“W-hat, is, oeh!?”
Number Two sees the big being in front of him, gets on all fours, and vomits.
So what am I doing? I’m cutting meat from the sea turtle.
Normally I would do it away from the lake, but Number Two was really impressed with the meat and said he wanted to see with his own eyes where it was from.
I got Totaro’s permission, took the sea turtle from the Storage Space, and the sheer size of the sea turtle stimulated Number Two’s survival instincts, making him throw up.
By the way, Hinata and Nanashi got the same way. Hinata ran away, and Nanashi begged for forgiveness while crying.
I stopped cutting meat with them, and after that, they just saw me off whenever I said I was going to cut meat.
I cut enough meat for about ten meals, activate a magic circle, power up the staff, and hit it with magic.
There is anger from the sea turtle magic energy within me, but I see it as a chance to make magic energy flow and try to eat away at it.
I get a little bit, but it hides like a turtle under its shell.
It’s been hiding most of the time when I’m not fighting, so I can’t reach with my magic energy and encroach on it. Only when it peeks out like this, and I have to do it at the right time.
It’s the same with the gentle and forest magic energies, and I feel their will to not let any more be taken.
Leaving that aside, I put the sea turtle in the Storage Space, and face Number Two.
See? That’s the kind of monster that’s in The Abyss.
“Oeh!? Why does something like that exist? John Doe, did you defeat it?”
Of course not, it tried to kill me multiple times, and I ran for my life. As far as I know, there are four others, so be careful. Then again, there’s nothing to be careful of, you’d die if you met one.
“Then how are you carrying that monster?”
There was something like a kaiju battle, and I took the loser. It looks dead, but it’s like a temporary death, it will revive if I let it out, so don’t approach even if it looks dead.
“Eh, why do you have something like that!?”
Because it will revive and kill me if I let it out. It will probably go after everyone that ate its meat.
“Eeh~, please don’t feed me something like that.”
You need to build up strength. You feel it too, right? Your magic energy rising.
“I guess so, but hearing I’ll be targeted by that monstrosity makes me not want to eat any more.”
Then you’ll be killed by the average monster. It’s not like you’ll win if you eat meat, but you’ll get stronger. You want to go back to the surface, right? You need power wherever you can find it. At this rate, you’ll kick the bucket if you’re away from us.
“…Yes. Sorry for saying nonsense.”
It’s all right, Nanashi said the same thing. And I’d say the same thing if I were you.
Number Two looks resolute, like he remembered what he has to do.
He might regret saying that a little. It might seem natural conduct for seekers, who want power, but Number Two has other things on his mind too.
He’s not a weak hearted young man, although he is weaker in strength and spirit compared to Nanashi. I hope he didn’t take a wrong turn somewhere, but I feel it would be too late to correct it. I just have to hope he doesn’t pick the wrong approach.
Dark, despairing eyes.
They look like mine after Toufu and the others died.
That’s why I can’t complain at him.
After achieving that goal, I won’t be able to stop him.
I’m praying he will choose the right path, while giving him the power to walk the wrong one.
I laugh at myself, asking myself what I want to do as I return to the mansion.
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