Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

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Yamajun called out to me with a bright smile on his face after I had assigned everyone their job.

It’s not like I wanted to become a leader if I have another choice.
I mean, I was not the kind of person who wants to lead everyone or wants to bask under the limelight, or someone lusting after dominance.
I mean, given a chance, I wanted to dump this responsibility to anyone who’s willing to take it and laze around.

But then, my survival instinct had forced me to act out of character.
No, I’m not joking, I was more than willing to dump this d*mned job to anyone who’s willing to take it.

「And yet, you become more and more like a prominent leader.」

「Do you think so?」

「Yes… I’m sure that you’ve experienced a fair share of hardship along the way, Momokawa-kun.」

I mean, the pipsqueak otaku who always stayed in the corner of the class was now the one who ordered that Reina A Ayase, the delinquent Totem Pole Trio, and Yamada from the baseball club.
This kind of situation would never happen back in Japan.

「Even so, it’s the same for everyone.」

「Indeed.
That’s why doing the best with everyone is completely different from Momokawa-kun who’s forced to survive alone.」

「Yeah, thank you for the praise.」

Yamajun, who could say something like that as if nothing had happened, was more awesome than I.
Normally, everyone else would have had a hard time saying such praise, it might be because I was opening up to him.

He didn’t put any pretense at all when he was with me.

「Well then, I’ve to do my tomb raiding work too.」

「Need my help?」

「You’ll do the cooking, Yamajun.」

Cooking was my job as someone who could use witch pot, but there was a lot of prep work for the ingredients.

Fortunately, we’d a lot of left over meat from the great boar that the Totem Pole Trio had hunted yesterday.
But, it doesn’t mean that our daily meal would only consist of great boar meat.

I made a lot of dried meat and bacon from the leftover meat since it’d serve as preserved food during this dungeon capture.
Since we’re currently in the jungle, we could find foodstuff like great boar, snake and frog but I had no idea whether we could secure meat if the next area was something like an underground ruin.

Though we had a lot of preserved food right now, I wanted to secure as much food as possible while we’re still in the jungle.
I mean it just takes a moment for me to finish fermentation and air drying with 『Witch’s Kettle』.

「By yourself? that’s a dirty job right? You’re not going to do that by yourself right, Momokawa-kun?」

「It’s okay, Rem is coming with me after all.
In addition, I’m using my tentacles so it’s not like I’ll touch them directly with my hands.」

「I understand, I guess I can focus on my job now.」

After Yamajun gave his consent, a large knife in hand, he headed towards an almost untouched, giant lump of boar meat that I froze yesterday.

Even though I called it simple cooking, it’ll take a lot of time to prepare the ingredients.
I couldn’t do that alone no matter how much time I have in my hand.
Not to mention that I was just an amateur cook.

By the way, Yamajun had a little cooking experience, naturally not as masterful as Mei-chan.
I mean, none of my classmates had the skill to cook and completely dismantle a wild boar like Mei-chan.

「Well then, time to get started with my part.」

I assigned different jobs to everyone, and I assigned myself the job that no one else but I could accomplish.

I went around and right behind the tower.
That was the place we had buried the corpses of Gomas troop, or rather, their morgue.

There must be nice, usable things in there.