Today is our birthday.
It been just one year after my reincarnation. Suddenly a lot of my memories are coming back to me, really a lot of a storage is needed in a year as dense as this one.
That night, which is a beginning as well as the end, I was killed by Aoi, who was like a little sister to me.
Also, even if I try to calmly look back on that now, I still tilt my head and wonder why this happened.
I totally do not have any simmering hatred to the Aoi who killed me, and am even worried that she has been arrested after that as the murderer.
If there is a complaint, it is only with my own tameness in being so frankly killed.
Even if I was stabbed in the stomach by surprise by Aoi, who is almost like a relative to me, even if the murder weapon is a special kind of military weapons, I should have made a little more of a resistance.
When I try to think of the "why" of that time - my memory is hazy. Memories of that time are not clear.
Whether it is something interfering with me, the question floats around my mind, but I decided to give up thinking on that because it became so troublesome.
Well, anyway, after I was killed, for some reason, I was reincarnated as a small goblin, engaged in a struggle for survival, and experienced various meetings and farewells.
Here I have been able to realize the rawness of life. As well as having been able to experience the death that comes with it.
Looking back on many things, like the meals shared with Minokichi and Kanami, it all started with eating caterpillars that became a breakfast and munching in synchronization with all our members, including those who stopped at the level of goblins without advancing through 【Existence Evolution】.
The meat was well prepared, spilling over with juices.
Knowing what I do now, the 【Sacred Treasures】 and dragon meat is not comparable, but reminiscing of the days of being newborn, has a special nostalgic taste.
While immersed in deep emotion, I look over everyone's faces sitting in a circle.
Each seems to have eaten a caterpillar while thinking of something.
Those who simply enjoy the caterpillar. Those who have decided something. Those who are tinged with sorrow. Those who look up at the sky with a distant eye. Those who are smiling. There are really different reactions.
There were several Caterpillars distributed for the sake of synchronization per goblin.
Since there is only a certain amount, soon after they have eaten I go around pouring a drink of the direct demon liquor into everyone's cup.
The amount is about the same as a sake cup. Although there is a sense of injustice since the size of most bodies is different, it can not be helped because of a small amount of the amount of demon drink available. Here we get test our patience.
When I had poured into each cup, everyone drank at once.
Same as when they ate the caterpillars, their reactions are also different.
There are those who visibly relax their face after simply drinking such delicious sake. Those who shed tears of gratitude at drinking such a choice demon drink that is not available to their rank. Those who ascended to the great heights from the impact beyond their experience. Finally, those who shiver in ecstasy.
Even though there was someone that had more to drink, like me.
Burasato and Supesei are not sitting in our circle, I was a bit envious there, but unfortunately, our birthday festival is my main concern.
Only today the seat of the protagonist is not negotiable.
While there was such an act for the morning, just as yesterday I spent the day having fun, until around the evening.
As the world was dyed red, the finals of the battle tournament, that is the most exciting part of the birthday festival, was held.
The location of the battlefield has been selected as the «External Training Field».
Anyway, the field has been improved in the search for robustness so that it can now also reduce the damage from those fighting here, so that you can fight all out with abandon.
The ones that ended up surviving in the tournament and reaching the finals were Avenger and Redhead .
A combination of good and bad points, the fight of two that won out through their abilities, it led to an intensely heated final match, but progresses from start to end YoIsamu(Avenger??) held onto the advantage.
As if there was an agreement between the two, each chose to not use any ability, fighting only with combat techniques trained from their pure physical ability.
In terms of purely physical performance, the difference between the two is not much.
Going by gender Avenger has more endurance and would outweigh because of his gender, but is exceeded by Redhead in agility and flexibility.
Moving around Avenger, that is actually set up comfortably, at high speed Redhead chose tactics intended for disrupting his balance.
Just her legs, that was all that he could catch from Redhead's movement, such was the expected difficulty for that beast who was just using both arms to reach all in his field of view, it might have been difficult to counter in a narrow battle field.
If he showed even a slight chance, the Nail Fang of Redhead, like a true carnivore, would have taken a piece of YoIsamu's(Avenger??) neck.
However unlike before, Avenger prevented all the attacks from Redhead with a minimum of wasted movement, by knocking them to the side or with a simple parry.
At the Birthday Festival, it was Avenger who splendidly took the victory.
It is a pity that Redhead lost this time because I was personally supporting her, but still her growth rate is comparable in degree Minokichi and Kanami.
Initially I could not help but think that Redhead was so much weaker.
Still, she might win next time, no matter others might expect.
Anyway, we presented the prize to the winner Avenger, and carried on to the last event of the Birthday Festival's second day of entertainment.
It was a simple concept, to hit an attacker in a circle with a diameter of about three meters within the time limit.
That is, the target this time is me.
Of course it is only natural to resist their attacks, since it is not possible for me to move from within the circle, it can either be simultaneous attacks by participants from a long distance, but those that dare could also challenge in close combat.
If it is possible for anyone to get even a single blow in, that success comes with drop items obtained from dungeon class bosses, or the equivalent in anything you desire, you can win such prizes.
The last event that began so, closed in the middle act of success.
While happening in a large forest where the noise is incessant even at night, the last of the day was spent enjoying myself.
Would it not be a good way of ending the day if it seems to be speaking to us.
By the way, the first to have cleared the last event was Kanami.
If it is an attack, such as freezing the space, it could not be prevented.
What did Kanami demand in the end?
That also means that there is an opportunity.
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Re:Monster Vol.9 (Day 336 - Day 370)
FantasiRe:Monster is a Japanese web novel written by Kanekiru Kogitsune and published by Alphapolis. It was later adapted into a light novel, inspiration for the manga. Kanata Tomokui was a powerful human, in his first life that is. Now that he has died, h...
