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The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 127

The Fate of Rex and The Others

We chase after Rex and the others, following the blood trail. This amount of blood loss, that’s quite a lot. Even if a battle were to break out between us and them, I might be able to handle it on my own. After running for a while, we find Rex and the others collapsed on the slope of the mountain near the grassland. They look totally exhausted and are lying on their backs, and everyone but Rex is missing an arm. One of them has a clean cut in his arm, so it looks like it has been severed by the suppon’s water blade. Judging from the fact that the bleeding has stopped, he must have drunk a valuable potion. When Lunamilia and I approach them, Rex curses me.

「Hey, you, rookie. Things have turned out like this because of you. How are you going to make up for it, huh?」

Make up for it? What are you, a yakuza? But this atmosphere, maybe Rex, the only one with all his limbs intact, is trying to redirect the dissatisfaction of the three who have lost their arms by taking his anger out on me so that he won’t be blamed for it, and somehow finds relief in doing it. I can’t afford to go along with what he’s planning. If I pick on Rex’s inadequacies, it might cause a rift between them.

「Wasn’t it you who told me to poke, poke, and poke the bottom of the river all over randomly, Rex-san? I was just following your instructions, you know?」

「Ugh, t, that’s…」

Rex is stared at by his comrades who lost their arms. The atmosphere is getting tense. All I need is one more push, I guess.

「Well, in any case, we’ve completed the request. I want to quickly go back to the town and get my reward.」

「You’re right… huh, wait? Hey, where are the bottles?」

It seems that Rex and the others, who barely escaped with their lives, finally realize that they have left the bottles that are filled with the suppon lifeblood behind on the riverbank. Well, all the bottles are in my storage, though.

「Hey, rookie, it’s time for work. Go back to the riverbank and get the bottles we left behind.」

「No way. The suppon might still be there, so for low-level adventurers like that, that’d be the same as walking to our death, no? Both Lunamilia and I seem to have twisted our ankles from running through an unfamiliar forest. The only one who is uninjured is you, isn’t it, Rex-san? Then…」

「Shut it, damn it, fine, I’ll go get the bottles, so wait here for a minute.」

Perhaps he can’t bear my words that he’s only one who is uninjured, or perhaps he can’t bear the cold stares from his comrades, Rex goes to the riverbank where the suppon was of his own violation. Still, it’s not good that the only one that’s uninjured is Rex, our main target. He might continue to use rookie adventurers as bait to hunt suppons from now on, too, after all. Well, there’s nothing more I can do. If Lunamilia wasn’t there, I could take advantage of this opportunity to send all of their heads flying, though.

「Luna, come with me for a bit.」

「Yes, Sei-sama.」

I don’t want to waste time waiting, so I decide to go and gather ingredients for restorative medicines in the grassland across the river. Judging that it would be dangerous to leave Lunamilia with these guys who are planning to rape her, I decide to take her with me. Ahead from here, across the river, is the place where you can collect a large amount of medicinal herbs, but there are troublesome monsters called leg-cutting rabbits, so you can’t let guard down. Those guys move incredibly fast, so I don’t think Lunamilia would be able to handle them. If there is a superior species, I won’t be able to get away scot-free either.

After telling Lunamilia to wait there, I look for medicinal herbs in the surrounding area while using presence detection and magical energy perception. Since the season for leafy ingredients has passed, I gather root ingredients such as golden ginseng and black ginger. Ugeh, I can’t see them with my eyes, but I can sense the presence of numerous monsters moving around. It’s dangerous, so let’s stop here. When I take Lunamilia back to where the adventurers are, we find Rex and the others arguing.

「Rex, what do you mean you can’t find the bottles?!」

「Well, I have no idea either. Because of the big suppon, maybe it got washed away…」

「Don’t joke with me! Doesn’t that mean I’ve worked for an entire day and lost my arm for nothing?!」

「Rex, surely you’re not hiding the bottles somewhere, right? You’re planning to get them later and keep the reward for yourself, aren’t you?」

「As if I would you do something like that.」

The area is filled with a dangerous atmosphere, and it looks like a fight might break out at any moment. I could just keep watching, but I want to get back to the town quickly.

「Ah, rookie, where have you been up until now? Surely you haven’t hidden the bottles, right?」

Not good, if they suspect that I’m hiding the bottles in my storage, things are going to turn troublesome. I take out the ingredients for the restorative medicine I just gathered from my storage.

「No, I haven’t. Look, we found an area with a lot of medicinal herbs up ahead. It seems like it’s a place that no one knows about, and you can pick as much as you want.」

「Ooh, those are golden ginseng and black ginger, no?」

Oh, Rex shows interest in it. If I can induce him well, he might charge into the rabbit’s nest. Alright.

「It seems like there’s a lot of medicinal herbs growing in the grassland across the river. From the look of it, they might be worth a few large gold coins. There’s a limit to their number, so I guess I’ll come back tomorrow and pick them all up.」

「A few large gold coins, you say… Alright, show me the way, rookie. Hey, you guys, I’ll pick the medicinal herbs and give you your share of the reward today. You’ve got no problem with that, right?」

After convincing his comrades, Rex heads to the grassland with me. I don’t know exactly where they are, but as before, my presence detection picks up the presence of numerous monsters. The grass on the grassland has withered in winter, but I wonder if the rabbits are crouching low as they watch us. A short distance away, a rabbit is standing on two legs, staring at us. Just like when I saw it before, its eyes are cold and frightening.

「Hey, rookie, where are the medicinal herbs?」

「I’ve already picked all the medicinal herbs around here, so you won’t be able to find them unless you go further in.」

「Alright, come with me, rookie.」

Kuh, I have to go too, huh. Now that it’s come to this, I guess I have no choice but to watch out for the surrounding area and focus all my strength into evasion. After telling Lunamilia to wait, Rex and I head deeper into the grassland. Ugh, this is bad, I don’t want to go any further. A little further ahead, I can see golden ginseng leaves. Alright.

「Ah, there’s golden ginseng over there.」

「What, where is it? Over there, huh.」

When Rex moves towards the golden ginseng and crouches down, the rabbits jump out all at once and start attacking him. As Rex screams, I try to go back towards the river, but a beast jumps at me from the side at a tremendous speed. It’s huge, what kind of beast is it? As I quickly evade it, the beast turns towards me, crouching and getting ready to attack again. Appraisal!

Demon-faced Leg-Cutting Rabbit, Rank 37

A rabbit with a demon face and two short horns. Its body is about one size larger than the other rabbits. This is bad, I have no idea if I can defeat even this one guy, but there are countless rabbits around this area. I can’t afford to fight it. I run towards the river where Lunamilia is.

「Luna, run, cross the river!」

Lunamilia listens to what I say without question, which is a lifesaver. After making sure she is crossing the river, I turn around to find the demon-faced rabbit charging at me. Instant movement. The rabbits here relentlessly aim for your legs, and attack in a straight line, so you can dodge them easily. I dodge the rabbit’s attack and swing my sword down at it, but it ends up getting dodged. So fast! What incredible movement. Damn it, our respective attacks don’t hit. I hope it will stop chasing me once I cross the river. I repeatedly dodge and attack, and when I find an opening, I cross the river and run past Rex’s comrades with Lunamilia. They ask me what’s going on, but I ignore them. I don’t have time for that. When I look around after gaining some distance, it seems the demon-faced rabbit has started fighting against the adventurers.

I couldn’t care less about these guys’ lives, but there’s a possibility that the rabbit, which will rise in rank after killing them, will attack other adventurers, too. I guess we have no choice but to take it down here.

「Luna, we’re confronting it. Please cast holy light spirit on me.」

「Yes, Sei-sama.」

Let’s observe their battle while Lunamilia circulates her magical energy. The adventurers are fairly high-leveled, so I thought they would put up a good fight, but perhaps because they have lost an arm and are exhausted, it’s become a one-sided beating. Maybe they’re unable to keep their balance well because they have lost part of their body. If I step in to help them now, we might manage somehow, but not only is there no need for a rookie like me to go out of my way to help veteran adventurers, I don’t want to take any unnecessary risks. Still, this is bad, at this rate, the rabbit might finish those guys off before Lunamilia’s holy light spirit is activated and come after us.

I was worried that the fight would end in an instant, but as the adventurers plop down and throw kicks at the rabbit, the rabbit doesn’t seem to have a decisive blow to finish them off. What is this, Inoki vs. Ali? But at this rate, it looks like they will be able to hold out for a while.

「Holy Light Spirit」

As the rabbit rips the adventurers’ legs to shreds and nearly kills them, Lunamilia’s holy light spirit is activated. Using presence concealment, I approach the rabbit, which is biting one of the adventurers at the throat, from behind and cut off its hind leg. With a snap and without any sort of resistance, I cut off its left hind leg, and as the rabbit turns around, I cut off its front leg as well. With this, it can no longer use its prided speed. So as not to damage its fur, I swing my sword down on its face, and finally cut off its head. After dismantling the rabbit, let’s use the magic stone as material for restorative medicine, and give the meat to Aiza. If you eat frog meat all the time, you would eventually get tired of it, after all. I think the fur would fetch a good price.

The adventurers are on the verge of death. Well, they are the guys who used me as a decoy to hunt suppons and planned to rape Lunamilia. They got their just desserts, I guess. At this rate, Rex must be dead as well. Well, for argument’s sake, even if he is still alive, we’ll be leaving the town in a few days, so I don’t think there will be any problems. Even if he survived the attack from the pack of rabbits, I don’t think he’d be able to continue working as an adventurer as before. I have an aversion to stripping the dead and dying people of their equipment in front of Lunamilia, so leaving their armor as it is, I take only their swords and put them into my storage, and then head back to the town of Mahra.

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「Wow, that’s amazing. To think you’d be able to collect three bottles of suppon lifeblood…」

After returning to the town of Mahra, we visit Aiza’s house. Without telling her that Rex and the others, who had accepted the request to collect the suppon lifeblood, have failed the request, I hand the bottles over the Aiza, claiming that we have collected them ourselves.

「Yeah, we happened to come across some suppons in the river, so we decided to take the opportunity to collect some. You used to take good care of me, so there’s no need to thank me.」

「Oh my, is that so? Then asking Rex-san might have been a waste… No, at this rate, I’ll be able to make a lot of aphrodisiacs…」

Aiza licks her lips and swallows a mouthful of saliva. Well, she won’t get the portion she requested of Rex, but in return, she won’t have to spend more than one large gold coin for the reward, so it will save her a great deal of money. Still, as expected, she’s planning to make an aphrodisiac, huh. Cronin, who doesn’t have the automatic recovery skill, has it hard, too.

「I can’t afford to waste time like this, I have to get started as soon as possible.」

We decided to have dinner at Aiza’s house that day. Lunamilia, Remia, and I will cook the meat of the rabbit I killed, and Aiza, with a terrifying look on her face, is wholeheartedly concentrating on medicine manufacturing work. While cooking, I talk to Aiza from time to time, but she doesn’t seem to hear me and doesn’t respond. What incredible concentration. She wants to cheer up Cronin to such an extent, huh? It sure is nice to be loved.

In the evening, Cronin arrives, and the five of us have dinner together. After enjoying the meal, we decided to leave early today for the sake of Aiza and Cronin.

「Ah, Sei-sama, could you wait for a moment?」

After leaving Aiza’s house, Lunamilia turns back as if she had remembered something and starts talking to Aiza. I wonder if she’s thanking her for the dinner, what a truly polite woman she is. You can see a glimpse of her good upbringing.

Lunamilia is talking to Aiza about something. When they’re done with their talk, we return to the inn together. After handing Lunamilia, who is probably itching to relieve her stress for the first time in a while, her bag, I head out to a nearby tavern. It is still relatively early, so there are many waitresses to choose from. As I sip my wine, I call out to a young, beautiful woman. Sporting a tall stature and curly red hair, she is a nice woman who reminds me of Scarlett.

「Oh my, you have good eyes. But I’m expensive, you know? I’m the most popular girl in this tavern, after all. I won’t sleep with you unless you pay three large silver coins.」

「I’ll give you five large silver coins, so how about keeping me company until morning?」

「Until morning, huh? Well, I guess it’s fine. You’re cool, after all.」

The negotiation is successful, and I book a room on the second floor of the tavern. Going into the room, we both take off our clothes and get into bed, but the woman is not too into it. It looks like since she’s beautiful and popular, she doesn’t carry herself in a hospitable manner. I prefer women who are charming and good at serving, even if they are a little old and less attractive, like the one I paid for last night. However, this woman is only 19 years old, beautiful, with shapely C-cup breasts, smooth skin, and a good figure. I guess I’ll just enjoy myself as I please. In order to enjoy the body of this passive woman who doesn’t show much reactions, and get my money’s worth, I change our positions one after another, ejaculate inside her vagina a total of four times, and then go to sleep.