“Item Box!?”
“I’ve never seen or heard of such a large item box though!?”
They were more surprised than I expected, but I guess I should just cover it up as much as I can.
“I just happened to get it by chance.”
“““That’s kind of a lame lie……”””
Eh? For some reason, they don’t believe it…….
“Anyway, let’s get back to the ground as soon as possible! Just being on this floor will drain our stamina!”
In this way, we turned back the way we came. But on the way back, it all happened when we are at the sixteenth level.
“Hey, Examiner-san, we’re being followed.”
“What?”
I whispered to them and pointed it out, and Gain frowned.
“About ten of them, I think they are the companions of this guy.”
“Did they come to help their comrade?”
While being vigilant, there are things that need to be dealt with first. A group of monsters appeared in front of us. It’s a troll monster with a danger level B that often appear on this level.
“Uwoooooo”
It is a huge guy who is over 3 meters tall, and it attacks while wielding a club with its monstrous power. Basically, it usually appears alone, but at this time, there were three of them in total.
They also try to attack right away, but—
“Wait, they’re moving as well. It looks like they are going to take this opportunity to corner us.”
They must have been aiming for the timing of our encounter with the monster from the beginning. Immediately afterwards, a group of about a dozen people appeared from the other side of the road.
“Damn it…… what a timing……”
“I think we may be in a pinch….”
I spoke to the anxious examiners,
“Leave those guys to us.”
“I don’t know who they are, but I won’t consider fighting them. And with just the three of you…… No, I’ll leave it to you guys.”
For a moment, Gain almost disagreed, but he quickly changed his mind.
“Well, these kids will be fine.”
Emily agreed. Fana and Anje were in charge of the group behind us, and the trolls will be dealt by the examiners and the rest of the examinees.
“Good luck then, Oneechans.”
“Wait-, we’re going to fight alone!?”
“Yes. I’m tired from earlier you see.”
“Mmm. Leave it to me, Master.”
“Oi, wait!”
Fana rushes into the group without fear. Anje hurriedly follows after her. In the meantime, I went to the man who was trying to take this opportunity to secretly untie the rope and escape.
“Hey Ojichan, it’s no use trying to escape, you know?”
No one else seemed to notice him, but his actions were obvious to me.
“~~! Y-you, the one from earlier! …..Just who the hell are you!? No matter how I think about it, you are not just a baby!”
“Eh? I’m just a baby, though?”
“Stop with the bullshit! A baby that can talk, fly and defeat a strengthened red dragon!? There’s no way that’s for real! Damn it!”
Untying the rope, the man tries to cast a spell. He was supposed to have been sealed with magic by Emily, but it seems that he had also secretly unlocked it.
“Ice Needle!”
“Oop”
I blocked the rain of ice needles by lightly applying a film of magic around me. There was a sound of cracks and ice breaking.
“See! How can a baby overcome my magic attack so easily!?”
“Never mind that, be obedient and get arrested.”
“Mugu!?”
I manipulated the fallen rope with magic and then I tightened it around his whole body while blocking his mouth. He then loses consciousness and falls to the ground. Meanwhile, Fana and the others were struggling against the attackers.
“These guys are skilled!”
“Hmm. They also work together.”
In addition to their individual skills, they also seem to be used to group combat. Clearly, they are not ordinary bandits. Well, there’s no way a mere bandit will dive in the dungeon.
“Damn…… What the hell are these girls!?”
Still, the leader seemed impatient with the fact that they are taking time dealing with just two people over there. In that interim, the trolls were defeated one by one. The leader also learned that the man who had been captured had failed to escape.
“Damn it, retreat, retreat!”
Receiving instructions from the leader, they all run away like a receding wave.
“Stop!”
“You don’t have to chase them, Anje-oneechan.”
“~~!?”
I cling to Anje’s chest and stops her as she tries to pursue them.
“It’s better if they escape.”
“……What do you mean?”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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