High School Hack and Slash Chapter 109 Part 2
「Anti-monster warfare is fine and all, but I’m not quite sure it turns into a PK battle between students, you see?」
「You’re right. If it’s subjugating a boss that’s simply powerful, it’s like, I get the feeling we’ll manage somehow or another, but… I believe fighting against humans that come back to life no matter how many times you crush them would be a pain.」
I hear that raid quest-style battles between students are like a bogged down, real time zombie fight.
It’s too unproductive, and if we get too used to murder, I think we’ll end up losing something that’s essential to live as human beings.
Well, judging from our prowess, I think we can go for an『advanced class』 raid quest, even after putting into consideration our safety margin.
「The A and B ranked clubs are actively conquering the advanced-difficulty raid quests around these parts, I suppose.」
「We’re talking about Touma-kun here, so on the contrary, maybe what he means is that slaughtering everyone who’s conquering the raid quest with us is the actual PvP training?」
「I don’t really mind, but I think it’s a little too much of a Hell Mode!」
「Hmm~, if it’s a『super class』 or『extreme class』 one, I think no people will come there, but….」
「That’s too risky and—」
A heated discussion ends up beginning.
I was like, let’s go for a quick raid, without thinking too deeply about it, though.
「Ta-da! Here comes Asura-chan. I’ve heard your story.」
A cute outsider spy bursts in.
The donuts in her hands are probably the free sweets that Meiron-senpai provides for the dormitory students.
She’s slightly burnt, and there’s a bear claw biting into her tail.
Today, it seems that she succeeds in breaking through the interception trap and plundering the sweets.
「Welcome, Asura-chan. Would you like café au lait or milk tea?」
「I prefer sweet milk tea.」
As if it’s only natural, she joins the club meeting.
Both Mikan-senpai, who welcomes her, and Hoodzuki-senpai, who prepares milk tea with tons and tons of sugar for her, are too kind.
I retrieve the bear claw from Doggy-senpai, who gets on my lap while munching on a donut.
Let’s trim the burnt ends of her fur later.
「So sweet, yummy~.」
「We’re in the middle of a meeting right now, so please be quiet, okay, Doggy-senpai.」
「Leave it to me. I heard what was going on while I was dangling, hanging from the ceiling after being caught by the bear trap, after all.」
It seems that she lipped out of the trap by a hair’s breadth.
I feel that the sweets guardians of Asagi-sou probably have a rare class of『Trapper』 or something like that.
And although it’s not like we’re keeping it a secret or anything, the contents of the meeting seem to have been leaked out of the club room (provisional).
「Actually, I know of a raid quest that hasn’t been made official yet.」
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「Umm, I was referred to you by Asura-senpai…, who said that you would accept the request.」
「Yes. We’ve heard the situation from Asura-chan, so for now, sit down and calm down, okay?」
The haggard face with dark circles in his eyes, perhaps from lack of sleep, is that of a boy I have recollection of.
The one sitting down on the sofa in the club room (provisional) after being urged by Mikan-senpai is the Envy boy, Tatsuya-kun.
He is also a member of the『Seven Deadly Sins』 tea party hosted by Doggy-senpai, to which we have also been invited a number of times.
It’s not like we don’t know each other, so I think there’s no need to be so nervous.
「If a boy is brought into a girl’s dormitory, unless he is very brazen, he would normally be nervous, I suppose.」
Rinko-senpai says so, but I think he’s probably frightened of the mysterious prison in the basement.
It seems that those who have experienced being dragged to the interrogation room for insolent behavior have spread some rumors, which are added as a new bizarre episode of Asagi-sou.
Tentatively, Seiichi and I are bouncers with the title of『Special Advisor of Asagi Girls’ Dormitory』.
However, recently, the unity power of all the dorm residents is so high that when strangers come into the dormitory, they’d be besieged and end up being taken down to the basement without having time to lay a hand on the girls.
The boys who are caught in such a manner receive punishment from the dorm residents, who wear mysterious white hoods and hold whips, candles, and mysterious win-win rods in their hands.
Most of them scurry home crying, holding their butts, and never show themselves up again.
By any chance, I wonder if the cause of all this is my advice in which: punishing them half-heartedly will only bring about unjustified resentment, so you’d better off thoroughly breaking their mind.
Well, it doesn’t really matter.
「It’s not like we’re going to capture and eat you anyway, so just relax a little more. Tatsuya.」
「Sorry, Seiichi-kun.」
「… Get ed all fo and relax, there… Ahh.」
I confiscate the voice recorder and the material book from Shizuka-san, who is taking fishy notes.
Her staring at me with upturned eyes, pouting and puffing up her cheeks, is cute, but the talk is going nowhere, so please refrain yourself for a bit.
「Alright. Well then, let’s hear your part of the story, I suppose.」
In the lounge suit set up in the corner of the club room (provisional), we, the executive members of the Adept Orders, are gathering.
The club meeting is temporarily suspended and the matter pertaining to the training camp is entrusted to the executive members.
We were supposed to be looking for a raid quest for that very training camp, but the one who was referred to us by Doggy-senpai is Tatsuya-kun.
I don’t know what kind of undercurrent is flowing here, but as if switching places with Doggy-senpai, who had gone back with donuts in hands, he’d come here in a dash.
He seems to be in a great hurry.
「Yes, um, the matter is from three days ago, but—」
If I put together Tatsuya-kun’s story, which is started as such, I guess it’s more or less something like this.
During their dungeon dive three days ago, they found a special structure that looked like a gate at the ninth stratum.
However, it was not a realm gate to move through the stratums, but a singularity other world gate (raid gate).
Three of the five members of Tatsuya’s party ended up being sucked into it as they were, and even now, they are still in the state of missing and not returning.
The fact that they have not returned through Rashomon’s auto-return function means that, as expected, there’s no doubt that they’re in another world.
「So they directly did a raid dive without going through the『End Realm Gate』 that’s used for raids, huh….」
Otoha-senpai also unusually has a grave look on her face, her arms crossed.
The mechanisms of raid domains seem to be different in a lot of ways from that of regular dungeon, and a direct dive from the fifth gate of Rashomon, the『End Realm Gate』, is recommended.
「Incidentally, in case we dive directly into a raid gate from the dungeon, what kind of trouble can we expect?
「Let’s see… First of all, the instant resurrection (respawn) function will not switch into the raid-specific one. You will be revived in the raid even if you die, but the state in which you are revived will be the same as when you enter the raid gate, which means that your memory will be reset as well.」
「In short, it’s similar to a normal dungeon dive, isn’t it?」
Mai is nodding lightly, but isn’t there a rather critical issue here, I wonder?
In other words, no matter how many times they are killed within the raid, the people in question are unaware of it.
Even if they repeat the same actions and get wiped out in the same situation, the people in question would continue to get wiped out endlessly like a broken record, without harboring any doubt about it.
「And then, speaking of the method to break out of the raid domain on your own, you see… The only way is to conquer the raid and make the other world (raid domain) disappear.」
「It’s just a what if scenario, but what about sending rescue team into the raid through the End Realm Gate and giving the stranded people dungeon escape items, like return beads for instance, to use?」
「It’ll be the same as in a normal raid conquest. They’ll simply get sent to somewhere within that raid domain.」
Based on what I get from Otoha-senpai’s explanation, raw raid gates are traps with a pretty high degree of difficulty.
Raid dive without going through the『End Realm Gate』 is too dangerous.
「And then, I suppose your request is for us to conquer that raid quest, am I right, Tatsuya-kun?」
「Y, yes. Please. Even when I talked to the teachers, they turned a deaf ear to it, but then I remembered that Asura-senpai is a president of the A rank club, so I went to her to consult about it, but….」
Instead, he was referred to the Adept Orders, huh.
It appears that a nominated request has already been issued to Doggy-senpai’s Black Honey.
The case is another investigation of another raid domain.
There’s that previous case where they got pushed, borderline deceived, with an investigation of a super-difficulty raid, so it seems that they refused for once, saying it was no joke.
However, similar raid investigation requests have been issued to the other high ranked clubs as well.
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