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High School Hack and Slash Chapter 40 Part 1

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Pasifista

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Order of the Divine Workman

　A crown of ivy on the head.

Shaggy curly hair and an eagle nose.

The horned cup held in one hand seems to be filled with wine.

The therianthropic style of the lower half of the body being that of a goat, and the upper half being that of a human, half-human.

The most distinctive feature is the penis that even in the picture protrudes from the crotch, which is always erect by default.

In the Monster Book, it’s described as a devil that is akin to the incarnation of fleshy pleasure.

It seems to be a monster with a low encounter rate, and even its description page in the book, parts like its ability section are mostly blank.

It seems that I’ve gotten myself a pretty high rarity card here.

My old deck cards had ended up getting confiscated, but I feel like this one is going to be a worthy first card for my new deck collection.

I think it’s probably of a tricky type.

Even if it has a low attack power, it can toy with the opponent’s deck using its special ability, or something.

In addition to the picture of its main body, there is also a lot of other information inscribed on this『Monster Card』.

Name, 『Devil of Pleasure (Satyros)』.

Race, Devil (Diabolos)

Attribute, Evil

Rank, 1

Ability, 『Possession』, 『Soul Absorption (Energy Drain)』, 『Lust』, 『Feast of Pleasure (Wonder Dream)』

Existence Level, ☆☆☆☆

「He who takes pleasure in the blessings of Dionysus. A lazy, vain devil who loves feasting and women.」

Something like that.

I take a look at the goblin card, which I have spent my allowance to buy a single one of it out of the party’s shared property.

Name, 『-』

Race, Goblin

Attribute, Earth

Rank, 1

Ability, 『Greed』

Existence level, ☆

「He who is greedy and governs the original sin.」

A simple show of small fry-ness.

The text also has quite a cutting corner flavor to it.

I guess the number of ☆ marks indicates its rarity.

And then, I think the number of ☆ corresponds to the number of skills it possesses.

Even if you defeat a high level monster, it seems to return to level 1 when it becomes a card.

That may seem unreasonable, but it is said that high level monsters are more likely to drop rare items, including cards.

In case you synthesize a monster card into an equipment, it seems that one of the skills it possesses will be randomly imbued to the equipment.

It appears that the higher you raise the rank and level of the card, the higher the success rate will be, but it seems that if the synthesis fails, the card will vanish.

That’s why the prices of monster cards are so high.

I have a feeling that depending on the combination, I can make all sorts of romantic armor.

But as far as I’m concerned, I want to further complete my deck collection.

「Ah.」

「I’m confiscating it.」

With a swoosh, Shizuka has gone and snatched the『Devil of Pleasure (Satyros)』 card from me.

What an unreasonable treatment.

「I shall take custody of it, since I’m afraid that if Otoha-senpai were to see it, she’d get some weird misunderstanding.」

She hands me a dorayaki instead, but I can’t accept it with merely such a thing.

Even if she adds matcha cream and chestnut butter cream dorayaki on top of it, my anger will not subside.

Ah, the tea is delicious.

「About the time he’s getting completely domesticated.」

「Looks like she’s gotten totally good at handling Touma, huh. Oh, the chocolate flavor is not bad either.」

「Eh, that’s a heresy. The supreme one is Tsubu-an, you know.」

「Saki-chan. That’s wrong.」

「Koshi-an is justice.」

Everyone is laid-back, biting and stuffing their cheeks with dorayaki.

Sweetness is justice.

「… Geez, what in the world are you guys doing?」

Speak of the devil and you shall see.

Otoha-senpai comes up to us, who are enjoying ourselves stuffing our cheeks with after-meal dorayaki at the student cafeteria.

「Oops, did we miss, the meeting time?」

「No, I just happened to see you guys, so I called out to you. It’s better than meeting at the entrance, isn’t it?」

Calmly waving her hand at Seiichi, who tilts his head, she sits down at an empty seat on the table.

We have been permitted to move into Asagi-sou, but Otoha-senpai has invited in the name of letting her check our skills as a security unit.

To cut a long story short, we’re going to do a dungeon dive together.

「I’m not a big fan of anko…. Eh, pumpkin? Ah, this is delicious… Limited time only?」

The sweet potato-like texture is also highly recommended in its own way.

Otoha-senpai who is stuffing her cheeks, biting into the pumpkin dorayaki in her hands is cute.

「Haa, I wonder if it’s really a good idea to be so laid-back before a dungeon dive.」

「Haste makes waste, they say.」

「I have no intention of complaining about you guys’ pace, but I sure have lost my heart.」

Otoha-senpai in her uniform is also fresh and nice.

It’s a uniform that is renowned for its sturdiness, to the point that even students who equip armor in the dungeons use it as innerwear.

Nevertheless, the type who wear full-body armor, like Otoha-senpai’s real equipment, is few in number.

The basic style is the overkill of getting them before they get you, so with the exception of tank roles, everyone is fully equipped for firepower.

In order to efficiently defeat monsters and earn EXP, it is safer and easier to sweep a large number of lower-ranked monsters than to clash against higher-ranked or similarly-ranked monsters.

Otoha-senpai seems to be of the muscle brain style of plunging into monsters with『Charge』, so I suppose armor is necessary.

「Well then, care to tell me now. What are your classes and levels like, I wonder? Rather than in the dungeon, right now would also be fine, right?」

Done with stuffing her cheeks, Otoha-senpai, with a cup of tea in her hands, shows a serious look on her face.

「Ah. You’re right.」

After casually looking around and confirming that there is no one nearby, Seiichi frivolously agrees.

「To put it bluntly, the status screens of our student handbooks are bugged, you see.」

「… Hee. Well, that’s not impossible to occur. It seems that the system is unable to count things in a『Raid』 or『Emergency Quest』, after all.」

Receiving a fleeting eye contact from Seiichi, Shizuka nods her head.

「That’s why it’ll be faster to just show you how it actually looks like in the dungeon. By the way, I’m of the『Thief』 class, Mai and Shizuka are of the『Arts User』 class, Himechi is of the『Fighter』 class, Natsu-chan is of the『Officer』 class, and Haru-chan is of the rare『Healer』 class.」

Receiving a gaze from Otoha-senpai, who is wide-eyed, Miharu tries to hide behind Natsumi.

「That’s really rare. Yeah, true enough, that may indeed be something you shouldn’t tell others.」

「You’re also already on of us, so please don’t forget that we’re on the same boat now, Otoha-senpai.」

Hearing the words of Shizuka, who is sipping her tea, Otoha-senpai, her face bright red, glares at me.

「I, I haven’t acknowledged it yet okay. More importantly, what’s Touma-kun’s class?」

「… Ah. What is it, I wonder?」

「Now that it’s being asked again, it’s hard to explain, isn’t it? Super troubling. Geez, why not just call it Chirem class or something then?」

The duo of Seiichi and Mai are dissing me.

Well, I’ll just have to put up with it until I level up, aiming for a re-class change, and become a robot pilot or card battler.

「As I thought, that means it’s an『Irregular』 class, isn’t it? Very well. Let’s have it actually shown in action.」

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――『Yomotsu Hirasaka』, a branch realm attached to the labyrinth of Perforation Realm, 『YGGDRASILL』――

――The『seventh』 stratum, 『uncharted』 domain――

「How annoying. –『Shadow Blade』.」

*Thud* After evading, ducking the club that was swung with all of its might, Seiichi thrust the knives in both of his hands at the shadow that fell at his feet.

The tip of the knives sank into the shadows, not with a clank, but with a shrash, and a black spike pierced the back of the orc knight’s leg.

The wild pig-like scream was extinguished along with its head with a『Magic Cannon』 that was pin-pointedly sniped at its open mouth.

「In short, an orc is a slightly stronger goblin, right?」

Mai’s skirt fluttered as she used her horizontally stretched out right arm as a gun barrel.

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