Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

On the other hand, the beehive hunting team was the worst harem team composed of the Souma siblings, Class Rep, Natsukawa-san, and Kenzaki. Mei-chan and my 『Twin Shadow』 were also a part of this team.

Well, I don't think hundreds life would be enough if I really joined that line-up in the flesh. Isn't it about time that I work on this problem?

By the way, the Tendou Yankee team was standing by in our base.

Good grief, when I gave those Yankees some leeway, they―― Ugh!?

「Randou-san! Can you please stop playing pranks when I'm operating my shadow!?」

「Ahaha, my ba~d.」

This gal wasn't reflecting on her actions at all.

When controlling my 『Twin Shadow』, my real body was lying down on a handmade hammock in the fairy plaza like someone taking an afternoon nap, but I ended up receiving a surprise attack from the gal with too much free time. Fortunately, we were not in the middle of combat. Not that I could make any contribution to the Souma siblings’ party.

「Any problem, Kotaro-kun?」

「No, no problem here. The fairy plaza is just kinda getting rather noisy.」

「I see, I thought Randou-san pulled a prank again on you.」

Uwaa~, that's scary Mei-chan. She could actually guess that much just by a momentary pause of my control.

Maybe I should take Randou-san a bit more seriously.

「No problem on my side. Rather, what about Rem?」

「Kua~」

When my shadow was riding on Alfa and she replied with a bark.

「What did she say, Kotaro-kun?」

「Uhm, it seems she has already found the beehive.」

To search for the whereabouts of the beehive this time, I tamed the flock of wild birds using 『Echo』. Naturally, the flock was led by bird-type Rem into the forest of the resort area.

Natsukawa-san's scouting ability was top-notch, but she was alone. She could not match Rem's bird squad in terms of mobility and range when combing around a vast area from the sky.

「――The beehive is over here!」

「Are you sure, Natsukawa-san?」

「Yeah, let's go already!」

Man, never expected that Rem's bird squad would be defeated by Natsukawa-san. I guess her sense as a 『Thief』 isn't just for show.

Thus, following the lead of our vanguard, Souma-kun, to enter the forest, I once again marveled at the ability of vocation.

「It's a goma!」

The one who screamed from the other side of the thicket was Souma-kun.

「Those guys again.」

Come to think of it, we still had no idea where the gomas in this area got their sugar from.

「Rather, they are already dead.」

「Yup, it's just their corpse.」

I thought they were going to charge at us as soon as they saw Souma-kun, but it turned out Souma-kun just found their corpses.

「They might have been attacked by a raptor.」

「No, this might be――」

「A~h! T-The beehive…」

Natsukawa-san's despaired cries interrupted my analysis.

Ahead of her shocked state was the crumbled beehive with its sticky honey dripping down.

「I see, those guys are collecting honey too eh.」

The state of the beehive was the last evidence I needed to confirm my hypothesis after seeing the tragic state of the goma corpses. They were not lynched to death, they were stung to death by the bees.

It showed that the goma society had low awareness of goma rights. They might simply poke at the hive when they wanted to harvest the honey, completely ignoring the safety of the worker.

The hive did have honeybees guarding it, but it boasted a size comparable to a true hornet. Thus, they could easily kill the gomas.

Judging from the state of the corpse, the attack happened no longer than yesterday. Since the corpse had yet to rot, the attack might have taken place last morning.

Though more than half of the nest had collapsed, the queen was alive, and that's why the bees kept flying around happily.

However, I didn't think we could harvest a lot of honey from the remaining half of the hive.

「Dammit… Those fu*king gomas…」

Uwaa,this is the first time I heard Natsukawa-san cursing under her breath. She must be very pissed off right now.

「How dare they do this to my honey!」

「It's my honey to be exact.」

「Mei-chan, no need to compete with her in that.」

Though not as resentful as Natsukawa-san, Mei-chan was also pissed off after knowing that those gomas had snatched our precious honey.

The grudge of foo- I mean, the grudge of sweets was deep-seated.

「There, there, look the queen is still alive, meaning that we can harvest the honey again later.」

「IS THAT TRUE! I don't know how to take care of them!」

「Kotaro-kun, actually beekeeping is a bit…」

It's not like I wanted to do beekeeping for real either bu―― Wait a minute…

「Maybe I have to try this.」

I placed the 『Summoner's Skull』 into the 『Fool's Cane』’s pedestal.

At first, I was planning to use skeletons to charge toward the beehive and harvest the honey like before, but I suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

「――『Echo』」

In short, as long as I could tame the queen bee, it would be equal to the ability to create the beehive in the most suitable place.

「Aww-Awesome, Kotaro-kun! You're a genius!」

「You did it Momokawa-kun! That's truly a brilliant idea!」

I put even more effort upon seeing both Mei-chan and Natsukawa-san praising me non-stop.

「Maan, thank god it went exactly as I expected.」

It just suddenly occurred to me that if 『Echo』 was working on the bird, it meant that it would also work on the bees. Those honeybees might be huge, but they were not monsters.

By controlling the queen bee, I could take the surviving worker bees to the new nest.

To be exact, right by the side of the fairy plaza.

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In short, making them stay in that place was equal to real beekeeping.

In that way, we could harvest honey any time we wanted.

We had to regulate the amount of harvesting for recycling the beehive, but it was possible to harvest a lot of them by harvesting bit by bit.

「You always come up with all kinds of strange ideas eh, Momokawa-kun.」

「As expected, the curse to manipulate someone against their will is…」

「….」

Contrary to the overjoyed duo, Class Rep seemed to be creeped out by this method.

Rather, can you stop connecting this with brainwashing ability please? I'm tired of Kenzaki's nonsense already.

I mean, this ain't even a damn curse, this is summon skill. If you want to complain, find Azuma-kun in heaven, if he entered heaven, that is.

「Summon skill is great after all. It's really convenient and has various kinds of practical applications.」

Though I was not under suspicion for now, thanks to beekeeping, we might be able to raise our efficiency in terms of combat or searching for enemies. This simple function turned out to be the most useful among the skull series. Thank you Azuma-kun, your skull was truly useful.

「Well then, successfully taming the queen bee is an unexpected harvest but… We can't get our original harvest, the honey.」

It was still a mystery how Natsukawa-san detected this broken beehive faster than Rem. The honey in this place had already been snatched by the gomas.

「Kotaro-kun, shall we go and destroy those gomas to prevent them from destroying another beehive?」

「I mean, they're a bane for the other beehives!!」

「In short, this will be a crusade for honey, isn't it?」

Ooh, that's scary girls. Human appetite is really scary.

「The honey is gone since those gomas ate them.」

「We have to save the honey, even if it is just one drop…」

「Yes, just imagining them eating honey is enough to piss me off.」

Well, it is gomas after all. It doesn't really matter even if they were gone from the ecosystem.

「Oi Momokawa, since we're going to look for the base of the gomas, are we going to raid their base as well?」

「Nope, we will see the situation.」

If there was a huge goma settlement on par with the size of the pyramid settlement which Souma party encountered back then, we couldn't just raid them recklessly without an appropriate plan. That said, I wouldn't hestitant to raid the village if we found out that they had a secret weapon that might be useful in a battle against Yamata no Orochi… Risking our lives just for the honey sounds like a stupid idea.

If it was only a small settlement, our team alone was enough to subjugate it, but that's all.

「I'm curious about the origin of their sugar. I think this is something that we have to investigate.」

Perhaps I should use this chance to investigate the gomas who inhabit this resort area to learn more about their race.

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