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We were running towards a wave of flames rising into the midnight sky.

It’s still only vaguely visible over the horizon, but I can already feel the heat tickling my cheeks.

As soon as I got out of the train, I could hear countless monster screams that could only be heard inside the dungeon, beyond the flames of the wilderness.

Kieeek――!!

Kyaaa!!

The shadows of what could be thousands of chaos insects could be seen among the flames fluttering in the distance.

It has an unpleasant appearance, as if it has evolved less than a caterpillar. It looked eerie to see countless large beetles swarming around, spitting out sticky mucus.

Insect-shaped monsters and chaos insects in the dungeon.

These were the guys you would get sick of while going through the dungeon in the mobile game .

The chaos insects gradually evolved from the lowest level dungeon to the highest level dungeon and appeared in changing forms. Excluding the event dungeon, they were actually the main enemies of .

‘Users criticized the modeling of common dungeon mobs to block them, but… ‘

Chaos insects are born in the darkness of the dungeon in a ‘fluid’ state about the size of a wild boar. And when it goes through the intermediate process of ‘subadult’ and reaches the fully grown ‘adult’ state, it grows to the size of a fairly three-story building.

The characteristic of Chaotic Insects is that they rapidly become stronger by dozens of times each time they undergo evolution. Therefore, even the ‘subadult’, which is the middle stage, was a powerful enough entity to act as a gatekeeper in a medium difficulty dungeon.

I glanced at Belle running next to me. She seemed to be calmly analyzing the situation even as she was bathed in the light of the flames that were slowly getting closer.

‘As long as there is Bell, a level 3 etheric ability, it would be okay for a few sub-adults to appear… ‘

The fate of this world has changed.

The Dungeon Gate erosion that is happening now appears in the latter half of the main story.

Perhaps the advanced dungeon boss ‘Holy Body’ appears.

If there is a ‘believer’ of with the same level of strength.

Belle had to focus solely on that.

If that happens…

At best, this place could have been a daunting place for juniors who were just about to reach the second level of ether operation.

‘perhaps… I may have been greedy in wanting to help you grow by following the main story that I knew for sure, having already changed away from your original destiny.’

Even so… To confirm the changed fate.

I looked at the bodies of those trembling in the flames.

Kieeek――!!

Kyaaa!!

It’s about the size of a wild boar, and it moves with its short legs on its fat caterpillar body.

Thousands of chaotic insects are now gathered before our eyes. They were members of the lowest level miscellaneous mob, ‘Fluid’. Fortunately, at this point, there were no enemies that were difficult for the juniors to deal with.

However, in the current situation where they were jumping out of the dungeon and causing physical trouble here and there, even that number was overwhelming violence.

A heavy roar is heard through the red flames.

Grumbling-

Kwaang-

The village buildings visible across the burning wilderness were collapsing due to the attacks of corporeal chaos insects.

As it was an area close to a slum that was free from central management, the buildings were crude. It was the home of many dwarves, delinquent students, and some regular students.

They had been spending the night like any other until recently, but they were hastily running away from the chaos of fire and darkness.

-Haiah — ?!

-Help me!!

-Ugh!!

Heedless of the screams and cries, the dozens of corporeal chaos insects that were lucky enough to escape the flames chase after them while making bizarre noises.

Tsutsutsu–!!

Shaaagh――!!

Belle took out a dark red dagger that she had kept in her bosom, and started running at the forefront. Albit also tried to run along to save people.

But Bell looked back at Arbit and shouted.

“This cutie secretary will sort things out here, so just take a look!”

“Yes?! Alone? There are dozens of chaos insects… !”

“Yes~ This small amount is enough for one person! You guys have to run around as much as you want anyway!! Don’t waste your energy, just watch!!”

“Senior Bell!!”

Leaving behind Arbit’s cries.

Bell begins to leap quickly with steps as light as her small body.

Tat tat tat tat tat!

She covered herself in red ether and leapt over a distance of over a hundred meters. It looked as if red embroidery was quickly being carved with a sewing machine on a huge piece of black cloth.

Red afterimage.

In an instant, the red embroidery engraved on the dark wilderness was met with a chaos insect running towards the people. The fluid chaos worms that saw this lifted their fat larvae bodies and roared.

Kieeek――!!

Kyaaa!!

Bell jumped into the air while blocking those chaos insects and threw a dark red dagger.

Shit baby–!!

A dagger-throwing attack launched in an instant, accompanied by the sound of air splitting. The projected dark red dagger pierced the slimy body of the leading Chaos Insect, leaving an afterimage made of red ether.

Powok-

With the sound of a bag full of meat being pierced, a punctured fluid chaos worm flinches. And soon after, it let out a final, blood-curdling scream.

Kyaaa!!

The scream of a chaos insect struggling with a hole in it.

Doo doo doo doo-

Kieeek――!!

Kyaaa!!

However, the dozens of corporeal chaos insects still running towards people did not stop. Rather, the scream stimulates him and he begins to speed up.

Dozens of chaotic insects greedily approach, leaving behind traces of sticky body fluid. It was a disgusting sight, like maggots gathering in food waste.

Belle looked at it from the air.

“… Haha.”

Belle, floating in the air, scanned the path of those disgusting beings and smiled viciously. What was contained in that smile was not the bravado and concept that had been shown so far.

just… The eyes of the strong who truly despise the weak.

Before she knew it, all ten of her fingers were wearing rings made of red ether.

Belle shouted, stretching out the red thread from the rings on both hands.

“[Blind Stitch]―!”

With that cry, a red thread extends from the fingers of the little girl floating in the air. In accordance with the hand gesture that seems to be clawing the air, dozens of meters of red threads become entangled and dance.

From point to line.

From line to surface.

Crank!

The ten red threads that appear in the air become entangled at once, creating a geometric pattern. Complex red shapes that arise from ten branches and branch into hundreds. They trapped dozens of Fluid Chaos Insects in an instant.

It looks like a huge prison made of thread.

In that state, Bell clenched both hands into fists.

Sreung-!

The dark red dagger that was thrown down earlier rose up and got on the starting point of the red thread.

Belle smiled contentedly.

“Ha… !”

It was time for sewing.

Tsutsutsutsutsu!!

A shooting dagger.

The dagger moves quickly along the path of a red shape surrounding a radius of several tens of meters. It sharply pierced the bodies of dozens of chaos insects and advanced along a line drawn in the air.

puck-!

puck-!

puck-!

puck-!

puck-!

A fleeting moment.

In the place where the sewing passes, only death remains, along with the sound of the meat bag bursting. Dozens of fluid chaos worms were nothing more than bags of meat that could only be pierced by sharp needles.

Suuu

Saaa

One more, one more.

Death that comes after death.

In the place where the embroidery of death passed, only pain that surpassed even a scream remained.

Taaat!

After completing the entire process, Bell landed on the floor. And with one hand on his waist, he held out his palm in an indifferent gesture.

“… After all, they are small children.”

Cheaeng!

With that said.

The dark red dagger that completed the embroidery of death entered Belle’s hand.

And the bodies of dozens of chaos insects that had been pierced by the stitches collapsed helplessly.

Rumble-

What came to the scene was silence.

The only movement was the afterimage of flames fluttering on the shells of dozens of fluid chaos insects that still had warmth remaining.

We approached the quiet scene.

“… ”

but.

I stopped for a moment and looked at the wall of flickering flames.

“… ”

Albit muttered after seeing Bell’s performance.

“… I knew you were strong. That guy is really strong.”

“If you just stay still, people will take care of it for you… ”

“You seem like the type of person who tries to reveal himself but gets ruined… ”

“I wonder how much he wants to boast about himself… ”

Bell shouted, apparently infuriated after hearing the harsh criticism from his three juniors from afar.

“There you guys! I can hear everything-!! Don’t underestimate this cutie’s hearing ability―”

Sigh-

There was a figure wrapping around Bell’s neck and putting his arm around her shoulder. She smiled, revealing jagged teeth reminiscent of a hyena.

“Hehe… Then did you hear me coming?”

“What… ?!”

Belle stiffened at the sudden voice and turned her trembling eyes to look to the side.

What you can see is the hem of a coat made of black leather.

And tangled red hair in a flame-like shape.

In his shoulder-width hand, he held a sword that looked like the spine of an animal.

Belle spoke in a thin voice as if she was screaming.

“Que… [Trajectory]… !”

“Hahaha… ! I don’t know where the bitch came from, but I cursed her! Hey… Even though we lit a flashy fire to stop them from coming this way, I never thought they would escape through it!”

“Hiik… ?!”

“Mistake, mistake. Sorry, sorry. Hahaha!!”

“Ugh… !”

[Yanghong’s Trail] pats the back after seeing that bell.

“I-C! What are you scared of? As long as you fight well! ok? Our Just and Passionate Girls’ Association… doesn’t mess with anyone unless they are from the or ?”

Unfortunately, Bell was both of those things. However, [Yanghong’s Trail] seemed to be mistaken when it saw the red training suit that Belle was wearing.

Bell was just frozen, unable to understand the situation.

“… ?!”

“Are we going to catch anyone and start a fire!! Isn’t that right, you bitches!!”

-Hahahaha!!! That’s right, boss!!

-Hiya!! The flames are warm-!!

Hundreds of students surrounding the surrounding area.

The symbol engraved on the school uniform she is wearing is a flame.

They were all wearing black leather masks.

Doo doo doo doo-

Buildings that remain intact.

A wilderness where shadows flicker between fires.

Students with smiles similar to those in Yang Hong’s Trail were approaching everywhere.

“… !”

“… Oh my.”

“… Tsk.”

Albit, Lotta, and Kara looked at them and became very alert. However, the hundreds of students surrounding him found it rather cute.

In that situation.

[Yanghong’s Trail] quietly muttered.

“But… I said I was familiar with those training clothes… As expected, it was there.”

She giggled and then looked straight at me and said:

“It’s been a while. [Spiral]”

“… ”

“But… It seems like his eyes have become very trash-like… I’m not mistaken, right?”

After hearing that.

The three juniors looked at me.

“… Senior?”

A wall of flickering flames.

Madness caught up in that intense heat.

[Yanghong’s Trail] chose to live in battle and flames.

A fate that changed so early that we met at a very early age.

I am [Yang Hong’s Trail]… He spoke to Eir.

“… It’s been a while―☆”