Surviving in a World Teeming with Monsters with the Useless Skill 【Everyday Items Master】! I Was Just Hunting Wild Animals with a Crowbar, So Why Is Everyone Screaming It's an S-Rank Monster? - 84

Chapter 84: Aiming Straight to the Moon!

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The next moment, the Inago’s flying kick slammed into me.

“Hyahahahaha! Fly to pieces, you scrawny—huh?”

“Whoops! Haha, not bad. You’ve got a decent hit in you, huh?”

I blocked the Inago’s attack with my still-open umbrella. The sheer force of the blow sent me flying a little, and I landed while skidding across the ground with my shoes.

Hmmm, this guy’s no joke. His strength is about on par with that hawk I fought with Angel before. But that’s all there’s to him.

“Yeah. No problem. If that’s the best you’ve got, then it’s no problem.”

I spun the crowbar in my hand and declared.

“Next up, I’ll 『Hook Set』and finish you up.”

I closed the umbrella. I didn’t need defense anymore. All that was left was to land a counter with the crowbar, swing him around, and kill him however I liked. Just as I fixed my gaze on the Inago, he suddenly said.

“Scrawny… I feel like I’ve seen you before… Wait, are you Crowbar Bro?”

“…Nope, definitely not.”

I turned my face away and pulled my hood down lower. Inago shouted.

“Like hell I can beat a master skill holder, dumbass! Of course I’m gonna run!!”

In an instant, Inago spun on his heel and leapt with incredible force up to the ceiling. Then, without slowing down, he smashed a kick into it. Baki! With a loud crack, he broke a hole open.

“What!? Seriously!?”

He slipped into the hole. A few more crashing sounds followed, and then sunlight poured down from above. He’d punched through the ceiling. The bastard escaped outside!

“Tacchan! This is bad! He’s getting away!”

“Crap, crap, crap! Wh-What do we do!? How do we chase him!?”

Suddenly, we were the ones panicking.

This is bad! Super bad! What’s bad is that I’m the worst at chasing people!

We instinctively looked up. The sunlight burned our eyes, which had grown used to the dark.

“Damn, sorry, Ui!”

Shielding my eyes from the light, I turned to Ui and said.

“I suck at chasing! But with your teleportation magic, can’t we do something!?”

“Y-Yeah! Um, uh, if we go too close to the ceiling we’ll phase through, so, um—!”

Ui grabbed me tightly. Voom, a deep noise distorted by static rang out as spatial distortion enveloped us. Darkness. The instant our vision returned, we were about 20 meters above the department store rooftop.

“Whoaaaah!?”

“Eeeek! I overshot us way too high!”

Even in panic, I scanned our surroundings. The rooftop was 20 meters below us. Inago noticed us and looked up.

“O-One more time!”

With the now-familiar low rumble, we were swallowed by spatial distortion. Darkness. The moment our vision returned, Inago was hurling his kick at us.

“Hyahahahaha! You’re wide open, Master Skill!!”

“Hi―!”

Ui gasped, her eyes wide, her body frozen in fear. But…

“You really think I wouldn’t predict that kind of sneak attack!?”

【Hook Set】

From the look Inago gave us the moment he glanced up, I knew he’d try to attack during the next teleport. So, mid-teleport, I swung my crowbar. It hit his kick with 『Hook Set』, stunning Inago.

“Ngh!?”

I pulled him in close. Since I couldn’t finish him with the umbrella, I gripped a kitchen knife in my left hand.

【Deadly Kitchen Knife】

I stabbed the knife into Inago’s gut, twisted it to wreck his insides, then yanked it out. He vomited blood with a gurgle, and I knocked him away with the crowbar. He rolled across the ground. However…

He wasn’t dead.

“…Damn you… you scrawny master skill bastard… fuck you… I’ll kill you… I’ll fucking kill you!!”

“Haaah? You’re way too stubborn, man.”

Unlike Team Ashura, he was definitely taking damage. His wounds weren’t healing either. But Inago was still alive. Blood poured from him as he stood without stumbling.

“I’m gonna fucking KILL YOOOOOOUUUUUUUU!!”

Shouting all high and mighty, Inago turned his back to us and jumped with all his might. He rapidly grew distant from the building.

“Tch, damn it! That guy’s too good at doing annoying crap!”

His strength wasn’t all that impressive, but the sheer human desperation made him a pain in the ass. I ran to the rooftop fence, grabbed it, and tracked him with my eyes. Ui caught up and clung to me from behind.

“I-It’s okay! Ui-chan’s really good in open spaces! What should I do!?”

I trusted Ui and said.

“Teleport me to him! Then immediately launch me and him as high as you possibly can!”

“Got it! First, we jump together!”

The distortion enveloped us. Darkness. The moment the darkness was lifted, we were falling through the sky, ten meters behind the locust.

“Gah! You again, damn master skill bastard!”

“I’ll fine-tune it! Sending just Tacchan now!”

“Do it, Ui!”

Ui separated from me. A moment later, the distortion surrounded me alone. Darkness. My vision returned right behind Inago.

“Gaaaah! Damn you, damn you, damn you!!”

A close-range kick from the locust. But of course, I saw that coming.

【Hook Set】【Deadly Kitchen Knife】

This time, I changed tactics. I used 『Hook Set』 to pull in the kicking leg itself and stabbed the knife right into it. I rammed it deep, sliced around to tear it open, then used my skill to sever the bone with ease. I grinned wickedly and told him.

“I’m taking this leg, you freaky bug.”

With the knife, I severed Inago’s leg. Blood sprayed in the air as he thrashed around.

“GyaaaaAAAAAAA!? What the hell are you doing, you master skill bastaaaaaard!?”

A moment later, the deep rumble sounded, and the two of us were teleported again. Darkness. Our vision opened far, far above the clouds.

“Wh—!? Gah—!”

“Whoah…!? U-Ui, I can’t believe… You teleported us this high…!”

The air was thin—no, almost nonexistent. The surroundings were no longer “sky.” Not blue, but black.

So this is basically the space.

“AaaaaaaaAAAAAA…!”

With his remaining leg, Inago desperately kicked at me. I blocked with my umbrella, and as I fell back toward Earth, Inago floated farther up into space.

“Hyaha… ha… ha…! Now…! Now I can escape…! Hyaha… ha… ha…!”

Floating away with a whoosh into the void, Inago laughed in the thinning air. He hadn’t realized it. That while I had just barely begun to fall, he had already passed beyond Earth’s gravity well.

“I won…! But… Crap… I’m losing… Consciousness…”

My entire body started getting hit with waves of discomfort and pain. Hot, cold—I couldn’t even tell anymore. Just as I froze up, spatial distortion enveloped me again.

Darkness. And there was Ui, right in front of me. I landed and collapsed on the spot, gasping for breath.

“Haaah haaah haaah!”

“Tacchan! Are you okay!? Sorry I teleported you too far…!”

Ui spoke through half-tears, and after taking a moment to steady my breathing, I told her this.

“Yeah, I was a bit surprised, but honestly, the height was perfect.”

“R-Really~…? Ah! So then, what happened to that creepy bug guy!?”

“Oh, him? Well, you know….”

I looked up at the faint, pale moon hanging in the daytime sky and said.

“He’s probably doing his best aiming for the moon by now.”

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