Chapter 23 – Each One’s Outburst (2)
It’s been a few days since I heard about Stachis’ girlfriend.
Tomorrow was the day to go to the dungeon again.
And I have a new habit, a hobby.
It was a hobby that I approached when I saw pink hair while wandering around the outside.
I even checked my eyes, and if my eyes were pink, I started talking.
“Hello? The weather is good.”
“… Uh? Yes… The weather is… Nice.”
Most of them are embarrassed. I didn’t mind.
“I am Russ.”
And he held out his hand.
Most of the time, this will tell you your name.
The opponent also hesitantly holds my hand.
“I am L…”
L? Reflexively, power entered his hand.
“Ah!”
Startled, I relaxed my hands.
“Ah…! Sorry. I didn’t mean to do this.”
“Ah… No. It’s okay. You’re strong… I’m Ellis.”
It wasn’t Elsaine. Then it was just a day’s conversation, a daily conversation with that person.
I don’t know why I got this hobby.
It is true that I wanted to see Elsaine once.
But even if he did find her like this, he hadn’t planned what to do.
Maybe meeting him might be the end of my plan.
Of course, I heard an explanation. What is the outward appearance
Pink hair, pink eyes, moderate breasts, moderate height.
However, there is a big difference between actually seeing and hearing.
So maybe that’s what it’s doing.
Just who my enemy is.
What kind of person did you seduce Starchis?
Are you a good person
I’m curious about these
And I also had a feeling that if I wander around like this, I might be able to meet Starchis.
Because when I asked Starchis to introduce me to his girlfriend, he said absolutely no.
It’s been a while since we met, but I’m not ready to introduce you to my friends yet.
Maybe my ugly heart was caught.
I wanted to be with Starchis because it was nice to be on a date.
I didn’t plan it, but maybe when I met the two of them, I could emphasize and boast about my relationship with Starchis without even realizing it. No, probably.
I’ve known you longer. My cry, which has already become a loser.
But in recent days I have slowly come to terms with it.
I’m a step late.
Even if I regret it, it is true.
Even if you don’t admit it, it doesn’t change the fact.
Many first experiences will be taken away,
Maybe the opportunity will never come to me again.
Stachis has a lover.
Still, I have to look ahead.
I don’t know how to act
For now, just like now. When I saw the pink hair, I started talking.
****
When I enter the dungeon tomorrow, I entered the requesting office to receive a request.
“Hello, guide. How are you doing?”
“You’re here Mr Starchis. We had a good time.”
A small male guide greeted me.
After the Kingboar Incident, our bond deepened.
When I arrived, he took out some papers.
“Are you going to the dungeon?”
“Yes.”
“Now, look at these.”
And he handed me three or four documents.
As I slowly looked around, the guide started talking.
“Mr. Starchis, your face has improved a lot.”
I answered with a smile while keeping my eyes glued to the document.
“Okay?”
“Yes. Did something good happen?”
“Thanks, what.”
“Yes? What have I done…”
I looked at him and raised an eyebrow. With eyes that say ‘you know’.
Also, two of his eyebrows are lifted upwards, giving an ‘ahh’ expression.
“Thanks for the advice. It definitely helped.”
A few days ago I learned from this receptionist how to lie better.
Honestly, I think that’s why I was able to invent many lies when party members barged into my dorm.
“It wasn’t much advice, but what?”
“But that helped me a lot.”
“Haha, then I’m glad. This… I guess I’ll have to drink something expensive when I get a drink later?”
The guide jokes.
I laughed.
“Please. And, come on. I will go catch Tiwit scorpions today.”
“Ah, is that so? Party ‘Barefoot’… Yes. Received. Wait.”
He stood up from the spot where he wrote something on a paper.
He walked over to the box in the back and pulled out a small bottle from inside.
Small round bottle.
He handed me the bottle and said.
“Now, fill up the venom of the Tiwit scorpion here and bring it.”
****
On the day of entering the dungeon.
Arriving at the meeting place, I was warming up and swinging my tonfa.
The feeling was strange. In a nice way.
The weapon felt so light.
It was the opposite of last week.
Last week, if you were sleepy and your whole body was heavy
Her body was like a feather now.
It’s like putting down a weight attached to your body.
The little bit of guilt about the lie that remained was blown away a little more.
I feel like this was the right thing to do.
Wouldn’t it be possible to challenge the B-class in this condition?
Now, wouldn’t it be possible to get out of the dog or sona’s section C and D and promote to a B-class party?
I thought I should see the progress of the flow today.
There was one more thing that was as strange as the body.
The party members were late.
I sat down and waited for them.
Strictly speaking, I wasn’t late for the appointment.
Originally, the three who had already arrived and were waiting were nowhere to be seen.
They were diligent and always came early.
By the time I was thinking about what had happened after waiting for such a long time, Bien approached me from afar.
It’s only been a few days, but it felt like a long time ago.
As I sat down, I waved to Bien.
“Bien, are you here? It hasn’t been long, but it seems like it’s been a while.”
“… It’s been a while.”
A blunt answer comes back.
Yes, this is Vienna.
“What about the other kids? Do you know anything It’s not late, but is it later than usual?”
“… I do not know.”
Vien answered again as if he was bothered.
She slowly walks up to me and sits right next to her.
I looked down at her, wondering why her bien was like this.
She didn’t say anything
She tried to imagine what it would be like if Elzain, who did not exist, saw this situation.
A boyfriend who sits close to a woman for no reason.
Um… That’s not good.
I just fell one step to the side.
Bien, who hadn’t responded so far, glances at me as I fall.
I’m sorry that I seemed to be paying attention to someone who would have done it without thinking.
Bien then woke up yawning and she went and sat down on a rock right next to her.
It had been a long time since she had seen her yawn.
“Bien, are you sleepy? Didn’t you get a good rest?”
She glanced at me again and replied.
“Yes. I’m sleepy Starches. Come over here and lend me your shoulder.”
“Uh?”
“I’ll sleep until the kids come.”
As I looked at her without answering her, I added one more word from her.
“… Please. I am sleepy.”
It felt a little different than usual.
Asking like that always made me weak.
I always came out strong, but every time I came out weak, I wanted to be like that if I needed it.
But I finished thinking in my head.
It’s not a big deal, but when you gather insignificant things, you have to ask for something big.
We will have to reduce this in the future.
“No, Vienne.”
She frowned at my answer.
“I am sleepy. Then sleep here on a hard rock?”
“I have a girlfriend now. Just lay there and sleep.”
“You can just do it. It doesn’t mean anything!”
“I can’t.”
“…”
Bien’s eyes, which had been frowning more, loosened up and drooped.
Then she turned her back on me and curled up on a rock to sleep.
It was like a little wounded animal.
This time, Lily’s sister was walking from afar.
His eyes looked brighter than Bien. Why is everyone like this
“Sister, didn’t you sleep?”
“Starches. It’s been a while. And did you sleep well?”
Doesn’t look like it. I couldn’t even open my mouth.
And before I could speak to her, she asked me first.
“Did you try on the clothes Starches bought you back then?”
“… Oh, those clothes?”
I haven’t worn it. There was no time for me to wear pretty, decorated clothes that I would wear when I go to meet my girlfriend.
It’s all about resting at home or going for a walk in loose clothes.
I couldn’t have tried it on without actually meeting my girlfriend.
“No. I haven’t worn it yet. I didn’t have a chance.”
“Have you not met your girlfriend since you received the clothes of her?”
“No, that’s not the case… But such expensive clothes are meant to be worn on special occasions.”
“… A special day? I gave it as a gift to wear on a regular basis…”
“Take care of it a little. It is an expensive gift.”
She was silent for a while, then slowly nodded her head.
“…Still, if the clothes are still in the box, take them out. Can it wrinkle?”
“Yes. I will do that.”
Sister Lily lay down on a rock and glanced at Bien as she went to sleep, then she sat down anywhere nearby and began her meditation.
And finally, Russ was seen in the distance.
All gathered now.
As soon as Russ arrived, she gathered the party members and said:
“Come on, kids. Today is Tiwit Scorpion. And looking at today’s condition, I was thinking of taking on a B-level challenge… “
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****
It’s been a few hours since I entered the Tibet scorpion’s territory.
The first reaction I had been waiting for came.
Doo doo doo
The ground vibrates
Everyone is ready for battle in an instant.
I took a weapon from my waistband and held it in both hands.
Russ has a shield and a sword,
Sister Lily and Bien stood behind us.
“Sister Lily! Find me!”
Lily’s sister’s eyes glow blue at my cry.
And she looked at the floor.
Soon, they moved around busily as if they had found something.
“Left… No, Starchis! Right!! 3 seconds!”
As soon as she hears her words her, her body her responds.
I threw my body and swung the tonfa to the floor at the exact moment when the 3 seconds were up.
Then, it hit the scorpion that jumped out of the ground.
To be precise, the tongs that came out first.
A power struggle between me and Tiwit scorpion in an instant also takes place.
Normally, Tiwit scorpions jump out of the ground and pour into the sky, then burrow into the ground again as soon as they fall, so the flow of attack must be cut off.
It is only possible to subdue the monster once the flow is cut off and the monsters are stopped on the ground.
Tiwit’s scorpion couldn’t fly away from my attack and it hardened as it was.
The upper body was exposed, but the lower body was still tucked under the floor.
“…?”
And one fact that I found out when I hit it with my body.
The body is definitely full of energy.
It wasn’t just how I felt.
Circumstances proved it.
In the past, when I challenged with this kind of strategy, if I hit the Tiwit scorpion coming up from the floor, I had to step back from the power struggle that followed, but now I don’t have to do that at all.
Rather, I thought I could push it further.
-‘How did this happen…’
But worry for a while. I put more strength into my weapon and pressed down on the Tiwit scorpion.
-..Kkudeuk
A strange liquid oozes out, and the shell of the hard tongs cracks and shatters.
I was surprised that the hard shell was broken so easily, but it was an opportunity.
Russ.
Without saying a word, as soon as I thought about it in my head, Russ jumped out and stabbed the cracked claw.
“…Why is this already broken..?!”
Russ asks in an embarrassed voice.
She penetrated her black pincers, and then she cut one of the scorpion’s pincers in a wide circle.
The poisonous tail is still in the ground, one side of the pincer is severed, and the momentum is broken, so now the attack must be poured out.
Opportunities came unexpectedly early.
“Everyone! Attack!”
Vien casts a spell to buff Lily’s sister before she can complete her attack spell.
And soon, Lily’s sister’s attack strikes the Tiwit scorpion’s body.
When Lily’s sister’s magic was finished, Russ and I beat the torso of her, and we repeated the process of falling out and re-entering and striking in line with her next attack magic of her.
“Keureuk… Kiik…”
The power leaves the body of the scorpion with the final death.
That’s how I finished my first Tiwit scorpion hunt.
Faced with a dead scorpion, the first prey we caught so easily, we stopped.
Because no one understood the current situation.
To some extent, Tiwit Scorpion, one of the strongest C-class monsters, collapsed helplessly.
And most of all, the reason this situation was able to come true was that I, who had attacked to cut off the flow of the Tiwit scorpion that came out, was not enough to cut off the flow, so I drove the scorpion into the ground and prevented it from coming out.
Russ breaks the silence.
“Chiss… What happened?”
I was curious as well.
Does rest make such a difference?
“Me too… Me too… “
“… Did you eat a lot of delicious food with your girlfriend?”
Bien said curtly.
But my head was complicated.
I was going to watch it for a while today, but if this is the case… If this is the case, is it really possible to take on a B-class challenge?
“… Yes? Did you like it Starches.”
I’m happy, but I’m also worried about the future.
They say that C-classes who challenge B-classes are likely to be annihilated.
But I guess all C-class parties didn’t do it because they were confident that they could do it.
Can I have myself?
Mistakes in this judgment cost lives.
I had a lot of time to think about it, but still, catching the Tiwit scorpion in this way gave me a sense of reality, so I’m thinking about it now.
“It was good to eat a lot of delicious food with my girlfriend..?”
Bien continued to talk to me as her head was spinning.
“It was good!!”
It has become a habit for a long time to always answer them, and eventually her mouth her answers without going through her head her.
“Uh… Uh… Girlfriend… Uh… It was delicious.”
“Uh?”
“Yes?”
“What is Chis?”
The loudest of the girls’ voices I’ve heard today pulled me out of my troubles.
Well?
Oh what did I say
Be ashamed.
“Ah, ahaha. Slip of the tongue. He ate a lot of delicious food.”
