Name: Successor (Tsuguto)

Occupation: F-Rank Adventurer

Two minutes had already passed since his heir started counting seconds in his head, but there had still been no change in his name window. This means that Ryatt, who fell to the bottom of Naruto, is still alive.

The heir was smoking in herself, feeling one hope swelling rapidly in case.

If there is so much hope, there is no reason not to move on.

Honestly, I feel fear. Staring at the bottom of a dark hole, something cold runs on my spine. But it's not something that springs from the heart, it's just a fear that comes from a more rooted, primitive, instinct as an organism. Human will can deviate from instinct. And the will of the heir has already been decided. That's why he wasn't lost. Don't even get lost for a second.

The heir jumped into the trash hole.

"- Huh"

Intense floating feeling immediately afterwards. My heart shrinks. Cells in my body accuse me of what they've done to my heir. But I don't listen to that voice. The heir stared straight at only the bottom of darkness.

In the dark, I gazed at him if I didn't miss any change, and it suddenly came as if to mock the heir I was posing for.

Light.

It was really sudden. As if I had switched on the lighting in the dark room, the darkness around me was extinguished without any foretaste.

And soon after checking the surroundings, which suddenly became brighter...

A shock struck the entire body of his heir.

Billy and things that can't be paralyzed or painful rush all over your body.

At the same time, my whole body was wrapped in cold.

"Bo......!

Bubbles overflowed from my mouth.

When a human falls from a height, what place will he be safe? When asked so, most would think of the same answer.

Yes, it was in the water that the heir fell.

The water was clean and clear.

So much so that the bubbles raised by the impact of the heir's fall, along with the bubbles leaking out of his mouth now, appeared to rise to the surface of the water.

As he stared at the whereabouts of the rising bubble, his successor waited for the general paralysis struck by water to disappear, his senses inadvertently returned to the soles of his feet. When he was followed and looked at his feet, his feet had reached the rocky skin of a color close to white. Apparently this is the bottom of the water. Gaze back up again from the bottom of the water. The water surface would be more than five meters away by sight. The momentum of the fall seemed to sink into much deeper places.

If you're holding it, you could drown. The heir, who thought so, sank his body deep into the water and, as he crouched into the bottom, jumped to the surface with squirt guidelines.

and that's where sharp pain runs on my thighs.

What, and when I looked, there was one fish there.

A large blue fish approaching fifty centimeters in length was biting his heir's thigh.

From where the blue fish bit, blood was leaking into the water like red smoke.

The heir tried to slash him with a sword reflexively, but there is no sword he should have held in his right hand.

Apparently, it was a knockout impact on the water that dropped it somewhere.

I had no choice, so I punched the fish eating on my leg with a fist I gripped. The impact releases the fish's mouth. But that was it. The diminished fist of momentum underwater did not do much damage, and the fish was eaten by his heirs again.

"... ugh!

The pain leaks precious air out of your mouth.

This is all I have if my fist doesn't work. The heir unplugged a throwing knife from his belt and pierced it to the side of the blue fish.

Not only does this happen, but the blue fish also stop biting and wander around trying to pull out the knife, but the knife through the horizontal plane is hard to pull out, and the fish gradually drifts away from their successors.

I spare the knife, but I can't deal with him any more. That's just breathless.

The heir turned to the water, ignoring the fish.

"- Buha!!

Faced out of the water and looking over with plenty of air, the view was a whole lot of space with nothing to see but milky white rock walls and clear water.

It looks more like an underground cavity flooded than a lake in an underground cave......

Looking up, I could see an exit-like hole in the garbage hole on the ceiling far over twenty meters away. The heir blued her face slightly, wondering if she had fallen from such a place.

I started exploring my surroundings again to see if there was anything else, and something moving entered my sight.

Waving, dancing water splashes. When I stared, the identity was Ryatt on the surface of the water. Because of how flashy it was, my successor wondered if I was drowning - but I didn't.

Ryatt had a flock of blue fish. I'm not sure how many on my shoulder, on my face, on my arm I'm about to shake off, but I'm sure it's a number I can't help anymore.

The heir is going to unexpectedly see it, but I reckon that's not the case. If I had, I would have been Ryatt's two dances.

The heir looked around again and discovered something like a rift in the rock wall closest to herself. The rift is like a path that leads to the back.

I didn't see any other place to go after looking around any further, so I swam for that rift before the fish came.

The place I swimmed to was shallow. My boots are soaked in water about ten centimeters, but my feet stick tight.

From a depth of more than five meters, it is about ten centimetres shallow at once, so I had a hard time getting up, but that big fish wouldn't be able to come up here either.

When his heir looked back at what had happened to Ryatt, there was no sign of him there.

Instead, the place where he was standing was stained with blood on a wide scale. My successor gets a weird impression of how much blood comes out of the human body.

"- Ah."

Speaking of which, and his heir displays a name window, he was not yet a red name.

I don't think Ryatt is alive when I think about the amount of bleeding, but still the fact that his heir won't be the red name means it wasn't the heir who stuck him in this place that killed Ryatt, but the blue fish that was eating at him for being stuck down - the Blue Killer Fish, I guess.

Blue Killer Fish is one of the most powerful monsters of the Demon Mine Cave, which is difficult to repel once attacked, especially because it is one of two dangerous monster species, with sharp fangs and herd properties.

However, the emergence of Blue Killer Fish is confirmed only by the lake further down the underground five-tier, the lowest level of the Demon Cave, a monster that normally never meets or fights.

Of course, my successor knew the information, but it's a monster I didn't think I'd actually meet. Having that bluekiller fish means...

"Is this a five tier place -?... no"

"Demon Cave" is an E-rank dungeon.

If the trash hole was such a trap to the point of falling to the fifth tier of such a minimum difficulty labyrinth, wouldn't it result in a 0% survival rate?

Sure, it may be vicious to think of it as a trap to be thrown into the water with blue killer fish, but even a heir who was unprepared for anything by doing so - even though Ryatt was like a... this is how he lives. If this is a five-tier place, it's unnatural that no adventurer ever came back alive.

Then it would still be more natural to think of this as another even more dangerous place, rather than a five-tier one.

Is Lourier safe?

It was only after three adults hurt me that I was dropped in the trash hole, and there was a flock of blue killer fish ahead of me that fell, and even if I escaped that, this is an unknown area with a 0% survival rate.

It is now that hope has arisen that she may be alive that the footsteps of despair will not leave again with a single glimmer next door.

".................. chi"

The heir struck one tongue and turned her back on a giant puddle stained with Ryatt's blood.

I get anxious because I look at such a creepy thing. Rulier won't stay in that place.

As his successor put it, he fixed his gaze behind the road leading to the front.

The road that stretched in front of me was everything different from a one-tier aisle.

First the height. I also found the ceilings about four or five meters above one level to be quite high, but much higher than that, more than double. Instead, the width is rather narrow. However, even though it is narrow, the road itself is narrower, with clumps of rocks of all sizes and sizes - from about a soccer ball for the smaller ones to well beyond the back length of the heir for the larger ones - rolling over there, and they made the road cramped.

The prospects are poor because of the rocks, but I can still confirm that the road stretches deeper.

Other than this road, I found no other place to scaffold or a way forward. I mean, we're ahead of us. Rourier is ahead of us.

With a feeling of deviation and an equal amount of anxiety, the heir kicked the water in a bash and took a step towards the end of the road.

SSS

The successor was moving on as he kicked the water with Bashabasha and sounded the sound of stepping on it.

At the end of the aisle, in the shadow of the rock, he is moving his gaze, but he cannot yet discover what Roulier looks like.

Reduce the rushing feeling that makes you want to run out and carefully circle your gaze. Since there are so many rock blind spots, we have to be careful not to overlook them.

A little further, a huge rock was sitting in the aisle.

The rock was too large, blocking most of the aisle, but there was a slight gap between the rock and the aisle wall.

In an attempt to pass through that gap to the other side, the heir laid her hands on the rock and it was through each person that she let her body dive into the gap at last.

So, that went into view.

"... blood?

From where his heir was holding his hand, just about fifty centimeters down, there remained something like a red bill.

It was already dry when I touched it, but it looks like a blood stain not so old.

………………

Feeling thirsty in his mouth, his heir looks around carefully at the moment. Then he discovered similar red marks on the rock a little further ahead.

Red marks on low rock position. A red bill as small as a child.

Thoughts didn't work well from there.

Just look for new red tracks and follow them.

Followed the red trail, and within minutes a split appeared before his successor. That was a Y-shaped road divided to the left and right.

An irreplaceable passage, both left and right. Seeking a red mark there, the heir moved her gaze with Kyoro Kyoro.

And...

My heart bounced dokun.

"... ah"

A groan leaked unexpectedly out of his successor's mouth.

That was at the end of the left aisle towards him.

In the shadow of the rock that rolls there...

There he is.

Not even that big a rock shade.

From there the little ass wrapped in tunic was sticking out a bit.

".................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

The stepsister reacts to a pronounced voice that roughly shakes his protruding ass.

And

"... Tuguto?

I looked up.

A girl crouched into the shadow of a rock to hide herself - Roulier peered into her face.

The appearance of Lourier emerging from the shadows of the rocks was a painful word.

How much did they beat you up? A red and black mole appeared all over her face, and her eyelids swelled and completely blocked, especially to her left eye.

The tunic you're wearing is even more bloody and stained bright red near your right shoulder. It was easy to see that he was seriously injured there.

But... he's alive.

I'm not dreaming, fantasizing, paranoid.

There is no doubt that Roulier was alive.

The heir walks over to Roulier and shoves a container of HP potion unquestioned into her mouth looking up at him.

"Mmm,... Ngu, Ngu, Ngu...................... shuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"... were you crying?

to his heir, who bites down his nearly trembling voice and forcibly raises the corner of his mouth and asks,

"Mm... I didn't. I am strong, I am not strong."

Roulier answered with tearful eyes to the limit, which seemed decisive even now.

Successors nod at her words.

It's not like my successor was stopping me. If you felt dangerous, you could have sold me your information. Still, Roulier didn't talk. I protected him without talking about his heir, and he dropped me in a place like this that I'd give him, but he still survived.

It must have hurt. It must have been painful. I should have been scared. Still, without crying, he's staring back at his successor like this now.

Oh, strong.

You really are an amazing guy.

The heir nodded heartily.

The nodding recoil finally spilled what I had desperately endured.

Worn out, worn out, and once decimated, one overflows after another and doesn't stop.

When Lourier saw it,

"......................................................................... I'm sure I'll be with you."

That's what I said, stroking my heir's head as I stretched out my best.

Apparently, I wasn't strong enough yet.

But my partner tells me he can keep it to himself.

So I thought my successor would admit that I was weak about this time.