Kraken. This formidable foe actually had another name. It was also known as the “Gatekeeper of the Mist”.
Mist … Yes, mist. The Gatekeeper of the Mist, in the sea where the Demon Lord of the Mist was believed to reside. And no one knew who started calling it that, or why it was called that. However, the fact that it had been referred to as such for a long time indicated, in other words, that there was a good reason for the name.
I only found out about it on my first round when I stopped at a port, I was in a bar in a town where I had stopped to gather intel and told them that I had seen a ship being attacked by Kraken. Otherwise, there was no way a lowly sailor like me could say, “I’m interested, so why don’t we turn around and contact the Kraken?” etc. If I had said such a thing with a serious face, I would have been easily thrown into the sea by Rebecca at that time.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ….!”
With one last cry, I stepped onto the icy path and leaped high into the sky to land on Pierre’s boat. Pierre shrieked and wagged his hooked hand as I suddenly appeared on the deck with a thud.
“W-What!? You’re that new guy! Why!? Why are you here!?” Pierre asked, flabbergasted
“Yo, long time no see, Cap’n. I was just thinking about taking down that big guy.”
“Huh? Defeat the Kraken? What are you talking about?”
“Spare me questions. Ask your sailors to pull back. They’re getting in the way of the fight.” I said,
My goal was to exterminate the Kraken, not rescue the Baroque pirates. But I didn’t want to drag them in and kill them for no reason, even though they were pirates, and the rest was, as I stated, they would be a hindrance.
“Hindrance!? You little… No, But if you guys are going to be our shields … Hey bastards! Better get your asses back over here!”
In response to Pierre’s order, the group of pirates dressed in red and white shirts, easily visible in the rain, rushed back toward us. But as if attracted by this, the Kraken revealed its huge body, and some of its long tentacles wrapped around the fleeing pirates trying to drag them straight into the sea. ….
“Hah!”
My sword slammed into the outstretched tentacles. The impact caused the captured pirates to fall onto the floor with a thud, but … Shit, either way it looks like it’s impossible to cut it off.
“Tia! Stick to the plan!”
“Leave it to me! O’ Shining Mist of the Moon-Bent Water, Golden Gravel of the Tremor-Molded Dirtt…”
I stood at the bow of the ship to protect Tia, who began chanting, and fought off the Kraken’s tentacles. The impact of the two or three blows received was naturally being accumulated by the [Orbit Reflector].
“Breath of the Spirits Who Bind Light Across Three Worlds! Freeze and Exhaust and Shiver in Ice! In the name of Lunaritia, manifest [Freezing Ray]!
Ice light, a combined property of water and earth, was released from Tia’s hands as she finished chanting. Blue flash passed by me and hit the kraken, and its huge body was covered with ice.
However, no matter how powerful Tia’s spell was,, she would not be able to freeze the entire body of a Kraken, which was larger than a ship. After freezing about 70% of the main body that was visible above the water, the spell ran out and the free tentacles became enraged and tried to attack Tia.
“Sorry, Ed! That’s all I can do!”
“PLENTY! DARYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!”
Using [Hermes Dash], I kicked the floor and my fist, with all the impact I had accumulated from the previous attacks, landed on the Kraken’s head. Normally, a blow like this would have little effect on a soft-bodied Kraken, but because it was frozen solid, the impact caused its body to spin around, exposing its large mouth, which was normally underwater, before my eyes.
“Take that!”
I took out three cloth bags from [Stranger Box] and put them into his mouth. The Bags contained powdered horns of Rabburu Donkey which I had managed to snuck in from the request the other day… In other words, They were “Super Strong Stimulants”.
What would happen if such a thing were thrown directly into one’s mouth? The answer to that question appeared immediately.
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“Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!?? My ship!? MY SHIP AHHH!!!?” Pierre screamed,
The Excited Kraken started hurling its tentacles indiscriminately at its surroundings. While Pierre and his crew were crouching with their hands over their heads, I precisely blocked only the tentacles that were about to strike the ship, while Tia used her magic to desperately support the ship so that it would not capsize.
“Ed, how long is this going to take?” Tia asked,
“If my calculations are correct, it should take about ten minutes!” I replied,
“Understood!”
If not the sword of thin life, at least the silver-winged sword would have been enough to decapitate the Kraken. But an ordinary sword would not be able to cut down this huge body. The same held true for Tia’s magic; its large, soft body was highly resistant to magic, which was why the Kraken had never been defeated by anyone.
Therefore, it was a battle of attrition. If I had a more powerful poison, I could kill it instantly, but with no way to get it, this was the best offensive measure I could do. Once I had done that, all I had to do was trust and buy time.
“Struggle, Rage! That’s how fast the drugs will act!” I screamed,
“Ugh, I wish you would be a little moderate…” Tia muttered,
“Hiiiiiiiiiiiii!? HELP, HELP!” Pierre screamed,
The Kraken, whose upper body had long since melted, swung its tentacles, thicker than a ship’s mast, around with a rumbling sound. Nudge, repel, deflect ….After what seemed like an eternity, the moment finally arrived.
“……?”
The Kraken’s tentacles, raised, suddenly lost their power in mid-air. When I poked the tentacle that had fallen down following only gravity with my fingers and glanced into its large body, I saw its huge, twitching body floating on the surface of the water.
“Did we do it?”
With maximum caution, I jump off the ship and land on the Kraken. With the utmost caution, I jumped off the ship and landed on top of the Kraken. When I confirmed that there was no reaction, I plunged my sword into its large eyes,… and the Kraken still didn’t move. Finally, as a good last measure, I tried using the [Akashic Compass] and found that the response for a Living Kraken was in the wrong direction, and it only pointed to this in front of me if I selected the “Kraken corpse” as the target.
“O-Oi, New guy! W-What’s going on! Don’t tell me …!?”
The attack had stopped, and Pierre peeked out of the boat with trepidation. But I completely ignored him and jumped back up to the ship with a [Hermes Dash] and walked toward Tia, who was nearby.
“Oi, new guy! Don’t you ignore me!”
“Hey, Tia. Good job.”
“I’m telling you, Ed. I’m so tired! But ……?”
“Yeah.”
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“Like I said, Don’t you ignore me! Oi new guy … Shiiinyuri-san? Really? Are you sure you’ve have defeated it!?”
(TLN:- Shin’iri:- Newbie/ New guy in japanese. He is just calling him politely.)
“Shut up. You’ll know it when you see it. Now then, Ojou-sama, your hand.”
“Fufu, Thank you.”
I bowed and held out my hand, and Tia grabbed it tightly. I escorted her to a special seat, and under the blue sky, which had cleared up before I knew it, our achievement was floating on the sea in silence.
“Oi, you guys! Are you okay?”
Then I heard a familiar voice behind me. I looked and saw that the Scarlet had also come right up to the side of the ship, and it seemed that Rebecca had boarded this ship.
“Ah, Captain. Yes, as you can see.”
“YOU, Why the hell did you answer Rebecca!? And don’t get on my ship without permission!”
“Shut up, Pierre! He is my new guy. He is supposed to answer me! But it’s quiet now, so I came over to see what’s going on….”
“Fufufu… Let’s go Tia?”
“Okay. Ready!”
“”KRAKEN, DEFEATED!!””
Raising our joined hands high in the air, Tia and I announced our victory in unison.
T/N: 1/5 Coffee chapters. Thank you so much, whoever gave the coffee : D.