Is it wrong to try to meet someone in a dungeon?

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Miss Aisha seemed to have anticipated my thoughts, speaking as she swung her knife.

The gauntlets flew off my arm, followed by a high kick that sent the shield flying into the air.

The trembling expression on my face, as reflected in Miss Aisha's eyes, completely overlapped with the expression on Mr. Hyacinthus's face, whom I had clashed with in the War Game.

"My lord, please go after Lord Bell!?"

"But!?"

"I'll clear the way! You hurry up!!"

The calls of my companions from afar reached my ears, but I had no energy to listen.

My inner peace was being eroded second by second. I glared at them, determined to use all my strength to plunge into the danger zone.

I rushed into his arms and drew the "Ushiwakamaru Second Style".

"call!!"

The crimson light from the sword struck the side of the broadsword directly.

With a crisp sound, the opponent's weapon left his hand, spinning and flying into the air.

Miss Aisha was slightly surprised to see that I had taken her weapon in a split second—but that was all.

She didn't care at all that she was unarmed and reached out to grab me.

「!?」

She grabbed my shoulders and slammed me against the side wall.

The impact that shot through my spine made me stop breathing, and Miss Aisha pinned me against the wall and started running.

"Ugh, Aa ...

Gaaaaaaah! My vision kept shaking, and my back felt like it was being burned.

Miss Aisha scraped against the rock face with my back, running wildly through the passage.

—What kind of move is that?!

You can't step on it, you can't shake it off, you can't resist it.

I couldn't handle her absurd fighting style, the five fingers digging into my shoulder, or her monstrous strength that could pin a person against a wall and make them run away.

Not only the speed, but even the "power" is different.

The difference in strength is too great compared to last time.

How could that be? She's simply—

(—Lv.4!?)

The overwhelming gap in ability shocked me.

In the shaky light, Miss Aisha's upturned eyes were right in front of me, stirring up my fear.

I gripped the dagger tightly, which was about to fall, and finally decided to abandon my hesitation and try to fight back against her unarmed attack—but without warning, I stumbled.

「!?」

The sudden feeling of floating disappeared, and the tactile sensation of the rock wall scraping against my back vanished.

I reflexively looked back and immediately understood.

I was thrown into a recessed vertical hole in the maze wall.

I was grabbed by the shoulders and pressed against the wall, dragged along like a burst dam, and stuffed into a vertical tunnel, falling to the floors below.

"~ ...

I and Miss Aisha, who was holding me tightly, went down, down, down together.

The hole extends vertically from the floor, and I cut through the damp air, falling like a headless swan, large beads of sweat flying everywhere.

My throat convulsed as I fell, and beside me, the brilliant particles of light emanating from my opponent burned my pupils.

(Enchantment?!)

I thought that for a moment—but immediately dismissed the idea.

In the knowledge Miss Eina instilled in me, there was no such outrageous additional magic that could cause such an explosive increase in abilities. At most, it should only be able to add attributes such as fire or electricity to weapons.

—The strength of their group members far exceeds that of the official Lv. reported to the guild.

—I think the Ishtar Familia is a very terrifying faction.

The words Miss Eina said a couple of days ago came back to mind, and I immediately got goosebumps.

"Gurgle, woohoo woohoo woohoo!?"

Just as I was getting closer to the end of the vertical tunnel—the 15th floor—I gritted my teeth with all my might and broke free from the restraints.

I kicked Miss Aisha away and dodged at the last second before I was about to crash hard into the ground.

I rolled on the ground several times, creating distance between myself and my opponent who had successfully landed on both feet.

"Haa, ha...!?"

I knelt on the ground, my breathing erratic, and Miss Aisha stared at me indifferently.

I lost almost all my armor and even my dagger when I fell. She came over, intending to send me to my death.

"Lord Bell!!"

Just then, a sound came flying in.

Miss Aisha and I turned around in surprise, only to see Miss Ming emerge from the hole we had just been in.

She was dressed in a violet combat suit, her skin covered in scars, and she brandished the Japanese sword in her right hand.

"...How did you know he fell here?"

Miss Aisha asked suspiciously, but Miss Ming didn't answer and rushed straight at her.

I stood up with my eyes wide open and ran out.

Two against one, a pincer attack from both sides.

Only now, I've forgotten the word "despicable," and I'm attacking the Amazons who have their backs to me.

I'll stop at nothing to seize any fleeting opportunity for victory.

"What are Samira and the others doing, letting this little girl get away?"

However, it still didn't work.

Miss Aisha casually recited a sentence and began to demonstrate her martial arts.

She unleashed a high-speed kick at Miss Mikoto from the front, her incredibly long-range leg striking the side of the slashing katana, shattering it, and piercing through Miss Mikoto's temple.

Miss Aisha continued spinning like a top, unleashing a spinning kick at me from behind. She scattered particles of light, striking my face before I could react.

Finally, she delivered a reverse kick to Miss Ming, who was staggering to the side.

“Ugh!?”

“Guuuu!?”

Miss Ming, who had taken a solid axe kick to the shoulder, fell to the ground and couldn't get up, while I flew far away to the rear.

The female hero deftly evaded our attack as if dancing gracefully, her long black hair flying in the wind.

"Miss Fate...!?"

Miss Ming, lying on the ground, lost consciousness and remained motionless.

Having witnessed the disparity in strength between the enemy and myself, I still stood up, wanting to rush to my companions' side.

"Forget it, there's no point in continuing down that path."

However, Miss Aisha gave me this indifferent look as I was kicked into the depths of the passage.

The next moment.

Silently, a huge figure covered my entire body.

"————"

My vision went dark, and when I looked back, I saw an ominous grin.

His massive body, exceeding two meters in length, pulled his thick, club-like arms behind his back to gather strength.

My instincts screamed for me to run, but it was too late.

With an air of nonchalance towards my dodge, and relying on her even greater speed than Miss Aisha before, her cannonball-like fist slammed into my abdomen.

"Gah!!"

The air was forced out of the body, and the body bent into a < shape.

The powerful force, which made it seem as if my abdomen had exploded, lifted my feet off the ground and made me float into the air.

As my consciousness drifted away, a rock-like hand pressed in and grabbed my face.

"—Giggle giggle giggle giggle giggle giggle giggle giggle giggle giggle giggle!!"

Then, accompanied by a frog-like laugh, I was slammed against the side wall.

A deafening roar and tremor shook the entire underground city, carving countless cracks into the rock face beneath my back. I was buried in the shattered walls, my limbs finally losing all strength.

My face was grabbed, my vision went completely black, and an almost desperate pain burned every corner of my body.

I managed to utter a tiny "ah," barely even a breath.

"Don't worry, I will take good care of you."

The hand slowly released my face, and my vision returned to light.

In the gradually blurring vision, the last thing I saw was the ugly smile of the female giant.

I lay obliterated against the wall, unconscious.

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"hateful!!"

Welf raised his greatsword and slew the last black dog (hellhound).

The surrounding area was piled high with countless monster corpses, as well as a large amount of dust.

He stuck his broadsword into the ground as a walking stick, his eyes twitching as he looked around.

"What are those people like?!"

"I don't know!? Lord Bell and Lord Life haven't returned...!"

Lily screamed in panic, answering Welf's anxious shouts.

The group, dressed in hooded robes, thoroughly beat Welf and Lily, slaughtered the resisting monsters, and then disappeared like a storm, taking their two companions with them.

Welf and Lily were in a state of turmoil, forcing themselves to begin searching for their companions. A passing high-ranking adventurer happened to see the wounded humans and dwarves, causing quite a commotion.

"—No way..."

then.

When the screams of the victims came from afar.

Chunji stared at her feet with a livid expression.

What she saw was a white-haired boy and a black-haired girl lying on the ground, covered in wounds and unconscious.

"Lord Kroni...Lord Ming."

She stood there motionless, stunned, while the Amazonians around her prepared to evacuate.

"Why did you bring that ugly girl back too, Aisha? We agreed to only bring the rabbit back, didn't we?"

"If we leave it like that, it will eventually be eaten by a monster, and that will keep me from sleeping."

The giantess Phryne and Aisha were arguing.

As Chunji trembled, she opened her lips and asked:

"Miss Aisha... are these two gentlemen our targets?"