The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 2

Episode 2. Reincarnation (2)

Wait, maybe that would be better?

I calmly looked back at the situation I was in.

Suddenly, a huge red bird appeared in the middle of the street. Moreover, the bird blocked the path of a child who was trying to pass through the alley.

“Gyaaaahhhh!”

The bird let out a threatening howl······.

“Gyaaaah! Mommyyyy!”

Before long, a loud noise erupts.

The child instinctively ran away for his life, sobbing, but the bird quickly snatched the child’s bag away.

It stopped the opponent in an instant.

“Eek!”

But fortunately, the bird didn’t seem to be as hungry as I was.

The giant bird only played with the child, poking it with its beak. It showed no sign of trying to eat it.

‘Wow! There are birds in such a distant galaxy! The theory really was right! The biota of the planet where magic exists should have many species similar to ours······!’

I watched their fight and felt a brief surge of excitement.

“Hmm.”

Still, I need to calm down a bit.

Anyway, there is a bird right in front of you now.

‘I’m sure this corpse remembers. Yes. I have a body that can eat birds.’

Finally, I met a wild animal worthy of being hunted.

And as the strongest wizard of the era, I can kill that monster with just a cough.

‘Once I finish adapting to magic power, it won’t be difficult to rule this small planet.’

Then the remaining question is how long it will take until you can use magic again······.

“uh?”

That was the moment.

I focused my gaze on the wings of the giant bird chasing the fleeing child. I could see a strange ripple near its feathers.

That wasn’t all.

At the same time, from under my feet······.

That is, I felt something rising from the surface of this planet.

‘Ugh?’

A cold liquid with viscosity.

It feels like every cell in my body is being scanned one by one.

‘This is······.’

It’s magic.

I felt the magic. For the first time since I was reincarnated, I sensed the magic of the planet called Earth.

“This is the magic of the Earth?”

I screamed.

And then I immediately lay down on the asphalt and crossed my arms and legs like a dog. I had no choice.

Oh, my goodness. The planetary magic of Earth.

“this?”

There are too many.

Too, too, too much!

“No, that’s why I adapted so quickly. I felt like I could feel the mana already after only a few seconds of being here······!”

The mana adaptation period is the time it takes to recognize the mana in a new environment.

But on Earth, the gap isn’t that big.

While other planets are like dipping your feet into buckets of magical power, here you’re plunging people into a pool-like, rich mass of mana!

“This is ridiculous. Is this real? Oh my, how can there be such a golden land!”

I was so moved that I bent down as if I was going to lick the ground.

It’s a windfall!

In a place this rich in magic, there’s nothing I can’t do!

But wait a minute.

“ah.”

While I was deeply immersed in the sweetness of magic, I felt a quiet gaze from afar.

“Squeak? Kkirukruk.”

“······.”

When I looked back, the child and the monster bird in front of me had stopped fighting and were looking at me with a blank expression.

Yeah, that makes sense.

The guy suddenly appeared, screaming and crawling on all fours on the ground.

‘I guess I attracted attention for nothing.’

Ahem. I got up from my seat awkwardly.

Originally, I was planning on letting it just flow naturally.

“iced coffee······!”

But things didn’t go that way.

Immediately afterwards, the child under the shadow of the monster bird opened his trembling mouth.

“mister!”

He looked straight at me and shouted.

And he added a few words.

“Hey, help me······.”

The child’s voice was terrified, and behind him a large bird was watching him with its eyes rolling around.

“help!”

I guess that’s how Earthlings are taught. If something dangerous happens, ask a passing adult for help.

Oh my, but why do you have to ask for help from an alien like this?

“Help me?”

“The devil······. S, please save me! Uncle.”

And what if that alien happened to not be a great wizard like me?

I answered in a relaxed manner.

“Okay, I’ll help you.”

When the little Earthling heard those words, he cried with joy.

“instead.”

But that expression only lasted a moment.

I then pointed to the translucent plastic bag the child was holding in his hand. It was the same thing he had been eating so deliciously earlier.

“If I catch that bird, will you give it to me in return?”

“yes?”

“That’s it. That’s it!”

If there is a going, there must be a coming.

When I spoke strongly, the child looked dumbfounded, but soon answered.

“Ice cream? This, this is what I was eating······.”

“Keeeeeek!”

“I’ll give it to you, I’ll give it to you! I’ll give it to you! Please save me!”

This is a bit bad.

The child jumped forward in surprise as the monster bird that had been hovering around let out a cry.

‘Running away with your back turned to a predator?’

As he began to run towards me, the giant bird flapped its wings and rose into the air.

The monster bird then descended towards the child at a rapid pace, like a shooting arrow.

“Hey! Get out of the way!”

I immediately stepped forward as if I was protecting the child. The gleaming claws of the monster rushed right before my eyes, but I wasn’t afraid.

‘Huh.’

If I were the first magician in charge of the defense of a planet, I could separate that bastard’s bones and flesh with a single gesture… Oh, the magic isn’t working.

“uh?”

The hesitation was fleeting.

In contrast to the wind magic I confidently cast, which ended up being a dud···.

The giant bird’s talons tore violently through the brick wall standing next to it.

bang!

Yeah. That was the loud noise that came at first.

“Gyaaaaaaah!”

The bird took flight again.

Then it started circling over my head, making a loud howling sound.

As I stepped forward, the little boy with the hat quickly ran away.

In other words, this side has become the monster’s new target.

“Haha, what is it? Are you nervous because of the new environment? I’ve been through all this before. Haha.”

I laughed off my mistake earlier.

Then he stretched out his hand again and cast a spell at the monster spinning around in the air.

Explosion magic, water magic, word magic, and even curses.

After trying various magic spells in 10 seconds, I finally realized.

“Ma, ma, the magic isn’t working······?”

uh?

This can’t be happening? It can’t be happening? It can’t be happening. Magic doesn’t work!

“Why? Why on earth!”

There’s so much mana around here? The spell was definitely correct, but I wonder what’s wrong, the magic doesn’t come out at all.

That means······.

“Gyaaaaaaah!”

I am now without any means of protecting myself.

Is it under the shadow of that huge (and presumably carnivore) bird?

“······.”

The worries didn’t last long.

“Please help me. Please save me!”

“Gyaaaaaaah!”

I ran, shouting for help like a little Earthling would have done.

What the heck!

“Gyaaaaaaah!”

“Crazy planet! This is a garbage planet with things like this wandering around in nature!”

It’s really scary.

The giant bird must have gotten hungry from playing with the child, because it chased me with a different, more ferocious aura than before.

Damn, how can you hunt such a big thing when you can’t even use magic?

“Huh!”

But the ugly struggles are only temporary.

I finally figured out the cause of the sense of discomfort I had been feeling since my reincarnation.

“Kkiuruk!”

A faint wind howled from above.

The sound was that of a monster bird descending, its sharp beak capable of piercing the slender bodies of Earthlings at any moment.

I was terrified at the sight and ran even faster, but…

Suddenly, a terrible pain came up from my right kneecap.

“Ugh!”

I fell down on the cement floor without warning.

Yes, this body.

‘I have a disability in my legs······.’

This is a body that can’t run.

For a moment, my mind went cold.

A monster bird is flying towards me with the intention of piercing me, and I fall down on the flat ground with nothing on it.

It’s the end.

“Ugh···!”

I instinctively shut my eyes tightly.

bang!

At the same time, a tremendous noise struck my ears. There was also a crunching sound, like the sound of a hard awl piercing bone.

“Eek······!”

Huh?

“···Why doesn’t it hurt?”

But wait, there’s no pain.

I opened my closed eyes and saw a shocking sight.

“uh?”

There’s a monster bird hanging right above where my head was.

Looking closely… its beak was stuck in the gray, paved ground.

The bird hit the ground at such a high speed that there was a small crater around it, as if a meteor had struck.

“if······.”

I kicked the fallen bird with my foot. But when I saw the bird’s motionless appearance, my doubts soon turned into certainty.

“Did you just bury your head in the ground by yourself?”

Are you a newbie?

“her.”

This monster originally flew in with the intention of piercing my upper body. At a terrifying speed.

But then I suddenly fell in a place where there were no obstacles, and landed on the empty ground.

“Looking at the angle it’s inserted at, it’s exactly that?”

I looked at the dead bird with a concussion in bewilderment.

Are there birds that fly at dangerous angles and crash into the ground to their deaths?

I’d like to hear an explanation from an Earth scientist as to how such a stupid creature came into existence.

“Phew.”

Anyway, was it lucky that I fell?

I was relieved. As soon as I let go of that worry, the pain I had forgotten about came back to me.

“ah!”

Gurgling. My stomach screams.

Come to think of it, this all happened while I was trying to find food.

‘Is this a bird I can eat?’

I carefully picked up the bird that had fallen on the ground.

Since there was no place to grab onto, my hand naturally went to the bird’s slender neck.

‘Because we are from the same planet. The amino acid structure is also······.’

But then, I started observing birds.

A commotion was suddenly heard from around the corner of the alley.

Naturally, I turned my head in the direction of the sound.

***

“Police officer! Hurry up! Hurry up!”

“Hey! You shouldn’t go ahead.”

“Some uncle got caught instead of me! I can’t be late!”

Between the alleys of a complex one-room apartment complex.

About three people are running.

The black-haired woman running at the front frowned at the child’s voice.

‘There must have been casualties.’

She was currently on her way to the scene after receiving a report.

It was an incident where a C-class monster, a beginner killer, escaped from a nearby gate.

‘Please, I hope I’m not late!’

Beginner Killer, a bird monster native to the sand-filled desert area gate.

Beginner Killer was originally a monster rated as being dangerous at the E level.

The reason was that he had a soft body that could deal with Earth’s common firearms that did not contain magic power.

However, at some point, the beginner killer’s rating was explosively adjusted upward.

“Is this the last confirmed location?”

“yes!”

“It’s dangerous, so you all stay here.”

A beginner killer who makes novice hunters let their guard down with his stupid-looking face and soft body.

He was actually a monster who could gain speed the moment he jumped over a missile.

Hunters below C-class will die instantly without even being able to see the monster flying towards them.

“I will take action immediately······.”

But right now, at this moment.

The hunter belonging to the association witnessed a strange scene at the location where he had been dispatched.

“uh?”

A sinister figure who has killed numerous hunters and earned the nickname ‘Murderer’.

The huge, ominous bird was hanging limply in some man’s hand.

“All of you······.”

A monster that is so fast that it is difficult to catch with your hands, let alone track with your eyes.

I was caught by that cold-faced human and met my death.

‘Surely you caught that thing and beat it to death?’

The hunter stopped walking and reflexively scanned the dents around him.

It was after that that I made eye contact with the mysterious thin man.