Hazure Skill ‘Mapping’ wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Saikyou Party to Tomo ni Dungeon ni Idomu

Ten days have passed since I swore to bring Erin home.

I don't know the exact elapsed time in the dungeon, but it would have been a month since we got down to the 20th level.

Meanwhile, we were lucky enough to keep alive.

Moreover, they are searching for a way out of the dungeon with their feet without serious injury.

Hold your hands many times.

All right. Power enters properly. I still can do it.

A hand signal is sent to the Erin opponent who is just in front of the intersection at the intersection.

A monster was walking from the road at the intersection where I and Erin were not.

He signaled that he would soon reach the location where he set up the trap.

A girl waiting on a dark road seemed to understand my signal.

As you can see in the limited field of view, I nodded slowly and large.

Paki. The sound of breaking the branches was tens of times sharper.

Apparently a monster was trapped.

――Tsu

He stepped in short time.

I break the corner immediately after running.

It's like a frog. He had his feet frozen and struggling.

―― Shrink land.

Shorten the distance with the frog mock with a pair.

This is a mobile art that Jin usually uses.

The frog mocked slightly, shook my body.

When encountering monsters, it is said that the first thing seen first is easily targeted.

Now the frogs would have completely aimed at me.

Light pink arrows are released at high speed.

―― Streamline avoidance (stream).

Then, before being thrown into the 20th hierarchy, the avoidance arts that have been burned into the eyes many times are activated.

Smooth and sharp tongue emitted from frog mock.

As she avoided herself on the verge, a grain of saliva glistened.

Move your body as it flows and pass the right side of the frog.

His glanced yellow eyes and his eyes crossed.

Immediately after, a ball of light that was slowly moving along the path I was approaching earlier was sucked into the profile of a frog.

Erin's spell, Lightblade.

Those who inhale this spell can make the blade of light emerge from the body.

After the blink, amphibians filled with blades of light were standing.

But I'm learning that he won't die with this degree of damage.

The monsters on the 20th level are suitable for remote places where humankind cannot easily reach, but have high durability.

It was difficult for Erin's spells to reduce the amount of magic she could put in with a single shot in order to keep the surrounding monsters close.

Here is the game.

-Kill you. definitely.

He sent all the killing to the frog in front of him.

<< Killing >>. It is the target concentration art used mainly by assassins.

I haven't seen much of this art used by Jin. Once or twice.

So relying on intuition alone, but I still had some confidence to succeed.

In addition to imitating the skills of others, arts can be acquired naturally by learning such techniques.

Because he was practicing the sneaking operation art Sneaking,

Had been.

The direct opposite of Stealth, the killing, was relatively easy to learn.

The frog-like gaze turned to Erin, who appeared for a moment from the front, but immediately turned to me.

Alright. Successful. I got the target properly.

While holding my fist inside, a frog-like tongue attack came.

Don't worry. Today's frogs cannot look back well because their movements are restricted by trap magic.

The result was a rough attack on me behind me.

This kind of attack can be dealt with without difficulty with Streamline Avoidance.

Avoid the tongue that approaches one after another. Carefully one by one. Calm down and handle.

The moment he lifted his right hand to stop the next attack, Erin's second spell exploded, killing the frog.

All that remains is the monster corpse, which is made of a spear of ice pierced from the brain.

"Okay. Well done. Thank you."

I give Negira a word to Erin who moves as scheduled.

"I'm sorry," returned a small voice.

One spell hits the monster with the trap magic, and then when I use the evasion arts, I stop myself with the second spell.

It was exactly a strategy. Turn your shoulders with satisfaction.

He has become quite used to fighting frogs.

The arts have evolved with each battle and can now be manipulated like some of the functions that the body originally had.

Hand a knife to Erin to cut out the monster's flesh.

The technique of stripping her meat seems to be improving gradually.

This is also a proof that you are getting used to life on the 20th level.

I talked to Erin, who was still working, with a sense of security.

"Well then, let's take a break after this."

"Okay, I have to end it quickly."

She responded with a slightly cheerful voice, though not as much as before she was thrown out on level 20.

Her mental condition may have stabilized considerably.

It was a big difference from the first time I fought frogs.

It's as if the possessions have fallen.

I was relieved like that.

When Erin finishes cleaning up, she moves around and heads to a section where she is likely to rest for a while.

If there are few monsters around here, you may be able to sleep.

Erin followed me, who was weak and sitting down.

"Okay, Erin?"

I ask while looking at her expression.

She responded, stretching her hands in front of her chest.

"What's okay?"

"That ... variously."

"Oh ... well ... I don't say that I've recovered completely ... but I guess it was a little easier. Thanks to the notes."

Erin turns a bitter smile. The expression is somewhat shy.

He reminds me of the moment when he exhaled his accumulated emotions and seems to feel uncomfortable.

In a hurry, he continued his words.

"Oh, but my feet may hurt. I've been walking all the time."

I took my shoes off, lamenting.

The shoes that roll on the ground are worn out over the course of each day, and are quite shabby.

"Shoes are already like a limit."

"Yes, it's painful to have no replacement ..."

The only spare equipment that goes into my item bag is that of me, Roslia and Jin.

Erin's equipment was in a neme item bag.

Therefore, there are no replacement shoes for Erin.

For shoes, unlike other clothes, size matters, so it seemed difficult to substitute Rozria's for outerwear or socks.

Erin mourns, taking off the dingy socks.

"Wow. It's getting worse."

Erin's bare feet, which have been worn out in some places, are getting red.

I keep wearing worn shoes.

"Let's just clean up as usual for the time being. It's the first time bacteria enter the wound."

"I understand.

So Erin threw her foot on my knee.

I take out the towel from the item bag.

Immediately, she squeezed a towel wetted by Erin's spell and began wiping Erin's feet around the wound.

"--ow"

"Do not move"

"It can't be helped.

Erin that inflates .

This expression is a serious and not angry type.

"But I'm grateful. Neme unnie's recovery spell exists."

"Yeah, I didn't bring any first aid tools because I was too dependent."

"That's pretty much everything you don't need is in the bag ..."

Suddenly, I thought that the distance to Erin has shrunk considerably in the past few days.

Old Erin wouldn't have given me any leg care and would have been angry as soon as he felt the pain.

That was when I was able to talk to Erin without complaining.

This is a big change.

Maybe it's a testimony that she's open to me.

In the past, she kept herself from getting hurt by keeping others out.

However, there is no such exclusionary behavior from Erin today.

On the contrary, I feel that the physical distance between them is also reduced due to the shortening of the distance between my mind.

In the past, we sat farther apart to sit and rest.

But most of the time, they are sitting at a distance enough to touch each other's shoulders.

And I myself didn't find the distance strange and uncomfortable.

Listening to Erin's past confession, I may have opened her heart to her.

To be honest, until now I have respected all the members of Arrivers, but I haven't had much of an affinity.

They were somewhere in a different world and even thought they would have to take a different path from me.

But she was hit by what Erin had, and she was the same person as her.

It was starting to feel familiar to me as similar people with setbacks and regrets.

"Yes, the end"

It signals the end of a simple procedure that can only be described as an allowance, simply wiping with a towel wet with water.

“Thank you very much.

Originally it wasn't something to be thankful for, but I still looked down.

"That's not a big deal."

I'm not used to Erin who is honestly giving thanks.

The back becomes itchy.

Well, it's a lot better than in the old days, when the mouth was opened and the words were rushing.

"Somehow, Erin is curled up."

"Oh? I'm fat? I'm rather losing weight."

"Rather, it's personal."

"Oh, yeah"

Erin doesn't show any signs of getting angry.

Previously, "Is it round? "What do you want to say that you are fat? I think it was returned in a tight tone.

"I'm still grateful for the notes, much more than you think."

"I don't remember being particularly grateful."

"You've listened to my miserable story, and she encouraged me. He promised to return to the city of Purif."

"I just made a promise and haven't done anything yet."

"But I'm happy. And I've survived so well."

That said, I smile at me.

When I saw Erin's obedient feelings, she thought that there were quite a few cute things.

"Erin, if you get out of the dungeon, what do you want to do?"

I suddenly asked a question.

"What do you want to do ... why are you asking that?"

"If you have a purpose, you can worry about doing your best."

And I wanted Erin to be happy in his life out of the dungeon.

Life in the future should be much longer than life in 20 levels.

It's too sad to keep walking while despising yourself.

I want her to be able to spend every day with hope.

So I wanted to hear from her mouth what might be a clue to that hope.

"Yes ... I can't think of it at all ..."

"so……"

I feel a little disappointed.

Well, you don't find what you want to do right away.

It's just a matter of finding it slowly in a long life.

"Oh, but!"

Erin raised her face as if she had come up with something.

The blunt eyes are pointed at here.

"Maybe nothing."

"what?"

"Can I ask only one question before answering? Will my notebook help me if I hear what I want to do?"

"Of course it is"

I will answer immediately.

It is my wish that she gets happiness.

"I want a lover."

"It's surprising ..."

"Yes? I've never had a boyfriend or want to experience that."

"I'm not good. I'll help."

"I didn't want you to answer that ..."

I didn't want you to answer that, what ...?

You wanted to refuse to help ...?

Or-.

"Are there any notes? I want to get out of here"

"That's right. There are various things, but I also want a lover."

"What that?"

Erin suddenly starts laughing.

I was laughing at it.

"Is it weird?"

"No, not at all. I just wanted to laugh. Okay. I'll help."

"If Erin can help, I'm reassuring."

"If I could help me with my notes, it would have been granted."

Just like the hands that overlap between us, I just want to feel better

I couldn't.

***

Light happiness will not last long.

It can be good or bad.

[Mapping (mapping)] Check the paths that have come and gone many times with skills.

It is useless. After all there seems to be no way out.

I want to drop my shoulders and clench my teeth.

I knew it.

It just turned into conviction that there was no improbable hope.

Not so depressed.

Inspire yourself and have a solid awareness.

And she was prepared and said to the girl who was at the tip of her hand.

"Erin, transition crystals found"

"...... Epphonto"

The right hand is pulled with the leaping voice.

"Is it really true? Can you go home?"

I could only return a vague nod to Erin, who was happy to bite.

"It's true that a transition crystal was found, but it's not easy to return."

"What do you mean?"

"In short, there's a middle boss on the way to the transition crystal.

From the 16th layer onwards, the presence of gimmicks and medium bosses that had newly appeared was detected by << Searching Enemy >>.

Moreover, the place is a large room that covers the transition crystal and the current location where we are.

In the 20th floor, a short straight road extends from the entrance where the transition crystal is located, and leads to a large room with a middle boss.

The road was diverging from the large room, forming a maze-like hierarchy.

In other words, the middle boss is an inevitable partner to return to the city of Purif.

In one corner of his head, he hoped he would not match the middle boss.

What is the end of the way for almost a month?

We expected that the position moved from the 17th level was before the middle boss, but in reality it does not seem to work so well.

Was carefully and carefully communicated to Erin.

"I got it"

"... I'm not really shocked."

Look at Erin's complexion and let her know.

"Well, because I decided to believe in the notes, because I promised to return home."

Her eyes are no longer cloudy.

There is another new and bright emotion that is different from the previous resignation.

Erin is definitely starting to change. That also goes in the positive direction.

If you live for the foreseeable future, you will face your own past and change properly.

So I didn't want her to die here.

I definitely wanted to get out of this hierarchy.

It is my modest wish to come true.

"So what do you do? Is there a strategy?"

Erin asks. I nodded quietly.

"I made it, but I don't think it's likely to succeed."

"Okay, I'll follow you. What's the strategy you thought was the best note?"

"Thank you. That's the content of the strategy, but while I'm attracting the middle boss, I want Erin to go to the place with the transition crystals. There is no monster on the road from the room to the barrier, so the middle boss I think I can go home if I can break through. ''

"You ... I promise to go back together ..."

Erin looks as if she has been betrayed.

I feel that my right hand is getting stronger.

"No, I'll keep my promise."

With that said, I keep going.

"Surely I have a higher chance of dying. But I'm not going to die in such a place. When I get there, I will also scatter a medium boss and go there. ''

"But if I couldn't scatter it ..."

"You may die, but this is the best way to survive on your own."

"Can't we fight together?"

Erin pleads.

"I don't think you can do that. Searching with" Find Enemy, "the boss in the 20th layer is equal to or stronger than the boss in the 16th layer. It's reckless to fight Erin and I alone against such an opponent. So run away without fighting. ''

"……escape?"

"That's right. I'm not fighting with the middle boss head on. I just draw with Killass and concentrate on evasion at the arts and earn time. That's much easier than killing the middle boss."

Over the past few days, he has been fighting frog mock-ups, and his skills in avoiding art have been sharpened.

It didn't seem like a fight without chance.

And I've been working with hundreds of times with the fastest Zone state among adventurers.

Attack of monsters in the 20th layer can now be tracked by eye, and the movement can be managed.

I feel that this is not only the effect of handing with Jin.

My sensation is definitely sharpened by my continued fear of death.

I was confident that I could perform incomparably with my old days.

When I entered the party and was brought down one level, the Force said that Jin had "excessive experience and the number of steps and the number of dead areas that died."

That's the secret of his strength.

The meaning is finally understood.

Certainly, the dead area that dives down, the fight against the elegance is growing me up.

I don't know how fast the middle boss will be without fighting, but it seemed worth it.

"I can really believe in the notes ... I won't die ..."

"I don't need to worry. I'll definitely live with you."

***

This may be the last sleep in my life.

With that in mind, remove the blanket from the item bag.

Life on 20 levels was also long. The blanket is completely dirty and black.

We decided to take a final break in preparation for fighting the middle boss.

Fortunately, there are no monsters in the area that are likely to approach them.

You will be able to sleep for the first time in a while.

Unexpectedly, they wrapped up in a blanket with two people and started to sleep.

As usual, Erin was lying next to me.

"I decided not to make a bearish remark, but can I say only one?"

Erin's sigh facing me hits my ears.

Shrug your shoulders for a tickling and comfortable feel.

"what?"

"I'm really going to fight the middle boss."

"I'm not going to fight, I'm going to run away."

"But it's almost the same as fighting."

The open hand is tightly grasped.

"I think it's not bad to live this way."

"What is life like this?"

"It's a life of nurturing conversations with notebooks."

"so?"

I understand what I mean, but dare to refute.

"There's no sunshine here, no food, no good. I don't know when monsters will attack me, no bath. I'm not sure it's the worst environment."

"But it's not a peaceful life that we can talk together forever and are not attacked by unexpected monsters."

"That would be the same in the outside world."

"Yes, but there are things that are different from the outside world."

"What?"

"This is a world of only two people, unlike the outside world."

-A world of only two people.

The phrase strangely soaked into my chest.

Certainly this is a world of only two people. It's a perfect world complete with me and Erin alone.

In this world, we can live a peaceful life without disturbing anyone as long as we think of each other.

That world is surely ideal.

Two people in the world can be happy until they die without harming their hearts.

"What if you don't challenge the middle boss and enjoy the tremendous happiness with a limited amount of time? This is a dangerous place, but if you and you are two, you can do a fairly long time I think "

Erin seems to be thinking the same as me.

"You can embrace and sleep with each other. Let's kiss all day. Let's do a lot more and get tired of it. "

Invited by the piercing hand, my palm is approached by Erin's chest.

Her decadent proposal is so appealing that she gets her throat.

The everyday weaving each other in search of each other seemed like the shortest way for them to be happy.

The heartbeat felt from the palm drives me into a sensational urge.

"--Erin"

Before trying to pass on his words, Erin's mouth was opened.

"But you won't choose that option? I saw my face and I knew it. I won't stop challenging the middle boss."

"Yup……"

That was exactly what Erin said.

I can't just jump on that ideal.

Because I decided to go back to Purif with Erin.

She wanted to give her true salvation, not makeshift salvation.

"I thought so, so check this out. If the notebook decides not to fight the middle boss, I'll never blame you."

"Thank you"

Say thanks to Erin's concern.

It is a behavior that cared about me more than she could think before.

"And you can do that out of the dungeon."

"Then I won't die. I have to live alive."

I couldn't stand Erin's smile and hugged her.

The reasons for returning home have increased again.

It seems that there is no choice but to help Erin at the expense of himself.

"I'm getting sleepy if I feel safe"

"What's that? Yeah, but let's go to bed tomorrow."

"Yeah, good night"

"good night"

Erin had deposited her head in my chest.

With your unimpaired hand, scoop Erin's hair.

It's thin, brittle, but a bit rough, and it feels like you'll always want to touch it.

If you close your eyes, you will come tomorrow.

This was the first time I didn't want tomorrow to come.