＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

■ Dueling city Gideon

A date that went on with Shu, Behemott, and her three.

There are ultimately only two things she was thinking about in the middle of it.

One is to entertain the behemoth, who himself is the highest priority.

The other thing is, can you kill Shu?

There is no reason why I want to kill you.

I don't even need to kill him.

However, I have always wanted to be sure that 'I can or cannot kill', … more precisely 'to the extent that I am now killed or not'.

Plus, the three of us... I thought while we were touring the festival amicably.

- We were the ones who checked out the date, but there's a lot of gaps.

- It's like you're forgetting we're enemies.

- Don't be angry to be lost on that.

- Are you licking us?

- So again, if I could kill him, I'd kill him.

Her thoughts were popping up, concluding as if the thought circuit had broken somewhere.

And she was accidentally releasing a piercing hand at Shu's heart with her own status.

That speed is more than double the speed of sound, and if you're a regular person... you'll be choosing your heart soon enough to understand what was going on even with the advanced Kanst AGI type.

Not to mention, Shu is STR is the breakthrough, but END isn't that expensive... it's also easy to penetrate every worn luggage.

And the result…….

"... brilliant"

The piercing hand is crushed and her fingers are crushed and broken, tearing her skin and zeroing her blood to the ground.

Her right hand was clashing from the front with Shu's left fist.

Shu, who was reading her unintentional punch, placed her fist punch in a piercing orbit.

Her right hand is crushed as a result. [Destroyer] He hit it with Shu's fist, which boasts the biggest STR.

Conversely, her offense was so high and durable that she had to meet with [Destroyer King] Shu Sterling's fist punch, which boasted the largest STR, to the point of breaking her finger at the end of the offset.

Even if it were a super position, if it wasn't durable, at least the tip would have disappeared from your wrist.

'What are you going to do?

Shu asked that in a voice that didn't have the usual pieces of cloud.

"Right. In a nutshell, it's confirmation. This is the final confirmation that I do now, to the extent that it is unintentional and kills me. The results are as you can see. I'm relieved. Your strength and mindset have been confirmed."

…………

"You've been thinking, 'We could kill you.' I had a little concern and a lot of frustration with your uppermost attitude, but my eyes were in the pit - really good."

She laughs at what makes her happy.

Raise the corner of your mouth and laugh. There is no shadow to see the cool appearance to the brink.

It was like the skin of a bucket that was pretending to be human was starting to peel off.

…………

Relative to her, Shu prepares to call Baldor from his left hand crest.

Worst of all, this Gideon is on stage again... and Shu thought a terrible struggle would begin over the battle he once had.

If we repay the unexpected earlier here, it will be certain.

So Shu doesn't strike yet.

But if they're going to start here, there's no other option than to respond.

"Final confirmation," what do you mean?

Shu asked to explore his opponent's intentions, paying close attention to his opponent's movements.

"To tell the truth, the directive came down yesterday. We will raise you to the Empire."

"... what?

But the response was... something that Shu wouldn't have expected either.

"Don't worry, we won't do anything here anymore. Think of today's date and earlier blow as making memories."

Shu wonders what that statement is.

Directive down, retreat. That is not surprising in itself.

It was clear that it was the Empire's instructions that they were in Gideon.

Then you may leave at the behest of the Empire.

But why, at this time, should we leave without doing anything?

For what, have you ever stayed?

"Well, then me and Behemot will leave Gideon with this. Classic rhetoric, but I look forward to the next time we meet - when we kill each other.... Oh?... Oh, I did"

That's what she said and tried to hold the behemoth over her head in her arms...... I remembered that my right hand finger was broken.

She took the recovering drug ampoule out of the item box that was tied to her hips and bounced the lid open with her thumb to swallow.

Then the fracture of his right hand was quickly healed, but Shu notices that he was watching in the Appraisal Eye.

What I just drank is not a special drug. It is not a fixed value, but a type of recovery drug that recovers in proportion, and is also commercially available.

It is an inferior healing item that can only have a slight healing of about 5% of max HP.

With such medication...... Shu's fist and bumped right hand were fully healed.

I don't know what that means. It's not shu.

The opponent in front of him... even the Epic class was only wounded to that extent by Shu's blow, which he buried in one blow.

…………

If you try to beat this from the front, you'll have to use your special skills.

But it's a return to the final showdown with [Gloria] once. No matter how you scratch it, it will be catastrophic.

That's not the one thing about Hanya that's been bothering my head since morning.

Any battle will be inevitable, but it shouldn't be this city right now.

So this is where we have to make the "kill the next time we see each other" choice, as she says.

But... Shu tried to turn her back and stopped her.

"Let me hear one thing."

"Depends on the content, I don't mind"

She stops and waits for Shu's question.

"Why were you guys sitting in Gideon?

I held it earlier...... or the question I've had ever since they showed up at Gideon.

'At first I was wondering if I would take advantage of some opportunity… for example the visit of the First Princess. But when the time finally came, there was no sign of you guys moving, and even I say I'm going back to the Empire like this. In the end, I would have just been bluffing with Gideon for the past month or more. What did you want with this latency?

"... hu"

She sighed as if she remembered something boring as well.

That's how I kept my words on the sigh.

"It's the same. With you."

Words that are short and don't convey meaning by themselves.

"... I see"

But Shu could understand that.

And to guarantee that understanding, she connected words like this.

"You couldn't move, could you?

Her face, saying so, lurked with a rave of laughter earlier, and it was terribly cold.

"That weak man (Franklin) failed to terrorize the kingdom. Now it would be a natural decision to be wary that the kingdom side might come up with retaliation, wouldn't it? And it goes without saying that the retaliatory attack is likely to be carried out by you, the exterminating [Pope], or the exterminating [Pope of the Moon]"

'... right'

"But the cooperative relationship between the Kingdom and the Moon World Association is still weak. So you should be most vigilant."

Shu thought of Laylay's face in other ways, but thought, 'I guess Mark won't be able to help because the login itself is irregular in the first place'.

'But if you weren't willing to terrorize me... didn't you just float the great power of [Beast King]?

"I'm not floating. It's heavy stone."

"... Heavy Stone?

"You watched over us and rarely even got out of Gideon. Strongly, maybe when I gave that rookie a special training instruction."

That was true, and Shu had stuffed Gideon most of the time.

So much so that Ray couldn't move when he was kidnapped on Busan Moon night.

It's all about keeping [the Beast King] on guard.

But the result was…….

"You couldn't leave Gideon - you couldn't afford to collect ammunition material from. Different?

…………

Shu returns the question in silence.

But that was a good guess to call it a star.

"You are not like us who can fight at all costs, no matter what time (when). Your wide-area extinguishing firepower is the same as that weak monster manufacturing, and you can't use maximum firepower without external resources. But because of us, you were unable to travel to the habitat of high level monsters to collect rare materials. I had to sell popcorn, in addition to which I had to chop up my personal belongings and buy materials that would go on the market. However, it is also limited in circulation in a kingdom where veterans < master > have decreased. Now, do your ammunition stockpiles hold just enough to fight through the wars that will occur in the future?

The answer is tough.

There are few Baldr remnants. If used on the same scale as fighting Franklin, it would be something like whether to have it three times.

In that rematch with Franklin, and in a situation where there is a [Demon General] who creates an army more easily than Franklin, there is too much room for a number of times called three.

It doesn't deplete quickly, but I can't accept it if you ask me if I can fight through the war.

"... I thought you had a little more brain muscle."

"I won't deny it. It's quicker to talk about crushing it with this force than to think about being smart. So this isn't us, it's the King's strategy. We were just told to live here after the incident. I didn't know yesterday until I asked why in correspondence."

"... I see"

It's a situation where I had to get stuffed, even if I knew it, rather than being hit.

If [the Beast King] had been ignored and moved to gather material, the King would have given instructions to the [Beast King] and the others, because he might have committed a second large-scale terrorist attack in Gideon.

The cunning thing is that the Behemoths didn't even know what was going on until yesterday. It blocks information and even seals Shu guessing and managing to get behind it.

Moreover, Shu realized that the current king was a rather poor match because Shu had stood up as soon as he revealed himself in the battle with Franklin.

"You can't do everything you can to fight us, because there's trouble. But which way, your special skill of defeating that [Gloria] can be used without ammunition materials, etc.?

'... right'

Baldor's special skill, Undoubled Noble God of War, was not as limited in the number of uses as ammunition, and it was right.

Not as a wide-area exterminator, but as an individual combatant, you will be able to maintain almost all your strength.

"Then I don't mind. I wish I could fight you for pure power."

"I would have accidentally killed you earlier."

"So that is the final confirmation that you are not the opponent of the pre-struggle (...). They're not even enemies to be lightly killed over there... because they're just pebbles"

That said, she laughs again.

That's not a grisly smile, a monster's mad laugh, or a dry laugh.

It was just a pure, happy smile.

- You still deserved our enemy.

That being said, she leaves with her back to Shu with a behemoth in her arms.

'That's the end of today's story. All you have to do is kill each other on the battlefield,' her back said.

Behemott looked behind her from inside her arms... watching Shu without saying anything.

Shu also followed them with his eyes like that again.

"Ah."

I thought of something.

"Bad. I've only heard one more thing."

Again, I called out on that back.

"... what is it?

I was finishing what I wanted to say. She turned around with a slightly grumpy face.

To her like that, Shu asks...... what she's been missing.

"Me, I haven't heard your name yet, have I?

He said he had been talking to the public for over a month.

Shu still didn't know her name holding the behemoth.

"Because we are not stupid enough to tear apart (...) in our hands"

She said so and tried to refuse to respond.

"NP"

"... right. We've known each other a long time, and I'll tell you what my nickname is."

Behemott prompts me to immediately translate the words I have said to answer the question.

"I am called Levi by Behemott. So that's what you can call it."

"Levi...? Behemot and, Levi.... I see, it looks good (...) '

As I guessed everything by that nickname alone, Shu shrugged.

Named Levi, she turns back on her heels and now walks away without saying anything.

Behemott, with his face out of her arms like that, looking at the rear shu.

See you later, Mr. Bear.

That's how I said goodbye in words that would lead to people.

"Oh, see you later - [Beast King]"

Shu also said goodbye to her.

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After breaking up with Shu, Levi with a yamaa seal heads north on the evening < Nex Plains >.

Its speed is beyond the speed of sound and its darkening vision does not go into people's eyes together.

She was running for the Imperial Capital, cuddling to protect the Yamaa seal, but running at supersonic speeds, hitting unintentionally the obstacle (monster) that occasionally appeared forward and turning it into dust.

"Behemott. I can't give you half my full speed with this, but you can still afford to go back to Vanderheim by tomorrow morning."

…………

The behemoth in her arms has been silent all along the road.

Unexpectedly though...... groaned Potty.

"... Cruise Gold"

Now that we were alone and had no shadows around us, the words were ringing - not "slang pronounced intentionally in the alphabet”... that's human.

"That transformation pose, you were like your father (...)"

"... well, it's similar to what I remember"

Levy recalls the memories she shares with Behemott (...) and does decide that what she once saw and what Shu did at the Hero Show are grossly similar.

Although the movement was the same, the actors (...) were different.

"Nice to meet you, happy"

"If Behemoth is happy, I'm happy too."

"But I was a little rusty... and I remembered something pretty good"

"Okay. I'll kill that bear the next time I see him."

"Can you do it?"

"Whatever."

To Behemott's inquiry, Levi nods with a gentle smile.

And I declare, erasing the crest of the back of my left hand - the one that was "crest disguised (...)".

"- Because this [Monster Queen Leviathan] was born to protect all of Behemott"

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[Beast King (...)] Behemot (...) and his < Super Embrio > left Gideon, a lurking place, without anything happening.

But both they and Shu, who dropped them off, were sure.

The day we bump each other's powers... it's not that far away.

To be continued