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<h1 class="has-text-align-center">Companion Number 2: Goblin</h1>
 
Milo and I continued on our journey for some time.
Indeed, he’s really convenient. It was annoying to deal with minotaurs as enemies since they didn’t die because of their toughness, but as an ally, it’s quite reassuring. He’s been beating down every single monster that came in my wake with his large axe.
Well, if he ever missed and one actually came close to me, I’d of course fight it too though.
Even so, he really put me at ease. Those were my honest thoughts.
“Guooohhh!!”
As Milo fought and I sightsaw, we continued to advance forward.
There aren’t any strong ones on this floor. Truly, there were at best only minotaurs
 which I wouldn’t be able to kill in one strike, that is.
As a matter of fact, the swarm of hornworms that chased us were also dealt with in one swoop by Milo. Originally, it wouldn’t be strange to find minotaurs living in lower floors either with their strength.
“Kikii!!”\n</ins>\n
“Guooohhh!!”
As we progressed, what appeared before us were a group of monsters called Redcaps.
If I were to simplify, they’re incredibly strong goblins. Although their physique isn’t all that different from normal goblins, their strength is completely different. Faster than wolves, moreover, if they’re in a large group, they surround in packs of ten.  Even I was flustered the first time I saw it.
These critters bearing red caps unlike regular goblins surrounded Milo and attacked him.
Among them, one also came after me.\n</ins>\n
“Kikii!!”
“Whoops!”
I swiftly sidestepped away, dodging the redcap’s attack.
It was quite fast, but at this level, that’s all it amounted to. If it were the lower levels, then there’d be plenty of faster monsters than them.
For now, I kicked the one that approached me away. Although, my aim was a bit off, so I didn’t get a clean hit.
Either way, it was blown away by my attack.
“Ki
 kii
”
“Guooohhh!!”
Whoopsie daisy.
Meanwhile, Milo continued to splendidly defeat the redcaps.\n</ins>\n
Although his movements were sluggish, his toughness was guaranteed. No matter how many times the redcaps attacked him, he showed no sign of falling.
And then, the one I had kicked away stood back up. As expected, I didn’t kick him hard enough, did I.
In that case, another attack should— Oh, now that I look at it.
“Ah
”
“KIKII!!!” it screamed.
And with that, it started to attack the other redcaps that were supposed to be his allies.
Internal dispute— was what I thought for an instant, but that was not the case.
Anyhow, the reason was that around the redcap’s neck— hung a silver locket.
“Uwah, you serious?”
I involuntarily pressed the bridge of my nose.\n</ins>\n
Till now, it activated for none of the monsters besides Milo, so I never imagined that my companion count would increase by one already. Even though I hadn’t even ascended beyond the level I made Milo my comrade from.
Just what was the reason? Did I trigger something weird?
“Guooohhh!!”
“Kikii!!”
These two who had become my comrades, who I’m not sure what would be more appropriate to use to address them since they were monsters and not people<sup>«1»</sup>, continued to cut down the remaining redcaps.\n</ins>\n
Since Milo couldn’t deal with some of the considerably fast ones alone, our new comrade, the redcap, would come slice them down. Moreover, it was only this redcap that seemed like it didn’t intend to defeat Milo during its frenzy.
There’s a mysterious coordination between them.
“
 «Analyze»”
And thus I casted Analyze on it.
It already had that locket, so it should have that Subordination Locket skill that Milo had too.
Name: Gilancia Dolan Herbert Grifism<sup>«2»</sup>\nJob: Goblin LV 43\nSkills:-\nSwordsmanship LV 31\nSteal<sup>«3»</sup> LV 28\nTaijutsu LV 22\nSubordination Locket
“That’s a long ass name!”
The hell is Gilancia Dolan Herbert Grifism! It’s kinda cool though.<sup>«4»</sup> It’s too good for a goblin!<sup>«5»</sup>
More like, I’ve been calling him a redcap, but turns out he was a really high level goblin! What is this? Was the system such that their caps change color if their level rises?
As a plus, my Monster Tamer level also rose to 3.\n</ins>\n
Whether it was Monster Capture or Monster Training, both of them also leveled up. Their rise seems automatic. Well, I have no idea what changed after it rose though.
Should I have perused through the Divine Job Tome? You know, about an explanation for the job and what not.
“Hmmmm
”
However, there’s one thing I understood.
Milo and the redcap— Gilancia had both become my comrades. And there was one thing common between them.
That was the fact that ‘I couldn’t defeat them in one hit’.
I had pretty much killed off all the monsters in the lower levels with one strike. That was because I remembered the weak spots of the formidable ones I encountered. Areas where my attacks would be most effective, or areas where I’d be able to one-hit-kill them.
Moreover, I had always braced myself and was on my guard wherever I moved down there. Because of that, as a side effect, I’ve become quite lax here, and I’m aware of that. It was because of that, that my aim was off when I had kicked Gilancia back then.
In other words, the condition for Monster Capture was that ‘I have to strike them to point that they’re on the verge of death’.
While I was busy with my self-analysis, Milo and Gilancia seemed like they were done dealing with the rest of the redcaps.
And in Milo’s case too, it seemed like he never bothered attacking Gilancia since he was affected by my ‘Subordination Locket’.
Both of them looked at me, as if awaiting further instructions.
“Milo.”
“Gururu
”
“Get along with Gilancia.”
“Guru.”
“Kikii.”
Both Milo and Gilancia dropped their weapons and started shaking each other’s hands.
Yup.
This is an incredibly surreal sight.
I wonder if there were anybody else who has seen a minotaur and a goblin, who basically had a size difference like that of an adult and a child, shake hands like this.
Well then, let’s get out of here, shall we?
I might have to defeat some of them from now on rather than leaving it to Milo and Gilancia all the time so that I could run inspections in the future. By holding back as much as possible.
“Well then, let’s go shall
 Hmm?”
And then, in the direction where the corpses of the defeated redcaps dispersed into mist.
I saw what looked like the figures of a bunch of adventurers. A light-armoured Warrior, a Mage woman in robes, and a Priestess.
Huh
 I feel like I’ve seen them somewhere before.
Or rather, if you glance at them, they’d seem fine.
The three of them— were scattered about on the ground.
I carefully approached them.
Adventurers dying in labyrinths like this wasn’t unusual. Maybe they were assaulted by the group of redcaps that appeared some time ago.
Geez, even after I went through the trouble of saving them— Not even those feelings arose.
However, this was also a providence of the labyrinth. The strong live and the weak perish. If one recklessly charges into the deeper levels like this, of course they’d lose their life.
“—! Still alive!”
The Warrior— Kite had already stopped breathing. The same goes for the Mage woman.
However, one of them— the Priestess was the only one barely holding onto her breath. Looks like she won’t last long, having one of those redcap’s sword lodged into her stomach.
But if she’s still breathing, I can save her!
“«Heal»!”
The healing spell I knew of was not that powerful. Compared to the Priestess job, it can be considered insignificant.
However, as long as a sliver of life remained, this spell would be able to lend a hand in accelerating the body’s self regenerating abilities.
In accordance to my spell, the sword that was lodged into her stomach— bit by bit, started to come out.
I shouldn’t needlessly pull it out, since she would quickly bleed to death.
I had no choice but to wait for the flesh to heal and the sword slowly to dislodge itself.
And then, as my mana continued to flow, I heard the sword fall with a clank.
With this, the injury should be fine. Other than that, I didn’t see any other particularly serious injuries.
“Huh
 uh
?”
“You finally awake?”
Ah, thank goodness.
Even if it was just one of the three, I should feel glad that she was saved. The Priestess’ eyes slowly opened and locked onto me.
Her eyes met mine, and
 <sup>«6»</sup>
It then fell onto— Mino and Gilancia standing firmly right behind me.<sup>«7»</sup>
“KYAAAAAA!!??”
“Ah
”
She lost consciousness again.<sup>«8»</sup>
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Translator: AngryMidget
<sup>«1»</sup>æ–°ăŸă«ćƒ•ăźä»Č間べăȘったäșŒäșșăšć‘Œă‚“ă§ă„ă„ăźă‹äșŒćŒčăšć‘Œă‚“ă§ă„ă„ăźă‹ă‚ˆăćˆ†ă‹ă‚‰ăȘいäșŒäœ“ăŒă€: Okay this is a VERY Japanese thing; the use of different of counters for different things. Noah is basically saying he isn’t sure if it’s more appropriate to address them as ‘futari’ (äșŒäșș) which is literally ‘two people’ or ‘nihiki’ (äșŒćŒč) which is ‘two creatures’. The latter is a counter used for small animals, such as dogs and cats etc. So, yeah.
<sup>«2»</sup>ă‚źăƒ©ăƒłă‚«ăƒ»ăƒ‰ăƒ©ăƒłăƒ»ă‚šăƒ«ăƒ™ăƒŒăƒˆăƒ»ă‚°ăƒȘăƒ•ă‚Łăƒƒă‚”ăƒ  (Giranka・Doran・Erubeeto・Gurifissamu): I SWEAR TO F***ING GOD THESE F***ING JAPANESE AND THEIR F***ING RANDOM ASS KATAKANA. If somebody has the official name from the LNs, please let me know!
<sup>«3»</sup>盗む (Nusumu): Steal, but if you want, it can also be Pickpocket.
<sup>«4»</sup>No, stfu Noah! You chuuni ass weeb!
<sup>«5»</sup>STAPH!
<sup>«6»</sup>( ͥ° ͜ʖ ͥ°)
<sup>«7»</sup>Demmit!
<sup>«8»</sup>( ͥ° ͜ʖ ͥ°)( ͥ° ͜ʖ ͥ°)( ͥ° ͜ʖ ͥ°)
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