The Villain is Too Good at Sniping - Chapter 122



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Episode 122. Uninhabited Island (1)

The next morning.

As the second day of the end-of-semester survival training dawned, I immediately put into action what I had only planned.

“The first thing we need to do is build a camp.”

I picked up a stick and drew a simple structure on the sand. Airi and Lala, still half asleep, rubbed their eyes.

“Camp?”

“… … ?”

It seems like the explanation is insufficient.

“As Arsene said, you have to figure out the purpose and meaning of this training yourself. You don’t know how long you’ll be staying, so you can’t sleep uncomfortably every time, right?”

I realized this last night. The sea breeze is cold and humid. There are a lot of bugs and there is a risk of a demon attacking in the middle of the night.

So the first thing we need to do is create a base camp that will become our future stronghold.

I drew a more detailed diagram of the camp’s structure.

“It would be best to build a cabin here, but that would require too much preparation. There are no materials, no rope.”

The biggest problem is that it takes a long time to make.

“Aren’t there many things you can use instead of string? Like a cadet uniform.”

“That may be possible, but if we use things like cadet uniforms as materials, we won’t have anything to wear. We could replace them with things like tree trunks, but for now, I’m not sure.”

“Then… … . Building a raft and escaping completely… isn’t that possible?”

Airi, who had been thinking deeply, eventually shook her head.

“It wasn’t a bad idea. But if your goal was to escape the island, you should have said so a long time ago. Instead of just lumping it together and telling everyone to figure it out.”

Well… there are kids like that.

Those guys who tried to escape the island by making a raft. I don’t know what happened to them. What is certain is that escaping the island was not the purpose of this training.

You could have prepared the necessary items for camp production in advance, but then you would catch the eye of the faculty. After the training, you might get awkward questions like, “How did you know?”

“So, first, I’m going to make a place to sleep right here, right in the center. It should look something like this.”

I drew a picture of a slanted triangle-shaped cabin. Lara’s eyes lit up as if she had realized something.

“Is this by any chance… … ?”

“That’s right. It’s similar to the camp we stayed at last time.”

“Building a hut may be difficult, but it looks like it could be done to this extent.”

In fact, the camp on Mount Nirvana was also built by Camille and me.

“Excuse me, Mr. Zion. Then how do I get the tree?”

“How can I get it? There are trees all over the place.”

“That’s not what I’m talking about. I don’t even have an axe. Right now.”

“Why? You’ve done it before. You.”

I glanced at Iri.

“With a sword again… … ?”

“You’re the only one who can do it, Airi. So I’ll ask you to procure the materials. Of course, I’ll help too. To the extent that I can.”

Just like in the entrance exam, trees are cut with swords. Airi’s sword is only good for cutting trees, so the blade doesn’t get damaged. So Airi had to do the hard work.

“For now, considering the margin, this amount is necessary.”

“One, two… three, four… no, why do you need this many?”

“You’re not just building a camp. You also need things for firewood and other things you need for living?”

“Ah, that… huh huh?”

The more she spoke, the more Airi’s expression hardened. But just as Airi felt, if she wanted to spend time on this island, she would eventually have to make a camp. It would be better to settle down in one place than to wander around vaguely looking for caves or something.

I roughly patted Airi on the shoulder and reluctantly saw her off.

“Should I help too?”

“No, you need to save some strength for now.”

In the event of an emergency, the person who can respond most quickly and efficiently is Lara Stillheiden. She is the only one who can protect the camp with a barrier, and there are more things that Lara needs to do than you might think.

Still, it would be a bit embarrassing to leave Lara Stillheiden alone in the camp. She is not the type of person to sit still and eat the food prepared by others.

“If you really want to help, go out and catch some fish.”

“How much do I need to catch?”

“As much as possible… but please adjust it appropriately. Overfishing is also problematic, and using magic can provoke the monsters.”

There are also monsters living in the water in this world. Lara will take care of that part.

“Then what about you?”

“I, well. If I had to say.”

I drew a circle on the sand with a branch.

“I will do everything else that needs to be done.”

There is no one who is unimportant.

***

In Arsen, cadets were moved haphazardly around the island, as if meeting and joining each other were part of the training.

“Mr. Zion, is this enough?”

“Why did you bring so much?”

“If you consider the margin, you’ll need more than what I wrote down.”

“Still, isn’t this a bit too much?”

Airi, who had been whining all along, grew up to be a great woodcutter. With this level of tenacity, even if he had chosen a different path instead of entering Arsen, he would have definitely succeeded.

“Is this amount of firewood enough?”

“Don’t put too much. Let it burn properly.”

“yes!”

The most important thing is not to put out the fire in the first place.

Making fire itself is not difficult. There is the magician Lara Stillheiden, and I also know how to make fire. You can also use fire-attribute magic bullets, but their efficiency is extremely low, so I put it aside for now.

The dense tropical rainforest is deep and rugged. If you make any noise carelessly, you may attract the beasts that live in the forest.

So that the bonfire would not go out, and so that someone could come over if they saw the rising smoke, they kept the embers burning softly.

Arsen introduced it as ‘end-of-semester survival training’, but in fact, survival is a basic element, and there is something else that is more important. This training is not just survival training, but is more comprehensive and has many meanings.

It is up to the cadets themselves to figure that out.

“I caught a fish… … .”

Another cry came from behind me. I turned around and saw a blue-haired water ghost.

“What did you do to get so wet?”

“Because I used magic… wrongly, a monster suddenly appeared… Kellogg!”

It seems he encountered a monster while catching fish. Fortunately, he wasn’t hurt, but his head was completely turned into seaweed.

Needless to say, my clothes got soaked in sea water.

“I told you there were no clothes to change into here. You should have been careful.”

As I said that, I took the fish Lara had brought. Two fish that looked like sea bass the size of my forearm. This was enough to secure food for today.

“Surely you don’t have any clothes to change into…?”

“Is that possible in the current situation?”

“ah…….”

Anyway, it’s hard to leave it like this, completely soaked. Even a superhuman body can catch a cold or something, and at least now is the time when you shouldn’t have any patients. If I had known this would happen, I would have gone with you.

“Take that off for now. I need to dry it a bit.”

Lara flinched for a moment. I shook out the coat I had left on the floor and handed it to Lara. The size didn’t fit, but at least it was better than leaving her naked.

I left Lara crouching by the campfire and went into the construction of a makeshift camp.

‘Things are worse than when I was in Nirvana.’

Last time we set up camp, we had plenty of supplies. In fact, we had so many leftover supplies that we just threw them in a corner of the house.

On the other hand, unlike back then, Airi and Lala are together now. There is enough manpower.

“What should I start with?”

“First, let’s start by setting up the pillars.”

I set up two pillars to serve as the axis. In fact, it would take a more cumbersome process to build a proper accommodation, but since I wasn’t going to live here forever, I designed it just enough to avoid collapsing and to avoid sunlight.

“First, put this on there.”

“How deep?”

“Roughly, about this much. Up to the height of my calf.”

“all right!”

Then I heard a thud. I turned around, still holding onto the tree I was trying to plant deep into the ground.

I thought it would take a lot of effort, but Airi tilted the tree a few times and quickly drove in the pillar that would become the axis.

“… Have you already done that?”

“It just went in when I did it.”

I still saw the pillars that were just standing up. This is why physical training is necessary.

Although I am a shooter and Airi is a warrior class, it is natural that she would be stronger than me.

“Then I’ll take my leave… … .”

“If you’re done, help me out here.”

“Haven’t I finished all my work…?”

I grabbed the back of Airi’s neck as she tried to sneak away.

“What’s wrong? It’s just friends helping each other.”

“Were we friends?”

“Don’t be so upset. When was it not like that? Then.”

“Ugh… No, wait a minute!”

I passed my share of the work to Iri, who started to think deeply about something.

“Where are you going now?! Leaving all the work on me!”

“Well… that’s what happened. I have my own things to do, so I’ll leave it to you.”

There’s a lot more to do than this. Since I was able to finish the work faster than I thought, it would be better to leave this to Airi and move on to the next task.

Even though it may look like a side job, this is definitely not a side job.

Iri looked like she couldn’t believe it.

***

It took several hours to complete the camp. When it was all done, it felt more like a shelter with a shaded area than a makeshift hut like the ones we had built on Mount Nirvana.

It would be nice to install walls and windows to block the sea breeze, but that’s on the back burner for now. We need to set up two more camps like this, because we have a lot of guests to bring in.

It’s already late afternoon.

“What about the spark?”

“I’m still alive.”

Lara yawned and shook a large leaf, fanning it to keep the fire burning.

“But do I have to do this by hand?”

“If you keep relying on magic, you won’t last long here.”

“Haaam… … .”

It is easier to maintain it with magic, but not everything can be solved with magic. It is better to reduce unnecessary consumption of magic power in order to deal with unexpected situations that may arise later.

“Are the clothes all dry?”

“Not yet. We have to wait a little longer.”

I hung it in a well-ventilated place, but it didn’t seem to dry well because of the moisture. I felt awkward looking at Lara, who was only wearing a dry shirt, so I pretended not to notice and handed her the leaf fan.

“You worked hard, so you should go in and get some rest.”

“good night.”

“Okay, go to sleep first.”

Lara Stillheiden staggers and lies down.

Before we knew it, the sunset was hanging on the horizon. Our second day on the island was coming to an end.

“If the kids are going to gather… there’s still a bit left.”

The other cadets still haven’t shown up. The island is large, and most of all, the cadets are all scattered. It seems like it will take quite some time for them to come together.

“It’s all done, Mr. Zion.”

Then Airi came back. She looked so tired that I thought she would just go to sleep, but Airi squatted down across from me.

Airi pouted her lips as she felt my gaze.

“Aren’t you sleeping?”

“I can’t sleep because I slept too much during the day.”

“If you’re going to be on guard duty, you should probably be asleep soon.”

“I don’t know. Just change the order. Then.”

Well, there is a way like that.

“Aren’t we really supposed to live here?”

“If that was the case, there was no need to cover it up by saying it was the last training session of the first semester or something.”

“You didn’t tell me anything, and I don’t know what to do. It’s natural to be suspicious. Do you know that, Mr. Sion?”

“Well… … .”

I was going to keep my mouth shut until the kids got together, if possible, but I guess it would be okay to say a little.

“No matter what, shouldn’t we first find the children who were scattered?”

“Other cadets?”

“Did you see any more smoke coming from the forest?”

At least not that I can remember. Most of the cadets are probably still wandering around the dense forests of the uninhabited island.

“The others are probably somewhere in that forest. Some of them might be looking for a good place to sleep, but you know what kind of trouble they’ll have if they go in there, Airi.”

“…I don’t want to go back into that forest.”

“That may be the case now, but we’ll have to move in eventually once the construction here is finished.”

In particular, key figures such as Kyle and Elin must be brought in. So, once the situation here stabilizes, we should start searching.

Arsen said that there would be no reverse summoning, but in fact, the reverse summoning function exists. If there really was no reverse summoning, I would have retrieved all the watches before coming here.

Kyle is probably doing well, but honestly, there are some parts that are a bit bothersome. Even though it’s a story about taking a break, there’s one important event that happens in this training.

Urrrr… … !

At that moment, the sky darkened. Dark clouds that had been approaching from afar completely covered the entire island.

“Is it really going to rain in this situation?”

Still pouting, Airi threw in a piece of firewood. As she fanned the fire, the dying embers began to slowly come back to life. It was a struggle to finish cooking quickly before the rain came down.

??!

At that moment, a rustling sound was heard through the grass.

I gripped the Glock with a sense of foreboding. I aimed at the bushes where the sound had come from, and zoomed in on the sight with [Thunderbolt]. And just like yesterday, I lowered the gun without a sound.

“Zion… Illionheart… … .”

Surprisingly, the second visitor to the camp was Ashley Silvergarden.