Chapter 5 : Miledi Raisen II
At the doorway of a certain passage. You’d noticed that sohow there were only walls in the passage. Normally, one would see it as a dead end. However, so parts of the walls were actually connected to a room from several minutes ago.
Silence lingered in the air, imdiately, sparks started to appear from the dead end-like wall, and a hole where people could pass through in a half-crouching position appeared. Creeping out of it were…
“Zehah zehah, hu-hurry it up.”
“… …Nn, it’d be troubleso to be crushed by this.”
“Well, I don’t think that was at a level where you’ll only feel troubled, right? Wouldn’t you normally die from it?”
It was the trio of Haji, Yue, and Shia. Haji and his party were wandering around after escaping via the tunnel inside the scorpions’ room. Then, they arrived at a room that had a standard trap where the ceiling dropped down and crushed them.
They were unable to escape the room because the range was too vast. Imdiately, Haji and Shia used their backbones to support the ceiling, and with that chance he used transmutation to make a hole in the ceiling.
Most of all, transmutation was becoming harder to use because of strong magic disintegration in this place, the speed of transmutation beca a quarter of the usual, and the range only one ter, while the amount of magic consumption beca tenfold the usual. That’s why, Haji only managed to transmute a small space just enough to hold three people, and they moved toward the exit.
“Damn, even “High-speed magic recovery” was useless. The amount of recovered was too small”
“… … for now, do you want to drink… … recovery potion?”
“Now now, please drink your full~”
“You guys, sohow you have too much composure…”
Haji who felt a little tired, sat while leaning on the wall, Yue held the gesture of feeding soone chocolate, while Shia got the magic-recovery potion from her pouch. Although it was possible to use the magic crystallization stone to replenish his magic, while it was convenient to get magic power from it, he wanted to preserve it. Furthermore in this situation it was more appropriate to use a magic-recovery potion.
Haji who felt that he was in a play, as a salary-man with Yue and Shia, and thought, “I can’t make any rebuttal on it”, while he received the recovery potion and drink it in a flash. It tasted almost the sa as Li**vitan D. Haji felt the differences in speed and amount of recovery from magic crystallization stone was significant compared to this, but he could feel that his vitality had recovered a lot. “Ush!”, was how he psyched himself up and stood up.
Once again, they discovered those annoying sentences.
“Pupu—, in a hurry~?, how uncou~th”
Apparently these annoying sentences were a set along with the traps. Miledi Raisen… … was a person who put in a lot of effort to harass soone.
“W-we aren’t in a hurry! Absolutely not! We aren’t that uncouth!”
Having traced Haji’s gaze, Shia who found those annoying sentences let out, “GRR!”, while protesting toward those characters. It seed Shia’s hostility toward Miledi already reached the heavens. She reacted every ti she found those annoying sentences. Probably, if Miledi was still alive she would have said, “Good prey have co!”, while grinning.
“Ignore that, let’s go. You don’t need to mind that every ti.”
“… …What you thought is important.”
“Uu, okay.”
Afterwards, they advanced on the passage, and they reached rooms with other traps waiting. Suddenly, poisoned arrows ca from every direction, sulfuric acid-like liquid which lted anything that entered the pitfall, there was also a room where the floor turned into sothing like an Antlion Nest, with a worm-like demonic beasts in the center of the room, also the annoying sentences. The stress level of Haji and his party increased at mach speed.
Even so, they passed through all of the traps, and arrived at the biggest passage they had gone through in this dungeon. Its width around 6-7 ters. It gradually beca a slope that bent to the right. It was probably a passage that descended in a spiral shape.
Haji and his party kept vigilant. There was no way that a passage like this didn’t had any traps in it.
After a while, their thoughts proved to be right. An unpleasant sound, “GAKONn!”, of a chanism could be heard. Imdiately, they realized that they hadn’t stepped on or pushed any switches. Then, you didn’t need to use switches before!, was the grand rebuttal that Haji thought, surely Miledi Raisen would have been happy to hear that as he let out a “Guh.”
What kind of trap is it now?, was what Haji and his party thought while examining their surroundings vigilantly. Then they heard sothing.
GOROGOROGOROGOROGOROGOROGOROGORO
It was the sound of sothing heavy rolling down.
“”” … …”””
The trio went silent and looked at each others, then they looked overhead at the sa ti. They couldn’t see anything because the slope was curved. The strange noise beca louder, then… … a giant boulder as big as the passage rolled down from the curve. The rock was in the form of a big ball. It was a completely standard trap. Surely, after they desperately ran away, those annoying sentences would be there.
Yue and Shia already turned their heels to run away as fast as they could. However, they were imdiately stopped. It was because Haji didn’t move away.
“… …Nn, Haji?”
“Haji-san!? Let’s hurry or else we will be crushed!”
The duo called out to him, however Haji didn’t answer back, then kneeled down while extending his right hand straight forward. His palm hung towards the big ball. Finally, he drew out his left arm with ‘Ghgh’, to the limit, and “Kiiiii!!”, the sound of an activated chanism resounded.
Haji watched the approaching, roaring big ball, and his lips transford into a fierce smile.
“Every ti, I won’t always do what you expect! It doesn’t fit my nature!”
From his artificial arm, “Kiiiiii!!”, sound of chanism beca louder along with Haji’s word.
Then…
GOGAaAAN!!!
A loud sound of sothing being destroyed erged when Haji’s artificial arm t the big ball. The big ball’s force only pushed Haji back a little, thanks to his spikes, while Haji’s attacked crushed the big ball at the center when they collided, and it was cracked all over. The big ball’s force disappearing could be seen.
“RAaAAA!!”
Haji shook his left fist along with the roar. Because the big ball’s durability was barely exceeded by the power of Haji’s fist, it crumbled, and Haji’s fist was the victor. A thundering sound could be heard when the big ball crumbled and scattered into tiny pieces.
Haji draw back his fist while shaking it, then “Fuh”, he stood up. The sound of chanisms couldn’t be heard anymore from his artificial arm. Haji observed his artificial left arm to check for any abnormalities while clasping and opening the hand. Then he turned to Yue and Shia.
His expression was truly refreshing. “I did it!”, was the feeling it emitted. It seed Haji also couldn’t take it anymore, because he had accumulated too much stress from the traps that he couldn’t detect followed by those annoying words.
What Haji used this ti was the sa attack that defeat one of Faea Belgaen’s Elders, a combination of a bullet’s explosive power and “Great Arm,” in addition, he used his artificial arm to invoke vibration magic to crush the boulder, in other words an oscillation fracture. Because of the huge burden, it was only to be used once, normally it was his last resort… … but he couldn’t endure it so that happened.
Haji, with a satisfied expression, turned around and he was greeted by Yue and Shia who were excited.
“Haji-sa~n! Just as expected of you! That was so cool! That was so neat!”
“… …Nn, neat.”
“Hahaha, of course, of course. With this, the path…”
Haji wanted to answer to their praise. However, his words were interrupted.
GOROGOROGOROGOROGOROGOROGOROGORO
They could hear that sound. Haji’s smile stiffened. Shia also stiffened her smile and the expressionless Yue twitched her cheeks. Haji turned around with ‘GIGIGI,’ as if he was a machine that was forgot to be oiled and what greeted him was…
— — — — — a big tallic ball that shone with a black luster.
“Lies”
Haji inadvertently muttered that while having a stiff smile.
“U-umm, Haji-san. Maybe it was just my imagination, but, sohow that thing also scatters a strange liquid…”
“… …It lts.”
That’s right, the big tallic ball approached them while scattering liquid around that ca from small holes on its surface, and places that got splattered with the liquid lted, with a ‘Shuwa—,’ that kind of dangerous sound.
Haji, after confirming that, “Fuu~”, let out a breath, then faced Yue and Shia with a smile. After that, while smiling he shouted, “Let’s run! Damn it!”, and imdiately he splendidly started running to descend the slope, just like a sprinter.
Yue and Shia also looked at each other for a while then, ‘kururi,’ chased after Haji in a dash.
At their backs, the sound of tal touching the ground along with the dissolution liquid approached them with its speed that gradually increased.
“NOoOOO!! I absolutely don’t want to be lted~!”
“… …Nn, let’s run for now.”
Shia’s lant echoed inside the passage.
“Rather, Haji-sa~n! Its cruel to run ahead of us! Cold-hearted! Demon!”
Shia protested to Haji who ran ahead of them.
“Noisy! It’s a calculation error, a calculation error! Just shut up and run!”
“What’s with that excuse! You don’t care if anything happens to , right!? Uwaa~n, I’ll co to haunt you if I die!”
“… … Shia, surprisingly calm?”
Even while desperately running away, Shia was able to firmly complain, Yue was amazed by it.
They finally saw the end of the passage. He confird it with “Far-sight,” apparently it was quite a big and wide space. However, what he saw was a little strange. He couldn’t see the floor of the room even after a long ti. Perhaps, the exit of the passage that Haji and his party were on was on top of the room’s ceiling.
“It’ll be a descent!”
“Nn.”
“Yes!”
Haji and his party were sliding when they passed through the passage to the room, they descended on the exit.
Then,
“Geh!?”
“Nnh!?”
“Hinh!?”
Three different groans were raised. Right under the exit was a pool filled with an obviously dangerous liquid.
“That bastard!”
Haji imdiately shot out knives from his artificial arm, then used his artificial arm’s anchor, while his right arm caught Yue to prevent her from falling.
At the sa ti, the tallic ball that scattered around dissoluting liquids dashed out overhead, and fell into the pool before their eyes. It sunk with ‘blub blub,’ sounds, while smoke rose.
“”Wind Wall””
Yue used her magic to disperse the scattered corrosive liquid. For a while, they carefully examined their surroundings and nothing else happened, finally Haji let his tension leave his shoulders.
“Sob, hic, why only … … only … … uu, sob”
Sohow at her side, Shia’s crying voice could be heard, if you look carefully she was stuck onto the wall by having several knives pierce her clothing, pinning her to the wall..
” ? Why did you suddenly cry?”
“… …Emotionally unstable?”
“If you see my current state you should understand. Why was only Yue-san held gently, while I was crucified. Haji-sa~n, please, can you just be even a little dere to ?”
“Well, didn’t I save you?”
“That’s wrong. I want to be saved in the state that more girl-like… … you understand right!? I wanted to be saved while being held just like Yue-san!”
“… … Shia”
“Sob, what is it, Yue-san?”
“… …Look at the reality”
“What does that an!?”
“You see, Shia. You’re only our companion, and that’s how I’ll treat you… … Yue is the one I love after all, that’s why it can’t be helped that my body moved on reflex, right?”
“Uu~”
After the justifiable complaint and those justifiable words were said, while ‘pura~n,’ crucified, tears floated on the edge of Shia’s eyes and groaning could be heard. When he said, “the one I love”, Yue’s cheeks were blushing, and while being held by Haji she rubbed her cheek against Haji’s chest.
“Absolu~tely, I will make you fall for and save by holding !”
“What a spirited fellow~”
“… …You have the spirit… … I will pay attention to it.”
Under them was the pool of corrosive liquid, while hanging, Haji and his party still did the love-cody antic. They were quite composed as expected.
Haji and his party moved like a pendulum using the anchor, then landed to the ground after jumping over the pool of dissolution liquid.
It was a large rectangular room. On the both side of the walls, there were sets of two ter tall knight armor equipped with large swords and shields. Furthest from the room was a staircase, before that was an altar and there was a door that gave out solemn aura. On the altar was a diamond shaped yellow crystal.
Haji who looked at that surroundings frowned slightly.
“That was quite a door. Is it Miledi’s hobby? If that’s so then I’ll cheer… … is it only or aren’t those suits of knight armor giving off a bad feeling?”
“… … it’s okay, it’ll be just like promised.”
“Are they going to attack us? It won’t be absolutely okay after all?”
Haji and his party advanced toward the center of the room while saying that, surely it was as promised.
The sound that was familiar to them ca out.
GAKON!
Haji and his party imdiately halt. They thought, “As expected~”, while looking around at their surroundings, and from the eye slits in the knight’s helts, ‘GINn’, it shone. Then, ‘gashagasha,’ sounds of tal rubbing each other ca when those knights moved from their spot. They numbered 50.
Those knights, raised their shields while wielding their large swords in a piercing stance with their waist slightly lowered. Then, they completed the encirclent.
“Haha, it really is as promised. Although it was okay to destroy them before they moved. Well, there is no need to say… … Yue, Shia, shall we?”
“Nnh”
“A-aren’t they are too many? Well, I’ll do it anyway…”
Haji pulled out Donner-Schlag. Although therai’s machine gun was more effective against such numbers, he didn’t know how many traps were set in this room. The barrage of bullets that shot out indiscriminately would trigger all of them. Therefore, he chose the two railguns.
Yue answered Haji’s words with a yell filled with fighting spirit. She understood that she had the least fire-power inside this dungeon. However, she would not be a burden. As Haji’s partner, she won’t lose to sothing like this. Even more so from now, there would be existences acting as her rivals in love, so she must not show any weaknesses.
On Shia’s side, she lowered her waist a little. This party mber was the lowest in terms of influence, but not her power. She knew her battle experience was still considerably insufficient. First of all the battle against demonic beasts in the ravine rely lasted for five days. Even if the mock battle against Yue was included, it was only a little over two weeks of battle experience. Because she also ca from the Haulia tribe renowned for their gentleness, it was impossible for her to have a resolute attitude in battle. Rather, it could be said she showed great guts just to hold Doryukken while confronting her enemies.
“Shia.”
“Y-yes! Wh-what is it, Haji-san”
Shia answered with a nervous voice when she heard Haji’s voice calling her. His voice was more tender than usual… … or maybe it was just Shia’s imagination.
“You are strong. We guarantee it. You won’t lose against these golems. That’s why, don’t ever think you’re weak. If it becos dangerous I’ll co to help for sure.”
“… …Nn, it’s my job to take care of my apprentice’s problems.”
Having heard Haji and Yue’s words, Shia inadvertently beca teary eyed. She was simply happy. Although she was treated harshly, when she thought it was because she was a burden, it made her feel uneasy… … it was a needless anxiety. A novice should only do what a novice can do, as best she could. Shia activated whole body strengthening, then she powerfully and firmly stomped on the ground.
“Fufu, Haji-san is a little dere now. I’m full of motivation now! Yue-san, the day for to surpass you must be close.”
“” … …Don’t get carried away.””
Although Haji and Yue said that with amazed looks, Shia who had her tension maxed didn’t hear that. She faced straight ahead and glared at the knights.
“Here I! Co!”
“No, like I’ve said before, how did you get that material… … ah, she’s already gone.”
“… …Daa~”
“… … I won’t refute that. I absolutely won’t refute that”
With 50 Golem Knights in front of him, Haji carried a tired expression even before the fight began. As if they understood Haji’s state… … the Golem Knights started to attack the intruders all at once.
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