Story 5: 【Caller】 And The Spring Deep In The Mountains

Of course we need food to survive, but we also need water.

In addition, it must be a clean water that would not upset my stomach if I drank it.

So first, we are going to a place near the top of the mountain where there's a fountain......

(Pulling a cart up a steep mountain path takes more energy than I thought......!)

I was pulling a cart up the hill with water barrels and jars on it.

The path to the top of the mountain are quite narrow, so we had to make a long detour.

In terms of straight line distance, it would be quite a journey.

......So naturally, I was getting a little tired.

As I sweated, Roa and Fiana called out to me.

「Oniichan, you're sweating a lot, are you sure you're okay......?」

「Goshujin-sama, if it's too much for you, can I take your place?」

「No, if it is just this much, leave it to me......!」

I mean, if I don't do something like this, I will just become a complete burden.

I don't know the range of it, its a byproduct of the 【Caller】 my voice leak out to the monster in the surrounding area.

If a monster appears, I could ask for their help, but other than that, I want to take the lead.

「But goshujin-sama, don't overdo it, okay? We're here to help you, master. Besides, I heard from Roa that you've been beaten badly by the Dark Kobolds. If your wounds are still hurt, you really shouldn't push yourself too hard.」

Fiana asked with concern.

「I'm really fine. Don't make that kind of face. Besides, it's just the right amount of rehabilitation.」

If I'm going to live in the mountains, I'm going to need a certain amount of physical strength.

Therefore, I have to make light work of this.

「Muuu, if oniichan say so I won't stop you...... wait.」

「Hmmm, is there something wrong?」

Roa stopped, so Fiana and I stopped together.

Then, Roa looked around as if to see what was going on, and then said in a small voice.

「The monsters will be here soon. I heard footsteps. I think they were attracted to oniichan.」

「It's like yesterday again....... Do you know the number?」

「Oh, I can hear them now, too. I think there are about five big ones.」

When they finished speaking, Roa and Fiana took on the forms of a dragon and a phoenix, clad in light and fire.

Immediately after that, a huge shadow appeared, knocking down the trees on the side of the path.

『GUOOOO......!!!』

Its bipedal frame was several times larger than mine, almost big enough to shadow the cabin.

It has uneven teeth in its mouth and a club like a log in its hand that can grab a person.

The body color is dark green......this demon is!

「No way, it's a troll!? I've never heard of them around these mountains!?」

Trolls, commonly known as man-eating monsters.

It is a vicious and powerful monster that is said to be able to devour as many as a dozen people if it enters a village or town.

Even so, I've never heard of a troll in the past decade in a remote area where there are not as many people as in the town.

Then , it must be......

「These guys were drawn here by goshujin-sama. If that's the case, I won't let them lay a finger on you!」

Fiana quickly leapt up and moved over the heads of the trolls, enveloping one of them in the flames that erupted from her wings.

『GUUUUU!!??』

The troll, whose entire body had been scorched in an instant, was reduced to ashes in a few seconds.

Also, Roa didn't overlook the pack of trolls who were frightened by the fact that their friends had been killed.

「There's an opening!!!」

Just like the time when she wiped out the dark kobold, Roa released a ray of breath from her mouth.

The shining breath swallowed the two trolls and obliterated their bodies.

『GUOOOOO!!!』

While their companions were being beaten by Roa and Fiana, one of the trolls came rushing toward me.

「Its coming!!」

Sensing that I might fall prey to the club if I ran away, I instinctively drew my long sword and raised it.

I know it's not something that can be defeated with a single sword, but it should still give me enough time to get away from the trolls if I play my cards right.

Just as I made up my mind, I thought I saw Fiana smile out of the corner of my eye, still in her phoenix form.

「I'm liking you more and more for your determination to face the trolls with your human body, goshujin-sama! Use this!!」

The flames that Fianna released from her wings shone as they enveloped my long sword.

Immediately after that, the blade of the long sword glowed red and turned into something as transparent as crystal.

「I kneaded my power into that sword, I'm lending you my power, goshujin-sama!」

「Thank you, Fiana!」

I turned to the troll and put all my strength into my legs.

Then the flames that had enveloped my sword also enveloped my legs.

The flames were strangely not hot, but they seemed to give me a strong sense of power.

『GUUUU!!!!』

「Here I come!」

I used my phoenix-empowered legs to leap in front of the troll's head in an instant.

I swung my sword, and cut off the troll's head.

「Way to go, goshujin-sama!」

「It is thanks to Fiana.」

I landed safely on the ground and turned to Fiana and Roa.......

「Muuu, I feel like Fiana has get the best of me......」

After defeating the last troll, Roa are now in human form, but she didn't look too happy about it.

Fiana, who was beside Roa, also took human form and patted Roa on the shoulder.

「Don't worry about it. It happens sometimes.」

「Muuu, I don't like it!」

After that, Roa cling to me all the way to the top of the mountain.

I'm still pulling the cart along, which made it a little difficult to move, but Roa are light, so I managed.

***

「We're here, you two. This is our destination.」

Near the top of the mountain, where many trees provide a cool shade.

At that place, water spouted from the crevices of the rocks, creating a beautiful spring.

When Roa and Fiana saw the scene, they exclaimed with joy.

The water of the spring are still clear today, and we could see the bottom of the water clearly.

It reminded me a little of how I used to take a break here after a hunting trip.

「Well. I'm going to get some water from here today. Then we'll go to a nearby river to catch some fish, and on the way back, we'll pick up some wild vegetables for food......」

In the middle of talking, Roa ran toward the spring.

「I'm the first one!!」

Roa jumped into the spring and sank down.

The water splashed loudly and reflected glisteningly in the sunlight through the trees.

「Ah, hey Roa! goshujin-sama said he was going to fetch the water now!」

「Its fine, its fine. I've already asked you two to fight earlier, and Fianna you should rest. Besides, there are other springs near here, we can get water there.」

「Hmmm, if goshujin-sama says so.」

I took the cart to a spring near the spring, unloaded the barrels, jars and tubs from the cart and worked hard to get water.

While this was going on, I glanced over at Roa and Fiana.

「Fiana, are you only going to soak your feet? It's so nice and cold!」

「Idiot! I'm a phoenix, I don't want to get too wet! In case of emergency, the flame might not come out properly...... wait, stop pulling me!?」

「Ehehe, come swim with me!」

Fiana are being dragged into the spring when Roa caught her by the arm.

......Well, she's in human form, so she'll be fine, maybe.

Fianna then emerged from the spring and began to chase Roa underwater, saying, 「You have done it, you little dragon!」 Fianna then emerged from the spring and began to play an underwater chase with Roa.

In the meantime, I was fetching water, and by the time Roa and Fiana arrived, tired of playing, I had already finished fetching enough water.

「It was so much fun, oniichan! It's so nice and clean here.」

「Yeah, right, right. After all, this is my favorite part of the mountain...... Hmmm!?」

After loading the cart with some barrels of water, I turned to Roa and Fiana and...... I froze in my tracks.

After all this time, both Roa and Fiana are super beautiful women that ten out of ten people would turn to if they were out on the street.

Two such girls stood there, wearing clothes that were soaked with water and stick to their skin.

......In short, it's really hard to see!

Fiana in particular has a great style and large breasts, and I just can't look directly at her anymore......!

「......Goshujin-sama? Is there something on my face?」

「No no! Its nothing!?」

I turned away hastily and Fiana came around in front of me, as if she thought I was suspicious.

「Saying something like "No, no" of course there's something going on...... Just speak it out. I don't like that kind of distant attitude.」

I said to a pouting Fiana as I tried not to look directly at her body.

「Fiana...... Your clothes, can you do something about it?」

「Clothes? ......Oh, I see what you mean.」

Fiana looked at her wet and sticking clothes, tugging at them a little, and then for some reason started grinning.

「Hmmm, is it possible that goshujin-sama is getting excited?」

(T/N: She is trying to messing up with Mug here, can't really put in in word so I put this just in case.)

「......Its, a little or more like a lot? Anyway, it's hard to see, so get a little further away.....」

(T/N: I don't really get the kanji at the beginning. Raw: ……す、少しというか若干、みたいな？)

「I don't mind it, though? Rather than that, I think goshujin-sama will be happy with it.」

As soon as I tried to distance myself from Fiana, it was Roa who was pouting again.

「Muuu!! Oniichan, don't you think anything of me? Then fine, I'll take it off!!」

「Wait a minute, this is gonna get complicated!!」

I struggled to stop Lore as she put her hands on her clothes.

Then, I don't know what I was thinking, but even Fiana started running her hands over her clothes.

「Ah, then me too. I can't lose to Roa, and it doesn't make me any less of a person to be seen......」

「Please don't do that because it'll me who will be hurt!」

Especially my reason, my reason, my reason.

......In the end, it turned out that as for their wet clothes, the power of the dragon and the power of the phoenix could each provide them with new ones, so I had them change as quickly as possible.

Well, this was the moment when I realized how useful the power of divine beasts is.

【Translator Corner!】

-First of all, I wanted to say sorry for a very long delay. There have been some trouble IRL and I just finally able to recovered this account.

-For now I don't think I would be able to consistently post a chapter every week like before but I'll try to at least post a chapter once a month. Of course if I can post more I will do so.

-Since it been quite some time since the last time I translating and my Japanese lesson my translation probably degraded on some degree, sorry about that.

-Recently, I'm hook on a new web novel series I found called Live Dungeon (Link to NU). Since I catch up with the translation, I'll probably read the raw (can't contain my excitement you know). It won't effect my time translating other stuff... I hope.

-I actually thought that the third the person on the cover will be something like the spring's spirit or something.

-I only do this for fun so I can't promise to do daily post but I'll try my best to do weekly post.

-Thanks for reading and if you like the novel or have some suggestion or want me to keep translating it comment down below.