Fist King - Chapter 1 - Episode 15: Adventurer Beginner's Course ③ Cocatrice Battle (Ōta Mao's Perspective)

Fist King: I Will Save the Earth from Zero in Another Reincarnation, Starting from Real World

Adventurer Beginner's Course ③ Cocatrice Battle (Ōta Mao's Perspective)

(What in the world am I being shown?)

I only came here because a friend from elementary school desperately asked me to.

(Going along to dissect a cocatrice that a child hunted? If Haru-chan hadn't told me, I would have refused.)

In fact, I was thinking it would be a waste of preparation with no yield today.

(And yet...)

After the boy spoke to me, he suddenly started running at an unbelievable speed.

(I've never seen anyone run like this before.)

While I was thinking that, he had already defeated the first cocatrice. I doubted my own eyes at that sight.

The boy didn't seem to understand the basics of a subjugation quest. He was supposed to be such a novice that he suggested splitting the reward. Cocatrice are monsters with an F to E rank strength, not easy opponents to defeat. I know that even several adventurers with guns and armor sometimes can't defeat them. However, after defeating the first one with just a sword, the boy was sucked into the flock of cocatrice.

I couldn't believe what was happening before my eyes and was engrossed in the boy's battle for a while.

(Come to think of it, I missed the boy's name.)

When Haru-chan introduced him, I didn't try to remember it, thinking it would be a one-time thing. Even when the boy spoke to me several times on the bus, I was dismissive.

(I did a bad thing... I'll talk to him a little on the way back.)

While I was thinking that, a large mass fell in front of me with a thud. When I looked closely at the mass, wondering what it was, it was a cocatrice.

"Should I bring it here?"

In the direction the voice came from, there was the boy, covered in splattered blood, asking me. I could only nod at his words.

While I was frantically dissecting, the boy kept bringing more and more cocatrice.

"H-Hold on a minute."

I called out to the boy, who was about to put down more cocatrice and go get more. Then, the boy stopped and looked at me.

"If there's any more than that, it won't fit. Are you still going to hunt?"

"Of course, the flock ran that way, so I plan to chase them."

There were over 10 cocatrice in front of me, and the boy was still trying to hunt more. I judged that it was more than the cart could hold and made a suggestion to the boy.

"The cart will be full soon, so why don't we go back to the bus once and load the cocatrice?"

"Understood."

The boy said that with a displeased look and went to get the remaining cocatrice. I quickly started the dissection, and next to me, the boy, who had finished carrying the cocatrice, sat and rested. Since I had said on the way here that dissection was my job, I couldn't possibly ask for help.

After finishing all the dissections and loading them onto the bus, the boy suggested we go since there was still time.

(If it's come to this, I'll see it through to the end!)

I nodded at the boy's suggestion, and I started walking towards the valley once more.