Shin no Nakama janai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni shimashita - Vol. 1 Ch. 1.3

[MangaDex]

 

[monkey123]

Greenpeace would like to have a word with those silly adventurers...

 

[forecast]

Heres the reward for defeating the owl bear.
Less reward for the badly damaged materials.
Subtract the damage for the forest.
Your total comes to a big debt and community service of reforesting and planting herbs tp restart the forest

 

[Akabane]

He needs to smack the shit out of those adventurers for starting that forest fire

 

[shouldsleep]

Burning part of the forest just for the owlbear is just excessive. Somebody needs to slap those adventurers with a cost-benefit chart.

 

[AMetroid]

I don't know what's wrong with burning down part of the forest. Other than the contrived "this is the only place the herbs grow", in general destroying an acre of forest to eliminate a threat to the town isn't a huge cost.

 

[Chizan]

"New home"? Nope buddy, you're gonna lose it soonish. You stand no chance against foreshadowing...

 

[Meridis]

@AMetroid
There's two parts where it's a problem. The first is, as said, the cost vs benefit. A community like this would have many of them depend on the forest for food and materials. So, it could be equated to a strategy like in the first volume of the novel for Vanadis, where he buys up a lot of the pigeons being kept for food by the locals to use as a distraction. Tactics like this can threaten the local community, so it's best not to use them if you have an alternative.

The second is the risk. Especially along the ground, there would be a lot of fuel for the fire. If the fire spreads, starting a forest fire, it would wipe out both the forest and the village.

Basically, it's a method that has a varying amount of collateral damage to the people your trying to protect.

 

[Closedbox]

@forecast

Is this konosuba? lol

 

[AMetroid]

@Meridis I can use the statement "cost vs benefit" in favor of burning down the forest to neutralize the threat just as easily. However there's a complete lack of information to make any sort judgment on that bases. The lack of any supporting evidence for such a point was what I was alluding to.
People often hallucinate evidence for their point of view (The effect is similar to a person's inability to catch errors in something they just wrote.) Don't worry about it, it happens to everyone. I know I have trouble with it from time to time.

 

[Meridis]

@AMetroid
Yeah, you can make that argument and it would have just as much evidence given what we are presented. I could say that it's probable that they use resources from the forest because that's the practical course from their location and the lack of technology we've been presented. However, that would still be my conjecture given that it hasn't been stated.

Now, having said that, consider the opposite. Isn't it strange assume that a group of adventurers who called killing the lvl 15 monster childsplay needed to do this? Given the information we were given before they set out, it shouldn't have been necessary for them to deal with it in that manner. which means that what's being weighed in the cost vs benefit analysis isn't simply destroying the threat vs possible risk to the village as the adventurers would be strong enough to deal with it without the collateral and choose to anyway. Again, this is an assumption, as they don't explicitly explain how much stronger Albert's group is compared to the owlbear. However, there's enough shown that it wouldn't really surprise you that it got this reaction from us, right?

 

[Qelix]

@AMetroid, @Meridis: AMetroid is right on the information point. We don't have enough of them. I thought the same thing, but as Meridis pointed out, they should have been strong enough. Also, as Meridis said, that part of the wood burned quite well. It stands to reason, that the rest of the forest would have burned equally good. And some herbs only grow there. I just can't believe the village folk is cool with that tactic.
Then again, maybe it was a well calculated risk and the fire wasn't about to go out of control. Maybe the herbs weren't that important or they didn't know about there location. Owlbear are dangerous. Is getting rid of the risk of losing working force in the village really not worth sacrificing some acres of wood?
We can hallucinate reasons for both sides. ? But in the end we have to ask ourselfs: Would a wild hunt with fire work on owlbears? If you start a fire, do they start coming or running? My guess is the fire was a mistake. Someone used fire magic and whoosh.

 

[Merilirem]

I would say that they were sloppy but would get away with it because the alternative would likely be bloody. They could handle it without casualties and thus at best you would get some complaints from the guild about conduct. If they have to write reports this would not look great and probably keep them from ranking up as quickly or perhaps at all.

The damage was vague enough however that they might not make a big deal out of it. Once or twice against sizable threats is acceptable, just don't make a habit of it.

 

[Elbow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5W6XK6evyQ

 

[Tertium777]

Those filthy balance druids ?

 

[Glomoro]

I feel like setting fire to the forest to deal with the owlbears is also a reference to how reckless your characters usually are in stuff like this and video games. How much AoE fire do you think people fling around willy nilly in these settings?

It's like, Oh shit, was that a spider?

 

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[Mother_Mushroom]

generic thus far but not bad. i like that the mc has a male friend for once and they actually show emotion :0

 

[etherealwing]

it's sadder to see his depression in manga format Q_Q

 

[izzulii]

bruh, my man's getting humbled by himself