Starting My New Life As An Adventurer
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The day after Yuki-san left we were already used to her absence. My practice is still going on and I also learned new things from the book he left behind.

Today too, I plan to go practice. But this morning when I was leaving, my grandfather took me to the forest.

"Hikaru, let's escort me to the forest. I want to hunt. Squirrels, rabbits or maybe deer.

Whatever I'm bored of."

"I want to practice today."

"Come on, this is also arguably a survival exercise. You can also try the meat-cutting technique on that animal."

as expected, it turns out I was invited only to cut meat. I'm learning samurai techniques, not butcher techniques. I'm a little upset to hear that.

"Well fine, maybe a little trying something new doesn't hurt."

And that's it, now that I'm in the woods with grandpa, to get here we just need to walk right from the back of the house. The area of our house is the countryside and is very close to the forest. We walked far enough until we found a group of pigs eating fruits that fell from a tree.

"Well pigs!, catch them cake!!!" I screamed out spirit.

Hearing my voice, the pigs ran away in fear, scattered in different directions.

"Pssstttt!, don't yell stupid. Then we won't get anything to hunt until the afternoon."

"Oh yeah sorry, I forgot."

"Well, let's follow the pig."

We followed one of the pigs that had escaped and he was eating fruit somewhere else.

"Remember, don't scream. This is the biggest pig I saw. The meat must be plenty and the running must be the slowest. On my cue we'll catch the pig from both sides. Go there slowly and wait for my cue, you understand?" Grandpa whispered to me.

"All right."I snuck the precipitate running towards the opposite grandfather.

now we're packing the pig from both sides. Grandfather slowly raised his hand and gestured to advance. We both jumped straight at the pig and grabbed him.

*Ngikkkk, the pig screamed and thrashed around wanting to take off our grip. Grandpa and I hugged the pig and tried not to let it go.

"Hold him for a second, I'll get the knife in my bag." Grandpa took off his handle and grabbed his bag.

"Hurry now! I can't take long."

I hugged the pig with all my might.

In that short time, as I hugged the pig while asleep the beast thrashed so strongly that finally some dirt dust entered my eyes.

"Aargghhh my eyes!" I let go of my embrace and rubbed my eyes, the pig immediately stood up and ran away

"Ah shit! The pig ran away, but there was little left. Let's go after him!!!" Grandfather pulled me and we ran as hard as we could.

And that's how we were both chasing a pig in the woods, that fat pig we didn't think we could run was moving so fast like a horse.

"Damn it, pigs are fast."

"Keep after him! Hahaahahahh we're going to eat yummy!" Grandpa laughed and ran even faster.

Grandfather had laughed crazily at the huge pile of meat running in front of him, he even chased after the pig like a crazy psychopath. I also kept trying to chase him but the pig was getting further and further away, even though we kept chasing him the pig kept running and didn't stop, as we were about to give up our pursuit, the animal tripped over the tree root and made it fall.

"Hikaru, catch him!"

"Yahhh." Hearing my grandfather's screams instantly jumped at the pig and fell down with him.

*Ngikkk..ngikkk.." The pig screamed and wriggled again loudly.

"Well this time you won't get away."

*Stabb.

The pig squirmed even more forcefully for a moment and then he finally stopped moving.

"Yeaahhh hahahhah we succeeded!" Grandpa jumped up in excitement.

"Haahhh we'll eat good!"

"Have you cake once, I have to catch and hold it twice and my clothes are dirty now." I let go of my arms and stood up.

"Don't be so angry, I know a clean river around here. Help me pull the pig over there, you can take a shower and wash your clothes so I can cook."

We painstakingly pulled the pig to the edge of the river. Grandfather started making campfires to roast the pig, I washed my clothes and dried them and right now I only wear the towel I usually wear to wipe off the sweat while practicing.

"Cake part, why do we have to catch an animal this big? We're just two. It's not gonna end."

"Isn't that fun? Hahahaha.anyways, I told you that the pig is thinner and runs faster. And the rest we'll take home." Grandfather replied while fanning his flesh.

We waited for a while for the meat to ripen. And when the meat was ripe we cut off some parts of it and ate it.

"Hmmm, this is so good. I didn't know you were good at cooking cakes." I'm eating our meat.

"Hehe, when I was a soldier I was often assigned to the forest. Cooking is an obligation."

"Yes, I hope you'll help Kiara cook at home more often."

We enjoy our meat, especially grandfather. He ate his entire leg and left thigh alone. After we finished eating we packed up, wrapped up this meat and prepared to go home. But it arrived...

"Uugghhh, aaarggh my stomach hurts." Grandpa squeezed his stomach in pain.

"I'm guessing, you mostly eat cake."

"Arrghh, I can't take it anymore."

"Can't you hold it till you get home?"

"Can't, just wait here for a second I'll be back."

Grandpa ran away from me into a bush in the woods. I put things down and sat down by the river.

...

After a long while a voice came from within the forest.

"Grandfather, you've been a long time." I turned my back to that voice while looking at the stream.

*Hot....

"What's that noise, what's your stomach usually that awful?"

I looked towards that voice.

Three green-skinned creatures stood in front of me less than seven meters. They use weapons and dress even though they are shabby like humans.

*Grrkkk, grrr

"lt.a... What'sthat?"

The state of silence, me and a group of creatures looked at each other. I took out my sword preparing for the worst.

*Ggrrrr, raarrrwwww.

One of the goblins carrying a sword immediately attacked me openly.

*Slash...

*Grrrrr

The sword goblin the sword began to raise his sword, preparing to cut me off. At that time I knew I could avoid it, but I just fell silent in fear.

At that time I thought I would really be killed by the goblins it was only a short distance until the goblin attack hurt me.

*Thong...

a man with a shining sword fended off the goblin's attack and managed to protect me, after I saw again it turned out to be grandfather!

"You okay? Step back a little grandpa will take care of them for a minute."

"Danger cake, they're three!"

"Just calm down, a small group of goblins is nothing in front of me."

It turned out to be a goblin, like I had heard in my life before.

There were three goblins that appeared attacking me. One carries a sword, one carries a spear and the other carries an arrow.

The goblins took a step back when they saw grandfather, probably because of the aura he had.

"Why are you afraid?"

"Armghhh!!" Those goblin goblins shouted while tightly grasping their weapons.

The goblin goblin started attacking the grandfather simultaneously but the grandfather could fend off all the attacks given, the fight went fierce until the grandfather was shot one arrow from the archer goblin, the grandfather retreated taking a safe distance.

"Hhhh this shit hurts, you guys are really going to pay for this!"

"This is my mainstay, no one I've ever managed can withstand my attack, now accept this Vertical Slash!!!."

The sword goblin prepared to fend off his attack by raising his sword horizontally but with the goblin's sword geezer's mainstay snapped and his attack pierced straight into the goblin's head and killed him instantly."

The remaining two goblins were terrified and were like losing their fighting spirit.

Grandfather continued to goblin spear and easily broke the goblin's spear handle made of wood.he also directly pierced the goblin's heart very quickly.

The arrow goblin that was already very scared ran screaming into the depths of the forest.

"Damn he ran away. Arrghh, the wound is quite painful."I'm sitting in pain for the wound.

"Sir, are you okay? You're bleeding."

"Take a bandage from my bag, help me bandage the wound."

I helped Grandpa wrap his wound with the bandage he was carrying. We left our grilled meat and immediately brought grandfather as soon as possible home.

"Snake fast!, grandpa was badly injured he had just been attacked by a goblin." I called out to Brother Kiara from the front of the house.

"What!?, Mr. Rondo was attacked by goblins. How could it be?"

"I didn't know Kiara nee-san they just came."

Kiara nee-san rushed to take medicine to treat grandfather's wound, we both tried to lift grandfather to enter the house.

"Lay the cake, let us treat your wounds." I put him on the couch.

"argh."

We treated grandfather and let him rest for a while. And after a while I tried to ask him.

"Grandfather, do goblins exist often in the forest?"

"They do live in the forest, but they shouldn't be here. The occurrence of goblins that came in the forest near the village was very rare. Even if there were goblins that got close to the village forest, the village guards would have driven them away."

"Maybe they were off guard, and again the goblin I was fighting was already in the semi-hobgoblin class. The goblins who often get lost and get here are usually the lowest class.they are short-looking, they are, skinny and weak. The goblin was completely different from an ordinary goblin."

"You think cake, why did he attack us?"

"I'm sure because of the meat we cook, goblins are hungry creatures."

"Where did the goblins come from the cake?"

"the goblin village is far away at the end of the oak forest in the North of our village, goblins will only gather if there are of them who are really strong, at least hobgoblin class."

"Our house is on the North side of the village, yaaa I chose this place because the air is fresh because it is near plantations and forests, but even this is the case."

Grandfather continued to explain while applying his wound with oil.

"I decided not to look for trouble with that goblin tent, because they also rarely make trouble. Goblins are stupid, yet they are not as stupid as animals. and also their intelligence can also increase if they evolve into hobgoblins or higher. My hunch says this is bad."

"Why cake?"

"Goblins usually live by hunting or eating fruits in the forest, if the goblin is semi-hobgoblins

Wandering so far away from his village that means the goblin population is increasing and their food reserves are depleted."

"If this is left to goblins it will come to our village, kill all the livestock of the population, damage the houses and destroy the plantations, really a disaster of destruction." Grandfather replied with a worried face.

After a long conversation arrived there was a knock on the front door of the house.

*Tok tock

"Our village chief Rondo, I Eugene would like to report."

"Kiara, please open the door." Grandpa wears his shirt.

"Master village chief, I got a report from my squad, I want to pass it on now."

"What's this, it seems so rushed, what's wrong?"

Wow, Eugene is really sturdy, plus he has cool blonde hair.

"Kiara nee-san who is Eugene?"

"He is the head of the village's defense forces, he is the one protecting the village as well as its borders."

"Well he really looks strong, so that's the head of the defense team"

"Kiara, make us 2 cups of coffee, it looks like this will be a long conversation. And also take Hikaru to bed, it's late."

"Haaahhh, but I want to hear that too." I put on a grumbling expression.

"No, you're a kid and it's night, go to bed."

Kiara took me to bed and after that made me coffee just like Grandpa had ordered.

...

"So Eugene, what's going on? Why don't you just tell me in the morning?"

"My troops gave a worrying report, I thought I should pass it on immediately to mister rondo."

"What's that?" Grandfather looked into his eyes seriously.

"I'm sure Goblin horde, the bike is coming!"

Reports worry Eugene. goblin horde, a terrible disaster that ravaged the village.what will the village chief do after this.