Chapter 2;Episode 15: Pursuit of the Girl and Exploring the Heavy Cruiser

 

Soojiki’s note: At last, Chapter 2 is starting! Here is the front cover of Chapter 2’s LN! Hoping to buy both one and two soon! Enjoy and I’m very glad to see people enjoying this story just as much as I am (though beside grammatical errors).

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She frantically ran. She never thought such monster could exist outside the
walls.

Formerly built to defend against invasion from foreign enemies, it was decided to become part of the rampart over time. Defying that decision, the girl joined an organization as part of the investigation team in order to scout the outside world. She was accepted, though half of it was due to pity. It became evident she had no ability and became a burden to the soldiers. Yet she still requested to partic.i.p.ate.

She was allowed, by a superior knight, to partic.i.p.ate by being a magician in the middle of the group. With that done, there’s no way she would hinder the other soldier when it comes to battle. It was both a relief and a dissatisfaction at the same time.

And so, while in the middle of investigating, a red winged demon appeared.

It’s the first time she and the investigation group ever encountered such monster.

The demon, with an immense strength, keen wits, and like a hurricane, had slaughtered the girl’s envoy one by one. The group had been partially eliminated. The girl acted as a decoy in order to let the remaining group member live. She ran. Casting away all traces of pride and duty, she ran towards the wasteland.

The demon had not given chase. The shadow of despair slowly fading away.

Where is this place?

She viewed the horizon of the wasteland. Left, right, east, west, north, and south, she could not see anything important at all. But one thing for sure, she understood if she continued eastward, she would reach her hometown though her provisions are none. Only a spear is in her hand. Though she might have lost her bearing due to the sun beating down on her while enduring the fatigue and hunger, she continued eastward as she used the spear as a walking stick.

However, she soon reached her limits. She collapsed on the wasteland

Ahh, so this is where I’ll die. She thought.

Dad, Mom, Master and Kyosuke. I’m sorry. Please scold this careless and incompetent Serena in front of my grave.

Faintly losing conscience, she just managed to think of that.

After that, a short amount of time pa.s.sed.

“Hmm?”

She heard a voice. Her eyelids were heavy and could not open. Yet she could confirm a silhouette shading her from the blazing sun on her back.

“Gen-chan, it’s a little kid!”

“Mu……is it dead?”

“It’s a girl…..And a Human? Looks like we’ve discovered our first villager”

“Uumu……..”

She could hear two people. Though the sounds were entering, she failed to comprehend anything.

“It’s my first time seeing a human. I’d like to ask it something but unfortunately we need to hurry……”

“Eeh. Do we have to chase that red wing?”

Red Wing. Red, feathers. Hearing those words, her fingers twitched slightly.

“Ah, it’s alive. But it considerably weakened…. What’s the plan?”

“Can’t be helped. We can’t take her along as we pursue it. Zeku!”

Another person replied in a low voice, almost like a fearless growl of a beast.

“I want you to take this girl to the west, where our friends are currently living. Do you remember? Just past that rocky area and while continuing west, you’ll reach the location. There’s rockier area ahead but if you go inside, there’s a labyrinth. That’s where I lived with everyone.”

West!? No way, at this rate I’ll be separated from my hometown even more. She tried to revitalize energy into her body to protest, but she could barely move at all.

The shadow of the man called Zeku responded in a beast like growl and lifted the girl’s body. Together with a strange feeling of floating, she’s placed onto a rugged position, it’s probably Zeku’s back.

‘It seems like I’m saved for now. But it’s impossible for me to continue keeping conscience.’

She felt her body being embraced by a soft warm light. This is a recovery system magic. Thanks. It’s not going to deceive the hunger but it’ll help me sleep easier.

“Zeku, make sure you absolutely do not eat her at all, alright”

Just before her conscience paused, she heard a thoughtless and ominous command being given.

“I’ve~~been searching for treasure~ heave ho!”

Hearing that song for the first time, the first thought that came to my mind is how Rin is really tone-deaf.

“One more time~ Heave Ho”

Tsurugi, with her head placed on the table, picked up a pebble on the ground and stuck it in her ear. Her face turning pale after being disheartened. Rin’s part of the Track and Field club, Tsurugi’s part of the Kendo club, being the ace in their both respective clubs they are really close friends. If that’s so, how many times have they gone karaoke together? I feel bad for her.

It seems she really doesn’t care and is being quite open about being tone-deaf. Rather, she’s enjoying herself being carefree while singing. How would I know of that? A portion of her body is acting like an amp’s speaker or even changing into musical notes. Comparing her precise transformation to her singing voice is like comparing day and night.

This is the long awaited day in which we can finally explore the heavy cruiser.

The exploration members are myself, Rin, Akira, Tsurugi, Gofunkawahara and Ok.u.ma. 〝Demon King Cla.s.s Rep〟 Ryuzaki is in charge of the exploration project and this is the first time a team has been sent to explore the outside. There was plans of adding Kogane, an expert at heavy cruiser or cruisers in general, but he himself and Akira opposed that proposition.

The negotiation with the goblins was recently a success. We apologized about the matter of the incident before, offering smoked croc meat as a present. With the present, we managed to somehow reconciled with the goblins.

And now we’re currently in the captain’s cabin.

“For the sake of my mother~ Heave Ho”

Rin, while still enjoying her singing, is examining every nook and cranny of the captain’s cabin. In the center of the room is the remains of the captain’s representative. It couldn’t bear the destructive power of her voice as it rustled and rattled. That’s a mean way to put it. The requiem is a bit too stormy.

“For the sake of my Father~ Hea……Aree, whats wrong you two? Your hands stopped moving?”

“Aah, it’s cause of your peculiar song you’re singing tha…..”

I hesitated over truthfully saying it, and stopped myself short by scratching my head.

“Aah, it’s cause it’s enlivening the mood here…..”

“Himemizu, do you like singing?”

“Yup! Tsurugin praised me saying 『Your singing is amazing!』”

Tsurugi’s head on top of the table turned sideway and just hummed. She’s indirectly pointing the blame elsewhere and tried to go with the flow of the song’s tempo. It’s maybe cause she didn’t want to listen to the song anymore since in the end, she opened the table’s drawer, placed her head in there, and closed it.

Rin, still singing the mysterious 〝Heave Ho workmen’s song〟, overturned the bookshelf.

There has to be an important clue or key in this heavy cruiser that came from our world. How did they get here, how does it connect to this world, and if they met their end here? In order to find out, Ryuzaki sent us here.

“But still”

Tsurugi as she ransacked the drawer, making rustling sounds, and said in a m.u.f.fled voice. Her voice is m.u.f.fled since she stuffed her head inside the drawer. And yet, how is she able to see as she’s not even hesitating while searching for things.

“I’m just thinking as I’m touching the things from our original world…..but how does these thing come to this world?”

“Lets see. Maybe it’s cause of an unforeseen incident?”

“If it isn’t an incident, then what else?”

Rin and I, while still moving our hands in search for any clues, casually responded. Rin suddenly stopped moving and thought 『Hmmm~m』

“I dunno! If it isn’t an incident, then someone probably planned for this!”

“A plot? There’s a person who would want and thought of sending us to this world?”

“That’s why I said I dunno~”

Right, we really won’t know. For that reason, we are searching for clues.

And it seems that there is really no clue here in the captain’s cabin at all. Even a s.h.i.+p’s log would be better than nothing.

And with no results beside the rustling sounds, Akira drifted into the entrance of the captain’s cabin.

“Tsurugi, can you break down the rusting door over here. Can you also help me with exploring the interior of it too, for a bit”

“N, alright”

And so, Tsurugi left with Akira out of the captain’s cabin. Seeing them off, we continued our fruitless search.

I opened each book and flipped through the pages when suddenly, I noticed Rin’s hands(?) stopped moving.

“Whats up? Himemizu”

“Nnfuufuu~……..”

She leaked out a suspicious laughter

“…..What’s wrong? Himemizu”

“Utsurogi-kun……You see, I’ve been doing special training!”

“Special training? What kind”

I asked and stopped working for a moment. This might be some kind of important matter.

“I can’t win against the legal wife Akira-kun, I’ll lose to Sacchan in seduction, Ok.u.ma-kun has already won in character development…..”

“Ah, You’ve also developed deeply as a character already Himemizu”

“Besides being called a triangular corner, I also! In order to get the upper advantage I….!”

“What are you sayin……Uwaaa!?”

Raising the tension in a strange fas.h.i.+on, I looked at Rin and I shriek.

First of all, Rin has hands now. It sprung from her body, extending more and now parts of it even reached the floor as she slowly transformed her entire body. It’s as if she’s the original Himemizu body but her upper body showed a scene where it continuously grew. Though of course her entire body is blue and in a semi-liquid state, her feminine upper body became strangely captivating.

With her upper body, Fuun she snorted from her nose and crossed her arms.

“Whaddya think! Ne, Whaddya think Utsurogi-kun! Ne ne!”

“I guess you lost your character as a triangular corner and turned into a strange human form”

“You meanie! Take a closer look! Look at my huge breast! What kind of breast do you like!? I can change it to the best bust of your liking……”

Bashan as the sound of Rin’s figure immediately is smashed. Her bust inflated like a balloon and left no trace of her upper body behind. She soon began dragging and creeping her body to gather into a slime again.

A tiny bit of awkward mood streamed the area.

“……Ah–, I like em small”

“That’s not going to bring any kind of comfort at all! Uuu—As I thought, 90 seconds is my limit–!”

“If you last another 9 seconds, you can be a Makai Knight…..”

“I guess I have to live like this now….”

Moving to a corner of the room, Rin transformed into a triangular corner. Though it’s supposed to be a hard to maintain the transformation, if she has contact with the walls to support her, she can maintain it for more than 90 seconds. If she maintains her contact with the wall, it’s useful as she’s becoming more and more like a triangular corner without the smell.

“What does a Triangular corner smell like!? Terribly fishy!”

“How can you read my mind without being in contact with me!?”

“Ah, Gohon!! You guys!”

Behind us is an audible m.u.f.fled voice. We straighten up like a point. Rin has no spine, but at any rate, she’s still in a vertical line.

That’s right, Tsurugi is still here in this room. Or more accurately, her head is inside the drawer.

“You have some nerves flirting in front of me, a public morals committee member!”

“We weren’t flirting!”

“You did just a moment ago!”

“Don’t retort back!”

Inside the drawer, the public moral committee member is raging with fire as if she’s angry.

“And talking about b, bb, breast!? Best Bust!? Since when did you become such a indecent girl Rin!!”

“I’ve been this indecent since way back then when we had gym cla.s.ses and Tsurugin’s breast is always bigger than mine, so I was jealous of you and always rubbed and held it!!”

Too much information. It can get a man’s important part excited. I’m blessed this body does not have one but.

Anyways, we have to soothe Tsurugi’s anger for now. I walked towards the table and opened the bottom most drawer. Inside is Tsurugi, who’s face is bright red. It’s almost scary actually.

“Seriously Utsurogi! You too! Diligently think of your spirit as a man….”

“But I’m all bones now”

And as I picked up Tsurugi’s head from the drawer, that’s when I noticed that there is another thing in there.

It looks like a book or something like that. I turned around and threw Tsurugi’s head at Rin (I could hear her scream) and pluck the book out from the drawer. The front cover is written as

Gol s’pihs

Ah, no, its in the wrong direction

s.h.i.+p’s log

“Found it!”

“Really!?”

Rin lets go of Tsurugi’s head and it fell (Screaming again) and crept over to where I’m at.

“Uwaaa–, its true! It’s a s.h.i.+p’s log!”

“You guys, is there anything else you want to say!?”

Tsurugi shouted, though she was not injuried due to the sands nearby the former Captain of j.a.pan’s Navy corpse cus.h.i.+oning her fall.

“Sorry Tsurugi”

“Umu”

“Didn’t you also search this place earlier before?”

“What?”

At any rate, the desk drawers is the most obvious place to search for. When we first entered the room, Tsurugi had supposedly thoroughly checked it. And so she used her muscles to move her head to strangely fixed her sights on the desk.

“…..I’m sure I searched it all”

“Tsu, Tsurugin…..”

“But at that time I placed me head on top of the desk, if I think about it, I couldn’t see what was inside”

“So it’s true that you have no vision without your head right!!”

“Tsurugin, what have you been doing all this time then!?”

In the first place, how is she directing her body in following Akira?

Hearing the clattering sounds of footsteps, Tsurugi’s body came back into the captain’s cabin. And with both hands and feet, she prostrated herself in from of us.

“Fu, Fuun! If it wasn’t for me pointing out your illicit s.e.xual relations.h.i.+p you were enjoying, you’ve would have never found it in the first place!”

“Tsurugi, your body does not match what your head is saying”

“This is commonly referred to as the 〝Lips are lying but the body is honest〟 kind of person……”

While viewing the nice style of the female knight’s body, we half-heartedly muttered.

Well, enough of our comedic conversation since we found the thing we’ve been looking for. The dishonest head returned to its honest body, and we left the captain’s cabin. And as we were about to tell Akira and the others, we heard someone yelling from the direction of the deck.

“Ooooi, everyone, come here for a bit–!”

It’s Gofunkawahara. Behind us came Akira and Ok.u.ma. And as we all checked to make sure everyone was present, we nodded and went towards the deck.

Gofunkawahara had been talking with the goblins leader about the previous battle, the destruction of the bow, and the severe state of the s.h.i.+p.

“Whats going on Gofunkawahara?”

“Aah, I just talked with those guys’ boss. Is that the s.h.i.+ps machine gun up there? Or probably an artillery gun? It’ll be nice if we can take that”

Hearing those words, Akira muttered 『I see now』

Certainly this rusty machine gun interior could be put to use. There’s no ammunition and it can’t move too. But that’s only the situation for the goblins, though it could be said the same to us. How the heck are we going to bring this back and what use would there be for it?

“Kuremori can fix this”

“Kuremori-kun? He’s in the same modeling club as you are right? What did he reincarnate into?”

“A 〝Gremlin〟debu.”

Rin body formed a question mark and Ok.u.ma answered

“It’s a monster in England that rides airplanes. If it touches any machine, it would cause a malfunction. Well, most of the maintenance failure was blamed on the monster though debu.”

“Ah—“

Rin nodded every time.

“Is it the same as the place where Stalin is buried?”

“That’s Kremlin.”

And I’m surprised her intelligence shone when solving random questions involving the same Stalin.

“It’s one of those guys you shouldn’t give food to in the middle of the night”

“Ooh, Utsurogi is well informed debu.”

It’s a good thing I like old foreign movies. The Warner Brother’s 〝Gremlin〟. It’s a masterpiece!

Kuremori appears to be similar to Gofunkawahara as he reincarnated. However, if comparing to Gofunkawahara, he’s weaker, he’s the typical indoors type of person, and has had little chances to go out and fight. Instead, he’s more skillful with his hands than Gofunkawahara and fixed up the ruined base, one after another. Kuremori is also the one to revive the heavily relied on water supply, where the kitchen Sugiura is in and the garden Kano is in needed it the most.

As a result, he has been recognized not as a goblin, but as a gremlin now. By the way, a lot of other also saw the movie and knows not to feed a gremlin at night. He also can’t swim or bathe in water, so I fell bad for him.

Anways, if it’s Kuremori, then he can possibly fix this machine gun to normal.

“Truth is, Ok.u.ma and I also thought of the same thing”

Akira saying so and Ok.u.ma brought out an iron rod. It’s a rifle.

“We also wanted to give this to Kuremori to fix debu”

“The room with the rusted door had gun powder inside. Though it might have gone bad, it’s worth it to give it a try, right?”

It’s could be a good idea, as doing so will expand our war potential.

Using the rifles or artillery doesn’t require much specification or power from anyone. Of course, for those users who are extremely clumsy, they would not use it. But it could fill in the gaps for those who reincarnated without much physical strength or magical powers. Kuremori and Kano can also partic.i.p.ate in battle if they wanted.

Gofunkawahara already seemed to have negotiated with the goblin’s boss. It’s probably seen as junk in their eyes anyways. They only required croc meat as a condition.

“We also found this thing debu”

Ok.u.ma said so while pulling out a small cylindrical object. Tsurugi asked

“A telescope?”

“That’s right debu! The wasteland is vast. This way…..”

Ok.u.ma put the telescope on his eyes and scanned the horizon. Though the lens may be cracked, it can be of use still. But soon afterward, he hummed 『Hmm?』and tilted his head to the side.

“Goubayas.h.i.+…….?”

“Eh, Really!?”

I unintentionally questioned in return.

“Aah, no, its different debu. It’s different from Goubayas.h.i.+ appearance. It’s another ogre debu…..And it looks like he’s carrying a girl debu”

“Ahh, I see”

Though I’m slightly disheartened, I was still stuck on remembering Ok.u.ma’s other words.

And I suddenly realized. It wasn’t just me alone. Rin, Tsurugi, and immediately everyone understood.

“A girl!? A human!?”

“Looking closely, there’s no horn, feather or tail but ordinary eyes, legs and body. And also….”

“Also?”

“Looks like something is chasing after them debu”

We exchanged glances with each other. An ogre is carrying a human with something chasing them.

“Is it a sand worm….debu. Its fairly larger and looks like an earthworm type of monster debu.”

“Understood. Lets go help them”

I replied and Tsurugi immediately nodded. Akira, being the usual way he is, hurled a reprimand at me.

“Kyosuke, again with this!”

“I know what you want to say but that can be a clue to this world!”

I ran up towards the edge of the deck and stared at the location Ok.u.ma had been looking at previously. It does look like some kind of big monster is moving around. At this rate, the damage might reach the heavy cruiser and even our base location. Akira also understood this too.

Haa, as Akira signed

“You know what I’m going to say! Without me here, you’ll instantly do something rash you know!”

“Even with you here I’ll still do it. Lets go Himemizu, it’s fusion time!”

“I’ve been waiting! Fusiiion! Go!!”

Rin’s body completed the fusion as it coiled around my body. We jumped from the deck with Rin changing into the reverse bipedal mode and increasing the flesh around the leg. By doing so it increased the shock absorption from landing. The instant we landed, her flesh s.h.i.+fted to the next phase of increasing the power output in order to change into sprinter mode.

Tsurugi also jumped from the deck and ran through the wasteland after us. Meanwhile, Akira flew in a straight line behind us.

“Haa–. I also want to nag like Hino-kun……”

“I wouldn’t want that. You can remain like you are now”

“Oh, seriously!? Then I’ll try my best to do just that!”

Hearing our conversation, Tsurugi plugged both of her ears with her arms.

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Author’s note:
The next update will be in 7 hours

At last, Kyosuke and the gang will finally meet with a villager!