Chapter 24 (2/2)

The guards keeping watch raised panicked voices and their footsteps faded into the distance Is this the fortress getting attacked!? If that’s the case, I need to wake Hyurumi

“Congratulations You have won another bottle Congratulations You have won another bottle Congratulations You have won another bottle”

“Fuei? E, what, what, e, o , hat’s going on, Hakkon”

Wiping away her drool with one hand, she stared at me with a blank expression I can’t really explain, but anyway, here’s a canned coffee to wake you up

“O-, thanks Kuhaaaa, one of these right when you wake up hits the spot-!”

As always, she acts like an old ht noho cares? The current situation is, no matter how I think about it, a raid The proble?

There are about two possibilities on who’s raiding The monsters on this level Or just maybe – the Hunters

With the coht have sniffed out theme is probably not their first offense; it’s likely that their criht be marked

Even if that’s the case, this tiood to be a coincidence That means …

A-, could it be that they aiting for et stolen?

Me, who is a lucrative luet? I can’t y bank left on the side of the road So yeah, I’et for criminals to aim at

And then, stealingwith the proportions to match, so it will take some time and effort to carry me off There isn’t anyone else ould be more suitable for bait

E, could it be that I’ve hit upon the tactics that the Bear President was thinking about using?

But, if it was the Bear President, then he would have toldto tell e of it? Whichever, with their predictions co true, they saved us!

“This sounds like … who they fighting?”

Now that Hyurumi’s finally wide awake, her always sharp eyes didn’t move from the door and she strained her ears while she stood

“Yeah, they definitely fighting soht be our chance”

She has the saest worry is the teet annihilated If that happens, then we’ll end up re trapped in this room

She’s been struggling to open the door since a while ago, but since it’s locked with a key from the outside, it looks like no matter what she does, it’s useless-ish

“’Kooooooon”

E, that voice right then It just needs a “Ha-“ and it’s a voice I’ve heard before Hyuruether and clung to the door

“Haaa-kkooooon! Wheeeeeere are yooooouuuu!”

I know that voice all too well; that loud voice you can hear from the other side of the massive door is —

“Ramis!?”

That’s right, it’s Ramis’ voice!

There’s no way I’d mishear that voice In other words, thatare the Hunters We’re saved!

“A, e, why’s that chick here? The Hunter association send her? And she’s calling Hakkon’s name You mean, you know each other?”

“Welcome”

“Ooooo-, that so! Then, I’d just get in the way and drag theet taken as a hostage”

Deciding that the safest place would be next to me, she put her clothes back on and entrusted her back to me

“If it gets dicey, protect me, na!”

“Welcome”

Leave it to me If it’s just protection, I have confidence in it

I can hear the clashi+ng of weapons as well as harsh words The ground tre fro her Super-Strength at full force, the pillars and walls of the decaying, on the verge of collapse fortress ainst her

“This, could be bad”

All of a sudden, Hyuru Fro particularly off about it A bit of dust is falling fro

“Above us is a storage roo be stashed there If it was just that, we’d be fine, but those ic Stones … aka Explosive Stones, all up in there Originally Magic Stones be stones used as fuel for ic Stones with internal h, and you can’t use them as fuel If you’re shi+t with theic tool”

So there are Magic Stones too I ondering how

“And so, Magic Stones with defects is hard to handle; when a country tried to stash them up to be used as weapons, there be stories about how it blew to high heaven and took the surrounding land with it That’s why it be coet rid of the it, sold off the Explosive Stones as if they was Magic Stones totheotta be messed up in the head”

If this was soo, “Man, they’re dumb” and continue on, but in other words, above our heads is an explosion just waiting to happen … are they idiots!?

“So, yeah, you get that it’ll be real bad if the Explosive Stones get a strong shock You’d be right in thinking even the roof up there would collapse”

Aa, yeah I don’t need any further explanation Rath back a little-!

So closer, though-!

“A, that’s bad, for reals”

In thedoith a loud roar