10. Survival rule number one: don’t eat anything (4)
A trap needs a suitable bait.
Even the prey are not stupid, but they don’t jump into traps. After all, to catch game, you need a bait that’s just as sweet.
“…Not a sweet lure, but a dangerous lure.”
Well, I just had to act as bait. It’s okay to sprinkle mushrooms that make you suffer from hallucinations as bait, but you can’t help it in order to survive. If you don’t have luck right now, you’ll die, but is it time to cover the means? Conscience, fairness, and everything else have meaning only when they are alive.
Because in the first place, only people are arguing about such things.
First of all, the target right now is a person. It’s because it’s strong enough to make me want to be human. Anyway, how much longer will I have to wait? Time has passed enough for the sun to move noticeably, but the forest is still.
Unable to bear the boredom, I fiddled with the blow gun in my hand. It was an item made with skill while waiting for Lenny to come from the tree. It’s been quite a while since I made it, but my skill still faithfully implemented the blow gun I used to use. Of course, the structure was so simple that it was natural, but…
“It’s been a while since I’ve shot it, but I don’t know if it will fit well.”
Of course, it’s not that difficult to match. A wind gun has a short effective range, so you have to shoot it close up, so there won’t be a big problem shooting poison darts unless it’s a moving target. The problem was that it was difficult to estimate how much more the target who was hit by the poison needle would run amok and be suppressed.
Because the opponent is that Lenny.
My teeth still grind when I think of my gaming days. The boss who gnawed the teeth of many users. Karina, who was the final boss, was ridiculously easy, so I heard that Lenny defeated the final boss. I still remember. Aren’t they doing acrobatics while wearing armor, grabbing by the collar and throwing it at a wall, then kicking it and smashing the whole wall, even a crazy gimmick that counters counter techniques.
“…If only I could, I shouldn’t have been given that kind of ability. Then you would have escaped sooner.”
Isn’t it a commercial moral thing to give someone a little fraudulent ability after possessing it? Huh? Did anyone throw out something like an item that looked like a dog?
In this day and age, how can you survive with only skills that can only produce simple things and skills that repair things using materials?
…However, I managed to build my own territory after holding out for 10 years.
I remembered how much I chewed while recalling such faded memories, but I heard someone muttering very small but distinctly.
“Lady Karina…”
Carinabaragi Lenny was walking towards the trap while diligently picking up mushrooms and eating them. Looking at her up close, Lenny looked so pitiful that I could sympathize with her where she was in the game. A scruffy figure in half-malfunctioning armor. Dark circles around her eyes in her frizzy hair.
To be able to exert such monstrous power even in such a state. How strong are you when you’re fine? I was curious, but I have no intention of experimenting with my own body. Because my life is precious
I carefully thrust the poison needle into the blow gun. If I accidentally poke my finger, it will be me, not Lenny, who will fall asleep.
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You’ll have to get through Lenny. I put on a lot of powerful anesthetic that even bears fall asleep with one hit, but I can’t believe it doesn’t work?
Wait for Lenny, who is almost at the trap with a blowgun in his mouth. Lennie was busy stuffing mushrooms into her mouth like a squirrel, seemingly unaware that he was stepping into the trap with his own feet. It was to the point of feeling awe, but also terrifying, to see Lenny enduring like the final boss who lost the mushroom, which would have been lethal if it were me.
How the hell can you say that that person is a human being like me? It’s a survival academy with several characters that could be literally called ‘superhuman’, but it was absurd that an ordinary human being had such power even though he pretended not to be strange even if he died a long time ago.
Someone did everything they could to survive.
…No. Now is not the time to think about that. The important thing now is to somehow capture Lenny and bring him to Karina. With Karina’s divine magic, she could cure Lenny’s addiction to mushrooms.
“I will… Go… To… Save you…”
Is it now?
I pulled the string attached to the trap. The net that had been hidden under the soil jumped up and dangled in the air, holding Lenny’s body. Lenny struggled to get out of the net immediately, as if embarrassed, but I wasn’t the type to watch it. I immediately aimed the blowgun in my mouth at the nape of Lenny’s neck and blew it into my mouth.
With a thumping sound, the poison needle flew through the air and lodged in Lenny’s throat. I hit the blood vessel correctly, so I’m going to sleep soon. I carefully climbed down from the tree and took out a shovel. If you’re still awake after doing this, you’ll have to hit the head to knock it out. It was inevitable for everyone’s safety.
“…My God…”
Feeling sorry for Lenny swinging his arms through the dangling net, I punched my head once.
You can’t feel pity.
He’s an opponent who can slit my neck at any time.
I looked up at Lennie, who was slowly moving less and less, scratching his cold head. I planned to go back to my realm with Lenny tied up when I fell asleep. I’ll have to wrap it up before that though. At least until he’s completely cured, having his limbs tied will be reassuring.
That was the time when I was relieved of the situation that ended without incident.
“You.”
“You?”
Are you talking to me now? I looked at Lenny again at Lenny’s sudden words. Lenny was glaring at me with cloudy eyes. Is it a last resort, or…
It’s dangerous.
My survival instincts sounded the alarm. Reflexively, I took out my blow gun and took three steps back. Body cools down But my heart was beating more and more wildly.
“Somehow, I thought things would be easy…”
“You, Karina-sama, smell…You kidnapped me?”
Instead of answering, I put a poison dart into the blow gun and blew as much air into my mouth as I could. The poison needle, which was coated with a strong anesthetic, flew through the air and bounced off Lenny’s neck without reaching it. To block an attack with his pauldron by momentarily twisting his body, does that mean that the strong are the strong even if they rot?
The net is tearing little by little. Obviously, with great care, the net, which even a bear could not easily escape, was being torn apart. It’s a net made with care on purpose, but I didn’t expect it to be torn off so easily. I sighed as I saw Lenny tearing through the net and falling to the ground.
“Where… Is Karina-sama…?”
It was creepy to see him stand up even though the anesthetic was circulating all over his body. Is it because Karina is so precious to her that she wakes up with a miserable face that is no different from a corpse? He probably ate her mushrooms to find her. This island is an island with less food than I thought, and the only food that stood out was mushrooms.
If you don’t survive, you won’t be able to meet Karina forever.
I held the bare shovel behind my back. She never wanted to hold her, but at least needed her shovel to subdue her.
Before she, who has the alias of a mad dog, ran, I activated her skill with a shovel on the ground.
“Production.”
A wall that looks like it blocks my way. It’s not very strong because it’s made of earth, but it can be attacked at least once…
“…I don’t think bears are like this.”
I looked at Lenny, who was dumbfounded and smashed the wall with his bare fists. Even a bear can’t break it like that. I broke the wall and rolled my body sideways to avoid Lenny’s attack as he reached for my nape. Lenny, who ran into me, couldn’t overcome the laws of physics and crashed into the tree I was climbing.
The tree shakes.
It was an unbelievable shock given the power of a human who is only a handful compared to a giant tree. Lenny, with pieces of wood clinging to his whole body, glared at me again with cloudy eyes. Eyes that seem to be looking at enemies.
I felt a chill in those eyes.
I feel as if the god of death is waiting patiently with a scythe hanging around my neck. If I do wrong, today will be my memorial day.
I can’t die in a place like this.
How did I survive?
“Ha, yes. Let’s try it.”
I took the powder out of the bag I was carrying on my shoulder and sprinkled it generously on the blade of my shovel. It was an anesthetic that was sprayed on the stinger.
Anyway, my purpose is suppression, not killing, so I can’t use deadly poison that can take a life instantly. Lenny, who doubted whether he could see properly, bent down with a ferocious face when he saw me spraying the shovel with medicine.
The face of a beast hunting its prey.
Lenny’s face rolling on the battlefield and rolling throughout the game to protect the saintess.
That face I was able to erase after 72 fights in the game.
It was the look of Lenny that I knew very well.
I gripped the shovel while feeling the conflicting emotions of fear and joy at the same time.