Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 2 by Ao Jyumonji

Author:Ao Jyumonji [Jyumonji, Ao]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2017-02-23T23:00:00+00:00

9. Let Go of Jealousy

I really do think I’m not suited for being the leader, Haruhiro thought the next morning. I don’t have the personality, or the ability for it. I could try to work on that, but it’s going to be hard.

Even so, after talking to Merry the night before, Haruhiro had firmed up his resolve. He was going to do his best to be a leader. He might not be able to be a good leader, but he would try to become a passable one, at least.

And so, as he had declared they would the day before, they had come to the fourth level of the Cyrene Mines—

“Look. See. Look, look,” Yume said, reaching out over a fence and pointing at something on the other side of it. “Those critters’re pretty darned cute, aren’t they?”

Right away, Ranta disagreed with her, shouting, “How is that supposed to be cute?!”

This was the one time Haruhiro had to agree with Ranta.

The creatures waddling around on the other side of the fence looked similar to pigs. However, they also had a rat-like appearance to them. If you blew a rat up to pig-size, then shaved it bald, it might have looked like this.

They didn’t know what the kobolds called these things, but volunteer soldiers apparently called them pigrats. It was a fitting name.

There were a large number of fenced enclosures, and pigrats were being kept in them. No, not just pigrats.

“Yume thinks they’re cute, though,” Yume said. “Oh, but, those ones over there are cute, too!” She raced over to another enclosure. “...Uwah, now that I’m takin’ a closer look, maybe not.”

“...Those creatures...” Shihoru shrunk back, trying not to go near the enclosures. The only reason she was still looking at the creatures was out of morbid curiosity. “...They’re obviously gross... I think. Really gross...”

“Y-Yeah...” Moguzo nodded.

“You know...” Haruhiro said, taking one glance at the other creatures that weren’t pigrats. The way they looked, he wouldn’t have wanted to look at them directly. “...these things are messed up. I dunno how else to put it: they’re messed up. I feel like I’m looking at something I really shouldn’t look at.”

“Ah...” Merry winced a bit. “I might understand what you mean. Kind of.”

The other creatures had no arms or legs. No tail, either. They weren’t long and slim, they were long and fat. They looked like someone had pulled the limbs and tail off a pig and then stretched it out. They were pretty scary. They were called pigworms, apparently. Of course, that was just the name that volunteer soldiers had given them.

“Hmm,” Ranta said. He reached out with his sword to poke one of the pigworms.

“Hey.” Haruhiro stopped him right away. “Cut that out, Ranta.”

“Huh? Shove off. I was just trying to do it. I wouldn’t have done it for real.”

“If you were trying to do it, how does it follow that you weren’t going to do it for real?” No sooner had the words left Haruhiro’s mouth than he regretted them.

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