With the sound of hard things clashing against each other, he stabbed the knife, made out of bone, into Jaredo’s crown of the head.
Jaredo convulsed for a short while with his eyes rolling back, but before long he died.
“So, that’s that.” (Hifumi)
Confirming the death of Jaredo, Hifumi called out to the tiger beastman close-by.
“Where’s the spring? Aren’t there tasty fruits close to it?” (Hifumi)
“Haa?”
“Didn’t you listen? The place of the spring.” (Hifumi)
Due to Hifumi’s behaviour being similar to that of a fool, the tiger beastmen quickly surrounded Hifumi.
“Oh, aren’t you fairly nimble? Was it Gafan? You are a lot faster than him.” (Hifumi)
As Hifumi asked them “Please last a bit longer than those guys”, the beastmen became more and more enraged.
“Don’t babble!”
As they attacked by swinging their claws downwards, Hifumi hit the wrist with a fist, formed out of the joints of middle finger and index finger.
“Uaah?”
Hifumi, who extended his hand to the defenceless face once the beastman drew back his arm, which was hit with pinpoint attack causing a sense of pain, grabbed the hair of the head and chin.
“See, it’s easy to grab it.” (Hifumi)
While he was laughing, the sound of pulling out the fur and breaking their bones resounded. Then he twisted the beastman’s neck and broke it.
Without even leaking a voice, the beastman dies and crumbles down.
“A-A h-human has…”
Due to taking human opponents lightly as being weak, and even more so as their mate was killed barehanded, the beastmen were surprised.
“A-A coincidence!”
“In what way?” (Hifumi)
The beastman leaped at him while roaring. Throwing the counterweight of the kusarigama, it entangled their feet and they were pulled down sideways.
The beastman, who was severely knocked into their flank, fainted in agony, was drawn close in no time and had its throat sliced open with the sickle.
“Move once you think a bit more.” (Hifumi)
Hifumi is disgusted and a section of the beastmen wall stirs.
“Somehow it doesn’t seem like you are a normal human.”
With the beastmen making a path, a male, who had an even bigger physique than the other beastmen, came walking towards Hifumi through the open spot.
“You are this place’s boss?” (Hifumi)
“That’s right. Looks like you did as you please since morning.”
After the tiger boss looked at the three corpses, he threatened Hifumi by baring its fangs.
“What’s so fun about showing your teeth? Rather than that, although you say you are the person in charge, you have no education.” (Hifumi)
“Education, you say?”
“Humph”, the boss snorts.
“You humans and us are different. We kill if we consider them an enemy. Something like expressly talking it out…”
“That’s not the case.”
Interrupting his speech, Hifumi folded his arms and his mouth curved into a へ.
“There’s no unfairness or damnation in fighting. You say you immediately kill, if it’s an enemy. That’s fine. That’s truly great.” (Hifumi)
“But”, Hifumi points at the corpse of a beastman.
“Why are you unable to do anything but cutting with your claws!? Are those fangs a decoration!? Won’t you easily break something hard by biting it!? If you are tigers, you have to lead your enemies by the nose by moving around! Aren’t you just slow-footed dimwits!?” (Hifumi)
Due to Hifumi suddenly bursting in anger, the tiger beastmen can’t do anything but being dumbfounded.
“I came to the wastelands wondering whether there are fellows slightly stronger than humans. And once I look at the results, there were tigers, I can only remember as idiots, a thieving cat and a sheep and rabbit, which are unrelated to fighting! Are you looking down on me!?” (Hifumi)
Due to Hifumi saying all he has to say, the tiger boss’ eyebrows trembled and he roared.
“The likes of humans don’t bark!”
Hifumi is attacked by a strike that can’t be compared in speed to the other beastmen.
He let it go past by barely lowering his head, but several strands of his forehead bangs were ripped away.
“Ooh…” (Hifumi)
Due to the situation of Hifumi raising his voice, the boss grinned broadly and laughed.
“Somehow you dodged it, eh? But the next will…”
“Aren’t you able to do it, if you try!?” (Hifumi)
Hifumi, who showed a sparkling smile, stows the kusarigama away and retrieves the katana.
In the presence of the boss, who ended up hardening due to the unforeseen reaction, Hifumi drew his katana.
Inhaling his breath through the nose, he slowly exhales it out of his mouth.
“Alright! Shall we begin then!?” (Hifumi)
Chapter 86: Hey Brother
The tiger beastmen’s boss plans to fight by himself after all.
The other beastmen are standing in a circle around Hifumi and their boss as if fencing them in.
“You will regret making fun of tiger beastmen. Even if you swing around such thin weapon, it won’t be able to defend against my claws.”
Hifumi doesn’t even feel intimidated by the boss, who laughs smugly baring his fangs, as he lowered his katana loosely.
“As it is a tedious talk, hurry up and come.” (Hifumi)
Calmly removing his look from the boss in front of him, Hifumi also called out to the beastmen surrounding them in the vicinity.
“Isn’t it boring to be just watching? If you have power and a will to fight, feel free to attack me without reservations. I will handle you all at once.” (Hifumi)
Due to his blatant provocation the air in the surrounding was tinged with a feeling of tension right away.
“That’s right, it’s this air. The determination to kill, to kill your opponent. If that’s also encompassed by action and ability, I won’t complain.” (Hifumi)
During the time Hifumi was talking, the boss came sending an attack brandishing the claws of both arms, but Hifumi isn’t as nice to receive an attack he has already seen once.
“There!”
The hands of the boss, which came clawing at Hifumi’s side of the face, are slapped away upon touch.
Hifumi laughed with a “Kaka” at the boss, who has a look of disbelief as his palms swelled up straight away.
“Even if your bodies are those of a beastman, there’s almost no difference to a human body. I know that because I saw the fellows, who were sliced open yesterday.” (Hifumi)
The ones Hifumi is talking about are the three, who met and attacked him just to have the tables turned on them and then had their corpses being ripped apart by animals.
“No matter what kind of training you receive, in the end your bodies consist of meat and water being covered by skin. Thus it will become swollen, if it is beaten vigorously.” (Hifumi)
“What incomprehensible things are you talking about!? A swelling like this is of no concern and can’t even be called an injury at this level!”
The instant the roaring boss spread both his arms, Hifumi stepped into his bosom and this time hit the solar plexus with his palm using all his strength.
“Gubuu… Boeee.”
Without being able to suppress what’s rising from within, the boss scatters vomit from his mouth.
“I don’t need this”, Hifumi put his katana back on his waist and grabbed an arm of the tiger’s boss who’s miserably spilling tears. Pressing the claws into the swollen palm, he pulled the arm without stopping and tore it off.
“Gyaaaa!”
Trying to hold the right hand, where blood spilled in an endless stream, the tiger boss raised a scream.
The tiger beastmen in the surroundings had their breath taken away s
eeing his appearance.
It was inconceivable for them to see their boss being toyed with this easily.
“Even a human can use his fingernails. Like this.” (Hifumi)
Cutting through the wind with his right hand, the fingertips grazed the boss’ throat. Without being able to raise his voice, the boss, who spurted blood from the nape of the neck, collapsed and died.
Hifumi, looking down on him from nearby, calmly mutters,
“Hmm. Even the location of veins is roughly the same as with humans, huh? With slightly stronger physical strength, it’s at the level of them having animal ears and tails?” (Hifumi)
“Well then”, Hifumi looks at the tiger beastman in his surrounding, who had completely stiffened.
“Look! Because you guys didn’t help, this guy died, no?” (Hifumi)
“H-How dare you!”
The tiger youth, who came rushing while weeping, was split in lower and upper half by the drawn katana* and at the same time the others raised their voices in anger, (T/N: battou … the art of using the drawing inertia to deliver a powerful strike), see Kenshin the Battousai)
“Bastard! We won’t let you return alive!”
“It’s the boss’ enemy! Everyone, kill him!”
Beastmen, leaping at him as they roared, come approaching Hifumi from all directions without any distinction whether they are male or female.
“Oh, did you finally decide to go for it!?” (Hifumi)
While decapitating two heads in one go, Hifumi exclaims delightfully.
Changing the direction of the katana by turning around, he stabs it towards his back cutting open the stomach of a woman in the back.
Slaying yet another in front with the katana using the momentum, he freely moves around between the enemies while cutting at throats and thighs. Meanwhile he watches the influence of blood and confirms in a composed manner that they have a different structure than humans.
At the time all of those, who were at that place, were turned into corpses, he fully finished the inspection regarding the tiger beastman’s body structure.
Wiping his katana with a paper, he sheaths it into its scabbard.
Feeling refreshed, he inhales his breath through the nose and exhales it from the mouth.
“… I want to see the contents of other beastmen as well.” (Hifumi)
Hifumi went to look for the spring, the sheep beastwoman, Reni, told him about.
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Hifumi, who left the settlement dotted with plain huts made out of animal skins, leaves and wood, easily discovered the spring, which had a size of around a soccer field.
With water that is as transparent that one could see even into quite the depth, one can observe small fishes and living things similar to shrimps.
As he surveys his vicinity, there were the trees characteristically growing large ivy’s entangled with each other as told by Reni. A large amount of red fruits dangled on the grown branches.
“This, huh?” (Hifumi)
Plucking off a fist-sized fruit, Hifumi bites into it without hesitation.
With a crispy and chewy texture similar to a pear, a sweet fragrance like that of a juicy peach spreads through his nose and mouth. With an ample amount of moisture, the fruit even slides down the throat smoothly.
“Certainly, this is delicious.” (Hifumi)
He ate around two successively and dumped the large seed in their core.
“It was tasty. But, only this much is a little…” (Hifumi)
At the moment he finished to eat the fruits, both sides of Hifumi’s mouth are smeared with the bright red fruit juice. It completely looks as if he has eaten a person.
Hifumi, who looked at the spring, looked at both his hands and entered the spring with a splash while wearing his clothes saying “Well, it can’t be helped.”
At first he received a thrill from the clearly chilly water, but before long his body got used to it and he immersed himself in the coolness of the spring forgetting about the heat of the wastelands.
Leaving the spring before his body gets completely chilled, he takes off his hakama and wrings it out. As he was doing that, two tiger beastmen children came walking from the direction where the settlement is at.
Although he can’t grasp the age of a beastman, a boy, at the age of around elementary school to the upper grades of elementary school, is leading a girl, a head shorter than him, which can be considered his younger sister. The boy stared at Hifumi with his black eyes. The girl lowered her sight having a face filled with fright.
“Human…”
Plainly looking at the figure of Hifumi, the boy showed a surprised expression, but that changed right away into an expression of rage baring his fangs.
“Did you kill our fathers? Human!”
Seeing the face of the boy, who came dashing after separating his hand which was connected with his younger sister, Hifumi slaps the wet hakama at him while staying expressionless.
“Hii…”
The boy, who had the side of his face hit with a power on the level of a whip, began to cry as he rolled on the ground in front of the girl, who couldn’t raise her voice due to her fright.
Hifumi, who has put on the hakama and quietly ignored them, arranged the fold of his hakama with his fingers while being impressed by the climate of the wastelands, which began to dry it right away.
“So, who are you guys?” (Hifumi)
The young boy, who finally got up, showed a mix of fear and anger in his expression.
Without an answer from the tiger boy, Hifumi sighed.
“Well, I don’t give a damn who you are anyway.” (Hifumi)
Bringing his face close in one go, Hifumi looked directly into the eyes of the boy.
“If you still hate me once you grow up a bit more, come at me any time.” (Hifumi)
Pointing in the direction where the corpses of the tiger beastmen are, Hifumi laughs broadly.
“You better make sure to be able to fight properly. If you are weaker than me at that time, you will suffer that kind of future.” (Hifumi)
The young boy, who burst into tears being overwhelmed by bitterness, was hugged by the girl.
Hifumi, who irresponsibly told him “Do your best”, neglected them, plucked off absolutely every fruit and tossed them into his darkness storage.
Passing a fruit each to the boy and girl with a throw, he quickly left.
The boy, wiping his tears, bites into the fruit after staring at it. Although the fruit should be delicious, he muttered “It’s not tasty at all” due to the steadily falling tears.
The girl looks at the fruit and bites into it while weeping likewise next to him.
We have no one to rely on anymore. I have to become strong, the boy, who threw away the seed, returns to the village. It won’t do to not bury the deceased adults in the ground.
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After that, Hifumi, who annihilated a few settlements formed by wolf and lion beastmen, got thoroughly tired of fighting against beastman opponents.
And at the same time he got lost.
With the woods disappearing in front of him surprisingly, the wastelands literally continue as far as the eye can see.
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