High School Hack and Slash Chapter 82 Part 1
Mysterious Support Character
「Gahhhhhh!」
Unable to stand up to the charge that I take on with a cross arm block, I get blown into the air as I am.
Piercing through the branches and leaves, I dance through the air.
I can’t suppress the smile that comes to my mouth.
「Armed change (Cross Arms)!」
I shall hold back no more.
Wearing the『Armor of Heavy Pressure (Stressor Armor)』, I run through the air, using the fuzzy clouds as a foothold.
「Kuh, hahaha, hahaha!」
In addition to the gravity fall, I kick the sky several times and drive a kick into the giant boar monster.
As the boar is arching backward with its snout crushed, I launch an ax kick from directly above it.
I then slam my hold aloft fists on it from both sides.
Even as it has its head shaken like a bell, it presses down on me with its huge body, trying to crush me.
Stamping down on the ground with both feet, I take a frontal interception stance.
Wonderful fighting spirit.
Toughness worthy of praise.
This is how a struggle should be.
With a neck-hanging tree, I strangle its neck that’s as big as a drum and reap its consciousness as is.
The resistance is not at all inferior to that of the giant-type boss monsters encountered at the dungeon tenth stratum and beyond.
No, given that it has a GP bar barrier, I guess it can be said to be a clearly formidable enemy.
Now that I think about it, it’s a rare type that I’ve only seen in raid domains.
It also has the name of『Komajishi (guardian boar)』, which sounds like it has some kind of divine blessing.
「Now, Let’s go attack!」
But the promise of struggles is a ruthless one.
The losers become food, serving as nourishments for the winners.
That is exactly the basis of struggle.
The absolute rule common to all worlds that cannot be overturned by anyone.
The girls, who were stunned with their mouths open, are rebooted.
「… He looked like a character from a beat’-em-up game.」
「I mean, I couldn’t even see his movement anymore….」
「So humans… Can fly in the air, huh.」
「I could hear the *voom, voom* and *crunch, crunch* sound effects….」
Rather, when it comes to high-ranked battles, if you don’t hone your anti-air combat skill, you won’t be able to put up a fight.
I have participated in joint training with Black Honey several times, and depending on the class, there are even types who spend more time in the air than on the ground.
However, for power types such as fighters, as expected, the basic rule is to fight with their feet planted on the ground.
Without the reaction of stepping firmly on the field that is the ground, they can’t capitalize on that power of theirs.
By the way, I don’t know how to make sound effects.
*Whack, whack, slash, slash, pow, pow* As it accumulates damage, the Komajishi is reduced to miasma.
It ends up cleanly vanishing, leaving behind a jade magatama.
I guess that means the area has turned into a complete dungeon space.
「Haa haa…. I beg, for some break time, please.」
「I am terribly sorry. Toma-sama.」
「Yes. I’m getting dizzy….」
The quartet end up plopping down.
Most likely, they are in an overheated state due to the excessive influx of EXP.
The worst of the four is Nodoka.
*Haa, haa* Her breathing is rough and her eyebrows are furrowed, seemingly in pain.
「I’m sorry. Toma-samaa….」
Letting her lie down on the spot, I make her drink some water from a plastic bottle.
I must say that this is clearly a case of me being naïve with my foresight.
Unlike the other three, who although imperfect but have already undergone the first step class change, Nodoka, a『None (Novice)』, is someone that’s only slightly stronger than an ordinary person.
The upper limit of her capacity to accept EXP is probably low.
Most likely, she has ended up getting stuck in the upper limit of the level of the class called『Human』.
From the first time I looked at it, her『Human』 level had exceeded 10, the level at which class change is possible.
「… I have, no talent. I can’t do a class change even when I go to the『Cathedral』….」
I thought she was doing a bondage play or something, but that appears to be not the case.
When I check Nodoka’s status with the Interface, it seems that she indeed doesn’t have affinity for the archetype class.
However, perhaps as a result of her『Human』 level being raised to the limit, she is by no means left with no options at all.
But still, as expected, I can’t afford to let her change her class right then and there, can I?
Showing off unworldly special abilities will by no means lead to a good result.
I’ve also been reminded as such by Shizuka and the others.
「Even when I asked the teacher about it, they told me that it happens sometimes. Failures who can’t do classes change.」
「Nodoka-chan ……」
Serie kneels down and holds Nodoka’s hand.
Mirin and Shinobu are also worried about Nodoka without regard to their own bad shape.
Yeah, these girls are right.
They have the right heart.
They are kind girls who care for others.
In that case, I have to show my sincerity as well.
「I’m leaving for a bit… Feel free to wait here.」
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「Nodoka-chan, be strong.」
「She’s right, Nodoka-chan. I’m sure the『Cathedral』 was just in bad shape. I mean, that place is old after all.」
Nodoka, shaking her head in spite of Mirin and Shinobu’s encouragement, spilled out her uncontainable tears.
「It’s impossible. I mean, I’ve gone there so many times already…. Now I’m the only one in the classroom who hasn’t done a class change. Even Toma-sama has abandoned this failure girl and went away.」
「Th, that’s not true.」
「Yeah, she’s, right…?」
Serie, still holding Nodoka’s hand, opened her mouth absentmindedly and stiffened.
The angel staircase illuminating them from the heavens.
There, the mysterious bearded glasses gentleman was about to descend, standing upright on a cloud that was akin to the one ridden by an Immortal but was painted in ink.
The mysterious massive posing helped to create a slight sense of sanctity as well as a great sense of suspiciousness.
Various elements were mixed together in Japanese-Western style, creating a sense of multinational cuisine that was beyond description.
「… O son of man. Though it be sudden, I give thee power.」
「Wh, who is there?!」
Next to Mirin, who had put herself on guard to protect Nodoka, Shinobu, who had come to her senses, was about to throw in a retort.
「… Who you ask? No matter how you look at it, it’s Toma-sa… Mfff.」
「Oh my, who in the world are you, I wonder?」
Serie, who was covering Shinobu’s mouth, tilted her head slightly and uttered such a line monotonously.
「Kaaaaah!」
The mysterious bearded glasses gentleman struck the taiko, which he had taken out of nowhere, with a bachi(drumstick for taiko), and *booom, booom* began to produce a meaningless sense of miracle.
Even when there was no meaning to it, a bolt out of the blue rang, making the person in question startled and put the taiko away.
「Leaving pleasantries aside, it’s time for a class change.」
「Huh…?」
「There’s a class that even I’ve never seen before called『Super Beginner (Multi Novice)』 in the options, so let’s go with that one.」
「Yes…?」
「Fare thee well… O kind-hearted sons of men.」
*Swoosh* As the rising fuzzy cloud passed through the canopy of the forest, the glow of the angel staircase also wound up fading away
Nodoka was unable to keep up with the situation, but the heat that had been tormenting her, as if it was scorching her body, had subsided as if it was nothing but a lie.
Although it would have been better if he were to at least wait for a while longer, Touma, passing through the bushes with a rustle, came back.
「Sorry to keep you waiting…. Did something happen?」
「Toma-sama, it’s terrible! Something really weird descended from the sky!」
「Huh, huuuh…. Mirin-chan, could you be, for real?」
Serie, hugging Shinobu who was making a dubious face from behind, giggled.
「I don’t know who it was, but there was a very wonderful God descending.」
「I see. Well, I guess such a thing also happens.」
「…Toma-sama.」
Touma kneeled down to Nodoka, who was looking up at him with a dazed look on her face.
「Are you feeling okay?」
「… Y, yes. I’m fine.」
「Then good.」
「Yes…. I will follow for the rest of my life. Touma-sama.」
Nodoka, closing her eyes and clasping her hands together, muttered quietly.
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「… First of all, they pass, I guess.」
「What’s wrong? Shizuka.」
Shizuka, who was sitting by the window in a daze, shook her head to express that it was nothing.
Compared to the other bungalows, laid-back time was flowing in their bungalow.
As long as there were tea and paperback books, or snacks and manga, the two of them were not bothered even if they were simply lazing about and cooped up.
「’Sup. I’m back. You see, for there to be a thunder even though it’s sunny, I sure was startled.」
「Welcome back~, Seiichi.」
Seiichi, returning through the skylight, took off his shoes.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, the entrance of the bungalow was left locked.
「Where’s the souvenirs?」
「I do have souvenirs, but they ain’t food.」
Smiling wryly, Seiichi took a folded piece of paper from his waist port and spread it out on the floor.
It was a bird’s-eye view of『Iwado Woodland』 drawn from an angle looking down at it vertically from the sky.
It was more like a painting than a map.
The drawing, which had been copied from the academy’s archives, was the only topographical map that allowed you to grasp the Iwado Woodland.
「Though, it is an old map, after all…. There were various parts where the topography had changed.」
Seiichi, who had ascended to the top of a tree and compared the area with the map with his own eyes, jotted down some notes.
「Even if you don’t go through all that trouble, if you check the Google map or something, won’t you be able to take a look at it as a whole?」
「The one there is a dummy map that is a copy-paste of another mountainous area. Just in case, want to look at the satellite photo of the real deal?」
Mai, looking at the A3-size color photo, went: Eww… Creeped out.
There, a spiral of distorted, swirling green appeared in the middle of the mountainous area.
「It seems that when you take photos of places with natural dungeons, you’ll only get results like this. That’s why you have no choice but to actually look at it with your own eyes and draw it out.」
Even then, the terrain you saw was not always all there was to it.
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