episode_0024

There is no platform to support your body, so your posture collapses.

As if skydiving, your body begins to fall down in an instant.

“Aaaahhh!”

Yuna screams in her arms.

He seemed to be afraid of not being able to control his body.

Past the curved wall of meat, a large cavity filled with liquid suddenly appeared at the bottom.

I guess that’s the top one.

He changed his stance, lifted Yuna up with his left hand, and thrust his right hand into the wall.

The hand went in easily, as if crushing tofu.

It dug in so easily that I thought it would be too fragile to hold up well.

It holds up better than I expected.

They say the flesh is chewy.

It’s like sticking your hand into a big rice cake.

“So, what do we do now?”

Jupiter, who was next to me, anchored his body to the wall with more skill than me, spoke.

When I looked closely, I saw that the hand that had pierced the six walls was filled with a small amount of electricity.

Wow, wow…

You cut the flesh inside your body and an electric current flows through it.

···It must really hurt.

Kuooo!

The sandworm seemed to sense that it had eaten something wrong, and shook its body violently.

Well, it probably feels like a really long thorn gets stuck in your body while eating fish.

The shaking caused the sand in the stomach to fall into gastric juice, and Yuna, who was on her back, witnessed the sand melting in an instant.

“Uh, sister… That thing looks extremely dangerous, doesn’t it?”

“It’s okay, sister. You won’t fall.”

“Why are these people so bold?!”

Hey, it won’t fall. It won’t fall.

“Hmm, should we make a path out from here?”

“That would be great. Let’s do that.”

“···Piercing? How?”

“This is how it is done, sister.”

After speaking, electricity erupted from Jupiter’s arm, instantly breaking through the wall and creating a space for a person to stand.

Oh, something cool.

“Hey, hehe… I thought I was going to die…”

I threw Yuna into the hole and Jupiter and I climbed up.

···It smells like grilling meat and looks quite delicious.

I cut off the excessively burnt part with a hand blade and cut out the properly grilled flesh and chewed it.

“Huh!”

And spit it out right away.

Well, what is this?

It’s so tasteless.

When you chew it, a strange smell keeps coming out, making it unfit for humans to eat.

“Sandworm meat has a unique, terrible smell when grilled. It will be difficult to eat.”

“It would have been better if you had told me before I ate it…”

“Hehe, I thought you might have tried it out of curiosity?”

I was speechless.

Jupiter observed me better than I thought.

Surely, even if it wasn’t delicious, I would have tried it anyway out of curiosity.

In the end, they wouldn’t listen even if I told them, so I guess I let them taste it themselves.

“Okay then, shall we slowly make our way through?”

“I’ll do it this time.”

I tapped the wall that smelled like grilling meat and slammed my fist in the right place.

As if it had been that way from the beginning, a hole appeared in an instant for people to pass through.

The body continued to shake as if there was an earthquake due to the sandworm glowing with a larger hole in the body.

“Okay then, let’s go.”

“···Huh? Sister Yuna, what are you doing there?”

When I looked back at Jupiter’s words, Yuna was standing still without saying a word.

“Yuna? Are you okay?···Yuna!”

When I approached her, wondering if something was wrong, Yuna was trembling with a pale face.

Uh, are you hurt somewhere?

Did you accidentally swallow some gastric juice that was stuck to the wall?

If I knew it would hurt, I wouldn’t have come in the stomach!

Just as I was starting to regret staying quiet because it was faster to just get eaten and escape from the inside, Yuna’s mouth opened.

“···Ka,···yo.”

“W-what?”

The sound was so quiet that I could only hear it after I brought my ear close to my mouth.

“I can’t stand it anymore… so please go first…”

Is it unbearable?

···what?

When I looked at her, wondering what she was talking about, I began to see things I had never seen before.

A restless body.

Thighs that are twisted and can’t rest.

I’m breaking into a cold sweat and biting my lip nonstop.

It’s like a puppy that wants to go to the bathroom but is told to sit.

“···ah.”

Come to think of it, I fed it mana potions non-stop until it got eaten by the sandworm.

Then, it was hanging from a high place, relying only on me.

I guess he was imagining what it would be like if he fell, but he seemed to relax as soon as he got up.

As the tension went away in an instant, it seemed like the tension in my bladder also went away.

It seemed like it would leak out if I moved, so I had no choice but to twist my body.

“I’m sorry. I’ll leave right away.”

He approached Jupiter, who had a worried expression, and spoke.

“You’d better get out of the way quickly.”

“Yes? But if you’re hurt, I’ll treat you…”

“No, I think I drank too much potion.”

“···ah.”

After thinking for a moment, Jupiter seems to have reached the same conclusion as me.

I got as far away from her as possible and crackled lightning from my hand for no reason.

The intention is probably to suppress the sound as much as possible.

After a short period of time, Yuna approached me with a red face.

“Then, let’s go.”

“···yes.”

Out of consideration for Yuna, we decided to move on without asking anything.

***

“Ugh, it’s hot.”

“That’s right. Kimia, can you hear me? Kimia?”

When the inside of the sandworm, which had already stopped vibrating, was finally pierced, hot air rushed in.

I didn’t want to experience this terrible heat anymore, so I called Kimia, but there was no response.

“Um, there’s no reaction?”

“···Shall I hit you?”

“Yes, yes?! What if it breaks down? Rain, I said it was an expensive item!”

Yuna, who had suddenly forgotten the previous incident and became more active, shouted at me.

“Something like this is usually fixed when you hit it.”

“That can’t be possible! Sister Jupiter, say something!”

Yuna looked at Jupiter as if hoping for help, but unfortunately there was no one here to help her.

“Will it really go away if I hit it?”

“sister?!”

“No, but… since you say it with such certainty. Do you think you know something?”

I guess he decided that there was some reason for my confidence.

What should I do?

Actually, I said it as a joke.

There’s no way such a precise machine can be repaired just by touching it.

Yuna will nag me again later.

I lightly hit the cube with the thought that I hope it doesn’t break.

[ Waaagh! You can’t hit that carelessly! ]

This works.

“Did it really happen because I touched you?”

[That can’t be possible! Now, after a leisurely meal, you come back and try to buy something expensive! ]

“No, the request has already been completed, but they won’t send it back…”

[Do you think sandworms are that easy to catch? It’s impossible to catch it already… ]

Kimia, who was feverish, lowered her voice as if she had checked the sandworm’s body.

[···There it is. ]

“So, how do I move this? I got it done inside the body, so the outside is pretty clean.”

[Now, wait a minute. Calculate coordinates right away… ]

It was difficult to endure the heat, so I clung to Yuna’s side again.

“Sister Airi, you are so reckless. What were you planning to do if you broke down?”

“It’s okay because it’s not broken, right?”

“ha···.”

Yuna sighed and used magic to keep the surroundings cool.

This is probably because there is no need to save mana anymore.

It’s been about two hours since the three of us spent time leisurely.

With the word that the coordinates had been specified, the sandworm’s body and us were sent together.

“Oh, oh… It’s really a sandworm!”

“That carapace is in very good condition. There are no scratches except for a small portion. How did you dispose of it?”

“What’s the point? We just need to have uppers in good condition!”

A bright light radiated out just as it had been transmitted, and we looked at the excitement of many people in the large cavity.

···What on earth is it?

“Oh, they are blacksmiths.”

“blacksmith?”

“Yes, I don’t know where I heard that Sandworm Carapace would be arriving in large quantities, but they started flocking here an hour ago.”

Kimia smiled as she watched Kennel being tormented by the excited blacksmiths.

“Wow, I guess you’re a hero after all. I can’t believe you killed the sandworm so quickly.”

“···Where did you hear that?”

“Oh, you were hiding it. It’s okay. I saw this outfit somewhere and I was just looking for it. I didn’t tell anyone.”

For a moment, I suspected that he was lying, but I quickly put aside my doubts.

There is no way this woman could lie so well.

The expression on his face when he was caught having an affair was one he couldn’t make on purpose.

“So, why are you telling me that?”

“I wanted you to accept the cube as compensation.”

This?

They said it was very expensive.

When I glared at him with suspicion, Kimia continued her explanation.

“If you go on an adventure, hero, you will meet more monsters in the future. If you move those monsters here, I will pay you for it. It’s not a bad offer, right?”

Kimia smiled brightly, saying it was to study the corpse.

However, that facial expression that could not tell a lie said it all.

“···Another reason is?”

“Eh. Well, there’s nothing like that?”

“Every lie is obvious. Be honest.”

“···Adult products.”

Come to think of it, Sandworm also had that purpose.

This means that they will help us in sourcing materials to manufacture such items.

…There’s nothing bad, right?

I nodded as I glanced at the twinkling quest chain message in the corner of my vision.

“Whew, it’s finally over… Hey, by any chance I asked you a favor…”

“Huh? Kenel. What did you ask for? What did you ask for?”

“Well, there is such a thing!”

Kenel, who had already dealt with all the blacksmiths, came up to me and asked.

Did you ask for it?

Ah, the flower of Catus.

···I forgot.