Monster no Goshujin-sama

Seven.

The balloon fox escape seemed slightly but faster than Fire Fang tracked yesterday.

Or should I say this is great?

With a small stature, the balloon fox became small. In a straight line, Fire Fang may win, but in an obstruction-rich forest, there will be armaments for balloon foxes.

Nevertheless, that is also fifty hundred steps. Not enough to escape Gabella.

"... don't join your people"

A few minutes to chase away, Gabella snapped pompously.

"Is that 'detached'?

I literally whispered to the beauty of Gabella at the end of my eyes and nose, taking great care not to bite my tongue.

"Maybe."

A further three centimeters looked at me and Gabella whispered back.

"If so, there's no point in tracking it any further."

"Right. Maybe it's about time. Will you set me up the next time you get a chance?"

"Aye, okay.... although it seems difficult to capture them with spider yarn because they are going through the bush. I can't even get much speed with the Lord's Palace.... hmm?

Gabella nodded at my request and frowned.

"Shit."

I can narrow my red eyes.

"Bastards. Failed. I'm out of here somewhere."

As Gabella said, I also saw a place dozens of meters away where the forest was interrupted.

Exploring the woods can occasionally hit places like this.

Is it roughly ten meters in diameter? Snoring circles, the woods were flickering.

During the slightest descent, a glimpse of the reddish ground was glimpsed.

It may have been a forest fire recently.

Gabella had arrived on the spot during the second I thought so.

Balloon foxes re-enter the bush across the street, almost at the same time as Garbera leads through the woods.

"I won't let you get away with it!

Gabella, who held me, landed in a small square in the woods, showing an agile leap that wouldn't even allow such handy caps and other shards to disappoint.

And that triggered the crisis.

... Let's talk about one assumption here.

In order to increase the efficiency of encountering monsters, we were doing this method called 'dealing with the herd'.

If you were talking to someone else about this, what would have happened?

If I had been talking to Lily, I'm sure she would have been here to worry.

If you were talking to Rose, they'd disagree and you wouldn't have come here in the first place.

And if I had been able to talk to Kato, he would have noticed the big mistake I hadn't noticed.

That should have averted, at least, the catastrophe that was about to happen.

Because the pitfalls that put me in danger were in my own perception.

I've thought about this before.

- If it's a regular monster, it's not Garbera's enemy. If you're more than a Rare Monster, you're within my abilities. If there is a threat, it is only High Monster and this is not so easy to meet…

This is not a mistake.

But I forgot to put one element in the calculation.

It was a lethal element of my own vulnerability.

I was going to recognize myself that that was my biggest weakness in cheat ability.

But the perception was sweet.

I hadn't forgotten, but it wasn't considered enough. I didn't think enough.

... No. I couldn't afford to think about it.

A dedicated resolution between Gabella and Rose.

My own loss to Mr. Kato.

Everything else, I know and I don't know.

There was as much to think about and none of it was like solving it overnight.

As a result, there had been some overlooks.

For example, one example would be that I was not aware at all of what Kato pointed out last night about the torn apart corpse.

At this time, I had decided that there could be no such thing as a presence beyond Gabella in terms of combat.

Fact is it wasn't a mistake, but it was a failure that made the thought stop there.

Indeed, the white Arakune boasts an overwhelming strength.

If we bump into each other from the front, it's hard to beat her for any monster in this forest.

But it doesn't mean, "So whatever happens, it's okay."

Because she's only 'alone'.

As a matter of course, we humans can only hold what we can carry in these two arms and support with our two legs.

In the case of Gabella, she has eight legs, but that still doesn't change that there are limits.

If you put it the way it is, it was, 'There is only one thing you can do alone'.

"... be!?

I opened my eyes.

In exchange for the balloon fox that we have been chasing entering the bush, another individual's balloon fox, who has already swelled up his body to great lengths, rose from the bush.

And the number that surrounded the plaza, which we had just arrived in, was thus more than thirty.

That's how I know.

That what I should be truthfully wary of wasn't the presence of a high monster that I didn't even know if I would encounter.

The truth is that what I had to be vigilant about was the ravages caused by the number of violence: 'being attacked by a number of normal monsters that even Gabella could not deal with'.

- At that moment, the relationship between hunters and prey was reversed.

When I regretted my shallowness, the trigger was already squeezed.

"Uh-oh!?

More than a hundred fireballs arrived for us.

That was almost equal to a pushing wall.

360 degrees, surrounded by the whole perimeter, there's no escape.

The view lit by the red flames darkened with despair.

All I could say was that it was a detour.

Monsters don't have human emotions or will, but they do have animal intelligence.

A number of wildlife hunting strategically in flocks were known on the planet I used to be, including wolves, lions and hyenas.

Then it's not strange for monsters to have something that uses those methods.

This flickering forest square was their hunting ground, nothing more than an execution ground for those of us who were lured.

... There's nothing more I can do about this.

I really thought so, and even the running lights got to my head.

But that was the time.

Gabella, who was holding me, cried out in disobedience.

"Let it be!

Gabella waved through one hand and swung over the dozen spider threads she ejected like a whip.

Almost unconsciously, I was following with my eyes the direction in which Gabella's hand was shaken off.

There was an impending fireball there.

Spider threads dancing like whips clashed into some of the flying fireballs.

I had just seen it, remembering the trees blasting by balloon fox fireballs.

If you hit something of some hardness, you can play balloon fox fireballs.

That is, of course, true even for spider yarns waved down at the mercy of the strength of the High Monster.

- If it's inevitable anyway, just blow it up before it does.

This must have been what Gabella came up with.

Fireballs struck by spider threads exploded one after the other in the air.

It was an abusive and extreme decision and, at the same time, the shortest evasion there was otherwise.

The explosion happened just a few meters away. Though it's better than being directly caught in a blast, it's natural for the hot air to push in.

Gabella held me in her chest and shielded her body, but the heat waves burned my skin relentlessly.

I was only allowed to close my eyes and endure.

The scream I should have given you disappeared into the blast, and it didn't even reach my own ear.

Bear. Bear.

A moment when a glimmer of wind passed, was felt in minutes as well.

That's how the blast passed my skin.

Garbera's voice reached my ear, which I was about to lose half my mind.

"I'm sorry, Lord!

What are you talking about - faster than I thought, the situation moved.

"Ugh, ahhh!?

Before I knew it, I was in a burning heat.

The spider thread burst a number of fireballs into a less dense area, and Gabella, who held me, penetrated it thoughtfully.

The ground after the compressed fireball could be played was heated and the air was still hot.

Fortunately, if it had Garbera's leap power, it would have meant that the entry and exit would have been a moment.

If you noticed, you were in the damp air of the woods.

Almost at the same time, there was a huge explosion behind it.

And I blinked my eyes, which were closed, and saw a rising red flame.

The balloon foxes threw out a number of fireballs that landed where we were just moments ago and exploded in unison.

I was relieved.

If Gabella's decision had been even a moment late, we would have been left in that explosion.

Perhaps only Gabella could survive.

But I shouldn't have been with you.

It's even suspicious if the body could have kept the prototype.

Even at the time of my current departure, I suffered quite severe burns on the peeled face, hands and feet.

If I hadn't been given garments woven with garbera spider yarn before I left, I might have been shocked to death by a major burn sustained all over my body.

"We're leaving!

Gabella repeated the leap even more as she screamed desperately.

Two, three degrees.

Leaps and tries to escape the flock of balloon foxes.

Gabella lowered herself for the third leap...... but stuck the hook claw at the tip of the spider leg to the ground and stopped with sudden braking.

I had to.

"No way... Impossible"

Blood-soaking groans were nothing like hers.

I was also capturing something in my sight that was becoming somewhat suspicious that put her out of her mind.

Countless giant lily flowers were dripping from the trees and blooming.

I knew it was a monster that looked like a plant.

Yesterday I hunted as a souvenir to Lily because this monster... was an iron cannon crawl.

The cannon crawl is a monster that attacks animals aggressively while parasitizing and taking away nutrients from the trees.

Gabella, who runs away with me, has stepped into a swarm of trees as far as the cannon crawls can see.

The reaction was intense.

The means of attack of the cannon crawl - countless species of bullets launched from flowers like lilies, also the origin of its name, ravaged space.

I could only perceive the first shot being shot in the back of my left hand.

All we have to do is shock.

"Damn, ah! Ah!"

I ate it on my shoulder, and I plunged it into my belly, and blood erupted from my legs.

It may have been lucky for me that my body, half paralyzed by the earlier burning, did not feel the pain satisfactorily.

Minus that you're in the worst of misfortunes, though.

No, or would it be inappropriate to describe this as' unlucky '?

Because I think, 'No luck passing through a flock of artillery cannons while on the run', etc., because I'm wrong about the problem.

No matter how unlucky I am, there can't be such a coincidence in a boulder.

Including this, it was more about nature to consider it part of the Balloon Fox's Special Trap.

Gabella's choice in this direction, where there was a flock of artillery crawls, would not be the result of an appropriate choice. Perhaps she has the most chance of escape - that is, breaking through the thin spot of the balloon fox enclosure.

There was a trap set up there.

Balloon foxes used artillery.

This otherworldly monster doesn't hit me shoulder-to-shoulder, like a computer RPG battle scene.

However, it can be possible if one of them uses one of them to 'fight together'.

That's the thing.

After creating all those special situations, those that still eat through the nets will have an even more definite death.

It may have been the wisdom that a balloon fox, as a monster with only fragile physical abilities, put on to survive in this forest.

I don't know how many shots Gabella took and how many she took into her place.

The fact that I wasn't attacked in a deadly position, such as my head, probably meant that she was desperate to protect me.

But it also seemed like a vain resistance.

Around, the cannon crawls to be refilled again.

Behind you, a huge swarm of looming balloon foxes.

Gabella, who has so painstakingly kept snubbing through my attacks, but that's as far as it goes.

Instead, it was an admirable struggle even if it just kept snubbing so far, and what I wanted more than that was too much to ask for.

With a hazy consciousness, I prepared myself for death.

But.

"Just kidding... don't do it"

Gabella hadn't given up yet.

Or maybe those evils of giving up...... some kind of living filth is what has kept her alive for so many years and paved the way for high monsters.

To make her give up, that's all Kato did but rip that young heart apart.

She is such a monster, and balloon foxes with only wildlife level intelligence could not have prepared that advanced attack on boulders.

"Don't be ridiculous!

What Gabella held all the way here, screaming as if to deny the visible future with all her might... namely, taking her hands off my body.

When she was free, she hid about me immediately rolling to the ground, beneath the body of a spider in her lower body.

……

And I turned to the ground, and looked up at the narrow sky.

It was in my sight - the white Arakune, the high monster, who was what it was.

She has spent enough time alone to be distracted.

I've fought through it alone.

I'm not used to fighting to protect someone.

Her true value can only be seen in the battle alone.

And losing the shackle of me, no, she was free.

While the artillery crawl loaded the next bullet from simultaneous fire, and not missing just about a second before the balloon fox caught up, Gabella went on offense.

"Never again! Because of my concubine! The Lord is dying. Ah!

Gabella waved her free arms.

A spider yarn full of limits that could be manipulated at once was sprinkled indiscriminately around the perimeter.

The trees, the monsters, it doesn't matter.

I didn't put my aim on it, so it was a lot of retrieval, but she doesn't care about those details.

I didn't need that.

The spider's thread, indiscriminately clutched to everything but me that she hid in the lower body of the spider, was no longer in her hands.

"Ahhhhhhh!

The scream of a girl spitting blood shook the forest air.

Gabella's eight legs bit the ground.

Hooknails pierced the ground deeply to secure Gabella's body to the spot.

Thus, the white monster, the incarnation of atrocity, reappeared.

What Gabella did was a terribly simple act: 'pull the spider thread just as hard as you can'.

But what happens if that simple act is carried out by a monster among monsters with the power of being out of digits?

- The world converged towards her.

So much so that it seemed, the sight in front of me was dramatic.

Everything in my eyes was drawn to the white spider with great momentum.

Every soil and tree hits through the roots. The flying trees bump into each other and break into each other. The winding cannon crawl was pulled and crushed without exchanging, and the balloon fox, which was about to be awkwardly wound, ate the bubble and fled the scene.

Whatever caught in her spider yarn, or not, is the same thing if you get caught in this stream.

We can bump into each other, get crushed, hooked, and hold it up.

Everything that was pulled up was finally crushed and scattered over the sky.

Fragments, fragments and wreckage poured down like peony snow from above.

What keeps the original form is not left as one.

In this case, I almost laughed.

Damn, what a cod out.

… with all this power, I exposed myself to this failure.

What a Zama.

Wouldn't this disqualify their husband?

I'm so sorry that I want to die first.

I'm talking about what you're talking about being stupid in a situation where you're going to die if you leave me alone.

"Lord!

Still, I can't die.

This life was once something that Lily and Rose, now that Gabella was desperate to protect.

I had a duty to survive.

"I'll take you to Lord Lily right away! Hold on tight!

Blood is draining from the whole body.

The skin is burnt, red or black or flashy.

The body is a specimen that represents the language of full-bodied creation as it is.

But... can you die?

stronger than when I was dying alone one day, and I thought so.

I was just desperate to cling to life as Gabella held me and carried me through the woods.