Disclaimer : KonoSuba is owned by Akatsuki Natsume, I don't own anything about it and only using it as a material of my fanfic.
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Chapter 6: Der Grenadier
Laying down on the ground, Megumin stares at the clear blue sky above. Not because she's trying to enjoy the beautiful scenery, but due to her fatigue caused by casting her spell at that castle on a hill earlier.
Standing beside her is me with arms crossed and twitching eyebrows.
"Megumin, what exactly are you trying to do?"
"Training. We Crimson Magic Clan will die if we don't cast an explosion every single day."
Bullshit, she's fine as she is right now despite not casting explosion at all for three days during our 'Zivildienst'.
"That's a lie, isn't it?"
"Of course not, we Crimson Magic Clan never lies."
"Ah yes, and Aqua is the smartest person on earth." I replied sarcastically.
"Muu... Anyway, can you carry me back? I can't go back on my own."
Is this why she told me to come with her? To carry her back?
"So I am just a transportation for you to go home with?"
"Of course not! You're not only a transportation! You're also a sentry to protect me if there's any monster attacking us when I'm down like this."
"You're completely missing the point! And that's even worse!" I retort.
"Stop complaining, you're going to get old faster if you keep complaining about every little thing."
"And whose fault is that?"
"Anyway, let's go back Kazuma."
"Fine."
Crouching down in front of her, I wait for her to clung on my back before carrying her back to town.
Walking back to the town, I realized that the scenery around us is beautiful.
It's rather surreal as I didn't pay any attention to it before since every time I returned to the town from quests, I'm either too tired to care or just want to quickly rest my body.
As much as absurd and stupid this world is, I have to give the credit where the credit is due. With fresh air, great scenery, clean environment, and untainted sky and river, this world's condition far surpass my own in terms of its nature.
My line of thought was abruptly disrupted as I felt a tug on my shoulders.
"Hey, hey, Kazuma."
"What is it, Megumin?"
"If there aren't any decent quest for us to take, could you accompany me for this?"
Seriously?
"What's in it for me anyway?"
"Aren't you glad that you can see my amazing explosion? Isn't that enough?" She said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"That's not beneficial to me at all."
"Why don't you use your weapon during my training as well? I'm pretty sure you never use it in town since you'd get scolded if you do due to the loud noise just like my explosion."
"Hmm..."
Weighing down pros and cons of helping her with this, I lost myself in my thought.
Pros:
- Her Explosion's potency could be improved
- I could relax due to the beautiful scenery around here
- I can train my skill without the need to worry about being scolded
- Not skipping a leg day.
Cons:
- Being Megumin's means of transportation.
- Being Megumin's security officer.
Since there are more pros than cons, I'll take the obvious choice.
"Fine, but don't do anything crazy."
"H-huh!? Who do you think I am!?" She flusteredly said.
And so, Megumin and I started our new daily routine.
Braving the icy rain.
Wearing a raincoat, I held an umbrella above Megumin's head.
"'Explosion!'"
BOOM!
SPLASH!
"Achoo! Let's get back Kazuma." Sneezing from the cold, she muttered that while laying down in a puddle of water.
Enduring a scorching sun in the afternoon.
Wearing a sleeveless shirt and track pants, I sat on a tarp I prepared earlier while drinking a cold neroid swish from my thermos.
"'Explosion!'"
BOOM!
Dragging back Megumin to the tarp, I offered her my drink.
Or in a simple refreshing morning when we went for a jog.
Observing Megumin chanting her spell, I wiped the sweat off my forehead before pulling down the zipper of my tracksuit.
"'Explosion!'"
BOOM!
"Good work as always." I complimented.
No matter the time, Megumin would cast her spell at that castle every single day.
"'Explosion!'"
BOOM!
"Hmm... It's weaker than usual. Even my M24's blast is still better than that."
"Guh, for my mighty spell to be compared with that cheap tool..."
Sometimes I'd rate her explosion-
Though, it's not only her who sharpen her skill with that explosion alone.
"Fire in the hole!" I yelled out before covering my ears.
WHUMP!
KABOOM!
An explosion erupted in a distance.
"Ooh, that's a nice explosion, but as always, it could never stand a chance against my amazing 'Explosion'." Megumin commented from behind.
Laying down on the ground in front of me is Granatenwerfer 16, a type of classic spigot mortar that fires 400 gram of high explosive small grenade.
-sometimes she's the one rating my 'explosion'.
And yes, every comment that came out of her mouth is about how my explosion is 'ok' but then added the fact that none of them could surpass her own great/amazing 'explosion'.
"Well, sorry to disappoint you, Ms. Explosion. Your spell cost so much mana that you'll always collapse after that while mine cost lower than yours but yield a weaker result." I replied sarcastically before 'willing' my mortar to disappear.
"Kukuku, that is obvious."
Initially, she's pissed when I told her about my explosion, but let it slide when she found out it couldn't surpass hers which is why her comments always ended up with 'it's good, but not as good as my explosion' variant. Due to this, I'd really love to see her expression one day when I could create Howitzer cannon or Bomber plane.
With that kind of routine every day due to no quest to do, I was even able to judge whether the condition of the explosion spell was good or bad.
"'Explosion'–!"
KABOOOOOMMM!
Whistling at the display of her unusual great explosion, I admire the sight before my eyes.
"Oh, that feels good. The impact of the explosion could be felt through my bones from here, followed by the air tremor that followed immediately after. It is strange that the castle could still stand but… Nice explosion!" I compliment her while giving an 'OK' gesture with my right hand.
"Nice explosion! Kuku, finally Kazuma understands the path of the explosion more now. How about this? Kazuma, do you want to learn explosion magic?"
"Hmm, while I would like to learn this one day, I don't think my class would allo-"
Ping!
Taking out the source of that noise, I look at my adventurer card to find that something popped up in the learn-able skill.
Explosion -50 Skill Points. Description: blah, blah, blah...
Is this some kind of a joke?
And what's with that absurd amount of skill points required!?
"Well, apparently I can, but with that amount of skill points, I'll hold it for now and learn it for later."
"That's fine too."
Megumin discussed such things with a smile.
Just like this, we talked about the beauty of the explosion, how to improve it, and chatted about the way of the explosion.
By the end of the week of our routine, we called each other as "Explosion Kameraden".
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One Week Later...
Sitting next to Megumin and across Aqua, three of us are currently having a breakfast before heading out today.
Ordering the same menu that consists of fried toad's legs and neroid swish, we silently enjoy our meal. Though, that silence didn't last quite long.
"Kazuma, everyone, I'm back."
Coming from the door is Darkness with her armor back. Wait, is it me or is her armor that shiny?
"Oh, it's you?" I blandly replied before returning back to enjoy my meal.
"What's with that reaction? Don't tell me that you forgot about me, thinking that in my way back, I got ravag-"
Tuning out before she could ruin my mood, I silently pray to whatever god or goddess who might listen to my plea of making this perverted crusader stop being a pervert.
Oh right, I do have a goddess right in front of me who can listen, but I doubt she could grant me that. Not to mention due to her idiocy, she might make it worse.
Pausing before she takes a bite out of a frog's legs in her hand, she stares back at me whose gaze focused on her.
"Huh? Why are you looking at me like that, it's creepy, so stop it."
Who the heck would stare at you with lewd intention after knowing your true color, hetaregami?
Ignoring her for now, I urged Darkness to take a seat or order any meal if she hadn't any before coming here.
Apparently, she did have a breakfast before coming here and just sitting there to wait for us.
Finishing our breakfast, we decided to look for a quest that might not be suitable for us and the day will end in me and Megumin doing our new routine again.
Funny, it turns out that I was wrong.
"A simple quest of hunting some stray goblins roaming around the plains?"
"Yes, it pays really well too! Each goblin yields 20,000 Eris and there might be around twenty of them with the completion reward of 100,000 Eris! Isn't it great?"
Yeah, and suspicious as well.
Remind me the last time we were on a quest to destroy goblin encampment it ended up in being ambushed by four Rookie Killer? Hunting what should be an easy picking which ended up in a forest fire and three days doing 'Zivildienst'? Escorting a merchant only to face twenty Rookie Killers?
I'm starting to get paranoid when remembering almost every 'easy' quest we took ended up in being the opposite of easy.
"Hey, don't you feel suspicious at all about how is this quest being an 'easy' one despite none of the guild's recent quest being easy? Don't you think that those goblins might be herded by some Rookie Killers to lure some poor sod newbie adventurer for an easy picking?" I skeptically asked.
"Kazuma, Rookie Killer doesn't that stupid to herd them into an open area. Those monsters prefer to herd those goblins to a small, enclosed area inside the forest so that they can fight effectively. Moreover, if they do appear, you can always leave me behind..." Explaining that to me, Darkness starts to pant at the end and-
"Alright, that's enough of you." I interrupted her before she could say something I'd rather not hear.
"So, knowing that, let's take this quest!" Ripping off the quest notice from the board, Aqua cheerfully shouts. "A lot of money, here I come!" She dashes out.
"Oh mein Gott."
I facepalmed.
Seeing that, Darkness and Megumin could only wryly smile.
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A Few Minutes Later
Walking out of the town's gate, we are moving toward the specified place where those goblins located.
Unlike usual, I didn't carry my usual Gewehr 98 and opted for something different.
Hanging loosely beside my hip is a newly made weapon after I found out that my mana could barely create it.
Using the same type of bullet with my Luger, it's a Bergmann MP18 with 32 rounds 'snail' drum magazine, German's sub-machine gun with a low rate of fire yet better accuracy and range than the other sub-machine gun in its time of the first world war.
I tested it yesterday along with accompanying Megumin in our usual routine, but I haven't used it against the monster, so this might be a good time to do it.
Climbing up a small hill, I take out my binocular to see what lies before us beyond this small hill.
And it turns out to be right.
There are around twenty of those goblins roaming about in the plains below.
"Okay, it seems like the quest description is unusually right as there are indeed around twenty goblins roaming around there. So, let's use the usual tactics." I paused before taking out my combat knife and draw something on the ground. When I'm done, I pointed at a circle that represents this hill where we stood and a stick-man drawing of a person wearing wizard hat and holding staff inside the circle. "Megumin, you'll cast explosion to them and try to take out as much as possible from this hill."
"Roger." She nodded while holding her staff tight.
"Good." Then, I pointed at another stick-man with the alphabet 'M' inscribed on its head and holding a sword before drawing a line from it to a circle filled with many small stick-man drawings. "Darkness, you'll attract any survivor from Megumin's initial assault. And-" Stopping my sentence from completing, I pointed at a stickman holding a pistol and draw several pointy arrows from it that face the direction of those goblins. "-I'll flank them and gun them down with my weapon."
Darkness didn't say anything but nodded resolutely. And is she panting in excitement? She didn't, right? Let's just hope she didn't.
Then, I shift my gaze to Aqua.
Pointing at a stick-man with a kanji '馬鹿' written on its head, I draw a circle around it that includes Megumin's stick-man inside.
"Your job is to protect Megumin after she cast her spell and to heal us."
Aqua nodded as well.
"Okay, now that I already explained the plan, is there something you want to ask?"
Aqua immediately raises her hand at that.
"What is it, Aqua?" I asked with arched eyebrows.
Somehow, I feel that her question will be something bad.
"What's with your suck as hell drawings?"
I knew it!
"Yosh! Let's commence the plan!" I shout out while ignoring her stupid question.
"Hey, are you purposely ignoring my question!?"
Complain as much as you want, Megumin and Darkness didn't pay any attention to it and currently following my plan, you hetaregami.
Right now Megumin stood above the small hill we're on in front of us with her back facing us and her front facing those goblins.
"Hey, Kazuma." Taking a glance at me behind her, Megumin said in an unusually serious tone.
"What is it now, Megumin?" I asked in a similarly serious tone while gulping down.
"Taking some of them out is fine, but you don't mind if I take all of them out, do you?" Somehow as she said that, a breeze of wind billows, making Megumin's robe fluttered dramatically.
Where did you get that reference? Why the wind blows like that to make her look more dramatic instead of revealing her underwear? And why do I feel a certain tanned man with slicked back white hair's theme song would play anytime soon?
"I am the Arch-Wizard of Explosion
I have cast over a thousand explosions
Unknown to giving up, nor known to fatigue
My whole life was... Explosion!"
BOOM!
My jaw simply dropped. Not because of the power of her explosion, nope, I'm too used to it due to our routine. Not because of how many goblins she took out, seriously, because her noisy chant, more than half of their number managed to scurry away in time from being caught in its blast. It's because of her chant.
If I could describe it in one word, it's 'WHAT?'
In three words, 'WHAT THE F*CK!?'
In six words, 'WHERE DID YOU GET THAT REFERENCE!?'
In my shocked state, time didn't stop or slow down like those in manga or anime where time is frozen or slowed considerably to give an exposition or flashback if there's something important about to happen to reader/watcher like in Capt*in Ts*basa or JoJ*. Wait, I don't think the latter could be qualified as this due to the time stopping being literal in the story.
Back to the present, Darkness was already pulling the attention of every goblin in the area to her while Megumin is laying down on the ground with Aqua sitting beside her.
Let's just end this quickly.
Releasing the safety lock in my sub-machine gun, I immediately run as fast as I could with the boost gained from my passive skill of Infanterie.
Circling them around, I aimed my gun at them and-
TATATATATATATATATATATA!
The battle was over before I knew it.
Despite shooting it in few bursts and carefully avoiding to hit Darkness, those remaining goblins fell rather quickly. It took one and probably half of my sub-machine gun's magazine to kill them all.
But despite this, we aren't letting our guard down for any Rookie Killer that might pop out of nowhere.
Only for that to not happen.
"Am I overly paranoid?" I murmured.
But still, I have this nagging feeling that something weird must be going on for us to not have any weird crap happening in our quest. Let's just hope that it's true that I'm just overly paranoid.
With that, we simply head back to town to claim our reward.
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I knew something weird must be happening if we didn't encounter any problem in our quest.
Right now, inside the adventurer's guild, there is almost no one present here. Not only that, when we walked back in town, there aren't many people wandering through the street.
"Kazuma-san and his party? Didn't you listen to the announcement earlier!?" The guild's receptionist, Luna-san exclaimed when seeing us.
"What are you saying? We just came back from doing a quest, how do we suppose to know what happened? Anyway, what's going on with this?"
"A Demon King Army's Boss appeared in the front gate earlier! Right now, every adventurer in this town are currently meeting it or engaging it." She said anxiously.
Shit.
What's that kind of late game enemy doing in this town full of newbie adventurers!?
Wait, it does make some sense as killing newbie adventurers would prevent those newbies from rising into power and become a threat to the demon king army.
But still!
"Hey, what should we d-" I wanted to ask in panic for meeting such powerful adversary, but-
"Hehehehe..."
"Ufufufu..."
"This is it..."
All three of my companion is smiling eerily at that information.
"Isn't it obvious, Kazuma? This is a perfect opportunity to gain a huge sum of money in one go!" Aqua enthusiastically shouted with beaming eyes.
Ah, this hetaregami is going crazy again.
"Although I'm dead tired now, if you can hold that boss for twelve hours, I can at least cast my amazing explosion at him."
This chuunibyou... And how the heck could we wait for twelve hours to kill it? If that monster was appointed as the boss, it would surely kill us even before one hour passed!
"Megumin-san, don't you worry, even if it might be impossible, I'll use my body and spirit to hold him as long as I can."
Alright, my party is hopeless.
After that, I compromised with them to at least observe the situation before jumping into the fray.
With that, we went to the front gate.
I expect to see a bloodshed between the boss and newbie adventurers or a battlefield filled with corpses and weapons laying around the ground from the slaughter.
But the sight that greets me is unbelievable.
"Four... Three... Two... Don't make me kill you all little runt for protecting some explosion maniac!"
Yes, a demon king army's boss, specifically, a Dullahan yelling out loud like a kid throwing some temper tantrum standing on a small hill in front of us.
What's going on here?
Conveniently, there's Taylor's party nearby.
"Hey Taylor, what's going on here?" I whispered to the tense Taylor from behind.
"I-It's a demon king army's boss, it came here looking for some wizard that keeps casting explosion every day on its castle."
Shit.
Actually, it wasn't some wizard, but more like one wizard and one mortar.
"Wait, since when did you arriv- Err-, Kazuma-san? Could that party member of yours is the one that keeps casting an explosion spell to its castle?" Taylor asked out loud with shaky voice while pointing at Megumin behind my back.
Hearing that-
'That's true, that girl recently quit casting her noisy spell around.'
'Yeah, she's the only one who could cast that high-level spell around here.'
'Her party is also filled with problematic people.'
While saying that, adventurers in front of us purposely move aside to let that Dullahan gets a clear view of me and Megumin.
"So, it's you, huh?"
"Hmph." In response to Dullahan's inquiry, Megumin just snorts before getting off from my back.
Hey, what are you planning to do?
Walking toward the Dullahan until their distance shortened to mere 10 meters and faced each other.
Not too far behind her is our party, standing by for anything that might happen.
"So it's you…! You are the moron who cast explosion on my castle every day? If you knew I was the boss of the demon army and want to challenge me to a fight, then enter the castle! If not, then just hide in town and tremble! Why are you bothering me with such evil means? I knew there were only low-level adventurers in town! I wanted to leave such minor characters alone, but you can't catch a clue and come boom boom boom with your spells every day…! Is there something wrong with your head?"
"My name is Megumin! An Arch-Wizard that controls the strongest magic, Explosion!" Instead of answering the Dullahan's question, she struck a pose and gallantly declared.
"Are you trying to mock me? What's with that weird name?" The Dullahan deadpanned.
"That's not it!" She retorted. After calming and composing herself, she struck a pose again before declares. "I hail from the crimson magic clan, the elite wizard of this town. I cast explosion magic continuously in order to lure you, the boss of the demon army out…! As I planned, you came to town alone after being tricked, your end is near!"
"Hey Aqua, Darkness, did you know? I brought that girl along for casting and training her magic, I wonder when did I say it is for luring that boss?" I murmured loudly enough for Megumin to hear, causing her to face to go red.
"Hmmp, whatever. I didn't come here to mess with peasants like you all. I am here to investigate something. I will be staying in that castle, for the time being, so don't cast explosion spell anymore. Understand?"
"That is like asking me to die. Those of the Crimson magic clan need to cast explosion spell once every day, or we would die."
"Hey, hey, do you think I am that stupid!? I've met some Crimson magic clan before and they didn't die for not casting explosion a day!"
Ah shit, she pissed him again.
I looked at Aqua, she was happily watching Megumin messing around with the Dullahan.
The Dullahan placed its head on its right hand and shrugged.
"You don't plan to give up explosion magic no matter what? Even though I had taken the side of darkness, I was a knight before and have no interest in slaughtering the weak. But if you continue to bother me with such things around the castle, I have my way of handling things too."
The Dullahan emitted a dangerous aura, making Megumin took a few steps back.
Then, she did something unexpected.
"Hmph, do you really think I'm scared by your bluff? Do you expect, I, Megumin, to be afraid of you? Then you'll regret doing that, because-" She took another few steps back and pushes me forward. And yelled. "This man is my accomplice! Despite being inferior to my glorious explosion, he also could perform similar thing like I do! We are explosion kameraden! And we shall take you down!"
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! What the fuck did she just say!?
"Hou? Is that so? You really do have a death wish, huh?" The Dullahan smirks.
Then, it points its finger at me.
Oh shit, what is it going to do?
"Although I don't like using this spell or causing death with it, but well, let this be the lesson to teach you not to mess with me! I shall predict your death! You shall di-"
TATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA!
Firing my sub-machine gun at him in panic, I intended to prevent it from completing the chant.
Only for-
"Hot! HotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHot! HOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT!" Rolling on the ground as if on fire, the Dullahan lets out painful cries as smokes slowly come out of several places I shot in his armor.
"Eh?" I dumbly murmured.
Shouldn't undead be immune to pain? Especially if its a higher class undead?
"Hey, hey, Kazuma, praise me more." Aqua suddenly interjects while signaling me to kneel down.
"What?" Leaning down a bit, she whispers.
"I stealthily cast a buff to your gun, 'Holy Enchant' to give it a holy attribute, it's great, right?"
Huh?
Are you serious?
Staring at the sub-machine gun in my hand, I finally noticed that it was covered by a thin bluish membrane that faintly glows.
Then, a shit-eating grin found its way into my face as I took a stielhandgranate from my belt and told Aqua.
"Hey Aqua, wanna see a holy hand grenade?"
"I know what you mean."
Casting the same buff to my stick grenade, I pulled the pin and shout to the recovering Dullahan.
"Hey, Dullahan-san, I have a gift for you!"
Then, I threw it to the Dullahan before running back few meters away.
"Huh? What is th-"
BOOM!
"Hot! HotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHot! HOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT!" Rolling down on the ground again, we can see its rotten flesh from some gaps made from its shattered armor courtesy of my grenade.
"Buehehe- Gahahahahahahahahahaha! Look at that thing everyone! The so called proud and powerful demon army's boss reduced to that state with a mere small explosion! Can't you believe it!? Puhehehehehe! I can't stop laughing!" Laughing heartily beside me is Aqua.
On the other side beside me, Megumin, the one causing this, struck another pose with spreading both legs as wide as her shoulders, her left hand hugging her right side, and her right hand right in front of her face. Then, she declares. "I have predicted this outcome the moment you came, kukuku... How foolish of you."
Seeing both of their shenanigans, the expression of adventurers behind us changed from scared to joining Aqua in laughing and humiliating the Dullahan.
"Ah! Hot! Stop it! Hot! I'll let you off the hot, I mean hook for now! HotHotHot! Don't cast explosion in my castle anymore! Hot!"
PUFF
With those pathetic last words, he disappeared in a puff of black smoke.
Ah, how unfortunate.
I would like to throw another holy hand grenade to finish him off and claim the huge sum of money like Aqua said, but oh well.
To Be Continued...
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A/N:
Alright, the sixth chapter is done, but first of all, Ein frohes neues jahr!/Happy New Year! Returning back to the chapter, it's the usual crazy antics caused by Kazuma's party and even Kazuma himself. For the title, The Grenadier is a soldier equipped with grenades or grenade launcher(duh). Well, the chapter is rather shorter than previous ones, but the next one will be slightly longer than usual and will probably take the usual updating routine(weekly or biweekly). For terms and reference:
- Granatenwerfer: Developed from a weapon originally designed by a priest, of all people, in the Austro-Hungarian army, the Granatenwerfer 16 was a German WWI grenade thrower which bridged the gap between hand-thrown grenades and the light minenwerfers. Throwing a small grenade with a 400g(14oz) high explosive charge to a maximum range of about 300 meters(330 yards), the Gr.W.16 with a practiced crew could maintain a rate of fire of 4-5 rounds per minute. The Granatenwerfer 16 was a classic example of the spigot mortar type weapon. Rather than having a hollow barrel into which the projectile fit, it had a simple rod with a firing pin built in. The grenade it fired had a hollow center shaft, which fit onto the firing rod. To fire, a gunner(a 2-man crew, in practice) would first adjust the spigot rod to the correct angle for the desired range, depress the cocking collar until the firing pin was cocked, rotate the safety lever to the "safe" position, insert a fuse into a grenade(they were fairly sensitive impact fuses), slide the grenade onto the launcher, remove the safety pin, and fire the grenade by means of a lanyard pull. The Gr.W.16 was particularly portable because of its light weight – the launcher itself weighted 31 pounds and the base plate an additional 48 pounds. Thus both parts could be easily carried across areas too confined, muddy, or otherwise impractical to drag a wheeled minenwerfer through. The grenade itself contained a special blank rifle cartridge(actually just a standard service round with the projectile removed), which provided the energy to launch – the granatenwerfer itself simply struck the cartridge primer to fire it. The Gr.W.16s proved to be popular and very effective weapons for the Germans. They had a high rate of fire, useful range, and reasonable effective detonation. They could be used in either direct or indirect fire applications – direct fire was used to fire at things like sentry posts, gun loopholes, and the like. When fired this way, the grenade fragments would fill an area roughly 5m wide and 50m long, while a round fired in a high angle trajectory would have a bursting radius of about 30 meters. Minimum high-angle range was 50 meters, to avoid endangering the firing crew. Granatenwerfer 16 case with tools and spare parts. In terms of manufacturing, the Gr.W.16 was a very simple device, and easy to produce, with only a few moving parts and noting requiring the level of precision that a conventional barrel would need. This made it idea for production by companies like toy manufacturers, who had experience with casting relatively small parts to relatively loose tolerances.
- Explosion Kameraden: Explosion Comrades.
- Bergmann MP18: The Bergmann MP18 was designed by Hugo Schmeisser in 1915 at the Bergmann Waffenfabrik factory. It was designed to fulfill the requirements established by the German Rifle Testing Commission. When the weapon was completed it was designated the Maschinenpistole 18/I or MP18/I. The weapons finished and the parts all fitted by hand at near commercial grade quality. The MP18/I went into production in early 1918 using the 32nd 'snail' drum magazine used in the P08 Luger Artillery. Issued in the final stages of World War I at least 5,000 MP18/I were built and issued before the war ended. The weapon was outlawed for German Military use by the Treaty of Versailles but a small quantity was issued the Weimar Republic for police use. The Weimar Republic weapons are converted to use MP28 stick mags as the 32nd drum was also banned by the Treaty of Versailles. The design was improved upon and manufactured in Belgium for export as the Schmeisser MP28/II.
Type: Sub-machine gun
Caliber: 9x19mm Parabellum
Capacity: 32 cartridges (drum)(Kazuma's), 20 cartridges (box)
Fire Modes: Fully Automatic (450 RPM)
- 馬鹿: Baka, in English, Idiot.
- Taking some of them out is fine, but you don't mind if I take all of them out, do you?: It's a reference to Fate/Stay-Night from Fate Route. The real quote is 'It's fine if I buy you some time, but you don't mind if I kill him, do you?' said by Fifth Grail War's Archer before fighting a losing yet epic battle against Berserker. Also the tanned skin and white slicked back hair is his physical appearance and his robe usually billows when something epic is going to happen soon(Before facing berserker, Parting away in UBW after having the last laugh against Archer of the fourth grail war, and Inspiring HF Shirou to fight berserker and win).
- 'I am the Arch-Wizard of Explosion, etc' is another Fate/Stay-Night reference of Archer's Noble Phantasm(Ultimate Attack) where he chants a long aria to cast it. The aria is rather infamous to be parodied in many series, be it from original show or fanfiction. The real aria is:
I am the bone of my sword
Steel is my body, and Fire is my blood
I have created over a thousand blades
Unknown to death, nor known to life
Have withstood pain to create many weapons
Yet, these hands will never hold anything
So, as I pray, Unlimited Blade Work
- The Time Stopping: It's a reference to most sport series or shonen series wherein a tense battle, when the MC uses his (currently)strongest attack or technique, out of nowhere the time stops or slows down while the MC narrates about how he could use the technique/attack or flashback about training to achieve it. The example I put is Captain Tsubasa(A classic sports anime/manga about soccer) and JoJo. Though, JoJo was averted because most of the time the MC narrates about it, the time literally stops(I'm looking at you, The World and Star Platinum).
- Holy Hand Grenade: It's a very subtle reference to Monty Python and The Holy Grail movie.
Review Response:
- XxPokemonMasterxX: Canonically, it is a species of a monster named for what they usually did, killing rookie adventurers. Also, Ein frohes neues jahr!
- Judgment of the Arbiter: Danke und Ein frohes neues jahr, mein freund!
- RedSS: Now you saw it :D also, Ein frohes neues jahr!
That is all, goodbye! And again, please rate & review, I feel kind of lonely when nobody drops a review on me. Plus, it'd be beneficial for me and you readers as I can improve from your review while you have less to complain about the story. Also thanks for those who follow and faves my story, I'll try my best to write this story to yours and my satisfaction.
P.S. Again to the Germanic reader out there, please correct my words or terms about German if I'm wrong since I'm still learning about your language. Tschüss und Ein frohes neues jahr!