Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash Volume 5

“Dammit!” Ranta came out of the shadows, then dashed over to where he’d
lost sight of the lord. He took a thorough look around the area, but there really
was no sign of her. He stomped his feet in frustration, and then... he heard a
cold, female voice from behind him.

“Foolish slave. Will you be embraced by Skullhell?”

“Whoa?!”

He hurriedly started to turn around, but the woman said, “Do not look. If you
look, I will send you to Skullhell.”

“...Y-Y-Yes ma’am, I-I won’t... look.”

But, this was one of those things. It would be a problem for her if he looked,
so he wasn’t supposed to look. In other words, the lord, right now, had her
mask off? She was showing her face? He wanted to see. To find out if she was
hot or not. He had a feeling she was. She had to be damn sexy. No doubt about
it. He wanted to see. To find out. If he could find out she was a beauty, he’d
gladly die for it. No, maybe not? He didn’t want to die, but he did want to see.
She wouldn’t actually go as far as killing him, right? It’d be fine, right? Just a
little. Yeah. It was gonna be fine! She’d be hot! A hot teacher!

Having resolved himself, he turned to look, for which he took a fist to the face
and lost consciousness for a moment. The next thing he knew, he was on the
ground, spread-eagled. No one else was around. Only Ranta. His nose was
bleeding. He had a cut in his mouth, too. But... he’d seen. He remembered it.
Ranta smirked... and laughed.

“Heh... I knew she was hot...”

A Girl’s Heart

Whenever Shihoru had the chance, she exercised.

She stretched and tried to improve her posture as much as possible.
Whenever it occurred to her, she tried to stand on her tiptoes. She clamped
down on her stomach as much as she could when she walked. She was doing
everything she could think of, and yet...

Inside the tent, Shihoru pinched her flank.

...she had put on weight again.

It wasn’t right. Nearly every day, she was walking through the Wonder Hole.
She was fighting, pretty much as hard as she could. She couldn’t just not eat,
but she was making an effort to not eat too much. There was no reason she
should be putting on weight... none that she could think of. And yet, she clearly
was.

She heard Yume’s shallow breaths as she slept next to her. Just now, she had
mumbled something. Was Merry sleeping? Shihoru couldn’t tell. Merry had it
good. She ate a fair bit, but she was slim. Yume had a healthy amount of meat
on her bones, and though she couldn’t be called thin, she didn’t seem to care. It
was Yume, after all. That was cute in its own way, and Shihoru thought it was
good.

Shihoru was no good. She already had nothing going for her, but if she got fat,
it would be even worse. She couldn’t let that happen. And yet, she was putting
on weight.

Shihoru turned on her side. Her breasts were in the way. Why did she have to
have these things? They made her shoulders hurt, and they were sweaty. She
wished her boobs would just disappear. If she lost weight, they ought to get
smaller. How could she lose weight? Was fasting really the only option? But if
that reduced her stamina, it would cause trouble for the others. That was no
good; she couldn’t do that.

She heard someone getting up. Merry. Merry left the tent.

Is she going to see Kuzaku-kun again, maybe?

“Hmph...”

She let out a bitter laugh. Merry had it good. Her figure was great, she was
beautiful, and she had a boyfriend. Not that Shihoru knew whether they were
going out or not. She was sure they were, though.

Meanwhile, Shihoru was getting fat, she wasn’t cute, and there was no way
she could get a boyfriend.

She wanted to lose weight. If she could just manage that, she felt like she
could be more positive.

“Isn’t there one?” she murmured. A spell to make me slimmer?

If there was, she wished someone would teach it to her. Not that she thought
anything so convenient existed.

Love Tomato Juice

“Hm-hm, hm-hm-hmmm.”

Tada was humming as he stared into a pot. Inside the pot was boiling water
and sliced ripe red tomatoes. The steam was causing Tada’s glasses to fog up.

“Hmm-hm-hmmm. Hm-hmm-hmm.”

“Wow. You doing your usual thing, yeah?” Anna-san crouched down next to
Tada and looked into the pot.

The Tokkis, the group led by the paladin Tokimune, were camped out in tents
near the Lonesome Field Outpost like other volunteer soldiers did. They weren’t
the type to put money away, and they often lost things (big things like tents
were no exception to this), so they had three cheap tents that were on the
verge of falling apart. The utensils Tada used were just whatever they had been
able to pick up in the back streets of the outpost, but the tomatoes had been
carefully scrutinized.

“Hmm-hmmm. Hm-hm-hm-hmmm-hmmm.”

“It almost ready now, yeah?” Anna-san asked.

“Nah, not yet. It’ll be a little while longer.”

“You a picky guy, yeah. You piece of horse poo.”

“You just don’t get it, Anna-san.”

Tada put on a faint smile, took off his glasses, and pulled back from the steam
a bit. The condensation quickly cleared, so he put his glasses back on. “There’s a
right way to make good tomato juice. There.”

Tada shifted the pot off of the heat, placing it on the ground. “You do it like

this, roughly.”
“You get rough at night, too?” Anna-san asked.
“That depends who I am with. But I was talking about a different meaning of

‘roughly.’”
“What the hell?!”
“I mean, you have to let it cool down a bit.”
“Is that supposed to be some secret for romance?!” Anna-san shouted.
“Nothing like that.”
“Why?!”
“Anna-san, you’ve got love on the brain, huh.”
“Oh. Love affair?” Anna-san asked.
“Nah, I wouldn’t know. Did you fall in love with some guy?”
“...Wh-What you suddenly asking?!” Anna-san turned bright red and started

fidgeting.
Tada patted her on the head. “Don’t be shy. I’ll be praying for your happiness.

Praying for it like crazy. If you find a guy you like, tell me. I’ll do something
about it.”

“...D-Do something? What you gonna do, yeah?”
“Well...” Tada tilted his head to the side in thought as he looked into the pot.
“First, I catch him.”
“Wha?!”
“Then, I’ll make it so he can’t move.”
“My God?!”
“And then, you do whatever you want with him, I guess.”
“Anything, yeah...?” Anna-san asked.
“Anything.”
“No!” Anna-san bopped Tada on the shoulder repeatedly. It didn’t hurt. “That

not it. Not what Anna-san wants, no! I want something more sweet, the
sweetest romance, yeah?!

“Not sex, huh?” he asked.

“Sex come later, yeah! Wait, sex?! What you making this waffle and sexy lady
say?!”

“Waffle?” Tada asked, perplexed.
“I say it wrong! Slip of tongue! Mouth is out of control, yeah?!”
“You’re awfully mature there, Anna-san. You’re gonna start by teasing him
with oral, huh?”

“What that even mean?! First comes going on date, yeah!” Anna-san shouted.
“That’s where you want to start?”
“Obviously, yeah?!”
“Well, you are a virgin and all.”

“Why?! How you know that?!”
“Of course I know,” he said. “It’s you we’re talking about.”
“...Tada,” Anna-san said slowly.
“What?”

“Maybe... you have feelings for Anna-san?” Anna-san looked down, fidgeting
about ten times as much as before.

Tada burst out laughing, then adjusted his glasses with the index finger of his
left hand. “I’d love to do you once—no, three times, maybe—but no more than
that. Before that, though, virgins are a pain in the butt to deal with, so maybe I
don’t want to after all.”

“You dummy!”
“Ow!”

Anna-san hit him in the head as hard as she could. For an instant, Tada was
pissed, but, well, it was Anna-san, so he decided to forgive her.

“What’re you mad about, Anna-san?” he asked.

“Of course I get mad, yeah?! The feelings rampaging in Anna’s chest go past
rage and become fury, yeah?!”

“Hmm. Is that how it works? I wouldn’t know.”

“You stomp all over my maiden heart, yeah! Tada!”
“I did, huh? Well, my bad.”
“If you get it, then okay, yeah?!”
“Even if I had the chance to do it with you, I wouldn’t. You’re just too
precious.”

“Tada...” Anna-san began.
“Also, I might not be able to get it up for you.”
“Fuck you! Kill you!”
“Ow! Ow! Augh!”

Anna-san’s fists rained down on Tada. It hurt pretty bad, and he was kind of
pissed, and occasionally felt the urge to kill her, but it was Anna-san, so he let it
go.

Yeah, this is love, thought Tada.
Tada loved Anna-san as much as a well-made glass of tomato juice.

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Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 5
by Ao Jyumonji
Translated by Sean McCann Edited by Emily Sorensen

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the
product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 Ao Jyumonji Illustrations by Eiri Shirai All rights reserved.
Original Japanese edition published in 2015 by OVERLAP
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