Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka - Volume 03

by Fujino Omori

that is accumulated inside your body. A simple game or work would absolutely not be treated as . In turn, even if it was training, if you are desperate and focused, then it will undoubtedly become food that was identified as .”

  “So that’s how it is……”

  “It is the same question whether if you could reliably turn it into your own use or not. If you are able to leave a trace of it, then we can later excavate this.”

  Although the argument of and the mastery of was rather close, but it was not specifically revised. This kind of explanation was probably easier for Bell to understand.

  Soon after, the work for was about to be finished……Hestia quietly had her mouth cramped out.

  “UWAH…… Kami-sama, I’m sorry. I have to go!”

  When Bell looked at the clock, his face became pale and he sat up.

  He swiftly moved away from Hestia’s side, picked up his luggage and walked straight towards the door.

  “B…Bell-kun. There are still some ……!”

  “Sorry, I’ll listen to it later! I’m leaving!”

  With a panicked expression, Bell left the house.

  Hestia, who was left alone, lowered her outstretched arm, haa, and sighed.

  Looking at the teacup on the table from the corner of her eyes, she then gaze back towards the place where Bell’s back was earlier.

  Once again, she recalled the information about the .

  【Bell Cranel】

  Lv.1

  Strength: S 982

  Endurance: S 900

  Dexterity: S 988

  Agility: SS 1049

  Magic: B 751

  “What, SS is……”

  As if she wanted to cling on her head, Hestia used her right hand and covered her forehead.

  * * *

  The sun was gradually exposing its face from the mountains east of Orario.

  Inside the almost, topmost room of the residence, she could see past the walls that surround the city and watch the brilliance flashes of mountains. Aizu was currently looking at the scene outside of her window and narrowed her eyes slightly.

  At the same time she was being bathed by the early sun, she abruptly pulled her golden hair behind her.

  She pulled out her only one weapon, a rapier, from her waist and allowing her thin arm to completely touch it. It emitted a sonorous sound and she confirmed the maintenance conditions. Then, she quietly faced forward.

  Her complete equipment was reflected by a full-length mirror.

  Under the sunlight, the pale blue armor, silver white chest protector and her waist tools emitted out a little light.

  She directly looked at the girl, who was crowned as the and was feared by others as a battle maniac, Aizu.

  “Hey, Aizu, are you not ready? How long do you plan on wasting time?”

  “……Immediately, ready.”

  Towards the door, she made a response back to Bate’s voice. Aizu looked away from her own figure.

  Since Aizu had levelled up to Lv.6, it had already been 12 days. Today was the long-awaited Dungeon Raiding day.

  Gathering the members to explore the Deep Floors, the scheduled date of the .

  Towards the overly powerful Aizu Wallenstein, this was the only chance that she would be able to reach new heights.

  “Aizu, hurry ?! Let’s compete on who kills more monsters ?!”

  “Annoying……Why are you here, Tiona?”

  “That is my line. The loser dog should act like a loser dog and wag his tail and leave!”

  “I’m not a dog, I’m a wolf! Anyways, when did I lose!”

  “Even though you were rejected completely and were injured all over your body! You even say something like “ I’m a loser dog, so sorr ?yy!” ! N ?O ?O!”

  “GUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?”

  Ignoring the bustling sounds from the opposite side of the door, Aizu threw out her final glance.

  A sound tapping her ears. In the early morning skies, a metallic sound was constantly expanding.

  The slender clock tower located at the east side of the town began to let out a heavy whine.

  * * *

  Chiri, my neck felt a bit of pain.

  “…….”

  “Bell-sama?”

  I placed a hand on top of my head while I surveyed the surroundings.

  The vast floor with wood-colored walls and growing short flowers and trees. In this room on the 9th floor, I could not hide my surprised expression.

  I could also not give a proper explanation to Lili, who was beside me.

  “Is there something that you care about?”

  “……No, how shall I put it?”

  ……Should I say we were being stared at?

  My own body was being ambiguous and could only feel eyes lurking from somewhere.

  Although I could not feel any hostility or intent to harm us……However, a vague sense of unease gradually pressed onto my shoulders.

  Because today we plan on breaking through the 10th floor, so we came early in the morning to the Dungeon. There are very little Adventurers.

  On the path of coming here, we only encountered one extremely burly, beastman Adventurer.

  Although if I say we were followed, but under normal circumstances, that is impossible……However, gradually, it feels that I could not easily brush off this illusion.

  “Lili, can we switch back our equipment from here on?”

  “Ah, o…okay.”

  Was he showing a sense of nervousness that was different than usual? Lili hurriedly handed over the hand guard on her back and the .

  I equipped the light armor that was stuffed inside my backpack and fully equipped myself.

  Although I felt slightly relaxed under the touch of my accustomed equipment……but the sinister feelings that was being revealed between my eyebrows, could not be completely eliminated.

  A disgusting feeling. My heart cried out softly.

  “Do you feel that it is strange……?”

  “Strange, is it?”

  “The amount of Monsters are too little.”

  I said the doubt that was haunting my earlier. Lili also said “Speaking of which……” and turned her head towards the path where we had just passed through.

  Since entering the 9th floor, the Dungeon had become eerily quiet. It would not be wrong to say that our current location was at the depths of the floor. However, even when the 10th floor was right in front of our eyes, we have still not yet encountered a Monster.

  At most, we would only occasionally glimpse a Goblin, who was scurrying around, trying to find a shelter.

  (How should I say it……It feels very uncomfortable.)

  These feelings continued to accumulate. It feels that my stomach had started to ache a little.

  It feels that the thing that I did not want to recall was currently being dug out.

  That’s right.

  At that time, the Dungeon was also this quiet……

  I could only shake my head here.

  “B…Bell-sama?”

  “……Let’s go. To the 10th floor.

  I controlled my mouth and forcibly said this.

  I could not say these words, “Let’s leave immediately right now” and so on, and an unpromising feeling was always stuck inside my heart.

  In the corner of my heart, it seemed to be urging me to continue to move forward.

  In the room that had two entrances, we prepared to take a step towards the direction that connected to the 10th floor ??At this moment.

  ??Come, let me see this?

  Towards the seductive voice that I seem to have heard from somewhere and resounded in my head directly, I widened my eyes.

  In the next instant.

  “??VO ??OOO”

  My feet were fixed.

  “……..”

  “J…Just now, that was……
?”

  Lili seemed to have said something. However, it did not enter my head.

  Did I hear something?

  Yes, I did hear something.

  The shattering roaring sound was similar to the sound I seared inside my mind. It was currently making my nerves extremely anxious.

  “………….”

  Just like a toy that hadn’t been smeared before, my actions were like rusty and slow as I turned my head behind.

  The source of the sound came from the direction that we had just travelled. In the depths of that path, there is something.

  When I noticed, my breathing had already become ragged. My fingers were trembling and I could not use any strength.

  Instead of my throat, my head suddenly emerged the words “Lies”. Like a children, I cried out that this kind of situation can’t happen.

  While Lili was swallowing her saliva and staring intently, I continued to pray.

  Then,

  “……VOOOO”

  It appeared.

  “??Eh?”

  “……”

  My premonition came true. It really came true.

  No, if I had to get to the bottom of this, it is impossible for me to forget that bastard’s voice.

  I already do not know how many times that it appeared in my dreams. I already do not know how many times that face had overlapped with other monsters.

  How many times did I feel fear from that bastard, it was already uncountable.

  “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO……”

  “W…Why is there a Minotaur on the 9th floor……”

  I wanted to ask.

  Ahhh, but I knew.

  I knew that this was an unendurable last resort.

  I knew that this was a sense of despair that could not be described.

  This trembling, I had already experienced before.

  It was the same.

  It was the same as that time.

  “VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”

  The ferocious bull roared.

  Engulfed by a force and pressure that could not be underestimated, it was a simple roar that has the intent of having a confrontation.

  Facing the terrifying roar, Lili and I nearly fell down on the floor.

  Following, that bastard’s was equipped with a silver sword dyed with red. One step, it slowly treaded on the ground.

  “L…Let’s escape, Bell-sama!? Right now, Lili and you cannot defeat it! Let’s currently escape from here……Bell-sama?”

  My gaze could not move.

  My feet also could not move.

  Under the gaze of the black, red eyes from that Monster, my movement had been deprived.

  Perhaps, it was closer to that I had already given up.

  When I was small, my grandfather had often used scarecrows to play skits of heroes in order to make me happy……Right now, it was exactly like that.

  “Bell-sama!? Bell-sama!?”

  Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary Scary.

  Extremely Scary.

  That Monster was scary to the extent of that it was chaotic.

  The corner of my eyes was filled with tears. My lungs continued to breathe and sub. My teeth could not be clenched tightly.

  What color had my face become, I already could not predict it.

  Every time the two feet with hooves step onto the grass, I would overlap that with myself.

  The symbol of terror inside my heart made the air inside my body swell up.

  “VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

  The Minotaur became a cannonball.

  With a frightening speed, it dashed through the center of the room and completely ate away the distance separating us.

  I did not pull out my weapon. There was nothing that I could do.

  It was over.

  In a blink of an eye, the huge bull approached and used an exaggerated movement to swing the Large Sword down.

  “??Ah!?”

  “Eh?”

  In my rotating field of vision, a mosquito-like cry entered my ears.

  Earlier than I realize that I was still alive, I confirmed the temperature of Lili that was lying on top of my belly.

  From her head, a large amount of blood was leaking out.

  “L…Lili…..?”

  I was thrown to the ground. Probably, it was due to Lili’s slam.

  Due to her throwing herself to the side, I had successfully dodged the Minotaur’s attack. As a replacement, Lili was injured.

  Was it skimped by the Large Sword? No, the Minotaur had caused many shattered rocks to move and it directly head Lili’s head?

  After withstanding the powerful attack, the ground had completely shattered. Large amount of flowers, grass and even hard clods of dirt were flung to the sky.

  Lili distorted her face and issued out a faint moan.

  KAAAA, my entire body heated up.

  “!!”

  I forcibly inject power to my limp and discouraged muscles and stood up.

  Scary. Very scary. In my heart, there was only terror.

  In front of my eyes, the howling Minotaur was still unbearably scary.

  However, letting this child to die ??was even more scary.

  “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

  Sorry! In my heart, I apologized while I decided to throw Lili’s body to the side.

  There was no time to confirm how that petite body was. I directly confronted the Minotaur who had turned around.

  My teeth were rested on my trembling lips and I severely bit into them. Before the roaring Large Sword could kill me, I reflexively stretched out my right arm and shouted out.

  “??FIRE BOLTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!?”

  “BUOOO!?”

  Scarlet lightning caused the actions of the Minotaur to bounce away.

  Under the power of the blooming flame flower , the ferocious Bull was pressured and retreated.

  Inside my round eyes, a faint hope of overcoming the odds appeared distantly.

  I began to use Magic as if I was possessed.

  ‘WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?”

  Hit. Hit. Hit.

  As if I was blinded and continuously swinging my sword, I repeatedly launched Magic.

  The sharp flame spears stabbed through the enemy’s huge body numerous times and exploded. Following the explosion sound, violent flames leap out.

  The Minotaur issued out an anguished voice and retreated one step at a time, then it disappeared into the continuous chains of explosion.

  I tightly held onto the magic as if I was clutching my last hope.

  If I did not have this power at this time, I seemed to beg like this as I continued to desperately fire out my last ray of hope .

  Inside my heart, I continued to pull the trigger for Magic.

  “Ha…Ha……!”

  When my mind had fully regained consciousness, I stopped the Magic. My field of vision was completely buried with black smoke.

  The smell of burnt soil and grass stimulated my nose. I could not see the figure of the Minotaur.

  ??Did I beat it?

  There was absolutely no response. In front of the space where flames still remained, I lowered my right arm.

  “VOOOO”

  “??“

  Bang, the sound of wind breaking apart entered my ear.

  At the same time the black smoke was turning into a whirlwind, a large arm stretched out from within.

  From below, the rock-like fists depicted an arc. I maintained the state where I was hit in the abdomen and stopped.

  The feeling of the hoof biting into my arm.

  The impact following by an explosion.

  “GA!?”

  My vision trembled. The air inside my body was forced out and when I had yet grasp the situation, my body flew towards the rear.

  The only thing that I was clear about was the fact that I was saved by Aizu-san.

  Relying on the act
of immediately jumping backwards, the force that assaulted me was halved.

  It was impossible to want to completely cancel out that shock. If I had stayed still, I would undoubtedly be hit in the abdomen and in a state where I would burst into tears, I would hit the Dungeon’s wall.

  “~~~~~~~~~~~~!? ……Ah,Gi!?”

  The wall was destroyed. With half of my body buried into the wall, under the pain that came forth, I groaned in pain.

  I could not issue out my voice. A part of the wall issued out a sound of collapsing and a rain of stone pieces fell onto my butt.

  It had directly hit the center of my light armor, and like in a literal sense, it was completely destroyed.

  The part at my back that had received a terrible impact seemed to be serious as well. In an instant, I removed it. The instant I loosened the support for the armor, it instantly collapsed onto the floor.

  In the end, how much do I have to be hit till it is happy……!?

  My upper body only had a ragged tight shirt and at the same time, I tried to let my trembling legs to stand up.

  “FUMUUUUUUUUUUU……!”

  “……!”

  The muscles on my face tensed up.

  It was uninjured.

  Even though it was hit by so many blast of , the Minotaur’s entire body was fine, there was no apparent injuries.

  My Magic only caused the thick skin to suffer from some burns and did not give it a fatal injury.

  My teeth trembled nonstop.

  Staring at me, who was at loss, the Minotaur, who lost one of its horns, was roaring towards the sky.

  “VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”

  This is an Adventure.

  This is the Adventurer’s , Bell Cranel’s, first Adventure.

  ??I can’t win.

  Witnessing the bull issuing out a roar towards the sky, I could only see the despair.

  TL Note:

  1: Tiona is |.||.| while Tione is ( . ) ( . ) If you don’t get it, it means Tiona is flat-chested while Tione has big boobs.↩

  2: 指し手: Refers to a move in shogi.↩

  3: Referring to how unloyal she is as a friend.↩

  4: Magic coming from Magic Sword is weaker than Magic released by an Individual.↩

  Chapter 5:

  A Hero’s Wish

  The Dungeon was characterized by its getting progressively larger the further you go down.