl's bomb, we'd all be dead.

　Abelto and Mr. Dom muttered under their breath. So, lassie yoo.

Thank you. You're a lifesaver.
Iiiiiii....

　I wave one hand while lying down to Miu who thanks me.
　Oh my god......... It looks like I've been quite active. ''You can't judge the test with this! That doesn't mean that, does it?　Right?
　I stood up, hoping I wouldn't receive a scolding email from the chieftain.
　There were a lot of fire lizards lying around me, dead and dying.

''Can we sell these?''
Firelizard?　I don't think they'll sell, but I don't think they'll fetch much money. Hides are the most expensive, but even so, there are better quality hexenbiests of the same hardness. It's a dime a dozen.

　I'm disappointed in Rose's answer. A tired profit from a boneheaded loss, huh?

But why is this Firelizard.... What have you guys done?
I haven't done anything!　I was trying to get through the rocky area there, and there was a Firelizard, and I was fighting him and he came out one after another!

　So you find yourself surrounded. Oh, man, I'm just so distracted. That's a minus point.
　While I was thinking about that while looking at Garon who was refuting Abelto, Miu-san's nose was twitching as if she had noticed something.

''This is........!

　Mr. Miu starts walking towards the ravine shaped rocky area. Wait, wait, wait, it's not safe!　The fire wizard could still be there.
　I chased after Miu as the others followed suit.
　As we passed through a rocky ravine and climbed up a slightly elevated slope, we saw a carpet of fireweed blooming like a bright red carpet.

This is....
Wow....

　Aberto and Garon stood there, stunned. Mr. Burgess was checking the fireweed at his feet, shredding it from the roots.

'Definitely. 'It's the tinder grass.'
'Ha ha, we did it!　I found it!
Yeah. Yes.

　Rose was hugging Miu who was next to her and frolicking in her arms.
　The surrounding area is surrounded by high rocky ground, so the demon eyes couldn't see it. It's just like a secret garden.

I see. This is the reason why the Fire Lizard was there.

　Maybe Dom was right, this was the Firelizard's feeding ground. Maybe this was a place that Firelizard didn't want to be raided by the Firelizard.

''Then let's each of us take a couple of them, just in case.

　No one disagrees with Abelto's opinion, and they each collect several pieces of tinder grass. I suppose one would be enough from a requesting standpoint, but it's conceivable that they could lose or drop it for some reason.
　Besides, it could be sold at a higher price than usual. Everyone else may have thought so, too, and picked as many as they could.
　Maybe it's because they got what they wanted, but everyone is also talking lightly.

''I didn't know what was going to happen, but it was a piece of cake.
'I say that a lot. You were in a pretty bad spot with the Blood Liger.
Well, well, now you can have two white gold coins. Thank you.
But something doesn't make sense...
...Yeah. It seems too easy.
''Two white gold coins in this.......is there more to it.......?

　While the six of us were talking, I had spotted a strange object at the top of a rocky area.
　I jumped up onto the rock. Even though it was on a rock, it was covered with straw and grass. It was crushed into a mortar shape, as if something big was on top of this.
　Wait a minute, this looks like some kind of nest...!
　 Why is that?
　There's a reason I can't eat it even if I wanted to. The Fire Lizard and his friends only come to eat in secret while "he" is away. Because if they find him, that means death...

Everyone!　We need to get out of here.
'Gogaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

　With a roar that tore the heavens apart, the master of this nest appeared in the sky above us.
　The master of this nest appeared in the sky above us with a roar that tore at the heavens. A tail with poisonous spikes on its long neck. It has no front legs, but rather wings with a large coating of skin.
　It's a wyvern.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make the most of it.