Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi

veryone, please don’t fight-” I started.

“Shh, everyone, look there,” it was the leader boy.
He was pointing at something and everyone quieted down to look in the direction he was indicating.

I looked too and saw something that looked like a standard broiler chicken, except twice as big as one, scratching the ground in a preoccupied way.

“A Wild Chicken,” said the leader confidently.
“We’re in luck.
Let’s surround it, make sure not to be seen.”

“Yes!” everyone hissed quietly before slipping through the grass in a well-practised way.
They must have done this many times to be this coordinated.

“Now!”

Rustle, rustle.

Children suddenly leapt out of the grass with their own war cry.

“Orya!”

“Tei!”

“Yaaa!”

“Eii!”

“Oraa!”

Bish, bash, clonk, bash, bash, crash!

The poor Wild Chicken was beaten up with sticks without a single opportunity to strike back.

“Kokeee…”

It collapsed after a weird screech, its broken body thankfully disappearing.
I can’t imagine in what state the meat would be if the real thing had been beaten up like that… However, for a dungeon creature, it was a valid tactic, especially considering how weak and badly equipped the children were.

“Awesome! Meat! It’s a Meat Drop!” cheered the children.

“Ahem, I heard that there’s only White Sheep and Big Rabbits here, but looks like that’s not all,” I said.

“Oh, the Wild Chicken is actually from the 2nd level.
However, sometimes they do stray to the 1st level.
It’s really delicious!”

The children, or should I say, energetic youths looked very happy at the idea of getting a feast today.

To me, this was especially praiseworthy since the meat that they collected would not be sold but shared among the other kids in the orphanage.

Alright, should I give these youths a little help too?

[10] They mentioned that they were saving money through the sale of Drops other than meat but considering how unpopular the meat was, I can’t imagine anyone who would want the Big Rabbit fur or, well, maybe the intestines but the intestines meat industry did not seem to be very advanced here.

 

[10] At any rate, their weapons appeared to be ordinary sticks, which I had had my eye on since earlier.

 

“Excuse me, these are your weapons?” I asked, indicating the sticks.

“Yep, we don’t have money for real weapons so we just pick out the hardest and strongest sticks we could find when gathering firewood.
They tend to break after a few hits though so we always carry some spares.”

So, these were originally… firewood…

[11]

Well, it’s not like I could make their weapons any worse.
So, “Hey, can you lend me one? I can try and make it better.”

“I guess…”

“I should be able to make them easier to grab at least,” I tried again.

The leader looked a little reluctant but then handed me one of the sticks he had as ‘spares’.
“Try on this one first, big brother.”

I guess it makes sense for me to experiment on one first.
“Ahem, I won’t be the one doing it, hold on….
Sui, could you wake up for a moment?”

I shook the bag that held Sui and a sleepy voice said, ““Hmm~? Master~? What is it~?””

Sui slowly oozed out of the bag.

“This is Sui, she’s also my familiar,” I said to my interested audience.

“Sui is really cute!” cried Susannah.

“Sui is really great at making things,” I boasted.
“Sui, see this stick? Can you make it harder and a bit easier to grab? For the shape, I think a bat would be good.
Hold on…”

I took a bit of paper and pencil and drew a baseball bat on it.
“Here, can you make it this shape, Sui?”

““Un~ this shape is easy.
Sui will do it~!””

“Make it really hard too, okay Sui?”

““Hmm… hard…”” Sui absorbed the stick into her body and we watched as the stick inside her began to change shape and… a small crack I hadn’t noticed before mended itself before my eyes.

That tricky little leader brat, he gave me a faulty weapon!

I whipped around to glare at him but all he did was grin at me innocently.

““Master, it’s done~!””

It took Sui less than a minute.

Humph, I shall be generous and let you witness Sui’s might! “Thank you, Sui.” I said, accepting the newly mended and reconstructed bat.

The heft was different now, with more weight at the end and a slim handle for easy grip and a knob to prevent slipping.

I spun the bat in my hand once before handing it to the leader boy.
As expected, the leader checked the area where the flaw had been and was amazed, “Looks like your Slime is really great.” he said.
Then, he took a few practice swings, not in a typical baseball stance way but one-handedly like a club type weapon.

“Nice! This is actually very good.
You’re a great guy, big brother!”

As though they had been signalled, the rest of the youths all ran up with their sticks, “Do mine too! Make my stick into a cool weapon!”

Luckily, Sui was able to take in all the sticks (including the spares) and turned them all into bats in one go through her Gigantify skill.

Sui is really awesome.

“Your Slime is super awesome, big brother!”

“Yeah! I can hit harder with my stick now!”

“And this bit! The stick is now easier to grip but doesn’t slip, this design is genius!”

One after another, praises came from all around.
Mwahaha, it’s great to be adored.
These children are so cute in their enthusiasm.

“You should be able to hunt better with these bats,” I said.

“Thank you, big brother!!”

And so, we headed towards the magic circle even as the youngsters sent us off.

 

[Gumihou: Alright, Gumi may have made the children a bit more worldly and cunning.
Instead of kyaa~ kyaa~ big bro is awesome! It’s more ‘let’s praise him so he does things for us’.
I mean, they had to have encountered bad people and their ability to work together indicate high-level intelligence and leader boy’s ability to judge situation and lead]

 

[1] Structural Change: Combine 2 paragraphs

 

[2] Structural Change: Combine 3 paragraphs

 

[3] Structural Change: Combine paragraph & dialogue

 

[4] Structural Change: Change passive sentence to dialogue

 

[5] Delete Repetitive or Pointless Information

 

[6] Additional Information for Aesthetic Purpose

 

[7] Add Dialogue Tag

 

[8] Creative Licence Taken – Describe the dungeon nicely

 

[9] Description of the children and their interaction with Mukouda

 

[10] ‘The orphanage director is kind-hearted’

 

… I can’t believe Mukouda of peaceful Japan would think this without giving the matter much thought.
Especially since he was ‘moved to help them’.
I think it would be more meaningful to combine his actions with some thoughtful reflections.

[11] Convincing the kids to let him mess with their weapons.
Uh, kids? Absolute trust? Weird, don’t you think? Especially Mukouda’s super confident, ‘of course, we can make it better’ attitude when Sui had not been demonstrated to work with wood before.
Stone and mithril yes, but wood? This would be the first time.