Volume 1
Chapter 48
Fell Into a
Trap
Translator : PolterGlast
【Tekiru's POV】
"Well done,
Tekiru," said Faith-san, the veteran adventurer, a rank 5 and a long-time
acquaintance, as we returned to the blast site after successfully luring
Kushina-cchi into our trap.
"But what's up
with your acting, anyway? You're as good as an actor... no, even better!"
"Really? I was
confident that I was doing reasonably well, but not that good, though?"
"Come on, I'm
complimenting you, so just take it."
Faith-san peered at me
with a questioning expression at my vague answer. But, sorry to say, I was a
bit surprised and not really paying attention.
"Well, yeah... I
guess you could say that. It worked out so well, it's almost
anticlimactic..."
"Huh? What do you
mean?"
"Well, you see, I
messed up once in the ruins. So I thought he might be a little wary, and I
prepared for all sorts of things... but it turned out I didn't need to... Maybe
the mental interference worked better than I thought?"
Mental
interference—one of the items a certain man gave me was a magic item (a ring)
with such a spell embedded in it.
Apparently, this ring
could interfere with the minds of targets within a five-meter radius of the
wearer and manipulate them.
Although it seems like
a powerful item, it can be easily defended against by those proficient in
magic. By strengthening their magic resistance or simply having a high innate
magic resistance, mental interference can be prevented. It's that delicate of a
magic.
But in Kushina-cchi's
case, the result was different.
Kushina-cchi doesn't
have an exceptionally high magic resistance. So, the mental interference should
have worked on him.
But because of his
robust physique and distorted mindset, he seemed to be almost resisting it.
We thought that status
ailments wouldn't work well on him, but maybe we were wrong.
Kushina-cchi's
resistance to mental interference wasn't through legitimate means. It was more
like brute force. That's why, maybe the effect of the mental interference was
distorted but still affected him.
If so, it was worth it
to keep trying.
"Seriously? I'd
already given up on that kind of stuff."
"I don't know.
It's just a possibility, a possibility. Either way, I'm glad it worked
out."
"Indeed."
We turned our gaze to
the spot where the explosion occurred.
There was a pitfall
there, but we had used a magic item to move the sand and bury it after the
explosion, so it was already neatly buried.
"Still, he's
really a monster, isn't he? We even packed the bomb with fragments of Altaina
ore, said to be the hardest material in the world, and he only lost a little
skin and both legs."
Faith-san looked at
the fragments of Altaina ore scattered around the ground, still amazed.
"It's the other
way around, we should consider ourselves lucky that we were able to take both
of his legs. Kushina-cchi is a man who survived the ruins where they say
everyone who enters dies. We can't underestimate his abilities."
That's right,
Kushina-chi had survived that ruins where it was said that anyone who entered
would surely die. His abilities were completely unknown, so we shouldn't
underestimate him.
"Ha! What a weird
guy. Maybe he's still alive even after being buried alive."
"He might
actually be alive."
"Hey, hey...
don't say scary things."
"No, no, I'm
pretty serious. But don't worry."
"Huh? What do you
mean?"
Faith-san tilted his
head.
"Can Faith-san
move with all his strength while being completely immobilized?"
"Haa? Well,
that's obviously difficult... Ah, I see."
Faith-san realized
what I meant and nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, even if
he's alive, Kushina-cchi is now immobilized by a large amount of sand. Even
Kushina-cchi, with all his strength, couldn't exert even twenty percent of his
power while buried alive. In other words, even if he's alive, it's impossible
for him to escape from here."
I glanced at the spot
where the pitfall was and then turned towards the direction of the town.
"Let's go,
Faith-san. Let's move on with the plan. There's no point in wasting time
here."
"………Alright.
Today is the day they pay for everything they've done."
Faith-san responded to
my serious words with a serious response.
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【Magic Item】
A magic item is
created by applying a mechanism called a spell to allow someone who can handle
magic to induce the same phenomenon in others without any conditions, allowing
others to use pseudo-magic. Spells vary, and the phenomenon that occurs depends
on the spell applied.
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