――HitaHita. Hita hita.

Wet footsteps are gradually approaching. Slowly and surely.

――HitaHita. Hita hita.

Can you really go with this strategy?

Should we fight?

Squeeze your lips so as to hold back the suspicions that spring up.

Keep looking at the direction of the sound.

――HitaHita. Hita hita.

The end of a passage lit slightly by candles.

The monster lurking in the darkness is not yet visible.

Should be fine. There should be no doubt in this choice.

Sing in my heart to inspire me.

――HitaHita. Hita hita.

Also pay attention to Erin.

She was shaking in my arms.

Squeeze your shoulders to tell them you don't need to worry.

――HitaHita. Hita hita.

We are breathing at the end of the aisle, as planned. It should be fine.

Two people are shrinking and hiding inside the ivy that covers the wall so that they can't get into the sight of the monster.

Prepare for the coming monsters and increase your sense of departure from the world.

Deeper. Put it in "Stealth".

――HitaHita. Hita hita.

It emerged from the dark.

green? Blue?

I do not know the color of the body that is blurry.

――HitaHita. Hita hita.

Wet footsteps were coming and going.

What is that? A frog?

The surface of the body is reflected by the candlelight.

Apparently the body surface is wet with mucus.

The monster, which can only be described as a frog, was walking bipedally.

It is too early to be careless about frog mock while walking.

If you look closely, your legs are thick.

These legs are like muscles.

If this guy jumps seriously, tens of meters may be enough.

Is it about one size larger than us?

The eyes are very large for the size of the torso.

Both arms appear to be less developed than the legs.

It was as thin as my arm.

The same bipedal monster is a horse of 16 levels, but a frog-like character has a completely different impression.

If a horse is a monster that has brought a horse to a human and walked bipedally, a frog is just a bipedal beast.

You can't feel any intelligence or order from this monster.

There is only instinct.

――HitaHita. Hita hita.

The frog mock was just in front of us.

It is the distance whether or not you can reach by touching your hand.

Walking slowly. Pass by early.

The heart beats faster as it approaches its limit.

Noisy and noisy.

You can find it like this. Please stop.

No matter how much you think, the sound will not stop.

Wrong. This sound is not mine. It's Erin's heartbeat.

Gently turn your neck and look at her in your arms.

Erin opened her eyes and shook her body.

In such a case, I will find out how much I worked on Stealth.

Even though she gently presses her body, Erin's trembling does not stop.

His mouth was half-open, and his fear was about to leak.

Do it well, dude!

I want to scold out aloud, but that doesn't work in this situation.

I couldn't help but forcibly closed Erin's mouth with my right hand.

Immediately after that, a very slight scream of "Hip!" Resounds in the palm of your hand.

I felt like I wanted to push Erin involuntarily.

I'm scared too.

Please be patient. If not, you will be killed?

No matter how hard Erin is pressed, the tremor does not show any signs of stopping.

My palms are wet with her saliva, and the blocking voice is about to break.

Even tears were floating in the bright red eyes.

I guessed that this might not be possible, and when I gave up and turned forward, the frog-like figure had disappeared.

Shifting his view to the left, the eerie bipedal beast was fading into the dark.

When did you pass by?

Erin was too dangerous and wasn't conscious at all ...

After confirming that the frog had gone away, he released his hand.

From the neighbor, you can hear a rough breath, saying, "Hah, huh."

"I'm going early. Monsters are coming from behind."

I got up in a hurry and hit her shoulder.

My gaze comes back to my reminder.

At first, I wondered if I would protest that I blocked my mouth roughly.

But her mouth gave me an unexpected response.

"I'm done ..."

He got up to obey my words, but he didn't have much strength in the movement.

The usual bullish girlfriend is no longer here.

I felt a little uneasy for Erin, who keeps muting.

***

How many days have passed since you came to this level.

three days? Five days? Or more than a week?

No, maybe even only 24 hours have passed.

There is no sunlight, and there are only 20 floors with a passage and room lit by candles.

The sense of time has gone crazy and I don't know if it's morning or night.

In such a situation, it is quite reluctant to continue walking in a landscape that does not shine.

It was evident that without adequate rest, physical and mental limits would come.

"I'm really fine ... sleep here ..."

"Yeah, don't worry. I'll wake you up if there's a sign of a monster approaching."

Gently calm down Erin wrapped in the blanket next door.

Care must be exercised in her mentally unstable situation.

Choose words that are as stimulating as possible.

"... I understand, then go to bed."

"Good night, Erin"

"……good night"

With that said, hang a blanket all the way to the head to block even the light of a few candles.

It is a hermit crab-like gesture that blocks fear from the outside world and withdraws into a safe world.

I sat down on the wall in a similar position, looking at the staff leaning against the hermit crab.

Exhale deeply to exhale the air in the lungs.

――Honestly, it's tough ... The limits are coming for me.

Close your eyes to get a little tired.

In order to cope with the approaching monster threat, Search Enemies must be active all the time.

As a result, she hadn't had a good night's sleep since entering this class.

While developing Search Enemies and Stealth, every day survive with a shallow sleep as if touched.

If you did not have the skills to sleep while activating arts, you would have fallen by now.

No, even if I haven't, I may fall tomorrow.

My body was so heavy due to fatigue.

Erin sleeping sideways seems annoyed.

While I was sleeping, I was waking up every time I detected a monster approaching with Search for Enemy.

The first one slammed Erin and ran away from the monsters, but after seeing Erin's tiredness, he spent halfway through Stealth without raising Erin unless he was a herd.

So my sleep should be much less than Erin.

But Erin is weaker than her.

I get a little frustrated by her appearance.

know. Here are eight.

I just want to blame others because I can't afford it.

The progress in getting out of this hierarchy was not good either, which spurred my frustration.

We are moving forward with avoiding encounters with monsters as our highest priority.

Turning back the route you come in is a daily occurrence, and sometimes it's a big detour before proceeding.

It was different from exploring while monsters were kicking away.

In the first place, since the position of the transition crystal is not known, it is not clear which one is ahead.

I'm going crazy about the escape play with no goal.

The only salvation was to make a map of the road that I went to thanks to [Mapping].

I do not get lost, and I understand the structure of this hierarchy gradually.

Theoretically, if we continue walking, we should be able to find a transition crystal.

Without this skill, I would have given up getting out of this hierarchy.

This is the first time that my skills have been useful.

-Do you sleep lightly? Monsters will not come for a while.

From the item bag, take out the same blanket that Erin is wearing.

This is another lucky category.

The bag was handed only to me and Neme among the six of "Arrivals".

Inside are food and dungeon accommodations.

It was a light search for the 17th level, so there wasn't much in the bag, but it wouldn't be a problem for a few days.

We were barely surviving with this kind of luck.

If anything was missing, I was dead now.

We must thank the ongoing situation.

I wake up.

I am terrified by the sensation of consciousness that suddenly shakes violently.

A monster. Monster is coming.

And it's not one. A herd.

Passing on Stealth alone alone is risky.

Erin, who was wrapped in a blanket next to her, is quickly woken up.

"Hey, get up."

"... what is it?"

Erin rubs his eyelids, turns over and turns his body here.

"A monster is coming. I'll escape from here soon."

"so……"

"It's not" Yeah ... "

Erin's hand is replied, and she wakes up.

The light was extinguished, and her murky eyes were well visible in the dim dungeon.

Perhaps Erin is already pushing his limits. Especially on the mental side.

Over the past few days, bullish statements haven't popped out of Erin's mouth.

It always comes to my ears.

On the contrary, the number of words has been abnormally low since being left behind in the dungeon.

Today, it seemed like I was finally talking back.

She rarely talks to her.

Moreover, when I opened my mouth, the sound that came out was a weak sound, which made me, the listener, feel unpleasant.

I'm falsely telling me what I want, so I want Erin to go with it.

Otherwise, it's going to break my heart.

I thought Erin was a better guy.

But that seemed overrated.

-Erin is really useless now.

I didn't think I was a mentally weak person.

Her presence was now a bit of my mental shackle.

We take blanket which Erin had and throw and throw in item bag.

In order to hide the frustration, she ran with her hand without pause.

How long did you move your feet?

We had stopped our feet due to Erin's lack of strength.

Put your hands on your knees and turn your shoulders aside with Erin's rough breath.

I was able to get away from monsters.

For the time being, I thought it was safe and safe.

"Can you ask for water?"

Take out the water bottle from the item bag and hand it to Erin.

It is her job to fill the water bottle with drinking spell "Water".

It was true that the mage Erin helped solve the water problem.

Although it was useless a while ago, it is also true that it has contributed in this regard.

"……Yup"

Erin nods lightly and places her hand on her waist.

He beat him several times to find something and noticed something unusual.

She turns her neck many times to check her waist.

"... No! ... Why?"

She opened her eyes and looked desperately around the area, giving her a bad feeling.

Even if you keep silent, nothing seems to be resolved, so I will ask you without help.

"What's wrong?"

"Stand! I don't have a stick!"

...... Really? Wow.

The embarrassed emotion came before the anger.

Speaking of which, Erin was standing against a wall when she was sleeping.

She seems to have left her stick because she hurried and ran away.

"... The sub cane wasn't in this item bag, right?"

"... Yeah, towards the neme"

"Arrivers" divides the item bag into two parts.

My item bag was mostly packed with me, gin and Rozria's gear.

That even magic can not be used.

It was time to lose even Erin's only role.

If this is the case, it will be really useless.

You can't overlook this situation, so open your mouth.

"It can't be helped. I think I just forgot where I was sleeping, so if the monster leaves, I'll go get it later."

"……sorry"

"Good. I didn't even notice."

It is guilty to throw too strong a word at her withering away.

Choose the gentleest thing possible and calm her.

"For now, let's take a rest. The monster is likely to be near the staff for the time being."

He exchanged the empty water bottle in Erin's hand for the blanket in the item bag.

"Don't sleep just a little. You're not sleeping at all, right?"

It should be less than two hours after you go to sleep and be woken up by a swarm of monsters.

Walking around the dungeon with this lack of sleep is too dangerous.

"……Thank you"

Erin lay down when she received the blanket.

I'll sleep for another hour. Then think about the rest.

Both mentally and physically tired, I immediately went into a shallow sleep.