For the past 2-3 days on this Airship, the party has been mostly...busy with something to learn until we actually get to the new world the explorers keep mentioning.
The captain of the ship told us that if we were gonna head towards the new world with us, for the next week, we'd need to be up to speed and at 110% for each day if we wanted to survive.
With those words, we all decided (All of us excluding Aqua, who we had to force) to take on some kind of role that'll help, not only us in the long run, but others when we go back to Axel.
Me and Darkness continued to learn about survivability and equipment training from Slade, Megumin and Aqua learned how to make potions out of Herbs and Honey from Cowboy, and Alexi, the man in Green armour who gives himself the name 'Tachanka', is teaching Kazuma all about the Monsters and the Ecology of each place they're gonna visit.
Kazuma definitely got the short end of the stick since he claimed to be the leader of the party and the "Master Tactician" as well.
I can believe the Tactician part for the most part, but he really isn't much of a leader. Even If he was, he'd be a really shitty one.
I mean, he sort of tried abandoning me, Darkness, and Megumin when it came to saving the town from wyverns…
Anyways, for the past couple days of Slade training us in learning wyvern patterns/habits, we also tried out some of the equipment that the Explorers would normally use for their hunts.
The Slinger, would be one of those equipment we tried to use. It was basically a wrist-mounted slingshot that could be used to throw rocks and other things that could be loaded in.
It was pretty cool actually using one of these, but I guess I was the only one who actually could...
Darkness, on the other hand, didn't have as much luck when it came to using it.
Just like her swordsmanship, she has trash aim.
Even at 5 feet, she can't hit shit.
It's getting to a point where her trash aim and swordsmanship is starting to get a bit sad…
But hey, at least she has the Lance and Shield to use when me and other explorers are actually doing damage.
But in all seriousness, she really is good with a Lance, I'm not even sure if its because of her infinitely strong defense but she can basically tank an entire barrel of gunpowder that was set to charge.
I would know because we literally tested it out in the airship!
I'm surprised that the airship's still flying with no serious damage, but damn did things get crazy.
Other than that, with her new Shield addition, she did learn a new skill that came with her Shield;
- Absolute Defense: Brace yourself with the Full Body Shield as you block/deflect attacks that would normally severely injure a person/party.
In hindsight, while this sort of does nothing new for her, this does give me some kind of relief knowing that she has a skill that won't let he get too hurt…
...but then again, chances are she'll pretend to forget about it just to get the thrill of getting hurt...
Relationship wise….
I'm...not entirely sure about…
I mean we do hang out a lot together when we're alone, but aside from that, nothing's really changed around us.
I mean this is coming from my perspective, so while I don't really feel much of a difference, Darkness on the other hand looks a lot brighter and more cheerful than before.
I mean she even waited for me in the canteen (Lunch Room), just to eat together before everyone else from the party showed up.
That's probably normal for couples to do when they're together, right?
I mean I really wouldn't know to be honest…
Other than that, aside from learning new things, like the fact that I can use my Devil Arm as an actual shield, and the fact that our new equipment makes fighting a bit easier, things should go pretty smoothly for when we actually go to fight monsters tomorrow.
As Slade got off his battle stance and cracked his neck a couple of times, he put his Sword and Shield away and sat down on a nearby chair.
"Alright, I think this is good enough…" He said as he started to unstrap his slinger, "You guys should be good enough for the trip tomorrow…"
Me and Darkness got off our battle stance as we put the equipment back where we found them and thanked him for training us.
"No need to thank me, Thank Turok. This was his decision, a strange one but his nonetheless." Slade said as he lit a cigar.
"What do you mean by strange?" Darkness asked.
Slade looked up from where he sat, as he blew out smoke, "You guys might have known him for a couple of days, but in my 10 years of putting up with him and his bullshit, he's never taken in a student or trainee with us to go out on a hunt. He'll either send them away or point them over to the recruiter to be trained. It was never me or him…"
"Wonder what made him change his mind…" he said.
"Maybe he saw potential in Tsukiyo?" Darkness guessed.
"Everyone got potential, it doesn't matter who as long as they're willing to put in the work to bring it out." Slade said as he shot down the idea, "Did you do anything stupid right in front of him?"
"Well….I guess you can call it both stupid and brave…" I said as I scratched the back of my head, " Back when we were still on Axel, I did draw the attention of a Nergigante away from a couple of explorers who were about to die. Wouldn't been as stupid if I didn't run myself into a corner…"
Slade blew out more smoke as he heard my story, "Ah...So that's why…" he said grimly as he breathed out deeply.
"Is something wrong?" Darkness asked.
Slade sat up straight as he put his cigar in an ashtray as he faced me and Darkness, "Look, in my years of being a Monster Hunter, the last thing you want to do is be Brave and Stupid." Slade said as he started to look a lot more serious.
"Just like that damn idiot…" he said, remembering something.
Slade looked like he wanted to say more before he decided against the idea, "We're done here, go rest up for tomorrow. You'll be heading out to the Wasteland to see how well you guys do against a Tier 1. Now get out of my face."
"Thank you for training us, we'll make sure to put the training you gave us to good use." Darkness said optimistically.
"Just so you know, you really shouldn't expect a lot tomorrow, this is for your own understanding." I said bringing down the entire mood.
"Whether or not you do well tomorrow is entirely up to you, I've already done my job." Slade said as he pulled out a jar, some very small thorns, and what looks to be handmade shells for a shotgun, "Cowboy and Alexi are gonna join you guys just in case, so make sure to wake up and be at 110% or don't come at all."
"You got it." "Roger!" Me and Darkness said to him.
"Good. Now get out." Slade said as he kicked both of out.
Darkness looked bright and excited as we headed towards the lunchroom, "Kyaa~ This is so exciting! We're going to a new area to fight actual Monsters! I wonder how strong some of them are…" Darkness said before she started to pant slightly.
"All we have to do is hope that we don't get eaten, not sure how safe Aqua and Kazuma will be as we do this though…" I said sort of hoping that what I'm thinking doesn't come true.
"Don't worry. With my new equipment and new weapons, this should be easier than what we've gone up against. If things get really bad, don't hesitate to use me as a shield! I'll gladly take any attack to defend my comrades!" Darkness said as she started to get too excited.
"Ok, down girl. No need to go that far just yet…" I said to her, "Since your defense is high enough and you actually have a shield this time, I don't think you'll be getting as hurt as you normally do in this hunt."
"Actually I was thinking of not bringing the shield with me, it seems pointless." She said in a serious tone.
"What?" I said as me and her stopped walking.
"Is there a problem?" She asked innocently.
Ahhh! Why did I not, not expect this…
"Lalatina, we just did 3 days or actual training to make sure we do this hunt properly, and you trained with that Shield and Lance just to- You know what, nevermind, logic never seems to work in this situation…" I said stopping myself from saying anything else.
"U-um...are you…?" Darkness was going to ask me.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. Let's just use Aqua as bait again to make this easier…" I said giving up all kinds of hope for normalcy.
"Aww...why her?" Darkness said as she pouted.
Darkness, I love you, but please just stop talking…
As we continued to walk towards the Lunch room, it seems that Kazuma, Megumin, and Aqua had beaten us there.
Kazuma looked dead on the outside as he mumbled a couple of words to himself as Megumin is sort of trying to help him.
Aqua on the other hand is sniffling lightly as goes from table to table cleaning up after the Explorers.
"Anjanath...water….Jyuratodus...fish….fire…" He mumbled as if he was a Zombie.
"Is he going to be ok?" Darkness asked Megumin as she took a seat across from her.
"I don't know, aside from his grunts and moans he doesn't say anything else. He's just repeating what he's been told." Megumin said as she patted Kazuma head out of pity.
"Baezelguese...bomb pods….explosions...thunder…" he continued.
"Explosions?! What about the Explosions?" Megumin asked in excitement.
"Kazuma...buddy? Are you okay?" I said to him gently as I tried not to trigger any epis-
"AHHH! WHY DID YOU BRING US ALONG!?" He said angrily as he grabbed my shoulders and violently shook me.
Well, so much for trying not to trigger an episode!
"We could've been fine! I could be at home drinking warm water for tea and having a safe day for my health, instead of going halfway across the continent just to fight some stupid dinosaurs!" Kazuma shouted.
"You just had to open your big mouth! You just had to be a good guy and help out in a situation where we can easily die! Are you brain dead just like the rest of them!? Where did all your common sense go?!" He continued.
Megumin and Darkness used almost all their strength to get Kazuma off of me as his anger started to get him to foam in the mouth.
"Kazuma, 2 things; 1) Take some breathmints, or at least make them, 2) Why the fuck are you complaining? You're not even gonna fight them!" I said trying to explain it.
Kazuma stopped foaming in the mouth as he heard me say that, "I'm...not gonna fight them?" He said as his anger instantly disappeared and got replaced with Joy.
"Of course you're not gonna fight them Kazuma…" Megumin said in a cheerful way.
"...You're way too low level to fight them, you'd be even more useless than Aq-" I said snarkily to him until he tossed a wooden spoon at me.
"Shut up! I'm much more useful than that Bitch!" Kazuma angrily said.
I wonder about that sometimes…
"At least I didn't turn an entire broth of soup into water earlier!" Kazuma said loud enough for Aqua to hear.
"I said I was sorry already! Stop rubbing it in my face!" Aqua sobbed as she continued to mop the floor furiously.
"Uhh...context?" I asked.
"Aqua tried to steal a taste of today's dinner but forgot that everything she touches get purified. So she's not allowed to eat anything until she cleans the entire room." Megumin brought up.
I smiled to myself evilly, "Give me 5 minutes, I want to be a dick…" I said as I chuckled to myself.
I went over to the Muscular Cat Chef and ordered a hefty amount of food, probably enough for 3 people.
As the Chef placed in my order and made it, it's little cat companions brought it over to the table where the party was sitting at.
"Tsukiyo, don't you think this is-" Megumin tried to speak up before I shoved a chicken leg on her mouth, "Just eat, I already paid for this." I said to her. Megumin's eyes lit up as she began to devour the chicken.
"Ahh! Now this is a feast for a party!" I said loud enough for Aqua, "Come on guys, Megumins already eating."
I subtly turned my head to Aqua and saw her fuming as she was about to stomp over to us.
"Tsukiyo, you-" Aqua said as she grinded her teeth and walked towards us.
"Hisss~" A Palico hissed at Aqua as it pointed towards the floor and for her to turn back.
"But-!" Aqua tried to argue before the Palico hissed again.
Ahh...Now this is some damn good payback….
Darkness began to pant and hold my hands as she had a blissful smile on, "T-Tsukiyo, the way you made Aqua suffer from Jealousy out of spite…! D-do you think you could-"
"No." I said immediately shutting down her idea.
"Ahn~! You're the best Tsukiyo!" Darkness said.
"Man, you guys are an….interesting Party…" Cowboy said as he took a seat near us.
"You guys busy? I thought it'd be a good idea to show you where we're heading and what we'll be hunting." Cowboy then began to bring what looks like a map and a small but slightly thick notebook/journal.
Cowboy then began to open up the map and spread it out on the table, "I'm not sure if Slade told you this already, but we'll be heading over to Wasteland tomorrow with Alexi."
(I recommend you guys to look up 'MHW Wildspire Waste map' on google and follow along, it makes a couple things easier to show/explain. Make sure it's the full map. -Konran.)
"This is a small area of the Wasteland that has the most amount of activity happening. Since we don't want to let all of the wildlife know that we're coming, we're gonna head off the ship a ways away from where the first camp is, which is in Area 1. The walk to the first camp is 30 minutes by foot, so we'll make sure to take a small rest when we get there."
"After we get to the First camp, we're gonna head over to Area's 4 and 9 to look for Barroth Tracks. Kazuma, tell them about a Barroth." Cowboy said as he opened up the small journal.
"A Barroth is a brute Monster covered in rock and mud that charges at people as it attacks." Kazuma said robotic like.
"C-Charges at people?!" Darkness said excitedly.
I covered Darkness' mouth to make sure she didn't say anything else.
"Exactly, a pretty simple Monster for beginner explorers. Since the Barroth is weak to water and fire, we'll have Alexi use some Water shots to take off all its mud, you guys will do the rest and take it down.
"It's usual rest area would be in the lower part of 9, but chances are it might be wandering around somewhere. One thing you might want to watch out for is Area 10, it's the home of an amphibious monster by the name of Jyuratodus. While it might not be one of our targets, it may attack us if it sees us, so keep that in mind.
"If for some reason that the Barroth isn't in Area's 4 and 9, we'll have to move up to Area 7 and possibly split up into 2 groups to cover more ground. One group will go up to Area 8 and another will go into Area 5. If we still can't find the Barioth, we'll regroup back into 6.
"Another warning, whichever group goes into Area 8, under no circumstances whatsoever, do not alarm the Noios' there. Don't fight them and don't get close to them, just keep your distance."
"What are Noios?" I asked Cowboy.
"If I remember right, Noios are dinosaur bird looking things that scream loudly when they're attacked." Kazuma answered.
"Exactly, the noise will attract a Diablos, and we won't have the right equipment to fight one." Cowboy said as he took out what looks to be a gold flare gun and a small reddish looking ball, "If worse comes to worse, shoot this flare in the air. We'll see it and come to help." Cowboy said ending it off with that.
"Any questions?" He asked.
None of us raised our hands and understood everything that he told us.
"Good, now go prepare and rest up for tomorrow. It'll be a long walk before we can actually get started with the hunt." He said as he left us to each other.
I uncovered my hand from Darkness hand and sighed as I laid on the table.
"What's wrong Tsukiyo?" Megumin asked as he ate her chicken.
"I'm worried for tomorrow…" I said in a tired voice, "I know something gonna go wrong tomorrow…"
"Ah. There's the Tsukiyo I know…" Kazuma said with a sigh of relief, "But Tsukiyo is right, we can prepare as much as we can, but there will be something or someone that will ruin all of that for us…"
"I think you guys are overthinking this, Chances are we might go through this with flying colors. Come on, don't be so negative." Darkness said trying to bring up the mood.
"Darkness, I really love the way you can stay so positive, I really wonder how you can stay like that sometimes…" I said to her with innocence.
"Yeah, that's true. Her positivity is a wonder sometimes…" Kazuma joined in.
"Tsukiyo? Kazuma? Why are you guys…" Darkness wanted to ask something before Megumin cut her off.
"Here Darkness, let's just eat! There's no need to think about tomorrow just yet, just eat." Megumin said as she continued to eat.
Without any context, you could say that we were all getting along very well with smiles and laughter filling up the area around us…
….in reality me and Kazuma were silently screaming and terrified for what was going to happen to us, especially with Monsters that could easily wipe out entire party's in an instant…
Now the only thing left we needed to worry about is not How fucked up the 'Fuck up' is going to be, but Who was going to cause the 'Fuck Up'…
You wanna take a guess?
~The Next Day…
It's...hot…
Like really...hot…
Right now, we're walking all the way from where part of the Airship landed with a cart, to the first camp…
And we're walking in the middle of Bufu fucking Egypt…
It's hot and there's just sand everywhere…
"Tsukiyo…." Kazuma said as if he was dying, "I fucking….hate you!"
"Yeah...well….Sure...why the hell...not…" I said all sweaty and too tired to retort back to him.
I hate myself too for buying into this. All the training and learning we did for the past 2-3 days better be worth it…
Surprisingly, Darkness didn't look like she was tired at all, especially when she's carrying Megumin on her back.
Aqua, being Aqua, was sitting on top of the cart with Alexi's palico, Boris, that the 2-legged buffalo was hauling.
"We are another 10 minutes away from first camp. Keep going, comrades." Alexi, or Tachanka, said as he continued to walk.
These people are seriously something else if they can survive this heat, while hiking in their full hunting gear, weapons included.
As I took the last sip of my canteen, I had this strange feeling that I was hallucinating and that I was all alone as I walked towards...something…
I don't even know where I was walking to anymore, everything looks the same…
Wait...I think I see something…
I really want to hope that those rock formations and tent aren't fake…
I might actually cry if they aren't…
"Alright, tents are just up ahead, we'll rest there for a moment and start the hunt." Cowboy said as he appeared out of nowhere along with everyone else.
Holy shit, I think I actually tripped out from the heat…
"Ahhh...about time, I feel like I'm melting…" Aqua complained from on top of the cart.
Man I can't help but want to strangle her…
After getting to the tent, resting up, and refilling some canteens, everyone here listened to Cowboy as he retold us our objective.
"Alright, remember, We're only after the Barroth, if things get bad, flare up, and hold out. If we do that, I'm sure we can do this by the end of the day." Cowboy said as he got his staff/pole thing and...oversized beetle, ready for battle.
Oh boy...here we go…
"Cowboy, Please…" I said as I put my hand on his shoulder, "Don't. Don't give us any hope. I know this group all too well, nothing will go right…"
Cowboy looked at me with a strange look, "Come on. They can't be that bad. Have a bit more faith in your teammates." He said while staying positive.
"Hahaha. No. I've tried doing that too many times, not anymore Cowboy. Not anymore." I said to him as I left and began to check my equipment for the trip.
...and before I did that, I did see that Darkness did stick to her guns and only brought her lance…
She looked over to where I was and saw me looking at her slightly disappointingly. She waved to me a bit nervously before walking away quickly.
God we're so fucked…
~20 minutes later
"AHHH!" Aqua screamed as she got chased around getting chased by some 2 legged buffalo looking monsters.
"Yeah, I expected this much…" I said grimly as we're already having trouble with trying to get to the actual monster.
"I just wanted to feed them! What's wrong with that!?" Aqua shouted in terror as she continued to run.
"Aqua! Come over to me!" Darkness said bravely, "I can protect you from those animals!"
"With what?! You only have a lance!" Aqua shouted back, "Kazuma! Tsukiyo! Get them off me!"
"Ughhh! Fine!" Kazuma said as he took out his short sword and began to chase after Aqua, "Aqua! Bring them over here! Stop running away from me!"
Ah, yes...the familiar sound of our team actually trying to do something productive...
"So...you aren't gonna help them?" Cowboy asked me.
"No. Let this be a reminder to never have hope, especially when it comes to this party…" I told Cowboy as I began to stare out into the distance in sad realization…
Cowboy sighed for a moment, "Man, why do you have to be such a downer…" He then began to load up a flashpod and aim it towards Kazuma and Aqua's direction.
He shot the slinger over there, and made every creature, Aqua included, blind.
"AHHHH! My Eyes!" Aqua shouted.
Kazuma then walked up to her, grabbed her by her shirt collar, and started to drag her over towards us.
"Huh?! Uh! AHH! Help! It's got me! Get this animal off of me!" Aqua shouted as she began to freak out thinking one of the animals got her.
"Shut up, you Useless Alcoholic Goddess! Stop freaking out!" Kazuma shouted at her as he smacked her on the head with the butt of his sword.
By the time he got her back to us, Aqua's eyesight normalized and the group began to get back on track on our patrol….or at least start it…
"Alright, small change of plans. Aqua, you stay in the back and don't do anything." Cowboy said to her carefully, "Don't feed the wildlife and….hold onto Boris. Easy, right?"
Boris, Alexi's dark grey palico, ran up to Aqua and jumped into her arms as it got comfortable.
"Alright, let us continue." Alexi said already sounding like he's tired of our party's shit.
Me too Alexi, me too.
As we continued to walk in this wasteland, I saw Cowboy look at some plants nearby and take some with us.
"What're those for?" Megumin asked.
"Little known fact about us Explorers, when we say we use everything in Nature, we mean it. Our Armour, weapons, ammunition, potions, and repellents are all nature made." He explained as he showed her what he picked up, "Right now, I'm collecting some Flame Herbs. These supply most of Alexi's Munitions, and if we really wanted to, we could mix it in with a bunch of gunpowder and make a barrel bomb. It'll make a pretty large explosion, though."
Megumin's eyes lit up as soon as she heard explosion, "Explosion?! Really?" she asked excitedly.
"Yeah! If we down a monster, we could show-" Cowboy was about to tell her something before she interrupted him.
"I can cast explosion magic! Can I do the honours?" She asked him.
Oh no.
"No thanks, I want to stay intact this time when you cast the explosion." Kazuma said as he shot down the idea.
"Oh come on, you over exaggerating. Tell you what, we'll let you do you the honours when we get there." Cowboy said ignoring Kazuma's rejection.
"Am I seriously the only sane person here?!" Kazuma shouted in anger, "Tsukiyo, please! Warn him about what will happen!"
"There's no point in talking Kazuma, we can only let him observe. Observe and understand why…" I told Kazuma.
As we continued to walk down the wasteland, we were met with an unexpected river.
Alexi knelt down to what looks like some kind of marking, like something was dragging itself on the ground.
"Ugh...Cyka…" he grumbled under his breath.
"Something wrong?" I asked him.
"Fish. Very large fish. Was here earlier. Keep watch." He said as he readied his big bowgun thing.
"Alright, we're gonna cross the river. Don't let the water levels fool you, it looks shallow right now, but it gets pretty deep on the middle, don't lose your footing and watch out for the fish." Cowboy said as he followed Alexi.
"Kazuma, I don't know how deep the water is, so carry me and my staff. Thanks." Megumin said as she began to mount Kazuma before getting his approval (Some of y'all are thinking about the dirty in that sentence. Stop it. Get some help. -Ghandi probably.)
"What the hell?! I'm not some kind of servant you know!" Kazuma said as he complained.
"My oh my, Kazuma. You should be honoured to see that a girl wants you to carry her, men would pay good money to have that happen to them." Megumin said trying to persuade him.
"Yeah, beautiful women. Not Children- Owowowowow! Hey! Don't pull on my cape!" Kazuma retorted before having Megumin choke him out.
"Who's a child?!" Megumin said as she gritted her teeth and started to choke him harder.
Oh Megumin...I Salute you in your never ending battle…
As we began to cross the river, which was very very blue, very nice and see through, I couldn't help but notice a couple of splashes happening towards the far right of us.
Alexi, did say that there was some large fish here, so I guess that's expect-
"Ahhh! Get Away!" Aqua began to shout and panic again.
Oh for fucks sake, what no-
HOLY SHIT!
As Aqua began to splash around and panic, while holding Boris, she was being chased around by some actually large fish, and no I'm not talking about fish that are sort of large, I'm talking 'they could swallow your head whole' kind of Size!
"Piranhas! It's Piranhas!" She shouted, "I'm the Goddess of the Ocean! Why are you trying to eat me!?"
"Oh come on! Not again!" Kazuma complained.
Since Darkness was the closest one to Aqua, she decided to head to her as fast as possible.
"Darkness help! Shield me with your body!" Aqua shouted as he got behind Darkness.
"Hey! Don't bring them over to her!" I shouted as I pulled out my revolver and started to shoot at some of the fish as I got closer to her.
"Don't worry Tsukiyo! Enemies like these aren't enough to take me do- OOF!" Darkness said as she got completely bodied by all the fish.
"Darkness!" Megumin shouted as she got off of Kazuma's back and started to head towards Darkness.
"Ahahahahahaha! S-stop! That tickles! Hahahahaaha!" Darkness laughed uncontrollably.
As of right now, Me and Megumin were actually doing something to help Darkness as Aqua ran away while Kazuma, Cowboy, and Alexi probably looked at us in disappointment.
With most of the Piranha looking fish out of the way, we somewhat managed to get Darkness back on her feet while half of her armour was already completely scratched up or chipped.
"Are you alright?" I asked her.
"Yeah, Thanks for saving guys. I'm not sure I would've lasted another minute before busting my gut." Darkness said happily.
"Alright, well as long as you're not hurt." I said as I smiled back.
"Ahhh...so is this what they call a couples moment, must be nice…" Megumin said monotonically.
"Don't worry Megumin, you still have a couple more chances...if they haven't been wasted already…" I said as I tried to bring up her mood.
"Don't worry, I'm strong-willed…" She said as she tried to play it off cooly.
"Are you guys done? I want to get this day over with…" Kazuma said loudly to us.
Megumin pouted as she looked away from Kazuma, "Tsukiyo, carry me. I'm already carrying my staff and in a bad mood."
"Sure, why not." I said as I knelt down and let Megumin on my back.
I looked over to where Kazuma was and saw that his expression was still the same. But he did look away as he began to cross the river with Alexi and Cowboy.
After we crossed the river, we continued our planned path to find the Barroth up up until we found a split in the path.
"Alright," Cowboy said as he looked at us, "We're going to be splitting up here, who's going with who?"
"I'm staying with Tsukiyo." Darkness said as she stepped next to me.
"Yeah me too." Megumin unexpectedly said.
"Alright, well, that's 3 already. Think you can handle going on your own?" Cowboy asked me.
I chuckled sadly to myself, "Ugh...I hope we can…"
"Alright then, you two. You're with us, come on." Cowboy said as he began to walk the other direction with Kazuma and Aqua.
"Are you sure you don't want to walk with Kazuma? That might've been your chance to make up." I asked Megumin.
Megumin looked away as she began to walk to the other direction, "Nope. I'm still not in a good mood."
Man, I'd hate to be in Kazuma's shoes right now…
As we continued to move to our side of the split path and up a hill, we soon heard a couple of faint thumps coming from ahead of us.
As we looked over the hill, we spotted what looked to be some kind of rock looking monster walking on its 2 hind legs like a T-rex roaming a small sand hill with rock pillars.
It weirdly reminded me of some kind of train.
"Tsukiyo, is that it?" Darkness asked me.
"I….think so…" I said as I tried to remember what Kazuma told us yesterday.
He did say that what we were looking for was a monster rock monster covered in mud, and what we're seeing is basically that...
"Alright, I'm gonna send a flare out. You guys stay-"
"I want to blow it up." Megumin said as he interrupted me.
"No." I told her sternly, "As much as I want to get this over with already, I don't want to be caught in the blast."
"But I want to release my load!" Megumin said in anticipation.
"Phrasing Megumin! Learn to get better phrasing!" I told as I tried to drag her down.
"Darkness already left." Megumin said as she didn't resist me pulling her down.
"Wait wha-"
I heard a loud roar that almost sounded like a train whistle ahead of us.
But it hasn't been 5 minutes….
"Tsukiyo! What are you waiting for!?" Darkness said as she faced the Barroth that charged at her.
Goddamn it! What did I just say!?