CH 61

Chapter 61 – Troubled Subhuman

Heimann’s POV

“Well, well. Do we have a clear understanding?”

“””O-oh.”””

“But you know, Heimann-jisan. We’re not quite ready…”

“Don’t worry, Perun, I’ve heard the theories, the reasons why it should be done, the explanations of what it is, but I don’t understand it either.”

The brave and strong werewolf, who had confronted 10,000 enemies in the machine gun emplacement with us dying old men, now lowered his eyebrows with a pitiful expression. Well, that’s understandable.

This is probably how he felt when he heard from Yoshua that they were going to the territory of the tribal union.

The day before his departure, he used some kind of storage magic to dig out the outer edge of the plain in front of Casemaian. What he asked to do while he was away was to solidify the trenches around the perimeter that had been created.

That’s right, the Dwarves and Elves can use magic to consolidate the soil… but Yoshua, as if he sensed this, stopped us.

“It’s wartime now, and we don’t want to be in a situation where our precious war potential is depleted. I’ve got some heavy equipment and cement, so use it.”

“…What the hell is that?”

The reaction of everyone was exactly the same when he gave us the outline. That’s right; we had never seen or heard of anything like it.

What was right in front of us was the “Heavey Equipmento,” and everyone was at a loss for words. [T/n: Heavy Equipment.]

Like the huge mechanical wagon named “Torajima-go,” it is powered by “Jizeru Enjin”… and can walk, crawl? There are also iron farming tools and armed “scoops” or something like that… [T.n: Diesel Engine.]

Hmm, I have no idea what to call it.

“It’s like a relative of the golem.”

“Oh, so that’s it.”

One of the Beastman said, and everyone nodded in agreement. Whenever something is not clear to us, we can put it together with a theory, and it will become clear to us.

We stopped worrying about unanswerable questions and began to divide up the work. The Beastman, who had the numbers and strength to cut and assemble the wooden frames needed to support the walls, and the Dwarves, who had the numbers and strength to mix and apply the “Konkurito,” moved the “mechanical golem” to make the rough shape of the trenches. [T/n: Concrete.]

Everyone works together to build the exterior of the new Casemaian.

“One semento, two river sand, and four pebbles, right?” [T/n: Cement.]

“Oh, we’re going to run out of pebbles soon, are you sure?”

“I’ll take care of it. If I have guards, then we can limit the damage caused by the magical beasts.”

The Beastman, who were proud of their strength, went to the river to get sand and pebbles. The river was about a mile away in the Dark Forest. There are magical beast territories along the way, and the riverbank is an open, unobstructed plain, a task that would have previously required death-defying determination, but with an Elven gunner as an escort, it is now possible to come and go without danger.

On the contrary…

“””Meat♪”””

“Oh, if it comes out well.”

I can’t help but laugh at the fact that they’ve even started to fight back the magical beasts and animals that attack them and bring their meat back with them.

Everything is going incredibly well, positively and steadily.

Now there is only one thing for us to worry about.

“Hey, old man.”

Perun, who had finished fixing the wooden frame to the mud wall, spoke to him.

“I wonder what Yoshua is going to do now.”

“I don’t know. Eventually, he wants to explore the Dark Forest. He hopes to develop the Dark Forest so that all the inhabitants of Casemaian can live in it when they return.”

“…No, that’s not what I mean.”

“I understand. I’ve asked him about it. But he didn’t tell me exactly what he meant. He said he was still thinking about it, but maybe he didn’t want to think about it?”

“Why is it again… Eh, is that it? Is it because we might have to kill a lot more people?”

“That’s my first thought. If there were any other way, I’d do it. Neither he nor we want to kill all the people.”

“We all like him, and we’re all grateful to him. But I honestly don’t know why he’s doing this for us. If he wanted to be the King of Casemaian or even the Demon King, I would agree with him with all my might, and I wouldn’t hesitate to worship him.”

“Right.”

We are naturally grateful to him, trust him, respect him, and like him. Even more so with women, there are few who would not want to be his wife or concubine.

But now, with Myrril-jouchan next to him, the one who understands him the most and is his strongest protector, there will be no one who will approach him outwardly.

“How can we repay this favor?”

Yes, that’s the greatest worry for us right now.