Chapter 44: Scum of Humanity

"This is really a disaster."

Seeing their whole body covered in giant frog saliva, Megumin and Yunyun had a look of despair.

There was also Aqua, who had been completely swallowed by the giant frog, not only had her whole body covered in saliva and for some reason could only lay on the ground, but continued to stare at this side with her 'death stare'.

Sato Hikaru actually did not see Aqua's stare, and sincerely thanked the thief that suddenly appeared.

"Thank you so much for your help, otherwise they could only climb out of the giant frog's mouth by themselves."

"I say, you, are you really a man!?"

The thief, whose hand and body were more or less splashed with frog saliva as she tried to help Aqua and the rest out, looked at Sato Hikaru with disdain: "Aren't they your teammates? Why didn't you go and pull them out?"

"Obviously it is because it stinks."

Covering his nose with slight disgust, Sato Hikaru spoke in a matter-of-fact tone: "Afterall, the giant frogs had been killed, and they had basically escaped harm, no?"

"Tch…this is the first time I meet someone like you. That is so…"

"Wonderful."

Just when the silver-haired thief was thinking of what kind of words to use to describe this heartless man, by the side, the golden-haired knight, who was struck by thunder, showed an excited look while looking at Megumin and the rest.

"Can you tell me? How did it feel to be swallowed by the giant frog!?"

"Eh hehe…"

Faced with the knight's question, Megumin, who was pulled out by the knight, had her eyes darkened and spoke like she had been played until she broke: "It actually felt quite good, the giant frog's tongue was soft, slightly slippery, and also warm…"

"Ha, ha…this, this is really…"

That blonde knight was so excited that she panted, looked at Sato Hikaru's side with a face full of expectation and shouted to the silver-haired thief: "Chris, let's go and take up the task of subjugating a giant frog!"

"Absolutely not!"

The thief, who was called Chris, immediately crossed her hands when she heard that and strictly refused: "I do not want to pull someone out of such a disgusting place anymore."

"That's right, young lady, if you want to try everything, you will only end up harming yourself."

Sato Hikaru, who was by the side, also nodded and spoke very seriously: "Furthermore, giant frogs hate metal, unless you took off your armor, the giant frog would absolutely not swallow you."

"I see, thank you for your reminder."

"You are welcome."

"Hey! Stop it!"

Seeing the two of them really start to chat about how to be conveniently swallowed by the giant frog, Chris quickly asked them to stop.

"You, don't teach my friend those strange knowledges!"

"Willing to learn is a good thing, also this is also not some strange knowledge."

Shrugging, Sato Hikaru spoke honestly: "For example, right now, did you not just learn that the best method to fight against giant frogs is to wear metal armor?"

"You…since when did Axel have someone who is so shameless like you?"

"Let me introduce myself, I am an adventurer who had just arrived in Axel yesterday, Sato Hikaru."

While speaking, Sato Hikaru also pointed at Aqua and the rest: "They are my teammates, those two from the crimson demon clan are Yunyun and Megumin, as for that…"

Thinking carefully while pointing at Aqua, Sato Hikaru finally spoke seriously: "the waste in our team."

"You bastard, who are you calling waste!!!"

Aqua, who had been giving a 'death stare', not only did not get someone's apology, but was even called a waste. She was so angry that she immediately got up and raised her hand to capture this damn bastard.

However, how could it be possible for Sato Hikaru to give Aqua, whose whole body stunk, the opportunity to get close?

At the moment Aqua got up, he had scurried away and hid behind Chris.

While letting Chris block in front of him to prevent Aqua from getting him, he also spoke to Chris.

"You are called Chris, right? Your job is a thief, right?"

"Yes, that blonde knight over there is my teammate, Darkness, her profession is crusader."

Chris looked at Sato Hikaru and Aqua circling her, her face showed a wry smile of nostalgia.

Sato Hikaru, who purposefully guided Aqua to Chris, noticed her smile and finally confirmed.

The identity of Chris in front of him was just as mentioned in the original work.

A junior of Aqua, this nation's main belief, whose name was used as the name of national currency, the goddess of fortune, Eris.

After confirming this point, Sato Hikaru stopped teasing Aqua, and pretended to be caught by Aqua and scuffled.

In his mind, he was quickly considering the pros and cons.

He never thought that it would be so fast.

Should he expose her identity?

There did not seem to be any benefit in doing that.

Artifacts, cheats and the like, should be more or less the same with Aqua's, there was still a stack of them that I had not used.

As for world tree's progress…

Unless he killed Eris, the resulting information fluctuations would not be enough for the world tree.

After consideration, it seemed that it would be better to pretend to not know.

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