Outbreak Company: Volume 14 by Ichiro Sakaki

Author:Ichiro Sakaki [Sakaki, Ichiro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Light Novel
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

Breathing as quietly as possible, I gazed at Man’ya from the shadows. Did I look like a total creeper stalking some kid? Yeah, pretty much. I was no Hikaru-san, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that an incident was going to occur even if I didn’t do anything.

“Gyu.”

Man’ya was playing by herself in the yard. I was the only one around; everyone else was busy with work. Apparently, lizardman parenting was pretty laissez-faire, hence why Man’ya was wandering around unsupervised. They seemed to figure that as long as she didn’t go off the property, there really wasn’t anything to threaten her. Like an errant carriage that might run her over, for example.

Man’ya seemed like a cheery baby for the most part. She pulled up some grass here, dug a little hole there, chased after some bugs, going happily from one object of interest to another.

“Gyu?”

Suddenly, though, she seemed to sense that she was being watched. She tilted her head quizzically. I walked out from the shadow of the tree I’d been hiding by and approached her slowly. She watched me steadily, not moving. She just kept those big, round eyes focused on me.

“Heh...” I started to smile. Hikaru-san’s theory was that Man’ya saw me as weak, an inferior form of life, and therefore as prey. I knew how smart lizardmen were, though, and I reasoned that if I could just convince Man’ya that I was actually bigger and stronger than she was, she would reclassify me in her mental catalog.

Now, I wasn’t planning anything crazy. I wasn’t going to attack the kid or something. I just had to show off some kind of abilities that would make her think, “Whoa, this Shinichi-san isn’t half bad!”

And to that end...

“Heh heh heh heh...” I chuckled, producing a hastily assembled “mu ren,” a wooden training dummy. You know the type. The vaguely humanoid wooden posts that Shaolin monks are always using for training in movies? It had a weight at the “waist,” so even if it leaned a little from a good smack, it would come back upright.

“Gyu?”

Man’ya looked at me and the dummy curiously, as if to say, What’s that? I set up the post, took a couple steps back, and assumed a fighting stance. And then...

“Hwacha!”

One good punch. Right smack in the dummy’s face, sending it wobbling. Perfect. Great start.

“Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyahhhhhhhhh!” I followed up with a flurry of quick punches.

It’s the Most Secret Technique of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution of Kicking Ass!! Offense is the Best Defense Fist!! (Came up with this name on the spot.)

The dummy swung back and forth under the fury of my blows.

“Now I’ll finish you!” I exclaimed, coming around for a showy roundhouse kick. “Taaaake this!”

Sheer centrifugal force slammed the dummy back. Then it must have gotten caught in some branches of the nearby bush or something, because it stopped cold at an angle of about sixty degrees.

Good. Good.

Satisfied, I turned to Man’ya, who had been watching my every move.

“Guess we won’t be seeing any

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