I Reincarnated Into a Vending Machine - Chapter 76

Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta ore wa Meikyuu o Samayou
Author: Hiru Kuma
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The day after the pep rally, each team headed to the area they were designated to investigate. All the teams were provided a magic tool for communication and are obligated to give a report every day. It goes without saying that they're also for unexpected situations and in the case you've found the Ruler of the Netherworld.

It's just us for the Clear Lake Hierarchy's investigation team, but as we're expected to have some abilities, we're headed to the back regions of the Lamentations of the Dead Hierarchy.

"I'm sorry to be leaving the dangerous assignment to all of you."

At the apologetic words of President Bear, who was walking alongside the boar-drawn wagon, everyone showed that they completely didn't mind about it. Out for revenge, there's Leader Keryoil and Mishael, and also Ramis and Hyurumi who whole heartedly accept the task, and I was thinking that I wanted to put an end to the Ruler of the Netherworld with my own hands, as much as I'm able to do so … although I don't have hands.

"You're the same as always. You're so stiff; always have been."(gramps)

"That's right. We're comrades, so there's no need for apologies."(grandma)

The old couple sitting on the wagon with its cover removed said as much, and President Bear scratched his head as if he felt bad. Looks like the senpai-kouhai relationship has completely taken root in his body.

"What a nostalgic scene. , everyone, looks like there are 12 monsters up ahead waiting for us. Please prepare for it, ne." (Principal)

She's urging us to attention, but when you hear Principal-sensei's gentle, carefree voice, it feels like your desire for battle has been dug out.

But Principal-sensei said that while she was staring straight ahead, but as for my eyes, I can't see the enemies' forms at all. I'm not doubting her, but I really can't see that there's something there at all.

"Ou, that so. Then, me and Grandma and Oxy will handle it? Recently we haven't gone to do any field work. It won't do to not acclimate our bodies to it." (Gramps)

"You need to do your warm up exercises, ne." (Grandma)

"Working together with Senpais. It's been a while, so I'm excited." (Principal Oxy)

With nimble movements that don't seem like the elderly, the old couple leapt from the wagon.

Principal-sensei stood up in the wagon, readying her bow and drawing the bowstring.

Will we be able to study these three peoples' fighting methods? This is something that concerns the plans from hereon out too, so let's record so as not to miss anything.

"Oh Light, envelope my arrowhead."

When Principal-sensei quietly chanted those words, the tip of the arrow lit up like a lightbulb. So that's the light elemental magic?

"Well then, pardon me for going first, ne."

So saying she released the arrow, but I couldn't see it at all. Right when I thought I heard the sound of the bowstring reverberating, the arrow disappeared. There was only the trajectory of the tip's light left behind, so it looks like a laser was fired off from the bow.

"Your skills haven't deteriorated at all, na. Splendid." (Gramps)

"Ara, you pierced through three of them at once, ne." (Grandma)

The old couple are admiring her, but I can't determine if that's the truth or not.

"Ummm, did she defeat them… Hyurumi, can you see it?"(Ramis)

"Nope, not at all. You guys?" (Hyurumi)

At Ramis' questioning face, with her brows squinted together, Hyurumi, who was glaring at the destination of the arrow, gave up and questioned Leader Keryoil and Mishael.

"Yah, I can only just barely tell, though. As always, what nasty skills."

"It was splendid, ne. Defeating three with one arrow at this distance. She has skills that wouldn't be wrong to call divine."

So it's an ability that these two give high praises for? With this, I've confirmed that the question on whether Principal-sensei's skills would be problematic has been overturned. There's still the two members of the elderly couple remaining, though.

"Good grief, if the distance is too far the monsters will catch on to our location." (Gramps)

"That would be troublesome, ne, Grandfather. My katana won't reach, you know?" (Grandma)

"That's true. Then, should I call them over?"

Grandfather, talking lightly like he's inviting a friend to his house, pulled out one of the fans tucked in his belt.

When he swung the fan down, opening it with a flourish, the cloud floating in a clear sky drawn on the fan appeared.

When Grandfather simply waved that fan from below to above, a giant vortex of wind sprung up a few meters in front of him.

"Eh, eh, eh-!"

Ramis, who was startled with her mouth wide open at the violent wind appearing, has an amusing face. -tte, this isn't the time to be observing her. This is, it's a tornado Grandfather roused up, huh?

Like a dragon ascending sky high, the tornado was long and thin, stretching into the atmosphere.

"Al-right."

Now he slashed that fan out horizontally, and the tornado stretched towards the sky came falling down, and the vortex of wind struck the ground. I can't tell what he's wanting to do, but that answer revealed itself in a few seconds.

Ten enemies were flung out of the tunnel of wind stretched out on the ground. So they were rolled up in the tornado and brought all the way over here. How terrible Grandfather's magic is.

The monsters are unbalanced, unable to understand the situation, and you can tell that they're just standing there with no desire to move to attack. How pitiful.

"Maa, it's like this. Grandma, how many can you handle?"

"It's alright, you know. It's already over, after all."

Eh, it's over?

There was a sound like a scabbard ringing, and when I switched my sights to Grandmother, she was resheathing her sword cane with half of the blade still visible.

When she had sheathed the sword cane with a kachari, all of the monsters swaying unsteadily had cross-shaped lines running along their bodies, and their bodies split into four parts.

You're … kidding. Even if you say that Grandfather's magic was so overwhelming that you couldn't look away, that was just several seconds. She instkilled ten monsters in that short amount of time?

Whatever the case, I want to hit past me, who haughtily thought he could measure their abilities. The fact that I was at all worried about them was on the level of being rude.

I can now understand President Bear's confidence in calling them here.

"As expected of you three. Your skills don't seem to be deteriorating." (P Bear)

'No, our level of skills have fallen. Good grief, I must fix my magic skills." (Gramps)

"The nimbleness of my slashes has dulled, you know. Haa, aging is something you'd rather not do, ne." (Grandmother)

"If I don't increase my accuracy a little more, I won't be able to be of use in the real deal. Like this, I won't be able to talk proudly in front of Shui. I must reflect on this." (Principal)

At President Bear's words of praise the three are humbly… or rather, those three are seriously reflecting. The corners of the mouths of the other members listening in on the conversation are twitching.

"Gols. Let's fight actively from now on."

"Aa, I felt like such a small existence here."

It seems like they've lit a fire in the fighting spirits of the two gatekeepers.

"I won't lose either."(Keryoil)

"Yes, I've fully realized my incompetence." (Mishael)

Looks like those two had their motivational switches flipped too. Seeing the actions of those aged people whose existences are so far above you, rather than dread, it causes your fighting spirit to flare up, huh?

"They're amazing, na. Hakkon, we can't be left behind either, ne."(Ramis)

"Welcome."

That's right, Ramis. I've understood that the new additions are people with skills that are anything but ordinary. If there's no need for worries, then all that's left is for us to get stronger.

If it's just her physical capabilities Ramis would be equal to them, but that's probably it. The problem is freely manipulating her excessive super-strength. I think that right now her situation is something like a newbie driver getting on board and F1 car.

What she needs is time and experience. Expecting sudden growth would be unfair.

But Ramis isn't fighting by herself. I'll always be at her side … on her back.

Basically, if I get stronger, it will inevitably influence an increase in her battle power. And, I'm making headway on that. After the end of the battle with the Ruler of the Netherworld, I wonder how the effective use of the new blessing I got, is.

Since then, I repeatedly practiced every night by myself, and have more or less grasped its advantages and disadvantages.

First is a disadvantage. As expected, its the fact that the things I can move are limited to my products. Even if they're within range of , if they're completely unrelated things, I can't move even a single hair.

But manipulating a part of my transformed body seems to be no problem, so it's possible for me to move the nozzle of , , etc. Further more, the manipulation seems to be affected by the Dexterity stat, and after increasing the level of Dexterity, I'm able to move things like they're my hands and feet.

Another problem is that the effective range is small. If I move it further than one meter, once its outside the effective range it will lose the effect. If the range was increased to about five meters then my strategies will also increase, but that's just wishful thinking, huh?

I've already mentioned it, but an advantage is being able to move my products and part of my body freely. This has some huge merits. Just thinking casually about it, I can think of a number of them.

I can show how to actually use the products that have been difficult to use so far.

I can place products in front of people without shooting them out of the Barrier.

By being able to operate the vacuum and nozzles, the extent of my tactics can increase.

There still more merits, but even if I could only do that much, it should be like the world has changed, that's how much of a change this is.

But currently, I haven't shown off the power of . I had manipulated the electrodes and device in the AED resuscitation episode, but the witnesses, Ramis, Leader, and Mishael thought the AED was something that did that, so they didn't investigate it. Seems like they didn't think of me freely moving my products.

As long as the Ruler of the Netherworld didn't witness me resuscitating those two, he shouldn't know that I can freely manipulate my products too. To fool your enemies you must first fool your allies, so I didn't tell anyone other than Ramis and Hyurumi about .

I did want Ramis to know about it since we're acting together, but my goal was to tell Hyurumi. Her thought process is fast, so I have great expectations that she'll be able to come up with more effective ways to use than I can.

And in actuality, right after I told her she came up with various ideas and began making all sorts of applicable tools.

To use to its maximum effectiveness, I'm currently in the midst of thinking whether it can be used for anything other than follow up and harassment in battle.

There's also the problem that it will be cancelled when I use another one of my abilities, but I'm planning to display it in battle. If the Ruler of the Netherworld is going to look down on us, who he defeated once before, then let me pop him a surprise.

Hey all, my absolute favorite Chinese novel, e, is on the verge of getting shut down and the translators need to prove that people still like it before the end of Sept.
It's written by Butterfly Blue, same person who did The King's Avatar (the esports one with the Chinese anime/animation), so check it out, and if you're already on Gravity Tales, please for Gu Fei and his crazy antics!
Yeah, I actually prefer Close Combat Mage to King's Avatar, because I love MCs that just want a good, everything-goes brawl. Also, I love how the author sets him up as a legit mage class. Crappy Str, and since he puts everything in Agi, 4 spells and he's out of mana XD
The other types of kungfu mage stories always make them super OP in everything, and that's kind of boring. I like it when it's ok that the MCs have some glaring flaws, not just, oh I chip a nail every time I cast a spell, or, oh a training montage will fix that weakness.>