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"I don't like it! Because it's so out! Head, because it's rolling!

Mr. Gill gives me a scratch when he tries to progress without a thing.

"That's crazy......?

It bounces back like this. Hey, I tried to demonstrate that my sword wielded splendidly doubled the lava lizard. Pity head and torso crying apart.

The torso with the loss of its head burst around fine...... Ah, that's just about time you stopped moving.

- Yeah, the cause of loss (?) is the sword given to me by my master.

Speaking of which, this sword, Hell Flame Grizzly's neck, was nicely chopped off, too, wasn't it?

Master said, "A sturdy sword" is not Dada.

"Naturally, this usually doesn't happen, and it's better not to do it if you can. If you cut the place here, it will be worth less."

"Uh, I knew it was?

"Yes. After all, it's better to have a clean alignment of your whole body. Especially hard top-surface skins, which have many uses."

Even in alchemy-free protective equipment, lava lizard leather is treasured that cannot be damaged by Blunt "Loras".

Conversely, I don't have much use for anything other than protective equipment.

After all, the more versatile is the slightly softer leather.

"Well, who do you want to go from? Or all of us?

"Right...... Sarasa, can I try out with this head?

That's what Mr. Andre points to, the one whose head I amputated.

I can't say I don't have any use for it... but let's go. If that makes it safer.

"Fine. But you shouldn't try to cut it too hard, should you? Because the sword may be missing."

"I'm sorry. Well, hurry up..."

Andre and the others begin to try it out in turn with the raw neck of the lava lizard, but it should still be said that the blade cannot pass by being bounced back with the oyster.

"Oh, you're harder than I thought!

"You look exactly like a rock. Sarasa, can you cut this..."

"The power of the sword! Because of the good quality of the sword, right?

I hastily insert an annotation into Mr. Gray's words as if they were frightened.

Because I work out quite a bit, but I can't amputate lava lizards with a normal quality sword!

"Mm-hmm. This is... if you do poorly, you're really going to break your sword, huh?

"Iris, stop it, will you? Because I just made it new the other day!

"I know. It's not cheap."

Iris nods naturally to Kate, who frowned.

What she uses is a sword that was made by Mr. Zizd, a village blacksmith, after the frenzy of Hell Flame Grizzlies, so it's not as good as a scissor as a quality compared to the objects made by a specialist weaponsmith.

I know it's good enough given the price, but there's never much that the debtors Iris can pay.

As far as I'm concerned, I'd like you to invest in your gear because you can delay paying me back somewhat.

"Well, that's the result as expected. Next is the abdomen? Yikes!"

Mr. Andre flips his head and now waves his sword against the belly skin, making sure that all the attempts - not cut, but - are over.

"... hmm? Not hard enough to get bounced back, but we're not gonna cut this one off easily, are we?

"Wow, you're serious. Can you shoot us with this?

"If it's my sword, don't pierce it for once. Is this a poking choice?

Apparently, the belly skin is also more durable than expected.

Andre and his swords aren't very sharp, and they're not suitable for these types of demons.

"Explorer, perhaps the best person for you is Mr. Kate."

"What, me?

The only time I talk to Kate, who wasn't part of the attack on her neck, she looks at me a little surprised.

"Yes. Mr. Kate can aim you in the eye, even if you're slightly away, right?

"... right. The distance the lava lizard didn't respond to the manager, I don't think there's a problem with that."

Think about it for a second, Mr. Kate nods.

Even when Hell Flame Grizzlies raided, they were shooting through the eyes of Hell Flame Grizzlies moving around from the top of the building, so if it came from Mr. Kate, about a lava lizard that stops still, it would just be targeted.

Later, it's how well the arrows work, but I'll just have to try there.

If it's dangerous, I can follow up.

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There you are.

Having decided on a general policy, we were walking in search of practice and a lava lizard who was alone next.

Do you still prefer a warm place, or did you find it near where the steam is erupting?

I don't react to us observing from afar, and I don't move with my stomach stuck on the ground.

Looks lazy and defenseless, but now that I know about the sturdiness of the skin on my back, and the unexpected sturdiness of the skin on my belly, I can understand that outfit with my belly firmly on the ground is in a pretty safe position.

"So it's good from me, right?

"Oh. Kate, let me see your bow arm."

"Don't expect too much..."

And so on, Mr. Kate squeezes his bow, and the arrow he unleashes pierces deep into the eyes of the lava lizard without aiming for it.

"All right!"

At the same time Mr. Gill raised his voice, the lava lizard starts pounding, startling - ahhh, speaking of which, cutting off his head made his torso burst.

Even if it's a fatal wound, it won't stop the movement with just one arrow.

If you leave it, you might die one of these days, but things didn't wait for me to do that.

"Ah! We're getting away!

"Fast!?"

It was simply vitamins and rampant for only a few hours.

The lava lizard quickly moved out and began to move in a direction away from us, faster than we thought.

Mr. Iris and Mr. Gray raised their voices when they saw it -.

"Wait!

I immediately tried to chase you, Mr. Iris.

I grab that collar in a hurry.

"Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Store manager, suddenly what!?"

Mr. Iris, with his narrowed neck, leaks a painful voice and stares at me like he blames me - but this has no choice.

"Mr. Iris, earlier cautions, remember?

Mr. Iris' eyes swim plenty in my words, which I asked again.

"Uh... deep pursuit forbidden, was it?

"That's right. Essentially, where lava lizards escape is a dangerous place when humans enter. Running and chasing is strictly forbidden."

"I see...?

Even though it looks like a flat ground at first glance, it can actually be deep mud, but also hot or something.

We shouldn't assume that we can walk the same way because lava lizards are moving normally.

"So let's chase it carefully. He's already a lot weaker."

Even while I was talking to Mr. Iris, the lava lizard moved to a point a few dozen meters away, where he put his body in the mud for about half, stopping him from moving.

That's probably weak and unable to move, not 'safe because I've traveled to a safe place'.

With about half of the arrow pattern "Yamata" stuck in your head, what happens if you rumble or move? It's not hard to imagine.

"I'd rather be dead already, wouldn't I?... another shot, shall we shoot in? You don't have to take any chances, do you?

"Oh, yeah. Kate, please."

"I'll take care of it.... Huh!

The arrow Mr. Kate unleashed again now perfectly captures the eyes of the lava lizard.

However, the body was only slightly shaken by the impact, and it did not appear to start rumbling again.

"Nice! Okay, I'll take care of the collection!

Towards Kate, Bicilli and Thumbs-up Gil approach the lava lizard with a light footing, but carefully checking his foot.

The ground with all the hot water flowing should be pretty hot, but I sometimes wear thick boots, and if I don't stick my foot in the mud, I don't have to worry about burning it, which is exactly what I should call a veteran, or avoiding what seems dangerous.

But.

"Oh, so inadvertently..."

"Awwww!!"

... I'm not gonna tell you.

At that moment when he grabbed the tail of the lava lizard, Mr. Gill came back here at an awesome rate as he let go of his hand as he was screamed and bounced.

"Sa, Sarasa! Hands, hands!

"Yes, sir. Let me see."

I removed the gloves. My hands were bright red, but the symptoms are mild burns, right?

I don't even have to use the smelting drug Potion.

If you chill your hands with magically served water and apply light healing magic, the redness will soon be pulled off as well.

Seeing it, Mr. Gill breathes in a ho, but Mr. Andre, who was watching beside him, whilst exhaling in relief, raised his eyebrows and smashed Mr. Gill's head.

"You idiot, Gil, you're too distracted. I'm sorry, Sarasa. Will the cost of treatment be necessary?

"If you came to the store, you'll pay for it, but this time it's a situation where we work together. As far as we can deal with it magically, we don't need it."

"I'm sorry. Helpful. Snuggly...... so hot!

"That's right. If you say so, it's boiled, isn't it?

There is a difference between mud and hot water, but the fact that it is hot is the same.

A substitute with about half a dip in a place like that can't be hot.

"Flexible gloves are durable, but not insulating"

"I didn't even get through the ice tooth bat fangs, and I thought you'd be okay."

"No, because it has a different purpose"

Ice tooth bat teeth don't freeze without even stabbing them, so we're not dealing with anything else by insulating the very low temperatures.

I have gloves for insulation, so I have to use them.

Most of all, if you don't need the fine movement of your fingertips or anything, you don't have to buy the expensive smelter Artifact, but I think it's okay with thick leather gloves like the one used by the blacksmith.

"I see. Now I'll go."

The next person on his way was Mr. Grey.

Experience as a gatherer should be the same as Mr. Gill, but someone who is a little silent or strange, reassuring and stable.

If Mr. Andre uses the pillars of the table, Mr. Gill, as the moodmaker, Mr. Gray is the foundation.

And this time too, Mr. Gray, who was watching Mr. Gill earlier, was learning well.

On top of the flexible glove I'm wearing right now, put on another glove, even prepare a thicker leather bag, and grab the tail of a lava lizard over it, and I'll drag it back in a jittery.

"Gray, are you okay?

"No problem. Sarasa, if you leave this for a while, it'll cool you down, won't it?

"Yes, it's not boiling down to the inside of your body, so I think it'll cool right off."

"I see. If you had as many bow arms as Kate, you'd say it wasn't hard to shoot."

"If it's someone you're alone with, right? Because if you aim at the herd, it seems like they'll attack you without running away. You don't want to be roasted round, do you?

Humhum, I'll tell Mr. Iris to be careful for once.

Anyway, if it's just one, it's pretty dangerous if you're surrounded and they throw up braces.

The braces don't work on the lava lizard itself, so the target won't have to worry about misfiring, so they'll keep blowing.

You imagined that, Mr. Iris got a little pale.

"Yeah, I'll take good care of it"

"If only one lava lizard can be targeted and you can't escape to a dangerous place, it seems easy to hunt. With that in mind, let's do it."

I nodded to Mr. Andre's words, including Mr. Iris, but given the size of the lava lizard and the distance to the village, there is a limited amount I can bring home......

Eventually, the hunt ended when I got about two more lava lizards.

We arrived early on our way back to the village.