59 – crash

As if a lump of sugar thrown into coffee melts and fades away.

The air bubbles that floated up in the dim consciousness that was sinking into the darkness made me recall a day that I had forgotten for a while.

It is not a dull, gray-colored memory, but a sunny, sunny memory.

”Hero Punch!”

At this point, I just did it because I wanted to.

Around the time the party was founded, whenever we did something, the party leader forcibly attached the prefix “Hero” and shouted it out loud, which caused quite a headache.

”Unbelievable! You evade my surprise! be careful! Father! this monster! It’s not an ordinary monster!”

”Sister. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to call an attack accompanied by such a loud roar a premeditated murder rather than a surprise?”

The word stealth did not exist in our party’s dictionary.

The phrase “Breaking through the front” is written on the cover of a book with the word “justice” written on it.

No, it was to the point where I doubted even the existence of a concept that required advanced knowledge called a dictionary.

He had a straight temper, and he had a leader who was very noisy even in his every move that had nothing to do with battle.

Requests involving so-called cowardice, requiring covertness such as surprise attacks or disturbances, were nothing short of cake for our party, no matter how good the pay was.

Because of that, one day I suddenly got curious and asked her.

Warrior. to that faded title. To that old correctness.

Why are you so obsessed with it?

To that question, she replied:

”I want to become a person with no shame under the sun.”

That quiet voice that was quite different from usual.

Those faint eyes that seemed to be looking somewhere far away.

Why have I forgotten about it until now?

”The real me is so insignificant, and I’m not a proud enough person to walk calmly under the bright sun. So, you keep repeating it to yourself.”

Holding your earnest wish in your arms.

Pour your ardent desire into this fist.

They desperately shout with the momentum to reach even beyond the sky.

I am a warrior.

”how about it! If you’re a bride, why don’t you give it a try! Specially for the bride! I can teach you everything about my warrior punch!”

I will decline.

I think I answered.

At the time, I didn’t think it was a big deal that she was just starting puberty and was just making a sensitive statement.

but.

If I knew this was going to happen, I would have at least learned how to swing my fist at that time.

Such hazy regrets crossed my mind.

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”You dare to treat mere creatures…!”

My fist hurts.

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Judging by the degree of pain, I wonder if my bones have cracked, no matter how hard I try.

I didn’t feel the sensation of touching a living creature from the back of my hand.

As if a thin mirror had been smashed, only a heavy, soggy feeling lingered in the air.

I decided not to look at the blood dripping fists, which were sparsely embedded with unknown fragments.

Originally, this kind of thing hurts more if you look at the injured part.

”How did I get to know my true self!? More than that, how are you keeping your sanity!? If you’re given that level of protection, it wouldn’t be strange if you became a disabled person right now!”

Something far away from my humble fist suddenly shouted.

At first, I thought it was just an insubstantial fantasy created by my weak mind, and that’s why I was able to punch it with all my might.

It wasn’t. who are you.

Saying that, it seems that it is already too late to come and get away with it.

Now that this had happened, I decided to go out rather shamelessly.

”Who are you? You’re pretending to be me.”

I am also a person who was once involved in the adventurer’s livelihood.

When faced with such a dubious existence, of course, he had at least some basic common sense that he should not look down on him.

Besides, isn’t this a dungeon?

A hideous place where it wouldn’t be strange to have your limbs cut off just by relaxing for a moment.

It’s absurd to rashly reveal gaps in such a place.

Yes, it will.

”Huh, huh! Poetry, Father… Now, wrong, wrong…”

The shocking visual information unfolding in front of me was enough to bleach the thoughts in my head.

It was not a faint mirage in a dream, nor was it a hazy vision in a memory.

she

The warrior was crying.

Even though he was earnestly calling out to me, his devastated gaze was chasing only empty space.

It wasn’t hard to guess that she was in a state of disorientation now.

His usual dignified appearance is so ruthless that not even a trace of it can be found.

Can’t even find a support to lean on, so who can recognize that poor girl who just sits there and cries as a warrior?

As I was thinking about that, my tired legs were already moving slowly towards her.

”Hero…”

Eventually, it was around the time that the bloody hand that had been raised inadvertently reached out toward her.

”Don’t touch my bowl─!!!”

Goseong suddenly lost his consciousness.

The man with that terrifying voice was an unidentified person whom I blew up.

snap.

A hand with savage power gripped my arm tightly.

It was just a while ago that he said that he shouldn’t be careless in a dungeon, without even a moment of self-reflection.

As if inserting medicine directly into a blood vessel with an injection needle, something pure white with an overwhelming presence penetrated into my body from that arm.

”This ■■■ himself! I will punish you!”

It was right after a noise like someone had inserted a cotton swab into my ear pierced my ear once.

The oppressive feeling of a transcendent being weighing down my soul from above chokes my breath.

The painful sensation of an invisible hand gripping my heart and forcibly accelerating blood flow in my body.

Yes, a very familiar feeling.

It’s not familiar, it’s a crappy feeling that I’ve gotten used to as soon as I’m used to it.

”No matter how much it is a body that hastily manifested by scattering some pieces of the body, you slam that filthy fist into my holy face! Trying to dirty even my bowl, which I obtained through hard work! Even after committing such disrespect, consider it an honor to be able to fulfill your command by my virtuous hands! Mere creature! hot ha! under····. uh, uh…?”

If you are an adventurer from ancient times, when you encounter a suspicious existence, you should never belittle it.

Those were the words that my shoulder brothers used to wear out on me when I was still an adventurer chick.

However, as a weakling by nature, my talent for threatening someone was at a destructive level.

Even if I frowned a lot, even if I corrected my tone harshly, even if I showed off my strength from time to time, all of them were awkward and clumsy.

Even the intimidating face he created through hard practice was often made a laughing stock whenever he was tired in front of his colleagues.

After the day when I heard Apis’ scathing remark that it seemed like I was watching a small dog the size of a fist tease a big dog the size of a person, I beat even that.

In fact, even at this moment, I couldn’t figure out what kind of expression I should be wearing.

”Oh, why…! Why doesn’t it work!? No, that’s nonsense! If I were an ordinary human, I would have poured enough holy power into it that it wouldn’t be strange even if my soul was discolored! why····.”

It was around the time I slowly moved my gaze toward the face of the man who was clutching my arm.

It suddenly stopped talking.

Right after that, I could clearly feel the strength waning from its grasp that was holding my arm firmly.

”What, what! What! those eyes! I am! All of them are great beings on a different level from underworlders like you! Even if it’s only a piece of power that has been manifested! No such thing as you! This cow, your fingers! With just one finger…!”

His relaxed attitude, as if he were just saying the words that came to his mind and then looking at them, was typical of a frightened human being.

The appearance, as if someone else’s hard face had been pasted on top of his own soft face, made me laugh out loud as if I was looking at a person wearing a cracked mask pack.

shit.

The right corner of his mouth drew an unnatural arc and quietly crossed his cheek.

It was right after that that it began stuttering backwards, as if it had seen what it couldn’t see.

”Hee, hee!”

However, the out of shape escape ended in failure.

When it let go of my arm, which was holding it tightly, this time it grabbed hold of my arm roughly from my side.

”Eh, if you put your filthy hands on this body even a little! I will imprison your sinful soul for eternity in the darkness of the abyss, where no light can reach! It’s not too late! If you let go of that filthy hand right now, with the generous treatment of deducting 10 years of your remaining life…”

”Did you ring?”

‘Yes Yes? What, what?”

”You rang.”

Puffed up.

A bloody waveform resonated unintentionally leaked out from the joint where I had put strength without my knowledge.

Soon thereafter, the sand, which was made up of fragments of the person’s face that was covering its face, fell to the floor as if it were crumbling.

What was positioned behind the mask was the figure of a woman who, objectively speaking, belonged to a very beautiful axis.

It was clear at first glance that his face was dotted with deep fear.