Chapter 207 – 14.14 the Stripping Game

“Shinoshino. Don’t go too far.”
“Ha!”

When I reached the 4th floor of the Rune Tower, Shinoshino ran out before I could finish my words.

The target is the nearest slime. Shinoshino started slaughtering the slimes as if she were thirsty for blood.
Of course slime doesn’t have blood.

“Hey, you’re young.”

Inazuma looks at Shinoshino with a heartwarming look.
Is Shinoshino projecting her own youth?

“I know. It’s full of blood, so it’s a mask.”

It’s not going to be the same accident as last time, but I was worried that I wouldn’t commit something stern because I was excited about hunting for the first time in a long time.

The desire to protect someone, the desire to become stronger, I know very well.
But that’s only when you’re safe. I have seen countless people who have fallen from overdoing it since the time of the Great Disaster.

Inazuma and Muramasa are the better ones. They each lost an eye and an arm, but considering their abilities, it’s not a serious penalty.
However, the highest ranking general, Lieutenant General Arashi, left a permanent disability in his leg and was effectively forced to withdraw from the front. In addition to Samjangseong, there were countless officers who retired due to death or injury.

Me? I was lucky.
And because there was an invincible shield called Yuuki next to me. Haha!
Don’t curse at a woman for using her as a shield. At that time, Yuuki was clearly a man.

In that sense, when she saw Shino Shino running amok, she was nervous as if she were seeing a child she had left at the water’s edge.

“Oi~! Shinoshino! Even if you play, play within my reach!”

He warns Shinoshino, who is getting farther and farther away, once again.

It’s barely a slime, but it’s still a slime. Occasionally, he sprays hydrochloric acid on his face her.
If you look at it easily and lose your eye and get hit in the face, the face of the SS will be scarred.

And now Shinoshino’s face is not only her own. Since she decided to become my sex slave, she is also an important face to me.

“By the way, Inazuma, what happened to Muramasa?”
“Ah?”

Inazuma reacted strangely when I brought up the story of Muramasa.
He seems to think that I will go under Muramasa while not coming under him. Can’t you?

“No, the left arm. Are you sure it was cut? But now I’m fine. Your face looks a bit younger too.”
“Hey, do you know that? If I knew how, I would have already done it.”

Hmm. Apparently, Inazuma doesn’t really know.
If the most powerful person in the military doesn’t know, who knows? It felt more strange to me that Inazuma didn’t know why than Muramasa had changed.

“What do you know? I’m sure you’ve heard it roughly. He said he caught the boss and that’s how it happened.”
“…… Boss?”

At my words, Inazuma asked back with a frown on his face.

Oops!
Since I knew it, I thought Inazuma would know, but it seems that Inazuma had never heard of it.

And I immediately realized why Inazuma didn’t know that.

“…… OK, let’s go right now. To the 19th floor.”

Inazuma flapped his cloak and headed for the elevator.
That was not meant as a joke.

“What, what? 19th floor? Why are you there?”
“Why? Of course I’m going to catch the boss.”
“Uh? Uh huh You decide that spontaneously like that?”

Every time you go up a level in the Rune Tower, the environment gets worse and the monsters get stronger. In particular, the difficulty level rises exponentially when it is changed to a 5-tier unit.

If you plan to go to the 19th floor and catch the boss, you have to thoroughly prepare for the attack several months in advance. Even if you go prepared, you have to take a lot of damage. It’s a story that you don’t go to the convenience store for a while like this.

“If you catch the boss, you’ll be able to see if he it’s getting younger.”
“No, are you serious? Who are you going with?”
“You and me.”
“What crazy!”

I just realized The reason Inazuma doesn’t know.
If I said ‘I caught the boss and that’s how it happened’, Inazuma would have gone to catch the boss right away like now.

She probably controlled the information on the line of her subordinates her so that it would not reach Inazuma’s ears her. And I just exploded it without even noticing.

“Then come with me too, KW.”
“Wow.”

Inazuma grabs the back of my uniform and tries to get me into the elevator.
Naturally, I didn’t ride and held out.

“No! Wait! Where are you going? I’m a civilian?!”
“Hey, how long do you think pretending to be a civilian will work? Do you really think the military and government will let you go?”
“Kuk.”

I also vaguely know. That if anything happens, I’ll be the first to be drafted.

However! That said, it doesn’t make sense to go catch the boss right away. This is nothing but dog death.

“Anyway, wait. Muramasa didn’t become that way by catching the boss.”
“Didn’t you say it with your mouth? She caught the boss and became younger.”
“No. It’s not because you’ve caught the boss, it’s because you’ve leveled up because you’ve caught the boss.”

Inazuma frowned even more.
This was my reaction when I heard something I didn’t understand.

Is it a replacement of the body to overcome the crisis of life? A scenario in which Muramasa became younger was popping up in my head.

“Look Carefully. You know that your level goes up when you catch monsters, right?”
“…… Do you think I don’t even know that much?”
“Muramasa has been attacking Rune Tower as the frontline unit commander. Probably the highest level among us. I don’t know the exact number, but whether it’s level 100 or level 200, Muramasa has reached the level threshold. And when he caught the boss, he surpassed that level and became so young and got new arms.”

Inazuma let go of the hand holding me. And with his arms his folded, he was lost in thought.
It’s not thinking, it’s pretending to think. Inazuma wouldn’t have understood even half of what I was saying. Because this guy has a bad head.

“…… So, what is the conclusion?”

When explaining something to Inazuma, I always had to summarize it in three lines like this.

“You can’t become younger just by catching the boss right away. It means that you have to constantly hunt and constantly level up to break through the critical point.”
“Hmm. Indeed.”

When I said this, Inazuma seemed to understand a little.

In the first place, this is all just a hypothesis. I tried to fix it in a hurry, so the contents were just roughly matched. It was also a story derived from martial arts knowledge enhancement theories such as ‘half-roofing’ or ‘hwangol-metamorphosis’.

“What if I rushed to catch the boss first and got injured? It would be better if you change the mission of the unit so that you lead the frontline raid unit, or form a team with the Muramasa raid unit and aim for level up.”
“Hmm. Great. Shall I tell Sakura?”

Phew. I think I could have stopped going to catch the boss right away.

But I don’t know if it’s just blowing a strange wind. I can only hope that Sakura or Sumire will cut it on their own.

“But why are you obsessed with that? Aren’t you used to being blind in one eye?”
“That’s right, you bastard—”
“Ok? I?”

Inazuma, who was about to say something, suddenly shut his mouth.
And.

“Ehgagagak?!”

It was a sudden electric bath.
Having become an electric roaster again, I collapsed helplessly in place.

“Uh, what’s wrong——”

Ally Slayer Inazuma.
That irrational violence has not changed even after 10 years.
As a powerless civilian, I had no choice but to calmly endure such violence for no reason.

Damn! Angry!
Why am I like this…… !

“Hey…… You child….”

Fortunately, I was able to stand up quickly thanks to the much weaker electrical output than before.

Perhaps the new weapon, the bracelet, was a shackle to prevent Inazuma from slaughterring his allies. In that sense, it was indeed a great invention.

“Huh. You brought this on yourself.”

Inazuma, who attacked me heartily, turned his head away as if he were the victim himself.
I couldn’t figure out why Inazuma was doing this. What did I do wrong?

‘Colonel, you can’t make fun of your age. Because the division commander is secretly paying attention.’

Suddenly, I remembered the story Sakura had tipped me off earlier.
…… Could it be that this bastard is seriously listening to what I teased him about as a granny?

Even though I thought that the world’s Inazuma was like that——I thought it was a surprisingly plausible story. Inazuma has a childlike personality that doesn’t match her charismatic appearance.

“Whoop, whoop. I mean it was.”

All sorts of ideas popped into my head when I discovered an unexpected side to an old friend.
With no adjutant present, it could be said that now was the perfect timing to bully Inazuma.

“It’s Inazuma. In that sense, shall we play a game after a long time?”
“…… Game?”

Even Inazuma, who pretended to be upset, was open to the word game.

“Okay. Just to test the performance of your new weapon.”

The game I came up with is simple. Inazuma is to find the transparent rabbit that exists on this floor and hit it with lightning.
If it was Inazuma in the past, even if you knew where the invisible rabbit was, it would have been impossible to hit it with that accuracy. But it might be possible now.

“—So if you hit the invisible rabbit, I’ll take off one of my clothes, and if you don’t, you’ll take off one. If I take everything off first, you win. If you take it off first, I win. The loser must grant the winner one wish. How is it? Aren’t you confident?”
“Hmph, even if you’ve become such a hag, you still want to see a woman’s body in her.”
“In my eyes, Inazuma is the same as it was 10 years ago or now? This is the opposite She wants to show off my grown-up body of her.”
“Haha. That would be fun Let’s see how big that chrysalis is.”
“Don’t cry in amazement at my anaconda.”

A foolish game of two foolish soldiers began.