, Kouma"s group was moving forward.The attack from Jirou, whose natural muscles expanded furthermore due to harsh training, pulverized the body of the Rock Golem.
"Hold on! Don"t go litter the whole place too much with shards, okay!?"
While dodging the fragments of the Rock golem scattering in its surroundings with magnificent agility, Mizuki shook her prideful twin tails with her dagger hand and quickly approached the magician type monster Skull Magician that was standing further in.
"Teya!"
"Ugiiiiih!"
Mizuki"s dagger seized the base of the skull magician"s throat just before it could brandish its prided wand and unleash a magic. Being a monster with only a dirty robe put on over its bonemade body, the Skull magician"s neck bone which connected the head with its body was pulverized and so it was annihilated without doing anything.
"Me bad, me bad. But did we finish them all with this?"
"Don"t relax yet, watch your surroundings!"
Jirou and Mizuki had relaxed after taking down the enemies, but they once again took on a vigilant posture after Grein"s reprimand as their attendant.
Kouma who had already slain two Skull magicians behind them was already cautious to his surroundings without being told.
"Yuu, you didn"t get any injuries?"
"Eh? Ah……Yup."
Yuuhi had been behind Kouma the whole time in the form of being protected by him. The battle had already ended before she could do anything herself and so she honestly felt bored.
Rather, the fact is that she had already captured this labyrinth solo in the first place.
They had been continuing to advance for a few hours after entering the labyrinth, but what Yuuhi had been doing was medical treatment for the three who were going through blunders as well as searching for enemies.
Kouma had been fighting throughout these several hours to protect her and had stubbornly not allowed Yuuhi to do battle.
The longer it went on, the more stress she acc.u.mulated.
And yet if it was me, I could go through this with just a single hit on each of these dungeon monsters and without any injuries too――――――she thought.
"? Yuu, are you okay?"
"Ah, sorry! It"s nothing."
Yuuhi reproved herself for letting it show on her face and once again followed them as they started moving forward.
(*sigh*……Could this not end any faster I wonder)
(……Well, this must be extremely boring for her)
While seeing the girl stifling a yawn, Grein showed a bitter smile.
"Everyone, well done returning here safely!"
The throne room of a certain castle in Destinea, the cla.s.smates who have gathered there after returning from the labyrinth are standing straight and listening to the princess.
(This is also going to be boring I guess……)
Unable to be charmed by the girl, Yuuhi ended up feeling bored from the princess" long story.
She desperately stifled her yawn and when she received a sharp look from Eruka standing behind the princess, Yuuhi properly stretched her back.
She recalled the thing about avoiding eye contact with the king and princess, who are prejudiced against Setsu, as much as possible. She put on a sense of reflection and lightly returned a nod.
"――――――Eruka, they were able to capture the Cavern of Sorrow today, is that correct?"
"Yes Your Highness, here is the proof."
The conversation spontaneously headed towards today"s accomplishments and Eruka who had entered the dungeon as their attendant displayed the tusk of the , the monster in the deepest level of the dungeon, as proof of completely capturing the dungeon."This is splendid, everyone. Well then, how about Sir Kouma"s party?
"Yes Your Highness. The capture of the dungeon has been complete."
What Grein displayed was the scale of the Emperor Dragon.
This too was the so-called item drop of the monster in the highest floor of the ."Wonderfull! With this everyone is A rank and above and Kouma"s group is S rank and above in ability!"
Princess Margaret raised a shout of joy, but as a matter of fact, A rank difficulty level is something an A rank adventurer could capture solo, so it does not mean that they, who have challenged them in a group, have all reached A rank in ability. Naturally, this is the same for Kouma"s group.
The princess had inadequate understanding in that area.
"……Margaret, it is about time, is it not?"
"! That is so, isn"t it Father……The fact of the matter is that I have gathered all of your tired self here today."
Being urged by the king sitting on the throne, the princess talked while looking around all of the cla.s.smates" faces.
"The demon army"s soldiers attacking here in the human continent have begun pulling back in order to procure supplies. Thanks to the soldiers who have staked their lives to defend against their landing, the damage on our side were few and simultaneously they have secured the time to train you. I believe it is about time we ought to start our counterattack soon."
Counterattack――――――Everyone in that place gulped their breath to that word.
"You should already be aware when I tell you this much, should you not……? We hereby declare we will be raising the signal fire for our counter attack to the enemies of our soldiers, the soldiers who have died a n.o.ble death. And finally to the demons and beastmen who have thus far acted violently as they pleased! Departure will be tomorrow at dawn! Until then, please arrange your personal equipment and prepare for battle! That is all!"
"D dawn……?"
Somebody muttered.
The sudden declaration of counterattack from the princess.
The war that had approached before their eyes without giving them time to accept had caused unrest to not so few of them.
(……Could this be a chance to escape?"
Except for only one person, Yuuhi.