Sorry for the hiatus, but I was stuck with projects.
But well, thanks for the views, and for the people who commented before, I need to say that is not necessary to think too much. You guys, only need to think about what could be interesting or funny, or even only write a funny situation to the team.
But again, don't think too much about it. You can just enjoy this chapter.
"…What's this? I have to get rid this guy?"
My name is Taka, and I have the advanced job of a slayer. But in fact, I'm a human slayer for the dark side of the world. I just had a ridiculous request to finish with an adventurer in a city of novices.
But then, I read the archive.
In the last months, this adventurer had fought two of the demon's king leaders, helped with the destruction of the Destroyer, won a judgment against a noble, and even it was said that he humiliated a strong noble lady in a combat, and then made her suffer a horrifying punishment for lose.
Plus, his team has a powerful arch wizard of the crimson demon clan, and an archpriest who is said to be capable to resurrect people, so maybe he really is that dangerous.
"..."
"What do you say? Don't mind of the money, we'll pay what you need, plus your quota." Said my client.
"...All right, I'll take the job. This could be interesting."
When I saw the picture of my target, I saw a plain boy with dark hair and green clothes.
His name was Satou Kazuma, but he was known also with the nickname "Scumzuma".
"(I hope you don't waste my time.)" I thought for myself.
For a while, Kazuma looked through a heavy tube, until he had bored and asked.
"Hey Wiz, are you sure that this thing allows me to see through the walls?"
"Yes, I already use it a few times and it works."
"It's odd. I use a little amount of magic on it, and then a medium amount of magic, and still didn't work. Could you show me how you use it?"
I'm that moment; Kazuma was in Wiz's, a magic item's store owned by a kind but extremely poor liche. He went here with Aqua, but she neglected to enter and see the Infernal duke called Vanir, so Kazuma was seeing the store items without being ashamed.
In fact, the item that was looking for ways to eliminate some... obstacles, in the mansion, if you know what I mean.
But...
"You only have to give it some magic power like this, ¡...!" Wiz send some magic power, but in a quantity enough to be seen and sensed. "And now, you can see through the walls easily... Wah! The tea leaves I bought the last month! I completely forgot of them!"
While the liche was panicking, Vanir, (who were using a cute pink apron like the episode 6 of the anime) showed up to calm her with his casual exaggerated tone.
"Oh, what is it this time? Could be that you again had bought something that won't give us any benefit? I'm going to check the warehouse by myself, so continue attending the client."
With his formal way to walk, Vanir disappeared in the warehouse where Wiz had seen. Then, she tried to continue the sale.
"Ehm, you saw that? It works so..."
"I'm sorry, but I can't buy it."
"B-but why?" Asked with tearful eyes.
"Maybe is because of your magic power as a liche, but for me, that "little amount of mana" will take away all my energy in seconds (to say nothing of that magic power being sensed by the people in the other side of the wall, which make this item useless for spy). Maybe later if I get stronger." Said Kazuma walking out the store.
"Wahhh! Even when I bought a dozen of them thinking that it would be a good idea!"
"Wiz-kun..." Said an obscure voice in the darkness of the warehouse.
"Ah? What it is, Vanir-san?"
Without an answer, two points started to glow in a red color while Wiz fell nervous.
"Very well, just keep walking straight..." Mumbled Taka in the roof of a building, two hundred meters away of the boy who was a little discontent.
He had been told to eliminate that adventurer, who because of his merits was a menace to the normality. That is, a weak adventurer couldn't make all of that in that short time that easily.
To make the job easy, Taka decided to use a technique exclusive of the slayer category. Perfect sniper.
Perfect sniper was a cheater move what could get a target to even a kilometer away with a magic arrow. It depends on the luck, and Taka had a very good luck.
And even if the shoot doesn't kill the target, he would be much damaged. That could make the target more paranoid about his surroundings, what normally makes them more predictable.
The arrow was magically created, so nobody could track the arrow, because it erases instantly after the impact.
This will end here, and in the worst case, he won't lose.
Seeing the target at the distance, Taka saw how he was walking towards him (without knowing, of course). In other words, he wasn't going to move to the sides. Taka only was waiting for the perfect moment to shoot.
And...
The target saw to the side, stopping his walk.
"Now! Perfect sniper!"
Taka shoot.
The magic arrow was enough fast to reach his goal in two seconds.
Taka used his clairvoyance to see the result of his shoot, and he saw...
(A minute before)
"Mmm, it's a shame; I really wanted to see through the walls." Sighted Kazuma while he walk to his house.
He also looked for Aqua, the useless goddess who was brought to this wonderful world to help him to be a legendary hero, but was a deception. She had gone with him, but separated before entering to Wiz's.
"Kazumaaa! Look, loooook!" Shouted someone to a side of Kazuma, making him stop and look to the side.
The origin of the noise was that useless goddess with a funny hair and a bottle of wine upon his head, like a prize.
"Look Kazuma!"
"Yes I'm Kazuma."
"I bought super good liquor at a very good prize in... WAHHH!"
With the sound of breaking glasses, the bottle over her head exploded and gave her a liquor bath without advice.
With her treasure in pieces without explanation, and the wine being purified, Aqua started to cry out loud.
"WAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAHHH! Why can't I have something nice to me even once! Why can't I just die already! WOAAA (...PAUSE...) AHHHHHHHHHH!"
Seeing the stupid divinity crying like a baby in the floor, Kazuma thought in something.
"Oi, Aqua."
"Sniff, Ah?"
"How cheap was that bottle?"
Ok, that wasn't on his plans.
Taka had shot his Perfect sniper in the perfect moment to get the best result, but for some reason, the shoot didn't hit anyone.
He had used that technique before, and he knew that if the target had a better luck then the shoot is going to have some deviation, and a target with bad luck will attract the shoot.
"(What is going on with this? I don't know if the boy has a very good luck or if the girl had a very bad luck, or both, but for now I better if I retreat. If he suspect, then he will be more predictable. I won't fail again)" Though by himself while he leaves the roof.
But the target was really running after his damnified partner because she had wasted a little fortune for the broken bottle of wine.
"Well, thanks to a certain idiot..." said Kazuma while he looked to Aqua who was rubbing her head while sobbing. "We are getting out of money,, so we need to go for another mission if we want to eat decently this week."
Now, the team Kazuma was looking for a mission in the guild hall.
"...so, I already revised the jobs, and I have these three options." Said him while giving the advices to the other party members.
"'get rid of the ghosts in a countryside, so that the owner can build there'." Read Megumin a bit bored.
"Exactly. All we have to do is to go there and leave Aqua do whatever she does to send them to the heaven. And YES, we have to go with her. My experience says that nothing can go well if we leave her do all by herself."
"The other says, 'Open the path to Ninrah's valley'." Read Darkness with the other advice in her hands.
"Exactly. We only need to go there and destroy whatever is there with explosion, and clean the debris. If is something too much big or though, I can use Drain Touch to give Megumin enough magic power to another explosion."
"So it's decided." Said Megumin with her red eyes glowing. "The second mission. If I can use explosion magic twice then I can't ask for anything else."
"No, Megumin, we'll go for the first one. As a crusader I can't leave the people to be terrified by scary ghosts. Only thinking about the people being bullied by them, I..." Interrupted Darkness with her face turning red.
"It seems like you only want to be bullied by the ghosts."
While the blonde and the loli discussed about the mission to take, Aqua read the last mission advice and screamed.
"Wahh! D-defeat the two frogs who are living in the forest and attack the collectors!? Why do you keep insisting about fighting that monsters!?"
"Exactly. We are without money because of you, so I decided to take a mission to punish you."
"I'm not Darkness! And I said what that wasn't my fault!"
"And I said what you have to stop buying our money in liquor! Also, they are just a couple of frogs. We can use bait and destroy them with one explosion."
"I don't want to! Darkness-sama, Megumin-sama, please tell him to not do that mission." Begged Aqua to the other girls.
"Let's do it."
"Let's do it."
The two last resorts of Aqua were destroyed instantly, but while she whined, they had their own ideas.
"(If they are only two, then I can take revenge for the times I've been eaten in a single blast.)"
"(Bait, yes, I will be the bait.)"
And so, they went to hunt giant frogs again.
"(They really have courage to start a mission like this without thinking in the previous attack.)" Thought Taka while he used Lurk skill to approach the group in an open place.
He had followed his target and asked for him in the guild. They answered him easily and let him know where they are. The receptionist said something about a new member, But Taka didn't put much attention to that.
But seeing the pathetic mission they accepted, Taka started to suspect.
"(They have a crimson demon arch wizard, a noblewoman as crusader, and an archpriest who had her stats maximized when I asked, but they only are hunting frogs. This have to be a kind of trap. And not only that, this plain and well lit place is a bad scenario for my slayer techniques. Maybe I should retreat for now...)"
He has done a research, and know that they took three missions, but accepted the easiest one. For the slayer expert, probably they accepted it because they can finish it while being aware of their surroundings. And again, plain, open and well lit places are not good places for a thief or slayer to fight.
Thinking that this was a waste of time and starting to go away, Taka saw an odd formation.
The woman in armor used Decoy to attract the frogs, while the arch wizard started to cast a spell which magic power could 've sensed even for him. Near the arch wizard, the target Satou Kazuma and a blue haired girl (Wasn't she the girl bathed in wine of the morning?) were waiting.
"(What is this? Do they need a formation like this to defeat some weak monsters?)"
When the frogs were enough near to the crusader, the blue haired girl used a water spell in her, and the arch wizard used her magic.
A giant explosion destroyed the calm of the land.
Taka covered his eyes fearing the power of an arch wizard who can use something like that, and started to return back and wait for another opportunity, but something crazy happened.
In an odd event, a toad fell from the sky and landed JUST ON HIM.
"Gagjggghhhhhh!?"
Yes, a giant toad of four meters fell and landed on top of him, even e he was using a Lurk skill to be safe.
But before he was able to stand in his feet, he noticed that the giant toad was now looking him.
"...no..."
And it was now approaching him.
"Nonono..."
And when the frog stopped five meters of him, and Taka exhaled relaxed, it opened his mouth and launched his long tongue to draw him like his meal.
"Nooooooooo!"
The origin plan was easy; use Darkness as a bait to draw closer the frogs, then use Megumin's explosion to destroy them while Aqua used her spells to protect Darkness (the bait wasn't aware of this last), so they could beat the frogs without problems.
Yes, that WAS the original plan.
It turned out that Aqua used a very powerful protective spell, so not only Darkness, but even one of the frogs were affected and save of the explosion. That frog flew in the air a few dozen of meters and then it fell... over someone. The frog then stood up and ate that person.
"Haaahhhhhhhhh!? Wait, I'm going! Hey guys, we have to...!"
Kazuma tried to tell the others so they can fight the frog, but he stopped when he saw them being... them.
"Why do you protect me? As a crusader, is my duty to take all the damage of the battle, especially if is cross fire or made by my friends!"
"Why are you criticizing me? I did nothing wrong, even put much strength to make a barrier anti explosions and an anti magic shield."
"Humh, to think that Aqua could protect someone against my explosion, but is true that I was reserving me because a friend was there. That's it! The next time I'm going to go with all my power! I'll go for the kill!"
Darkness was shouting Aqua because of the protection, and Megumin was useless for the next two hours, so he decided to go himself. Even he can defeat a frog if it was swallowing someone.
But a few meters before he could do anything, the giant toad fell to the side. The two legs in the mouth moved and somehow the person there was freed by himself. He was carrying a dagger in his hand, so maybe he killed the frog by himself.
Covered in droll, the person saw Kazuma and showed a dead expression.
"(I was an idiot...)" Thought Taka seeing his actual target in front of him.
A toad fell from the sky and landed over him, and then eaten him, forcing him to work harder and be exhausted.
"(This must be his plan, it won't fit it is not a plan. He must found me and used that tactic to attack me in a blank point. It wouldn't have sense if wasn't like that, because that weak monsters could be destroyed with blades or weak magic.)"
His face was with a dead expression, but was satisfied in his core. His target wasn't a stupid kid with luck, so it was a real target for him.
"(It's a shame that I underestimate you, it could be an interesting battle, Satou Kazuma.)"
"Hey, are you alright?"
"Heh, it seems like this is what I get if I'm not serious."
"What? Serious? I don't understand, but maybe you'll need some curative magic."
"Eh? You'll hear me?"
"My stupid partner will do it, at least for an apology, even if it was not planned and is not really our fault."
"...!?"
"Eh? What is the problem?"
"(It was not planned? But he approached me casually so, did he even know of the attack of the morning?)"
"Hey Aqua. Heal him, the frog that you protected fell over him."
"But is not my fault! I was trying to help!"
"It doesn't matter now."
"By the way," said Aqua changing the subject while healing Taka. "Did you kill the remaining frog?"
"No, he did it."
"Wahh!"
"Aqua!?"
"If he was who defeated the frog, then our group only defeated one of the two and we won't get the reward."
"What!? You have to be kidding! I know that it was easy and short, but... ah."
"?"
"Hey." Kazuma said to Taka, who was now healed and recovering.
"What?"
"Are you in a team now? Because we are looking for new members..."
And so, Taka the slayer, entered in Kazuma's team so they can get the reward of two giant frogs.
After more of a month (was a thought month for me and my fanfictions) I could update this.
The people who could read this in Spanish know that Taka's job is assassin, but slayer sounded easier to fit in a funny fanfic, and is a synonymous of assassin. Also they know the differences in events or adjectives, like the previous chapter. And is normal. That was months ago, so my stile now is lightly different.
This was also the first two-chapters arc, and a comment based character, because I didn't thought about a slayer when I started this, so don't be ashamed and try to suggest some character, maybe it might be something great.
But even if is not suggestions, leave your opinion about this fanfic. I want to update sooner than this, and I'm starting to have more time, so I only need more will power to continue translating this to English. And if some part, phrase or word could be corrected to get a better reading, then don't doubt in telling me. I'll appreciate the help.
See you next time.