Volume 5, Chapter 1 - Trying Out Going to the Dungeon – Part 3
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Rem, Shera, and Horun were Adventurers that had accumulated a fair amount of experience. Lumachina had trouble, but with Diablo holding her in his arms and carrying her, they were somehow able to run and separate themselves from the Zircon Tower City army.
They hid themselves in the shadow of a boulder.
「Haa……haa……haa……haa……」
Lumachina started to breath roughly again.
Shera held out a flask. She was well prepared.
「It’s only a bit but, drink, some water. Is it hard for you to walk? I wonder if it’s because of the Marked Death Disease?」
「N, no……Since we were running on top of sand, I am just worn-out. It looks like everyone has a lot of stamina. As expected of Adventurers.」
「Ahー, it’s because I was thinking that wanted to go on a journey, so although I look like this, I’ve tempered my legs and loins.」
Shera said that looking bashful.
Rem nodded.
「……I have also tempered myself. Plus, Pantherians are originally a race that excel in running for long distances.」
「Me too. In dungeons, you die if you become unable to walk anymore after all.」
Horun was a bit proud.
Diablo didn’t temper himself. However, a level 150 body wouldn’t feel fatigue with just a bit of running.
It was different from a body that would be short of breath just from going up stairs.
Lumachina narrowed her eyes.
「Everyone, you are all so amazing. I also need to move my body more, don’t I.」
Shera sat down next to her.
「Why don’t we take a bit of a break? They won’t find us here so easily, and Diablo will do something about them if they chase after us!」
「Yes.」
「Lumachina-chan, do you not go out that much?」
「That’s right. It’s because in terms of my position, I wasn’t really allowed to leave the temple that is in the royal capital’s great chapel.」
「H~n, so you were the same as me.」
「The same as Shera-san……?」
Rem cut into the conversation.
「She’s a bit of an idiot, but Shera is the Princess of the Elves. Though, right now, she’s in the middle of running away.」
「Oh my!」
Lumachina opened her eyes wide in surprise.
After going *Ehehe* and being bashful──She went *Ha!* and noticed.
「Wait a sec, Rem!? What do you mean, a bit of an idiot!?」
「……That was a slip of the tongue. I should have asserted it without the vagueness of using “a bit”. How could I have done such a thing.」
「I’m not an idiot!」
They quarrelled like usual. Their verbal fights were something that happened every day.
Diablo dropped his eyes on the flask that Lumachina held in her hands.
Maybe because she noticed his gaze, she called out to him.
「Ah, would you like some water?」
「That is not the case.」
Certainly, he had kept on fighting since last night, so his throat was dry.
However, that was no good.
To accept the flask that Lumachina used, and then put his mouth on it……
──That’s an indirect kiss, isn’t it!
It was obvious that he would absolutely end up acting strangely.
That wouldn’t be Demon King-like.
An indirect kiss is totally embarrassing──Just as Diablo was thinking such a thing, Rem nodded.
「……Diablo, could it be that you are thinking about our water and food from now on?」
She went and said something like that.
He was thinking about something more shallow and embarrassing, but Diablo nodded while looking wise.
「Umu, that is right.」
「……Now that we’ve escaped from the army, there is no way we can approach the town. That being said, facing a dungeon without any food or water is just reckless.」
Horun stood up.
「In that case, I want you all to leave it to me -ssu!」
「……What are you going to do? Are you going to steal stuff in the town or something?」
「I am a Seeker, not a Thief -ssu!」
Diablo remembered that Horun had snuck a bite of curry last night, but he didn’t make a retort.
Horun continued talking.
「Since my face was seen perfectly by the soldiers, I wouldn’t want to go back to town even if it was just me -ssu. If we don’t bring back the treasured article, we can’t go back to Zircon Tower City anymore -ssu yo.」
「……Then, do you think we could get the peddlers at the outskirts to sell us thing?」
「That also isn’t a bad idea -ssu, but for now, I would like for you to leave it to me -ssu. I’m going to appeal that I can be useful -ssu yo!」
「We will need food and water by nightfall, and if possible, it would be better if there were a cot to sleep in though?」
「It’ll be alright -ssu!」
「……I am a bit anxious, but if you’re going to go that far, I guess I’ll trust you. In regards to capturing dungeons in this vicinity, Horun, you are the most experienced after all.」
「Leave it to me -ssuー!!」
His light-hearted attitude fanned the anxiety, but Diablo didn’t deny it.
「How much distance is there until we arrive at that dungeon?」
「Erm……Since it would take about half a day with a small sand ship, it would take about 2~3 days on foot -ssu ne.」
「Fumu.」
Diablo’s personal dungeon wasn’t displayed on the MMORPG Cross Reverie’s field map. It was an existence that was only in the settings.
The place that they would head to from here on, although it was a dungeon that he know best about more than anyone else, it was an unknown location.
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