293 Later talk. Crab hunting




Okay, you found it.

 It was about two hours after we left the guild in King's Landing. We came to a river flowing at the foot of the mountain that we always use to discuss when we hunt Borazon Crab.

 There are many other demons in this area that seek out the water's edge, but the Borazon Crab is too hard to be attacked by other demons, so I often see them taking it easy.

 Normally I would just walk by, but today that Borazon Crab is my prey, so I approach it as close as I can.

''Well then, let's see how far Haku has grown, shall we?

 The advisor says something like that as I pull out the daggers that are held in both hips. Apparently, the advisor is going to observe me at first. I don't mind, but it's kind of hard to do when they're watching me.

 I hold the dagger in both hands and aim at the Borazon Club, which is in unison. The only soft part of the Borazon Crab is the area between my eyes, between my eyebrows. Only that part is much softer than the other parts of the shell.

 But when you get close to the Borazon Crab, it will swing both scissors and blow bubbles at you without question. So the theory is to weaken it with magic without getting too close to it, but I let the magic power flow into the dagger in both hands. I wear black magic power to the tip of the dagger held backwards.

 And then I run at once. The Borazon Club noticed me approaching and swung the scissors down at me. It's quite fast for its large body. But the shears didn't hit me.

 I duck underneath the large shears before they can swing down and get closer to the body of the mulatto club. At this distance, the shears are no longer useless. Knowing this, the Borazon Crab blows bubbles from its mouth with a gurgling sound.

 Eating the bubbles doesn't do much damage, but it has the effect of inhibiting my movement. As I struggle to move, it means I'll be cut off with scissors or crushed.

 The moment the Borazon Crab spits bubbles at me, I jump upwards. I get on the shell of the Borazon Crab. Naturally, the Borazon Crab loses sight of me on my back. I come up to my eyebrows at this end and thrust the dagger in my right hand.

 The Borazon Crab flails about, spitting foam from its mouth. I insert the dagger deeper so it doesn't shake off, and then I thrust the left-hand dagger further into it as well. Then I slice it left and right in one fell swoop.

 With this, the Borazon Club falls. This is the first one. The reason I can do this is because my speed is so fast. A normal adventurer would be able to surround it with several people and get close to it.

 And when I say the area between my eyebrows is soft, it's because it's my weapon. If it were a normal weapon, it would be one of the harder ones and would be played.

 And the Borazon Club is a pain in the ass even after you defeat it. This time's request is for a crabmeat, so I have to peel the shell off from here and take it out from inside.

 Normally Ferris Hey would help me with this, but he's not here today, so I'll use my magic.

Shadow Arm.

 When I use my magic, many black hands made of shadows come out of the ground. I lift the shell with my black hands. I wait for the shell to be lifted up by the shadowy hands and cut the parts that are still attached to it with my dagger.

 Then I cut it open until I can get the crabmeat out, and then I let the shadow hand open it and take out the crabmeat.

 I take out a container to hold the crabmeat from the item pouch, which has a smaller capacity than the item ring Onii has, but a moderate amount of money.

 I put the crabmeat in the container and fix it in the item pouch, and now I cut off the legs. The item pouch I have can't hold the Borazon crab as it is, so I have to dismantle it.

 After cutting off all the legs, I was finally able to fix the item pouch, when my advisor came over.

He said, "You're good at it, Haku. You killed the Borazon Club without any danger at all. That was a pretty good job, huh?

Thanks, I'm used to it.

 I go straight to finding the next Borazon Club. Two or three more go into the item pouch. I'm about to head to the next blazon club when I get a pat on the head. I turn around and there is my advisor looking at me with a gentle smile on his face.

'Oh well, let me take care of those guys. I'll dismantle them in a minute.'

 After saying that much, the advisor draws the great sword on his back. Then, when he puts wind magic on it, he closes the distance to the Borazon Club in one go.

 First, the scissors on the left side of the body are cut off, and then all the legs of half of the body are cut off as it is.

 The Borazon Crab fell sideways to the left side as it was and swung the remaining scissors on the right side, but I noticed that all the legs on the right side were cut off as well.

 Then, before I could spit bubbles, I thrust a large sword between his eyes and knocked him down. As it is, I take down the second one as well... there's too much of a difference in ability. How could my advisor have had time to spare when I had to struggle to defeat him?

 The advisor, who came back humming, patted me on the head as I was stunned.

"Don't be so depressed. Haku and I have different weapons. I'm sure you've been able to defeat them well with that weapon. That's what I'm talking about.

 Ugh, I'm not good at being complimented. I turn away and thank him in a small voice. I whispered it with the intention of not being heard, but my advisor seemed to hear me and smiled and puffed my head.

 After that, the two of us split up and dismantle the Borazon Club and put it in the advisor's item ring. Then we take a lunch break.

 My advisor takes the food he bought before out of his item ring and gives me some too. My item pouch doesn't have a time fixation like the item ring, so I can only put things in it that will last for a day.

'So, what's the trouble with Haku?'

 I was eating in silence when my advisor suddenly came to visit me. I was startled and freaked out. I looked at my advisor's face and thought about what to do, but he's someone who's lived dozens of times longer than I have. Maybe he could give me some good answers. So.

My problem is...