Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

The moment I stabbed the knife, I began to pinch it on Shumini's body, and I began to get into it.

The jaw gradually spreads throughout his body, dividing his blue-white skin into tiles.

Furthermore, the blue and white light began to leak out of the shadow...

"... shmini"

Isaac pounds, groans, but not the other way around.

When Lorraine

"Lent! Isn't this... bad!? Better run..."

... Sure, there's an awesome atmosphere that's about to explode.

I can't imagine how big it would be if it did.

In the meantime, to Isaac, who seems to know something,

"Isaac! What is this!?

And I ask him, he said,

"... I don't know. Anyway, you might want to leave this place. Let's go."

I said and ran out toward the exit of the hall.

And at the same time as we got out of the hall, we heard an explosion, a strong wind blowing out of the aisle leading to the hall.

Not hot... no.

It doesn't seem like a bomb, but it's kind of a very disgusting breeze.

Feeling like we had a warm breeze in the summer......

However, I just don't feel well and I'm not feeling particularly well.

"... after all, was it a suicide bomber or something?

When I snapped, Isaac shook his head.

"As it used to be, Schmini wasn't that type. There was something about sacrifice if it was for a purpose... suicide bombing to defeat the enemy, which I don't think is too short-circuited to be like him. I was wondering if you had any purpose and went into such an act for it..."

"No, you said something about sacrifice..."

In my words, Lorraine...

"Sacrifice. Like a ritual to summon something? Then when a powerful demon or something like that appears in that hall...?

and speculate.

That's likely.

I thought I'd go check it out, and the three of us meet each other in the face.

Then,

"... may be dangerous... but you will need to confirm"

It was decided to go see it by Isaac's word that

Isaac would have said he was more concerned about what happened to Schmini than that, but there's no way he's going home without checking anything out here.

The Adventurers' Union (Guild) has made the choice of going to report it first, but we'll have to see what happens to Schmini on the boulder.

Be vigilant and go back the way you came running away.

And we reached just before the hall, so when we peered inside the hall, there was something huge sitting around it.

"... that, what is it? It looks like a dragon..."

"I'm not dressed for that. Sounds like a crocodile standing up."

Following Isaac's words, Lorraine credits it as such.

However, I feel that Lorraine's statement is more targeted.

It's not the same size as a crocodile, nearly ten meters.

The shape is also very different, the whole body is covered with muscle and bumpy skin and looks suspicious anyway.

I don't want to fight in the wrong atmosphere......

If you think so and continue to observe further,

"... is that a person's face?

Isaac and Lorraine pay attention there when I say that while I show the object hitting the abdomen.

Isaac confirms it,

"... you're absolutely right. It's a shmini......"

I said thoughtlessly.

The abdomen of the giant crocodile demon is covered with green skin, but a part of it is unnaturally elevated.

If you look closely at it, it looks like a person's face.

And no matter how you look at it, it was someone who was relative to us until earlier - nothing more than Schmini.

Was it taken in?

Or is that demon himself a schmini?

I don't know what this means...

Anyway, we have to decide what we're going to do.

The most important thing... is to defeat that demon or go back to reporting it for now...

As for me and Lorraine, we should go back, so it matches.

Why, because I'm not so confident in my strength and if I die trying to be this member, people in the city might not notice this for a while.

I've been getting a lot of confidence in my arms lately, but I'm not so complacent that I think I can definitely take them down, etc.

I don't know, it's still copper.

Even Lorraine is silver, but she doesn't receive frequent requests, so the battle plan isn't that far.

There's plenty of magic available, and it's powerful.

On the other hand, Isaac said he was flying away even now.

I guess that's because I want to do something about the shrini that surfaced in that demon belly.

I've known him for a long time, even though he was hostile until earlier.

As for whether you want to help, or whether you want to give him guidance with your own hands, you probably feel close to the latter, but it's not hard to imagine why both would feel the way they did.

However, even though I thought so in my mind, Isaac also seemed to understand what was most important now.

He glanced at the demon and then shook his neck loose,

"... you can't risk Malt any more with my endeavor. Let's go back. If you want to take them down, you just have to come back after the report."

I said.

Me and Lorraine snorted at the words, slowly descending down the aisle so that they could not be scattered by the demons in the hall.

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Strange things happened when we went for a while towards the exit.

"... Giggy!

My ear caught a voice that I could hear in a way.

Isaac seems to have heard that, too, and looks me in the eye.

"... Mr. Lent, did you hear that?

"Oh......"

It seemed to be a little far away so I couldn't hear Lorraine in a regular human ear on a boulder,

"Did something ring?

I've been asking, but shortly thereafter, Lorraine also understands what our conversation means.

A little further, a bow and arrow flew in from the corner of the aisle.

Lorraine basically put up a magic shield all the time, and I was ready to slap her off with my sword, but the bow and arrow were grabbed by Isaac's hand.

You confirmed that, from the corner,

"Giggy!"

And there shall be a voice again, and his Lord shall appear.

"... goblins. Why, here..."

Lorraine's strange voice sounded.