: Asagi
: Long Story Short, I'm Living in the Mountains: Volume 3
: J-Novel Club
: 9781718340282
: 1
: CHF 5.90
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: Fantasy
: English
: 250
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It's been six months since Shohei Sano began living in the mountains with his three chickens. (They are actually chickens, right? They just keep growing...) The scorching summer has faded into a cool, crisp autumn, and the mountainside's harvest is abundant: wild vegetables, chestnuts, and persimmons... Delicious! But with the new season brings new obstacles, like weatherproofing for a typhoon, facing trouble with wild boars, and dealing with the return of the killer hornets! When these insidious insects begin buzzing around Loud Mountain, Katsuragi calls for Shohei and Aikawa to help her exterminate them-by using their pets as bodyguards, of course. What happens when a dragon, three raptor-like chickens, and a lamia attack a nest of killer hornets? Kaiju fight?! Not quite! Can the intrepid mountain trio and their fearsome pets emerge victorious against the hornet menace?

1. This Time It Was Deer


This story happened before the September holidays.

We’d recently held the after-party for the cleanup walks, and I’d gone to the chicken farm with Aikawa-san and Katsuragi-san—Matsuyama-san had also been having problems with illegal dumping, and he wanted some advice.

We’d agreed to wait and see how things fared during the holidays. Though we wouldn’t be holding any events, we figured that Matsuyama-san might ask for help building torii gates.

Also, we’d discussed going over to Katsuragi-san’s mountain to look into the matter of hornet nests—she’d spotted a few hornet nest remains around the mountain, and we weren’t sure whether her dragon had eaten them or if this was a sign of a nearby bear. We were still waiting for her reply. Other than that, it was just the usual stuff: the eternal struggle against weeds, Pochi coming back home covered in dirt, Tama pecking me, Yuma comforting me.

I was enjoying a mouthwatering breakfast with Tama’s and Yuma’s freshly laid eggs when I got an SOS call from Katsuragi-san.

“S-S-S-S-Sano-san! P-P-Please help! T-T-T-Tatsuki’s—! Tatsuki—!”

“Wait, wait, wait, just calm down! What happened?”

I told her to take deep breaths and tried to make sense of what she was saying. Apparently, her dragon had hunted s