I Only Baked Bread, but I Was Mistaken for the Best - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47. Counterattack (2)
“This is quite comfortable. You seem to drive very well, Nuri.”
“Ah… haha… thank you….”
“Human. Keep your eyes on the road ahead. If you take us through a place with too many Goblins, my master’s subordinates….”
“Chohong.”
“Meow. Chohong is struggling.”
“Ah… I understand….”
Nuri had tensed up so severely that his neck had stiffened and practically disappeared into his shoulders.
Noir grumbled at him to drive properly.
And….
“Meow!”
Even Chohong was saying she was fine, telling him to just drive.
If you asked me how I came to understand their words, I’d have difficulty explaining it in detail.
Somehow, at some point, I just became able to understand them.
It’s like how even when Noir makes sounds like “meow” or “hiss,” I can roughly grasp their meaning.
“Ah, Chohong says she’s fine, so just drive comfortably, Nuri. Comfortably.”
“Could you just give me one clear instruction instead of all this back and forth….”
“Human. You talk too much.”
“Ugh….”
Nuri’s spirits sank again as he pressed hard on the accelerator.
Contrary to his characteristic slow Chungcheong dialect, the truck was now barreling forward at a frenzied speed.
The creatures blocking our path….
Screech!
Boom!
They were either wrapped in explosive vines and caught in the explosion.
Growl! Shriek!
Crack!
Or they were simply torn apart by the savage teeth of the Gate-born plants loaded in the truck’s cargo bed.
Someone would surely ask again.
What if they dodged all that and fired their poison barbs instead?
I think I can answer that right now.
There was a Goblin right ahead, enraged by his comrades’ deaths, pulling out a container to fire poison barbs.
Screech!
Whistle!
The poison barbs flew like arrows.
They call it flame poison because being hit makes your entire body burn with heat, or so I’ve heard.
I’m confident it would hurt tremendously if struck.
Of course….
“Meow?”
Ting!
That’s assuming it’s correct, of course.
The truck was able to break through the encirclement of countless Goblins and reach this place largely thanks to Chohong.
She was blocking all the attacks from the ordinary Goblins with a defensive barrier made by transforming plants.
But that wasn’t all.
【Grrrraaaagh! Ugh?】
Even the Troll’s devastating attacks were useless against the bark protective barrier.
I heard it was a Gate-native plant boasting a hardness equal to steel, but with Chohong’s power, it had become a super-alloy level of hardness that couldn’t be found on Earth.
In the end, the Troll stood there stupidly until an opportunity came, and its neck was severed by a leaf that flew through the gap.
“Kyuuuu!”
“Thank you, Chohong.”
“Meow. Owner, why don’t you say such warm words to me?”
“Because I give you bread instead.”
“That… seems to be true, meow…”
And there was yet another reason I had to treat Chohong even better—it was because I was positioned outside the truck rather than inside it.
Honestly, I wanted to ride in the passenger seat, but Nuri was so frightened that she couldn’t even grip the steering wheel properly, so I had no choice but to come outside.
Isn’t that too dangerous then?
“It would be if Chohong wasn’t here.”
“Kyuut!”
“Yeah, yeah. You’re the best, Chohong.”
“Meow…”
With Chohong’s help, the carnivorous plants around me protect me, so what’s there to worry about?
Of course, at first I was scared and stood trying not to touch them as much as possible, but now I’ve even twisted their tentacles into a chair-like shape and sit on them.
“Ah. There are people over there.”
“Ah yes. Got it. I’ll step on them over there!”
Thanks to that, we were smoothly escaping the Botanical Garden and rushing toward the deepest part of the Princess Research Facility.
We also didn’t forget to rescue people we saw in danger on the way.
Just like right now.
“Aaaahhh! Help me!”
“We need to go faster, don’t we?”
“The Pretties are heavy, so I can’t go faster!”
“A cowardly excuse. Human.”
“No! It’s true!”
Screams echoing from far away.
As I got closer, I could understand why they were crying out so urgently.
A woman with an injured leg, bleeding.
In front of her, a man also bleeding, barely standing, blocking enemies with a single steel pipe.
And surrounding that man, Goblins licking their dirty green tongues, saying he looked delicious.
“Aaaahhh! Get away! Get away!”
【Kerrrck! Keeeek!】
A critical situation that seemed about to collide at any moment.
Thus, the man would have had no way of knowing.
That something was rushing toward him with fierce momentum from behind the goblins wielding their rust-covered blades.
“Kyaaaaaaah! I’m crashing into youuuu!”
【Kek?】
CRASH!!!
The first goblin to notice the sudden change was struck and sent flying a considerable distance before crashing down.
The creature trembled as it lifted its head to look at whatever had attacked it.
Soon after, with a final squeal, it collapsed.
“Wh… what is that….”
Holding the steel pipe, the man stared blankly at what was unfolding before him, his voice dazed.
The woman beside him also stood with her mouth agape.
In contrast, the goblins’ reaction to the sudden ambush was explosive.
【Keeeeek!】
【Kreek! Kerrrrrk!】
Roughly translated, it probably meant something like, ‘How dare you strike our comrade! We will not forgive this!’
Judging by how they all shrieked with fury, their green veins seeming ready to burst.
But it was all for nothing.
“You won’t even be able to touch her.”
【Kerrrgh!】
The blade swung with all their might shattered against Chohong’s plant barrier.
Confused by the broken sword, the creature soon became a snack for the plant with its teeth bared from above.
The creature, its upper body gone, continued to hop about on its lower half.
The plant that had been serving as my chair until now also sprouted tentacles, ensnaring the goblins.
“I need to record the dietary habits of our Pretties more carefully!”
“This human isn’t normal either….”
Meanwhile, Nuri’s face flushed bright red as he pulled out a notebook from who knows where and began frantically taking notes, while Noir shook his head in disbelief at the sight.
Now that Chohong realized her opponent was easy prey, she toyed with the goblins using her barrier, much like a cat playing with mice.
After swiftly dealing with all the goblins that had rushed in, I asked the two humans.
“Are you alright?”
“Gasp! M… monster….”
“Ha ha….”
Of course this would be their reaction.
I had saved several people on the way here, but every single one of them showed this exact same response.
“You appear to be injured….”
“Kyaaaah! Agh! Aaaaagh!”
“Sigh… Chohong….”
“Kyuu!”
Looking at the two humans’ condition as they stared at me in terror, it seemed serious.
The woman’s leg appeared to have permanent aftereffects, and the man seemed to be suffering from severe blood loss.
Despite this, they were desperately trying to flee, so I had no choice but to seek Chohong’s assistance once more.
Chohong bound the two people tightly together using vines.
Taking that opportunity, I handed a potion to Noir.
“Spray it on them and come back.”
“For a Familier who has served the Witch for generations, to be given such a task…”
“No bread for you?”
“…I’ll be right back, Owner.”
Noir leaped down with the potion in her mouth and approached the two people bound by the barrier.
Then, with practiced ease, she opened the lid and sprayed the shimmering violet potion inside.
With a sizzling sound, the wounds healed in an instant.
“Huh? Wh-what… the wounds…”
“Ah… it doesn’t hurt?”
It wouldn’t be strange if it did.
This was an elixir that Miracle had made with her own hands.
I continued speaking to the two who stared blankly at their wounds that had healed without a trace.
“Do you see that large building over there?”
“Oh… yes…”
“If you head straight in that direction, the Botanical Garden should be the safest place.”
I was referring to Nuri’s Botanical Garden.
Because she had crammed Gate-origin plants so tightly into the narrow space that even after modifying the truck, plants were still left over.
As a result, those creatures, having also received Chohong’s energy, were still busily devouring Goblins.
So that place would be the safest in a situation like this.
“Then let’s go.”
“Wait… wait! Who are you exactly…”
“Just a passing Hunter. Take care.”
“Hold on tight!”
Vroooooom
The truck accelerated and began racing toward its destination once more.
The figures of the man and woman gradually receded into the distance, eventually disappearing completely from view.
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The truck raced toward the center of the Princess Research Facility once again.
While running over several Goblins and Trolls, Noir asked.
“But why are you helping humans anyway?”
“That’s a psychopath question, Noir.”
“Meow. Even if this human is an exception, you haven’t made deals with other humans. Owner. There’s no reason to give them such a potion, is there?”
“That’s not wrong.”
Humans should help humans.
Ethically, it’s a perfectly sound principle, but making it a reality is extraordinarily difficult.
If it weren’t, we wouldn’t praise people who do good deeds as remarkable.
And thinking about it myself, I’m not a good person either.
The actions I’m taking now don’t stem from pure kindness—they’re not truly good deeds.
“I’m preparing for the distant future.”
“Meow?”
“I’ll keep meeting Hunters inside the Gate from now on.”
And each time, I’ll be mistaken for a monster.
Until now, I thought it didn’t matter since my misty form only appeared inside the Gate.
But after experiencing this, my perspective changed.
“If I’m not careful, I could be mistaken for a monster even outside. And if that happens, there’s no way out.”
“So you’re trying to show a good impression beforehand?”
“That’s part of it, but mostly I’m trying to create confusion.”
That’s why I answered “Hunter” when asked who I was.
Even if no one knows what kind of Hunter I am, as long as they know that there exists an ability to take on a form like mist, that’s enough.
That way, even if my true form is revealed later, I won’t be labeled a “monster.”
“And honestly, it’s hard to just watch people die right in front of me.”
“That’s your true intention, Owner.”
“There’s nothing wrong with that. Ah, from here on, let’s proceed more carefully, Nuri.”
“Okay. Understood…”
Nuri gradually slowed down at my words.
Mixed with the sputtering engine sound came screams and goblin cries from all around.
The sky was covered in flames and ash from explosions occurring everywhere, taking on a dark red hue.
“It really was a huge place… but it’s all burned down…”
“…”
All the buildings we saw on the way in had already collapsed.
The massive tree and the enormous fish head that Noir had been drooling over—both vanished without a trace.
Instead, all that remained was a ruined space and swarms of monsters wandering through it.
“What should we do… Maybe we should turn back now…”
“Human, the Owner makes the decisions.”
“Alright… I understand…”
“How are the plants doing?”
“They’re fine so far. Since they’re full, they’re happy. Though many vines have disappeared…”
The vines I’d set up as a defensive measure had been consumed, but the plants were still crying out in hunger.
Then there was only one choice left.
“Let’s advance inside.”
“Understood.”
The truck accelerated slightly and moved forward.
The Goblins and Trolls in our path rushed toward us, but were blocked by the barrier and became meals for the plants.
“How much further?”
“Just a bit more!”
Once we go a little further from here, the Gate I came out of should come into view.
It was enormous from the start, so finding it shouldn’t be difficult.
Ah, I can see it now.
If I could just rush in there, this arduous journey would finally be resolved.
… There was a time when I thought that way.
Screeeech!
The truck slammed on its brakes.
Just as Noir, who had bumped his head from the sudden stop, was about to say something, he clamped his mouth shut.
“What… what is that….”
Grrrraaaaaaagh!
A grotesque Goblin, its body a crimson red and dozens of times larger than normal size, was ferociously devouring its own kind and roaring.

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