Translator: mii
We waited for thirty minutes, lining up with the students. I was a little nervous, but the procedure at the reception was over very quickly. We finally could enter the dungeon.
「In the end, should I go with sword?」
But before that, I was swinging a sword in the area where the weapon rental and training centers were located. It seemed like this area was already treated the same as inside the dungeon, and was a individual area. There were no students.
Just like what was said in the lecture, we could borrow weapons, and they had all of the standard weapon types and shields. Unfortunately, we could only borrow weapons and they had no armor other than shields.
It seemed like there was no penalty for the compensation if we damaged the weapon, but it was impossible to take them out from the dungeon.
「There is no small mace or hammer, so my next choice is an axe. Actually, something like spear is also good, but I"m worried about maneuvering it inside the cave and I have no experience with that.」
The weapons I had decent experience with were knives, long swords I robbed from goblins, followed by hatchets.
Until now, I had basically used the weapons that let me attacked my opponents with brute force without thinking about techniques. I wasn"t really good with dexterous fighting, so I might not win without my《 Melee Combat 》.
By the way, I had the《 One-handed Weapon 》as a gift, but I didn"t use a shield so I couldn"t use it effectively. Even if I actually swung it like this, a two-handed sword would fit me better than a one-handed sword.
「But this place is amazing. All of the weapons are almost the same rank as my carry-ons. My items are expensive too… Is this the level that they let the beginners rental?」
Yuki looked at his own small sword and said that. His weapon certainly didn"t look like a cheap item.
I could imagine that what considered as ‘expensive" from a family of large merchant would be the level of ‘expensive" that I didn"t want to imagine.
「As expected from the lens with marginal skill, nya. You sure are experienced. Did you also use a longsword outside, nya?」
「I have experience, but I basically use… a club. And also stone.」
They were looking at me as if they were looking at a primitive man. It couldn"t be helped okay, there were no weapons in the mountains. There was even no metal there. It was to the point that I was jealous when I saw the sword that goblins had.
By the way, even if I called it a club, it was actually a root of a tree. I had swung a log-sized tree as it was too.
「D-do you mean that you throw stones, nya? I sometimes saw even adventurers did that in my scouting jobs, nya. It was reasonable, nya.」
「I also threw it, but my main is close combat, so I used it to hit them just as it is.」
I wasn"t good at throwing them. It didn"t even hit them even if I threw stones. When it was crucial, I just threw it straight to them.
When I played baseball in my previous life, I did many throwing mistakes. No matter how much I tried to play it safe, I kept missing, so the catcher became my fixed position. It was just a wall that wouldn"t throw any ball even if the base was stolen.
「I am interested in what kind of magical place has Tsuna spent all of his life, but I also don"t want to know…」
What should I do… I was okay with talking about it, but leaving aside my living environment, when I talked about my combat experiences, everyone would drew back every time.
Even Cliff-san who was like a moving banned item was disgusted when he heard about my combat experiences.
「Well, Tsuna is a《 Primitive Man 》after all. It can"t be helped.」
「I see, then it can"t be helped since he is a《 Primitive Man 》, nya.」
Don"t be convinced with the primitive man skill there, okay.
Even primitive people would use stone axe. Eh… I was even lower than that, huh.
I swung the weapons a few times and adjusted the grip of the provided equipment. I adjusted it repeatedly several times. It was quite difficult, maybe because the grip was already in place.
I didn"t have any technical skills to repair or maintain weapons, but I knew how to adjust the grip with ivy while using the items I robbed from the goblins.
It was a technique that I had learned over and over, even if it was clumsy and poor. Even if it was parts exclusively used for that, it was quite difficult because it was not ivy.
「Isn"t it better for you take the bow with you too? If I don"t remember wrong, you can use it, right?」
If possible, I wanted to use bows too here.
Arrows were not something insignificant. I had no experience with it myself, but when I asked about it to a huntsman, it seemed like each of them was relatively expensive.
It was natural to reuse the arrow that had been shot if it could be collected. Even if it broke, there were a lot of cases where they only collected the feathers and arrowheads and rebuilt it back.
Even the arrowhead was made from metal. That was expensive.
「Uhm, mine is a little bit special. I think the size won"t match with me.」
「Are you saying that “I am special”?」
Did he gather in original ideas like those protagonists in reincarnation stories?
「That"s not it. Why do you want me to be a OP protagonist anyway? Well, if I can, I want to be OP.」
Well, I also have the desire to be OP as a reincarnator.
「My short bow is smaller than a normal how. I mainly used it for feint, but normal arrow is too big and I can"t shoot it properly.
I usually remake it, but not only that it"s plain, it also takes a lot of time.
It"s not like I can"t shoot it if it"s big, but luckily I have prepared enough, so I"ll use the one that match my bow today.」
It seemed like he had proper reason.
Since Yuki had a small build, he had to come up with that kind of device.
「I wonder if Tsuna can draw the big bow over there. If this is a game or novel, it feels like an item that a delicate character uses, but a bow is quite powerful.」
That"s true. Other than Robin hood and Nasu no Yoichi, there are the images of Hercules, Lü Bu, and the Muscly Morimori Macho Man.
I looked at the direction Yuki pointed at, and there was a big bow hanging on the wall, which was most likely pa.s.sing my height.
No way, I didn"t think I could draw that. …I wouldn"t be a Commando, huh.
Since the bow was here, did that mean it was the normal size in the large bow category? Bow user was amazing.
「Because my main weapon is small sword, I"m jealous with people like Tsuna who can swing heavy weapons.」
「What, so you have that kind of manly side as well. Do you want to join the ?」
I wouldn"t join them, though.
「I don"t like that kind of thing. Even if I don"t have the power, there is another way of fighting using my powerlessness, and I don"t look like a girl if I get too muscular. 」
What was this guy talking about?
「Aside from Yukichin"s previous life, isn"t you a man now, nya?」
「Yes, on the card display.」
「No, what do you mean with displa…」
「Yes, on the display.」
There was a force that made Chittsan didn"t say anything anymore. I had to make sure not to go against him.
[ Transfer Warp Gate ] Warp gate was a mysterious device installed at the entrance of a dungeon.
It was an arch with the width of three adults, in which a mysterious strange s.p.a.ce undulated and emitting light.
It was a familiar sight in RPG, but it was a strange sight when I actually seen it. When I stared at the inside, I felt like I was sucked, making me scared.
Introduced as the dungeon entrance, it was too fantasy-ish that made me feel a little hesitant to enter it.
「This is the entrance to the dungeon, nya. Beginners are usually scared, but once you enter, there is a normal s.p.a.ce and other dungeons look like this, so you can get used to it immediately, nya.」
「I-is it better to hold our breath?」
「No, it"s not like you are diving in water, nya. It"s okay for you to breathe, nya. There is a case when the destination is submerging in the water, but since this dungeon is a fixed type, the destination is just a cave, nya. You might even get disappointed, nya.
Also, this is a one-way path and you won"t be able to come back again nya, so if you have a rental weapons or something you forgot, go get it quickly nya.」
What"s with that submerging in the water? How scary.
「Is it possible to get attacked suddenly at the destination?」
「It"s almost impossible, nya. If there is such an irregular case, I will support you, nya. However, since it"s only a goblin at the beginning, it will die even with just a little like, nya.
If Gobtarou can easily die like that, it will be an ease to have an exchange battle with him, nya. But he doesn"t seem to belong in the same category, nya.」
Chittsan seemed like she was a proper companion.
Also, did she have any grudge against Gobtarou-san?
「On the contrary, as long as it isn"t that kind of irregular case, I won"t help in the combat even if Tsuna and Yuki are injured, have your arms broken, or even die, nya. I"ll give you recovery medicine since there are request payment items, nya.
In fact, nothing will happen if you keep standing on this kind of place, so go quickly now, nya. If you are scared I"ll go ahead first, but what will you do now, nya?」
「By the way, what will happen if we return back after Chittsan goes beyond the gate?」
「What will happen, you ask… of course I"m going back… I can"t, nya. This is a one-way path, nya. I might cry at that situation, nya. I"ll run to the midway point with all of my might and hit both of you, nya.」
No, we wouldn"t do that, okay.
「Then, let"s go now. Chittsan, please go ahead first.」
「No way, nya. It"s clear on what you will do after the previous conversation, nya! I don"t aim to become your comedian, nya.」
「Tsk…」
「W-what"s with that clicking tongue, nya!? No way, you don"t really think of doing that right, nya?」
「No, no, there"s no way we can do that to our senior, right? Let"s go now.」
No, we wouldn"t do that, okay!?
「You sound like you are really going to do that, nya. What a cruel rookie, nya.」
With that, I went into the gate ahead first.
I imagined the feeling of diving in the water, but I didn"t feel anything. I just went through it.
When my whole body pa.s.sed the gate, the scenery had already changed and my surroundings was all cave. There was no more gate when I looked behind.
This was amazing.
After a while, Yuki and Chittsan appeared. It was a one-way path with no gate from this side, so it seemed like they suddenly emerged from an empty s.p.a.ce.
「Now then, this is the dungeon you have been waiting for, nya. Well, it"s just a cave, nya. For the tryout, go catch a goblin from around here and try your ability, nya.」
It seemed like her t.i.tle of an intermediate adventurer was not just for show. She really thought that goblin was a measly thing.
I had completely no problem if it was the goblin I encountered in the mountain of my hometown, but this was a Labyrinth City which could be called as the genuine place. Even if the creature had the same name, it could be a different life form.
I shouldn"t be careless.
「It doesn"t seem like there are any of them nearby, so I"ll go and catch them for you, nya.」
「Eh, are you going to especially capture them?」
「In order to check your skills, it"s better to have one-on-one first. It"s troublesome to have several of them, so I"ll just bring one, nya. For now, Tsuna will try fighting them, nya. Prepare yourself, nya.」
「Haa…」
Chittsan disappeared into the cave. What was she catching, a goblin or a beetle?
「Tsuna have experiences in fighting goblins, right?」
「I don"t know if the goblin is the same creature here, but I fought with them a lot.」
I didn"t even remember the number of goblins I had defeated.
「Ah, she came back.」
After we waited for around one minute, Chittsan returned from the depths of the darkness. Together with a goblin.
Just like the so-called “fishing” in MMORPG, I thought that she would just pull their attention and took them here, but Chittsan literally caught the goblin"s neck and came back.
The figure that was caught in Chittsan"s hand was the same as the goblin that I fought against in my hometown. By the way, I couldn"t distinguish Gobtarou with the goblin too.
「I"ve brought it here, nya. Then Tsuna, quickly… eh, don"t rampage, nya! Your opponent is not me nya, but that guy, nya!」
Chittsan was counterattacked by the goblin she brought here, but she randomly tossed it to me and turned behind me.
「Now then, do you best, nya. This is your memorable first battle in the Labyrinth City, nya.」
When I looked at the goblin, it seemed like its target was me. It was a little limping.
…What was this.
The dungeon that I had imagined was so different from my expectations, and I became disappointed all of the sudden.