Third Outer World Story Series: Pumpkin Sorcerer - Chapter 1
Translator: MadHatter Editor: MadHatter
“Huh?”
“What?”
Once he opened his eyes, there was an elderly peasant farmer in front of him, holding a pair of sharp-looking shears in one hand and his head in the other.
“…”
“…”
So, both he and the elderly farmer were silent because neither of them had a clue what to do.
However, the old man slowly brought the shears he was holding closer to his neck.
“Nowaaaaah!!”
“It can talk!?”
[[[Tangosack!]]]
At the sight of this, he inadvertently delivered a direct hit into the elderly farmer’s face, sending him falling and knocking his own head and the shears out of the farmer’s hands.
“Ow!”
“I-It can land a hit!?”
“What’s with this pumpkin!?”
“I-Is it a demon!?”
As soon as his head tumbled to the ground, the old farmers around him erupted into a frenzy.
Apart from shears, some of them were carrying plows, hoes, and machetes.
These old men were undoubtedly aiming for his head.
Despite the uncertainty of the situation, it would be unwise to allow his head to be bashed in.
“Hungaaa!!”
[[[What!?]]]
While screeching, he felt as if something was caught in his hands and feet, or something was coming out of the ground, and he started to run at once.
“It’s my pumpkin! I won’t let you escape!!”
And at this point, the old man who had been hit at the beginning approached him with a machete in his hand.
He could also see other old men moving to surround him.
“Nun!”
“As if I’ll let you eat me!”
“Nuguwaa!?”
[[[Tangosackkkkk!!]]]
The old man swung his machete down at his head.
With a twist of his head, though, he avoided it and launched himself at the old man, slamming him in the stomach and kicking him hard in the ground to break free from the other old men’s encirclement in one fell swoop…
[[[What!?]]]
“Huh?”
He flew through the air.
“Hulololoooo!?”
He didn’t get what was happening. Not even in the slightest could he understand what was going on.
He had no idea why he was called a pumpkin or why he was being pointed at with shears and other tools. Furthermore, he could not fathom how he was able to fly.
“It’s a monsterrrrr! It’s a pumpkin monsterrrrrr!!”
“What a terror! This is a curse! This is a haunting!”
“Inform the territory lord!!”
To begin with, he had dozed off on the campus of the university, yet when he arose, he found himself in a farming village like this.
The only thing he knew was that there he himself was unclear as to what had transpired.
“Hyulooo!!”
He continued to fly across the sky, away from the farm village and into the forest. From the halfway point, he continuously flew for half a day, raising strange noises above the trees in the forest.
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“Hyulooo… I have finally reached a river.”
He eventually spotted a river… or, to be more accurate, it was a stream flowing through the forest, so he descended and landed alongside it in a relatively vacant space.
The sound of the wind rustling through the trees and the sound of water coursing down the stream were intermingled with the chirps of small birds and the cries of small animals, despite the fact that there was no sign of life around him.
Apparently, this forest was abundant with animals, even if they were not visible to the naked eye.
“Well, I guess my first priority is to quench my thirst.”
He approached the stream while being mindful of his surroundings and plunged one foot into the stream.
As he did so, the fresh, flavorful water was absorbed into his body.
“Hmm?”
It was at this stage that he began to question himself.
How is it possible to absorb water from my feet into my body?
“What…”
It was right there on the water’s surface that he noticed his present appearance and realized why the old farmer folks were calling him a pumpkin.
“What the hell is thisssss!!?”
The reflection on the surface of the water.
That was a pumpkin with three holes drilled in it to create the semblance of a face.
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T/N:
This novel is one of the author’s Outer World Story series. You might want to read the previous work first as it has relevance to it. Oh, there are a lot of onomatopeias used and I will be using the same words so if you see any strange words, those are the romaji of the onomatopeias. Tangosack is not an onomatopoeia by the way, the meaning will be revealed in future chapters.
This is the third Outer World Story series of the author’s work. Below is a summary of what Outer World Story is.
Outer World:
There exist a myriad of worlds.
This is a story that takes shape and is told within those myriad worlds, with the same origin.
?Each of these works can be read as a separate work, but they are all connected in some places, so if you have the opportunity, you may find it fascinating to look for the connections between them.
Even though it’s a separate work, to thoroughly understand and enjoy the novel, you pretty much have to read the novels in the proper sequence.
So here’s the key point of Outer World Story:
They are three major forces behind each Outer World Story series. Those three are “Tower,” which are occupied by gods, the most major of all, “Multidimensional Trading Company Complex,” and other Gods that are not affiliated with them. And also there is still other “(Title) Complex” though I don’t think they are important. Besides, they only make their appearances from the seventh Outer World Story series onward.
Characters from other Outer World Story or other mysteries that are not revealed in that series will be disclosed in other Outer World Story, so for the readers to understand it, please read other Outer World Story as well otherwise, the mysteries and characters that will be revealed are simply inconsequential things if you don’t mind.
And this is a series, not a stand-alone novel which means there will be details that are left obscured in this work and will be explained in future works.
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Check out other Outer World Story series in order: Outer World Story: The Black Mist that Devours (First series), Outer World Story: Pumpkin Sorcerer (Third series), Outer World Story: Basilisk of Ice Sculpture (Fourth series)