We descended the 10th-floor steps and arrived at the 11th floor.
However, a single monster has yet to appear.
“Yes, it’s still ahead … it’s alright as long as they have not delved until the 24th floor.”
“What’s there at the 24th floor?”
“According to what I’ve heard, the 24th-floor monsters is the minotaur. In exchange for a wider area, the interval in which monsters appear is very short and the monsters have high HP so it takes time to defeat them even if you are capable of defeating them.”
“I see, so it’s fine if 1 or 2 appear but it would be troublesome if all the minotaurs on the floor head toward them.”
“Yes, let’s hurry!”
… To me, it doesn’t matter at all whether Oregeru lives or dies.
However, it’s definitely not right for Carol to have to go through the feeling of regret if he dies.
Recalling her eyes that wished for her own death, I hastened my steps.
~Side Story~
” … Good morning Elise. It’s a great morning.”
” … Good morning Jofre. It’s a great morning.”
One in the afternoon. At a time that is by no means morning, the 2 people woke up.
“At any rate, we sure slept well.”
“I had a great rest … I immediately became sleepy after eating that mushroom.”
The 2 of them, within the undiscovered labyrinth, found 2 mushrooms that grew there and ate them along with grass together with Centaur.
The 2 were unaware that the mushroom was a highly poisonous mushroom but the 2 was also unaware that the grass they ate along with it was an antidote as well.
As a result, they were miraculously not poisoned and successfully replenished their stomachs with nutrients.
However, the antidote was only incapable of neutralising the sleep-inducing component of the highly poisonous mushroom which was why they ended up falling asleep.
Incidentally, no antidote grass remained. Centaur had eaten it all.
“Hey Elise, I’ve been curious about it since yesterday, this sword … there are words written on the back.”
“Ah, there really are. There are words written in white.”
【This sword functions as a seal for a wicked person, one must never touch it. One must never attempt to pull it out.】
That was what was written.
By no means is the literacy rate in this world high, but the 2 of them seemed like they could properly read the words and were lost in thought.
“I wonder what does the ‘wicked person’ mean?”
“Hmm, maybe a devil?”
“A sealed devil huh … to be sealed means to be trapped within right?”
“There’s a devil within the sword?”
“It sure seems cramped. In the past, I was confined in a storeroom but I definitely do not want to experience that again.”
“I feel sorry for the devil.”
… The 2 people nodded.
The thought going on in their minds, was to rescue the poor devil.