V4C90 (1/2)

(090) Side Story 「Upheaval starts」

Translation: Tseirp

Along the timeline, this happened around when Ichinosuke obtained the 「D」(TL: Doujinshi)

“Wah, amazing! For the monsters around this area to totally not measure up to you.”

Julio was flattering Jofre and Elise.

Jofre and Elise were indeed slicing the monsters around the area in 2 with his golden sword or delivering swift judgment with her silver whip.

Even if their appearances were seen without the biased light Julio saw them in, they still seemed great.

However, they just appear to be so but it’s not the truth.

This labyrinth is a beginner’s labyrinth and is meant for the sake of leveling up rookie soldiers by using it 3 times a month. It is for the sake of earning magic stones and experience points as they hunt the monsters that increased during the 10 day period.

Since that is the safest method to earn experience points.

In actual fact, since Julio, Sutchino and their delinquent group Secret Society Massacre have visited this place without permission to earn experience points and hunt without getting any injuries, it’s a place with only that level of difficulty.

To Jofre and Elise who don’t know about that,

“Well, that’s because this is the strength of a Hero!”

“It’s also because this is the strength of a Monster Master like me!”

They triumphantly announced.

They truly thought that they had become stronger.

Incidentally, the feelings in the hearts of the remaining members Sutchino and Milky were not so simple.

The first to notice the abnormality was Sutchino.

(There are too few monsters.)

The military exercise should have been held 4 days ago. Even so, there are too few monsters.

There had only been 3 monsters that have appeared until now, 2 goblins and 1 baby slime.

Originally, by the time they reach the location they are at, it wouldn’t be strange if they had encountered 3 times the number of monsters they’ve seen.

Just that was enough for him to understand how abnormal the situation was.

However, Sutchino gloated.

(I sure am lucky. If there’s just these few monsters, those 2 won’t be able to play much of an active role and they probably won’t make requests when asking for their cut. They would probably be satisfied if we hand them all the magic stone and items dropped by the defeated monsters.)

Rather than consider the possibility of a dangerous situation happening, Sutchino’s shallow personality that can only calculate the money that has tumbled into his sights will be the ruin of him.

Then, for Milky,

(Fufufu, very nice, Juli x Jof, ahh, it can work! The greatest story is unfolding.)

As usual, she was lost in fascination with her delusions.

Incidentally, there was also a slow donkey called Centaur together with the 5 of them but it was simply silently eating all the grasses growing within the labyrinth it came across. While also eating mosses from time to time to switch up the taste.

In the end, the 5 people and 1 donkey did not notice the dangerous situation and arrived at the final corner.

“Jofre-san, the room ahead is the boss room! If it’s Jofre, you can easily defeat the boss right!”

“Oo, I see! Okay, let’s go!”

What awaited them when they turned the corner was ― an unbelievable scene.

A scene that demolishes the common sense of this world.

It was broken through.

The door to the boss room that was said to be impossible to be broken by whatever force a monster can generate was smashed apart.

The figures of 5 people could be seen past the collapsed door.

Surprisingly, it was Milky who instantly made a move.

(Extinguishing talisman!)

She deployed 5 talismans that extinguished their presences in the surroundings and gestured to the others to remain silent.

Even though it’s said to extinguish presences, it is only an item that works to the extent of making it hard to notice the people within and to hear the sounds made but it was still effective nonetheless.

Then, she made a motion to fall back and retreat to the blind spot of the opponents as she asked with a gesture.

“What’s going on? Who are they?”

“It’s been thoroughly broken ―”

Jofre and Elise said while not looking tense at all.

Julio was impressed with their calm appearance but Milky’s appearance was different.