sorry for not being able to post the last few days, I was forced to go on a bunch of trips with my mom since she also had vacation.

Chapter 17: Getting carried away is a good example of how to experience h.e.l.l.

Under the heavens, there were two people facing each other doing something weird.

it was me and Irene.

I was still playing with Irene"s ears.

Even within humans, there are a lot of women weak at their ears.

But it seems elves are even more sensitive.

Her reactions are interesting.

While I was playing… (AHO-, AHO-)[TL:idiot! idiot!] I heard a high pitched cry.

Raising my eyes, I could see a kururu bird.

At first glance it looks like a crow that"s colored brown.

Even like that, it seems it"s a magic beast.

Like yesterday it was flying around us from the sky… ah? Something"s falling…

"Uwa!? disgusting!"

With a drip, c.r.a.p fell from the sky.

Of course, the one who did it, was the idiot bird.

"d.a.m.n you, f.u.c.king around like that…"

I threw rocks multiple times from the ground.

But, since it could freely fly in the sky, it smoothly dodged to the left and right.

"Hetakuso-! Hetakuso-!" [TL: you suck! You suck!]

"… Irene, could it be that this guy…"

"Yes, it can speak a few words, but It seems that it understands the meaning."

Hoo? He"s got guts.

It really wants me to hunt him.

"Oi, you probably think I can"t fly in the sky, right? yeah right, you idiot! I"m coming there right now!"

"Yatte mireba-ka" [TL: why don"t you try?/idiot] [TLnote: the last "ba" in the yatte mireba is combined with the "ka" at the end and becomes baka at the same time.]

I focused my will on the area around my back.

Both my arms can already be freely transformed into dragon form.

That"s why if I try hard, even sprouting wings shouldn"t be hard.

Remember, the days when you could freely fly in the sky.

Remember, the days when you were embraced by the wind.

I closed my eyes, and made my heart tranquil———————-su-.

—!?

Surely, just now, I felt something on my back.

I thought I shouldn"t let this opportunity pa.s.s by.

I strongly visualized wings within my head.

"Irene, a change happened on my back, right!?"
"T,that is, just now bird p.o.o.p dropped on your back…."

"SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!"
"PU PU PU PU PU!"[TL:bird is laughing]

I got irritated so I punched the ground to vent some stress.

"Ha, haa… it hurts…"

"I have an idea regarding that bird. The next time goblins appear, would you please follow after me?"

"I"m counting on you, send that guy to h.e.l.l!"

Irene is still young, but she"s knowledgeable.

She"s unmistakably smarter than me.

She probably has some sort of great idea.

Walking a bit we encountered a group of five goblins, we ran while pretending to run away from them.

Thinking that we were prey, they immediately chased after us.

We probably ran for around 3 minutes?

Irene stopped her legs at a place where trees were crowding together, she got rid of them in an experienced manner.

But, this time, she used flame arrows.

At almost the same timing as when they were fired, the arrows were covered in fire.

When they hit the goblins, they instantly ignited, they were charred black.

Irene got rid of four of the five goblins, she entrusted me with the last one.

"Master, please."
"Count on me!"

I pierced through it"s heart in a single thrust, I took out the last one.

There were 5 corpses rolling on the ground.

The other four were charred black to the point that they couldn"t be recognized.

Irene took the one that wasn"t burnt, and made it"s head lie down on the side, and started walking.

"Like this, let us head to those trees crowded over there."

"Got it."

Irene walked while counting the steps taken with her mouth.

I don"t know what she"s planning, so I just follow behind her like an attendant.

The hateful bird isn"t following us anymore.

We walked around 2, 3 hundred meters?

The surrounding were filled with tall trees.

Of course, the goblin"s corpses and the kururu bird, couldn"t be seen by us anymore.

"—300. It"s this place."

Irene who suddenly stopped, without making any sounds prepared her bow.

The target was in the sky.

With amazing concentration she pulled the string, as if wanting to pierce the heavens she shot.

The direction which the arrow flew was where we killed the goblins a while ago.

It can"t be that she was aiming for the kururu bid flying in the sky?

Nah, it couldn"t be, we can"t even see it, there"s a limit to impossibility.

"Let"s go back."

"That just now, were you aiming for the bird?"

"The kururu bird is clever, even if there were corpses, as long as figures of humans were there it will never go down.it understands that humans can use bows and magic from afar. That"s why there"s a need to hide ourselves like this."

We went back to the place we were at before.

"Faa-!?" I almost let out a voice like that.

On top of the goblin"s corpse, was another body.

The kururu bird with an arrow lodged in it"s back.

"Kururu birds don"t eat burnt dead bodies. Since it"s smart, it understands that it will become poison for it"s body. Also they have a habit of eating from the head. Like now, as long as the target is set, it isn"t that hard to hit."

No, I think that"s pretty hard, sensei.

Even if the target isn"t moving, hitting accurately from that distance isn"t something a human can do.

Even if it was a robot, I think it would do a more human-like error.

In any case, I point my finger and loudly shouted.

"Did you see that!? This is true cooperation, idiot!" [TLnote: you didn"t do anything though…]

The price for goblin materials were 20000rize.

In order to have the kururu bird inspected, I placed it on the table, and the normally cool receptionist raised her eyebrows.

"He~, to be able to get a kururu bird, good job."

The cool beauty receptionist, Shera, said while raising her bangs.

Light blue long hair, clear eyes, snow white skin, and although slender, she is very feminine.

With an impression of an intellectual, a 20 year old beauty….

If I were to say, she smack dab in my strike zone.

She"s probably the best woman I"ve seen in my life.

I had to convince her somehow, is what I thought.

That I wouldn"t lay my hands on Irene.

To impress her like this, really makes me quite happy.

"Who did it?"

"The one who killed it was me, but the one who contributed the most was my master."

You"re saying those kinds of lies again, thanks!!

"Ara, you"re more than you look."

"N, something like a kururu bird is easy as pie. I think you know, but kururu bird"s are clever. And they have a habit of eating from the head. That"s why as long as you know where the target is, it"s not that hard."

I made a snort.

Isn"t this kinda embarra.s.sing.

I"m probably making a smug face right now.

When Shera took the bird for appraisal, she came back saying they"ll pay 60000rize for it.

It was cost more than I expected.

If I add the cost of the goblins, it would be 80000rize.

Earning that much in one day should be quite the sum.

I feel like a small time rich man.

I"m hesitant to sell it.

Although I want money, I would at least want to try eating it once.

"What do you think Irene? Do you wanna try eating it?"
"If allowed, I would like to eat it together with master."

It"s decided, this time I won"t sell it and bring it home.

Since I had nothing to lose, I tried asking Merida to cook it, but…

"Wa~ this is really delicious isn"t it. If you give me a bit I"ll do it for you."

As they say, there isn"t ever a free meal, so it probably can"t be helped.

And then when the time came for dinner, the whole roast kururu bird was finished.

It"s just as good as what I"ve been told.

The meat has become lean, and you could feel the high-quality meat inside your mouth.

Although the breast meat had some sort of bad smell, but the leg and wing meat had an unbelievably good flavor.

Coming here and eating it was really a good decision.

Troll meat and kururu bird meat.
Is it wrong to expect good flavors from magic beasts? [TLnote: danmachi reference]