Chapter 178

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The next morning, I was digging a hole in order to bury the bones and other discarded parts of the river eel-… I mean, serpent, when I found two types of ore. 

【Shiny Green Stone: An ore with wind attribute.】

【Hard Yellow Rock: An ore with earth attribute.】

I guess these stones are  the siblings of the fire stone that I used as a material to make a fire dagger? I’ve brought my hammer and whetstones with me so let’s try it out later. 

Then, we decided to pack our luggage into the wagon and continued our journey down the riverside. 

After about half a day of traveling, we found a clearing by the riverside where we could set our camp at. When I got off the wagon in order to check the surrounding area to see if there was any monster around, Yurina-san, who was carrying Ash in her arms, insisted that she wanted to come along too.

Maybe the battle with the serpent had awakened something inside Yurina-san… Though I personally didn’t want her to do anything dangerous too much if I could help it. But still, she said that she wanted to be able to protect herself. This world was different from the peaceful Japan. In this world, you could easily lose your life here. So, maybe her way of thinking was actually the norm in this world. 

And then, together with Yurina-san and Ash, we moved along the riverside. After all, if there was any monster, the riverside must be the place.

And sure enough….

SPLASHH!!!

“Ah, I knew it. It appeared.”

Three merman appeared in the direction Ash had growled in alertness. We attacked first before the merman could shoot water balls at us.

“Yurina-san! Paralysis!”

“There!!”

Yurina-san threw a paralyzing ball made from a dried nut’s shell filled with gleene paralyzing grass at the merman in the head. The ball immediately exploded upon impact. Unfortunately, all of the merman, who were standing close next to each other, ended up inhaling the powdered paralyzing grass. After the smoke cleared up, their bodies twitched and spasmed, unable to move. 

“Good job, Yurina-san!”

I said to Yurina-san and she made a ‘guts pose’, looking very happy. 

The woman in this world is really tough, huh?

Because she might level up from slaying the merman, I then went on to deliver the finishing blow with Wolverine Thunder Sword together with her at the same time. 

I asked with a gesture whether her level went up or not and she answered it did. Apparently the pop up screen and the mysterious voice weren’t exclusive only for me to hear. I asked her to write the status she saw on the screen onto a piece of paper. 

Then I looked at the merman before me. Their meat and scales were useful so I dismantled them there. 

Let’s cook something with merman meat today. 

“If Yurina-san is going to keep joining the battle like today, that means I need to make some sort of armor for her…”

I wonder what I can make for her with the materials I have on hand…

I thought to myself as I dismantled the merman. 

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T/N: Fortunately (or unfortunately?) we won’t see any bikini armor in this novel.