Day 51-60/Day 59

Day 59
Redhead and I rode on top of my Hind bear Kumajirou as we walked through the forest with my Black wolf Kurosaburou walking by our side. The four of us made for an unusual party as we strolled through the Unexplored Zones of my mental map.
Redhead's combat techniques improved lately, but she didn't kill anything so she didn't get any Experience Values. Basically, her Level didn't change.
Although in addition to her skills, her physical abilities have improved from the daily training, it’s trivial compared to the increase in physical abilities from raising your Level.
By the way, Redhead’s Level is "18". Her Level increased by ten during the Hind bear hunt which is good, but frankly speaking she’s still beyond useless.
Her current physical ability is below even the common goblins in our community.
With that being the case, Redhead could no longer win against the goblins who went out daily to hunt and raised their Levels.
The reason we went out hunting together this time is to increase her Level.
Redhead wasn’t equipped with anything special today. There’s a high chance that an inexperienced person would mistake the performance of their equipment for their own abilities, so she wasn’t equipped with any magical items.
Her weapon of choice is a steel kukri knife and she kept three ring daggers for backup.
For defense she held a round shield reinforced with shells.
They are equipment of the same [Normal]-Ranked items provided to the goblin common infantry. She was wearing her everyday clothes made by the Sisters out of Hind bear fur and my thread as well as a breastplate and a grey cloak.
Her forearms were protected by steel gauntlets. Her legs were protected by steel cuisses, steel kneepads, steel greaves and steel sabatons. Wearing all of these equipment is quite heavy, so I enchanted it to make it lightweight and now it's actually quite light.
Because of this, Redhead’s movements weren't affected.
Her first prey was an Armored tanuki.
She was struggling a little bit against the defense of its back shell, but because of the [Job-Warrior]’s combat corrections or perhaps from the results of her training or maybe both, Redhead succeeded in scrapping off the Armored tanuki's shells and killed it.
The meat was given to Kurosaburou to eat.
Her next prey were three Night Vipers. Even though she flinched after they directed their piercing glares at her at first, she regained her composure, calmly observed their movements and was able to guard against their attacks with her round shield, then she succeeded in decapitating them.
Their meat was given to Kumajirou to eat.
Three kobolds were up next. I quickly captured two with my threads, creating a situation where she’ll be able to fight one-on-one. Perhaps the last one realized that there was no way to escape and focused on Redhead, challenging her to a fight.
The Kobold had superior physical strength, but the combat skills Redhead developed by training with the goblins every day covered the difference in physical ability.
Dodging the kobold’s slashes, sometimes parrying them, Redhead managed to decapitated the kobold without getting injured.
After a short break, I released one of the kobolds. Not to set him free, but to have him fight Redhead. Although she got a few light injuries this time, Redhead once again cut the kobold’s body and killed him.
I asked the last kobold about the location of his Kobold clan before I released him to fight Redhead. As a result, I learned of their location.
While thinking that if I get a chance I'll go check on them, Redhead who had more or less recovered her physical strength said “Next Please”, so I released the last kobold.
The final kobold put up a better fight than the others, but in the end Redhead killed him by slicing his head off with her sharpest slash of the day.
After healing Redhead's injuries and recovering her stamina, I let Kumajirou and Kurosaburou each eat a kobold.
Right as I was about to start munching on the remaining Kobold, Redhead said to me that she want to try eating it too, so I grilled it and we ate it together.
I was impressed at Redhead's adaptability yet again. To think that she would eat a humanoid monster's meat without any hesitation.
Well, I'm not one to talk about others when it comes to “eating”, I can eat anything, be it raw, metal or any other thing you can think of.
Well, if Redhead is thinking of staying around me in the future then she'll need to be adaptable and openminded, that's why her current behavior is good.
Ability [Mountaineering] learned
As I was thinking "Okay then, our next prey will be…", Redhead tugged on the edge of my coat.
“What’s wrong?” I asked as I looked down at her, her eyes that should have been blue sapphire were now a dull red.
What’s more, the once circular black pupils turned into a rectangular shape resembling that of some monster’s.
T/N: Google "goat eye" if you’re interested - Vidar
They still looked somewhat different though.
Rather than calling them ominous, her somewhat strange eyes gave off a chilling feel.
It seems like she had obtained a new [Job]. Is it because she ate a kobold? Or is it because she was training with the goblins?
I asked her about it.
According to her, the [Job] Redhead obtained is called [Noire Soldier].
After greatly increasing their affinity with monsters, those with the [Job-Warrior] have a certain chance of obtaining this rare job by clearing the condition of "eating a monster they killed by themselves".
I was probably the main cause of this, I didn't feel anything like regret about it at all though.
Having gained a new [Job], Redhead's combat abilities dramatically increased.
However, there is an outrageous drawback which is, a [Noire Soldier]'s body will rapidly deteriorate and they will die if they don't consume monster meat or blood at fixed intervals, but the growth rate of their combat abilities is amazing.
She now have physical abilities equal to or better than that of a hobgoblin.
Her combat power couldn't even be compared to how she was before.
Considering that earlier her combat ability was equal to or even worse than a common goblin in our community, it was a huge improvement.
Redhead's figure who kept saying “Awesome, Awesome!” while she deflected a Red deer’s horns, kicked its belly which sent it flying in the air and then cut its thick neck covered by strong muscles with the kukri knife's blade looked cute.
I collected the horns, then we shared the meat.
Ability [Wild Horn Dance] learned
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Ability [Red Crystal’s Tone] learned
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After that we hunted various things.
When evening came, I made a short stopover together with Redhead before returning.
I confirmed that Redhead's new job [Noire Soldier] increased her abilities in a big way when she took in some of me.
So, by taking in stronger monsters, she would become stronger herself.
As for what she took in, that is a private matter.
During today's hunt, Redhead’s Level rose to "34" showing a dramatic rise.
TL note: she ate thousands of Rou's potential children -larvyde
TL note: This can be some kind of plot hole. I mean, what if the others took it in too? -Kouta
TL note: the condition to become a [Noire Soldier] is to eat a monster you have killed, I don't believe any of the other humans have killed monsters? -Alex
TL note: Sexual Innuendos. So she’s gonna be drinking his semen from now on. - Sarah
Category:Re:Monster Volume 1
Category:Novel