Fairy Tail: I Don’t Want to Be the President

Chapter 72 Sneak Attack on Natsu Plan

"Oh~oh~~~"

Rhodes, who was accustomed to living in the city, rarely heard a rooster crow in the morning.

He lifted the quilt, stood up and opened the curtains to take a look.

It's not bright yet, and there seems to be a thin layer of fog outside, which gradually fades as the sun peeks out.

Slight snoring could be heard from behind. Natsu and Happy were sleeping soundly, and their lack of energy was both worrying and enviable.

Therefore, Rhodes tiptoed around the two of them and walked to the door so as not to wake them up.

After thinking about it, he stepped back, squatted down, took a deep breath, and shouted between his two heads:

"Wake up!!"

Seeing Natsu and Happy bounce up and rub their ears outwards, Rhodes also laughed heartlessly like Natsu.

"Bastard Rod!"

Natsu and Happy rushed over, and the three of them struggled.

When the three of them went downstairs to have breakfast, one of them had a black eye.

The village chief thought they were injured last night, but it was dark and he couldn't see clearly.

After a hearty breakfast, Rhodes summoned Worm:

“Today we are going out to investigate the situation on the mountain, I will leave this at home.

If there is an emergency, just tell it "go back" and I will get the signal and rush back as soon as possible. "

The communication method is backward, so Rhodes has to use this method. Poro is much more intelligent than other wild monsters, consumes less magic power, and is not good at fighting, so he is best suited for this kind of thing.

This was what he decided last night when he suddenly felt Worm returning to the Howling Abyss.

Worm looked at the surrounding environment. It was not a familiar home or guild, and he had some objections.

However, as long as Rhodes gives it clear instructions, it will also follow it - not counting when it is usually fighting with its companions and asking it to help.

At the village chief's signal, Snow picked up Worm and said, "I will take good care of it."

The three of them turned around and left, just in time to see the little girl Claudy they had seen yesterday showing half of her head outside the door, looking at them timidly.

After noticing that she had been discovered, Claudia hid quickly.

Rhodes didn't take it seriously. As he walked out, he told Natsu not to be impulsive if something happened.

Just as the three of them were about to step out of the courtyard, the little girl mustered up the courage and ran over.

"Excuse me…"

The three of them turned to look at her.

Krauti's courage seemed to be exhausted all of a sudden, and she asked weakly: "Excuse me...can you defeat the monster on the mountain?"

Rhodes asked as gently as possible: "Do you know about the monsters on the mountain?"

Krauti nodded and shook his head: "Dad said there is a leopard monster on the mountain. The upper body is a leopard and the lower body is like a human.

It is as tall as two people, its teeth are as long as chopsticks, its mouth is as big as a washbasin, its tail is thicker than my arm, and it has a very long mane. "

As she spoke, Claudia began to sob, tears welling up in her eyes:

"Dad said the monsters on the mountain are like that. Dad's wish is to defeat the monsters and protect everyone. Dad told me to be obedient and wait at home. He will be back soon, but...but..."

Natsu put his hand on the little girl's head, silencing Claudia's cries.

"Then you have to continue to be obedient and wait at home. I will fulfill your father's wish for him."

Tears welled up in Claudia's eyes. She stared blankly at Natsu's back as he turned away, her vision becoming increasingly blurry.

In order to see this warm big brother clearly, Claudia tried hard to wipe the tears on her face with her arms.

Rhodes sighed secretly and silently made a plan to sneak attack Naz in an emergency and pull him underground and take him away. He knew that Natsu's adoptive father suddenly disappeared one day and never came back. It was difficult for Natsu to remain indifferent when such a thing happened.

Moreover, the little girl's tears were indeed touching. Rhodes felt sorry for the child, but he could not lose his cool.

"Happy, please pay attention to Natsu for a while and don't let him do anything stupid."

"Love." Habi didn't have any confidence.

Rhodes summoned two river crabs and a group of shadow wolves to speed them up.

The few beasts I stared at last night really just found a jungle to hide in, and they also cautiously explored new territories and looked for shelter. It was puzzling.

Rhodes could only suppress his doubts first and analyze the information he had just received.

The information about the Beast King was provided by the little girl Claudia and dictated by her father.

Taking into account the possibility that part of the information is lost and part is exaggerated during the transmission of information, the intelligence cannot be fully trusted.

The most effective information now is that the opponent may be a leopard-like monster.

Leopards, based on their racial characteristics, are likely to be speed and agility opponents.

To deal with this type, Rhodes thought of Jett...

The Stone Beetle should come in handy, and the Sharpbill's covering strike might also be useful.

I haven't gotten the antidote for the Demon Swamp Frog yet.

But if you use it against the enemy, it doesn't matter. Just be careful not to affect your own people.

Rod and Happy catch up to Natsu and catch him at the bottom of the mountain.

Rhodes had already inquired with Bit and Mastiff about the general terrain of the mountain. If you rush up there, you might get bitten by a poisonous snake, which would be a lot of fun.

"The more you want to help Claudia, the more you have to stay calm. If something happens to you, the child may never trust anyone again in the future."

This persuasion was barely effective. Natsu sat down with his legs crossed and his arms folded: "How long will it take?"

"When I find it." Rhodes connected the vision of the river crabs,

"The first one has climbed to the first peak. I haven't seen anything unusual for the time being. The shadow wolf is trying to find the scent of the beast."

To prevent Natsu and Happy from being impatient, Rhodes dictated what he saw through the river crab in real time.

After searching for half an hour, a grizzly bear walked down the mountain. When he noticed two people and a cat, the grizzly bear became slightly wary.

But after it compared its body shape, it no longer feared and pounced on it.

Natsu stood up and punched his palms, just in time.

"Signs of battle." Rhodes finally discovered that there was the remains of a wild boar on the ground, which had obviously been eaten by some animal.

The exposed ribs and spine were broken, and it was uncertain whether they were caused during life or after death.

The Shadow Wolf sniffed the scent, chose a direction and ran away, followed by the River Crab.

Trees, rocks, flowers and plants passed quickly through Rhodes' field of vision, and he stopped at another place with traces of battle.

This time it was the corpse of a wild wolf. The body was bent in an exaggerated way, and the spine must have been broken.

The shadow wolf had no intention of harming its own kind. It sniffed forward and then ran to the next place.

So Rhodes saw the corpses of tigers, grizzly bears, cheetahs and other beasts.

Each one seemed to have been beaten to death with a blunt instrument, the scene was very cruel, and...

weird.

If the beasts in the mountains died due to fighting, then most of the wounds should come from bites. There are not that many beasts that use blunt blows, right?

(End of chapter)