I looked at the monitor and saw Niku and Toy that were fighting in the arena .
“Oh, they’re already doing it . ”
“Kehma, let me see it too . ”
While saying that, Rokuko sat down beside me without opening the monitor herself .
She smells good, like a sweet scent of Melon Bread .
“Rokuko, did you use perfume? Melon Bread scent?”
“Is those exist? I want one then . ”
“I don’t know . ”
“Who had the upper hands?”
“Hmm, for now, it’s Toy . By the way, when did Niku learn to launch five fireballs at once?”
I give Nerune a phonograph golem that contain the chant, I wonder if Niku borrowed it when Nerune had already finished with it .
How diligent she is .
“There were other chants that I recorded, but I wonder how much of it she remembers . ”
“Is that so? But, Kehma, I’m betting on Toy, so I will be rooting for her . ”
“Good luck then, Niku, give it your best . ”
I cheer for Niku through the monitor . By the way, when I looking at them like this, they show us a really similar expression .
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“Even if you’re a failure, you seem to know one or two things about magic, well, it’s pretty good . But how about physical arts?”
“I won’t lose . ”
“Oh? Not even trying to win? So, a failure puppy is just a failure after all?”
“I won’t let it get over my head . That’s all . ”
Niku closes her distance to Toy .
“Slow–”
“naive…”
Toy reacts to Niku and thrusts her club . However, Niku catches the club and then spins it around to bash her . Toy’s defenseless back got slammed twice .
“[jump]”
Toy jumped with skill from an impossible position . It’s the skill features that allow her to execute that absurd movement . Basically, it’s a physical skill that improves your jumping ability, but it can be used for emergency evasion .
“using a skill? Expected, weakling . ”
“Hm… it was a convenient skill; how can you not use it? Only an idiot will refrain from it, oh wait, there’s one puppy who did . ”
Toy snorts and laughs . Niku glares at her .
However, their eyes are locked to each other, trying to find an opponent’s opening .
“#######,#####,###,##–[Curse dance]”
“##,#############–[Fireball]”
Niku slams five fireballs into the dark-colored, disastrous spear that Toy unleashed, destroying it .
“Ahaha, could it be that’s all the spell you can use? As expected from failures, you have a very limited number of moves, huh?”
“Not showing it, why should I?”
“That’s true . But I need to show Kehmsama my resourcefulness, so he understands the extent of my ability, so I shouldn’t hesitate to use it, right? ###,############### [cast pillar] . ”
The ground cracked . A black pillar the size of a grown man grew out of it—a purple haze created around it, giving it an unapproachable atmosphere .
“Don’t worry, this one doesn’t have the ability to kill – it’s just a cursed so anyone that touches it will be controlled . Ufufu, that’s right, would it be fun to make you do sexy dance?”
“####,###########,####—-[summon skeleton] . ”
Niku summons a bone soldier to hold the tower . The skeleton soldier begins to do belly dance, but let’s ignore that .
“Oooh? Summon spell? You seem to have the basics down, don’t you?”
“I’m going to get serious . ”
“Oh, dear . Well, then I’ll be half-serious . ”
“then, I will be half-half-serious . ”
“is that so? I will be half-half-half-serious then . ”
They started to exchange childlike talks – no, wait, they’re actually children – and glare at each other .
“Fine! I’ll… I’ll deal with you in one thirty-second (1/32)of seriousness . ”
“Then I’m, um, um, I’m one-sixteenth . See that? I can also divide by double digits . Master taught me . ”
Hmph, Nik proudly blows her nose, and Toy puts her hand over mouth and laughs a small “pfft” at her .
“Kukuku, you’re twice as serious as I am!”
“?, Isn’t 32 times two is 64? You suck at math . ”
“Haha! Wait for a second! Puahaha, It’s a fraction, my dear puppy! Oh, but I can’t blame her for not being able to do elementary level arithmetic, can I?”
The bigger the denominator – that is, the bigger the number to be divided, the smaller the result, but unfortunately, Niku hasn’t studied fractions and decimal points .
In this world, if you have the ability to count integers, that is more than enough . (Many adults cannot do multiplication and division properly . )
“I’m not sure why, but I feel like I’m being ridiculed . I’m going to hit you . ”
“I’m not making fun of you, it’s just the fact that you are an idiot . Ahahaha!”
Then their attacks and defense begin continued .
Niku doesn’t hesitate to thrust her wooden knife, aiming for Toy face . The aim is her silly laughing face, but of course, Toy avoids it by kicking away the blade .
The next moment Niku kick aim at Toy’s club . Anticipating this, Toy drops the club and try to aim for Niku’s legs joints .
Toy abandons the club and delivers a kick to her knee’s back – her one leg is lifted, but Niku does not collapse . Golem Assist . A secret Toy doesn’t know makes reality turned out different than it “should” be .
There is a slights moment of surprise . But after that very moment, Niku swung down her kicked-up leg back down on Toy’s head .
“ugggh!”
“Sorry, I faked the opening, and you bite it . I did that on purpose . ”
“Damn you, damn you failure dog . ”
“I’ve been training in the Demon Kingdom . By the way, what shall I call you? A Loser Dog? A good name, right?”
“How could it be good? What kind of a cheat did you use to make a failed project to become a winning dog?”
“Complete control of your body, and don’t let your opponent use you . This is the essence of the Demon King arts . ”
“Tsk, it’s the damned Demon King’s arts…!”
Toy knows . That the goal of the Demon King arts is ‘complete self-control’ . You can say It is the ultimate selfishness that is not influenced by anyone or anything . If one managed reaches the extreme peak, they can control his body, mind, and even their soul as they wish .
It was Niku’s bluff, but that was the kind of skill that the Demon King arts used . Toy didn’t expect Niku to be able to use it that well .
“Then I’ll take you seriously this time, too . The Chaos School will swallow everything . Use what you can use, even your enemies . A thousand and one changes, all things are in torrents – [Kaleidoscope]!”
The next moment, Toy divides into four .
“How about this? Failure puppy?”
“Isn’t this simply a technique for creating three illusions–?”
“The presences are perfect on all four bodies, right? that’s the difference . ”
“The original technique of what school was it…… . . I forget . Anyway, it’s a secret technique . ”
And then one by one, they spoke to Niku in turn .
…No matter how you look at it, there are four of them .
“””” Let’s go, shall we?””””
And then the four Toy come at Niku, all at once–
“…C, there . ”
— but Niku hit the second from the right without hesitation . She punched the main body Toy with her elbow .
The three clones disappear .
“Gah, ughh! Did you just find me in one shot!?”
“You’re need to concentrate to control your clones, which makes it much easier to hit you . it was an excellent move, though . ”
“…tell me, how did you know?”
“Believe it or not, it’s luck . This is my lucky day . So, do it again, and I might miss it next time, okay?”
“…liar . ”
Toy laughed enviously and flopped down .
“Well, let’s just end it as me losing today . It’s also the role of a junior to follow their senior . ”
“Good decision, Now, Toy… bow down . ”
“…like this?”
Toy bow down quietly . And then Niku climbs onto her, and stand in her head . Maid dog on maid dog .
“…Mm . It’s a moderate ride . ”
“…n . ”
Surprisingly, Toy accepts it without complaining, but it’s no surprise since she’s on the losing side . That was the way it goes for both of them .
Niku put her weight on Toy’s head a couple of times as a reminder and got off Toy .
“Let’s get back, Toy . ”
“understood~~ . ”
Toy obeyed Niku’s order meekly . She brushed the dirt from her clothes and head with a flick of her hand and followed behind Niku with a pitter-patter .
This was the end of the ranking ritual .
By the way, Niku’s earring is also a cloth golem that Kehma had prepared for her .
I’m sure you’ve known about gramophone golems, hidden inside that earing is the same mechanism to produce sound . Its purpose is to send a voice to Niku via dungeon function [communication] since she’s not a dungeon monster .
A small voice that can only be heard by Niku through the golem was Kehma’s voice . Just now, Kehma secretly delivered the following conversation to Niku .
“Hey Rokuko, if you had to guess, then which one of those four is the real one? A to D from left to right . ”
“eh, What? Well…C?”
It’s not her own victory . Niku didn’t call Toy a ‘loser’ because she realized that .
TL notes:
Why math!!
It’s hard to write technical terms in English!! If I do make a mistake on that sentence about denominator, please write down the right one in the comments, PLEASE! I’m struggling so hard in that sentence that I had to use google translate .
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