Strange Grief Wants to Retire ~ The Weakest Hunter Dreams of a Hero ~

Chapter157，Part2: 2 - Digging an Onsen

Chapter 157 Digging an Onsen

Part 2

Luke shrugged his shoulders as if it couldn’t help, and *dondon* tapped Anthem’s armored leg and pointed him out.

“O?, o?, Anthem. Look at this land. You are only four meters, so there is plenty of space! Think about it calmly, it is about a hundred meter long, so ermm…… We can go up to twenty-five of you.” (Luke)

Good grief, I have no idea what the hell Luke was talking about, but Luke is right. I should say something appropriate and follow suit.

“Yes, he is right, it is alright, and if we don’t have enough space, we can ask Lucia to distort the space with her magic. Easily, eaaasily.” (Cry)

“Wait! Can you please stop saying whatever you want? …… Well, leaving aside creating a Ryokan, if it is just a matter of digging a hole, I can somehow do it…… Anthem-san, you don’t need to worry about this. As I need to do my best as Leader is always *daradara* slacking off.” (Lucia)

“………… I’m so sorry about that.” (Anthem)

Anthem lowered his head covered by a large helmet.

The number of times I have troubled Anthem exceeds far more times than the number of times Anthem has troubled me. I wonder if it is enough to repay him by just digging an Onsen.

Come on, dig it quickly, diiig! It is time to make effective use of your unnecessarily high physical abilities to good use! This is much easier than fighting Monsters.

Liz jumped off Anthem’s shoulder with a light jump and Luke rolled up his sleeves.

“Leader, you can’t just dig an Onsen you know? You have to somehow pump it up or it won’t be good……” (Lucia)

“Aaaah………… Then, can’t you use that? You know, that magic you showed me a long time ago, the one that creates a fountain.” (Cry)

It is a magic that makes water spurt out of the ground. I wanted to know how far magic could go, so I asked Lucia to create that magic.

By the way, I remember her complaining to me a lot at that time. I haven’t matured at all……

Maybe because she remembered it, Lucia made a loathing expression.

“………… That magic, after using it, I used it to blow up a castle though.” (Lucia)

“………… Just tweak the output a little bit? Don’t worry, it will work one way or another…… Because, it has always worked out so far.” (Cry)

“It is not that it did work one way or another, it is because I managed to make it work. Haaa……” (Lucia)

“For now, let’s leave the major work to Lucia-chan, so let’s work out the details. In the worst case, we just need to keep at it for a few days. We will leave the rest to contractors and have them slowly fix it.” (Sytry)

As usual, Sytry did a good job at summarizing everything. Lucia and the others had been away for a long time, so this scene seemed like it had been a long time since it last happened.

Usually, I just sit around because there is nothing that I can do, but today, I feel like working.

I rushed through Sytry’s land and stopped near the center.

“Yosh, Lucia. Let’s dig around here for the time being!” (Cry)

“Again you are doing as you please……” (Lucia)

“Don’t worry, Lucia-chan. They said that no matter where you dig around this area, you will usually hit an Onsen. Besides, if you fail, you can always try again until you hit one, right?” (Sytry)

As Sytry admonished Lucia, she came to me with a loathing expression. She has reached her rebellious period.

And then, she took a deep breath, opened her eyes, and cast a spell in a whisper.

Her long black hair was floating in the air even though there was no wind.? I can’t see it because I lack the ability to sense magic, but I’m guessing that Lucia is building up her magic by emitting a huge amount of magic from her body right now.

The place I indicated made a *mishimishi* creaking sound, and a large dark hole of about a meter wide opened up.　I waited with bated breath for the hot water to come out. However, no matter how long I waited, there was no sign of hot water coming out.

“…………? *Areh*? Where’s the Onsen?” (Cry)

“I dug about two thousand meters, but…… Looks like I didn’t hit a water source. I knew it, it looks like we got an empty shot.” (Lucia)

I knew? What do you mean by I knew it? Wasn’t it that no matter where we dig, we will find one…… I am disappointed.

Well, I could show her another place, but I knew it, I am unlucky. Sytry also smiled while being troubled.

Just as I was about to turn my gaze away from the hole to look for a new place, a dark hand suddenly came out of the hole and grabbed the ground.

My heart almost stopped because of it. But then, Lucia kicked the hand away without hesitation.

A human-like hand with claws let go of the ground and disappeared into the hole without a single sound.

………… What? Just now……

“Moh~! With Leader, it immediately becomes like this! I am closing it? Alright?” (Lucia)

“Wait a minute, Lucia! Was that subterranean people? It was a subterranean person, right!? I’ll go!!” (Luke)

“Wait, Lucia-chan~. It will be such a waste ~! I want to see what’s inside~! Come on Ti, let’s go~!” (Liz)

Liz and Luke threw their shovels and rushed to the side of the hole.

I thought to myself, “I can’t wait to go to the Onsen with everyone”.

TL notes:

Thanks for reading!

Haha just because Cry pointed the place to dig, subterranean or underground people come out! What were the odds? 10 out of 10? XD

And loved Lucia’s reaction, just kicked the hand as if it was nothing and kept going with the digging.

Tchao à plus!

Footnotes

Moh: Scream for when people are annoyed or aggravated. It can be translated as an annoyed come on.