Hakai Me no Yuuri - Chapter 68
Author: Kaburagi Haruka
Translator: s.h.i.+roiKaze/Soyokaze Translations
3rd Act, Chapter 68: Resolution
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Its one week after my first encounter with Leviathan, the appointed day.
Everything was already prepared Or so I thought before, as Im now digging a hole behind the inn.
“I cant believe I forgot! And so cleanly and completely!”
“Why is it that I have to help you dig a hole?”
My hole digging partner, miss Bella, issued a complaint.
Come on, whats the problem? Youre in the surplus fighting force anyway.
“Everything is set up inside the inn already, so whats wrong with helping out? Besides this hole digging work is important.”
“What exactly is this anyway?”
“A bath!”
“Huh?”
“To be more precise, the innkeeper said, “if I can use it as an open air bath later, then you can dig a hole” to give me permission, so”
“So, what are we going to use this as?”
“As a bath?”
Miss Bella tilted her head a second time upon hearing my answer. Its such a cute gesture.
She should show that to mister Bhav.
“Why am I part of the surplus anyway? Wouldnt it be better for me to face her inside?”
Her misgivings are, well, theyre reasonable I suppose.
For the current arrangement, Haster is in our room, fully armed. In the adjacent room is Yig and all of Forest Bear, except miss Bella, on standby.
And in the back yard are miss Bella and I, currently digging a hole.
“Ah, careful miss Bella. Were going to use that spot for a water pipe, so be sure not to dig too deep.”
“Oh, so sorry”
I use magic to roughly dig the hole, miss Bella uses a shovel to do the fine details, and I finish it off by firing the surface to give it a coating.
A heavy shovel felt like too much for me to handle; I would immediately feel it in my back.
I suddenly felt like the moon was covered and looked up to see a cloudless night sky spread out before me.
” Shes here, huh? We have to hurry.”
“Then lets go to the room!”
“This is more important.”
I pump well water up into the fired bath tub, and confirm that the water flows.
Once I noticed there were no problems, I used [Water Bolt] to immediately fill it with water, and slammed it with a [Heat Ball] to bring the temperature up to a steaming heat.
Normally its structured for a pump to fill it with water, and firewood to heat it, but we hardly have the time right now, so I took a shortcut.
Upon completing that, strange voices could be heard from the inn room.
“Fuhahahaha! Phantom Thief Leviathan has arrived! Merely changing rooms could hardly fool me!”
“There you are! Hey, lets do this!”
“Agya!”
“Youre in the way, shrimp, move it!”
She has the skills to move in secret, so why does she so grandly call out her name I wonder? Is she an idiot?
Noisy banging, slamming, rampaging sounds, and clouds of dust came from the room, as well as the occasional breath flying out the window.
Haster stuck his head out the window from the adjacent room, and checked in my direction. I gave a single nod in reply.
“It would make things simple if we could catch her here, but”
“What are you doing? We have to hurry back inside!”
“Patience. Were going to stand by here for a bit.”
Leviathans target is Yig. If thats the case, then she shouldnt be able to harm him.
Even if she had been targeting him for materials, a young dragon whose scales havent even hardened wouldnt fetch a very high price.
She would have to raise him for a few years or it probably wouldnt be worth it.
“Besides I cant see Leviathan harming Yig.”
When we first met her and she amiably pet Yig, her expression didnt seem fake.
After the disturbance continued for a while, a purple smoke puffed from the room.
“So she really did use a drug, huh.”
“A drug? If its dangerous, then”
“No, its probably a sleeping drug. Based on the stories thus far, I wouldnt put it past her to get caught in it and fall asleep herself, but”
The most efficient way to make Yig powerless is to put him to sleep.
There have been plenty of stories, from time immemorial, in which dragons are killed by putting them to sleep and launching surprise attacks.
And then Leviathan, holding Yig, jumped out from the window.
“And of course that didnt happen. Well then, time for a chase. You stay here and wait for Haster please, miss Bella. Its why I had him wait in a separate room.”
“Eh? Yeah, will do.”
I left miss Bella with orders and leaped into the night sky, giving chase to Leviathan.
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Cutting through the lukewarm summer air, we soared through the sky.
Its almost like “a scene from an anime” I bitterly smiled as I chased the phantom thief in front of me.
“Okay Leviathan, its round two!”
“Hrm, so you came, Yuuri. But the game is already over!”
While still holding Yig, she made a big spin, and threw something towards me with her open hand.
Though I was cautious from her declaration, a few curtains of smoke exploded in front of me.
“Smoke bombs! You even had something like these ready?”
In a somewhat overacted tone I shouted.
Although its not exactly strange that she had these ready for her escape. I have to keep this up.
If I know there will be no harm caused, I just have to break through. I flew straight through the smokescreen, and on the other sideI couldnt find Leviathan.
“Kh! Where did?!”
Losing her here is definitely bad. Its way too soon.
I [Detected] the [Transmitter] on Yig, and chased after it.
“Wha It hasnt been removed?”
If she has “Peerless Magic” too, then she should already have noticed the [Transmitter] placed on him.
Yet she escaped without getting rid of it; its almost as if shes asking me to follow after her.
“What sort of intentions does she actually have I wonder?”
Anyway, Im grateful that I dont need to rely on that to chase after her.
It would seem shes taking the drains over to the port. There were plenty of warehouses lined up over there.
Ive heard that because this city is near the sh.o.r.e theyve installed a large drainage system as a countermeasure for huge waves. She must be taking advantage of that.
Using my own advantage of flying through the sky, I head her off a number of times to disrupt her movements and buy time.
And then, after deciding that I had bought enough time, I lost sight of her.
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“Or so I say, but since she didnt cancel out the [Transmitter], chasing after her isnt particularly difficult, but Seriously, what is she thinking?”
While hiding around a corner of the warehouse town, I put my doubts to words.
The [Transmitter] is still continuously sending back a reaction, and the reaction from that was there again, so there should be no mistake shes hiding in the warehouse in front of me.
And then the trailing Haster and company caught up.
“Sorry for the wait, Yuuri.”
“Think nothing of it. Were you and the others okay, mister Jack?”
“As you imagined, the smokescreen was a sleeping drug.”
“Sleeping medicine is a cla.s.sic set-up for dragon slaying, after all.”
“What the h.e.l.l, if you knew then you could have said so.”
Yig isnt some object. That means stealing him requires making him powerless.
If she was going to steal him alive, then the only possibilities I could think of were anesthesia or a sleeping drug.
“I would actually rather ask why you didnt realize it yourself?”
“Grrrr.”
“And so you had sir Haster wait in a separate room.”
Miss Bella said with a slightly flushed face. Yeah, whatever, just get away from Haster already, you boyfriend have-er.
“I think it should be fine at this point, so Haster, I leave it to you.”
“Yeah, off I go.”
He proudly walked towards the warehouse directly from the front.
Of course if shes watching from inside, then shell probably notice, but
After a short while, he came back holding Yig.
He opened the door, and used a [Ventilate] spell to air out the room. And then he continued on and flew back towards the inn.
“H-hey Is that okay?”
“Its totally okay.”
After he went away, we infiltrated the warehouse.
Inside wasLeviathan alone, agonized and in heat.
“Haa, haaWhatn blazes is thiiis”
“Uwoah?! Is this paradise?!”
“This is poison to the eyes.”
The agonizing Leviathan had excited mister Jack and mister Kale.
These b.a.s.t.a.r.ds seriously have no sense of delicacy!
Uhh, okay yeah, I stole a few l.u.s.ty looks at her too.
“I put some orcs fluid onto Yigs scales.”
“Why the h.e.l.l do you have something like that with you?!”
“The necessities of research compelled me.”
Yes, the reason I kept the women, miss Bella and myself away from Yig is to elude the influence of this fluid.
The reason I bought time was to make sure Leviathan had thoroughly fallen under its influence though.
“Then that bath is?”
“Its to wash Yig in. If we used the rooms bath, the smell would stick around and cause something horrible to happen.”
“Sounds like you have some kind of dangerous story about it?”
“It was amazing”
Yeah, I really never expected I would push a man down myself.
Putting that aside!
I quickly placed our restraints on her. The gift sealing shackles were already set.
Upon doing so, her face, which we couldnt perceive before, perfectly matched miss Livys. My mind made me feel like its strange I didnt recognize her before.
This is the effect of the “Recognition Blocking” gift.
“Anyway miss Bella, use [Antidote] on her. At this rate we wont be able to ask her anything.”
“Guess so. Besides, its quite the poison for the mens eyes, huh?”
She stealthily brought her hand behind mister Bhav and pinched his b.u.t.t.
Surprisingly, shes quite jealous.
“The men can go outside. Go on, shoo.”
“Aww, come on, just a little”
“[Wind Bolt]”
“Uwoah?! Ooow!”
I sent the men off with weak [Wind Bolt] chastis.e.m.e.nts to chase them out.
During which miss Bell finished the [Antidote].
While doing so I and miss Bella herself also took an [Antidote].
The lingering smell aside, I used the fluids effects to chase after her, so it was getting just a bit dangerous.
I dont want to know what would have happened if I was. .h.i.t by the fluid and got excited.
“Whew, this truly is a dangerous product.”
“Right? I think the adventurers guild should raise the danger level on orcs a little higher.”
The redness disappears from miss Bellas expression, and she returns to her usual cool beauty self.
But Im pretty sure mister Bhav is in for quite the evening tonight.
“Theyre idiots, so we managed without incident, but women cant really deal well with this.”
“Maybe I should take this opportunity to develop something like a gas mask?”
Upon trembling at the danger it presents to women, an idiotic voice resounded through the room.
“Uwaaah! I cant be a bride no moooore~”
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It would seem Leviathan came back to her senses too.
Well then, I wonder if we can take her back to the inn for some interrogation time?
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