chapter 1
automaton
Tea time with Automaton.
“crank!”
jump!
The door of the inn, where he had been staying for a long time, burst open, and a girl with a lively smile came carrying a plate with a bowl on top.
A muscular hulking man sitting on the floor with a backpack turned around to see that he had a bucket-like helmet on his head.
“why?”
“It’s cabbage juice! They say this is good for stomach ailments! Drink!”
He stretched out his hand and received the bowl of soban, then lifted the bucket and helmet and drank the liquid from the bowl at once.
“nice···!”
“How are you?!”
“It’s not tasty, it’s thick.”
Carrot, who received the bowl, pushed her pretty face closer.
“I use medicine that is good for my body, but do you feel like your stomach is getting better?”
“Okay, I’m ready, let’s go to work.”
“okay!”
She jumped up from her seat, and behind Carrot, who was holding empty bowls and soban, a tall man twice as tall as her, carrying a backpack as if he was wearing a bucket, stood up.
As I walked down the inn, I was greeted by a voluptuous hostess.
“Are you going to work?”
“yes. I’ll be back.”
“I’m going!”
When Carrot holds out the soban, the proprietress accepts it with one hand and smiles happily as the two walk out the door.
“Go carefully.”
Carrot, wearing an automaton combat uniform, looked back and smiled and waved. The black steel gloves tucked into his slender arms were frightening, but the story is different for allies.
Carrot raised her hand as they walked along the edge of the main street, where carriages and carriages mingled.
“Can you put the soft skin on your hands and feet again?”
“There is a soft cream shop over there. Shall I buy you one?”
Carrot puffed up her cheeks and slapped her hand on his big ass.
“ah! I’m not human, so I can’t eat it even if you give it to me! Don’t turn around! soft skin! Put some on your hands and feet! You’ve earned a lot thanks to me these days!”
“If you punch me a few times, it will turn into a clot of blood, so what if I cover it?”
Carrot, who looked down at the floor, grunting to see if she was right, affirmed.
“That’s right. But I want pretty hands and feet.”
Crank remembers her sitting in front of the mirror all day long laughing when she first put on the full body soft skin, and at the same time, when the soft skin on her hands and feet turned bloody because she couldn’t stand the intense battle, she remembered her imitating a living corpse with an expression that lost everything in the world. I also remembered the look.
Krank, who was silent for a while as he walked, opened his mouth.
“As long as the pay for this job comes in, all the money to buy a house is collected. Then I’ll get some gear and test it out, see if I can partially softskin the automaton. Or something like that.”
“and! really! thank you! Crank too! I will work hard!”
When he arrived at the Adventurer’s Guild by walking along the main road, the people who came first greeted him.
“female! crank!”
“Mr. James.”
A man with a hairy beard smiles and waves. There were quite a few people gathered around him.
“Did you come early?”
“I think it’s late.”
“no. we just came everyone! I’m your friend this time crank.”
The bald head with a bitter look grumbled.
“They say they have automatons.”
“Me! I am the automaton!”
The bald man’s expression wrinkled and straightened when he looked around and noticed the little girl below.
“Huh! Soft skin?!”
“yes! that’s right! My master put it on me!”
Bald Head and his colleagues all turned their heads slightly and looked at Carrot with sharp eyes. She had a bright expression like a local girl outing, but the sturdy combat jacket and skirt made of thick leather with iron plates were not suitable for going out. To go a step further, the gloves and boots were made of steel with lots of spikes to rip apart the opponent’s flesh.
I’m fine. Is that skirt meant to make your legs comfortable?
“Adventure!”
The bald man, who glanced at Crank’s eyes, reached out his hand.
“I’m sorry. I heard that there was an automaton, so I intervened. Because it’s kind of dangerous. . . but is that a helmet on your head?”
Krank held his hand and laughed. I couldn’t see his expression, but his eyes were slightly visible through the slits in the bucket-like helmet. It was a good impression.
“Yes, I know it’s rude, but I’m using it for a reason.”
“You don’t have to apologize. There are a lot of friends in this industry who are worse off. Like our Molly.”
Among the bald party, a man wearing a robe and hood flinched. It looked like a woman, and on her face she wore something like a mask made of boar’s skull.
“This, this is Master’s keepsake…”
“Okay, stop it. Please don’t cry.”
“Is Molly crying again?”
As the team members teased her, Molly pulled the hood over her face.
“Molly, this is our wizard. We are taking some advantage of him.”
Crank and Carrot looked on with interest.
“Molly! What kind of magic can Molly use?!”
Turning away from Carrot’s question, Molly raises her arm, and flames roar from her slender hand.
“oh-! Awesome! It’s a fire system!”
Bald Head and his team were proud, and Crank nodded. He turned to James.
“What about the rest of the party?”
“Actually, it’s still before the appointment time. You guys just came early.”
“What are you who came before us?”
“Because I live nearby. Oh, you’re coming over there. This is the last party for the day.”
Where everyone turned their heads, a shrewd young man and a woman with a docile face walked by.
“Uh, I came to come early, Mr. James. Are we the last?”
James stopped laughing.
“You came on time. It’s not too late for anyone yet. We all gathered. wait a minute I’ll go in and go through the guild procedures.”
While James entered the guild building, the people gathered in front of the building started looking at each other. Bald started talking, but Carrot was the first to say hello.
“hello!”
The woman lowered her head slightly, and the young man with his arms crossed glanced down at Carrot and asked while looking at his bald head and crank.
“I heard there are automatons and wizards, but who are they?”
Bald laughs, and Carrot raises her hand.
“It’s me! I am the automaton!”
The young man was frightened.
“Soft skin?!”
“Yeah!”
“My God, he really looks like a human!”
Looking at the young man making a fuss, Carrot smiles. Crank opened his mouth.
“Wizards are the ones on this side. By the way, are you a reinforced human?”
The young man who was looking at Carrot stretched his back, coughed, and pointed to the woman next to him.
“My name is Lena.”
Lena bowed once again. When everyone’s eyes fell on her, Lena blushed and turned her head away.
“Is that a reinforced human? Are you just a normal girl?”
The young man raised his eyebrows and raised his voice.
“Don’t call me like a thing. One punch from Lena will blow your head off!”
“You react very sensitively. Is it because you’re a woman?”
“no···! that···!”
When a member of the team who had a quarrel fired at him, the young man blushed and was speechless. The bald head gave a little notice and said.
“Forgive your teammates for their rudeness. that···. Nope. I’ll ask later.”
Both the young man and Lena were blushing and covering their faces, so Bald turned his head away, and his teammates rejoiced in finding a tease after Molly.
“Wah ha ha. Are you kids?”
“Molly, Molly, they must be dating. see. They both lost their faces.”
“Ha ha ha ha ha!”
Everyone burst into laughter when Carrot, who was standing next to the wizard teammates, spoke casually.
“ah! Stop it…!”
“Everyone do that.”
As the bald man cracked down on his teammates, Crank approached the young man and held out his hand.
“Crank, I brought the automaton Carrot.”
After some hesitation, the young man who held his hand opened his mouth.
“Adam, the guardian of the enhanced human Lena.”
“I am a ghetto who is in charge of the temporary captain of the Molly Wizards. There’s Molly in the black hood, Rimo to the side, Toast and Yuri. It is reassuring to meet people who are on the go ahead of big things.”
“But what are we going to do?”
All eyes were on Carrot. This little automaton girl was looking up at the larger human adults with her bright eyes.
said the bald ghetto.
“Did you not hear? We are going to rob a dragon rare.”
“Oh my God! Excited child!”
Some kind of information that an abandoned dragon rare was recently discovered was sold to the adventurer’s guild, and the guild organized and dispatched an emergency search party to confirm the authenticity of the information. It was a risky job, but because the pay was really good, there were any number of applicants, but because it was so dangerous, the members who cut the middle line among the applicants were as follows.
Crank, Adam and Molly Wizardry (temporary).
The main focus of each team is 1 automaton, 1 reinforced human, 1 wizard,
“Kyaaagh!”
baaagh!!
The goblin’s small body exploded as it attacked with a single punch. As soon as Lena with a mask-like face withdrew her fist, she turned around and kicked the goblin from behind. The strength was so good that a goblin exploded on the spot when kicked.
Carrot was also rampaging nearby, her little body soaked in the goblin blood she had torn apart, making her brown hair red. Its fighting style was unique, fighting with taijutsu using its arms and legs, and turning its body round and round like a dancing music box doll when more opponents approached. Then, the skirt she was wearing spreads upwards with centrifugal force, and a blade comes out of it and cuts everything around it.
“You fight very well.”
“It’s not a fight, it’s a one-sided massacre. It’s the first time I’ve seen a goblin explode.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen an automaton and an enhanced human fight, and it’s really amazing.”
“Assholes! Don’t let go! Clean up the surroundings of the kids in close combat! check! Do not stop the check!”
Those who had stopped at the command of the bald ghetto captain gathered their minds and started shooting with automatic crossbows. tu tu tu tu! Carrot, who was forming a battle line with Lena, saw the arrows pouring down and looked back and shouted.
“wow! Don’t shoot too close! I think that’s right!”
“Oh! sorry!”
“Spread more than 10 meters! Don’t hit our kids!”
The ghetto screams.
“Molly!”
A fireball was created over Molly’s head, who was casting a spell with her staff. As she nodded, the ghetto shouted.
“Lena! Carrot! withdrawal! Get out of the way!”
Ghetto shouted as Lena and Carrot jumped backwards like rabbits.
“Molly! One blow!”
“Fireframe.”
Puhwarrr!!!!
A stream of fire shoots out in the direction Molly is looking. It was so hot that the goblins who touched the flames turned to coals and rolled around.
“Oh! What a wonderful magic! It’s the best for combat!”
Those were Carrot’s words covered in blood. Lena is also looking at it with wonder.
The area where the dragon rare was discovered was in the mountains, about three days from the Ark City of Argon, so the party had to travel by car.
After Molly’s fire magic ended, the goblin’s den was full of charcoal. There were a lot of trees around, so I was worried about a fire, but it didn’t spread too badly.
“These guys aren’t coming out anymore.”
“How do I do it?”
Ghetto touched his chin at the words of his colleagues who were collecting intact arrows.
“We should just go in order.”
“Yes. Our purpose is not to subdue goblins.”
“But the oysters are too close to human trails. These guys ambush travelers. We must kill all possible.”
Ghetto, who took over as temporary captain, wiped the bloody face off Carrot nearby and turned to Crank, who was examining the equipment.
“Hey Crank!”
“yes.”
“What do you think?”
Bucket Head looked at the bald head. Then I saw a burning branch nearby, and then I saw the bald captain again. Ghetto was a quick-witted man.
“Let’s have a campfire! glass! Remo! toast! Gather the wood!”