nAlso, Goblin Subjugation

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n“How about a goblin subjugation commission as well? You could even do a boar subjugation while you’re at it.”

nShe was saying that accepting the rabbit commission (six of them) was basically going to get a certain fast food.

nStill, though it’s usually a subjugation commission, it seems that you’re able to accept the commissions after subjugating them. Since you complete commissions by handing in parts for proof, nothing changes even if you accept it later on. Though since there’s no toll on the gate for leaving if you accept it beforehand, you don’t need to worry about having the commission withdrawn.

nWell, looks like this is a recommendation.

nGoblins are destructive things that ruin fields. It seems that the target for this is the ones that are spreading into the field outside of the north gate. Although there are fields inside the gates as well, the land is cultivated at all costs since plots are expensive. Since it was just goblins and boars (wild boars likely) that were wrecking the fields, having adventurers hunt them was enough. Comparing it to the costs of the land, it seemed to be considerably inexpensive.

nBoars don’t appear often and their meat appears to be delicious, so they would be purchased for somewhere between one to two silver coins each, depending on their size. The part for proving its subjugation was its nose, but that seemed to be the most delicious part.

nMeanwhile, it seemed that goblins turned into pretty good fertilizer when carved up and scattered across the field. After you took the right ears off them, I’m told you only need to put the corpses near the field… What about undeadification? Is that okay?

nGoblin and boar subjugations always appeared as F-rank commissions and when bringing in five goblins’ worth of right ears you’d receive thirty copper coins.

nBoars were ten coppers for turning in the snout, or one copper and the snout. It appears that they would segment the snout into three parts right then if you chose to keep it. (They would divide it into three to prevent people from turning it in as commission completion again. They didn’t just divide it into two because it seems that usually happens while defeating it.)

nBoars were delicious in two meanings, I didn’t need to worry about transporting them due to Storage either.

nAnd so, although we’re heading west this time, we’ll actively look for them in whatever direction we can find them. Ichika is brimming with motivation for the boars… though I thought that, it wasn’t that much. I wonder why?

n“I hunted those when I was an adventurer… probably not much now… un, it’s nothing. Ah, I guarantee their flavor yeah?”

nLooks like she’s already given them her motivation.

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nWell, we headed out of the west gate for rabbit hunting.

nAlthough I had huge hopes for Meat-sensei, I wanted to see how the newcomer Ichika worked.

nAnyhow, she’s a former C-rank adventurer, so she should definitely live up to it. Particularly when it’s for something delicious.

nSince she was unarmed for the time being, I lent her my sword.

n“Ah, thanks. Well unarmed’s alright for rabbits yeah? Their value goes down if ya mess up their fur. That’s why it’s common sense to defeat ’em without damaging them as much as ya can.”

n“Hmm? But you can’t drain their blood that way.”

n“Drain their blood? What’s that?”

n… Eh, she doesn’t know about draining blood?

n“If you drain all of the blood from the meat, the meat won’t smell bad. The taste improves too. It’s mostly the blood that makes the meat smelly after all.”

n“Heeh! I didn’t know that. Ya know a lot even though you don’t have any common sense huh, I see, it won’t smell… un, then a lot of kinds of meat will become tasty huh… Fufufu.”

nIchika was drooling while imagining the meat. Seriously, her appetite is demonic.

n“Well, how do ya do it?”

n“It’ll be easy if you see it happen… Meat, go hunt one.”

n“Yes.”

nMeat walked into the forest. Thirty seconds later, she brought back a rabbit. It’s neck was magnificently severed in a single stroke.

nI suspended it by its feet, causing blood to overflow from it and form a pool on the ground at my feet.

n“If you do it like this, when you behead it and hand it upside down, its blood will flow out. When blood stops coming out, that’s it… Easy right?”

n“Ooh… Meat-senpai hunted something so small like it was nothin’. I mean, thirty seconds to get a rabbit, were ya a hunter before becomin’ a slave? You knew where the rabbit was in the forest…”

n“? Isn’t it easy? You can find them from their smell.”

n“Right, Meat-senpai’s a beastkin. I knew that… No, that was good with those tiny arms…”

nShe was saying stuff like that, but next was Ichika’s turn.

nSince I want to see how practical she is, I left Meat with draining the rabbit’s blood and followed behind her.

nAdvancing into the forest, Ichika sometimes stopped and listened carefully.

nAfter around five minutes, she suddenly brandished the sword and quickly swung it vertically down towards the ground near her.

n“Alright, guess this is good? Oh, a ton of blood’s comin’ out—”

nQuickly, the beheaded rabbit was lifted by its feet. As expected from a former C-rank, looks like she was able to end it with a single clean blow.

n“Un, normal strength huh. Felling its neck with a single hit… you look like someone with finesse.”

n“That’s right~, I was a scout after all. A dagger would’a been… well I could do with a carving knife. I can also use a bow to get birds or something to eat too.”

nA carving knife huh, let’s make one when we return.

n“I can also cook~, wasn’t I just a great bargain~. Wanna know somethin’? My original price was fifteen gold y’know? Reeeally, fifty silver for me huuuh… I just bit ‘that’ off.”

n“It’s the first time I’ve heard your original price, but isn’t it definitely from biting it off?”

nI tensed up hearing it even now.

n“But even goblins taste good after drainin’ their blood right? I didn’t think it would be sooooooo bad though.”

n“You ate it…”

n“Before I became a slave, I was in the Imperial Capital’s underground arena to pay back my debt… well, Goshujin-sama held what he called a Strange Eater freak show… I had to fight against various demons, eating everything as a set. I ate goblins or other things like that, everything but the bones… Goblin roe is… really bad… Tahaha…”

nIchika laughed as though ashamed.

nSo there was even something like an underground arena too?

nThis world’s amusement facilities stink of crime, too huh.

nFor now, we returned to where Meat was.

n“Ah, welcome back, Goshujin-sama.”

nSurrounding Meat, who was standing up while holding the rabbit, were five goblin corpses. All five of their necks were severed clean.

nLured out by the smell of blood, moreover attacking since there was a small child, looks like the tables were pretty much turned on them huh.

n“Yeah…”

n“Ah~, it happened after all~. I had a feeling~…”

nI didn’t notice at all.

n“Instant deaths huh… Meat-senpai, how’d you beat ’em?”

n“They surrounded me, so, I had the rabbit in one hand, so I used my other hand.”

nReproducing her movements, Meat held the rabbit in her left hand and the blade golem in her right hand. She whirled around like a ballet dancer with her left foot acting as an axis.

nThe blade’s height was just enough to sever the goblins’ heads.

nEven though she was assisted by the clothes golem, I didn’t teach her those movements.

n… It doesn’t have movement assistance like mine, just physical strength reinforcement.

n“… Those aren’t the movements of an F-rank… What kind of trainin’ did ya do?”

n“… I wonder?”

nAt any rate, the goblin suppression commission is done.

nI cut off their right ears as proof.

n“Well, I’ll leave the remaining four rabbits to you two.”

n“Huh, what about Goshujin-sama?”

n“… I’m not good with swords… the customer’s demand is for delicious meat, so I’ll be in charge of draining there blood here.”

n“Really? You looked trained from the way you were walking though.”

nAh, that was the clothes golem’s assistance.

nHmm? I’m not doing anything in this commission? Eating without working is the best!

n… Ah, but being in charge of the draining is work huh…

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n“Meat~”

nFinding a rabbit, its head was dismissed in the next instant.

nEven though Ichika was a former C-rank adventurer, she was a bit worried about the feeling shown by Meat’s performance.

n“… Rather, Meat-senpai, is that a magic sword?”

n“I don’t know. I got this from Goshujin-sama.”

nQuickly shaking the sword in her hand, blood flew off of it beautifully. There was no need to use Cleanup, evidence that the sword was a very good one. It was also proof that her sword technique could cut cleanly.

nMeat held up her sword, once again looking for rabbits. Ichika was holding the rabbit meat.

nMeat was excellent in searching for their prey. Being able to separate the smell of blood from those they’d hunted from the ambient rabbit smell, Ichika felt it wasn’t just skill anymore.

n“But, Meat-senpai was trained in various things despite being ‘Meat’ huh.”

n“? What do you mean?”

n“Eh? No, ‘Meat’ is… ah. Aah~. I get it.”

nIchika just realized it. Their Goshujin-sama probably named her Meat without knowing that meat meant Sex Slave (Meat).

nAnd that her Goshujin-sama told her to teach him any common sense she thought of. If that’s how it was, she would have to teach him for now. Slaves couldn’t go against their owner’s rules, even verbal commands.

n“… Ah~. Meat means—”

nMore or less, Ichika told taught her a slightly obscured meaning of was Meat meant.

nEven though it was obscured, Meat definitely understood the meaning.

nFor Meat, she was aware of the significance of the act with her vague memories of it.

n(So it was something like that?)

nShe understood as though it happened to someone else.

nThen, she thought for a moment.

nThe head of a rabbit she just found flew away while she thought. The amount of corpses increased by one.

n“Let’s keep this a secret from Goshujin-sama.”

n“… Hoh?”

nIchika raised her eyebrows in inquiry.

nAs for Meat, she answered while staring at the rabbit.

n“This name… is one Goshujin-sama gave to me for the first time, something I cherish. If my name changes now, or if it stays like this from here on, it’s not a problem. So, it’s fine to keep a secret.”

nIt felt somewhat odd, but Ichika held back her response seeing Meat’s bewitching smile.

nShe looked like a beastkin adventurer that Ichika used to know.

nFor beastkin, they instinctual felt names given to them from their parents were valuable. He said that. In fact, he held pride in being given a name associated with the hero, continuing to always exhaust himself in fulfilling it.

nBeing proud of your name, you wouldn’t be ashamed of it. Even she had lost her original name when she became a slave, beastkin absolutely wouldn’t. Even if it looked like they cast it away on the surface.

nHowever, Meat’s current expression looked just as determined as his. At the same time, it felt glad.

nIf it was put into words, it would be something like I can do it.

n… To Ichika, she didn’t think it was the expression of a child at all.

n“But that’s a problem huuuh, I promised Goshujin-sama. Meat-senpai also knows right? He said, ‘Teach common sense’… I can’t go against a verbal command as a slave, right?”

nMeat tilted her head to the side and responded.

n“Ichika, you taught him common sense. You aren’t breaking the promise.”

n“… Goshujin-sama didn’t say ‘who’ to teach. Kuku, quite the schemer huh? Meat-senpai.”

n“Will you keep it a secret from Goshujin-sama? If you tell him, I’ll get mad, okay?”

nJudging from the looks of it, Meat’s collar seemed to constrict a tiny amount.

nHowever, Meat simply smiled as she knocked away the final rabbit’s head.

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