studiobondurri Chapter 609: 【Adventurer Mitran】 Galloping Across the Scorching Desert
Chapter 609: 【Adventurer Mitran】 Galloping Across the Scorching Desert
Chapter 609: 【Adventurer Mitran】 Galloping Across the Scorching Desert 【Adventurer Mitran】 Galloping Across the Scorching Desert
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Here begins Arc 26!
I hope you enjoy it.
“Ugh, seriously! Those guys are way too persistent!”
As I ran across the scorching Lasanaskiros Desert, riding in a sled for several people, I glanced back and complained!
“SWIIIIII!! HOH HOH HOOO!!”
“““HOH HOH HOOO!!”””
‘Those guys’ are... a group of madmen with their heads completely covered by triangular pyramids, riding on a giant centipede, chasing us while shouting strange cries... the ‘Sunrise Triangle’!
The members of the Sunrise Triangle, their reddish-brown robes fluttering in the wind, stood up on the giant centipede and started shooting arrows at us, one after another!
Sometimes, a foolish Triangle would lose his balance and fall off the centipede... but they don’t care.
They’re just laughing like madmen, persistently approaching us!
Honestly, it’s really scary!
“Hahhaa! Working with you, Miss Mitran, is never boring!”
But their arrows never hit us.
Because Harishurap-san, the driver of the super-giant pill-bug... Sabakuwaraji, which is pulling the sled that the “three” of us are riding, has incredibly skillful pill-bug-handling skills.
He’s skillfully using the shadows of the sand clouds and sand dunes to hide us, preventing the Triangles from getting an accurate aim!
Harishurap-san is a muscular, dark-skinned, big man.
He wears round-glass sunglasses, and his gray hair is styled in cornrows, making him look tough and intimidating at first glance... but he’s actually friendly and cheerful.
But...!
“Th-This isn’t something to laugh about!”
“Hahhaa!!”
Isn’t he a little too courageous!?
Why can he laugh so much in such a desperate situation!?
Even though I have many cheats from God, I’m still incredibly scared in these kinds of situations!
And!
“And I told you many times, I’m not a ‘Miss’...!”
And at the very moment I tried to protest—
“SWIIIIII!! HOH HOH HOOO!!”
—An arrow shot by a Triangle grazed my hair!
“Hinyaaa!?”
I involuntarily let out a pathetic scream, and crouched down on the sled!
“Are you alright, Mitran-kun!?”
The second member of our sled party, Leseida-san, hurriedly approached me and hugged me tightly.
Leseida-san is an archaeologist I met during an investigation of some ruins, and although he looks like a handsome man, she’s actually a woman!
I don’t know if she’s worried about me or what, but she’s been doing this kind of physical contact a lot lately... and it’s hot in the desert, so it’s a little troubling!
“Haaa... They’re gradually closing the distance...”
Leseida-san, for some reason, pressed her face against the top of my head, took a deep breath, looked back, and muttered that.
“Seriously, to be able to keep up with me, Harishurap, ‘the fastest transporter in the Great Desert’... they’re pretty good!”
Harishurap-san, still smiling, also glanced back.
He’s looking at the driver of the giant centipede, who’s sitting cross-legged on its head, with many Triangles riding on its back.
Unlike the others, that person isn’t wearing a pyramid on his head... but he’s hiding his face by wrapping a scarf-like cloth around his entire body, so his identity is a complete mystery!
The third member of our sled party, the wandering mage Nenesane was also pondering with her hand on her chin.
“...Hmm. It might be time to use our trump card.”
Here.
Saying that, Leseida-san took a softball-sized sphere from the bag wrapped around her waist.
It’s a black sphere, with ancient magic letters written in red on its surface.
That’s...!
“A-A magic bomb!?”
Yes, it’s a magic bomb!
The magical creature, standing upright, is incredibly long, and its mouth is large enough to easily swallow us, including Lady, in one gulp!
Anyway, it’s huge!
“Hmm... That’s a Sandworm!”
Leseida-san, holding her hat, her silver hair in a braid fluttering in the wind, immediately identified the type of magical creature and shouted its name!
“...A worm!?”
“Yes! A Sandworm!”
Why is it a worm!?
Why does a worm live on land!?
“And that’s a special one... I’ve never heard of a Sandworm that huge.”
Leseida-san, with a distorted, beautiful face, muttered that in a trembling voice.
The wandering mage Nenesane was also pondering with her hand on her chin.
“YUGYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!”
Here.
The Sandworm, staring at us, roared intimidatingly.
Its tremendous roar made my skin tingle.
“Hahhaa! It seems we’ve been chosen! We’ve been invited to lunch!”
“As guests!?”
“Miss, don’t be stupid! As ingredients, of course!”
“H-Hieeeeeeeh!?”
I screamed in fear at Harishurap-san’s witty joke, mixed with a desperate situation!
But!
“H-Here...”
I can’t just be cowardly and afraid forever!
Because I’m Leseida-san’s bodyguard!
And it’s a magical creature.
If it’s a magical creature, I can use my cheats without holding back!
I’m an adventurer.
I’m the adventurer, Mitran!
“Here... I have to do this!!”
I shouted, drew the sword from my waist, and, guided by the 【Super Combat Instinct】 that fortunately activated, jumped off the sled!
And towards the super-giant Sandworm, which is rushing straight at us, trying to swallow us whole...
I swung that sword with all my might!!
【Mitran】
A boy who looks like a beautiful girl no matter how you look at him.
A reincarnated person who received the protection of the God of Adventure, a.k.a. the protagonist.
A kind boy who continues his violent adventures, but still can’t abandon the values of modern Japan.
He’s a little cowardly, but he does what needs to be done!
Appeared in Arc 15, etc.
【Leseida】
A woman who looks like a handsome young man.
An archaeologist who travels the world.
Although they’re quite far apart in age, she loves Mitran as the opposite sex.
Emi’s acquaintance, Kamasse’s older sister.
Appeared in Arc 15, etc.
【Harishurap & Lady】
First appearance.
A cheerful desert “transporter” and his giant pill-bug partner.
【The wandering mage Nenesane】
I don’t really know.