There is a single street that connects the Duchy of Zerga Gladiator to the adventurer autonomy Zerneus and the kingdom of Verneus.

The invasion from outside is extremely difficult, as this tri-country state is located in the southeastern part of the continent, protected to the north by the Beast King's Peak and to the south by the Gulf of Neus and the Great Trench of Delius. At the same time, the development of the trading network was no more than reliance on shipping, and the development of land routes between the three realms flourished the exchange of the few cultures.

Behemoth often appears on this street closer to the Beast King's Peak.

Behemoth is a large warcraft belonging to the Beast Royal Mammal Mesh Rigidozoidae Behemothae. The total length reaches about six meters with something large. Big horns, developed anterior legs, and growing fangs in the mouth give off a fierce cosmetic appearance. It is more omnivorous than carnivorous and often attacks travelers when they come down the street.

It's like running into a higma on a mountain road, and if you do, the traveler curses his own misfortune as having no luck first. Conversely, it is unlikely, in principle, that the streets will be blocked to the extent of the emergence of behemoths. Some people can escape where they meet.

But on this day, the street was blockaded by agreement between the Duchy of Zerga and the Zerneus Adventurer Autonomy. The cause is the emergence of behemoths in an extremely peculiar condition. It had been confirmed that the whole body was enlarged and more ferocious than normal individuals. A quest was ordered by the Adventurers Association and some adventurers went to crusade this behemoth.

And now one girl is standing in front of that behemoth-specific individual.

"Grrrrrrrr......"

At the foot of the behemoth, there is already blood. Rolling meat chunks probably belong to victims who challenged monsters from their barbarity and scattered their lives. If you look at it from its jaw and all its growing fangs, it is easy to chew off human bones, and whenever Behemoth repeatedly chewed it, it sounded painful and deaf. From his mouth, he exhales like a black cunt.

If a girl feared a monster before, that's not true. But if it was burning with a sense of righteousness and purpose, that's still not true either. The girl just stood. From what I've seen, he's only ten years old. He turned his gaze too carelessly towards Behemoth.

"Gogga!!

Behemoth swings that huge front leg down against the girl. It's like a hammer. It was mercilessly swung down from the head of a girl who wouldn't even try to avoid it, creating one in the street, a little red stain.

Like, I thought,

"... Ga, ah!?

Behemoth reveals agitation. The girl, who seemed crushed, was still alive under her forefoot.

That's not all.

He took the front leg with one arm and lifted it.

"Ha!!

Towards the soles of Behemoth's feet, the girl releases a kick. Shortly afterwards, a thrusting impact ran to Behemoth's right front leg. Bones crunch and muscle fibers break. Puff, and blood erupted from the drained blood vessels. It's not red. Dos It is black, cloudy, creepy blood.

Losing his front leg to support his body, Behemoth slowly fell into the streetland. I try to get up again with my empty left arm, but it's faster for a girl to stand at the tip of the monster's nose than that. Behemoth opens his jaw and tries to chew up the body of the defenseless girl. A black lump leaking from his mouth made a huge lump.

………

The girl gently lifts her hand up at the tip of the monster's nose. Immediately afterwards, the spitting black beard was sucked into the girl's body.

………

It gradually stains out of the body of the behemoth. Whenever that gets out of the monster's body and the girl sucks him in, Behemoth's body gradually shrinks. rather than go back to its original size. Eventually, the behemoth turned into a female normal individual, about four metres long. Try to shelter the injured anterior leg, and when you stand still, slowly sound your footsteps back into the mountains.

………

The girl slowly, dropped it off. Keep it up and look back in circles.

"Thank you for waiting."

Before the girl, there were three companions.

Emperor's Watch Board Alliance (Dial Nights) Seat 4 (Four Ochroks) "Iron Fist Virgin” Philhana Grambana.

Same Seat 6 (Six Ochrok) "Number of Swordstorms" Lambart Gordan.

The same thirteen o'clock seat (Irregular Time) "Black Sun” Ei Fugano.

And a girl named Melodias Killer, the Second Seat (Two Ochroks) of the Emperor's Watch Board Alliance (Dial Knights).

"... Gordan"

Eung asked the elf standing next to him, keeping his arms together.

"What did she do now?

Say, "Oh, that's Melancholy."

Lambault answers with a thin eye.

"That creature that inhaled the black jaw, as you can see, will become oh and ferocious. Originally, it was a disease that the Orcs and Goblins had, but it was Melodias who could freely manipulate its source."

"Hmm......"

Eung replied softly. This means that all the mutant Behemoth individuals who are making a scene around here have developed a state of ferocity by that black one.

There is something similar to the blood factor, Eung thought. Both indicate in terms of encouraging dramatic enhancement of organisms by external interference. For what is unreasonable, we may say that the blood factor is more conscientious, but the factor carries the business of having to continue to consume the same kind of blood. Both are troublesome.

"What do you want to do, Melokey"

Philhana asks as she wipes the blood on Melodias' cheek.

"There still seem to be a few undervetted behemoths around here. I'm going to purify it?

"Hmm..."

The girl thought with her hands on her mouth.

"Don't you have to hurry to Verneus?

"It's not good."

Lambault answers.

"The Adventurers Association also has a crusade quest for Behemoth. We'd better leave it to them and just head to Verneus. It's troublesome when your blood tries to distract you from their place."

"Hmm, well..."

Melodias meditates his eyes as if they were troubled.

"But I need to stay a little longer."

"Yes, I agree."

Philhana giggles with Nico and gives him one hand, but Lambault looks sinister.

"I disagree. How's Akira?

"I..."

I disagreed, I tried to say.

Now the Eins are about to head under four groups of students for two years gathering in Verneus. The aim is to “protect” them in the empire and protect them from the hands of the blood clan. There is also the purpose of not passing them on to the blood clan, which could be a force of war. Either way, we need to get to them before the bloodline moves.

I don't have time to waste here.

It should be.

"... I agree."

So crushing, Melodias laughed at the garlic, and Lambart still made a sinister face.

"Sarasu, Archie, we can talk!

"Come on, it's not like that..."

It was the face of a friend who plundered Eung's heart.

I thought about things that didn't make sense, like what I would have done if he had been here.

Even though thinking about it doesn't make any difference that Eung betrayed his way.

Separation is decisive, you know.

"Hey, Goubayashi, take a look at this article"

"Mm..."

In the Duchy of Zerga Kendo, Kenzaki brought a newspaper to Goubayashi, who was ready to leave.

The newspaper is naturally written in this language. It's not like I can read it even if I'm shown it. Goubayashi frowned and asked Kenzaki.

"Can you read it?

"You can't possibly read it!

"Then why are you straining your chest..."

Saying so, Goubayashi ran his eyes on the paper. There are about two sketches written there.

"This is...“ Nobody "and..."

I tried to say it was a sea urchin, but I still kept my mouth shut.

What is depicted there is an unnamed sketch of Sirius, an adventurer we previously met in the arena of this gladiatorial principality. He was dressed in distinctive attire, so there's almost no mistake. The characteristic dead eye-catching he usually shows well was also well reproduced.

Next to it is a completely fallen skull of meat. For Goubayashi and Kenzaki, this face is familiar as a classmate, Kyosuke Akagi. But if you think about it, this is a common face of skeletons, not necessarily Kyosuke's.

"It's nameless and utter. That's a flirtatious thing, Gooby Palm. You forgot your classmate's face?

"I have certainty. I've seen Mr. Hotke cremated several times in relation to his parents' house."

I'm not even familiar with it enough to be able to tell just by my skull.

"Read it to Lumiera. Actually, I've summed it up somewhat."

And, Kenzaki took out another small note.

"Hmm."

"According to it, apparently, this is definitely an utter"

The newspaper wrote that Kyosuke had a duel with Jane Doe in the Adventurer Autonomous Zerneus, east of here.

Nobody liked Kyosuke and signed up for a fight. The duel takes place in the Great Square and the result, naturally, is an unnamed victory. The odd skeleton who speaks the language said he was defeated with almost nothing to do after merging with the intruder's slime.

"I see. It seems unnamed."

Goubayashi nodded.

"And I don't know what a utter... ohhhh? They have something like that..."

"Ooh heh...?

"I'm not sure about this. Lumiera didn't know much about it either."

But I can see that being written in a newspaper article is quite important.

I hope what's written here doesn't make Kyosuke a strange target.

"Anyway, it's good to know that the Utsurugis are safe. If Zerneus is close. You just want to rendezvous in some way."

I wish we could use our hands like the newspaper ads that Ryuzaki hit, but that one had information we only knew about, so we could do that bold thing. Doing something bad could also lead to exposing the blood clans to where we are.

No, the enemy is not limited to the blood clan.

Goubayashi was quietly closing his eyes and remembering what had happened in the last few weeks.

Your Majesty's Watch Board Alliance (Dial Knights) - Seat 2 (Too Ochrok) "Underbeast Brave".

That little girl is probably one of the enemies. Her unleashed black jaws were harmful to Goubayashi and Zekku, the Ouga, and Okumura, the Oak. As soon as he inhales, he loses reason and becomes a fierce monster. The result was inconvenience for my people.

It's teethy even now that I remember it. Realize your lack of training.

It is already understandable what stance the Empire will move towards the four sets of students for two years, but not necessarily friendly. At that time, thanks to the help of Jane Doe, I managed to cut through. I just don't know if it will be the same next time.

"... gowbayashi, you look difficult"

Kenzaki said as he searched the newspaper.

"... oh"

"Looks like Omelette's for lunch today. Cheer up."

"... oh"

That's what they said, and Goubayashi smiled slightly. This is a clumsy consolation characteristic of Kenzaki. I've figured it out lately.

"For one thing, we'll discuss whether to leave immediately to the east or some means of rendezvous after lunch"

That underbeast brave man must have returned to the Empire. I want to believe that I will never see you again.

Goubayashi decided to go ahead and pack for some time now, time to lunch.

A party was formed with Lesbon as its leader, and Kyosuke and the others decided to go to the Behemoth exorcism.

but it was a pretty good bone to get there. Let's start with the perimeter gaze.

With the exchange of swords with Jane Doe, Kyosuke will have a strange evil look in the Adventurer Autonomous Zerneus. Besides, it wasn't very good to be revealed ownership of the Wang Piece. The adventurers glanced at Kyosuke's left arm. That man named Jane Doe, his arm stands, but he can't read much air.

The next big deal was getting ready for adventure.

In addition to buying and storing potions and other consumer items, new equipment can also be viewed. Kyosuke and I hesitated, but Lesbon gave us some reserves, so we ended up sweetening them favorably. Nevertheless, there is not much equipment that is in trouble if it is not new. This is the Demon Legion somehow.

Wumaru wanted a weapon for the White Soldiers, so I bought him a long sword, but then the main thing will be to buy potions to relieve the burden on the White Horse. And then I bought a little extravagant horse gear. The white horse wore it with great pride. The shopping was accompanied by snowflakes. She seemed a little worried about whether she should change from a snowwoman outfit to a costume like that in this world, but eventually, she ended up going through it as it is without buying it.

Well, take a few days to get ready, and finally tomorrow is when we're leaving.

"Hey, Kyosuke."

"Hmm?

Rin spoke to Kyosuke, who was brushing his teeth against the sink.

"I was just wondering..."

With that said, Rin brought in some newspapers. Kyosuke can't read the letters of this world either, so I have trouble with being brought a newspaper, but I can't go under if there's something I care about. For one thing, I received the newspaper.

"Uh, what's wrong with this?

"Yeah. You know what? This is an article about a coup in a little western country."

Is there any photographic technology in this world, there are just sketch illustrations. All of them are unrecognizable faces.

It's not mild when it comes to coups. Rin said that a third prince or a fourth prince had beeped to save citizens suffering from oppression in everything. but in the end it was powerless and the current regime, with the help of the empire, suppressed the coup and the prince was executed. What a painful story.

There were not only sketches, but also photographs and thoughtful illustrations. Exactly, the sight depicts the prince on the verge of being tied down. Not really, not a pleasure to watch. Watching it, and, uh, Kyosuke found something in the corner of the illustration that bothered her.

It's being held down by the gendarmerie, the black cat. The cat wears a flashy hat with wings on his head. Kyosuke looked familiar in that outfit, reminiscent of a temptress somewhere.

"... doesn't that cat look like Micha-chan?

"... oh"

Yes. I haven't seen her in a long time since one of the fallen apart transplant accidents, classmate Miya Catmiya. You look just like her reincarnated into Ket Sea.

No wonder the Cat Palace was moving closer to the scene of this coup. but

"I wonder why the soldiers are holding me back"

"Mr. Lesbon and the others told me that the coup, some monsters were working with the prince. Something about that Kett-See getting along with the prince..."

Kyosuke's heart went out of her way. That's because it was a very understandable story.

We haven't been dating that long, but some time after we had a cross-world metastasis. Kyosuke had become familiar with the character of the Cat Palace. If you are a cat palace personality, then doing such a thing is nothing strange. She is temperamental, passionate, and then oddly thick in righteousness.

The Cat Palace cooperated in this coup, but was to clash with the Empire, defeated.

"Are the cat palaces safe?

"... I don't know. But he said there weren't any monsters in the execution."

"Right..."

Good, should I say?

"I'm sorry. I was wondering if I would talk about this..."

"Why would Rin apologize? Thanks for letting me know."

Kyosuke stares at the newspaper. If I could, I'd like to go find the Cat Palace right now, but it would be difficult.

In this way, whether or not they're watching Ryuzaki's message, that's even at stake. Perhaps the easiest way to rendezvous as this is, so after rendezvous with them, should we discuss subsequent developments?

"Guys, it's not always safe..."

Rin's words are strangely heavy.

"Right..."

Even Akai and Sakuma remain missing. How the hell are they now, where are they?

And yes. It's Ei Fugano.

Kyosuke hasn't heard of his hatred in a long time.

Kyosuke knows very well that Eung is a visible and weak man. One person brings in all sorts of things. Excessively caretaker is the flip of not being able to keep your mind balanced if you don't. If this one doesn't do it, he's unscrupulous, carries it in, and it crushes him.

"(I hope he's one of them and he's not being impotent...)"

Kyosuke was showing off her best friend, quietly, as she searched the newspaper.