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Chapter 248: The Sea Monster’s Harassment
After rescuing the fishermen from a sea monster attack and attending a welcoming feast, Rest spent the night at the inn.
Once the banquet ended, he soaked in the hot springs and then relaxed in his room to recover from the fatigue.
That night, there were no unexpected encounters in the bath.
It was both a relief and, strangely, a bit disappointing—leaving him with mixed feelings.
“It’s terrible! Count-sama, something terrible has happened!”
The next morning, as Rest was having breakfast, a villager rushed into the inn in a panic.
Rest didn’t know his name, but he recognized him as one of the men who had eagerly poured him drinks during last night’s feast.
“What’s wrong? Another monster attack?”
“W-Well… I’m not sure if that’s the case. Just come with me, please!”
“I don’t mind, but…”
“Great, this way!”
The man hurriedly led Rest out of the inn.
Perhaps because they had shared drinks the night before, the villager seemed far less reserved now.
As a former commoner, Rest wasn’t particularly bothered by this. However, had it been an arrogant noble in his place, they would have likely exploded in anger at such informal treatment.
“This place is…?”
They arrived at a coastal area a short distance from the village.
Thick wooden poles were lined up along the shore, forming what appeared to be some kind of structure extending into the sea.
However, parts of this structure had been utterly destroyed, with wooden debris washed up onto the beach.
“This is our shellfish farm.”
The villager said, looking at the wreckage with frustration.
“A farm? You’re cultivating shellfish?”
“Yes, we were raising oysters. It was an idea proposed by Lady Sanada.”
“Shouko’s…? And oysters, you said?”
“Yes. We set up these poles over the water and hung weighted ropes to grow the young oysters. After a lot of trial and error, we were finally starting to see results… But now…”
“And then something destroyed it?”
There was no need to speculate on who was responsible.
It was undoubtedly the same monster they had fought yesterday.
“This is awful… Could it be trying to get revenge for yesterday?”
Rest had unleashed lightning magic on the monster to drive it away.
Perhaps in retaliation, it had targeted the shellfish farm for destruction.
“If it deliberately attacked a place it knew was important to humans, that’s truly despicable…”
Rather than simply fleeing or giving up, the monster had gone out of its way to harass them.
This only confirmed how dangerous it was to the village.
Even if they managed to chase it away again, it would likely just find another way to harm people.
They had no choice but to defeat it.
“Lady Sanada was really looking forward to seeing the oyster farm flourish… She even used her own money to help the village…!”
The former Empress, Sanada Shouko, had apparently come from a small seaside town.
Perhaps oyster farming had been a part of her hometown’s economy as well.
Using that knowledge, she had worked hard to support the village’s development.
Having that effort so callously trampled on filled Rest with anger.
“We have to take it down… The problem is, how do we kill it?”
Water-based enemies were weak to lightning, but if he simply blasted the ocean with lightning magic, the energy would disperse, reducing its effectiveness.
While it might help drive the monster away, it wouldn’t be enough to finish it off.
His ability [Star Eater] was only effective in close combat, and his [Amaterasu] laser would scatter in the water, losing its power.
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The [God of Flames] ability might be effective, but it could also cause massive destruction, leading to severe secondary damage to the village.
(If I trigger a steam explosion, it could create a tsunami… or kill off marine life, reducing the village’s fish supply. Neither outcome is acceptable…)
“By the way, do you have any other farms like this?”
“Yes. Although it’s still in the early stages, we have a pearl farm over there.”
“…A pearl farm too?”
Rest blinked in surprise.
This village was far more advanced than he had expected.
With a sigh of mixed exasperation and admiration, he turned his thoughts back to the real problem—how to defeat the sea monster.