Chapter 36

Nana 「Sorry, I have the kind of constitution where I won’t get fat even from eating.」

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「……..-So something like that happened.」

「You sure had some really serious experiences in just a half day.」

Since I was exhausted, and since Shuten had killed me, placing me under the effects of the death penalty, I went and logged out.

Even if the effects of 《Ravenous Wolf》 had ended, the effects from the hairpin were still there, so I wouldn’t be able to gain experience for twelve hours after all.

And then, after I sent a small message to Rin-chan, the situation became one where we were going to eat lunch together.

As I was fighting against the cheese from the home-delivered pizza, Rin-chan said this while sighing.

「Murder Princess….That girl really doesn’t learn her lessons.」

「Fufuehiwaho?」(9: she is eating pizza, don’t understand what she says but all I understand is I want pizza)

「That’s right, you could say that she is famous. That girl, she was once captured once in the early days. Even after she was captured as punishment for a first offence, she immediately went out after being released. And right now she is stupidly high level. There was even a rumour that other than when she PKs on whim, she is always grinding levels.」

「Nhgu….so she is a hardcore gamer」

It was a bit late to think about this now, but I wonder why Rou was at that place?

She was someone who was a much higher level than me. There was no mistake since even Rin-chan said so.

Even if she was aiming for prey weaker than her, considering the time it would take to return to grinding, there was really no reason to go all the way back to the second town from the fifth town.

「Most likely, I think that she has some business around Dualis, and took the opportunity to check out the abnormality that was happening at the wetlands」

「If it’s like that, then it must have been bad luck for Rou」

「You’re right. There were many eye witness regarding the black dragon itself but, well…..So it is called Apocalypse?」

「Yeah.」

True Dragon of Truth, -Apocalypse-.

What I understood from the less than two-minute encounter was that it was a dangerous monster who was highly specialized in magic.

And moreover, that large body was not just for show either, I was sure.

「But still, it was my first time seeing that kind of magic. There seems to be someone who livestreamed at the right time the magic was activated. It became a really big topic in SNS.」

「I disappeared right before I got hit by it, but what was it like?」

Noticing my interest in it, Rin-chan quickly fiddled with her phone to show me the video. It seemed that the video she was looking for was clipped, and she immediately passed her phone over to me.

It was from a very far place, taken by a livestream several hundred meters away from it.

It seemed to be one of the innocent livestreamers from the second wave of players; she was asking something like, 「I wonder what is that?」.

Looking at the time of the video, it started from the scene where I was running around, but as expected, it was so far away that I was not shown.

Were those sparkling things the light spears?

After a while, there was a sound that was something like that of a bell, and then there was around a twenty second pause.

And then suddenly, just as I thought it was a lag, before I knew it there was a super huge magic circle deployed………..

The ultimate magic that descended first swole up at the center and lastly exploded as it disappeared.

The girl who was in the video was also dragged into the explosion.

「Brutal…」

「Really, it sure was pitiful.」

「Even though I who was targeted was still alive at that moment.」

This was not just regarding the topic of the spell’s range.

The whole field itself was basically destroyed from the force as it was released.

Most likely, that girl was not the only victim….

By the way, I did say that just now, but I think Rou herself was also alive.

Just how was it that the surrounding players are all dead while the both of us lived?

「Within a radius of around three-hundred meters, it looks like all the players and monsters were erased. I think it might be some kind of magic that has some specific conditions to activate.」

「Thinking about how there is a possibility that I would be fighting against this makes me not like this at all.」

「It’s specialized in magic right? It’s your achilles heel after all.」

「Just grazing me was enough to put a hole in my stomach, you know.」

「That’s way too soft. Probably, if it was me or Touka if it was just a graze, we wouldn’t receive that much damage, you know.」

「I wonder. Even I didn’t receive that much damage, I think its attack’s main purpose is to make you lose parts of your body.」

Seeing me groaning in dissatisfaction, Rin-chan looked like she was having fun.

However, as it was set as a monster, it was an opponent we would end up fighting, but I wonder how you would defend against that?

「I guess it has to be some kind of event item.」

「Yeah, since if you don’t have any counter plans against it then you surely won’t be able to win. For example, from the color of the magic circle, it’s dark attribute magic right? You might be able to defend against it, if you raise that resistance.」

「I’d like to propose a theory that no matter what they did, a Kijin would die.」

I was done. Well, there should be some enemies that you couldn’t defeat, and I might be able to kind of defend against it if I evolve the 《Douji》job.

「If so, then you should give up. Ah, you finished the pizza? There is a cake in the fridge, you know?」

「Really? Yaaay, sachertorte!」

「Its from Touka, since you like it.」

「I really love it like this, with its high calorie count.」

After feeling that two boxes of pizza weren’t enough, I was informed of the cake inside the fridge.

While eating the sachertorte that Touka-chan left for me, although it wouldn’t help anything, we continued chatting for a little bit about Apocalypse.

By the way, I might have also eaten one of the cheese tarts that Touka-chan gave us yesterday.

Rin-chan was a rich person, and it wasn’t like I couldn’t buy one, but since Touka-chan still bothered to go and bring it for us, I felt really happy.

「Nana, you’re not going to dive in again today, right?」

「Yeah, since my death penalty will be removed late at night.」

「Then, this afternoon, let’s drag Touka along and go shopping. Since it’s been such a long time, I want to buy Nana some clothes too.」

「Eh?」

My body stiffened upon hearing Rin-chan’s proposal.

As I said before, Rin-chan and I don’t really think that much about our appearances.

It’s just that, Rin-chan, for some reason, liked to dress me up like a doll. Once I was caught, I wouldn’t be able to escape for a long time.

Since the main goal was to dress me up, whether or not we should actually buy the clothes was also a problem.

I had been diligent about avoiding this, making immense efforts to turn Rin-chan’s attention away from clothing shops whenever we played around.

However, having made it to this point, to think that there was such a trap.

「Touka should be returning today within an hour, so get ready, okay? I will be taking a shower now.」

「No, wait a minute-….」

「Understood?」

「Yes ma’am.」

I felt a terrible chill for a second. Waiting for that glint in her eyes to go away, I collapsed into the sofa as soon as she left.

And just like that, the sudden free time I got was crushed by the shopping we would be doing.

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