Monster no Goshujin-sama

04. Outside the Cave

Four.

I've got the power - fine, but I still have to recognize that the status quo is very strict.

Three days already, I have not spoken of busy food.

I'm glad my injuries have healed and my health drain has been reduced any longer, but I'm just going to die so that I can twitch and strangle myself seriously as I am.

"Hey, Lily. I have to get some water and food, can we do something about it?

My enquiry returned my intention to say 'yes'.... This is convenient as long as it takes. Is it close to a kind of thought? It's this world with magic, so maybe a magical path is being built. That's what builds our subordination.

But can we do something about it?

It was almost a round throwing state question, so I just thought it would be returned as impossible, and this can be called a delightful miscalculation.

"Then get it ready as soon as you can."

When I request it as a pleasure, it is also a "no" sign of intent.

And the water-colored light shined at the tip of the tentacles offered one.

"To?"

The magic of the water attribute was activated and massive amounts of water were created over my head.

Shh.

……

I wore water from my head, and dripped a puffy droplet from my forehead in the cave.

Lily is shaking her semi-liquid body. The appearance looked somewhere proud.

"Okay. You're good, Lily."

Excellence was unmistakable.

It just seems like we need a little more time to figure it out.

Shall I start by teaching you that humans cannot consume water from their heads...

"Heck yeah."

While I warmed my body with a burning fire, I cheeked a whole skewer of lizards.

Clothes wet in water are getting thirsty.

The brilliant partner, who had brought wood like firewood and hunted a few lizards, was on escort duty by his side.

My stomach swelled. Water can be swallowed at any time.

If so, we have to think about what's coming next.

"What to do first"

And with my mouth, the first thing I could think of was to make sure I was safe.

In this case, the virtual enemies are the monsters and the students who came to this other world with me.

Lily is a very good monster. I like that magic can be used. Good at magic is like water and wind, but the first thing that slimes can do is use magic is out of standard. I've never heard anything like that before.

But unfortunately Lily didn't seem to be a very powerful monster.

In this forest, if you look only at combat capability, it seems to be the inferior being.

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean Lily is just a miscellaneous fish monster.

Given the nature of her grasped by the pass - which I would already call her - Lily was supposed to say 'Mimic Slime' if she was to be named.

What is peculiar is its pseudomorphic ability.

Lily can turn into what she eats.

When I asked what I could do, I was surprised when I turned into a lizard.

The recoil of those special abilities, or the combat ability itself, is just not very high.

Lily is good enough.

But I have to say that its operation is quite difficult.

If she eats a highly combative monster, she can make a pseudo of it. But to do so, you have to defeat a monster stronger than yourself.

It was a dilemma.

Nevertheless, that was before you became my family.

There is more to do than become a family to me.

"All right, Lily. From now on I will gather my family together. I need your help."

Increase family members. That's how you enrich your fighting power.

Let's go in this direction for the moment.

One of them will fight to protect me, but if there are other monsters of my family, you can keep one of them as an escort. Sometimes you simply gain more fighting power, and most importantly, if you can join forces to defeat monsters on the scale, that will lead to Lily's increased fighting power as it is.

Plus, I was in a hurry. My cheat ability is "The Power of Familying Monsters" - if you say so, "Monster Tame".

This was considered inferior to other cheat abilities in terms of combat.

Because before I escaped the colony, the Cheat Capable had a light kick in this forest monster.

My direct combat abilities depend only on monsters I can follow.

Thinking about it, I have to say that the power of the war is pretty uncomfortable.

Quality must be compensated by numbers.

There was an urgent need to boost our power.

Not without anxiety. But I had to.

"Don't worry. It won't be that easy."

You read the anxiety in my chest, and Lily brought the giant over those two meters closer together, so I stroked the crunchy surface with my palms.

More than a pass is made, my feelings are passed on to her to a certain extent, as are her feelings that worry me about it.

Lily, who became my family, seemed to think sincerely of me.

Even if that is the consciousness created by cheat ability, I was happy with it.

The warmth filled my chest.

I didn't think I was alone.

With humans, this is not how it works.

They're the ultimate, and they don't know what they're thinking.

"It's been a while since I was a female."

I proclaim with pleasure the elasticity of Po Po and Lili.

You can run away now, so you can build up your strength anyway.

"The question is... when you deal with a monster, you're not sure if my cheat abilities will always activate..."

Regarding their own gained cheat abilities, all students who had transferred from different worlds had an idea of nature and what it was like.

Even I am.

So I don't feel anxious about me and Lily.

I can determine that not being sure that I can tame the monster I encounter means that I don't know if it will work.

"Nevertheless, there is no way forward even if we are deciding on a hole bear here"

To some extent, it was necessary to move aggressively.

As I took Lily out of the cave, the scent of a grumpy forest caught my nose.

It's a scent I've been used to smelling over the past month and it was a smell I forgot about for a few days here. Because my nose was blocked by nosebleeds.

We started exploring the surroundings.

And I was in a small cave, which was gleaned upon the hillside of a small high hill. The surrounding area is covered with depressed trees, with poor views. Conversely, this is a difficult place to find.

We proceeded carefully to explore the surrounding woods.

"... was there"

Would it have been an hour or so since I first explored? We ran into a monster.

A wooden equal-adult figure wandered through the woods.

It's the Magical Papette and the monster we called it. The most common monster in this forest.

Magical puppets are characterized by their ability to create weapons. Each of them is equipped with wooden martial and protective equipment. They are all made of wood, but reinforced by magical powers, and surprisingly more sturdy than iron.

In fact, this weapon was also the primary weapon of the cheat abilities transferred from different worlds.

The most troublesome thing the cheat abilities had to do was get weapons. I don't want to fight monsters with my bare hands forever, but I don't have a route to acquire weapons.

Video games would have allowed you to get weapons in rare drops when you defeated enemy monsters, but this is the real world. Nothing convenient like that happens.

But Magical Puppets could have robbed the weapons they were using if they had defeated them successfully. As a result, we have heard that the collection of weapons was carried out with the momentum of the Magical Puppets around the colony being hunted down.

Is that survival?

"Good luck."

I pounded Lily's body next door.

"We're gonna get weapons."

Magical puppets were equipped with spears and round shields. So far, me and Lily are useless. I don't know if I can use a weapon on Lily, but I would have the kind of tools and it wouldn't be a loss either.

And then, if you'll be a family member...

In the meantime, just in case, I decide to act with the mind that it will be a battle.

First, we turned to the direction of the Magical Papette.

I can tell you that I was lucky to be spotted first from here. Even if this is a monster that won't let me be my family, I can only prevent you from eating surprises.

If you want to take the battle into account, maybe you should act after a close plan, but I don't have that skill, and happy or unhappy, my bills were too little to plan for.

When it comes to what you can do, as much as you decide to be ready.

I bite my back teeth hard and hold back my fear.

... Come on. Operation initiated.

"Hey, you there! Look at me!

Jump out of the hiding place, shout out and draw attention.

Magical puppet turned this way.

"-"

At that moment, I realized.

I can't do this.

My senses said, 'I cannot obey you'.

I had a bad feeling the moment I checked him out earlier. Oh, shit. That was the occasion where I should have believed in my senses.

Now the battle is inevitable.

Magical puppets began to rush out of nowhere.

"... Gu"

This is tough.

If you fight, your opponent, who will never be enemies, is a fleshy fear.

Bite the fright with your back teeth all the way. The power to do so, perhaps, is called trust.

"Lily!"

A bullet of water, flying from across, struck out the magical puppet trying to fly over.

Crushing pieces of wood. One arm flies through the universe.

It was Lily's giant lurking herself that kept popping out of the shrub where the water bullets popped.

Lily is a monster in the slime lineage that isn't moving very fast, but it's not hard to strike someone who has eaten an accidental hit and made a move.

A semi-liquid body hits the wooden body of a magical puppet.

Shivering and Magical Papette's damaged body.

"All right, I got it!

And I gave you pleasure, but it wasn't that easy.

A magical papet stuck a spear in Lily's body that she didn't let go of even after a magical attack.

"Ahhh!?

Blistering, and the tip of the ear stabs the clear meat. Lily's anguish as the liquid burst out and passed through the path left me feeling uncomfortable by scratching my consciousness.

"Lily!"

Two, three degrees. Furthermore, the tip chooses Lily's body. While holding back, Lily was attacked again and again to see if she could exercise her magic. Each time, fluid erupted from her body like blood.

After all, Lily is not very strong.

He tries to jam his tentacles by wrapping them around Magical Papette's arms, but the twitch and the tip pierce her body. Little by little, Magical Papette's wooden body is invaded by digestive fluid. But the situation did not allow for prediction.

There was no way I could just watch this.

"You bastard! Screw you!"

I rushed over to the two monsters with anger.

Lily is my only strength. If we lose this, we can't get ahead of ourselves here. - Apart from those rational judgments, there was a pure fear in me of losing a partner named her.

I don't like being alone anymore.

I can't stand loneliness.

Lily was supposed to lay down the curtain with despair. This is the last hope I had in my life.

I couldn't have lost it.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa"

I put it on a spear that hurt Lily.

Lily's power and my arm strength while still slight.

Together these two finally, the spear moves together.

If he hadn't blown one arm off in a preemptive attack, he could have ended up here. Luck is still there. It's up to us to connect this luck first.

"Oh, my... die, die, die, die. Yeah!

Kick Cancer and Magical Papette's head.

Damn it. No. It doesn't look like the damage is going through.

By Lily's digestive fluids, little by little, but Magical Papette is taking damage. If we can keep the equilibrium, we win.

But can we maintain this equilibrium...?

I scratched my weak thoughts out desperately.

It's all right.

I can definitely go. It's up to you!

Although there was a miscalculation that Lily's arm was weaker than I thought, nevertheless, this one is somewhat more advantageous.

I believe so.

This is the place to be.

"... ah"

That's what I thought, I froze on the spot.

Beyond the trees, there was a new magical puppet.

With an axe and a shield and warrior-inspired gear, the novice Magical Papette was pointing his unexplored wooden face towards us.

"You're lying..."

In an instant my throat dried up.

What a bad time.

For the most part, I thought I was unlucky, but if I did, this is terrible.

We can't afford to deal with the newcomers.

Lily can't let go of the magical puppet she's dealing with right now. Even if I let go of my spears and deal with them, I'm just a human being, and there's too much difference in power to buy time. Then you run away? No, I can't. Lily's legs are slow, and I'm not the one who can get away with all the sickness.

What are we gonna do?

What am I supposed to do?

Before I could give the answer, a novice magical puppet ran out.

Damn. Faster than the one we're holding back.

In an instant, the distance that was more than ten meters shrinks.

"Lily! Pick me up!

Follow my instructions and Lily will give you some of the tentacles.

As it turned out, this was a bad idea.

"Wow."

Waving loose power, the magical puppet that had held him down until now pulled the spear out of Lily's body.

"Ugh, wow!?

I kept grabbing the spear, and I fell to the ground, pulled by the momentum.

When I accidentally held up my closed eyelids, the tip of a wooden spear almost fell off.

The cheeky face of a magical papet looked down on me.

Lily teases her tentacles, but she can't make it!

Cancer of the throat, and the noise, the head crushed.

Fragments crushed by wood dust scattered across the ground.

One life disappeared and the hustle and bustle of battle quieted.

…… What?

I tried to understand the sight I had just seen, sweating cold on the tip of my ear pierced to the ground a few centimeters to the right of my face.

In one blow, it was crushed by wood dust - the head of a magical puppet holding a spear, the sight of shock.

Something flew in, I know.

But that's all I know.

I heard a chirp and something pulling.

Looking at you, I saw a huge battle axe thrust into one of the trees.

A tree cut up to half falls, sounding in his belly.

……

I got my torso up. Soon the white light enveloped my body, healing the small wounds I had suffered when I fell. Lily's healing magic. Whatever you think, I think you should heal yourself better than I do, but I won't be able to tell you that later.

And beside me - there was a magical puppet with an axe and a shield that could be on one knee.

Now, I don't have an axe.

"... don't surprise me"

When I blur, signs of confusion come from Magical Papette.

It was the same kind of connection I felt with Lily.

Apparently, the monsters that make me a family member are something I can tell from a glimpse.... properly, as long as you stay calm. This information can also be described as a great harvest.

I just fell on the spot.

Apparently, I was able to get through the first training ground.

And not only that, he got a comforting companion.