Publishedat 14th of August 2019 09:28:11 PMChapter 92
How a Vending Machine ThreatensI stacked up concrete slabs during the time the monsters separated from me, and by the time they started moving I had piled up my goal of ten slabs .
The enemy has been fl.u.s.tered until now, but this won’t be broken or destroyed so easily, you know .
The weight of the for the normal vending machine is about 60 kilos . Generally speaking, if you figure a 10 time increase in size, the weight would be approximately 600 kilos . If you add ten of them together then it would be 6 tons … no, that’s wrong . It’s 10×10, so it’s 100 times by another 10 so … at any rate, I believe it’s definitely an extraordinary amount of weight .
Even if the monsters worked together, they shouldn’t be able to move it . I suppose it’s enough for buying time . Furthermore, the monsters’ movements are all scattered, wondering why a wall appeared on their side, so they haven’t been acting on any orders even now . The monsters before my eyes are so bewildered thrown into disorder that I almost can’t believe the aggressive att.i.tudes of the ones I saw inside the community were true . I won’t have any complaints if this reduces the amount of our enemies .
If the threat from outside is gone, we’ll be able to concentrate on the inside of the community .
For now, let’s return my body to the original vending machine .
When I stacked the concrete slabs, it ended up being higher than the wall so I can see the situation behind me in the community well, but I can also somewhat see the reinforcements for sealing up the hole doing the sealing .
“Protect the magic users with all your might! Ramis, it doesn’t matter if it’s rocks, debris, or fragments of the wall, throw them at the hole!”
President Bear is bursting out with a reddish-brown aura from within our comrades, kicking away enemies .
The alligatorman demons, with their famously tough hides, were easily bisected with a single swing of his arm, and whatever was touched by the red after-image of his claws, whether it was the enemy or debris, were cut into pieces like hot b.u.t.ter .
So that’s President Bear when he’s serious . That bulk, power, and slicing ability of his claws makes you feel sorry for the monsters he’s up against .
The four members of the Big Eaters Brigade are acting as one group, so they’re bringing the enemies down steadily . Their teamwork is exceptional, using their dexterity to run around, so even a decent expert will probably have trouble against them .
They’re also Tasmanian devils … not, they’re marsupial-bearcat-people demons, and are born with the Divine Blessing which sways the spirits of those who hear it, and it’s possible for those with little resistance to fall into an abnormal mental condition .
It seems like the frogman demons are quite susceptible to it, and they mercilessly bite through the windpipes of those enemies whose movements have been dulled . The movements of Mishael and Grandmother are the same as always, so the enemies are unable to approach one full circle around the magic users repairing the hole .
Things have been going well so far . I did install the concrete slabs so it might not be necessary for me to have to fill in in a panic, but on the off-chance that I’m broken, it’s possible that these concrete slabs will disappear . It would be better for me to do the things I can do now .
Not only can I watch the battle below from above, I can also observe the movements on the battlefield well, so aren’t their any monsters moving suspiciously? I sent my sight into every corner .
If it’s the Ruler of the Netherworld’s subordinate then it might be a skeleton, or something other than the monsters from around here . Are there any monsters that aren’t originally from this level around?
Advertis.e.m.e.ntI think there’s something suspicious puttering around the hole, but it’s too far away so I can’t tell what kind of individual it is .
If you’re a commander, what would you normally do in this sort of situation? Avoiding standing on the frontlines and staying in the rear seems right . However, this time the enemies are attacking with an overwhelming number . My comrades at the wall are also sticking to a defensive battle, so our opponent shouldn’t feel too much in danger . I think .
Don’t you think he’d be concerned with the sudden blockage of the hole and come look at the situation with his own eyes?
Watching over things from a place a little removed from the battle with several monsters acting as his guard; there’s no way there’d be an enemy with that exact aim … Ah, there’s one over there .
There’s a group of monsters that matches those conditions exactly . There are ten monsters standing still in a group a little ways away without partic.i.p.ating in the battle . Right in the middle of them is some person wearing a hooded robe with a weird design .
It’s a black robe with red and blue geometric patterns embroidered here and there on it . Speaking of black robes, it resembles the garments of the Ruler of the Netherworld and the Ghost King . It looks suspicious just looking at it .
That, if I could defeat the commander, I might be able to save the people struggling at the Hunters a.s.sociation . The enemy is closely watching my companions acting violently in front of the hole .
He probably doesn’t realize that the culprit that stopped up the hole is a vending machine . However, suspicious aside, if he’s the Ruler of the Netherworld’s subordinate, it’s possible that information about me was leaked from that guy .
That said, there’s some distance between me and him in the dark, so it would be difficult to see that there’s a vending machine up here .
Right now, the only one who can move freely is me . In that case, I have to dispatch my normal a.s.sa.s.sination techniques .
With balloons and cardboard, my recent usual combination, I floated into the sky, aiming for directly above the suspicious individual .
I might be able to directly fall and crush him like this, but if he’s the Ruler of the Netherworld’s subordinate, then I want to collect information . But if I let him live, there’s also the pattern where you’ll regret it far into the future .
Ah- this is so worrisome . If I want to dissolve the current situation, then crus.h.i.+ng him like this is fine . However, if we want to resolve the dungeon’s anomalies, then we need information .
When I cast my vision in the direction of the Hunters a.s.sociation, I can see lights swarming like bugs as the monster swarm climbs the Hunters a.s.sociation . It’s too far so I can’t get an accurate measure of the situation, but currently it looks like they’re enduring it .
President Bear and the others around the wall look like they’re not at max capacity yet .
I have enough points to turn into the giant but … alright, let’s try falling in my normal state to brush against the opponent . If I hit him and he dies, then that’s that . I’ll just try doing what I can .
Aiming just for the point, I return to the normal vending machine . I also cancel and erase the balloons .
The opponent doesn’t move, so if I fall like this … it will work!
With a BANG, my body falls and causes a shockwave dead in the middle of them . I dared to remove the so I took quite the amount of damage, but that was also calculated .
There was a man who, too surprised by me, who fell from the sky in front of him, was stiff and unable to speak .
Eh, it’s a human man? It was my fault for completely believing it to be a skeleton, but for the subordinate to be a human, isn’t something weird about that?
“Hii, hiiii- wh,what is it!?”
He’s backing up, wanting to get away from me, but is obstructing him so he can’t go any further than 1 meter from me .
I won’t let him escape . prohibits him from leaving it, after all . “What is this light blue wall-!? I, I can’t get out! Y,you guys, break this wall!”
When the thin-cheeked man yelled at the monsters, the monsters around use began to attack the all at once .
If it’s like this, I can endure it to some extent, but my points are finite . Shall I stop them?
I replaced one of my products with a bath towel and took it out of my retrieval opening with . And, winding it around the fussing man’s neck, I pulled on both ends . “Shu t it . ”
Honestly, use “it” instead of “up” isn’t proper, but can’t be helped .
(damari versus damare)
“Wh,what, someone’s talking-”
“Won’t shu t it?”
This usage of my words is a bit foolish, but what’s important is that the meaning gets through .
He’s still making a fuss and screaming, so I pull the towel tighter .
“W,wait, st,stop . ”
He seems like he’s going to listen to me, so I loosen the towel a little . It seems like he doesn’t realize that this attack is something directly from the vending machine, so he’s wary of his surroundings . It’s convenient, so let’s have him continue the misunderstanding .
“St op mak ing ”
“the mon sters move . ”
If this guy’s the commander, then if I cross-examine him like this, he should have some kind of reaction .
“Wh,what are you talking about? I don’t understand . ”
Well, you normally would play dumb . I can see it as him spitting out lies in a panic, but I wonder which it is . It can also be taken as him losing his cool when his life’s in danger .
Even if I cross-examine him, I don’t have enough words to speak well . I’ll have to lead the opponent into naturally talking himself, huh?
I wonder if there isn’t something among my products that can loosen my opponent’s mouth .
For spicy things I have the famous canned soup with habenaro in it, but that’s just a little spicy and it has a normal, drinkable taste . Even if I force him to drink it, it probably won’t be torture – I mean make him talk .
If I’m going to make him frightened, then a threat with some impact will have to be THAT, huh?
“Sp eak . ”
“Wa nt to die?”
Giving him a threat, I took a cola and floated it in front of his eyes with . As he was focused on that, I changed into the and swiftly sent out some candy .
I quickly returned to normal and unfastened the candy’s wrapper . I twisted off the cap of the bottle in front of the man .
Then, floating the candy grandly in front of him, I dropped it into the cola . At that moment, the contents spurted upwards from the mouth .
It feels like he has no idea what the meaning of my actions are right now, but I pulled the towel wrapped around his neck a little tightly . “Agu aa . ”
Unable to resist, the man opened his mouth and I forcefully poured a new cola I had prepared to frighten him .
I’m aware this is quite cruel, but my precious people’s lives are at stake; I have to resolve myself to have the heart of a demon .
“Cough, cough, what do you intend to do-? This weird taste, it can’t be, poison-!?”
He’s misunderstood all on his own, but that’s a gross leap in logic . The real threat starts here .
I floated the exact same candy as just now in front of the man’s eyes and purposefully swayed it from side to side .
“This is what you just … if put in that liquid, it explodes… tsk . N,no way, you intend to make me swallow it-!?”
I pressed the candy forcefully against the resisting man’s mouth .
“S,stop-! Please stop-! You’ll make me explode-!”
He’s more scared than I expected . In actuality, if you swallowed it and some time has pa.s.sed, like now, then it wouldn’t be any problem if you put it in your mouth, though .
He’s someone who I think is commanding the monsters, so I had a.s.sumed he’d be a little more dignified, but his reaction is more like a grunt’s than I expected .
No, he’s the kind of guy who naturally observes from a high position and acts stylishly, giving out orders from safety . So a guy like that acts like this when you corner him, huh?
“La st ch ance . ”
“Go ing to speak?”
I add another two candies and show them to him .
“I, I get it! I’ll stop commanding the monsters-! S,so, don’t make me swallow that-!”
The threat of unknown objects worked better than I expected .