Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

「Natsukawa-san, is the honey that was snatched after massacring the goma delicious?」

「It's sweet!」

Natsukawa Minami who ate fairy nuts soaked in the honey that we got from slaughtering the entire goma village replied with a face full of smiles.

The one who was most eager to do this operation was none other than her, and also the most delighted upon succeeding. Perhaps that was the delight derived from plundering using her 『Thief』 vocation.

Not just Natsukawa-san, everyone was equally delighted by Mei-chan's new sweets menu made from the stolen honey.

Raiding a peaceful goma village to rob their precious honey, the creature called human was truly a cruel one.

Well, it didn't really matter since those gomas were really gross. It wouldn't hurt my conscience even if we slayed their children.

「But, they might be similar to humans in some regard.」

I had predicted that the boss would escape by himself from the village. That was why I had no idea where he would run to if we completely blockaded their escape route.

I had grasped the structure of the village after observing from the tower. That was why I could find that small, backdoor-like entrance in the pig frog farm and predicted their escape route.

And just as I had expected, the boss govu escaped alone with his family while sacrificing the other gomas in the village.

I asked Rem Arachne to catch him and forced him to watch his wives and children get slain right before his eyes. The female goma raised a strange scream when Mei-chan crushed the head of the first goma kid that rushed toward us.

From her reaction, I could guess that gomas had a deep sense of affection for their family.

But of course, why should I care about that? They were just humanoid monsters,  pests that should be eliminated, and we were lucky since we secured materials.

We could literally plunder without care while laughing like a mob from the end of the century if the target was goma.

「Well, that was good training.」

Today's raid could serve as rehearsal for the subjugation of Yamata no Orochi.

Everyone had gotten used to exploration but, today was the first time everybody truly cooperated with each other.

Mobilizing all 18 students to combat Yamata no Orochi without any rehearsal was a literal suicide. We had to get used to raid battles, not party battles.

And since everyone's coordination was better than my initial expectation, we managed to kill all the gomas in that village. Since everybody was already used to combat, the gomas in that village were literally sitting ducks.

My biggest concern did not materialize, but I discovered another problem instead.

「We need a way to communicate with each other.」

The teamwork in one party was good, but we had a problem with coordination between parties.

During today's raid, the first party was spearheaded by Natsukawa-san who rushed straight to the village gate. The second party was led by Shimokawa who blocked the other entrance. And I led the third party to ambush anyone who came out from the secret passage.

In short, we used three teams in today's operation.

However, there was next to no communication between the first, second, and third parties. Though it was possible to contact them using our smartphones, we couldn't do that during the combat.

Since today's operation went without a hitch, we proceeded in accordance with our main plan. But things could easily go south if that goma king would send his troop through teleportation.

Naturally, my double was keeping a watch on the goma altar in case something unexpected happened so that I could tell everyone to retreat at once.

Fortunately, my worries ended up as mere worries, but I really wanted to gather more information about the other party. I mean, literally, anything could happen during the subjugation of Yamato no Orochi.

「But still, none of us has something like telepathy ability huh.」

Smartphones were much better, but we should prepare a better communication method.

Anyway, the next step was to devise a much better and faster communication line between different teams in real-time.

Well, we had no other harvest from today's raid other than honey and sugar.

「Sakura-chan, Himeno-san, you two come with me after this.」

「… What are you scheming this time?」

「Eh, why me… Momokawa-kun?」

「Stop making that disgusted face, you two are the only ones in our group.」

They were blatantly showing their wariness.

And their expression was just like the one they showed when they saw the student from Kuromine High while walking in the city.

「If you think I'm doing something suspicious, feel free to bring along your beloved big brother or your boyfriend.」

Today was a holiday, after all, so no one went out for exploration. That was why I let them bring along someone. Not that I was trying to hide this.

「Can't be helped then, I'll go with you.」

「Yes Big Brother, please do so.」

「It's much safer if Souma-kun is with us!」

Would you be really okay if Nakajima-kun isn't coming with us, Himeno-san? I mean, she has the same face as the dull protagonist of romcom manga when flirting with another man.

Oh, whatever. If Nakajima-kun himself didn't say anything, it means that only the three of them would go with me.

「Let's get going.」

By the way, we were going from the fairy plaza of the school tower to the fairy plaza of the resort area. It was the place we used as the starting point for yesterday's raid.

We had already looted everything from the goma village and brought them back to the school tower, that was why there was nothing left in this place. But we had left behind our most important catch in this place.

「There we go, Lab Rat No.1, until Lab Rat No.3.」

We had held the boss govu and two gomas in this place.

They were confined within a pseudo jail that was created with Randou-san's earth magic.

「Uh, this is…」

It was obvious at a glance that the goma inside was already in a half-dead state, even the govu who had the most stamina among them looked dead tired. Naturally, they weren't just exhausted, they were bleeding too. Most of the blood was simply because they had vomited blood rather than from their wound.

「Why… are you doing such an inhuman thing?」

「Goma isn't a human, to begin with, so it's not inhuman.」

「But now that you show us this, it's honestly making me feel awful.」

「It's not like I'm doing this because I like it either.」

We had no choice but to conduct experiments using monsters.

Since this wasn't a game, we couldn't confirm the effect and damage with numbers. Even the explanation about our skill was in the form of flavor text, a wacky one in my case.

「I don't care about what you want to say, but I want you to use healing magic on these fellas.」

「… Haah?」

「W-Why should I do that?」

That was a natural question I guess, why should she use healing on a monster?

「So that we can use them again after we have healed them.」

「I won't do such a repulsive act.」

「Me too…」

「Well, I'm not doing this for myself, I'm doing this for you two.」

That was what I wanted to say but both of them were unwilling to hear me anymore.

「Souma-kun.」

「Got it, let me hear your reason for doing this.」

He was equally unwilling to do this, but he was at least willing to hear me out for now. Damn, what a model student you are.

「I want them to train their healing magic.」

「Train? It should be enough to let them use it during battle right?」

「That is that, this is this.」

Using healing magic in combat was a practical experience and also an integral part of their training.

However, it didn't mean that their skill was only used during combat. Rather, they wouldn't have the chance to use it after we upgraded our equipment and skills since they were bound to suffer from minor injuries.

No wound = No healing magic. And no healing magic meant that they wouldn't be able to raise their skill experience.

「Especially Himeno-san whose healing magic is close to useless.」

「T-That's…」

「Otherwise, your skill should've been upgraded a long time ago.」

「Guh!」

Did she react that way because her skill level is really low? Or, maybe because she wasn't a 『Healer』 anymore.

Well, it didn't really matter. Even if Himeno-san was kin, since she still had her 『Lesser Heal』, it meant that the skill could still become stronger.

「If it's goma, we can hurt them as much as we want. In that way, we can use healing on them again and again.」

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