High School Hack and Slash Chapter 137 Part 2
A thunderous roar that seems to tear through the air causes Seiichi’s voice to trail off.
I’m sorry, but if you want to show off the vastness of your knowledge, please save it for later.
The electrical discharge gushing out of『The Ripper (Bhaudhara)』 that is going *crackle crackle* electrifies the circular stage white.
「What a sturdy door.」
The surface of the relief has been wholly scraped away, but raising a crackling sound, it’s returning to normal.
Bhaudhara has a stellar reputation for its energy charge, but if I have to put it, ranged attack, or rather, converging power is not its strong point.
「No, like I told you, the order is….」
「Yeah, that’s right.」
I nod at the voice that’s whispering to me: blow it through.
There is no need to bow your head and give in.
Be arrogant, be greedy, and go on a rampage, follow your desire and plunder all that you want.
The key to the door is held in your hand from the beginning.
The casket-like lump of iron splits in half and gives rise to a clanking sound.
The mode-change gimmick, which has activated on its own, is interlocked as it gives rise to a mechanical sound.
As the seven cartridges rotate, it raises the output to the over-limit range.
The metallic fiber muscles (bio-metal muscles), creaking as they swell up, draw the hard, sharp, polished black luster iron stake to the limit.
「Blow it through….」
*Grind grind, creak creak* The edge of the compressed iron stake warps and twists, carving a spiral form.
There is nothing that the edge of the conical spiral drill can’t penetrate.
「Ooooveeerrr-Greeed Geeaaaaarrrr!!」
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―― the peripheral world 『BIBLIOTHECA』, the glazed myth 『Sac＊ Bal＊』――
――※ Mission 『The Arena of the Abyss (Tartarus Colosseum)』 ――
※※※ Error! ※※※
――※ Sta t load ng subque 『Gatekeeper of the Underworld (Cerberus)』 : OpEn ? ――
※※※ Emergency! ※※※
※※※ The『Prison Guard (Developer)』 has be sum oned! ※※※
It’s a dark, cold, miasma-filled space.
If there is such a thing as the world of the dead, it must be a dismal world like this.
「Alright… All according to plan.」
「No, it’s not, is it?! We were sucked in and spinning around like in a washing machine, weren’t we? I mean, somehow, the surrounding scene was also strangely distorted!」
Seiichi’s tension is uselessly high.
It seems that he is back to his normal self.
Safely breaking through the monolith that seems to be the starting point of the 『Gatekeeper of the Underworld』 subquest, like dust balls sucked up by a vacuum cleaner, we managed to break into this mysterious space.
I get the feeling that the space when we were sucked in was distorted like a Rorschach test, and the messages in the Interface also seemed to be weirdly buggy, but no problem there.
What is important is not the process, but the result.
I look around the monotone limestone cave-like space.
I don’t hold my expectations up at this point, but there are no other figures besides Seiichi.
It seems that this time we have to tackle the trials by ourselves alone.
Good graciousness, Seiichi’s tendency to get into trouble sure is troubling.
「Stop with that lukewarm gaze. Also, maybe what you’re thinking is, not right.」
「Putting that aside, give me an order, as to what I should destroy next.」
I’m not good at pondering and thinking.
If all we have to do is knock down the boss, that would make things simpler, but…
No, deep in the cave.
A small mountain-like monster slowly emerges from the pool of miasma.
I didn’t sense its presence, so it must have literally sprung out of the miasma.
「Guruu…」 「Gururu…」 「Gurara…」
It’s a huge dog with dark brown fur and three heads.
It’s about two times bigger in size, but it looks just like the Guardian Hellhound (Cerberus) that Miharu and Natsumi dote on.
It’s just that, the red eyes are dull with madness, and frothy drool is dripping from the snarling jaws.
As the club’s fluffy mascot, I sometimes pet him too, so it’s a little hard to hit it.
Well, I’m going to hit it, though.
With a bam, I send it flying all the way to the wall, shattering the stone pillars of the limestone cave.
So light, this guy, I mean.
Compared to baby Nue that messes around with you with all its might, it’s incomparably light.
The head in the middle passes out, sticking out its tongue.
The left and right heads are restlessly looking around, beginning to look for a place to escape to, and the tail is tucked between the hind legs.
I’m having a hard time with walking baby Nue, so I thought it would be perfect to serve as its playmate, but…
It’s so fragile that I think its neck would break simply from receiving baby Nue’s affectionate cat punch.
「So, Seiichi. What’s the boss that appears in this subquest?」
「No, well… I think it’s that guy. Just so you know, but you are not allowed to use weapons during this subquest. And then, if you can lure Cerberus away from this area, the quest will be cleared, or so it should be….」
It’d be troubling if you don’t tell me about those things earlier, though.
I almost blew its head off.
I approach Cerberus, which is stuck to the wall and letting out a pitiful voice, and check its injury.
If it’s only at this level, I think it can walk on its own.
「No, wait a minute. Sure enough, maybe the next one will spring up if you crush that one, but slaughtering them until a challenging Cerberus comes out will be a waste of time, you know?」
「Absolutely right.」
Ah, the three-headed doggy lets out a pitiful sounding kuu~n voice and circles behind Seiichi.
I thought it would go for his neck with a back attack as it was, but it’s hanging its heads in Seiichi’s shadow as if to hide from me.
Talk about pathetic sub-boss.
It looks like it would be a bad influence on baby Nue’s education, so no scouting for it.
「I’ll be damned. Does it by any chance take a liking to me? Can’t be helped. Let’s try looking for the exit as we are, shall we?」
The I’m-broad-minded yareyare appeal is intensely annoying.
I wonder if it senses my irritation.
The gutless doggy, which under normal circumstances would have stayed in its burrow and resisted, takes the initiative and starts pulling Seiichi along with it.
I don’t envy him or anything.
I thought about calling out baby Nue to match him, but for now, clearing the sub-quest as soon as possible takes precedence.
But, somehow or another, I feel like I’m losing here, so I try to capture a black mass that is buoyantly flying around in the corner of my field of vision as a consolation.
When I take a peek into the inside of the rag, it turns out to be the bone of a creature I couldn’t quite make out.
It’s about one meter in size, I guess.
It’s hard to imagine the shape of the original creature, but it looks like a skeletonized dragon that has grown closer to humanoid form.
It seems to be able to fly even with its bony wings.
Or rather, it has no leg bones, so I guess it has no choice but to fly.
For the time being, tying a string to the bone that looks like a tail, I try to turn it into a balloon-like pet.
It raises a resistance by swinging a scythe-like weapon, but that’s dangerous, so I confiscate it.
Instead, I try giving it a Kakine-senpai-marked musket gun.
It’s a masterpiece created by Kakine-senpai, who has the classes of『Engineer』 as well as『Creator (Developer)』, remodeled from the Orc guns collected from the Marvel World.
For better or worse, it’s a magic item that can shoot low-level magic bullets, but you can imagine its firepower.
However, the carefully applied engravings and the appearance-oriented steampunk feel are wonderful.
Practicality aside, I think it’s going to be popular as an antique work of art.
Perhaps taking a liking to it, the floaty skeleton ceases its resistance and obediently plays with the musket gun.
I’ll be damned.
It seems that it has ended up taking a liking to me.
Beyond the gutless dog and Seiichi, who are walking ahead of us, I can see a shiny spot.
I guess that’s probably the exit.
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