Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

Chapter 120.2 - False United Front

「Mu~h, I'll do it! Let's go, En-chan, Ram-kun!」

「Take care, make sure you return before dinner.」

I see Reina, a tired look on my face, pout. Good grief, getting a NEET to do their job is hard!

「Will Reina-chan be … all right by herself…?」

Honestly, I had no qualification to call out to Yamada-kun who was staring at Reina's retreating back wearing a worried look on his face.

Good grief, this party is filled with troublesome bunches!

「Seeing that she called Engard and Ramudein from the very beginning, I think Ayase-san will be okay even if she went into the jungle by herself.」

Now let's forget about that Reina and start with our part.

「I sincerely beg you Yamada-kun, you must not look for Reina-san in the jungle just to satisfy your worry.」

「I-I know that… Why should someone like me go there, to Reina-chan's side, anyway…」

A glum Yamada departed towards the jungle to gather firewood.

I was around 50% joking when I said "gathering firewood". I was serious about the rest, we did need a lot of firewood to make a big flame. The more we had, the better it was. Most of all, I needed lumber to make a gate for this tower.

「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, 『SMASH』!」

The sharp-piercing sound of weapon impact and collapsed trees was combined together with a woeful roar. Ha~h, nothing can beat the sorrowful wail of a broken-hearted man.

Yamada is just a mere member of the baseball club, he wasn't an experienced lumberjack nor had he prior experience in this kind of work. But all the problem was resolved by the power and ability of his vocation, the 『Heavy Warrior』. I didn't even have to worry if he was somehow unlucky and found himself squashed by the fallen tree since his body toughness was raised by his 『Iron Skin』＆『Steel Body』.

「What should we do, Momokawa~」

「I'm a 『Warrior』, shall I cut down the trees too?」

「I'm a Hydromancer, physical labor might be a little too much for me~」

As precious manpower, I had a plan to let the Totem Pole Trio transport the lumber that was cut down by Yamada and help me with making the gate.

「I want you guys to gather useful items from the 『Warehouse』.」

The 『Warehouse』 was the name of the room in which we stored the loot from the Gomas troop that we defeated. It seems Yamada couldn't betray his Japanese habit of not being wasteful, so he instructed the other guys to gather the equipment from the Gomas that they defeated while taking care of their corpses too. Nevertheless, it didn't mean that all of those loots were useful. Much of that loot was equivalent to trash.

「But of course, nothing useful in the~re.」

「Just gather the weapons that look like they’re still useful then.」

There was bound to be a disagreement if I were to use a weapon that was still of good quality. But, the item I wanted the most right now wasn't a beautiful weapon.

「Here, I made a list of the item I need. Just ask me if there's some item that you don't know since I'll do my part of the assignment after this.」

I handed them a memo, and they gathered around to read it together.

「This bow and arrow, how do you plan to use those? we don't have an 『Archer』.」

「Could it be that this torch oil is referring to the dirt in their leather bag?」

「What in the h*ll is this white powder?」

Despite seemingly puzzled by my memo, the trio obediently went towards the warehouse.

「You really are a talented leader huh, Momokawa-kun.」

「Well, I just told them what they need to do.」

Yamajun called out to me with a bright smile on his face after I had assigned everyone their job.

It's not like I wanted to become a leader if I have another choice. I mean, I was not the kind of person who wants to lead everyone or wants to bask under the limelight, or someone lusting after dominance. I mean, given a chance, I wanted to dump this responsibility to anyone who’s willing to take it and laze around.

But then, my survival instinct had forced me to act out of character. No, I’m not joking, I was more than willing to dump this d*mned job to anyone who’s willing to take it.

「And yet, you become more and more like a prominent leader.」

「Do you think so?」

「Yes… I'm sure that you've experienced a fair share of hardship along the way, Momokawa-kun.」

I mean, the pipsqueak otaku who always stayed in the corner of the class was now the one who ordered that Reina A Ayase, the delinquent Totem Pole Trio, and Yamada from the baseball club. This kind of situation would never happen back in Japan.

「Even so, it's the same for everyone.」

「Indeed. That's why doing the best with everyone is completely different from Momokawa-kun who’s forced to survive alone.」

「Yeah, thank you for the praise.」

Yamajun, who could say something like that as if nothing had happened, was more awesome than I. Normally, everyone else would have had a hard time saying such praise, it might be because I was opening up to him.

He didn't put any pretense at all when he was with me.

「Well then, I've to do my tomb raiding work too.」

「Need my help?」

「You'll do the cooking, Yamajun.」

Cooking was my job as someone who could use witch pot, but there was a lot of prep work for the ingredients.

Fortunately, we'd a lot of left over meat from the great boar that the Totem Pole Trio had hunted yesterday. But, it doesn't mean that our daily meal would only consist of great boar meat.

I made a lot of dried meat and bacon from the leftover meat since it'd serve as preserved food during this dungeon capture. Since we're currently in the jungle, we could find foodstuff like great boar, snake and frog but I had no idea whether we could secure meat if the next area was something like an underground ruin.

Though we had a lot of preserved food right now, I wanted to secure as much food as possible while we're still in the jungle. I mean it just takes a moment for me to finish fermentation and air drying with 『Witch's Kettle』.

「By yourself? that's a dirty job right? You're not going to do that by yourself right, Momokawa-kun?」

「It's okay, Rem is coming with me after all. In addition, I'm using my tentacles so it's not like I'll touch them directly with my hands.」

「I understand, I guess I can focus on my job now.」

After Yamajun gave his consent, a large knife in hand, he headed towards an almost untouched, giant lump of boar meat that I froze yesterday.

Even though I called it simple cooking, it'll take a lot of time to prepare the ingredients. I couldn't do that alone no matter how much time I have in my hand. Not to mention that I was just an amateur cook.

By the way, Yamajun had a little cooking experience, naturally not as masterful as Mei-chan. I mean, none of my classmates had the skill to cook and completely dismantle a wild boar like Mei-chan.

「Well then, time to get started with my part.」

I assigned different jobs to everyone, and I assigned myself the job that no one else but I could accomplish.

I went around and right behind the tower. That was the place we had buried the corpses of Gomas troop, or rather, their morgue.

There must be nice, usable things in there.