Chapter 4 - Go to Sleep Kimberly

Inside a forest, one can hear a girl singing from the direction of a trail of smoke going up to the sky.

"~Blue orchids bloom~" 

Around opposite sides of a campfire, a long-haired girl and a man can be seen sitting on top of two logs facing each other.

The man with his fingers interlocked, is intently watching two pieces of meat that are impaled by sticks, while occasionally glancing at the little girl behind the fire.

"~Trough the city streets at night~"

The brown-haired girl, facing the moon reflecting the light unto the earth, slowly swings her legs back and forth while continuing to sing.

"Into starlight, we call out~"

Pushing his glasses back to the bridge of his nose, Phompher takes his eyes off his student and realizes the food is already done. Nodding to himself he grabs one of the sticks with meat and throws it over the fire to his pupil.

"~We're still here- oomph!" Quickly closing her mouth, the disciple notices that the thing inside her mouth is food and quickly begins to chew. 

Grabbing the end of the stick, she takes it out of her mouth and swallows the food. Sighing in satisfaction, she glances at her master and begins to talk joyfully.

"Teacher, what did you put in it for it to taste so great? Condiment magic?"

"Nothing"

"Well, you are a great cook to be able to make boar meat taste so good in the middle of a forest–"

jingle!

Hearing the jingle of the bell trap he put before setting up camp, he Sends a weak pulse of aether in the direction of the jingle, sensing a creature quickly approaching the camp.

Phompher takes a big bite of his piece of meat and begins to whisper.

"Spirits of the wind, hark mine bid and help a part of nature to aid thy caller 'i reaching their destination–" 

"Should we go to Shokugeki no Sōma after you retire? I'll support you in your journey to become the god of cooking–"

Squinting his eyes, Phompher aims at the eye of the creature and finishes his incantation.

"Wind acceleration"

"Puk!" 

Falling onto the ground, the green creature ceases all of its movement and stands still on the ground dead.

Noticing how her master isn't paying attention, Najimi stops talking and turns to the left, locking eyes with the unmoving body on the ground spread in a 'Y' pose.

"Najimi, take the fire out. We'll go to the goblin camp now"

"Tsk" With a frown on her face, Najimi aims her open hand at the campfire, and while whispering something under her breath a small ball of water appears in front of her hand.

Splash!

Looking at the burnt wood on the ground, Najimi goes to the log where her master was sitting and grabs the two leather bags that are resting against it.

While eating the rest of her kebab (?) She goes to the side of her master who is undressing the dead goblin.

With a raised eyebrow, Najimi snarks a comment while leaving one of the bags at the side of the crouching man.

"I didn't know you were into that stuff teacher, If I knew about this before, I would have not agreed to–" Taking his eyes off the body he was touching, Phompher turns his head to his student and stands up.

"I'm checking for the tribal tattoos" Dusting off his pants, he grabs the bag and puts it over his shoulder.

"Wasn't this camp discovered about a week ago though? How do they have tattoos already?" Once again bringing the glasses up the bridge of his nose, Phompher smirks and laughs for a second before responding.

"That's the thing, it was 'discovered' a week ago. We don't know when they started the camp"

Looking at her teacher beside her, Najimi frowns for a second before looking once again up front.

"Well, teacher. you still haven't told me why we need to destroy a goblin camp" Destroying some bushes that were in the way with a knife, Phompher takes a second to respond.

"That's where you are wrong. It's you who will destroy the goblin camp"

Ducking under a tree branch, Najimi looks at the rising smoke on the horizon.

"Huh"

"Since I've already taught you 1st circle magic in addition to the bow and sword. This should be easy enough for you"

"You're right, well I can do it in under 5 minutes if you allow me to use something else"

Looking confused at his student while jumping over a tree root, Phomper puts out a question.

"What are you talking about?"

Slightly smiling, Najimi stops her steps and puts her left foot in front of her right one, with her left arm fully extended and her hand in a 'U' pose, with her left arm further back.

Tilting her head to the right, she closes her left eye and speaks.

"A system that puts a rather interesting focus on the human being" Scratching his head, Phompher's frown deepens for a second before returning to normal.

"...And that is?"

"A Barret m82"

"..."

"While I said 'human being' I'm sure this system is adaptable enough to accommodate a go–"

Ignoring the trash his student is spewing, Phompher resumes his steps while taking note of the surrounding area.

Coughing briefly, Najimi quickly disregards her pose and sprints to catch up to her master.

"Well uhm– anyways" With a slightly reddened face, Najimi coughs again and looks at the surrounding scenery while asking a question.

"Say, teacher. You didn't answer my question earlier" Frowning, Phompher glances at his student and sighs in desperation.

"I signed you as an adventurer, don't you remember? for your 11th birthday. Yesterday we took up a quest for you to upgrade your rank"

"Time passes so fast, doesn't it?"

Sighing again, Phompher looks at the smoke going up in the air and nods to himself.

"This distance is enough" Quickly climbing to a branch of the tree beside him, he looks at his confused student below and begins talking.

"Now, you can start"

"Teacher, I'm an F rank though. I read in the library that a goblin camp should be raided with at least 5 C rank–" Tapping the tree with his knuckles three times in a row, Phompher ignores the rambling of his student.

"Time's ticking"

Shrugging, Najimi turns her body to look at the camp to her right and begins walking.

"~hmm~hmm" While humming a tune, Najimi takes note of the camp security.

There are two watchtowers in each cardinal direction within 6 meters of distance of each other, behind a 7-meter-high wooden barricade that encloses the whole camp. 

'You could say the Goblins are Goblineers'

Snickering at her bad joke, Najimi Ajimu turns her head to look at her master. Noticing how he can't see from where he is standing, she nods and continues walking.

"Do you think I- look alright?~"

The singing reached the ears of the goblins who were standing guard, and they quickly began to take their bows and aim at the slowly walking human.

"Kerk ger Keurk"

Appearing behind the goblin on one of the watchtowers, a female figure puts a knife on his neck.

"GRAK!" Gurgling, the goblin drops his bow and moves the now free hands on his neck.

The goblin on the other watchtower turns his head while hearing the sound of his comrade.

"huh?"

Stunned, the goblin looks back to the figure approaching the gates of its camp. Eyes flickering between the two women that look the same.

"~the bloodshot brings out the blue in your eyes~"

Najimi, while she keeps approaching the gates, points her arm toward the goblin and points at his forehead with her finger.

Her nail quickly extends and with a "puik" the goblin's brain is penetrated.

BOOM!

The wooden gates explode without prior warning, instantly killing the guards that were sleeping against it.

In the hut closest to the door, one can see a small goblin come out of it. And as he notices the fire, and the figure within it he screams to the other residents about the intruder.

"GURGUK GURGUK!!"

Hearing the cries of their family member, the other residents of the hut go outside and join the screaming.

"""GURGUK GURGUK"""

Unaffected by the fire, Najimi keeps stepping through burnt wood with her eyes locked onto the screaming green creatures

"Oh, come on Kimberly~"

The small goblin, looking like a rabid animal starts to run at Najimi at full speed.

"And nothing seems to fall in place~"

The 50 goblins, like madmen, begin to follow the lead of the first one and sprint towards Najimi– With the horde keeping on growing.

Pointing her finger and raising it, a block of earth comes out of the ground and decapitates the first goblin, raising his body into the air.

"Do you think that we could be depressed?~"

"KEEEEEEEEEEEEEERK" Doing a warcry, the goblins raise their claws and show their ugly yellow teeth.

Phasing past the wall of earth, Najimi grabs the fallen body of the decapitated goblin, moving his body around so it grabs her waist and holds her other hand.

"No, She said 'Take me dancing~" The goblin's body, rapidly moving as if it were alive, bends the waist of Najimi and spins. Making her dodge the fist of a goblin woman.

"C'mon, take me dancing! We gotta get out of the house~"

Sweeping her leg, Najimi destabilizes the goblin woman– and taking advantage of the brief window, she kicks her in the air. Sending her flying into the horde behind her, turning a line of them into paste.

"Come on, take–" Quickly crouching to dodge an arrow aimed at her head, Najimi grabs her goblin partner from the legs and throws it to the archer on a watchtower.

The smile now gone from her face, Najimi sighs as a knife penetrates her forehead.

The green bastard that put the knife in between her eyebrows laughs in glee at the body of the dead girl below him.

"Such a bore"

Swish!

Within a second, a line appears on the world. Cutting all the necks of the goblins in a 20-meter radius and a beat later, all the goblins that were in the watchtowers get their arrows redirected to their hearts.

"Sigh"

Pushing herself off the ground, she pats her body to get rid of the dust. and with a "huff" takes the knife out of her glabella.

"Can't even dance tango nowadays"

While looking around the headless bodies, Najimi notices how the ground is starting to rumble.

'It seems the boss is coming out'

Looking at the bodies that are going into the air to the beat of the rumbling, Najimi looks in the direction of the biggest hut in the middle of the camp.

Accompanied by the sound of a primal rumbling, a big green hand opens the tent. With a red eye being able to be seen, an invisible pressure descends onto the world.

Whistling in admiration, Najimi begins to talk to the Gobling king while small orbs of light begin to appear around her.

"Hey, big guy. I came to tell you that you haven't paid rent yet, It was 20 goblins a month last time right?"

ROAAAR!

"Since you didn't fulfill your part of the contract–" Rapidly twisting her upper body to the left to dodge the massive greatsword flying through the air, Najimi laughed for a second before opening her hand and closing it in a '⊳' shape.

"It seems I don't have to fulfill mine"

Ignoring the invisible pressure, Najimi Ajimu with but a thought sends the blades of light to the Goblin King– instantly cutting him into pieces.

"Can't even dodge light— Goblin slayer would be severely disappointed in your abilities–"

Pausing for a second, a frown appears on her face as Najimi hears the wailings of a baby coming from the hut the king came out from.

"Welp, time to commit some casual ethnic cleansing. Following the steps of my idol, the famous Austrian painter–"

Passing through the blinders behind a bed, she sees a baby in a casket. With white hair, red eyes, and a weirdly intelligent gaze.

"Look at you, you even have a tag. Like a soldier" Grabbing the tag, she looks at the name written on it.

"Shiro, huh? Yeah, I'm not dealing with you."

With a snap of her fingers, the baby disappears from where it was.

"Dodged a bullet right there" Swiping her forehead to get rid of the blood as if it were sweat, Najimi walks back to the Goblin King and grabs the the head.

While walking back to Phompher, she takes out a rope from her leather bag and ties her head to her back.

"Hey! Teacher! I killed them all" 

Phompher, shaking his head at the noise. Looks below him at his student.

"huh? Yeah" Yawning, he gives her a thumbs up. "Let's go" exhaling a little as his feet touch the ground.

As they begin walking, Phompher throws out a question to Najimi.

"Say, Najimi. Why do you have a hole in your forehead?"

Touching her chin with her bloodied finger, Najimi pauses for a second and nods before talking.

"Um, yeah. I just had a new medical procedure done on me by a passing goblin doctor."

"..."

"It's called a lobotomy"

"..."

Sighing, Phompher wonders why is life so complicated around his students.

"Oh– and I sent this human baby to the goddess"

Phompher slaps his face and quietly looks at the moon in the sky and wishes he could turn back time to when his student didn't talk so much garbage.

"Don't worry teach, he'll become the hero that will banish the demon king for the next 600 years while he creates a harem with at least 100 women–"

Grabbing a piece of candy from his bag, Phompher throws it to his student.

"Oh, thank you" Munching on the chocolate candy, Najimi directs a thumbs up to her teacher in admiration.

'Life is a struggle'

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End of chapter author note:

2.3k words kekeke. Felt like this chapter was never going to end haha.

Anyways hope u enjoyed da chaptr or wtv.

also, did anyone else see drakes thang? dude is packing HEAVY!

gawd damn.