Strongest Man Can't Kill A Lizard

*A/N: I had fever yesterday.

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The trip to the Kusuri village was quiet and peaceful. The road of the Kususri village itself was lush and green. No matter how many times the road was carved, when the spring came the herbs would still grow on them and cover those roads. Villagers gave up making the roads time after time again. They proceeded to use signboards to help visitors locate their village. That's why, the sign reads:

"Don't stray away from the signs."

Folowing the signs, reaching the village was no problem at all. The village was traditional type, nevertheless beautiful. And the women too, hehehehe.

"Yo ladies! Anyone of you single? Wanna have a good time together~!" With his shit level of flirting skill that would have been borderline harassment in modern society, he whistled at the passing girls. Girls just giggled at him. With a wide grin on his face, he turned around to nearly stumble upon a tiny old man.

"Are you blind? You could have nearly killed me. Young ones these day, always walking carelessly. No respect to old folks. Are you dumb too? You don't even apologise. What if I had to leave my unmarried granddaughter alone in this world? Would you have taken responsibility? Blah! blah!....."

Letting old gramps vent his anger, Richter waited out. After he got tired of speaking, Richter apologised, "Sorry! Sorry! Gramps."

"Who is your gramps!!!? Or are you trying to marry my granddaughter? No way in heavens will I give my granddaughter to a rascal like you."

"No, no. I am not trying to marry your granddaughter. I am just her-"

"HUH!!? WHAT DID YOU SAY? Are you saying my granddaughter isn't beautiful enough? How dare you say that? When my granddaughter was born, even the heavens smiled at her. She is the most cutest child in the world-"

Richter was at his wit's end. He didn't know how to end this conversation, the old man kept going on and on. Neither could he disregard him.

"Grampa, You are troubling people again." Someone had finally arrived to take care of this oldman. She was a beautiful girl with an hourglass figure. But Richter was too stressed to care about that.

"Take your grandpa away hurry, I don't want to deal with him anymore."

She took no offense to his words or maybe she did who knows, she just gave a small laugh and apologised, "Sorry about my grampa. Are you new here?"

"Let's return Amrita! I don't want to stay anywhere near this rascal."

Tick marks continued to grow in Richter face. Even so, he calmed himself down chanting 'Training for tolerance! Training for tolerance! training for tolerance!'

The grand-daughter did a small pout and with supposed to be angry expression which only made her more cuter reprimanded her grandfather, "Grampa if you be rude to people, I am getting angry okay."

"NANI!!?" An exaggerated expression of dejection and disbelief was cast on old man as he started to mutter, "My cute cute grand-daughter is getting angry? At me? It's all that brat's fault." Then started angrily staring at Richter.

The grand-daughter ignored her grandfather and asked, "Let me introduce myself visitor. My name is Kisaragi Amrita."

"Hello Amrita-san! My name is Richter Quake. Do you know someone named Kisaragi Yuto?"

The old man that was having dejected expression became serious and spoke, "Kid, that's my name."

"yours?"

"Got any problem with that kid."

"Ahem! No, no.... So, I am here for this monster hunt quest." Richter showed the quest paper to old man.

The old man sighed when he saw the quest paper and said, "Go home kid."

"What the heck?" Richter was truly angered here. This infuriating old man, he really wanted to punch his face. But somehow calmed himself.

He was about to ask the reason for quest cancellation, the old man spoke first, "I didn't expect someone to accept that quest. It was on the whim. Follow me kid." Richter followed the old man. On the way, old man started talking, "Kid, do you know the market price of the horn of the horned lizard?"

"Nope!" Richter answered without hesitation.

The oldman sighed and explained, "You are an adventurer, are you not? You shouldn't be so ignorant. Else you might find yourself in a tough situation someday."

Suddenly hearing a life advice, Richter instinctively said, "O-oKay!" and thought, 'When I return I should study and collect information.'

The old man continued, "That horn for a single one costs minimum 300,000 Jewel in the market. And it has very high demand too. Do you understand now?"

"Whatever you do stay here tonight and leave tomorrow."

They were already at their place. It was a traditional small village house on the outskirts of the village. Richter understood what the old man was trying to tell. In one word, Scam. But the old man turned out to be a good elder unlike his first annoying impression.

"I will still do the quest."

"Huh? Did you even listened to me kid? You are deaf too, aren't you?"

"NO! I AM NOT!" He take it back. This old man is still annoying.

"It's not about the profit this and that. It's about the adventure."

"Is that so? Young ones these day. Hahahaha!!!! Fine. Well, you atleast receive quest reward. No need to catch all 5 horns in a single day. Take your time, kid. You are free to stay here as long as you like."

It was already late evening so, Richter took their offer. And also there's a beautiful girl too. He could try and increase his flirting skills.

"The hell are you looking at my granddaughter for? You wanna die, huh? Lolicon brat!!!"

"Huh? Do I look that old?"

"She is 15."

"Oh!....Shit!!!"

After having dinner, Richter apologised to Amrita, "Sorry Amrita! You looked so beautiful and mature. I didn't realize you were underaged."

Amrita hearing that blushed and thought 'How can this man be so direct?'

She still replied, "It's okay! okay! I am also happy you thought me beautiful." By the time she reached the end of her sentence, her voice was too small for Richter to hear.

"You are such a good girl, Amrita. I hope one day, I can marry a girl like you."

'Just how can he say with that straight face?' Amrita was embarrassed.

"Hmm? Amrita, are you alright? Your face is kinda red."

'Because of you', She retorted inside but she couldn't possibly say it. "Yes, I am fine!!", she squealed.

"Are you sure?" Richter came closer to touch her forehead and feel the temperature.

As he came closer, her heart started beating faster. How can this man be so shameless? She couldn't hold her embarrassment any longer and screamed, "STAY AWAY FROM ME!!" and ran to her room.

*Ishigami OST

"WHHHHHYYY!!?"

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The following day,

"Hey! Gramps give me the map of the forest if you have one."

"I don't have it. My grand-daughter has it. Ask her."

So, he went to meet Amrita who was avoiding him like a plague. That's why he had to corner her into a wall.

"Hah! I have cornered you. You can't run away anymore."

Amrita with teary eyes spoke in a small voice, "No! I beg you. Please! Spare me!"

"Huh!? Why should I?" Richter's brain went haywire for a moment. 'Wait! wait! The heck's happening? Why is she tearing up?'

Amrita started bawling out, "SAve me Grandpa!!"

"Eh? Amrita-san?"

"How dare you make my cute cute grand daughter cry!!! You tired of living kid!!!"

After some explaining and mediation from the old man, Richter finally got out of that troublesome misunderstanding.

'Damn! So much for a map.' Richter finally got the hold of the map. The map was very detailed. It had location of horned lizards which made things easier for Richter. After preparing whatever he needed, Richter left to hunt the lizards.

Forest, It was his home. He had spent 4 years there training himself. That's why he had no problems walking through the Kusuri Forest and finding the location of the horned lizards. When Richter found one of those creatures, he understood why the quest was still unpicked.

Horned lizards more like Armored lizards. A vegeterian animal that only ate leaves and flowers, were huge creatures of about 2 to 3 metres in height and 8 to 9 metres in length. Their whole body from head to toe covered by a protective metallic armor. It would be impossible for any normal wizards to even hurt this guy.

Richter stealthly climbed up a tree that was near the horned lizard and proceeded to jump on it's back. The lizard showed no reaction. As if nothing mattered in this world, it kept eating. Richter was surprised at it's behaviour but he didn't give it a second thought. He crawled towards it's head and knocked on it to determine the thickness. It was quite thick.

The lizard looked at Richter for a bit and again resumed it's eating. Clenching his fist, he wanted to hammer the lizard but stopped in the middle. He looked at this peacefully eating lizard. All he had to do was bring his fist down but he couldn't.

"Wait a minute. I will directly cut it's horn off."

Deciding that would be better, he was about to take out the sword from the scabbard when the lizard stopped it's eating, went near a tree and slumped below it as if it was the most depressed creature in the whole world.

"Ugh!" Richter couldn't hurt this guy. It wasn't in him to hurt this guy.

"Are all horned lizard like this?"

Richter climbed down from the lizard's back. The lizard didn't care what the human was doing, it was in it's own world, it's depressed world. Richter didnot want to hurt this guy so he went searching for another horned lizard.

After searching for a bit he came across another lizard. This time face to face. The lizard sensing an intruder in it's territory immediately started acting voilent and charged at him. Richter was relieved.

"YES! This is how it should be. Bring it on lizard!"

With excitement, Richter jumped and punched the lizard on it's head with his brute strength, smashing it down and knocking it unconscious. He then proceeded to cut it's horn and take it away. What a bad day for this lizard!