The Hunter, the Goblins, and… (1)
The Hunter, the Goblins, and… (1)
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I would question her about the leash later. This wasn't the time; we had to prepare to take on the goblins.
First, I purchased materials from the Dimensional Shop.
"..."
As expected, the materials were expensive because they weren't common in this world. To buy the quantity I needed, I'd have to spend every point I'd saved.
For now, I had to buy one and test it out.
"What do you think? Can you shoot it?"
"I'll give it a try."
Buffed as she was, Yuri could now reliably hit a target within four hundred meters, but...
"...The balance is bad after all. I'm not used to this kind of thing. I think I'll need to be within three hundred... no, 250 meters."
"That'll work. Reni, keep Haste up. We have to get ahead of them."
"Yes."
"Ah, that thing you showed me in the dungeon before, right? I don't need it."
Thanks to her buffs, Yuri could run at a similar speed to us even without 「Haste」. No, if anything, I suspected she might be faster than we were.
"Right. Let's go."
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That distinctive terrain we'd seen on the way to the dungeon.
There was a five-meter-high cliff with a passage between its sides so narrow that three people standing abreast would block it—the place Reni had said she could seal with Protection.
That was where Reni and I waited for Yuri. Before long, a log floated up in my system window.
[Irregular Entity 「Half-Goblin」...]
Yuri was doing well.
Not long afterward, Yuri came running from up ahead.
"They're coming."
"Good. What about the white one?"
"No use. It just snatched the arrows out of the air."
"I see. Can't be helped."
If we could have sniped that boss, things would have been a lot easier, but it looked like things weren't going to go that smoothly after all.
I handed Yuri the quiver I'd prepared in advance, packed full of modified arrows.
"Two per goblin. Keep that in mind."
"Got it. Boost me up."
Yuri backed up a few meters,
"Hah!"
then sprinted forward, using my cupped hands as a boost to leap onto the five-meter cliff. Effortless, as expected.
"Now hide!"
"Okay!"
"Reni, you ready? Same as before, wait for my signal."
"Yes."
Reni nodded, her face tense.
...
Not long after, the goblin horde came into view. The moment they saw us, they stopped about fifty meters away.
-Grrrk! Grook! Grrrrk!
The white hand cracked its whip and shrieked something.
"..."
Dragging this out wasn't good. Those bastards needed to start their attack, and fast.
Without a word, I threw a rock, but I missed the goblin and it just landed nearby. Fifty meters with Basic Throwing really was too much to ask.
-Kueeeeegh!!!!!
At my provocation, the white hand flinched, then screamed and drove the goblins at us.
-Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
Thirty-five goblins. Even ordinary goblins charging in a pack like that would be hard to survive, and these were enhanced half-goblins to boot.
In a frontal fight, there was absolutely no overcoming their numerical advantage.
-Thudthudthudthudthud!!
The same went for hit-and-run tactics. Even if Yuri shot arrows at them from long range all by herself, if they scattered in every direction, we couldn't take them all. If just a few of them reached the village, the damage would be catastrophic.
-Kweeeeeeeegh!!!!
Ten meters till contact.
"Reni!"
Instantly, a bluish barrier sprang up.
-Thud!
The goblins collided with the barrier.
"Yuri! Now!"
Yuri, who'd been hiding on the cliff, began firing arrows like mad.
And a system message appeared.
[Familiar registration for Irregular Entity 「Half-Goblin」 in progress: 68% complete]
[Familiar registration for Irregular Entity 「Half-Goblin」 in progress: 78% complete]
[Familiar registration for Irregular Entity 「Half-Goblin」 in progress: 32% complete]
[Familiar registration for Irregular Entity 「Half-Goblin」 in progress: 57% complete]
[Familiar registration for Irregular Entity 「Half-Goblin」 in progress: 95% complete]
...
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There were three main preparations for taking on a goblin pack.
First, my trait.
[Once You Swallow Semen, You Can't Move (S)]
[Description: ▼]
[A monster that ingests or absorbs the Sex Warrior's semen becomes the Sex Warrior's familiar.]
[The required amount is proportional to the monster's intelligence.]
If the goblins' numbers were the problem, I'd just turn those numbers to our side. But unless they stood still and opened their mouths, getting them to eat my semen was out of the question. I had to forcibly shove it inside their bodies.
But how? I had been thinking about that whenever I had a spare moment, ever since I first acquired Once You Swallow Semen, You Can't Move.
Simple. If they wouldn't eat mine... I'd just inject them with it.
[Dimensional Shop]
[Purchased Item: Tranquilizer Dart]
[Order Request: Single-use. Return after use. In exchange, lower price.]
It would've been convenient if I could buy the tranquilizer gun itself, but that wasn't possible.
It was hard to buy something that alien from the Dimensional Shop.
It didn't matter. The projectile was what mattered, not the gun. A tranquilizer dart could be used with a blowgun—hell, even thrown by hand.
Despite the name, a tranquilizer dart was ultimately a syringe: an automatically triggered syringe powered by air pressure. A syringe was within my capabilities. I had also designed the darts to return automatically after use, so they could hardly have a major effect on this world.
Even after going that far, I could only buy about twenty-five syringes. And that was after I'd saved up so many points from doing it with Reni. Still, with this many, it was doable.
After buying the syringes, I transferred the contents of the Holy Bombs I'd stockpiled earlier into them.
And lastly, arrows. Yuri had only brought forty arrows. That wasn't going to be enough, so I spent all my remaining points on arrows. I couldn't buy modern arrows made with carbon-fiber composites, but I could buy traditional wooden ones.
If I'd bought them on Earth, wooden arrows like these would've been more expensive, but... the Dimensional Shop's pricing was based on how divergent something was from this other world, so these were actually cheaper.
With that, I removed the arrowheads, wrapped the syringes on with a reasonable amount of tape, and the Semen In, Couldn't Move arrows were complete. Tying them on too tightly was a bad idea. The syringe could break on impact, so I only fastened them enough to stay fixed during flight.
After making a whole pile of arrows like that, we used Haste to get ahead of the goblins, then waited at the cliff terrain. After that, all we had to do was wait for Yuri to drive them toward us.
Of course, we had to test things first. I needed to know how many shots it would take to turn them into familiars.
The test results from the arrows Yuri fired while luring them showed that two shots per goblin was enough to make them familiars. A lucky thing their Intelligence stat was low.
If the required amount had been higher, I would've had to round them up and use Holy Fire. But... that was too dangerous. Fire couldn't be controlled. Never mind me, even the girls could've been hurt.
So...
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[Irregular Entity, 「Half-Goblin」 familiar registration complete.]
[Irregular Entity, 「Half-Goblin」 familiar registration complete.]
[Irregular Entity, 「Half-Goblin」 familiar registration complete.]
...
Out of thirty-five goblins, ten were now on our side. Twenty out of twenty-seven shots had hit properly. The difficulty was considerable since we had to hit the same goblin twice each, but Yuri managed it somehow.
Considering the ones that malfunctioned or broke, that was a damn good showing.
That made it twenty-five versus thirteen. We were still outnumbered, but we held the terrain advantage and even had a ranged dealer.
-Ding!
A strategy simulation interface appeared at the edge of my vision. I dragged and dropped all the familiars to select them in a group. Next, a command interface appeared. I quickly input the commands.
[Mode: ▶Direct Command / Auto-Pilot]
[Disposition: Aggressive / Neutral / ▶Defensive]
[Additional Command: Hold Current Position]
[Execute?]
[▶Yes / No]
-Thud!
Instantly, the familiar goblins turned.
"Reni! Drop it!"
"Yes!"
Protection vanished, and the goblins blocked the front as if to protect me. I thrust my sword through the gaps between them, taking the goblins out one by one.
I'd check them, and whenever a goblin was stabbed, I'd use Holy Fire to burn it up then and there. Goblins collapsed, fire spewing from their eyes, noses, mouths. Since they were burned from the inside, there was no need to worry about the fire spreading.
-Grook! Grrrrrrk!
Behind them, goblins with arrows embedded in their eyes, ears, and throats were dropping one after another. Yuri was doing well. At this rate...
-Kweeeeeeeegh!!!!!!
"!"
A black streak shot toward me. The wind from it grazed my ear by a hair. What was that?!
Looking ahead, the goblins had parted cleanly to the left and right, and the white hand was glaring straight at me.
-Kegh!
One of my familiar goblins collapsed, entangled in the whip. Then the whip lashed out again.
-Kwegh!
One more. At this rate, that bastard would kill us all.
I pushed through the goblins and stepped forward.
"Reni! Light, max output!"
"Yes!"
"Yuri! Cover your eyes!"
"Now!"
Immediately, a sphere of light rose up. Even though I covered my eyes with my elbow, I could still feel the light seeping through. Holy Light had no heat, but it was so bright that the sheer luminosity made my body feel hot.
-Kwergh?!
"Okay!"
I opened my eyes to find the goblins floundering, completely disoriented.
I charged straight at the boss.
-Kwegh!
The whip lashed toward me again, but it lacked its earlier accuracy. Even without sight, the creature seemed able to locate me through its other senses.
-Kurrrk!
I timed the swing and caught the whip on my sword. It coiled around the Holy Sword like a tentacle. I could cut it with Ultrasonic Cutter... No. Wait.
「Electric Finger」, max output!
-Bzzzzzzzt!
-Kwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!
Intense sparks flew between the Holy Sword and the monster's body!
[HHHHHHHHHOLYLYLYLYLYLYSWSWSWSWSWORD!@#^!#&*(*%^^&]
A message from the Holy Sword popped up out of nowhere. This wasn't the time to pay attention to that.
"Yuri!"
Yuri didn't miss the opening.
Yuri's arrow entered through the boss's ear canal and pierced straight through its head.
-Kueeeeeeeegh!!!!!!
I felt the strength leave its body through the whip. It would fall any moment. When it dropped to its knees, arrows sprouted from both eyes.
The boss collapsed like that, clawing frantically at its ears, and then stopped moving altogether.
-Grrok?! Kerrrrk!!!
With the boss down, the remaining goblins wavered in confusion. Together with my familiar goblins, I charged at them.
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"Yuri! Come down!"
We'd dealt with every last goblin. Only one familiar goblin remained. Things had gone more smoothly than I'd expected.
"Okay, I'm coming down now."
Yuri slowly climbed down the cliff, her voice trembling slightly. Was it the shock of the battle? Come to think of it, this was probably her first actual fight against monsters.
"Care... careful..."
"Okay... ah!"
Th-this girl... she lost her footing after all!
"Kyaa!"
"Watch out!"
I somehow managed to catch Yuri. Good thing I'd been waiting underneath; she could've gotten badly hurt otherwise.
"Ooh... huh? Oh? Oh!"
Yuri had her fists clenched and her eyes squeezed shut. She slowly opened them, made a strange sound of wonder, and looked up at me.
"So this is what they call a princess carry. This is my first time actually being held like this... hee hee."
"Is that so. Then get down now."
"Ah! Wait! I'm tired! Just carry me like this!"
This shameless... wait.
This girl was speaking with her usual cheeky tone, yet she was trembling, even her lips quivering.
...She had lost her virginity like that only moments ago, then lured an entire horde of goblins by herself. Of course she was shaken after one shock after another.
I'd been about to give her a piece of my mind, but...
"Fine. Alright."
"Oh? Nice service. Hee hee."
She was laughing, but it hurt to see her dry lips trembling.
"Here. Drink some water first."
Still holding Yuri, I took a canteen from my inventory and held it out to her. But Yuri just wrapped both arms around my neck and showed no intention of taking it.
"I'm tired. Feed it to me."
"...Fine."
"Hee hee."
Even as Yuri drank, she kept giggling so much that most of the water ended up spilling. Whatever was so funny, she wouldn't stop laughing.
"All done."
"Okay. Shall we get going, then? Reni?"
When I turned to look at Reni, about to start moving... Reni's face had gone a little glum.
Mm... now that I thought about it, this was a pose Reni liked, wasn't it. But... hmm...
"Reni? Come here."
"Okay..."
"Get on my back."
"Huh?! B-but... "
"This one's heavy."
"What?! Hey!"
"I don't think the balance will work if I carry her like this. Hurry up."
"Ugh..."
When I pressed her, Reni reluctantly climbed onto my back. Seeing Reni like that, Yuri giggled again as if she understood exactly what was going on. Reni buried her face against the nape of my neck, radiating heat.
Still, well. This wasn't bad either. It wasn't like it was hard, with all the levels I'd gained.
More than anything, I could feel Reni's chest against my back, and Yuri's sideboob and ass against my chest, and Yuri's thighs and Reni's thighs in my arms at the same time... on top of that, feeling Reni's breath directly on my nape was giving me goosebumps...
Ah, no. I couldn't get hard here.
I wanted to. I wanted to do it right now!!!!
"..."
To want to do it and not be able to. Tragic.
Still, I could enjoy both of these sensations at once.
It was basically a pseudo-threesome.
....
A threesome... I really want one...