Chapter 136 - Volume 7 (2/2)

While he is wary of the normal humans, Daichi appreciates their presence from the bottom of his heart.

“Thank you very much.”

“Haa!?”

“Prepare yourselves, attack!”

The knights pull their swords at the order and slash at Daichi’s heading without hesitation.

No use arguing.

Usually, attacking a dungeon is unrestricted unless the adventurer’s guild makes it impossible.

Any adventurer can move at their discretion, except for dungeons that are licensed in some countries and have dungeon masters paying their taxes.

So even though Daichi is here, he can’t be blamed.

However, from the knight’s point of view, this is a dungeon managed by Gamble. A place that needs to be kept secret for matters of national security.

Therefore, any intruder is evil and must be slain.

It’s a difference is thought, but which is incorrect differs depending on the perspective.

“Heeeee”

Sharp blade shaking in his hands, Daichi bends down and slides forward.

“You!”

“Hiya!”

Blocking the sword swing at him without stopping his run, Daichi pushes through the tunnel filled with knights.

“Ah, I leave what’s following me to you!”

The knights are stunned at the fearless method of avoiding them, pausing for a moment.

“W-wait!”

“Follow him, he won’t escape!”

“Hold on, something’s coming!”

One of the younger knights noticed a presence approaching from further in the tunnel.

A young woman is running around the passage with a skip in her step. The knights in their flamboyant adornments who have trained themselves to call an elephant a beautiful girl forget all about battle for a moment.

“What are you guys doing? Isn’t that an intruder?”

Among them, the knight captain turns his sword towards the approaching girl.

He was Kanzo, a follower of the Hero, a vice captain of the Hero’s party which they led.

He was an aristocrat of Gamble, the second son of the Countess and formerly a senior knight.

He was unsatisfied with his current position. He was chosen on paper to be a member of the Hero’s party because of his appearance and fighting ability, but the real reason was because he was the highest-level disposable knight available.

He think’s he would be a better heir than his useless elder brother.

Although he’s in such an honorable [Hero’s Party], he was unhappy to be serving such a special hero.

Kanzo had taken on the Hero’s sexual harassment with a smile in order to raise himself within the group.

If he could show that he’s competent and get more results from upcoming battles, he may even be chosen as a royal guard.

By doing that, he thought, he could become the son-in-law of someone even higher up, enough to look down on the parents who put him here.

Everything was for his goal…

But even then, in the life he chose, he wants “Charm.”

Not just to get more money, but to enjoy beautiful women and relax, he wants this as much as anything else.

And here, before him, is a prey that perfectly matches his desire.

A beautiful girl with a cute smile.

He doesn’t know why she’s intruding and why the boy seemed scared, but he’ll catch up to the boy later, and ambush this girl for some pleasant times.

If they die later on, he can just report that they took care of the intruder.

“You all, pursue that little boy, hurry!”

“…Got it”

Although the other knights don’t follow Kanzo from the bottom of their hearts, they will still serve the [Hero] as their duty as knights of Gamble.

The men obviously could tell that their captain had dark thoughts in mind, but they wouldn’t resist orders from their boss, who was a noble at that, but they seemed to all feel sympathy for the beautiful girl as they left.

“Terya!”

The lead knight sharply swings at the girl’s arms.

The sword stopped moving. He couldn’t push it forward either. Looking at what happened, however…

When the sharp point of his sword came towards the girl, she didn’t even use the expensive looking magic sword in her hand, just gently grabbed his sword in her pale delicate fingertips.

The knight who had swung the sword, and the knights who were still nearby stood in amazement.

“T-this…”

The knight, at his humiliation, tried to pull back the sword, dark emotions clouding his face, but the sword was immobile, as if caught in a huge rock.

As he looked at the girl, he noticed that he had made a fundamental misunderstanding of that smile… it was like a carnivorous flower, looking straight at him.

The prey at this time was himself…

“Aha~”

With that lovely smile, giggling slightly, the girl gracefully pushed her fingertip into the knight’s chest.

Her bare hands penetrated the metal full-plate without ceremony, the knight, feeling her fingertip at the edge of his heart shook his head at the child, tears falling from his eyes.

The girl’s fingertips finished puncturing the poor knight’s heart, before she pulled out her hand along with “Something” and licked her bloody fingertips with a beautiful look, her lips bright red with blood as she turned her cute smile at the remaining knights.

“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

The knight threw down their weapons as one and ran away screaming.

Nobody can tell that their faces hold the same expression as Daichi from before.

“Awawa~”

Nea’s cheery tone echoed through the dungeon as both Daichi and the knight ran through the corridors, staining the ground with tears as they ran side by side.

Author’s Notes:

Nea actually things Daichi’s pretty cute. She’s just clumsy and a bit of a Yandere.

Next time, the dungeon master.