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Chapter 7 : 《Sunstone》
I followed Lunaire strolling in the labyrinth for a while.
….. We’re not even that far from where we started and yet, during that time Lunaire had slain 5 monsters.
One of those five had fallen on the ground and right now, it bathed in its own blood.
It was a double-headed bipedal chicken that resembled a big man, like a bodybuilder, with flesh that was a golden colored lump of meat.
Moreover…. those two chicken heads and its four limbs were scattered after sliced apart by Lunaire.
It seems it was a demon called Ra.
It came flying at us at unbelievably high speeds while vomiting fire breath from both of its heads.
The passage towards Ra was covered in a fiery blaze, and I prepared myself to die the moment I saw that scene.
It might have ended in an instant if it was just me alone.
Yet, Lunaire who stepped forward twice as fast as Ra swung her sword and instantly dismembered Ra’s limbs.
Though I understood this fact by now, this person was a cheat character.
「Time-Space Magic, 8th Rank 《Dimension Pocket》」
Lunaire expanded the magic square and retrieved Ra’s corpse.
In this way, I realized that sometimes Lunaire would retrieve the demon corpse.
Just what in the hell she’s going to use that for.
I’m too scared to ask but…. Could it be it was for medicine?
「Fortunately we secured fresh high-quality chicken meat.」
「CHICKEN MEAT! ? 」
「What’s the matter, is there any problem with that? 」
Lunaire asked as she tilted her expressionless face.
「W-Wait a minute, that guy has a human-like body…」
「I only consider it as a well-raised chicken.」
The degree of “well-raised” was beyond amazing right?
It felt like I was thrown in the middle of a huge ocean.
「Understood. Since it would be troublesome if you are starved to death, you may eat the head.」
I thought back to the scene where we faced off the giant bipedal chicken headed monster… and now its head is cooked… yuck. That might be too nasty for me.
Well, what about its unnaturally large body and its unappetizing striking yellow color….
Anyway, the country where I lived before didn’t have the tradition of eating the chicken head.
In the first place, since this demon called Ra had the same name as the Egyptian Gods, wouldn’t I end up becoming cursed when I eat it.
Nevertheless… Its outward appearance suggested that it wasn’t food but, I knew that I couldn’t eat proper food in this labyrinth.
So, Lunaire must have told me so with good intention.
[Then Lunaire must have offered me the heads with good intention.] (?) see “comment”.
I shouldn’t say these selfish things.
「I…. will gladly receive the head.」
A while later, we arrived in a place inside of the labyrinth where the ground was paved.
It’s brighter than the other area and it’s warmer.
It seems that the ground isn’t made of natural soil; it was more like a bulky and vast quantity of soil spread out on top of the stone.
Patches of grasses and beautiful flowers are grown on top of the soil.
I…. never expected that you can grow a plant in a place without sunlight like this.
No, it’s might be wrong to use the common sense of my world in this other world.
The plants in this world might have their own ways to process nutrition without relying on sunlight.
I looked around at the surroundings.
Although there was no more than one tree, it was still a living tree.
There I saw its ominous ripened white speckled red fruits.
There was a statue of a huge cat that held a bright red crystal in its mouth that shone brightly.
「That crystal… the light it emits is similar to sunlight? 」
「Nice observation you got there, no. It’s an extremely valuable item in the outside world called, 《Sunstone》. The ownership regarding this item might cause a world war since it was extremely suitable for growing plants. This place is as you can see, a place where you can find this kind of high ranking item littered around everywhere.」
When I unintentionally asked out loud to myself about that jewel, Lunaire explained its name and function to me.
I see now… it seems that Nyarlhotep didn’t lie when he(?) told me that high ranking items were littered all over this place.
Nevertheless, those guys had no intention of allowing me to survive in this place from the very beginning.
「When I was strolling in the UG 95th floor, I beat a dragon who loved this jewel until it was half dead since I wanted that jewel.」
That was…. robbery, right?
Was that what she meant by “there are numerous high ranking items that are littered around this place”.
「Since it was a demon who I can talk with, I went easy on that guy and only beat him black and blue. On the other hand, that guy came at me with the intention to kill me after all.」
「E-EH….. I see….」
Could it be that this person was… in fact the de facto leader of 《Cocytus》?
「Is that 《Sunstone》 attached to the head of that strange cat from the very beginning?　Or else, is that cat the God who ruled over the sun or something? 」
「That is… Ssomething that I made on my own as a pastime hobby.」
I-It was Lunaire’s hobby.
I should’ve been okay if only I hadn’t said “Strange Cat”.
I think the look in her eyes became a little harsh.
I might be angering her a little.
She unexpectedly had a strange taste.
I was led by Lunaire past the patches where she grew flowers.
She walked as she looked at the flowers.
It seemed that she loves flowers.
The layers of soil in this place and the 《Sunstone》 might solely be for the sake of growing these flowers.
A gentleness that mismatched with her cruel vibe, her hobby was extremely cute on top of that.
Though it’s true that she released such a bizarre aura and proclaimed herself as a lich, Lunaire was a kind person by nature.
But then, I felt uneasy when she said that she…. was betrayed by a human.
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「Those… are, beautiful flowers, no. I really love it.」
「Flattery won’t get you anything you know.」
Despite what she said, I felt that her steps became even lighter than before.
Though she didn’t show it on her face, she was unexpectedly easy to read.
I stared quietly at Lunaire’s back but, I suddenly felt cold liquid touch my hand.
「Hyau! 」
It was something like a transparent mucus.
「….. Quite noisy aren’t you? What’s the matter? 」
「J-Just now, a liquid……..」
When I turned around towards the direction of the incoming liquid, there I saw a big mouth opened at the center of the flower. The liquid was the drool dripping down from that mouth.
I was startled by that sight and ended up causing a chain reaction that made all the other flowers openits mouth as they silently laughed.
I shuddered by such spectacle.
I never expected that almost all the flowers in this place was this kind of flower.
「N-No, it’s nothing….」
I decided to turn a blind eye of this spectacle when I recalled Lunaire started lightly skipping as I had praised her flowers before.
I didn’t want to speak ill of something that I praised before.
「Please do not be so easily startled like that. Just tell me if there’s something that you are worried about. If you complain later, I… will get irritated you know.」
Despite her harsh tone… her sentence was relatively gentle.
That’s why I didn’t want to make her sad.
Let’s just keep this secret with me to the grave.
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「There is my base.」
Following the direction Lunaire pointed at, there I saw a huge yurt-like hut in white color.The yurt-like hut gave me the impression of a nomad.Though it’s more like a tent than a hut, the size itself was bigger.
And right by its side was….. something like a kitchen garden.
W-wasn’t she actually a quite cultured person! ?
With this, I might be able to survive without the need to eat something strange like that Ra demon: that had two chicken heads, a weird golden flesh color, and has a bodybuilder-like body.