Huddling together was a mistake . The Tornado Blade I threw chopped them up as if sneering at the wary adventurers. Tornado Blade was a spherical version of the Wind Blade magic. Though it consumes more magic power, it becomes possible to cut through several enemies in a fixed range at the same time. It’s a convenient magic for group battles. Milim performed a surprise attack against the first person to scout for traps.It was a quick death. And before my magic arrived, she had quickly moved to our rear. Without making a blunder, like hitting Milim, my magic only hit the adventurer that huddling together. Before we could be sensed by the enemy group, I activated invisibility magic[2]. Once our side began attacking, the invisibility magic was canceled, but the enemy’s numbers were already decreased by one or two people. In addition, they had lost their attacker[3] and the healer[4]from the rear support. 「It’s bad, it’s the ScarletRed Meteor[5]! Be careful!」 「Damn it, Marja and Nadja were killed by magic. Jean isn’t breathing either! 」 「Shit, you guys! How dare you!!」
They confirmed our identities now that they could see, and the vanguard came at us burning with anger, but......
Veldora and Ramiris stopped the vanguard’s charge in high spirits. I could perceive the bright red bar above the warriors’ heads decreasing by half when I looked at them with analysis. 「Those fellows’ HP are below half. You guys can deal with them right?」
My companions uttered such cocky words. Yes, we were a set party of 4.
Veldora was a skeleton but his bones somehow turned golden by using a special alloy called OrichalcumGod's Shine Metal Steel[9] that I had manufactured. Orichalcum is mix of Demon Steel and Gold, in addition, it’s a special alloy refined by injecting dense magic power. Veldora started by saying that a golden skull was good, but then I made a whole skeletal structure golden. As long as there was a core, anything seemed fine for making bones, so the conversion was done easily and a golden Skeleton was made. The current strength couldn’t be compared to that of the bones from before, it became pointlessly high spec.
Ramiris was part of the Fighter faction. She wields an axe with all her strength as if she mocking the powerlessness of her original body. Her combat style was to go all out, making her popular as the Living ArmorMoving Heavy Armor[11] that wields aDeath AxeGrim Reaper's Great Axe[12] insanely. Perhaps, it was stronger than the original body....... No, it’s nothing. Such a thing doesn’t matter.
I was floating in the air and Milim was clinging to the ceiling. Since she’d never fallen into a pitfall, Ramiris was careless. But, Ramiris...... “What are you doing, falling into your own trap?”I think that everyone wanted to tsukkomi. We spent the troubling times having such feelings.
The adventurer in front of me whom I had just defeated turned into particle of light and disappeared. This was a familiar scene. Once we got cocky and tried to defeat the boss of the 30th floor.
The three people nodded to my opinion. Well then, let’s keep going at this pace! When I thought that, I received a messagefrom my emergency-communication-duty clone in the office. What’s going on? Is what I was thinking when I received a message that 『Hinata and Demon Lord Ruminas seemed to have talked regarding an alliance』. Apparently, it’s not the time for me to study (play). Because it couldn’t be helped, I switched on the avatar’s pseudo soul’s Automatic Mode, and we decided to go back to the office.
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「Ah, Milim. You were in here? By the way, what happened with the homework I gave you? The guards fell down and were rolled up in a bamboo mat, but you can give anexplanation about what happened, right?」 Scary. Even though I wasn’t involved, for some reason I felt an unbearable sensation. Yes, a friend should play after finishing their homework, but in reality the homework was completely untouched. I happened to catch a similar scene to when lies were exposed to the parent, making them mad....... It’s such a nostalgic feeling.
Milim became flustered as soon as her eyes met Frey’s. This is...... So it’s over, Milim. Though I said it daringly, the matter had no relation to me, no, to us did it?
As expected. Veldora and Ramiris who read the situation backed up my words. With this we established our ignorance, and furthermore, it stated that we were unrelated. Though I saw Milim’seyes watering, I’m sorry there seems to be no way to help you. Give up and bind yourself with a rope[14]. Thus, Milim was caught by Frey.
So Milim screamed to the end, but it failed before Frey’s iron smile. Resistance was futile. Sadly Milim was caught and carried away like a cat[15] back to her own country.
Phew, that was scary. I thought I going to be dragged into it, but it seems like I was able to make it through safely somehow. When I thought so,
Shuna stood at my back without any presence, and threw a sharp question at me. I felt sweat which couldn’t flow appear on my forehead. No, we’re safe, it’s alright. We never played. Yes, research! Because we were researching.
Veldora turned his back with a favored bookManga in his hand while saying such a thing. Is he going to run away!? When I was going to detain him,
Ramiris betrayed me too and left, running away together with Veldora. How cruel! However, right now was not the time to be thinking about those cruel friends. I think it was a little weak to keep insisting it was a research. Hinata and Ruminas stared in my direction with suspicion-filled eyes, it seemed like a poor excuse would destroy me. As I let Veldora and Ramiris’s escape go, my brain cells operated at full strength searching for the optimum solution. It’s no use, a good idea won’t come. Since it came to this, I went with my last resort. （Raphael! Help me find a good excuse to safely get through this situation!）
There’s nothing to be afraid of. 《Solution. Explanation is unnecessary》
「Ah, you were here? I’ve been looking for you, Danna!?」
「Oh, Fuze-kun. The matter I asked you about, how did the investigation go?* Let’s hear about it inside.」
Was the timing of this and Fuze‘s arrival already predicted? You don’t say. Still it’s impossible. But, there’s no doubt that I was saved. I’m glad I didn’t carelessly make a weird excuse. I enter the room and invited Fuze inside. Then I absorbed my communication-duty clone, and sat in a chair. I seemed able to deceive her somehow or another. 「A secret investigation was it? As expected of Rimuru-sama!」
Because I felt guilty, I became unnecessarily flustered.
You should do things within reason.
I reflected in my mind to be careful from now on.