TN : Sorry for the delay, it's NICE BOAT!
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「I an, look, when the three of us are betting our lives to survive in this dungeon, that b*stard Souma had ford a harem of his own! Like he*ll we're going to forgive that!」
「So da*mn right, I understand your feeling.」
I also felt quite envious upon hearing that Souma-kun's dungeon diving was more like a walk in the park. And the factor that empowered my envy was the fact that he ford a harem upon doing that. Naturally, I'd be more than willing to hand over that hysteric woman AKA his own little sister on the top of the list. Even more so if Reina was joining in.
「As for , I'm more surprised knowing that you guys can get away from Souma-kun alive.」
「That's largely thanks to my 『Aqua Mist』.」
It seems these guys were barely fleeing with their lives thanks to vision obstruction skill. I have to praise Shimokawa for his quick wit at that dangerous mont.
But, I guess scattering mist alone wouldn't be enough against soone like Souma-kun. I guess he still hesitated to kill his classmates.
He's a vi*rgin huh.
Well, I guess the three of them would really be killed by Souma-kun if Takanashi Kotori was really kidnapped and then raped by them. I guess he didn't cross the line since that incident had only ended up as an attempt.
「Hey Momokawa, do you have sothing to say about that Souma?」
「About whether he forgive us or not.」
「Yeah, he said that he absolutely won't forgive you guys.」
Welp… their morale dropped imdiately. Seriously dudes, resenting Souma-kun is literally a matter of life and death you know.
As a matter of fact, it was a lie. I never ford a party with Souma-kun, rather, we didn't even speak to each other back then. If there's soone I couldn't forgive, it would be that Kenzaki F*cking Asuna, the culprit who separated i-chan and I.
Moreover, thinking about Souma-kun's personality, I think he wouldn't take the matter to his heart and would eventually forgive you guys. See, you should've differentiated between those guys.
「Don't worry. I'll beco the diator in the case we t with Souma-kun's party.」
「Yeah, I hope you will, Momokawa!」
「Very please!」
「You absolutely must do that dude!」
The trio was desperately clinging to their chance for survival.
But that's only if our fortress's capture plan proceeded in our favor, after that, we just needed to capture the next area which would eventually lead us to et Souma-kun's party again. Otherwise, I would be the one who would be in deep shit since I absolutely had to reunite with i-chan.
Anyhow, seeing that there might be too many frictions and destinies jumbled together at that mont, I would try my best to ask for Souma-kun's forgiveness. As for , the most urgent matter was how to reunite with Souma-kun's party as soon as possible.
I think that I would have a bigger chance for an open transaction with Souma-kun by using Asuna's case. Moreover, we had the most OP arbiter on our side, Yamajun. You did a good job Class Rep, now you wouldn't be the only one to be suffering from trying to arbitrate your classmates.
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We dispersed after chatting idly for a while after that. The trio was returning to the plaza together.
「Sorry for troubling you this late at night, Yamajun.」
「Don't mind it, it's still too early for to sleep after all.」
Yamajun was staying behind to teach the ancient language.
「And yet, what the heck is with this moon rune!」
「Yup, I can understand your feeling, the letters aren't as simple as the alphabet after all.」
The first thing to do when you want to decipher an unknown alphabet is to write it again and again until you know its aning. Anyhow, the alphabet comprised only 26 characters. The aning of the word beca clear once all of its composition assembled.
But ancient letters were far more similar to kanji in this regard. There’re many letters that could be considered as the most basic letters, but those letters were more like hiragana or alphabet.
「Indeed, we have yet to find its pattern.」
「Yeah, maybe we have to mix and match it like Japanese hiragana, katakana, and kanji to form a proper word or words.」
In that case, the difficulties in deciphering the ancient language would jump to a whole new level. It was obvious that clarifying a full sentence of the ancient language with just 『Ancient Language Decoding・Beginner』 was far from enough.
「Anyhow, let's start with morizing the words first.」
「Yeah, we've to return to the basic in this situation.」
And then, as our study session continued on, Yamajun suddenly broke the silence.
「Momokawa-kun, I wonder if there's an ability outside of your vocation.」
It was when I received an explanation regarding the ancient letter which read as 『Vocation』.
An ability outside of your vocation, is it sothing like ESP or the power of the mind? Nope, clearly not those two. That kind of cr*p only appeared in manga or ani, Yamajun might be referring to ability in this world.
「They exist you know.」
Yamajun brought up this topic when it was just the two of us. I had no idea about the value of this information, I could even play dumb and lie to him, but I got this feeling that I should listen to him right now.
「How did yo— Nay, first, this should be the first ti you hear about this matter from , right?」
Even though he displayed a slightly perplexed behaviour, Yamajun eventually started revealing things to .
「The truth is, we were with Hino-san.」
When I was about to say "Who's that?", I stopped as I finally recalled her as i-chan's friend. I'd heard about her before from i-chan when she was expressing her worry for her three friends, naly Kizaki-san, Kitaooji-san and Hino-san.
「Could it be, she has died?」
「… I don't know. We were separated in the jungle when heading towards this tower.」
When I heard the rough situation from Yamajun, I concluded that she was actually running away.
The result of the eting between Hino-san-who at that ti beca the princess whose sole purpose was to satisfy the male party mber's libido- and Reina- who’d just co out of teleportation portal after she knocked out of teleportation circle- was she being thrown out like a second hand, busted se*x doll by the male party mber who rejoiced in the coming of a blonde lo*li?
「It seems, Hino-san wasn't just using her body in exchange for the boys to protect her. It's more like she has sothing else… so kind of ability to seduce the boys.」
「Her vocation wasn't 『Harlot』, right?」
「There's also that possibility. But maybe it's different with vocation, my- no, basically her healing art is different from mine.」
I see he knew it by intuition huh. This case might be regarded as an extrely simple possibility if we're in Japan, but for the magic in this world, we had to rely on this intuition.
So I was sure that a 『Healer』 vocation had been equipped with so sort of intuition-like skill in their hidden status.
「I've t Yokomichi you see.」
「Eh, that Yokomichi Haji? Er, was he all right?」
「We managed to drive him off sohow. That guy killed Nagae-san… and ate her.」
Yamajun was completely at loss for words when he heard say "ate".
「Is that in… sexual aning?」
「Nope, in literal aning. Yokomichi ate Nagae-san's corpse. Well, he might've left her skeleton sowhere since I didn't see the scene firsthand.」
But the fact that he ate Nagae Yukiko's corpse was the undeniable truth. That truth was revealed by the 『Sage』, Takanashi Kotori, and the culprit himself.
And most of all, he had tried to eat all of us too.
「Su-su-such things…」
「I understand your feeling, Yamajun. I'm absolutely sure that Yokomichi has gained power outside of his vocation.」
I was sure that Takanashi Kotori shouted 『Man Eating Demon(Cannibalizer)』 at that ti. Co to think of it, she might not have been shouting at him at that ti, but just read the na of Yokomichi's power aloud with her 『Sage』's power.
That's why the na that he called 『Skill Eater』 might actually have a different na. In short, he beca the most disgusting person through and through as he gained a skill that allowed him to gain the skills of the others by eating their corpse.
「Though the degree of their danger level is different, both Hino-san and Yokomichi have gained power outside of their vocation. Perhaps it cos from sothing like an evil god or devil.」
「Ah, I see now―― so this 『Dependents』 thing is real huh.」
「Dependents?」
Yamajun used the word I had never heard before with a face as if he understood sothing. Just, what in the world did he discover in those ancient letters?
「I don't understand too much about this matter either. But in the room in which I awakened, I discovered an ancient letter which read as 『Dependents』 which feels like it was paired with 『Vocation』.」
I finally understand the aning behind the letter dependents that was written in Yamajun's note. It was written with 『眷(Regard Affectionately)』.
The aning of dependents are either relatives, family, or else things like social status such as soone's subordinate. In this case, it ans God's Envoy.
「I see now, in short, Hino-san is sothing like 『Succubus』's dependents huh.」
「It can't be helped if soone is getting carried away like Yamada-kun for example, since the power granted by vocation is powerful. But the dependents' power is far more terrifying to the point that it… twisted the owner’s personality.」
It seed that Hino-san who was fooling around with Yamada-kun and the trio could still be considered as a docile one. But for soone like Yokomichi who would kill you and then eat your corpse, it was almost impossible to say whether he was still a human or not.
「That's why, even though we can't tell how to differentiate them for now… Momokawa-kun, the next ti you t our classmate, make sure to see through their list of skills carefully to see whether it's vocation or dependents.」
「Yeah, you're right, thanks.」
Though I'd a faint suspicion in this regard after my encounter with Yokomichi, it was thanks to Yamajun telling the existence of 『Dependents』 in the ancient language that I fully realized their threat.
The information regarding that matter wasn't that clear yet as long as I'd yet to master the ancient language. This was an extrely important piece of information.
「Sorry for suddenly ntioning sothing strange like that. But I get this feeling that I've to convey this information to you as soon as possible.」
「No, it's quite the opposite, it's an extrely important piece of information. Thanks a lot for telling about this.」
And then, maybe due to the ntal fatigue of the serious discussion with Yamajun, my body was suddenly assailed by listlessness. I was no longer in the condition to continue our study session.
I guess it's ti to end this study session.
「Ah, co to think of it, Yamajun, I want to ask one last thing.」
「Eh, is sothing the matter?」
「Are you really not having a thing for i-chan?」
「Ahaha, don't worry about it Momokawa-kun, I've no feelings for her.」
I could finally feel at ease as I saw Yamajun was smiling wryly from the bottom of his heart. Now, I could finally sleep in peace.
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