CH 163

Words : 1093 Updated : Sep 19th, 2025

We Defeated the Monsters and Cleaned Up “Thank you, Leo!” “Wuff!” Leo barked energetically, and then she immediately started running towards the trolls. They still hadn’t noticed us… From here, I could see that there were…seven. And Leo charged right into their center. And with a speed that my eyes could barely follow, she slashed with her front paws, and tore through them with her sharp fangs. In the blink of an eye, four of them turned into clumps of flesh. “Gyu-gyu?” “Gyuowaaa!” “Gyuuuu!” “Grau!” The remaining trolls finally understood what was happening, and they frantically began to swing their clubs. However, their movement was considerably slower than Leo. Humans would have screamed in terror when facing the attacks of the trolls, but Leo just dodged them with ease. “Gyuwaaa!” “Gyu!” “Gyuwa!” She avoided their clubs and then lashed out with her claws once again. The trolls were completely at her mercy, and could do nothing as she shredded through them. …Leo seemed faster now than she was against the orc… Back then, I could at least follow her. So this was what she was like when she went all out… This was why people feared Silver Fenrirs. Well, Leo wouldn’t attack people. “Wuff.” “Good work, Leo.” “Wuff-wuff.” I patted Leo on the head and thanked her after she returned. Leo wagged her tail happily and looked quite smug… She was proud at having been able to defeat them so quickly. It was barely even a minute. “Still, you made quite a mess.” “Wuff. Wuff-wuff.” I muttered as I looked at the remains of the decapitated trolls. Because we can’t eat them… Leo seemed to say. She had only split the orcs in two, because they were edible… But she was much more thorough with the trolls, as they could not be eaten. “…Defeating them is good, but…what now?” “Wuff?” I thought as I looked at the clumps of troll flesh. Not only that, but there was blood all over the place. I would have probably felt ill, if I had any less resistance to seeing such things. While I didn’t like horror movies, I was still fine…perhaps I had gotten used to it after seeing the orcs being defeated. Well, it wasn’t that it had no effect and that I was completely unmoved…. It was still quite disgusting… “We can’t just leave them here to rot…perhaps we should burn them?” “Wuff?” My turn again? Leo seemed to say as she opened her mouth. The trolls were big. And so even if they were cut into smaller pieces…there was still a lot. And since we were close to the forest, I was scared about the fire spreading. “…No, that’s too dangerous… An amateur shouldn’t start burning corpses in a place like this.” “Wuff…” Leo looked quite disappointed, as she had wanted to use magic. Still, what should we do with the trolls then… If I left them to rot here, it could result in further spreading of diseases. And the troll meat might attract other monsters as well. While we were a short distance from the road, it would not be good to attract monsters to this area. “…I guess we could bury them?” “…Wuff…” Leo sighed as if she thought it was too much trouble. But I couldn’t think of anything else. And carrying it to some other place in order to dispose of it was not very realistic… And so burying it would be the simplest way. Besides, maybe they would be a good fertilizer. “Ah, but…I don’t have a shovel…” “Wuff! Wuff-wuff.” As I poked the ground with my foot, I felt that it was rather hard. I would not be able to dig through it without a shovel or any tools. As I was wondering what to do, Leo started to bark as if she had an idea. “What is it, Leo?” “Wuff-wuff. Wou-wou.” “Hmm. You can really do it?” “Wuff.” Leo moved her feet around busily and told me what she had thought of. Uhh, dig a hole with magic? I didn’t know if it was possible, but Leo nodded confidently. “In that case, I’ll leave it to you. …Sorry to make you do everything.” “Wuff!” First she defeated the trolls, and now I was asking her to get rid of the bodies. …If only there was something that I could do as well. But Leo barked and told me to not worry about it. And then she walked over to the corpses. “Wooo…grau!” “Woah.” Once she was close to the trolls, Leo turned the other way and then seemed to charge up her energy before barking loudly. In the next instant, a bang! And the ground in that direction fell away. “Explosion…magic?” “Wuff!” I gazed dumbly as the dust from the explosion slowly settled. Leo then returned to me with the satisfied look of someone who had done their work well. “I didn’t know you could do such a thing… Amazing, Leo.” “Wuff. Wuff.” I marveled over Leo’s magic as I petted her. She wagged her tail happily. After a moment, I went over to the hole and looked inside. “That’s quite big.” “Wuff.” I did my best! Leo seemed to say. It was big enough for several people to fit inside, with plenty of room left. That should be enough to bury the troll chunks. …Thankfully, they were in a state that would make them easy to push inside. “Phew. That was surprisingly hard… And now I’m quite filthy too.” After some time, I sighed after throwing all of the troll pieces into the hole. As not a lot of time had passed since Leo shredded them, the pieces were still dripping with blood, which got all over my hands. Besides, while they were cut up, they were from a giant body, so they were still quite heavy. I had felt like this is one thing I should do myself instead of relying on Leo…but I probably should have asked for help. “All right, I’m finally clean. Now…once again, Leo…can you do it?” “Wuff! Wuff!” I had used water from a flask to wash the blood off of my hands, and then I asked Leo to fill the hole up once again. As it was big, it would take too long for me to do it myself.

CH 163

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