Mayonaize Shrimp

RAW: http://ncode.syosetu.com/n6073cm/30/
Editor: Karuma

I gathered quite a lot of insight from the last chapter:
1. Some data saving programs/apps prevent you to download “the necessary thing” that allows you to read
2. My “wait for 3 seconds” warning from the last chapter doesn’t matter (see point 1)
3. I might need to think of something for the reader mode and the Google TL readers
4. I need to clear cache to load the new “thing”
5.I should make a tutorial for the program I used

Once again, please tell me via discord or comment on this page if there’s something wrong.

A contact came in from one of our scouts.
It’s tomorrow… so the Empire is starting today.
Hearing the news, I reassemble my skills as I had planned.
Unlike the naval battle, each unit consists about tens of thousands in number.
There’s a need to attack as many units as possible in a single attack.

Passive skills
-ＭＰAuto-recovery（M）
-HP/MP Auto Recovery（M）
-Physical Ability Up（XL）
-Increased Close Combat Capability（L）
-Increased Perception Ability（L）
-Attack Range（S）

Active Skills
-Wave Sword
-Spirit Zone
-Rokudou sen gomi
-Double Spell

I’m now using a familiar skill set which increase my attack range to the limit.
Spirit Zone creates a red barrier-type field ranging 5 meter from the caster that restores HP and MP for every enemy beaten in its range.
I felt like I would need both of them in this conquest.

Rokudou Sen Gomi is an active skill that summons various weapons like spears, katanas, swords, lances, and staff and shoots them in a straight line. It’s an active skill that can kill many enemies at once. (TL: As per suggestion from the translator community, I’ll keep this as romaji to avoid sounding like a drunkard)
It’s quite a gimmicky skill since it fires in a straight line and is easy to dodge.
But this is war.
This skill will hit multiple enemies regardless the direction I shoot.
It’s not really compatible with Wave Sword, but it’s a skill used in guild wars.

Double Spell allows the caster to cast 2 spells at the same time.
It’s a great skill to use, however the MP cost was quite significant so usually people use it as a trump card.

On the day of the war, our alliance was lining up side by side in front of the fortress.
The Kingdom’s army, the small country union’s army, adventurers, and lastly a unit of 50 thousand from the demon army, which arrived just in time.
550 thousand soldiers gathering together in total.
And the one leading the Kingdom’s army is Prince Leon, acting as the general.
On either of his sides were the leader of the union’s army and the leader of the demon army.
Apparently, the leader of the union troops is the captain of the ship that I helped previously.
The commander of demon army was a gallant looking woman.

「It’s finally the time for the decisive battle with the Empire! The Empire has ruthlessly destroyed numerous countries, capturing the inhabitant as slaves, and controlling the whole continent! They are absolutely unforgiveable! Our defeat will mark the fall of our continent! We greatly appreciate the reinforcement from the Allied forces and the Demon race!」

「The Empire has trampled over the countries in the Union. The Empire had also irresponsibly summoned the 『 The Hero of the Blue Sea』 Masaki-dono. The Empire had wounded the Adventurers as a whole.
Let us make them pay for destroying the Valentine Kingdom and making it’s people suffer, for this is the day we finally push forward in the fight against the Empire, winning this battle will cripple the empire in a way they won’t recover from easily! 」

「We are the same.
They have kidnapped the demons from our cities and reduce them into slaves. We have a score to settle with the empire.
As appreciation for accepting us in this army,
We will do our best together in this battle and bring peace to the continent!」

All soldiers raised their voices from the speeches of the 3 representatives.
All 550 thousand voices combined into one.
Even the ground and the sky are shaking.
But did he really need to throw my name in the speech just to raise their morale?
The soldiers tried to find me in their surrounding, but fortunately for me, I’m not there.

Currently, I am… in the sky above the Empire’s troops.
A report came in from the telepathic network by the small country union’s magic troops.
I’m monitoring the enemy movements using 『Stealth』, 『Invincibility』, and 『Wing』.
Killing an army this size will definitely put a huge dent in their strength, but about 20% of these soldiers consists of slaves.
Since they were made to fight their previous friends by force, we hope we can minimize their casualties as much as possible.
I can’t avoid accidentally killing them, but I want to minimize them if I could.
And of course, we are not killing the soldiers who showed no intention to fight.

I finished watching the soldier formations so I reported back to the magic squad.

(As we had expected, the slaves were put on the front lines.
It’s natural since they were the obvious choice for sacrificial pawn.
I’m closing the connection.
Please tell me the strategy afterwards)

(Affirmative.
Please tell us if they make any movements)

(Certainly. Continuing reconnaissance)

A gryphon-riding and wyvern-riding squad passed right next to me.
I found something big when I observed the enemy headquarters using stealth.
It’s a dragon.
It’s more of a wyrm-type actually, and it was not as huge as the Leviathan.
4 dragons without giant winged limbs were positioned slightly in front of the headquarter.

But overshadowing them was… a 10 meter tall robot.
Is that the 『Dreadnought』?
I wonder what kind of guy who controls it.
(TL: 黒くはないが若干白い、白銀の城というのが正しいかもしれない。probably an idiom but I never heard of this one)

The enemy headquarters were based in the city of Raafu.
The citizens were evacuating to the back while the city is completely turned into a base by the soldiers.

I finished the reconnaissance to a certain extent and reported back immediately.
It’s a dangerous mission, except if they have stealth like me, but the information proves to be beneficial.

I wait for their movement in their frontline.
The strategy this time is by taking the wind from the Empire’s sails. (TL: robbing their advantage)
We can’t attack them this way.

I waited in the sky for almost 20 minutes above their troops
before their soldiers start getting busy, the frontline began charging for attack.
Magic artillery units were lined up behind them.
They are probably going to attack us while we are busy with their sacrificial pawn.

(They moved! The battle is on!)

(Affirmative! Good luck!)

(You too!)

I floated stealthily in the sky, waiting for the slaves army to move further forward.

Not yet… not yet… just a little… Now!

「Rokudou Sen Gomi!!」

I unleashed various weapons using that skill and pierced through their magic artilleries, destroying them and killing their mages in the process.
I didn’t reserve my strength.
This is a war, I will not pull my punches.
The cloud from Rokudou Sen Gomi created a huge cloud of sand that stopped the enemies from moving.

Meanwhile, the slave soldiers, who had prepared themselves for death, are fighting against the Prince’s army.
But they were held off by 3 people.

Those 3 are the 『Shinobi Chief』 Jirou, the 『Farmer』 Haruka, and Yoko.

They fight according to our plan beforehand.
I kept watching the slave soldiers from the sky while reporting their movements until they formed a line and…

「Earth Seal: Sand Flood!」

「Line Pitfa~all」

Jirou muttered and created a wave of sand while Haruka create pitfalls which strangely looked like a line of plowed field.
The slave soldiers fell into the pitfalls like a slide while trying to avoid the current of sands.
The depth was about 3 meters. They might break their legs but they won’t die.
To be honest, it was more like a trench than a pitfall, but it still succeeded in trapping our enemies.
Their main soldiers still couldn’t see ahead because of my cloud of sands.
They must be surprised if they lost all of their slave soldiers in a blink of an eye.

Since we can’t pass the trench as well, it’s now Yoko’s turn.

「Golem Command: Form bridge」(TL: the text was a usual dialogue but I turn it into command so it doesn’t sound weird)

Yoko created a bridge using a worm-type golem.
I thought that golems looks similar to humans but Yoko could create golems in various shapes and sizes with her justushiki.
Apparently, her current masterpiece is a dragon-type golem.

The golem bridge was quite flat with hand railing on its edge. It was also quite wide so multiple soldiers can pass at once. However, the slaves didn’t stay still while looking at their enemies passing right above their heads.

Haruka played an active role here.

The passing soldiers threw bags containing powders down the moat. Not long after, the slaves fell on top of each other.
The contents of that bag was sleep pollen.
Anyone inhaling this powder will be affected with strong sleep debuff, capable even lulling a mid-sized monsters to sleep. (TL: the first appearance of the word モンスター (Monsuta) so I will translate mazoku as demons)
To be able to cultivate these pollen, Haruka’s image is getting more and more dreadful.
That girls versatility was really high.

Thankfully, the trench was deep enough so there is no way that our soldiers will accidentally inhale the pollen.
Initially, I thought it was better to spread it through the sky, but the idea was dropped because the wind will blow most of the pollen away.

「Have a nice nap.
Prince-san, let’s go over there, yes?」
「O-of course…
Everyone, chaaarge!!!」

Haruka nonchalantly said so while riding behind the Prince on his flying dragon.
The first step of the strategy was a great success.
And since I’m out of the magic and bow’s attack range, I’ll start the trampling like planned.

RAW: http://ncode.syosetu.com/n6073cm/29/
Editor: Karuma

Happy new year everyone!!
Sorry I can’t finish that ch2 of a “certain novel” that I promised.

Anyway, let’s be serious now.

I coded something to annoy thieves and I wish to try it out on this chapter. Click on the link I provided to go to my “testing site”. Don’t worry, there is no ads or miner whatsoever since I made that site just to test this new “thing”. Depending on the result, I will share it with other translators.

Here are some important notes:
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2. Please wait at least 3 seconds after opening the link.
3. The site will “sleep” for 1 hour every day. It’s not because of my code, it’s because the free hosting plan that I’m using. If you can’t access it, wait for another hour.
4. If you know a thief that managed to bypass this thing, please tell me on my discord.

「My Prince, the 『Banchou』-sama had arrived!!」

「Good work,
you may return」

「Yes sir!」

It’s the reinforcements from the Kingdom that we talked about before.
The 『Banchou』 and his men, a force of 200 thousand of fully equipped units had arrived.
But their food rations… umm…
Thanks to Haruka’s agriculture cheat, it’s wheat, rice, and curry fruit tree as far as eye can see.
We also purchased nearby lizard and cow-shaped monsters so the meat repertoire were increased as well.
Delicious meal raises the troop’s morale.
A horrible meal will of course drop it into the oblivion.

「Excuse my intrusion.
Hayato the 『Banchou』.
Has arrived!」

「It must have been a hard trip.
Hayato, let me introduce you.
This is Masaki, the Hero of the Blue Sea」

「I’m not really as heroic as they declare.
My name is Masaki Toudou.
Nice to work with you.
And these are both of my fiancees, Adelle and Yoko」

「
Nice to be working with you as well」
「I’ll look forward to be working with you」

「And we are the one recently saved by Masaki-san rom the Empire, I am the 『Sniper Princess』 Kisaragi Akiha.
Right now, my sister and I were placed as Masaki-san’s subordinate」

「Me too~ I am the 『Farmer』 Kisaragi Haruka desu~
I’m the one who put the food on the table nanodesu yo.
Nice to work with you,
Banchou-san」

「I hope we work well together. 」

The banchou is incredibly polite.
but… The wooden sword on his waist… what does he inquire?
Our total number after the Banchou joined us became 500 thousand.
About 200 thousand from the neighbouring countries near the fort, 200 thousand reinforcement, and 100 thousand from the adventurers and small country unions.

One of the people on the Empire’s ship we crushed when we fought the Leviathan was apparently one of the generals who attended the strategy meeting, using information we got from him, we requested the local adventurer guilds to send in 100 thousand soldiers and adventurers.
If you help people, they will return something back in kindness.

A blue marker appeared on the Map and approaching this room at an unusual speed.
The blue marker indicates an ally, in this case is Jirou.

「I have return from scouting.
As we had expected, the Empire is aware of their loss after the battle and is gathering a large number of soldiers.
It seemed that their west-side is still busy fighting monsters and can’t send any reinforcements」

「I heard that they sent a messenger to propose temporary ceasefire, so it didn’t go well?」

「It seemed so.
According to our information, even though the messenger was offering ceasefire, he was acting rudely.
He was looking down on us and saying such things as 『Let’s have a temporary ceasefire.
We’ll also release the captured prisoners.
In case you didn’t get it immediately, if you refuse, we are going for all of your women and children』. I think that’s all the Viscount told me」(TL: Either there’s another viscount reporting to Jirou or the messenger is a viscount.)

「Is he an idiot?」

「Probably.
Normally, that kind of attitude will get him punched in the gut.
Assuming the demons managed to push, we are considering to meet their leaders to discuss about joining forces」

It seemed that the Empire had an idiot among them.
I had a feeling that the war will happen in various places.
Their southern force is getting pushed back, but they still wont turn the entire army.
They don’t even care that the smaller kingdoms managed to gather their forces together. Thanks to that, their small union has gathered enough forces to join us as reinforcement.
Even more, monsters may even help us from their west-side.
If possible, I want to cut down their troops all at once.

「But, the empire’s number is about 700 thousand units.
They outnumbered us by a small margin.
Also, there’s a sighting of otherworlders such as『Gibushou』, 『Hunter』, and 『Dreadnought』 from their side.
They were not taken as hostage like Kisaragi-san, so it’s impossible to sway them to our side since they are helping the Empire by their own will.
We had a few encounters against them in the past」

I’d like to pull them over if possible, but if it’s from their own will then it can’t be helped.
Three otherworlders… I can understand the Gibushou and the hunter, but what is dreadnought?

「Umm… how strong is the dreadnought?」

「His powers? well…
He was summoned from a robot-type MMO, I believe」

「Eeh? Is that even possible!?」

I know people are summoned into this world from various MMO, but even the robotic MMO too!?
This is too much.
I’m running out of words.

「Nee, Masaki.
What is a robot?」

「Eh… umm how do I explain it… It’s similar to Steel Golem in a sense
but you can enter and control them from inside. Jirou, is the Dreadnought this kind of robot?」

「You’re right.
We’ve had to fight it several times.
The height is about 10 meters tall.
It can also shoot lasers and fire flying fists too」(TL: the RAW says beam but laser is more common in english games. I’m not entirely sure about the TL accuracy for the flying fist part)

「Like a steel castle, is it? That is sure one hell of a troublesome guy」

He may not the 100 meters tall kind of robot, but it doesn’t make him less intimidating.
Should I fight him to be safe?

「10 meters golem… If its similar to Steel Golem, I think I can fight it.
My greatest masterpiece, Gigant Golem, can reach about 8 meters tall.
I also embedded the bones from the Giant race inside, so it’s quite sturdy. It should hold quite well fighting it.」

「So Yoko had that kind of trump card?
But, will you fine alone?」

「I appreciate the concern, but it will be fine.
Using Gigant Golem requires immense amount of mana in the first place, so in that sense, I’m quite confident in my strength. Besides, as the hero’s bride, I don’t want to lose to Adelle in achievements.
And… To be honest, I’d like to try casting it as well」

「Wanting to have some achievements is good, but don’t push yourself」

「It will be fine.
I won’t make the same mistake twice」(TL: probably mentioning about her enslavement from before)

We’ll be worried if she got careless.
Losing a bride-to-be before the wedding will be like those dramas.
What are you talking about achievement in battle? I just want to protect everyone.

The conclusion is, Yoko will be fighting the 『Dreadnought』, as per her self-recommendation, 『Banchou』 will be fighting the 『Gibushou』, and Jirou will be fighting the 『Hunter』.

Adelle and I will be taking the aerial advantage and reduce the number of their common soldier using various magical attacks.

Akiha decided to use her super ultra long sniping range to hit the Empire’s commander from one of Yoko’s constructed Golems.
The soldiers will fall into a panic if their commander falls.

Haruka-san will be guarding the Prince… even though the Prince will guard her instead.
The prince were worried about Haruka-san being on the frontline but Akiha said

「Will she be alright? Oneechan might look like that, but she’s actually strong」

I don’t know what kind of dangerous thing the prince would pull from under his sleeve.
But it makes me feel sorry about their soldiers, as little as the feeling may be.

It takes a lot of time to arrange soldier placements and stations, but the same thing can be said to our troops.
The soldier’s merit is in their nimbleness, but forcing them to move fast will result in sloppy movements. A group of soldier without coordination doesn’t worth more than a bait.
Thanks to Jirou’s teachings, our soldier had learned Japanese Police’s fighting strategies. So even though our soldier lose in number, their individual strength is stronger than the Empire’s soldiers.

The adventurer’s strength were a little… sporadic to say the least, but the strength from their manoeuvrability and the mages on their parties still poses an incredible threat.

Considering the size of the troops, I need to produce tons of High-Potion to be shared among the party leaders and the soldier captains to increase our survivability.
I couldn’t make that numbers of High-Potions from my medicinal herbs alone, but again, Haruka-san provided me with a large amount of high-quality medicinal plants and herbs.
Since the material quality was good, it yields high quality potions.
This should raise our survivability to some extent.

After the strategy meeting ended, the 『Banchou』 visited me while I was making potions.

「Pardon me.
So you are one they referred as the Hero of Blue Sea, Masaki-san」

「Excuse me for talking while making potions.
To be honest, I’m not exactly a hero.
May I ask, are you always referred to as 『Banchou』 even in casual conversations?」

「
It may sound shameless but,
I was called 『Banchou』 before I even noticed it」

「Ah, so we are in similar situation then」

「Masaki-san seemed to be summoned from Britannia Online, but what is your real occupation? I can clearly see that being a pharmacist was due to circumstances alone」

「I… have to apologize beforehand,
I cannot give you any details in that matter.
Just think of my job as 『Hero』 if you have to」

Like when the King asked me about the play…
It doesn’t matter anymore.
No matter the result, now I have to disguise myself whenever I go to downtown.
but… About Adelle?
Should I buy her a new dress? Yoko might look good in Japanese clothes.

「Even though it’s just a play, I shall call you 『Hero』 if you wish」

「You didn’t come all over here just for a small chat, right?」

I made enough potions for now and it’s time to move to more serious topic.
I could go on and make another batch of potions, but I want some break.

「Is it to obvious?
I am here to ask one question. Masaki-san seemed to not be looking for the way back to our world and I am wondering why」

「When I ran away from the Empire, I know that was not a place for me anymore.
Also, hearing Jirou’s story made me gave up all of my reasons」

「Don’t you want to go home?」

It’s not that I “don’t” want to go home.
I still have some attachment to the previous world. And I really want to apologize to my seniors for the trouble I had caused.
And I still had my friends and parents.

「Even if I want… Can we even go back home?
Jirou must have found something if there’s a way home.
He had kept looking for it for 20 years while working for the Kingdom. 20 years and it results in nothing.
If he found it, I’m sure he would tell every otherworlder he met, even those from the Empire」

Up until now, there had been no discussion about how to return anyone.
Same thing can be said to the Empire.
I had suspected it since the time the Empire tried to enslave me, but at that time, I don’t know if the summoning is a one-way road… Or there’s a merit in killing us…

「Furthermore… right now, I have important people by my side.
So I don’t really seek the way back home.
But, if I can come back here after the trip, I’d like to go back home once」

「Is that so…
Right now, I still don’t know the way to go back home… but I will not give up just yet.
I can’t leave those on the other side」

Well, I guess his way of thinking should be normal.
Have I changed? The Kisaragi sisters will definitely help since they should be wanting to return, but what about the prince…?

「I understand… I will lend you my hand if you need any help.
But right now…」

「If we don’t destroy the empire, the whole continent will be swallowed by war」

「Exactly.
Hayato, those high-potions.
can you pass them to the commanding officers for me?」

「Thank you very much for your effort on both parts.
In the battlefield,
let’s do our best」

「Yeah…
let’s pray for low casualties in the upcoming battle.」

It’s war.
Perhaps this will be one of the great battle that will determine the fate of this continent.
So then I will do my best to contribute to everyone’s victory

I’m going to enter this bloody war.
But of course, no one actually wants to enter this almost never-ending war.