episode_0047

“Sister! Are you okay?!”

Jupiter approached and attempted to heal.

Pure white light leaked from his fingertips, giving off a warm glow, but he held out his hand and rejected it.

Because there was no harm at all.

“It’s okay. You’re not hurt.”

“But, sister, Mimic’s body fluids are toxic!”

“Do I look sick?”

“···ah.”

Jupiter, convinced by my appearance, withdrew the light from his hand.

My whole body is sticky and there is unpleasant liquid stuck to my body, but it doesn’t hurt.

I just feel incredibly uncomfortable.

“Sister, would you like some water?”

“Do me a favor…”

Covered in Mimic’s vomit, Yuna slowly poured water using magic.

As the vomit is washed away, the unpleasant sensation disappears.

Ugh, it won’t smell…?

An unpleasant sensation that I had not felt when I was in Mimic’s mouth ran through my entire body.

Just as when you are in a dirty place, you don’t feel that the place is dirty.

I didn’t feel any discomfort when I was swallowed, but when I was trapped in a damp place and came out into the open, a foul odor seemed to creep in.

Where has that scandalous Mimic gone?

Now that it’s like this, I’ll be forced to open my mouth and watch.

How on earth can a creature like that be born in a box?

Living in modern times, I had only a cursory knowledge of the theory of evolution, but I could not suppress my curiosity.

“What about that Mimic?”

“Uh, over there.”

At the location Yuna pointed to, a Mimic was lying coldly with its flesh forcibly opened and an arrow stuck in it.

“Mi, Mimic?!”

“Lizbeth took care of it. Haha, you’re not allowed to touch anything!”

“Mi, Mimic…”

Yuna was nagging me for something, but I couldn’t hear it.

I wanted to take a look inside the Mimic.

Honestly, aren’t you curious?

The fact that it ate me means that it recognized me as prey and that it also had the ability to eat.

It’s smaller than me, so can it swallow it like a snake swallows an elephant? So how?

What does the inside of Mimic look like?

What about excrement?

How do I dispose of excrement after eating?

I was in a situation where I could figure it all out.

Unfortunately, the Mimic that would satisfy my curiosity has already crossed the Nether.

I wanted to examine the Mimic’s cold body, but it was already crumbling into dust little by little.

This was because the wind wrapped around Lisbeth’s arrow tore the inside to pieces.

“Okay, now that we’ve got everything sorted, let’s go.”

“···okay.”

long time.

It’s been a long time since I wanted to know something.

The type of education I have experienced since my school days.

This is something you hear while playing a game: if you don’t know something, learn it.

Even when I became an adult, I heard this saying, “Don’t you know that?”

I was so tired of those stories that I stopped trying to learn anything.

…For the first time, interest arose.

I wanted to know about that bizarre ecology.

How do they reproduce and how did they think about eating me?

It wasn’t a crammed education, it was something I was interested in and wanted to know for the first time.

But that Mimic has already left this world.

In a way, I said goodbye to Mimic, who stole my beginnings.

Bye bye, my pretty Mimic.

It was a short meeting, but I wanted to get to know you well.

In memory of meeting you, I will build your tomb.

***

“Hey, are we there yet?”

“It’s okay to tell me because this will take care of itself over time. What’s going on?”

“Four people, presumed to be adventurers, came in. Aren’t they here to look for this guy?”

The Death Knight pounded the oval-shaped egg.

The Lich was horrified to see this and reprimanded the Death Knight.

“Watch out! What are you going to do if it breaks with your own strength!? We need him!”

“···But, didn’t you say you don’t know how to make the color red? It’s a magic you don’t know much about?”

“Damn, wait, I’m looking for it! Is this…?”

I manipulated one of the magic circles that were scattered around the area.

Something must have changed inside the fluttering egg.

Richie desperately wanted to check inside, but he couldn’t.

Because it’s such a delicate task, I can’t imagine what would happen if I did something like that.

“···Why don’t you just give up? You said you don’t even know your body size.”

“There is nothing we can do about the size of the body. It has already failed several times and consumed its magic power, so if it is rebuilt, it will be quite small.”

“Then isn’t it wrong?”

“You idiot! It shouldn’t be even remotely similar!”

I’m nervous.

The Death Knight who saw the lich made that judgment.

If you think about it, being impressed didn’t help.

Red eyes and waist-length hair?

Ha, what about your kidneys?

What is the size of your chest?

What is your impression?

A situation where nothing is known.

All we know is the warrior’s gender and hair and eye color.

I was somehow drawing the hero in my imagination and praying that the image of the hero I created would be just right.

There is no way that a body made in such a mess could resemble a warrior.

Death Knight had already given up halfway.

Although I understand Richie’s desire to return somehow.

Even if we could somehow create heroes that look the same, that’s not the only problem.

There is no way the fake hero they brought with them would give out the information they wanted.

Only then did the Four Heavenly Kings realize that it was fake and deal with us.

I had too much faith in the guy who proudly called himself a hero.

I was convinced that he was a hero after seeing his special mana and tireless stamina.

From the moment I hastily posted that report, I knew that no matter what we did, our end would not be smooth.

It was only now that I realized that the end was approaching.

···I think it’s amazing that Richie is able to put his mind to it and reassemble it as best he can under small conditions.

From the moment he realized that fact, he lost motivation.

“Height has already failed. Red hair down to the waist… Damn, is that red? Just one more time…”

“Four people, presumed to be adventurers, will be approaching. What are you going to do? The strategy has always been yours.”

“We can’t increase the labyrinth like we did when we dealt with this fake… Because we don’t have enough mana. We spent too much to catch this guy. Damn it, there’s nothing we can do.”

The lich became irritated as he stopped manipulating the magic circle around the egg.

You probably didn’t like the idea of someone interrupting you when you were concentrating.

“Take it out as quickly as possible, and then start working again. Let’s go out to meet him first to avoid damaging the eggs.”

“···for a moment.”

“What? You said saboteurs were coming? What else?”

A slight vibration echoes from the floor.

At first, I thought something was happening because of the magic circle and the dungeon was shaking.

It wasn’t like that.

The vibration was getting stronger.

“What is it? This vibration. Is it the work of the intruders you mentioned?”

“Maybe. What on earth are you doing?”

“Ha. Should I dig up the dungeon wall? What on earth…?”

That moment.

The wall was broken.

“?!”

“Watch out, it’s coming!”

Block the lich and take a stance in front of the broken wall.

I don’t know who the enemy is.

Breaking through such a thick wall and arriving here?

An opponent whose strength has been proven at least.

I can’t let down my guard.

“···A moving skull?”

Among the thick dust, the image of a person swayed.

Judging by its shape, it is a woman.

“There were only broken skulls. Are you guys moving?”

“How dare you compare me to that skeleton…”

“Wait, stop. Could that be…?”

After stopping the lich who was getting excited by the other person’s words with his hand, he looked at the figure emerging from the slowly settling dust.

···Red, waist-length hair.

Red eyes looking indifferently.

There, an outfit similar to that of a fake hero.

If the outfit he wore was made into women’s clothing, it would look something like this.

···I tried to talk to you just in case.

“···Are you a hero?”

“Huh? Do you know me?”

“Sister! Why on earth is the wall suddenly…!”

“No, we have to make a grave for our child…”

“Since when are you saying we’re friends with our child?! Even though we were eaten!”

I stared at the hero who was ignoring us and starting a conversation with the three people who approached us before we knew it.

Richie, who normally would have been so angry at me for ignoring me, looked at her blankly.

…The opportunity has come.

A chance for us to survive and return home.

There is now a way to do this without having to forcefully create a fake hero.

“Huh, hahaha! Hahahaha! Choi, I’m the luckiest! As long as I have you, I don’t need that fake anymore!”

“···FALSE?”

Richie was delighted.

It must have felt like being trapped in a huge labyrinth that you couldn’t escape from, and then suddenly flying up into the sky and escaping.

“I will take charge of the hero. You will deal with those three and return as soon as possible.”

“Ha. That’s right. Welcome to our dungeon, hero! In return, we’ll package it nicely and ship it to the Demon World!”

With those words, the three figures behind the lich and the warrior disappeared.

“···? Where did everyone go?”

“It’s a place no different from that guy’s home. No one has ever gone in there and survived.”

Eat.

The hero who heard those words sneered slightly.

I felt like the figure was laughing at me and Richie, so I glared at them.

“···You guy, what’s funny?”

“No, I’m sorry. It was so funny. Can I say something too?”

“···.”

“People who say things like that always die or fail.”

It’s not worth listening to anymore.

I held out my great sword towards the hero who was speaking strangely.

“Come on, hero. I’ll play with those three until they die.”

“No, that’s different. I’ll play nicely with that lich until he dies.”

“···Four years!”

Behind the Death Knight, unable to hold back his anger at his words and actions, runs away.

The huge egg was shaking.

A solid is created between the flowing liquid.