Capítulo 45: Chapter 45 - Monster Slayer
I approached the trout monster, sword in hand. I could tell it was weak, as it had cuts on its body from the sharp shells and stones hidden beneath the sands. Even so, my guard was up, in case it were to suddenly stand and start running.
"You're a large one. No fish on Earth would ever grow to this size! If you weren't a monster, you'd be able to feed the whole camp!"
I wondered if cooking monster parts had any practical use. Perhaps cooking the DNA and bacteria out of them would help provide food. But then again, would anyone really want to eat a monster?
Plus, eating them would probably result in the transformation into it, if its heart were ingested, intentionally or not. The thought quickly exited my mind.
I ran to the other side of it, where its legs were. I lifted my sword in the air to slice them off, but my attempt was immediately thwarted when the fish kicked me straight in the chest, sending me flying across the sand.
"AH! Damn, it knows I'm here, even though it can't see me. I'll have to figure out another approach."
I stood up, brushing myself off before grabbing my sword from the ground. Mayumi was having no trouble with her trout monster, she had practically defeated it by now. We exchanged looks before she yelled something to me,
"Yukio! Try to confuse it, it's aware of your presence now, so you should try faking it out!"
That was a genius idea. Perhaps if I caused a false motion somewhere, and dodged the kick, I would be able to lunge in to take out the legs. I decided to put this theory to the test, but first, I needed an object to throw.
I noticed a large rock buried in the sand. I excavated it, revealing a stone larger than I anticipated. It was much too big to carry, so I had to leave it behind. I kept looking around, and eventually found something of use.
What I found was a mason jar on the side of the shore. I picked it up and realized that it had a note inside of it... I opened it, took the note out, and slid it into my pocket, before closing it back up.
"Alright, I'll use this to hit the fish, and cause it to kick its legs, then, I'll go in! I wonder what this note says though..."
I lifted the jar into the air, my sword in my other hand ready to strike. Then, I tossed the jar. It landed on the fish's eye and shattered, causing it to shut immediately as the shards of glass pierced it. Once again, the monster kicked its legs. I wasted no time moving in.
"Now's my chance!" I said, swinging my sword down with great force. With a singular slice, I severed its legs, leaving only the body of the fish remaining on the sand. The monster then opened its mouth and made a strange sound.
"Oh no, what now?"
"YUKIO, LOOK OUT!" yelled Mayumi, finishing off her monster. It seemed that she had severed a few extra pieces of her fish off. I saw a long tongue laying on the ground next to her. Wait, a tongue? A TONGUE!
I quickly turned back to my monster, who turned its entire body to face me. Immediately, it lashed its tongue out at me and attempted to wrap it around my body. I quickly reacted though, slicing the tongue with my sword. It landed a few feet away from me.
"Good lord, they have tongues too. I need to hurry up and kill this monster! Shit, what's it doing now!?"
The fish then flopped in the air and attempted to strike me with its tailfin. I slid to the ground, nearly dodging the hit, but the fish wasn't slowing down. It was still flopping in the air, kicking up sand all around it, blocking my vision.
"I can barely see it now, ugh! I'll just have to guess where it is! Here goes nothing!"
With my sword still in hand, I leaped into the air, blinded by the sand. I drove my sword down and felt it pierce the body of the monster. It shrieked and continued to flail around as I pinned it to the ground. When the sand cleared, I realized that I had pierced its eye!
"I got you now! Ack, it's moving so violently, I can barely hold it to the ground! Hurry up and die already!" I yelled as the fish continued to struggle.
However, it eventually ceased its motion, and perished. To be sure though, I removed my sword from its eye and quickly chopped the monster in half. Because it was a fish, my sword sliced through its body quite easily.
The two halves of its body fell against the sands... I had just killed my first monster, all by myself. I had fought a monster before, but never successfully killed one.
"Oh my god, I did it, I actually did it. I killed a monster! It only took god knows how long!"
"Yukio! You did it! How did it feel, is your sword okay? Are YOU okay?" asked Mayumi, running over to me. Cynthia, still stalking us, was unenthused, however.
"Boooo, Yukio, why didn't you tame it? You could have sent it away peacefully, instead you slaughtered it! There's nothing else you can tame now, all the other monsters besides the Eel are kaput!"
Cynthia put down her binoculars and sighed. She was anticipating witnessing Yukio's Authority of Capricorn in action, but he killed the monster instead. Back on the beach, Mayumi caught up to Yukio and gave him a high five.
"That was awesome Yukio! You totally killed it!"
"That was easier than I anticipated. What was that, a level 1 monster?"
"Probably. Considering its size, it was probably a level 2, but because it never managed to get on its feet, you had a much easier time with it."
Looking at the monster I just killed, I came to realize it really wasn't as challenging as I thought it would be. But then again, it was mostly stationary the entire time, not moving from its original position except to kick or flail.
"How was your monster? Seemed to me like you had little trouble with it."
"It wasn't that bad. I've never fought one before, so I just went with the most logical approach, which was to cut the legs off first and then go for the body. Seems like you and I both had trouble with the to-huh!?"
*SPLASH*
Mayumi was interrupted by a violent splash coming from behind her. It was powerful enough to shake the ground beneath us, and generate large waves. She sharply turned around and realized what had happened. I too was just now seeing what had occurred. It was the Emperor Unagi...it was escaping!
"SHIT! WATCH OUT FOR THE WAVES!"
We both ran up the shore, trying to escape the large waves that were created by the Eel monster. We barely dodged them, making our way to the beach entrance before they could reach us. They were heavily diminished by the wave breakers, but still large enough to stretch more than halfway up the beach!
"Damn! What the hell happened out there!?" yelled a shop owner, running out of the surf shop. Cynthia, still on top of it, was trying her best to hide so that we wouldn't see her.
"An Emperor Unagi is threatening the beach and the city! Why haven't you evacuated?"
"I've been hiding in my shop with my family, we have an underground bunker. I heard a loud bang and came up to see what happened! It looks like it's getting away!"
Suddenly, we heard a female voice from above us. We didn't know it at the time, but it was Cynthia, speaking down to us from the roof of the Surf Shop. She was hiding, so we couldn't see her, but we could hear her.
"Oh no! Maybe somebody should try and stop it before it gets away!" she said, in a fake satirical voice.
"Who's that?" I asked, looking up in all directions, but I saw nobody.
"Ah, whatever, whoever it was, they're right. Mayumi, you stay here and guard the shore, I'll see if I can't stop that thing with my authority. I wanna see if I can at least slow it down for the heroes!"
"Do you see how large that thing is Yukio!?" she asked, shocked at my proposal.
"Yeah, I do, but it's worth a shot!" I said, running back onto the beach. The shop owner looked extremely confused.
"The hell is he on about? Is he suicidal?" he asked.
"At this point, he might as well be..." said Mayumi, worriedly.
Cynthia pulled her binoculars back out and focused on me. I was in too much of a panic to question whether or not I was being watched, considering I heard her seconds ago. She spoke to herself.
"He's really going for it, isn't he? Mmmmm this will be a show..."
I caught up with Hero and Ambrosia who were also running down the shoreline, in hot pursuit of the Emperor Unagi. It was swimming much quicker than we could run, so we would need another method of travel to have any chance of catching up.
The two of them stopped in front of me, and I began to question them on the situation.
"Guys, what happened? The Emperor Unagi's escaping, how?"
"Yukio, I'm glad you're here. Normally, I'd congratulate you on killing your monster, but as you can see, we appear to be in a pickle..."
"Yeah, I figured! What the hell happened!? We heard a loud splash and then saw the Eel swimming full speed ahead!"
"Well, you see, on land, heroes are very agile and can chase down monsters quickly, but on the water, we're practically useless. I can't walk on water, and Ambrosia's flight lasts until she runs out of energy. If we were to land in the ocean, we could drown!"
"Did you manage to do any damage to it?"
"Well, we got close enough to hop onto it, and I tried stopping time to get a good few hits on it, but the boat was too shaky for me to focus, and the Eel kept splashing water on us. Ambrosia tried taking control with her mind, but the force of its swimming was too much, and she could barely hold on. Water monsters are way tougher than land monsters!"
"What do you think we should do then? I want to try and stop the monster with my authority. Ambrosia, is there any way you can get us to it quickly, so I can try?"
Ambrosia looked at me with a slightly concerned expression, before sighing, and starting to glow. It seemed like she was nearly zapped of energy, but still willing to help us out.
"If you really think you can do it, then hop in. This will be a bumpy ride though!"
Suddenly, Ambrosia began to take the form of her ball of light. She expanded it to an ample size, before opening it, revealing space inside for us to climb into. It was like her own personal vehicle!
"Well, hop in! We don't have all day!"
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