The twenty M67 grenades disappeared in no time.
「We may have exterminated a huge number, but paying four thousand yen for each one is rough on the mind」
It is not a loss if one grenade kills more than two, but watching four thousand yen melt away still weighs heavily on me.
I bought another box and kept sending them down the chute while watching the situation.
「Takato」
Ladarion returned to the Sefuti Home.
Normally, when someone returns to the Sefuti Home, they appear at the trash chute. But if someone is already there, they appear beside it instead, and a window and a trash chute appear there too.
I had no idea how any of that works, but there is no point complaining to that useless goddess. Better to just go oh, so that is how it is.
「Are they all safe?」
「They are safe. They are resting now」
「I see. I will not be able to get out for a while, so eat lunch there. There are still shotgun shells left, so use them to hold out」
Shotgun shells were cheap and I used them a lot, so I had bought five hundred rounds. About two hundred were left, so they should be fine for now. I bought lunch and poured the shells into a bucket for Ladarion to carry out.
I ate rice balls while watching outside, tossing processed meat and sending grenades down the chute at the goblins gathering around it.
But they gathered so much that a mountain of meat formed, and even grenades could no longer blow them away. If Ladarion and the others did not clear them, I would not be able to get out.
「I tried to use the dash-hut tactic on the steepest slope I could find」
Even when I rotated the window three hundred sixty degrees, it was a wall of meat. If it were not goblins, anyone would be vomiting by now.
「Now, the only thing to do is to get rid of them from the outside.」
Even if I can handle gore, I am not fine with stepping out into a wall of meat. Getting covered in goblin blood is out of the question.
I bought ten boxes of two-hundred-round MINIMI magazines and, since I was at it, I bought four spare barrels.
Gunpowder ignites and fires the rounds, so after two hundred shots the barrel gets extremely hot. I once touched it with a dried leaf and it burst into flames. I used to wonder why the barrel could be removed so easily. It was to keep it from warping under the heat.
「Well, fighting for two or three hours straight is already unusual」
I know nothing about real war, but exchanging gunfire for two or three hours sounds like something on the scale of a world war. Having a small group fight a battle like that is nothing but insane. If an action movie was nonstop gunfights from start to finish, I would want my money back.
While I was filling the assault rifle magazines, Ladarion came over.
「Takato. The goblins are increasing. Grandpa says it might get bad」
Ladarion called Kainzel-san Grandpa. I never knew that.
「Got it. I bought ammo for the MINIMI, so take it out there. I’ll focus on loading. I’m counting on you, partner」
It feels terrible that I can’t head out when it matters, but if someone has to load the ammo, then I have no choice but to rely on my partner Ladarion.
「Yeah, leave it to me!」
She answered with a loud snort and carried the MINIMI and the magazines outside.
I can load an assault rifle magazine with the loader in under a minute, but submachine gun types take two or three minutes even with a machine gun loader. When you have dozens of them, your fingers get wrecked. Moments like this make being ambidextrous a blessing.
「Still, that’s an insane number gathering out there. The reward already passed one million yen」
Judging from the reward amount, at least two or three hundred goblins have gathered. And it hasn’t even been an hour since noon.
Then the assault rifle magazines started disappearing. Looked like they switched from the Benelli M4 to the SCAR.
Why change when there’s still ammo left? Fingers getting tired?
The magazines kept disappearing one after another, and even the Scorpion magazines vanished next.
「I can’t keep up!」
Even with thirty rounds, a full-auto burst empties it in under two seconds. The ten magazines I worked so hard to fill were gone in an instant. Should I buy another MINIMI at this point?
「Takato, ammo!」
Right after I bought another MINIMI, Ladarion appeared.
「I bought a new one, so bring in the ones outside. I’ll get them ready to use!」
「Got it!」
He took the MINIMI out, then immediately returned carrying two of them.
「Come back in five minutes!」
After saying that, I swapped the barrels, set the magazines, and bought ten more two-hundred-round magazines.
Ladarion kept going back and forth, carrying the MINIMIs and the magazines outside.
「Keep the radio switched on」
Saying that at the end, I bought ten fire extinguishers, tied eight of them together with vinyl tape, stuck two grenades to the handles, pulled the pins, and sent them down the chute. Looking out the window, everything was white in every direction.
「Warning. Follow the proper steps when using a fire extinguisher!」
After the announcement, I bought a full-face dust mask and protective suit, equipped them, bought twenty loaded P90 magazines and stuffed them into a shoulder bag.
「Alright, let’s do this!」
Grabbing a fire extinguisher in each hand, I stepped outside.
Goblins appeared all around me at once. There were still this many?
I pulled the pins, held the nozzles and squeezed the levers, spraying extinguishing agent around me.
After emptying a second extinguisher, I raised the P90 and fired toward every presence I sensed.
「Ladarion! I’m outside! I’ll clear goblins as I descend the mountain. You all take a different route down. We’ll meet at the bridge! Kainzel-san, I’m counting on you!」
「Understood!」
「Don’t push yourself」
「Yes. Then, let’s go」
Before the extinguishing agent settled, I killed as many as I could and headed down the mountain.
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