Chapter 155 (1/2)

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Chapter 155: The Bridge

“It's about time Let's head for the next Fairy Square”

“Ok!”

Right, so we had an Arachne Mk II, and a couple days later, I decided it was high tiet out of here

We filled the treasure boxes chock full of Roylopse and Jajawith a lot more meds than I can usually carry and lots of other bits and pieces

Plus, since I finally gother Arachne poison aplenty I now had h now, the frog poison had become the bottleneck

In addition to that, I used Witch's Cauldron to dilute the potent paralysis concoction andthat instead only dulls pain

In other words a Painkiller I get absolutely useless when I'm in pain, so this is ot a fair nu down the Goves in this area, so that's about all the stuff ere carrying

Finally, I made another Mud Doll Rem, so Rem 3 This seemed to be the maximum number I could efficiently control

And, actually it's been a while since we'd done this, but we used the good old couide us to our destination

We'd done a lot of exploring in these parts, so for a while, alked through known territory

“Ueaaaaaaahhhh!!”

And lookie there, it's our favorite High Zombies Punctual as ever I souess is they're like Skeletons, spawned out of somewhere or other

“Get back, Kotarou-kun”

“Sure, but you two, Mei-chan”

“Wait, what?”

“I want to see how the Rem team handles this level of threat Let's leave it to theet ‘e my expectations and Mei-chan's cheers, Reh Zobs

Arachne Mk II on the other hand was on rear support, webslinging away

The High Zo else were hit and bound by shots of spiderweb, falling face first into the dirt

That here Re off their heads one by one

“Uvoooaaaahhh!!”

The duh Zombies, because they were indeed dumb, took no hint at how the ones before theed in the sah until Arachne came in with the webs and then finished off the Zombies efficiently Rems 1, 2, and 3 were all one in the sa but perfection itself

The strongest Reer than your average High Zo a sword and axe to easily end any Zombie that carade parts, yes, but I guess because I put in other good parts over the High Zombie and Gove base body, she could hold her own too

“Nice, well done, Reh Zombies were all cleaned up, and Reood, looking very good This way I don't have to rely on Mei-chan so much

Satisfied with the Re the cohts after that, all of which the Rems made quick work of

And around s

“Looks like, a lake?”

I questioned since it wasn't exactly the picture of a lake with plants and trees growing around it The body of water was enclosed in hard concrete-like stone walls, h the ruined town

There was a few meters fall down to the lake's surface, and it looked like the people who er, as they'd es Well, not very functional fencing at any rate, since it was rusted over everywhere with bits and pieces e over there”

“Hrm, and it looks like that's the only way across too”

The concrete construct was connected by a long suspension bridge This sturdy bridge ide enough to handle 4 lanes of vehicle traffic easily

I looked to e Both sides ended in this geofront's walls, so it seemed that this was the only way to the other side

“Yeaah, soht withopen area with only one available path Call me crazy, but this just screams ambush”

“Ah I can kinda see that”

But in the end, we had to get to the other side soe

Plus, I don't see any e, since all their food and resources were in thedense areas

This was an FPS problem, and shouldn't be one for us

“… Coast does seeuard down Mei-chan focused her senses and also found no et this over with fast

“Alright, here goes nothing”

“―― Stop, Kotarou-kun!”

Just as I took soe, Mei-chan yelled out to me, and in the literal blink of an eye,

Fwoob!

Soround in front of , in fact One with a head, body and tail An arrow

“What in the, what, where――”

“―― Stop right there!”

I heard a male voice from I didn't knohere

I didn't stop because of the voice, but because of what it seeh concrete If I'd taken one h my foot and both me and my mystery sniper would be in for some hardcore pain

“Who are you! Come out and face us!”

“It's Sakurai Moe and I won't miss”

Sakurai So, Sakurai Touya

He was in the archery club like Souma Sakura, but unlike many of the boys who joined, he was just in it for the sport He was pretty good too, Nationals level even, and not only that, he had the looks to be called handsoe in school and sports, but Sou like that On the other hand, if we consider Sou exceptions, Sakurai could be considered one of the very high spec boys in class

Just ot a tonne stronger when they got powered by their Jobs

Case in point, he already hadBasically, he'd already gotten the tactical victory

“Fine, on't cross… You're actually lucky, Sakurai-kun If you'd killed et killed too It's a skill”

“Doesn't sound too convenient if you have to die too”

You can say that again But at least now, he won't just shoot me in the head all of a sudden It was tooto take it

“Alright I'll bite, what do you want?”