High School Hack and Slash Chapter 80 Part 1
Now Stranded
First of all, a bear comes charging at us and I try turning the tables on it.
I’ve been underestimating it, thinking it is an outdoor school, but it seems that they have arranged some pretty exciting events.
Now making our way on a trackless path, our group is, to put it simply, lost.
Apparently, none of us has looked at the map.
All of the girls have ended up passing out from exhaustion and shock.
The dudes are also sitting jelly-legged, which is pathetic.
With a size about as large as a mini bus, it’s just a bear that somehow has four front legs.
Its moderately formidable enemy air is as intense as that of a realm gate guardian of the dungeon outer stratums.
Well, perhaps it is just the right time.
After all, dusk falls early in the mountains.
It’s already getting dark, so I guess it would be dangerous to hike any further.
We ought to make a full-fledged encampment, rather than a rest stop.
Such being the case, I’m now in the middle of hanging the dropped bear from a tree and dismantling it.
It is literally half a bear.
I guess the normal space and the dungeon space must be in the state of half-and-half pizza.
Cleanly, only the upper half of the bear was dropped.
It may be a good thing in terms of securing materials, but it is a pain since there’s a need to dismantle it.
The bear-like thing, whose front legs are tied and hung, is peeled off from the head to the shoulder.
This skinning is the most time-consuming part.
I hope the group members, who have either fainted or become jelly-legged, can give me a hand too.
The scene may look a little gory, but this is also food education.
This is how the meat we usually eat is processed.
Fortunately, half of the intensities are also left behind, so let’s eat the easy-to-spoil liver and heart for dinner.
Tanning the peeled skin is such a pain, so I decide that I’ll stealthily put it in the Item Box along with the sliced bear meat later.
I get the feeling that Yuki-chan and baby Nue will end up eating up the bear meat, but, well, sharing is caring.
Just in case, I decide that I’ll lightly smoke the portion of bear meat for us to eat and carry it.
I can’t afford to show off my Item Box, and in a survival situation, securing food is our top most priority.
Bear meat, to be frank, has a rather intense gamey smell, but I think the meat itself tastes good.
While I’m dismantling the bear in such a manner, it brings back memories of when holed up in the mountains during my childhood, so nostalgic.
The me of back then was in the food chain of eat or be eaten.
It is nostalgic, but I get the feeling that it is not a very happy memory.
*Shrrk, shrrk* In front of the bear, which looks like a muscle anatomy model of the human body in the science lab, I sharpen my greasy and bloody knife with a stick sharpener.
At times like this, I understand the virtue of Craftsman skills.
A sharp blade for cutting ends up breaking quickly.
That’s why swords used in the dungeon, for instance, are purposely made dull to increase their durability.
I don’t bring a saw, so I have no choice but to back-split the bear with the resolve of rendering the knife useless.
Back-splitting is a dismantling method of cutting it in half along its backbone.
Once I get to that point, the bear will look more like an ingredient.
First of all, I tear off the neck, and then tear the bear up in half along with the backbone.
I turn around as I hear the girls’ voice of「Hii」, but they are sleeping soundly as if they have fainted, so it looks like it’s just my imagination.
They must be tired.
I hope they can take some rest until the bear dismantling is done.
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「… Say. There’s no response from the『Yorishiro』 I gave to Touma, but… Where did that guy go?」
The curtain of night had descended, and the chirping of insects was echoing throughout the『Iwado Woodland』.
A rich, tangling-like thick fog was submerging the campground in a white veiling.
The nighttime curfew written on the outdoor school’s guidebook was a precaution against the risk of getting stranded.
The campground looked like a waterfront submerged in a white lake surface.
「I didn’t see him, though?」
Mai, holding an origami doll similar to the one Seiichi was holding, shook her head.
The『Yorishiro Doll (Spy Bot)』 was a skill that was said to have the highest degree of difficulty to learn among the skills of ninja branching.
It was a peculiar skill that created an item that linked one’s five senses to the catalysts, the yorishiro(object capable of attracting spirits).
The paper doll in Mai’s hand contained several strands of Seiichi’s head hair.
Conversely, the three paper dolls in Seiichi’s hands contained hairs of Mai and the others.
This time, using Seiichi as a terminal, it was utilized like a pseudo-cellular phone.
The『Yorishiro Doll (Spy Bot)』 were easily affected by the surrounding miasma concentration, and they could neither maintain the link if the distance was too great.
However, in high-concentration miasma domains, where radio waves decayed and disappeared, they could serve as a valuable communication network.
「Touma-san is… Umm, he is lost.」
Seiichi let out a deep sigh and held his head as Shizuka showed a troubled look on her face.
「The heck is he doing, that guy….」
「Lost… There wasn’t a fork in the road where you could get lost, was there?」
The route from Iwado Station to Iwado Woodland Campground might be that of an unpaved mountain path, but it was akin to a family hiking trail.
Even without a map or compass, there was no way for you to get lost as long as you walked along the path.
「It’s not my fault, so he asserts.」
Shizuka let her gaze wander in the air.
「There seems, to be no problem, so, well, I bet we’ll manage somehow, so gloss it over appropriately, so he says.」
「There ain’t nothing but problems.」
「Ehhh. I left my manga and snacks in Touma-kun’s Item Box, though!」
Leaving manga aside, the snacks were likely to be eaten promptly.
「Haa… It can’t be helped. You know where Touma is, don’t you, Shizuka? Then navigate him so he can come here properly.」
「Yes. But of course.」
Seiichi, standing up from the backpack he was sitting on, looked around their surroundings.
Be it a labyrinth of thick fog, it was no obstacle at all in front of his『Oniwaban』 skill, which allowed him to perceive space.
「Well, in other words, Touma’s group is stranded. The bungalow that the group is arranged to use should be vacant. So let’s use it as our base.」
「Yes~.」
「Understood.」
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Now then, I’ve fallen to a rather dire pinch.
「Please, bestow mercy upon this lowly female pig.」
Amidst the light of the crackling, popping campfire, a naked body with a faint bulge emerges.
I don’t quite understand what’s going on, but for the time being, I hope she can calm herself down.
Our group is camped in a place surrounded with a dense, abundant jungle.
If possible, I had hoped to find a place where we could take shelter from the rain and dew, but we ended up having our vision obscured by the fog that suddenly shrouded us.
It’s a thick fog that exudes a somewhat not-too-good presence.
Somehow or another, I managed to find some dry branches and leaves and make a campfire.
At the moment, the members who are surrounding the campfire are composed of only four girls, excluding me.
The remaining seven members seem to have ended up straying off.
While I was doing a cleanup after finishing dismantling the bear, I noticed that the boys, who had gotten jelly-legged, and some of the girls, who had toppled down, had disappeared.
I was alarmed, thinking it might be a monster attack, but nothing happened.
Most likely, they must have parted company with us, thinking that: we can’t put up with the weak-willed bunch who recommend making a camp, we’d rather go on a night march!
If they had said a word about it, I would have given them some bear meat as a parting gift, but it can’t be helped.
As such, giving a sidelong glance to the left behind girls, who were sleeping soundly, I was roasting some bear meat skewers.
As I was roasting and turning around the bear skewers, I tried to contact Seiichi using『Radio-kun』, but it seemed that he was out of range.
The Shizuka-crystal radio had better reception, so I gave them a quick update pertaining to the current situation on this side.
It’s just that, when it comes to this communication method, the bottleneck is that it’s mostly a one-way communication from me to Shizuka.
Well, as long as the Shizuka-crystal link is established, I can monitor Shizuka’s mental state, so when push comes to shove, I can just fly there on the fuzzy cloud.
While turning the bear skewers around, I sauté the thinly sliced bear liver in a pan.
For seasoning, I only use a piece of butter and salt and pepper.
It has a pretty wild game feeling to it.
It’d be a bit too much to hog and eat everything by myself, so I decided to wake up the girls in turn.
When I shake the girl whom I carried after slipping at the beginning, she swiftly opens her eyes, and with a face that seems to have everything, she makes such a female pig remark.
Opening her bosom to show her cleavage, she pulls up her own skirt and makes a lewd girl appeal.
Her consciousness seems to be cloudy, so I ought to handle it calmly.
「… I’m fully aware that you already have a beloved person (male) you have set your heart on, Toma-sama. But I’m here to offer you to relieve that extraordinary sex addiction using this female pig (me).」
「Alright. Let’s calm down.」
It seems that she’s mistaken me for someone due to how confused he is, but her remarks are too unsettling in a lot of ways.
「I, I get it. That you are unwilling to relieve your overflowing libido with a female pig.」
「For the time being, calm down and feel free to eat this bear.」
「Y, yes. In exchange, let me eat you, so is what you are saying, right? I understand.」
While nibbling the bear skewer bit by bit, she entrusts me with her ass, wrapped in pink panties.
How should I put it, she’s a girl with a stone-age-ish sense of values.
Getting an ass illogically offered to me, even someone like me will gladly enjoy it.
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