How To Live As An Academy Extra Villain

13 – Mice and furry (3)

“Captain. Traces of an unknown creature found. 80 steps ahead at 1 o’clock.”

When the scout ahead returned and reported, Laurel signaled to stop and gave an order to the short brown-haired man behind her.

The man who received Laurel’s order disappeared into the forest ahead, only reappearing after about five minutes had passed.

“How do you look, Patrick?”

“Looking at the shape, it’s definitely that of a rat man. Hmm, I know there are no natural caves around here. Perhaps they are burrowing into the soft soil of the slope and making it their shelter?”

“Tsk, that hurts… Gina, can you try tracking?”

After hearing Patrick’s report, Laurel clicked her tongue lightly and pointed at the gray-haired woman who was standing behind her.

The woman was shocked when her name came out of Laurel’s mouth, as if she hadn’t expected to be called.

“Quite, quite a bit of time has passed and tracking may be cut off in the middle… Let’s do it right now.”

Gina was taken aback for a moment, but seemed to have made up her mind to do her part.

As she approached the trail of the beast and cast an incantation, a thin yellow glowing solid line began to extend from the center.

The solid line moved toward the hideout of the monster at a speed that was neither slow nor fast, and the soldiers gathered in twos and threes to take a break and wait for the tracking to be completed.

“Tracking is not as omnipotent as I thought. There is also a limit to what can be cast, and if the conditions are not met, it is often cut off in the middle. As you can see now, it takes quite a bit of time.”

Laurel couldn’t stand it and came next to me and teased me. Even though it is a subjugation of the lowest-level monsters, I wonder if it is okay to show such a lack of tension. Well, I guess it will be okay since I have the skills.

If you look at what you say there, it is also a bit of advice. Maybe it was because I was told by my father to help me with this and that.

“That child is a new member of the mage division last month. And like the young master, this is also my first appearance. I’m a bit nervous, but I think I’m doing better than I thought.”

The gray-haired woman from earlier must have belonged to the mage division. Members of the subjugation, including Laurel, were all dressed in light armor with leather armor, so it was impossible to tell the difference between the Knights and the Magicians.

The knight’s armor was heavy and made a rattling sound, and the magician’s robe was obstructive and interfered with subjugation in the mountainous terrain, so it seemed that they were unified in light light armor.

“Bocchan, do you know anything about monsters? I know that this is the first time I’ve come in contact with you, Bocchan.”

what i know…

Ratman and Goblin are monsters that were set as the lowest level in the original work as well.

Goblins are the familiar ones we’ve always known, and Ratmen are monsters with a body similar to a goblin, walking on two legs, but with the face and tail of a rat and covered in fur.

And both are well adaptable to the environment and have excellent fertility, so in the game, they were boring to see all over the region.

I heard about it in case there was anything else, but Laurel’s knowledge was no different from mine.

Near the end of Laurel’s explanation, Jina, who had completed the tracking magic, posted a report.

“Captain, the tracking is complete. I saw that the line was digging into the mound of dirt near the ridge ahead, and it seems that the entrance was camouflaged. It is speculated that the passage was also dispersed.”

“Really? Hmm…”

Laurel seemed to think for a moment, then called the knights and wizards closer and gave them instructions for the operation.

“Gina, Patrick. Get Bill and Colin this way too. You take one each of the other four of the five passages. And when I give the signal, start a fire there and force the heat into the cave to seal the entrance. Then “The rest will wait with me at the other open entrance.”

Upon receiving the instructions, they led each soldier to disappear beyond the forest, and Laurel also untied the club from her waist and held it in her hand. And the other soldiers also began to line up, each pulling out similar blunt weapons.

“Ratman’s leather is of good quality, so you can get a good price. That’s why we use a club like this instead of a sword or spear to prevent damage to the leather. Now, the boy’s is here. Don’t think about anything else, just hit your head. Lose, you know?”

Laurel also threw a club at me. I remembered my father’s advice not to do anything risky, but this probably wouldn’t be included in the risk axis either.

And if you have the skills to feel that rat man is a risk, you must already be bad at surviving in this world.

I took a deep breath, gathered my heart, and joined the ranks of the soldiers who secretly surrounded the camouflaged entrance in a semicircle.

The first real match was right around the corner.

“Tasha, send the signal. I will begin.”

As Laurel winked, one of the wizards in the back magically created fireworks.

As the firecrackers rose high into the sky and exploded with a bang, incomprehensible roars followed from beyond the mountain as if in response.

And soon after, the smell of burnt leaves flowed into my nostrils on the wind, and it seemed that those who confirmed the signal had set it on fire.

Laurel smelled it and shouted at the soldiers.

“Come on! They’ll come out soon. Stay alert and make sure that no one escapes from the encirclement!”

After a while, a clamor began to emanate from the cave disguised as a mound of dirt.

The sounds sounded like something was rumbling or crying.

Then a noise began, as if a herd of animals were running, and its amplitude quickly increased.

“It’s coming!! Get ready!“

As soon as Laurel finished speaking, a shadow came out of the cave entrance.

Ratman, a rat man with the size of an 8-year-old child, was the first monster I encountered when I came to this world.

Starting with one monster jumping out, dozens of monsters began to spread out in all directions in an instant.

Ratmen were dressed in cloth and equipped with various weapons, such as spears made of wood with sharpened stones inserted, scythes stolen from the village, or rusty knives.

And these things made me realize that they are not just brutes, but creatures with intelligence of their own.

“It’s out!!”

-puck! puck!

– Jjiik! snap!

The once quiet mountain was now filled with the sounds of hitting the head with a club and the squeaks of the monster’s death.

At first, the sounds could only be heard from the soldiers close to the oyster, but as dozens of them came pouring out at once, the monsters began to gather little by little towards me, located in the middle of the semicircle, the farthest from the oyster.

As I was waiting hesitantly, a ratman rushed in front of me, making a desperate attempt to escape.

– Perok!

-Ik!

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I gathered my courage and swung my arm with strength, and the club hit the top of the head of the rat man who was running towards me.

There was a sound of something exploding, and Ratman was immediately thrown to the ground and writhing all over his body.

“Very well, Master! Just keep doing that!“

Laurel, who was wielding a club near the entrance, looked at me and shouted.

There were already a dozen ratmen rolling around at Laurel’s feet.

Laurel’s hand was swinging without stopping even as her gaze turned this way, and each time the rat man’s corpse continued to pile up.

Not a drop of blood splattered on Laurel’s body, and she showed no sign of exhaustion. Is this job too difficult for her? I finally understood a little bit why Laurel was talking so casually.

“Bocchan, ahead!!”

After hearing Laurel’s words, I looked at the front again. This time, three ratmen were running in a row.

I started swinging the club again.

***

No matter how much time had passed, the sound of clubbing and the monster’s screams had subsided. And the rat men who were hiding in the cave seemed to have all come out now.

Near the entrance, in front of Laurel, countless ratman corpses were piled up like a small hill, and I also managed to catch a little over ten ratmen.

I took a moment to catch my breath and looked around.

Although it was a subjugation of the lowest-level monsters, the soldiers’ bodies were full of scratches, punctures, and bites on their teeth.

In addition, some soldiers were covering their bloody eyes with cloths or burning their severed fingers with fire to stop the bleeding.

Rat Man was obviously a common mob that couldn’t even scratch the player in the game. The gap between the knowledge I know and the reality in front of me is very real.

“after… “

When I caught the last one, I took the wrong direction and my head exploded right in front of my eyes, and my face was covered in blood and an unknown thick liquid.

Laurel looked around and saw me, giggled from afar, then came closer and handed me the cloth.

“You don’t look like a word, young master. If anyone sees you, they’ll mistake you for a veteran who has lived on the battlefield.”

“…I understand, so stop teasing me. I know even if you don’t tell me.”

“Well, surprisingly, it wasn’t bad. It seems like you’ve become a bit more manly than before. If you lose some weight now, you might be able to look good, right?”

“I told you to stop. Go and get things done.”

“Yes~yes~“

Laurel seemed sincere in teasing me by stretching her tail until the end. I’m dying of hate The fact that there is nothing I can do about this woman makes me even more sad.

Seeing from afar the figures she had sent to block the entrance elsewhere, Laurel got up and straightened her clothes.

Manager-level figures came closer and lined up in front of Laurel.

“report.”

When Laurel speaks, the knight called Patrick answers.

“Report. A total of 127 ratmen have been subdued. Of these, except for 10 corpses that have to be disposed of due to damaged leather, the rest are in very good condition. No deaths among the soldiers, but many with minor injuries, One person each received a serious wound in his left eye and one person had his little finger amputated. There are no casualties or casualties in the Knights and Mages.”

The 10 corpses that had to be discarded were equal to the number of ratmen that had escaped the siege earlier.

For the number of cases in which the siege would break through, the wizards were waiting in advance to prepare spells in the back, and those who escaped were hit by the spell and their bodies turned black.

If even one animal escaped, the subjugation could be turned into nothing with its tremendous fertility, so it seemed that even if it was a bit of a waste of leather, thorough measures were taken.

“Sometimes jingle. How did all 127 of them get in there? How was yours?”

“Well, Ratman is afraid of fire, so there was no shadow this way. I drove the fire into the cave, sealed the passage with a rock, and returned.”

“That’s good. With 117 hides, the harvest is good. Then, let’s finish the subjugation. After going down to the village to resupply, finish one more subjugation in the afternoon, and then head to Makni, the final convergence point. Colin, go and block the entrance on our side with rocks, Gina, Patrick and Bill, you lead the soldiers to skin the rat man, but leave the wounded out so they can get medical treatment. “I will return after a 20-minute break.”

As soon as Laurel finished speaking, the managers dispersed to do their respective tasks in perfect order.

As I looked at that scene, I felt the lingering effects of what I had done just moments ago.

My right hand, which had smashed Ratmat’s head countless times, trembled, and my heart was pounding as if it were about to jump out at any moment. The weight of the life I had killed remained intact there.

Although they are monsters, the ones I killed were once living, breathing, intelligent beings on this land.

And still ahead of me is the predestination of taking the lives of countless such things.

Getting used to the act of killing something is a very natural quality that a person living in this world should have.