The Demon King's Reincarnation Starts a New Life From Zero
V1 Chapter 45 Self-Esteem Sylphid
“...... This, quiet.”
A few hours after entering the forest.
Amidst the furor of the trees, Sharon muttered those few words.
“...... That's right.”
After a little silence, Luuty answered her like that.
It just sounded like the detail of their conversation was that it looked like a normal forest without Ogres.
And in fact, Sharon's murmur had such a meaning, but Luuty's answer to it was different.
It had the meaning that Ogres lived quietly in the forest. It shows that the Ogres show that they have an aspect as a people who are accustomed to living in the forest.
In fact, in the cases where Goblins lived in the forest, they would pointlessly raise a flirtatious voice, and aimlessly clear the tree.
They will bite the forest, and even cause fires.
By doing those things, they could be called mortal enemies to the Sylphids that many of them lived with together with the forest.
But what about Ogres.
There were no open paths, and looking at the appearance of it, there was no difference from a normal forest.
If one excluded the fact that they were preying on mankind, they could be said to be beings capable of coexisting with the forest. However, it was also a source of bitterness for Luuty who was a Sylphid.
He dislikes the fact that Ogres has something in common with Sylphid.
He did not like and could not bear the fact that he had more favorable impressions of the moving giants as if weaving in the forest than the humans who cut through the forest and created the path.
For reasons as a Human, he suppressed his instinctive emotions as a Sylphid.
That was why Luuty gave a short response.
“...... Are you okay?”
Luuty slightly trembled at Shion's words.
He thought that he might have seen what was in his heart, but then immediately changed his mind thinking that there was no way he could.
He made himself agree to the idea that his time of disagreement might make it seem like his condition was already deteriorating.
“Will be better, not to force yourself.”
“Yes, I'm fine.”
In response to the words Zweita had followed after Shion, Luuty lightly shook her head and replied like that.
Reorganizing herself with her pride as an educator, Luuty returns to her usual style.
Because of this, she did not notice the unpleasant feelings she would probably have if she were her usual self.
That the words that Shion and Zweita had said earlier were not questions about Luuty's health, but about his heart.
That he himself asked himself if it was permissible to be an ally of Man, was something he did not notice.
“However, how should we look for it. Even if we blindly look for them like this .... “.
Sharon nodded at Cain's words.
The forest was deep, and if they walked like this, they wouldn't know if they found any traces of the Ogres.
Thieves and bandits would also hide in places like forests and mountains, and they would even do so after making their own tracks hard to find.
In fact, the Jiol Profound Forest that was said to be a natural fortress and hid the country of the Jiol Forest Kingdom was said to continue to confuse the uninvited guests.
Even if it wasn't that far at the moment, searching for the giants hiding within the forest was a difficult matter for amateurs.
“I have a way.”
That's why Shion said that.
Shion had no time to spend a few days on an Ogre quest like this.
He needs to quickly defeat them, and turn them into the direction of “trivial situation”.
Unlike the stubborn Luuty would not ruin his status as a companion, Shion did not have time to wait for Kain and Sharon to notice.
“It seems that missing person cases have already appeared, but if they turn into Ogre food in the current situation, then it limits who the victims are quite a lot.”
“Could it be, are they tree loggers !?”
Shion nodded at Cain who shouted that.
Right. The fact that the Ogres had not yet invaded the city meant that there was a possibility that the Ogres had not seen the city that would be a feeding ground for them.
And then, with the fact that missing person cases have arisen in this situation, one can hypothesize that they are the ones who entered the Ogres range of areas.
In this situation, the range was forest, but when talking about Humans who would expressly go to such a place, the first one that came to mind was the lumberjack.
With the city this close to the forest, one could imagine that the forest would become popular to some extent.
Furthermore, when the forest was turned into an impossible situation because of the Ogres, one could understand how they got into a situation where they had a cornered mentality to the point that they applied for help.
“Then that means they might show up where the lumberjacks do their job.”
Sites that have become logging sites today most likely overlap with the Ogres activity area.
Of course, it might just be a coincidence at first. However, Ogres had high intelligence.
If they understood that it was a site where they obviously did something, they could definitely predict that the lumberjack was not there by chance.
“Humans come to cut down trees ..... they might understand that.”
That's right, as Zweita said, if they noticed that the purpose of Man coming to the forest was to cut down trees, the labor for Ogres to search for Man would be very easy.
The axe that hit the tree, was a unique sound.
If they advanced through the forest relying on it, then the Humans would be there. From the Ogres point of view, there is no easier hunt than this.
“Ah, in that case ....”
Kain started saying something there, but left [Hah] as if he realized something, he sent his gaze to Luuty and sank into silence.
What Cain would say was simple, and if they cut down trees, they would be able to lure Ogres.
That's true, but there are problems and mistakes with that.
First, if someone were to say whether they could draw Ogres to them or not, it was possible.
Ogres will come without a doubt. However, Luuty, who was a Sylphid, would have an even worse impression of them.
Sylphid can be assured that logging for the sake of one's livelihood is necessary, but in order to do meaningless logging, a normal Sylphid would shoot arrows at them.
Even if Luuty wouldn't go that far, his impression of Cain would probably be the worst.
And then, there was also the problem that there was no guarantee that all orges would come to them.
For example, if there was only one of them, then it would probably be fine that way. However, if there were a few of them, the chances that they would all come were very low.
Even for Humans who camped at night, they would split between being on standby at the base and going hunting.
Ogres would do it too.
“You did a good job of finding what we should focus on.”
Upon seeing Kain's disagreement, Shion said that and nodded.
The alluring aspect of them is not bad.
But since he was thinking of wiping them all out there, the difficulty of the strategy would increase.
If there was a method to lure them, there was only one thing they had to do. And then, it was possible for Shion's group.
“Zweita. Can you do it? “
“Nn, simple. “
He was probably thinking the same thing Shion was thinking.
Zweita responded like that with Shion's words.
“...... You can't possibly do what I thought you'd do, right?”
“Will use the trees?”
“That's not what I mean.”
“This is the ability of Zweita.”
After noticing Shion and Zweita's idea, Luuty shows his disapproval, but Zweita covers it up with a few words.
And then, after realizing what he was going to do, Cain looked at Zweita and made a difficult face.
“I, I don't understand. What happened ……? “
In response to Sharon who had grabbed Cain's arm and shook him, Kain asked Shion with her gaze.
When Kain saw Shion nodding small, Kain put in the words.
“...... That means, that we will have Ogres guiding us.”
They will be guided by Ogres.
Looking extremely puzzled from imagining the surreal scene of the katakata, Sharon was already out of her mind.
“Erm ...... In other words, such as ...... Magic Charm?”
In response to the response that was issued with great difficulty, Shion shook her head to the side.
It is also possible, but it is not certain.
As long as it was uncertain, it was not the size they should take now.
“Yes, seeing it once is better than listening to it a hundred times. Let's head to the logging site. “
If it was a logging location, there was no mistake that it would be a place close to the city.
Having thought about it, one can say that the fact that the city had not been attacked was fortunate, but it was not something to be said now.
With everyone nodding to Shion's proposal, they began to move towards the logging site.
