What emerged from the darkness was a black dog with numerous blades on its back. Jaggy Dog– a monster that lives in the Other World, and is a small fry monster that you would normally encounter in the lower floors.
Oi, you have got to be kidding me! Isn’t that a monster, not a human?!
Moreover, it’s not just one.
One, two, three, four… five?! Even in the dungeon, you wouldn’t encounter this number, you know?!
What an unexpected encounter.
Suddenly, one of them did an about-face and a blade flew from the back of the quivering black dog.
Holding the stiff Onee-san in one arm, I kicked the wall, did a triple jump, and knocked down the blade with the gips on my right arm that has been strengthened with magic power.
After hiding the bartender Onee-san behind the counter, I searched the clanking sound of the blade and grasped the position of the Jaggy Dogs.
“Don’t let your head out. Stay still behind the counter. Ah, and,”
I smiled at her.
“Say hello to your beautiful lover for me (once again). Hizumi!!”
When I shouted at the Hizumi who was wandering around in panic, she stirred in surprise.
“My bad, help me for a bit! I can’t change my console because I can’t use my right arm! So, please follow me from behind!”
“W-what are you saying, you should run away! Their target is me! I-I am your enemy, you know?!”
“Like I care. Didn’t I say this before? I will never let anyone die. Besides, I feel potential from you… the potential to bloom a beautiful Yuri… which means, you are also someone I have to protect. So, come here quickly, let’s kick them off together.”
“W-what are you saying… Are you really Sanjou Hiiro…?”
I kicked the Jaggy Dog that jumped at me, grabbed Hizumi’s waist and pulled her.
“H-hey?! Wh-wh-where are you touching?!”
“Your waist. You sure are thin. You should eat a little more.”
“D-don’t kid me… P-please die…!!”
With her face turned bright red, she pushed my face away with both hands.
“It hurts… if I don’t do this, I won’t be able to fight while protecting you… good, listen… you know there is a console pocket behind the chest pocket on your uniform, right… I want you to pull out a console from there according to my instruction…!”
“F-from behind the uniform?! Y-you’re saying you wanted me to put my hand on your chest?!”
“I’m a man, anyway, so it’s okay, right?”
While trying to push me away, Hizumi’s face turned red to her ears.
“Isn’t that why there is a problem?! A-are you stupid?! E-even though I never dated a girl before, you want me to put my hand on a man’s chest… T-there is no way I can do something abnormal like that!!”
“Well, just put up with it– they’re here.”
From the darkness, without making any sound, the Jaggy Dogs attacked in a slippery manner.
Because Jaggy Dogs move in groups, they need a way for them to communicate with each other. However, since they cannot make a voice like humans, they communicate by using the “Sound” generated by the clanking sound of the blades on their back.
*Clank Clank Clank*
With a warped sound, three black dogs jumped.
“The front one is just a decoy, and the blade that flies from the right is the real attack. Hizumi, 『Attribute: water』, 『Generation: Arrow』, 『Generation: Blade』!!”
“Ah, mou!!”
Hizumi used her magic power to remove the console from my Kuki Masamune at once. She then slowly used her magic power again to fit the consoles as instructed.
Suddenly, I let go of Hizumi’s waist and pushed her head down.
“Ugh!”
Immediately after that, a blade passed over her head, and I pulled Kuki Masamune out.
I cut off the Jaggy Dog that jumped toward us, and Hizumi, who sits between the Jaggy Dog that was split into two, screamed.
And then, ignoring the Jaggy Dog that is doing a feint from the front, I deflected the blade flying from the darkness to the ceiling.
*Clank clank clank*
“Pincer attack, huh.”
“H-how could you understand their words from a while ago…?!”
Even if you asked, I just naturally remembered it… I have heard it until I’ve gotten fed up in the game, after all… Also, recently the number of Yuri works has increased even in audio-only works… so, my ears have been trained (grin).
With that in mind, I hugged Hizumi.
“Kya! C-can you hug me gently! T-too strong! Y-your power is too strong and scary!”
“My bad, is this good enough?”
As I lowered the strength in my arm, Hizumi turned away and put her hand on her mouth.
“… Nn”
“Eh… w-why did you make a slightly erotic voice just now…? (Pure curiosity)”
“Because you hug my waist as hard as you can!! It puts a lot of burden on my stomach!! So that just happened when I suddenly relaxed!! D-do you have no delicacy?! Are all men like that?! Can you die?!”
She sure is energetic all of a sudden… In the game, she had almost no turn to appear, so I don’t really know about her, but if I remember it well, the developer once said in the twitter that 『She is actually this kind of character』… the memories were a bit vague, though…
“Oops,”
“Wapf!”
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I brought Hizumi’s face to my chest and evaded the blade that came flying toward us.
“H-hey!! D-don’t press people’s faces against your chest!! Y-your smell!! I ended up smelling your smell at once, you know?!”
“Sorry, sorry, I’ll finish them soon. Please fit 『Attribute: Light』, 『Generation: Ball』, 『Control: Shoot』 now.”
“M-mou…!”
Hizumi put her hand onto my chest.
Meanwhile, the Jaggy Dogs moved from side to side with quick movement. They rushed toward us, bouncing floor to floor.
“Oi, Hizumi. Don’t caress someone’s pectoral muscles, replace the consoles quickly. They are coming-”
“I-I didn’t caress it! Don’t say it like it was force majeure!!”
The Jaggy Dogs gradually closed our distance.
While hugging and separating Hizumi who was replacing my consoles in a hurry, I evaded the flying blades, and occasionally swung my Kuki Masamune to deflect the blades.
“Nnh… nn, nn… nn…”
“No, Hizumi, I don’t think you should do that (cringed).”
“T-that’s because you– nhn– hug and let go of me many times!! Can you hold back your power– nhn– for a bit!!”
Then, the consoles are set.
“Hizumi, crouch down.”
Hearing that, she crouches down, holding her head with both hands– as four Jaggy Blades jumped from our sides at the same time.
I extended my palm in the center of those dogs and put maximum amount of magic power in the palm of my hand and–
“You should behave well on board… so, sit.”
I curved the edge of my mouth.
“Light.”
Then, light exploded in all directions from the light ball created on my palm.
With a high-pitched scream, the Jaggy Dogs blew in the air, and I aimed at all of them.
Route on.
Like that, I stretched the rail to the falling black dogs that are struggling in agony, and shot three arrows at once.
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*Do do do*
The three arrows pierced the Jaggy Dogs at the same time. The dead black dogs then fell to the ground, and I pulled a Water Arrow out of the corpses.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Meanwhile, the remaining one that survived jumped to Hizumi– however, before it was able to approach her, the water arrow thrown by my left hand reflected by a wall of magic power and pierced the dog’s eyebrows from the front.
*Thud*
Just like that the Jaggy Dog died, leaving the sound of its falling body.
Satisfied, I stared at the result of my fight.
It was another application of the water arrow that I came up with when I saw my arrow hit a fence just a while ago… even if I didn’t extend the rail, I can change the direction in which the arrow files by deflecting it on a wall.
It may be less stable, but it’s useful when I don’t have time to change the direction of the rail. In addition, I can also save my magic power with that.
“Hizumi, it’s done.”
Hizumi, who shrunk while crossing her hands to protect her face, slowly opened one of her eyes.
“Hii!”
Looking at the corpse of the black dog in front of her, she quickly steps back. She then jumped and clung to me.
“… I-is it dead?”
“Aa. Look, it’s gone.”
A monster that has lost its magic power can no longer retain its shape in reality, like from what we can see from the Jaggy Dogs that turned into pale particles and disappeared into the air.
“…”
However, this is strange.
Originally, monsters should only appear in dungeons. Moreover, the second recreation port is a famous tourist attraction that guarantees its guest’s safety, and there should be no room for monsters to appear here.
Even if we have entered the other world, the chances of monsters entering the ship are equal to zero. Besides, these monsters were aiming for Hizumi. In other words, the monsters were ordered by something or someone.
Adding to that, monsters basically do not listen to humans. The only exceptions are the monsters summoned by a high-ranking retainer who has a contract with a demon. And the monsters that can be summoned by a high-rank retainer are like the subordinates of the demons they had a contract with, and they only accept the order of that human because of their loyalty to the demon they serve.
However, there is another possibility.
But, that’s… No, it’s impossible… totally impossible, but… when the time comes… I… I have to do something about it…
“H-hey…”
Called by Hizumi, I regained myself.
“That… thank you for saving me… you really are strong… I don’t know why they aimed at me, a loyal servant of Arshariya-sama, but… perhaps one of the retainers was jealous of me…”
“… Are there any of your comrades on board?”
“None. None, but…”
But, huh.
I guess I’ll just have to wait for them on the third day.
“Sorry, but I can’t leave you like this. You are being targeted after all. There may be various inconveniences, but I will have to keep you under my supervision.”
“I-I know… I failed my task, after all… I’ll just have to think that I was lucky that I wasn’t killed….”
“Yosh, well then, shall we go? And, until when are you going to hug me?”
The teary eyed Hizumi then smiled at me.
“S-sorry… b-because of the things earlier… it seems my waist has weakened… I-I don’t think I can walk…”
Without being able to put some power to her legs, Hizumi weakly tried to stand with me as a support.
Seeing that, I sighed and lifted her up.
“Kya!”
“Bear with it. For both of us.”
I feel like I have done princess carry many times in this recreation camp. Well, I never thought I would do it with my right arm gipsed, though.
While I was thinking about that, I tried to take her to the medical office– and unexpectedly met with Tsukiori and co.
“…”
“””…”””
“…”
“””…”””
And I’m just trying to get past them from the side–
“Hiiro-kun is trying to bring back a girl who is drunk on alcohol…”
With a big smile, I closed the mouth of Hizumi, whom I had lowered.
“Shhh… yes, be silent… right now, I’m watering yuri flowers… no one has the right to get in the way… no one… are we clear… ?”
“Mm-!! Mm, mm, mm!!”
I stared at the three while smiling.
Oh, the great Yuri God, please lower their favorability… please lower it… lower it… lower it, or I will kill you… (Pious prayer)
“H-hiiro…”
“Onii-sama…”
That’s good!! That’s so damn good!! More, lower it more!!
“So you forced yourself again to save that girl… idiot… your gips is tattered… and we could hear the roar of monsters when we got inside the ship…”
“Onii-sama is always fighting to protect someone (glittering eyes).”
Yes, yes! Yes, yes, I know, I know! Yes, yes, yes, yes, I know, I know!! (Strong clapping)
“Hizumi-san, you seem unable to stand, did you get attacked by a monster?”
“And then you happen to meet Hiiro-kun, who shields you. Even though I want to tease Hiiro-kun more… the spoilers came too early…”
“Onii-sama is not someone who would do that.”
“Hizumi, there is no way it’s like that, right?! We are about to return to the room for a one-night-love, right?! You’re drunk because I made you drink, right?! (Red eyes)”
“No (affirmation).”
I lifted my head a little and stared at the sky with dead-like eyes.
It’s over (black background).
Surrounded by three people in swimsuits, I knelt down in a daze.
“Then, Hiiro-kun.”
Tsukiori smiled at me.
“After you take that girl to the medical office… you will come to the pool, okay?”
Hearing such a whisper as the finishing blow, I silently covered my face.