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? - 90

Chapter 90: Mass Cooling with Efficiency in Mind!

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My whole body is wrecked and this hurts like hell…

I thought to myself while surveying the battlefield. There were a lot of enemies—tons of Kraken. Just as per the information, they had occupied the plaza with a force numbering in the hundreds.

On top of that, there were also a lot of villagers from Ikasashi Village—the ones we needed to protect. But that didn’t mean we had many allies. It meant we had a lot of weak points we had to protect and evacuate if we could.

Meanwhile, Kraken was extremely wary of me. They were in a mental state where they couldn’t move carelessly. It would be way worse for me if they just all charged in at once. Idiots.

In that case, the best course of action was to evacuate the villagers quickly.

“Everyone! Listen up!”

I called out to the boys of the Ferocious Shark Gang.

“I’m about to unleash an indiscriminate attack across the entire outdoor area! I need you guys to guide the villagers to safety!”

“Wha—HUH!? What are you even saying—!?”

The rowdy one shouted in shock. To that, I sharply declared:

“If I’m going to fight, I’ll wipe Kraken out to the last man—literally! I’m leaving the collateral damage prevention to you!”

No sooner had I said that than I hurled a can of coolant spray into the sky.

【Throw】

With the help of a skill, the spray can soared to a height I could never achieve with my own strength. The boys, seeing my uncompromising action, made up their minds.

“Ugh, this guy…! You guys! That old man is for real! If we don’t run, we’ll get killed along with Kraken!”

His comrades scrambled into action. 

“This way! Over here! Get inside the buildings!” 

They shouted as they began evacuating the villagers en masse. Watching them go, I muttered.

“Alright, now I can kill them all without holding back.”

Once again, I focused on the spray can I had thrown. It was one of the cans I had been collecting. I had more, so this time I could afford to use it extravagantly. I used a crowbar to launch a kitchen knife at the airborne can.

【Nail Drive】

The knife shot straight upward. It pierced the coolant can, and with a shhhhh!, the gas inside began to escape. Then I activated my skill.

【Ice Mist Explosion】

The coolant can exploded, and the resulting icy mist—created through the skill—spread outward into the sky.

“What… What the hell? What’s that guy doing?”

“Stay alert! That’s the Everyday Items Master who took down an SSS-ranked monster! If you let your guard down, you’ll be dead in an instant—!”

I heard Shokkai warning his allies. I opened an umbrella and scoffed.

“Hey now. If you’re standing out here in this rain without an umbrella, you’ll freeze to death, you know?”

Ice arrows rained down across the entire outdoor area.

“Gyaaaaah!?” 

“It huuurts! It huuurts!” 

“Gah—ugh!” “Hiiiiii!”

The icy mist I had spread beneath the rain clouds took effect. Every raindrop that passed through that mist was transformed by my skill into an ice arrow that rained down upon the ground.

Kraken had gathered without properly equipping shields or defensive gear. Of course they were getting turned into pincushions. One after another, the Kraken members were pierced by ice arrows and collapsed.

Every raindrop became an arrow. The water running along the ground darkened with an ever-increasing concentration of blood. Some of them tried to flee indoors, but naturally they didn’t have any keys, and while they fumbled with the doors, the ice arrow rain continued to fall.

Even those who tried to defend themselves with skills found them mostly useless. Each individual ice arrow was no more than a brittle icicle—but there were just so many of them. As they all went down, turned into human pincushions, I stood there calmly under my umbrella, waiting for the slaughter to end.

Only one remained. Shokkai, who was able to protect himself with his summoned tentacles.

“You bastard…!”

“Whoa, whoa. That’s my line, isn’t it? I mean, look what you did to me.”

I pointed to my swollen, bruised face. I’d need someone to patch me up when this was over. And thus, it came down to a one-on-one between me and Shokkai. The rest of Kraken had all been wiped out by the ice arrow rain and couldn’t fight or flee.

All that was left was to kill this guy. Just as I stepped forward with that intent—

“I’m not gonna face off against someone like you head-on!”

“Whoa!”

Tentacles shot toward me like spears, and I dodged quickly. In that moment, Shokkai turned tail and ran. 

“Aaaagh!!” 

I shouted.

“Dammit! Why does every single one of these assholes run the second they see me!? Get back here!”

Damn it! The enemy know exactly what my weak point is! I hate this about humans! Wild animals don’t do this crap!

I launched long distance attacks—flinging knives with a crowbar, slashing with a measuring tape—but every single one was blocked by Shokkai’s summoned tentacles.

What the hell are those tentacles made of? They are way too tough. Long distance attacks won’t work! I have to catch him with a crowbar and kill him for sure!

I ran after him with everything I had. But me, a scrawny guy with no stamina, versus an ex-delinquent? Yeah, we were built differently. Just when I gritted my teeth in frustration, someone came running alongside me.

“Yo, yo, yo! Aniki! What the hell is going on!?”

“Sha—Shachimaru!”

Running next to me was Shachimaru. Slicked-back hair, narrow eyes behind glasses. Today’s real MVP, having finished his own job, was now running at my side.

I glanced at how he was staying dry—and saw that the water pouring from a plastic bottle formed a kind of umbrella, shielding him from the rain of ice arrows.

“Damn, Shachimaru! How’d you find me so fast!?”

“Uhehe! My rain got a basic detection ability built in! If someone is getting rained on, I can pinpoint their location and appearance!”

“Their appearance, too!?”

No wonder Shachimaru volunteered for recon duty. He was insanely versatile.

“Anyway, what’s the situation!? And what the hell happened to your face!? It’s swollen like a potato! I figured this rain was your doing though!”

“I got beat up as bait! Took out everyone in Kraken except for their boss Shokkai using this rain! I’m chasing him now!”

“And that’s how your face got wrecked!? Man, sorry for all the trouble! Wait, you already wiped everyone else out!? That’s insane, Aniki! You’re completely bonkers! Uhehehe!”

Even while running, Shachimaru clutched his stomach laughing.

“So, that guy there’s Shokkai, huh! But damn, isn’t he fast!? I can’t catch up at all!”

“Y—yeah… I… can’t… either…”

“Nooooooo! Aniki, don’t you dare collapse! The juxtaposition between your strong points and weak points are way too extreme!”

As I stumbled, on the verge of collapse, Shachimaru caught me. Just as I was about to black out, he slapped me awake.

“Get up! You can’t sleep now! You’ll be killed by your own ice arrows!”

“Ggghkk…”

“Gyaaaaah! Blood! You’re coughing up blood! You got beaten that badly!? Why the hell are you pushing yourself like this!?”

To the panicking Shachimaru, I forced out my words.

“Because… Seeing the villagers… Suffering like that… I just… couldn’t stand it…”

“…”

Shachimarumaru opened his usually narrow eyes wide at my words.

“…You mean, you offered yourself to become the sacrifice instead?”

“That’s part of it… And, well… Even if things went smoothly, it looked like he’d be back before you were finished, so…”

“…Haa… You really are too kind for your own good. Got it. Fine then. Go ahead and take a little rest.”

Returning his eyes to their usual slanted eyes, Shachimaru furrowed his brow and said.

“I’ll make sure that Shokkai gets a taste of hell.”

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