Vol. 5 - Chapter 280 - Re-do of Lana! Extra Round!

Chapter 280 - Re-do of Lana! Extra Round!

I became a woodcutter because Lana fainted.

Hmm? You say you didn't understand what I meant? Fret not; even I didn't understand what I was saying.

However, if anything was sure, it was I had become a «Hexa-Thunder Tree» cutting machine and gathered a lot of materials in due time.

Though I had to chug down «Aura Heal» in between to recover the HP I lost from slip damage every time I felled a «Hexa-Thunder Tree».

The students from ‹Collection Department› like ‹Colmar› had the skill to negate the slip damage but ‹Brave› doesn't have such a convenient feature unfortunately.

So I became another woodcutter among other upperclassmen who were similarly felling trees. Though the sound of ‘Plonk’ coming from here and there each time a tree was felled was quite entertaining.

It was like a BGM that was not available in the ‹Dungeon Activity› during the game.

As the saying goes, «It's always easy to lose track of time when you're absorbed into something you like». I had been so addicted to it that I had gathered around 300 ‹Hexa-Thunder Wood› logs by the time I returned to my sense.

That was way too much, and I know we don't need even more than half of it.

Ah well, things like this do happen sometimes. (It doesn't happen just 'sometime' in your case though......)

Lana was back on her feet once again when I turned to glance at the girls' group. I'm glad she's fine and recovered.

I also quit woodcutting and returned to where they were while waving my hand at them.

"Listen, Zephyr, I declare that I will stop getting flustered anymore!"

"Hmm? Ah, I get it?"

I didn't get what Lana said, and my reply turned into a question mark in the end. Well, and that's just Lana-like, so I guess there's no need to worry about it.

"Stop there, where are you going! We still haven't done logging here!"

Lana tightly grabbed my shoulder just as I was about to resume our dungeon exploration, considering we had already wasted quite some time.

I didn't get it at first, but then I understood from her last words.

It seemed like she still wanted to learn about logging.

Her appearance and the determination in her voice didn't allow me to tell her that I had already gathered around 300 pieces and we wouldn't need them anymore.

In the end, I decided to let her give it a try.

"Well, why don't you take out the ax? And teach me like you were before."

"A, Ahh. Yes, be careful, okay?"

I took out ‹Gentle Ax› again from the bag and handed it to Lana. I had almost forgotten to take it out as I was slightly bewildered at Lana's sudden reserved demeanor.

"Um, thank you."

Lana turned her back after receiving the ax and moved in front of a ‹Hexa-Thunder Tree›.

"Come, Zephyr. Teach me how to do it properly, like before. I, I'm not going to faint this time..."

The ax was swung again, reducing a bit of HP simultaneously.

However, she swung it a bit too lightly, as the tree didn't turn into material and was still rooted there.

"I got it. I think I can do it this time."

"Oh? Then I think you should be okay on your own."

"Stop. I'm not sure if I will be able to do it correctly yet, so support me till the end."

"Eh? Yes. I see?"

I was stopped by Lana when I tried to distance myself from her, thinking she should be able to do it on her own.

Lana was awfully honest today—just what's going on?

It was a rare sight that her tsundere side wasn't pushing back her honest side, which isn't something you get to see usually in her tsun and dere modes combined.

This contrast makes my heart skip a beat.

Thankfully, we're not alone, or else it would have been awful, though I can't exactly say how it would have been awful.

My restless heart calmed down as I glanced at the three people who were cheering us on from the side.

It was enough to bring me out of my thoughts. Good grief.

"Alright, we're starting."

"Okay. One, two and一一!"

"Go!

At the same time we raised our voices, I supported Lana and corrected her swing trajectory."

The swung ax neatly got sucked up to the trunk, who made a nice plonk sound.

The ‹Hexa-Thunder Tree› instantly disappeared into the effect and left behind the wood on our feet.

"Amazing! It really turned into material!"

"That's it. You did it!"

"That was splendid, Lana-sama!"

"Hn, congratulations, Lana."

"You were so wonderful, Lana-dono. You were also wonderful, Zephyr."

I understand Ester's “splendid” remark. But Karua's remark “Congratulations” after her puzzled me. And I didn't get at all what was wonderful in Rika's “You were also wonderful” remarks.

Though the strange inkling vanished into nothingness after I did a high-five with Lana, who was holding material, and put the ax into the bag. Everything was incomprehensible to me, but it seemed like there was some significant meaning in it from the girls' perspective, as they highly praised Lana.

And Lana, too, was making a triumphant expression.

Only I stood there alone, facing this incomprehensible scene.