Chapter 90 (1/2)
Chapter 90
Chapter 90: Tendou Ryuichi ( 2 )
“this is, different”
After arriving at a fairy square upon his ht, Ryuichi went outside to fine not stone passages that spawned skeletons like the previous area, but a zone full of green
It wasn’t exactly a real jungle, as the floors and walls were still stone, but flora had clearly dominated the constructionThe architecture of the zone also seemed to be different in that, while before there had beenout to se forest like areas, do thele zone
“GuBeaaah!!”
“Shut it”
The first monsters ryuichi encountered here were a black huoe, hiding behind bushes and on branches, and had launched an attack on Ryuichi from all directionsNot an issue
“These are easy too”
He designated them as smallfry from the moment he first saw oneThey could co with themOf course, these short, black monsters held bladed weapons that could potentially injure him, but he felt not an iota of threatHe al at the whole affair, but since they were kind enough to welcoratitude by testing his neord on them
Ryuichi needed only one swing to not only cut down the poorly ar at him from all directions, but the slash even chopped down the tree where their archer lay hiding, bringing it equal death
“This thing’s pretty sharp”
He was afraid that his sould be as sharp as a block of wood, but thankfully, it wasn’tHe wasn’t sure if it was the skeleton boss’ sword that was of high quality or if his Royal Sword skill did the ic
Whatever it was, Ryuichi was satisfied with his new, reliable sword, and continued his le zone in steady steps
Soh, “Guess zone bosses are the only things that’ll give ht”
This zone was different from the previous, skeleton-only area in that there were a variety of omas and other ones that looked like animals
A weird, red dog that spat fireballs, horned monkeys that hopped around like bunnies, wild boars whose only course of action seeues, andtype monsters: man sized ants, bees and mantises, just everywhere
Predated skills
Red Spark: Let off hot sparks
Sidestep: Make agile side steps
Charge‘n Dash: Build up potential and perfore
Paralyzer: Produce paralysis poison
Power of the Ant: Lift things ht
Dissolver: Produce acidic fluid
Mantis Slash: A quick and deadly double slash with scythes
Arriving at his second fairy square, Ryuichi reluctantly ate the least disgusting of the le piece of bone from each monster, and learned a nuomas, howeverNot because they were huut sense had told hiet hi
The skills he did gain didn’t seem like they would be useful at all at the ht just come in handy somewhere down the line
After that, he went on to traverseto a point where he didn’t seem to find any new types of her than any he’d seen beforeAnd as he took the first step inside,
“ ―― Woah!” Ryuichi was ht in front of hiust of wind to the faceThe powerful blast shook the large jungle trees and threw up Ryuichi’s hair
“Could be a runaway boss?” he thought, never fearing a challengeHe took a bold stride inside and discovered the cause of the explosion
“Oh? You’re… Tendo Ryuichi”
At the center of the doiant red creature
“Wow, it’sa fucking dragon” He noted
A ‘red dragon’ perhaps, as it could be called in a fantasy game
“Hehe, surprised are we? This ‘Salamander’ is my familiar, my obedient servant”
It’s face was unlike that of a lizard and nor was it crocodilianIt had the ferocious look that could only be described as a dragon’sRows of razor-sharp teeth lined its aps in betweenIts red wings were lifted outstretched and its two bulky legs allowed it to stand upright, giving the beast a certain regality, like that of a ruler of alltail looked flexible and was yet covered in tough red scales that gave of a metallic sheenOne strike from such a tail could surely break human bone
However, Ryuichi noted that overall, the color of this dragon felt faded… giving the ion
“Fret notSo long as I hold command over it, Salamander will not attack you”
“Huh? Wait, when’d you get there?” Ryuichi said as he finally noticed the youngawfully proud of hi the school uniform, Ryuichi quickly understood that he must be a classmate
“I have been here this whole time! You see this Salamander? This is mine!”
“Uh, yeahWho are you again?”
“W-who a that!? I aoodness’ sake!”
“No? You’re definitely not Ryoko―― Ah, right, there was the boy’s rep too, I guessOh yeah, you’re Kazuht?”
“Azuma! My name is Azuma shi+nichi!”
“Sure, close enough”
Ryuichi was frankly terrible with namesOr rather, he found it a pain to reive a crap, basicallyThen again, he kind-of-sort-of did re with Ryoko a couple of timesMaybe?
Ryuichi finally connected the boy in front of him to the boy’s Class Rep of 2-7
“Alright, nohat? You’re gonna sic your ao?”
“Sic hi you delinquents think of is fightingIt is because of people like you that young adults of our age have gotten the label of being ‘too short tempered’I personally think it is the adults who put all us youths into the saet their own heads exaressLetany forically, yes? What reason would I, a classmate of yours, have to attack a fellow ofhands one and all in order to surmount this catastrophe that has befallen usIn fact, the very suggestion of such barbarism is so carelessly nonsensical that――”
“Quit your bullshi+t” Ryuichi put a swift end to Azuue“Your little pet almost went and attacked me and you had to stop it”
“What ever ?”
“I’ll say it againYour da”
Ryuichi had of course been well aware of Azuon had entered his visual rangeHe had siotten this particular class representative’s name but, had no doubt that the youth in front of hionRyouichi had even seen Azu pet fro it to stand dohile he boastfully called out to the class’ toughest delinquent
“It’s all over your face” Ryuichi said, driving the point hooody to the core”
The cocky smile completely disappeared from Boys’ Class Rep’s, fro eyes of enmity at Ryuichi…But he wasn’t about to blow his top just yetIn no tihtened his expression, and looked Ryuichi in the eye: “I cannot seeBut if that is how you see it, I suppose I cannot convince you otherwise”
“Playing du“You sure you don’t want your pet lighting me up?”
“I kindly request that you stop it with those nonsensical provocations”
“Then how about you fucking decideFight a his hands into his pant pockets as a gesture that he illing to give Azuma some time to ave off the inti outside a convenience store paststudent such as Azuma wouldn’t even think to approachThis left the Boys’ Class Rep unable to speak right away
Azuma took in a breath, exhaled, thenas you have coeon, you should be well aware as to what sort of place this really isA?”
Azuma took in a breath, exhaled, thenas you have coeon, you should be well aware as to what sort of place this really isA?”
“Yeah, what’s your point?”
Ryuichi understood it siic see here meant actual death
“This place is very, very dangerous” Azus, but the creatures inhabiting this dungeon, the monsters, also have a variety of powersI aeon, we are sure to encounter an uniinably powerful boss monster”
“Sure”
“You th, Tendo Ryuichi, you were even fath back in our world rants us power easily surpassing any hu is your absolute lifeline, so it is only logical to assus can exert reater pohere they to cooperate”
“Oi, you plan on getting to the fucking point so time”
“Tsk” Azu that we should all work together, you, est you refrain fro that you want to act solo”
“AAh?” Ryuichi barked“You telling me what to do now, is that it?”
“I arow in voluical, easy to understand terth!”
“Caled over”
As Ryuichi had correctly pointed out, Azuma’s slim black-rimmed spectacles had indeed been coated in the condensed vapor produced as a result of his heavy breathingThat calm retort from the supposedly hot-headed delinquent however, was akin to pouring oil on a fire
“I a calmly!”
“Coht?”
“Shut up!”
The Boys’ Class Rep had snappedRyuichi didn’t go so far as to sigh in annoyance (even though he wanted to), but he was nearing the li up his over-excited classut, but he wasn’t sure if ‘Fido’ the dragon would sit idly while his ot the distinct i to be a major pain in the ass
“Tendo Ryuichi, just tellto cooperate or not, yes or no?”
Oi, where’d MrSophisticated go all of a sudden? Ryuichi wanted to say as Azu like a nor it better not to fan the flames even further
“Yeah, I’et everyone together, be et in your way”
“Do you really think you’ll be fine acting all on your own?”
“Do you really think I can just hold hands and get along with everyone else?”
To Ryuichi, it was sort of hilarious how Azu hi exasperated, Ryuichi decided to set hi lookI bleached ive one fuck about the school dress code, and I even set my pointYou even said it yourself: I’m a delinquent”
He wasn’t particularly proud of it, nor was he one for show, but, “Can’t be a daon scare me, yeah?”
At so him oneHe hadn’t strayed froh the natural course of his lifeTherefore, being thrown into a dangerous world full of deadly e his waysThat was Ryuichi’s take on the matter
“Ri-ri-ridiculous!” Class Rep Azuma had, as expected, not liked his answer
“Think about it, do you even need o smoother without me around”
Ryuichi did not get along with many peopleAt h and through, but his other class in his presenceRyuichi was keenly self-aware about these things
“We can’t have anyone do as they please in our situation! You are no exception to that!”
“Who’s this we? You’re er than it needs to beIas Yuuto’s around”
At the mention of said childhood friend, Azuma fell silent for a moment“Yuuto? Do you mean Souma Yuuto-kun? Why, do you mention him”
“Well, who else is gonna take charge?”
“Well, who else is gonna take charge?”
One , the students of class 2-7 had suddenly found theeon full of ht and surviveIt was a scenario so unrealistic, it was more likely that they’d be attacked by armed terroristsAnd in that confusion and ture
Ryuichi readily believed that only Yuuto, the guy who soh thick and thin, had what it took to acco the rest of themHe knew that neither he himself nor anyone else could do the same
“N-Now look, I’ to take responsibility and pull everyone together, it should obviously be me! I can’t believe you would―― ”
“Haha, good one” Ryuichi couldn’t help but chuckle at Azuuided sense of responsibilityWas their Class Rep, whose only responsibility had been doing a bit of paperwork, actually being serious? It only sounded like a silly joke to Ryuichi“But seriously, you’re in way over your headTiotta relax and let Yuuto handle it”
Ryuichi, of course, hadAzu said, notso frankly told that they were just ‘not cut out for it’
“Shut up!” came the outburst“Shut up, you just shut up Tendo Ryuichi… Do you think I will let you insult ht, aren’t you!? I’ll show you!”
“Ah fuck, so we’re back to the beginning” Ryuichi sighed in futility at how the tere back on mildly hostile termsHe wanted to complain about the wasted ti te with this guy was not so
In fact, he ht-forward “Oi, that’s Tendo fro dead!” that the delinquents froh ith
“I’e of Class 2-7! Sou to o off on your own!”
Ryuichi heaved a sigh“So what, you’re telling me to fall in line, is that it? Listen to you and be all buddy buddy?”
“He a person not by their words but by their actions, I’ll have you know”
“So let’s say I do that, and even fight ht?”
“Of courseIf you do as you say, I will gladly aded your character”
“H hum“So yeah, I know this isn’t related, but about Ryouko yeah? She’s pregnant”
“Hu h!?”
“I knocked her up”
Azuma let out a comically shaken voice folloith an equally duined that even a circus clown couldn’t make a face this funny
“Wh-hat, are you even…” Azui-kun is preg”
“I’It was on our summer trip to Hawaii, you know, the one with Yuuto and a bunch of othersKind of just happened”
He was in fact, lyingAbout the pregnancy, and about the child being hisAll a simple lieIt was siirl like Ryoko would even begin to like him, the class’ nued in cheezy shoujo a
But they had in fact gone to Hawaii last sued along by Yuuto but the fact reiven out souvenirs to some of their friends in class, and talk of the trip had becohAnyone and everyone knew about it
For the record, the trip included 9with Tendo Ryuichi, Kousaka Hiroki, Kisaragi Ryoko, Natsukawa Minami, Kenzaki Asuna, Takanashi+ Kotori and Reina AAyaseEvidently, the above listing consisted of practically all the top beauties of the classroolare flew aboutNot toward Ryuichi of course, as the only boy who could even work up the courage to give hiuchi Kyouya, who, by all accounts, seemed very docile and uninterested about the whole affairAs such, and alas, all the eyes of envy fell on Kousaka Hiroki alone
Which was not only unfortunate, but greatly unfair, as most of the female attendee’s on the overseas trip had eyes for Soule spicy event throughout the whole adventureTruly, he was the ultimate victim of it all
“That’s, just crazy”
“Yeahfor a while after co” shi+t happens, a how bad hismust’ve looked
Now to see just how MrStraight-laced Class Rep, how Azuma shi+nichi will react to this sudden revelation…
“ ―― Yup”
Azuma said, no waver in his voice
“ ―― Yup”
Azuma said, no waver in his voice
“YupI’m done”
“Ah?” Ryuichi looked at hi eyes but otherwise e, but he sensed that it was strangeVery strange
“You know, Tendo Ryuichi, I wanted to be a good person” Azuo off on another tirade, but his tone was placidIt was as if all the anger and frustration froIt’s because I’reat powerPower that I would use responsiblyThat is hoas th wisely and protect my classmates, take care of them, lead them back home, to Earth, to japanI truly wanted that, you know? Even if I knew―― ”
At this point, Azulossy
“ ―― Even if I knew, that only three of us could go back!”
“Only three? Oi, what the f―― !?” The dragon attacked
Ryuichi heard a whistling intake of air, then saw froe
Dragon breathDragons are creatures that breathe fireIt was the stuff of legends and folklore back on Earth, and in this world, a concrete and undeniable truth
Ryuichi already knew that thoughHe knew that the explosion he was met with upon his entry into this doon
Even Ryuichi, with his powered up body, couldn’t take such an explosion head onBefore his ears began ringing, he not only e with one of his predation skills, Sidestep, but he additionally used his Royal Sword to shi+eld himself from the blast waveEven then, he was blown backThat was a powerful attackIf he hadn’t evaded, he would’ve ended up as a sround
“Tskchances ain’t so good here” Ryuichi judged that the open area he had tumbled to would only leave hi up, he ran for the trees
“Fuh, fufu, fwahahahaha!! You see now, Tendo Ryuichi! This, this is my power!”
Uh, no, your dragon’s doing all the work, Ryuichi wanted to retort but noasn’t the time
He was on to burn down the whole forestEven Azuma wouldn’t risk that