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Sure enough, it was a folly.
I never expected this tongue-tied self to be able to persuade him in a smart manner.
Dragging out their true feelings after beating the self-esteem out of them, such a pressure was inspired by the trial I first received in my middle school days from my homeroom teacher.
When I looked it up later on the Internet, I found out that it seemed to be a rather popular form of brainwashing.
Looking back on it now, I think it was a necessary measure for the me of those days, who was quite wild.
It’s just, the me of that time seemed to go wild and lose sight of everything until the bitter end, so honestly speaking, I don’t have much recollection about it.
In order to beat up my homeroom teacher, who was as strong as a monster, I spent the three years of my middle school days single-mindedly practicing no-tempo strike that I had looked up on the Internet.
I feel like I spent my time in a very unproductive way.
In the end, I do feel grateful to my homeroom teacher who took care of me for three years, but I can’t deny the feeling that I’d drawn a poor lottery.
When I was about to graduate, I did manage to land a pretty sound punch, but I should have asked him for more information instead of challenging him to a duel during the after-school routine.
It truly was a pointless youth.
The next time I meet him, I think I’m going to give him a thorough beating.
I grab the head of the goblin that is sneaking around from behind Seiichi and Mai with my left hand and sink the hand axe in my other hand into its neck.
As I feel the sensation of severing its bone, bluish-green fluids gushed out from the top of its shoulders, which was more like torn instead of cut apart.
Thanks to its thin neck, it’s way easier than decapitating a boar.
Another one is also snooping around from Shizuka’s rear, who is petrified and standing still in place, so I throw the hand axe toward it as is.
Bulls eyes, the bladed part lands in the middle of its forehead, but a clanging sound echoes as it gets bounced back.
Ah, so this is how projectiles are nullified, or so I’m convinced about it, but the pain seems to still reach it, as it bends backward and drops its weapon.
I rush over and launch a run-up-powered straight right punch as is.
The goblin, whose hook nose has been crushed, sings in a cheerful voice, but it shows no repellant force like when it was attacked by the flying axe.
However, it’s not fragile enough to have its head blown off in one shot.
Speaking of my peerless mode during the previous time, it must have been due to the effect of what’s so-called 『netherworld garment』 according to Suke-san the spirit.
The lightly panicking Shizuka won’t seem to be of any use, so I stomp on the neck of the goblin, which is thrashing around on its back while holding its face, to quiet it down.
From my previous goblin annihilation travelogue, I know that these guys are working in packs.
I pick up my hand axe again and massacre all the goblins that are once again sneaking up on Seiichi and Mai, who are within each other’s embrace.
A goblin that wields a weapon may be trickier than a boar, but nowhere near a bear.
As expected, after leading a peaceful and uneventful middle school life, I can feel my body has gotten rusty.
Finally coming to her senses, Shizuka is about to swing her spear, but everything is already over, not to mention that it will be dangerous, so I stop her and pat her on the back.
It may be nothing for a boy, but for a girl, there’s surely a need for her to get somewhat accustomed to it.
I end up touching her back with Shizuka crystal, which causes her to stand pigeon-toed while slightly trembling, but I’ll have her bear it for a bit.
I feel like it’ll lead to an ero doujin game-like development if I leave her as is, so I lead her by the hand and take her toward Seiichi and Mai.
During my goblin annihilation travelogue, as I was wandering about the dungeon in a random manner, I mapped the complicated corridor that connected one dim chamber, which had a space of a certain size, to another.
While the size of the dim chamber more or less varies, the corridors are basically a straight path, but with many intersections, so it’s easy to lose track of where you are unless you’re mapping it.
Even from a bird’s eye view in the enhanced perception state of the netherworld garment, the area was spread out like an ant’s nest, probably hundreds of kilometers wide.
Sure enough, that thing ought to have been one hell of a cheat item.
It seemed so like a cursed-type item, though, so I have no regrets about parting with it.
Seiichi drapes himself over Mai and continues to firmly maintain the posture of turning his body into a shield.
He ends up having a pretty extravagant shower of goblins’ bodily fluids, but please forgive me for it.
The plan has gone somewhat awry, but I still have to finish the brainwashing
 I mean the persuasion.
「Looks like you’re finally awake. Seiichi.」
「Just now, monsters were
.」
I guess those were what you call wandering monsters.
The encounter rate of monsters seems to be on the higher side inside the dim chamber, but there are also the rare types that wander the corridors.
Seiichi, whose face has completely drained of maliciousness, stares dumbfounded at Mai in his arms.
「Even as you perceived that it was hopeless, you still stuck out your body to protect Mai. That’s the true nature of the human known as you, Seiichi. You are the type of guy who doesn’t know how to give up.」
「Touma, you
 don’t tell me.」
「Stand up, Seiichi. Push through with your hope until the bitter end. I’ll accompany you.」
「I, I.., I
, him, my little sister
.」
Seiichi grinds his teeth as his face distorts, but he looks up at the ceiling to hold back the tears.
「
 Seiichi.」
Mai, who has been held in his arms, before I know it is already embracing him back, consoling him.
「Mai, I’m sorry
. For taking it out on you.」
「No, it’s okay. I’m sorry for not noticing your painful feeling, Seiichi.」
It’s good as long as they are able to reconcile.
It was a bit of an improvisation to use Mai as catalyst, but the reaction was so good that I ended up getting carried away.
I think I should apologize later.
But thanks to it, I managed to learn the keyword for Seiichi’s capture.
Him being a siscon is somewhat unexpected, but that’s my best friend’s wish.
Lending a hand on his cause is the nature of the creature known as man, isn’t it?
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「In other words, your little sister is being hospitalized even now?」
「Yeah, it’s not something that can be solved today or tomorrow
. But there doesn’t seem to be any hope for her to get any better from here on either. She remains asleep while linked up to a machine.」
Leaning against the wall of the corridor, Seiichi turns his face away.
「Our blood-related old man has a lot of money at his disposal, after all. When I went to have a direct talk with him, I was told about it, you see. About this academy.」
「Ahn
.」
「A game-like dungeon and the wondrous items you can obtain there, huh.」
「Skill, too. It was said to be so magic-like, no, perhaps magic in itself, it seems
 but you see.」
「Ahn
.」
Seiichi’s face, which has been turned away in awkwardness, is shifted toward Shizuka, who lets out a sweet voice each time her sweet spot is teased.
Shizuka is slightly bit lifting up the hem of her skirt on her own, but I bet her lewd part is unobservable by the sight of the lecherous Seiichi.
To give a proper follow up there, I hold up Shizuka by her ass with the hands that have slipped inside her skirt.
Leaning my back against the wall of the corridor on the opposite side of Seiichi, I sneakily slip into Shizuka, who is standing in front of me with her rear side on me.
「You aren’t being sneaky about it at all! More or less, it’s a serious talk, though.」
「My bad. Shizuka can’t endure it anymore, so
.」
「Ahn
.」
Shizuka’s nape, as she hangs her head, is turning red in shame, but perhaps unable to resist it, as her shaking her ass on her own ends up scraping the nice spots, it’s turning even redder as she herself lets out a lewd voice.
Even now, I’m still in direct touch with Shizuka’s ass, and based on my experience thus far, I think she’s falling into a state where she can’t endure it.
It was careless of me for touching her first, so Shizuka’s not bad at all.
She’s not bad at all, but Shizuka, who is exposing her silly state in seemingly utter embarrassment, is truly not bad at all.
「Ahn
.」
Shizuka, who’s shaking her ass on my penis that is arching like a steel inside of her, is very charming.
Showing a wry smile, Seiichi presses his temple with his hand.
「Geez. Seriousness sure is short-lived when you two are around.」
「
 do you want me to take it out too, Seiichi?」
Mai, who has no intention of leaving Seiichi’s side, kneels down next to him.
How should I put it, her attitude is so meek.
「Nah, right now we’re in the dungeon where perils are around, so
.」
「Yes. At that time
. protect me again, okay?」
She pulls down the zipper and takes out Seiichi’s penis, carefully handling it with her fingers and pulling her face toward it.
「I’m not a big fan of oral sex, I believe you once said that, Mai.」
「Hn, nom
. If it’s what you want, Seiichi, I’ll do anything.」
*Lick* After licking the tip with the tip of his penis, she begins sucking it, raising a slurping sound.
「Hnnmm
. Do you want to put it in too, Seiichi? From now on, I don’t mind you doing whatever you want with me anytime, okay
. Hnm.」
「N, no, Mai, you’re taking it somewhat wrongly.」
Geez, what a sickly-sweet pair that makes my nape itches.