Strategy for Dealing with Problematic Girls Chapter 232 232: One Explosion a Day

At breakfast, Pecorine looked curiously at Jhin and Kokkoro, who were still in their pyjamas. "Jhin, Kokkoro — did you two stay up really late last night?"

"The two people who barged into my room at the crack of dawn and ripped off my blanket can answer that themselves," Jhin said, busy eating his breakfast, leaving gumin and Kyaru to explain on their own.

"Huh? Why did you go and pull off Jhin's blanket?"

Faced with Pecorine's wide-eyed curiosity, the two of them hemd and hawed for a good while, until Kyaru finally redirected the conversation by asking everyone to rate the breakfast she'd made — and just barely managed to change the subject.

"Deep-forest boar at really doesn't work well for stir-fry. That woodsy, herbal sll is just too distinctive."

"You ate every last bit of it despite it not being good," gumin shot back without looking up, collecting the dishes. She'd caught Jhin's comnt and wasn't letting it slide. "Next ti, you can cook it yourself."

"Next ti let's use a different at. Pecorine, any ideas?"

"What about ww Cattle? You don't even have to hunt them in the wild — you can buy their at right at the market."

"ww Cattle? Like beef?"

"Exactly! And there are two other varieties as well — ww Dairy Cattle and ww Yak. One's raised for milk and the other for premium wool. ww Dairy milk is absolutely delicious — it has this light, refreshing fruity fragrance to it."

"So it's fruit-flavoured milk," Jhin said, more or less able to picture the taste already.

"Mm-mm!" Pecorine nodded enthusiastically. Just thinking about that milk made her mouth water all over again.

He hadn't expected the continent of Astraea to have so many culinary-adjacent animals — to the point where one could apparently produce naturally fruit-flavoured milk straight from the source. He'd have to find out whether it ca out ready to drink or needed processing first. If the chance ca up, it might be worth visiting one of the relevant farms.

"There are still a few things we haven't finished setting up in the house," Kyaru said, drying her hands on a towel before sitting down with a properly businesslike air. "Should we keep arranging things today, or head out and take on so commissions?"

"Let's finish getting the house sorted first. I've already put everything away in the storage room by category. Are you two happy with the beds Kokkoro and I picked out for you?"

"So-so. Comfortable enough to sleep on."

"Good enough. What about Pecorine and gumin?"

Pecorine happily launched into a glowing review of her night's sleep. "The mattress was so soft — it was like diving headfirst into a cloud. The pillow height was just right too. I put on my pyjamas, lay down, and was out in less than ten seconds. Oh, and I absolutely love the pink star-print bedding!"

"My deep crimson set was great too — Kokkoro has excellent taste!" gumin couldn't have been more thrilled with her bedding, mostly because the colour was a near-perfect match for Explosion magic.

"Glad you like them. Kokkoro spent a long ti picking them out for everyone."

"So it was Kokkoro who chose them! That's amazing."

Kokkoro smiled shyly. "As long as everyone is happy. The Master also offered quite a few suggestions when I was choosing."

"Jhin, if we're not taking on commissions today, could you co with to that cliff from before?" gumin asked.

"Sure, but what are you going there for?"

"Hmhm." gumin crossed her arms, pressed her right palm over her left eye, tilted her body dramatically to one side, and struck a pose oozing with chuunibyou energy. "Slumbering in that place is the nesis of my destiny. Only by channelling every last drop of my magical power can I seal it within the ancient dark abyss for all eternity—!"

"In plain terms, please." Jhin lightly chopped the edge of his hand against her smooth forehead.

"If we're not doing commissions, I'm going there to use Explosion magic."

Jhin pieced it together instantly. "So you need to be your pack mule, is that it?"

"Fellow kindred spirit — how can you dean yourself with a word like pack mule? You are—"

Seeing Jhin's hand raise again for another chop, gumin swallowed the rest of her speech and answered in a small, ek voice: "Yes."

"gumin, why do you absolutely have to use Explosion magic once every single day?" Kokkoro asked.

gumin's eyes blazed with the fervour of a true zealot. She threw both arms skyward like a devotee before a sacred fla. "It is the only way to prove the depth of my love and absolute devotion to Explosion magic!"

"So the rumour going around the royal capital about so monster causing massive explosions — that was you all along," Kyaru said drily. Then, realising she was supposed to be playing the role of a wide-eyed newcor mage, she quickly added before anyone could get suspicious: "I heard people talking about it when I went to register at the guild."

"If people figure out that the noise is coming from you, are we really not going to have complaints filed against us at the Adventurers' Guild?" Jhin had absolutely no desire to wake up one morning to find the guild surrounded by an angry mob waving banners and chanting slogans like Hand over the Explosion Maniac.

"It... probably... won't happen...?" gumin had always acted alone before and had never once thought about the consequences of her actions on others.

Jhin rubbed his temples, a headache forming. "So is there any chance you could stop the daily detonation routine?"

gumin answered instantly. "Not even if I were dying! Nobody can stop my love for Explosion magic!"

With that, she pulled a small card from her pocket and held it up with no small amount of pride. "Pouring every single stat point and skill point into magic power and Explosion magic is the greatest achievent of my life!"

"Hm? What's this?" Jhin took the card — which looked sothing like an ID — and examined it curiously.

"Master, this is the Crimson Demon Clan's unique stat card," Kokkoro explained. "mbers of the clan accumulate experience points through adventuring and combat, which they can then convert into stat points and skill points. Those points are used on this card to upgrade their base attributes and skills."

"The Crimson Demon Clan really is broken," Kyaru remarked, her tone dripping with envy — one mage to another.

"And she really did dump everything into magic power and Explosion magic." Jhin handed the stat card back to gumin. No wonder the entire Crimson Demon Clan was packed full of archmages — with a cheat chanic like this, it would be stranger not to beco one. Though gumin, who had hyper-specialised to this absolute extre, was still a category of her own.

"Pretty impressive, right?"

Jhin wasn't entirely sure what gumin was so proud of. Getting her to give up her daily Explosion — sothing as essential to her as breathing — wasn't realistic. The only option was to make sure she cast it sowhere far enough away to avoid getting anyone's door knocked on later.

"Do we have enough hands to finish setting up the furniture? If so, I'll take gumin sowhere well outside Landosol to let her cast, so she doesn't bother anyone."

Pecorine rolled up her sleeves with boundless energy. "No problem! Leave it to , Kokkoro, and Kyaru!"

"Then we're off. If things go smoothly, we'll be back before dinner."

"Got it — safe travels!"

Since it was just the two of them, and gumin was a mage who was dead weight after firing off a single shot, Jhin chose to travel along the main road out to the countryside — fewer chances of running into monsters that way.

"Jhin! Jhin! What about that abandoned castle over there?" gumin grabbed at Jhin's sleeve, pointing excitedly at a crumbling fortress in the distance that radiated a distinctly ominous aura. Every fiber of her expression scread: I am going to blast that thing right now.

"Absolutely not. That place looks exactly like sothing a hidden boss would be living in. Pick sowhere else."

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