Chapter 15: Explosionnn!!!

"Hmm...are there really giant frogs around the area?"

Wearing a black mage robe, a bow on his back, a treasured sword on his waist, phase shoes on his feet, a staff in hand and twenty rings on his fingers.

Sato Hikaru, whose body was fully equipped with divine artifacts, was standing on a rock and kept looking around.

"This area is quite close to the city walls, if any monster appeared, it would have long been dealt with, right?"

"It seems that the giant frog will enter a breeding season soon and all the giant frogs sleeping underground will come out to look for food."

Standing under the boulder, while waiting for Sato Hikaru to lead the way, Yunyun also looked around vigilantly while explaining as many details as possible to Sato Hikaru, who was a novice.

"However, the guild has issued the clean up order, so there should be no more monsters who would be approaching the city. Every year this sort of situation happens a few times due to the various monsters entering their breeding season...this is what was told by the teacher in school."

"Hmph, they're just some fish monster."

On the other side, Megumin who was sitting under the shade of the rock, enjoying the cool air, waved her hands and proudly said: "They are all equally vulnerable to my explosion magic, one hit and they are gone!"

"Yes, yes, yes, your explosion magic is the strongest, the most invincible magic."

Sato Hikaru said perfunctorily while jumping down the boulder, and looked at Megumin unhappily.

"So why are you, the self-proclaimed strongest great mage of the crimson demon clan, following us here? This is obviously me and Yunyun's first team mission, right?"

"What's with the addition of self-proclaimed!"

Angrily looking at Sato Hikaru, Megumin turned her head and proudly said: "And who said I was following you? I'm just looking for a suitable place to use explosion magic today."

"This little brat..."

Seeing the tsundere-like inside the dialog box above Megumin's head, that showed the reason why she followed here was because she was worried about Yunyun, Sato Hikaru felt like laughing, but did not expose her.

But he instead extended a finger towards Megumin and shook it: "It seems you don't understand."

"Understand? Understand what?"

"What you just said, change it to—"

While speaking, Sato Hikaru also struck a dynamic pose, fingers covering his face in a JOJO stance: "I'm just looking for something worth exploding."

In the end, Sato Hikaru looked up at an excited Megumin, whose face was flushed and eyes were beginning to glow red, and said, "What do you think?"

"So cool!"

"Do you wish to learn?"

Sato Hikaru, who won little lolita's thumb's up, was like a victorious rooster, holding his head proudly: "I'll teach you!"

"Ooohhhhh!"

Yunyun, who was at the side, looked at the two people who previously could not stand each other suddenly got together to research postures and cool lines.

While feeling relieved, she was also so ashamed that she wanted to crawl into a hole.

"Why did the teammate I found after leaving the village was like everyone else in the village..."

Booommmm….

"Hm?"

Sato Hikaru, who was correcting Megumin's posture, suddenly stopped and looked at the small forest not far away: "It seems that something happened over there."

"Ah! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts...let me go first!"

Megumin, whose waist was almost broken because Sato Hikaru was distracted, finally managed to free herself from Sato Hikaru's clutches but when she wanted to argue with him and looked up, she could not seem to see his figure anywhere in front of her.

After looking around, she finally saw Sato Hikaru standing on top of the boulder he previously stood on, eyes shining with magical power as he stared at the small forest and discovered something.

"There are many white colored creatures approaching us. They are not big in size but there are many of them...are they targeting us?"

Standing atop the boulder, Sato Hikaru barely observed the situation through the gaps in the leaves with his eye of insight. He looked at the approaching group of white beasts, frowned and looked at Yunyun asking: "Usually, is it possible for this kind of small-sized beast to gather and attack the town?"

"Eh? Ah...I don't recall the teacher ever saying anything like this."

"Hm, hm, hm!"

Just as Sato Hikaru was considering how to deal with them, Megumin had climbed onto the big boulder and stood in front of Sato Hikaru and waved his mage robe while saying majestically.

"Why bother thinking so much? They are only low-level creatures. I'll use this opportunity to show you the so-called ultimate offense magic!"

"It's better to wait for a while. It's not good to rush into action without understanding the situation."

But, in the face of Sato Hikaru's dissuasion, the answer he received was…

"Darkness blacker than black and darker than dark, I beseech thee, combined with my deep crimson…"

"This brat..."

Seeing that Megumin had started to chant, Sato Hikaru thought for a while then lowered his head towards Yunyun, who was below the boulder, and used his telekinesis on her

"Eh? eh? eh?"

Yunyun, who was suddenly lifted to the air by some kind of force, could not help but scream before she heard Sato Hikaru's voice in her ears: "Don't be nervous, it's me."

By the time he finished speaking, Yunyun had stably landed on top of the boulder.

"Descend from the abyss! This is the mightiest means of attack known to man, the ultimate attack magic!"

At this moment, Megumin had also finished her chanting, raised her staff and pointed at the group of horned rabbits that had emerged from the forest.

"Explosionnn!!"