Chapter 31 Fish! Fish! Fish!
As the black-haired girl disappears in his range of sight, Hei impassively takes out his fishing rod from his back, and wires the equipment for his first target.
"You may start first, I will give you a ten-minute advantage." Smiling maliciously, the young assassin gives the promise to the Black Reaper with a sly nod.
"Oh." Casually swinging the fishing rod, the bait lands into the river with such comprehensive normalcy.
"Do be aware of this… I was the fishing champion in…"
SPLASH!
"Oh, I believe this is a specific type of Blue Herring, bizarre fish indeed." Holding his chin, Bulat expresses a small surprise to Hei's first prey.
Watching in awe, the green-haired boy mentally slaps himself, and directly realizes how ridiculous he looked before. Cleaning his throat, Lubbock tries to save himself of some dignity.
"Oh yeah. Blue Herring. I used to catch it in…"
SPLASH!
"Woah, that's a Ruby Trout! I thought those have left this river a few years ago!" This time, it is Leone who clamors out with shock.
"I apologize, I did not hear what you have said, do you want to repeat it?" Turning to glare at the green-haired competitor, Hei casually formulates his question.
"No… nothing…" Wiping off his sweat again, Lubbock replies with a forced smile.
"Oh."
SPLASH!
"Bone – Bone Marrow Fish! That – that's impossible! Aren't – aren't they extinct?!" Holding onto his dropping jaw, Lubbock is currently in a lot of pain. Mentally, metaphysically, however supernaturally possible.
"…" Bulat can only watch the scene with completely no control at all.
…
How did Hei do that? Well, that is a rather technical question to ask. In simpler terms, Hei's contractor powers provided him the necessary means to observe the motion patterns in the water. With the information concerning flow rate, pressure, wind velocity, population distribution, and other factors, Hei's brain can literately calculate the exact time and position to land each of his fishing bait like a supercomputer.
As a result, the muddy shore is absolutely overwhelmed with all kinds of fish in the short span of ten minutes. As for Lubbock? He had chosen to quietly forfeit at the five-minute mark.
And as a result, the green-haired boy is currently crying all over the place internally. Feeling so much regret in his initial challenge, Lubbock came to understand something as soon as Hei pulled out his fifth fish from the river – this man is an actual monster.
In this world of science and truth, the unending supply of the ridiculous quantities of fish just seems… not reasonable at all.
In order to prevent Hei from depleting the entire river in a single day, Leone lastly proceeds to speak out against Hei's "inhumane" method of fishing.
"Hei, that is enough, in fact, more than enough."
"Oh."
"You, you are finished – at last…" Seeing the reflecting of Hei's mask from the shining fish scales, Lubbock cannot even codify his words in the correct order anymore.
"Food, enough." At the same time, Akame just accomplished her goal. Coming out of the river with a small stunned look toward Hei's fishing conclusion, the crimson-eyed assassin's attention is fully occupied by the large stack of meat supplies.
When the sunlight shines upon her body, the water droplets from the clear river perfectly combines the girl's personal beauty with the nature's artistic creations. As the water gradually drips from her hair to her lower body, a layer of transparent decoration slowly furnishes her skin. In the golden sun rays, it is rather hard to differentiate if the girl has such shining skin or the sunlight has such a visual effect.
"Woah…" As the two young boys of the group, Tatsumi and Lubbock's attentions are immediately attracted by Akame's sudden display of elegance.
"Ah…... That's a lot of fish." Smiling at her companions, Sheele walks toward the center of the crowd, "What are we going to do with them?"
"That…. That's too much for us to handle!" Desperately shouting out her opinion, Mine could not believe that her ingenious revenge plan was defeated so easily. Unwilling to give in the smallest satisfaction to the latter, her attitude remains opposing to what Hei has done.
"Fish farming possible in the pond next to the main base." Hei is just stating a fact, and this is definitely not a personal attack toward Mine.
"But how are we going to carry them back?"
"…"
Looking at the large amount of fish he has captured, Hei gradually lets a small idea of his out to the daylight.
"Lubbock."
"Ye, Yes?"
"They are yours now."
"WHAT?!"
…
This is just not the day for him, is it?