Invincible Saint ~Salaryman, the Path I Walk to Survive in This Other World~
74 The desire to escape and to save
The search was about to end with no forty-eight hierarchies or anything. But Keffin suddenly uttered the word.
"Someone is surrounded by demons!
I checked, too, and I saw a bunch of demons and figures up front.
"... wait"
I waited out of discomfort.
"Why..."
Stop looking at me like that.
"Look closely. Obviously, it's weird. It's a demon that's going to appear on the hierarchy here too, but I don't know if it's a mutation or a different kind, but it's different body color. Besides, it's just a mess."
When I say that, everyone pushes and starts checking and knowing verbally that's true.
"I don't know if he's an enemy or an ally, so we'll rendezvous with the others and then we'll get closer."
For about twenty minutes since I proclaimed that, I've been watching the monster and the shadow from a distance.
"Fucking demon."
"I can see it's a mistake."
"Maximize your alert."
It was when we hung the area barrier and then approached a distance from the herd of demons ahead.
"Ah, healer's brother"
What a sheila it was that showed up out of the demon.
"Eh!? Sheila? Did you come alone?
"Yeah. I came with my dads, but a lot of people came after me and told me to stay hidden because it was dangerous..."
Oh, is this a pattern that makes me cry?
"Oh well. So we're going after your father together?
"What? Are you okay?
"Because you can't just leave me here alone. And the demons around you are your friends?
"Yeah. My dad brought these kids here because he didn't have a voice when it was bad."
I'm glad to say, you didn't bring me to the Sacred Capital, and you weren't there when I picked you up, were you?
"We weren't together before, were we?
"Yeah. Some people in church hurt their friends, so they said no."
"... oh, I see. Can we make sure Sheila's friends don't hurt us?
"It's okay. Wait."
Sheila repeatedly gestured and appealed desperately to the demons.
And apparently it was safe.
"It's all right now."
"Oh well. Thanks. Speaking of which, how long have you been here?
"It's only a little time. A lot of people attacked the Caps, so I gave them back."
... Well, no one will think you're being taught. But that's out. I was driven by a state of mind that seemed to hold my head, but I ask what happened to those adventurers.
"Where are those who attacked me?
"I'm sleeping in that room over there. The others went after my dads."
"Wait a minute. Forgive them because they weren't offended either. Because I'll make them apologize, too."
When I said that, my face was tense for a moment, but I immediately got O.K. on condition.
"... good if your brother says so, but I definitely want the Caps to apologize"
"Okay, I get it."
I went to the room Sheila said.
Inside the room were six adventurers who had become bumpy and bug-breathing.
Wait for your consciousness to recover immediately by hanging your heel, reassuring you that it is moving slightly.
"... it's really good to be alive"
If this had killed the adventurer, Sheila would have been in too bad a position.
"Isn't it a crime that if it's a labyrinth, there's no evidence left? Or would an adventurer who attacked Tamer's demon be treated like a criminal?
There was no answer to my whining.
The adventurers woke up in no time, so Sheila explained to the demon who was being properly taught to apologize.
"So why didn't you wait for us to rendezvous?
"That's arriving at the forty tiers..."
Summarizing what they said, they decided that the sherzas were fighting because they couldn't get inside when they arrived in the boss room on the 40th floor.
You caught up once on the forty-two tiers, but decided to take a break because you didn't even see the shadows on the forty-three tiers.
Every time we went up the hierarchy, the demons grew stronger, and the search didn't go as far as we thought.
"We were already at our limit, so I asked the Alliance Master to go ahead, because the girl was attacked by demons..."
... If Keffin was sticking in, it would have been their two dances.
"Okay. I've healed the wound. Do you want to rendezvous?
"Please"
Six adventurers bowed their heads, so Sheila added seven combined.
Sheila and the sight of the adventurers bowing their heads to the demons was surreal.
Immediately he reached the fifty tiers, completely filling the map of the remainder of the forty-eight tiers and the forty-nine tiers without pursuing them.
"Daddy's not here."
"Well, I think he's upstairs."
You know what happens when you stick a boulder in your boss room exhausted.
"Let's take a break. Eat lightly because you need to get hungry and lose focus."
It was the adventurers and Sheila who rejoiced in my voice.
Especially Sheila, who hadn't eaten anything all day, carried more and more meals to her smaller body.
There was no time for cooking this time, so I provided a meal that I had not been able to eat before.
I never got a complaint.
"Listen to me. The main room on the fiftieth floor should be awaited by an enemy like never before. I'm in the mood to go home alone if I can."
"Roll with the mighty enemy."
Lionel is on fire, but ignores him at this time.
"The motto of this party is safety first. Not now, but if you don't have to fight, that's the best. Remember that in your liver."
After a sparse reply, I began my exploration.
Even in my quest for the fifty tiers, I did nothing to chase the Jasuan lords.
I just don't do anything special and fill up the map of the hierarchy little by little, just like before.
I went around all fifty levels, and there was a chest, and the tension rose, but I was careful to rejoice.
I heard you fighting in the boss room earlier.
"There was no one there. There's only one thing I can think of. I don't want to fight if I can."
Boss, there were two thick timbers at the entrance to the room so that they wouldn't close, and when I looked inside, they were triplets with the Red Dragon and the Sherzas, and Lord Jasuan and the others.
Lionel on the boulder. I know you want to fight as an individual too, but you don't go in there or anything.
Inside, there was a red dragon who made an unexpectedly varied attack of spitting flame braces, attacking with his tail, swinging his arms, and biting, which impressed me a little.
From what I've seen, they're all alive, too, and I can tell it hasn't been that long since I walked into the boss room.
I may think I should just go to the rescue, but seeing that one on the boulder makes me step on two feet.
That's what I can confidently say if I let you fight a giant golem, a special photo hero is also a stunning development.
Even if you release an arrow, it will be bounced on a hard scale, and your opponent's reach is too long for a melee to be packed in time.
"Lionel, are you sure you want to take that attack?
Lionel speaks out with a harsh look.
"... if you take it properly, you don't have to die to be blown away"
"Ketty, can you avoid an attack and give it an attack?
Ketty answers concisely instead of the usual slight feeling.
"It's possible. I just can't do that much damage."
"Dolan, Paula, can you make a golem that can stop that?
"I think we can catch them at their biggest..."
"In thirty seconds, the magic will go out. Even if you use Demon Stone, if there is a lot of damage, the Golem will collapse."
Doran puts his arms together and Paula says so while touching the golem-controlled bracelet.
Let's go home in my brain. This word was repeated many times.
But Sheila was shaking and shaking her robe from earlier, and I couldn't take it off.
If you care about your life, you'll turn back there.
There is a contradiction between words and deeds.
I know with my head, but I couldn't move.
It's not because the little one is asking for help. I'm just not ready to kill people, I'm not ready to watch them die.
Swallow by the vortex of thought.
The desire to help and escape was pushing me like a turbulence.
That chaotic emotion of mine was mutilated by the voice of the girl next door.
"No -!"
At the next moment, what was shown in front of me was a grotesque sight of her side, including her father, blown up by the tail of the Red Dragon, and Shasa's attempt to pop out into that gap to determine the eyes of the Red Dragon, biting her body lavishly.
I would have given instructions if I had noticed.
"Don't fight that properly, it's an injury recovery and retreat operation. Definitely avoid instant death. We're all gonna get out of here."
"Yes."
There was no rebellion or anything on my instructions, just a reply as usual.
After we hung the area barrier on everyone, we stepped into the boss room where the Red Dragon was located.