"Whoa, it's the sea!
At its aperture, Rokka's energetic voice echoes on the sandy beach.
Minutes walk from the park.
We were on the coast near City Hall.
Quiet wave sounds, and pleasant sea breezes tickle your cheeks.
(How many years has it been since the sea came...)
I haven't been here at least once since I started working.
Oh, yeah. This is what the ocean looked like.
Hey, I miss you.
I kept me and my juniors at work on holiday and thought I'd burn this company when they sent me images of the chief and the rest of them doing BBQ at sea...
Ha, I wish they were dead.
No, he could be dead already, normally. Well, I don't care.
"I know, but there's nobody here."
"Right."
Mr Ichinose, standing next to him, agrees.
She looked around,
"And the monster... you're not here. At least as far as I can see."
I said that with a very sharp eye.
You're strangely tingly from earlier......
Did something happen with Rokka after all?
"Yeah. But now it's convenient. Let's say we find the slime quickly."
"Yes."
"Wow."
We started looking for slime quickly.
Then Rokka, who was walking on the beach, raised her voice.
"Oh, I saw it! Oh-ho, over here!
At her feet were the launching round-tails, buoys, and slime appearances.
"Nice, Aisaka."
Approaching, confirming, it was definitely slime.
No heart or size is smaller than the guy I found in the park, but let's just say okay.
Just captured in 'Shadow'.
Ask Aka to absorb it.
"..."
I knew you were right to come to the sea.
I can't believe I found such a light slime.
"Oh, Mr. Kudo, he was here, too."
"Oh, I'm looking again, too. I've got a nice cup."
"True..."
This is amazing.
There were tons of slime on the beach.
Come and go between waves, floating puffy.
Looks like a launched jellyfish.
I don't get close or try to escape, and I wonder if he and the others are really willing to survive the wildness.
(... Is Aka, after all, a fairly rare individual?
This is all the slime I've encountered so far, except for Aka.
Few individuals move as spontaneously as acorns.
No, if you think about it carefully in the first place, Aka is different colors, and even though she's a monster, she misses me as a human being, the more you think about it, the more Aka seems to draw a line from the rest of the slime.
- An abnormal individual.
Such a word comes to mind.
"... (sighs)?
What happened to Aka while she poked the bubbles? And he stares at me.
Slowly come closer and tangle your body in my legs.
That lack of vigilance makes me laugh unexpectedly.
"... no, it's nothing"
I said as I fingered Punipni and the surface. puffy.
Right. Aka is Aka.
No matter how irregular an individual may be, he or she will be our valued companion.
"Wow."
"..."
Momo walking with Aka on her back was so cute.
"Well..."
While I look for slime, I look for another thing for you.
After a short walk, I found my search light.
Seeing the countless' it 'arranged on the jetty, I deepen my grin.
- Absorption block.
Teto pod, he said in a major way.
It is a mass of rock that is installed on the coastline for the purpose of attenuating and dissipating the energy of the waves.
They have two tons lightly, even if everything is about the size of a person.
That's amazing.
(Seems more efficient using this one than scrapping cars or vending machines)
There are enough.
A more powerful mass attack would be possible than ever before.
I steal Rokka's eyes and store them in the item box.
(Will you also raise the item box extensions during the next level up?)
Extensions added when the item box becomes LV10.
"Concurrent Retrievable Number Extension" and "Effect Range Extension".
If these two functions were combined in the consumer wave block, it would be possible to handle them even if the target had attacked them in a herd.
(but...... that's just a normal size story)
That golem.
For that giant opponent, it would be ineffective where it rained the block.
We need something more powerful to deal with him...
(Powerful attack... all I can think of is a bomb or a missile)
And tanks.
A tank is a chunk of a man's romance, isn't it?
If they tell me to buy either my home or a tank, I'll choose a tank. Maybe.
Nevertheless, you can't get that.
No, there could be a militia garrison.
But even the closest militia garrison is quite a distance from here.
Using a car or motorcycle would be a different story...... the three of us are tight on boulders.
(Even if I got it in the first place, I don't even know how to use it...)
Heta suddenly erupted and self-destructed.
It can't be convenient to use it like a Lanobe protagonist.
Yeah, that's a weapon you can use because you're a well-trained person.
If so, there is one means of remaining.
(Increase jobs and skills to gain some powerful offensive skills)
In the end, it aggregates there.
In order to survive, the only way to not die is to defeat the monster and increase the level.
There's no other way.
"- Really?"
You bet.
Other than that, I don't know how...
"What, is that...?
"What is it, Mr. Kudo?
"No, Mr. Ichinose, I, was I speaking out now?
"Voice...?
Mr. Itinose looks at me, tilting his neck.
Not Mr. Ichinose......?
"No, because now..."
No, wait a minute.
In the first place, the 'voice' now was not Mr. Ichinose.
Unlike Rokka, the voice of a woman I've never heard before.
"Huh...!
Ha, ha. Looking around.
- Nobody's here.
There's no one on this coast but us... should be.
Are you out of your mind? Is that a phantom?
"Mr. Kudo, what's really going on?
Mr. Ichinose looks worried.
"... no, it's nothing. Excuse me."
"Really...?
"Yeah, that's right. Well, let's find more slime. Looks like Aka can still absorb it too... see, Ichinose, let's go"
"Oh, hey, hands......"
To put an end to my anxiety, I turned to Rokka and Aka, behaving brightly.
The slime search then proceeded well and Aka was able to absorb even more slime than before.
But in the back of my brain, my earlier 'voice' burned and I couldn't leave.
What the hell was that... whose voice?
Meanwhile, around that time...
"Ha... ha..."
The Nishino men were desperately running down the mall.
The reason is simple.
Behind them was the figure of more than twenty Giant Ants.
The flock of ants persists in chasing them, making kinky and creepy noises.
"Damn... things were going great along the way... ugh!
The Nishino men, who were moving around the mall, were attacked again by the ants.
There were also many, but his "orders" inhibit movement, earning distance while Shibata and Goshogawara reduce the number and restrain the herd.
They fled desperately, taking the tactic of a blow away.
Things went well along the way.
But instead of decreasing, the ants gradually increased their numbers and drove them away.
(... it doesn't set me up any more than I need to. Are you waiting for this one to weaken)
I know some of our people were hit and wary, but more than that, the ants seemed to be waiting for their strength to run out.
Hunting basics. The prey is weakened before hunting.
I didn't think monsters would do that.
(Damn... I thought you'd be smart, but I can't believe this far...)
Nishino turns his head desperately, but I can't think of a way to break the situation as much as I think about it.
What do we do? What do we do?
haste, fatigue, fear, they diminish Jiriziri and their spirit.
Are you going to die? In a halfway place like this?
(I'm not kidding......! Damn, damn, think! Think!
Will you ever give up?
The eyes of Shibata and Goshogawara running behind him are not dead yet either.
I manage to excite my heart, which was about to break, and run desperately.
It was then.
"Hey! Over here -!
I heard a voice.
It's a male voice.
"Huh!?"
Look in the direction of your voice.
There was an empty building there.
From the upstairs window, a man waves at us.
"Over here! I managed to run all the way over here!
(Who?... No, anyone... now...)
The Nishinos, whose spiritual and physical strength were no longer the limit, had no other choice.
With the thought of straw, Nishino and the others were looking for an empty building.
"Why... ha-ha-ha-ha-ha..."
When three people, Nishino, Shibata and Goshogawara, entered the vacant building, Giant Ants also entered the vacant building.
There were five men inside, starting with the men who had waved at themselves earlier.
(... where are you?
There was uniformly a 'thing' in their hands.
That's about the size of a pet bottle, with a gun like handle on the yellow bottle.
"Okay! Now! Shoot him. Yeah, yeah!
With the man's signal, they unleashed it on the ants who had broken in.
Bushuuuuuuuuuuuuu, along with the blasting sound, white smoke strikes the ants.
"Giggle......!
Is that an ant scream?
Haven't the smoke-eaten ants suffered one after another?
Nishino opens his eyes to the sight.
"... what's that?
Nishino sees the man who invited them in.
A middle-aged man with glasses.
Bearded tobacco and a broken white shirt look good on you.
"Magnum blaster. It's a bazooka-type insecticide. I use it for flies and abs, but I know it works for those ants. I always carry them when I go outside."
"Outside...?
"All right! Both ants are moving dull! Temehe et al., do it!
"" "" Whoa, whoa, whoa!
As Ali's movements slowed, the men mounted axes and axes and attacked him one after the other.
The ants, whose movements were slowed by insecticides, gradually reduced their numbers.
"Kississississi," "Kissississi,"
"Kissississississississississississississississississississississississississis!
The rest of the ants reacted quickly.
He immediately turned himself in and chose to withdraw.
"... did you help?
When Nishino muttered so, a middle-aged man standing beside him laughed contentedly as he spewed out cigarette smoke.
"Look at that. That was close, boy."
"Uh... Oh, yes, thank you. Help me..."
Nishino honestly bows his head to the middle-aged man who saved his life.
"Heh, hold on a lot for what it looks like... oh, no, that's biased. Bad, no, bad, no."
"Oh, no, I'm used to getting stuck about appearances..."
"Right. Oh, you haven't introduced yourself yet. My name is Soichiro Fujita. He's an employee of the bureau there."
"The bureau......?
"Oh. Well, I can't calm down here and talk, and I'll turn back. Hey, you guys! We're pulling back! Oh, collect the stones properly! Take it or not, Kamome-chan will make it."
The man with the inert mustache gives instructions.
Watching him, Nishino sat down on the spot.
Removing the predicament pushed the feeling of fatigue all at once.
(... you should be honest with me here...)
So the Nishino, who had escaped their predicament, went with them to City Hall.