I Was Connected to Earth’s Black Market From Another World With The Skill [Market]! (WN)

Chapter 236

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Chapter 236 – Deer Hunters

“Um, Takifu-san? What in the world is going on?”

Owen-san, Ivan-san’s father, who returned home before noon, turned his head when he saw the group waving at him. Ivan-san’s mother, Millena-san, who came home after him, tilted her head with a puzzled look on her face.

“It would be a long story to tell you. Yes.”

The smell of roasting meat mixed with the noise of drunken people. On the deck of Roue-san’s house, which is adjacent to Ivan-san’s parents’ house across the courtyard, the huge body of a doe is being dismembered and skewered by part. The fawn is hung upside down on a rack at the end of the deck to be bled, as both the meat and the skin are highly prized. I was told that the meat would be prepared and skinned later.

I declined to take the deer because it looked like it would cause too much damage to the landing area. I decided to give the profits from the sale of the fawn to a water transport guild (I had never heard of such a guild, but I had heard that it existed). They thanked me profusely, but I told them that I was repaying Ivan-san’s kindness and that I would leave the repayment of the favor to the local people.

“Takifu-san and his team killed an antlered deer that appeared at the landing site. It was amazing, Mir-san went bebebe-boom, bang, boom!”

Roue-san, a riverboat driver, was still drunk in the middle of the day. I was the one who offered him the extra vodka, but he was so drunk that he couldn’t explain everything, and the timeline got mixed up.

“What a huge deer… Did it damage the landing or the sailors?”

“No one was hurt, thanks to your guest. The cargo is safe. A few boats were crushed, but most of them are old, so the amount is not that big. I think we can get some change for the two fawns and the doe.”

The boatman’s master laughed with a red face. It was actually a blessing in disguise that none of the people present were injured. It was a good thing they had given up early and fled into the shadows of the buildings.

“How about you, Owen? This deer isn’t quite as fatty as the others, but it’s pretty tasty.”

“Yeah, I’ll take it.”

“Well, this one has an unusual taste. The taste is really good as if it was sprinkled with herbs.”

Myrril-san nodded in a good mood while chewing on the deer skewer.

“It’s said that this is because antlered deer eat a lot of moss and medicinal herbs from the riverbanks during the winter. I don’t know if that’s true or not.”

Roue-san’s mother said with a laugh. Like the women of Nordanan, she is well dressed. She is also a good cook. Well, maybe her plumpness is a result of her good cooking.

I was also given a deer kebab, and it was indeed tasty meat. I only sprinkled salt on it, but it tasted like shish kebab. It was a little tough, but the more you chewed it, the more the rich flavor came out, and the spicier the flavor, the more you could smell it in your nose.

“Oh, this is delicious!”

“Yes, very tasty!”

Ivan-san, his wife, and daughter Korina-chan, who had joined the party before we knew it, also enjoyed the meat. Although we are not poor and can eat reasonably well in Sarz, we have never had the chance to taste such wild flavor. The only thing I could eat was a horned rabbit I caught in the dungeon.

“Ivan-san, if you don’t have to work after this, how about a little bit?”

“Oh, this is the clear fire liquor we drank at the Wolf’s Tail Pavilion earlier. I’ll have some.”

“What about you, Irene-san?”

“I’m sorry, I don’t drink.”

Irene-san shook her head, so I offered the ladies bottled juice. The only non-alcoholic juice available is carbonated and contains almost no fruit juice.

“It’s sweet.”

“It’s so different and tasty.”

The clever Korina-chan’s face lights up as she drinks the juice, which is childishly cute, but it seems to be popular with the ladies as well, so perhaps it is because the sweetness is so precious.

“Myrril, this deer isn’t a magical beast, is it?”

“No, it’s just an ordinary animal. There shouldn’t be any magic core in its body.”

I don’t think such a monster is “normal” at all… but since it can be classified as a magical beast or not, depending on whether it has a magic core or not, I guess it’s classified as a “normal animal.”

It was stronger, bigger, tougher, and scarier than a common monster. For once, I really thought I was going to die. If you say it was a mistake in choosing the weapon, that’s the end of the story.

“This can make enough fine leather armor for 20 people.”

Roue-san’s mother said to me as she butchered the meat. The skin of a peeled fawn is trimmed of fat before tanning, and the skin spread out in the yard looks about the size of a dozen tatami mats.

“It’s rare to see one this big, and there’s hardly a scratch on it, so the merchants are very happy to take it back.”

When Myrril and I heard this, we looked at each other and laughed. It is more correct to say that they could not be scratched than that there were no scratches on them. Later, Roue-san told me that the shield-antlered deer, a fighting herbivore, has developed a thick, hard skin around its throat, perhaps evolved to cope with being bitten by wolves and other carnivores. As we disassembled the animal, we scratched through the body hair to check, but to my surprise, the Mauser bullet, which is supposed to have excellent penetrating power, left only an abrasion-like bullet hole. What is this? Is this guy’s skin some kind of ceramic plate? I almost got hit back. Mir-san is a true angel.

“I didn’t expect an arrowhead to pierce anything but the eyeballs. I wonder if Remington would have been able to finish him.”

“Impossible. You can’t hit them with a gun that’s so hard to maneuver in a small landing bay.”

AKM would have been able to hit it, but I don’t know if it would have been able to kill it. If you can hit it with Tokarev rounds, you can probably hit it with assault rifle rounds. Then again, RPGs? That’s just a bad joke in a lot of ways.

“Takifu-san and the others, have you seen the fawn?”

Roue-san’s father waved at us with a tipsy look on his face. Myrril and I looked at each other and went to the hanging fawn. Everyone was very proud of me for killing it with one shot, but in reality, I had just fired twenty shots with a fully automatic weapon without even aiming. It was not a situation that could be praised at all.

“Look, these are the arrowhead marks from the magic tool.

One of them has one in the neck and one in the side. The other had a single entrance hole around the human shoulder blade. There were no other holes except for those three.

I had a bad feeling. I touched the area around the wound with my finger and realized what the father was trying to say. I thought the skin of a young fawn would be soft, but only the flesh and hair were soft, and the skin was so hard that it made a rattling sound when I tapped it. Maybe it’s softer than an adult animal, but to me, that’s just a margin of error. In other words…

Really, it’s just that the place I happened to hit was a slight seam between the hard skin.

“That’s a great arm! Mir-san is amazing, but Takifu-san is also as good as an elf archer!”

“A-ahahahahaha…”

Myrril and I, who had trouble with reactions, responded with stiff smiles.

“Hey, Myrril-san. I think I’ll keep the Mauser as a treasured possession.”

“That might be a good idea…”

I was seriously close to death, so I decided to live my life humbly.