"Glu".
"Yes!"

　About half an hour after starting to walk down the fourth basement of the dungeon. As they were moving through the same stone-paved landscape as ever, Seto suddenly exclaimed, and Beune also exclaimed a few seconds later.
　When one and one of the lays hear the enemy approach, they are each ready to fight.
　Bune holds a dagger in his hands, Viehra grows sharp claws from the back of his left and right hands, and blades from the heel of his instep. Elena draws a connecting sword from the sheath of her waist, Seto sinks slightly so that she can always jump at her, and Ray also holds his death size.
　In addition, Yero, who was sitting on Elena's left shoulder, floated in the air without disturbing her.
　And...

"Here we are. ... But strangely slow." This is probably..."

　After Vihela's words were over, a monster about 50cm long emerged from the end of the aisle. A few of them creep slowly over the cobblestones.

"...it's stupid of you to be on guard." Is this the seal worm?"
"Yes,"

　Ray were the first monsters they encountered on the 4th basement floor, so they were ready to respond to whatever happened. But it was a slow seal worm that appeared, so it was not surprising that he was discouraged.
　Vihela opens her mouth with a wry smile at Ray's words as he breathes out.

"Well, it's a bit tricky in terms of actually blocking the other person's movements, but I'm just a monster who's full of support and has no offensive power."

　Elena probably also expected a stronger monster to emerge. He looked at the seal worm somewhat bewildered.

"Yes!"

　The only thing in such a party that seems excited is Bune. Even in his usual expressionless expression, he seems to be somewhat motivated to obtain the material he is aiming for.

"Grull?"

　Rey takes another death-size position, caressing Seto's throaty head just like, "What are you going to do?"

"No matter how weak an enemy you are, you can't replace being a monster. And I don't have this seal worm's magic stone yet. It was a lucky game for me to come across as well as Bune."
"Magical stone?"

　On the contrary, Viehra asks if she has lost her motivation by erasing the claws of her back and the blade of her instep.

(...what? Are those nails and blades shaped by magic or something, instead of being stored in the back of the hand or instep?)

　Elena, holding a connecting sword to check the state of the seal worm, is surprised at the side view.
　However, there is no time to think like that, and the battle begins.
　The first to pop out is, of course, the bandit Bune, who approaches the seal worm at such a rate that you wouldn't expect a 10-year-old to be. White liquid spouts out of the seal worm's mouth to intercept such a veneer. I thought I had hit a stone pavement or a wall, but it hardened from that moment on. But Bune thinks such an attack is meaningless and moves forward, avoiding the liquid spouting from the seven seal worms.
　And finally he comes close to him, and cuts his soft sides as if he were crawling through the earth by the nearest seal worm.

"Giggling!"

　Is it anger or pain? At any rate, the seal worm with the side cut off scuffles its tusks, and the six seal worms around it regurgitate as if they had used it as a signal.
　The aim is not to be a Bune that has already run past the Seal Worm, but to be a Seal Worm that has been cut deep by a dagger operated by Bune. The hardener that hits the wound is solidified and successful in stopping the bleeding.

"I didn't expect him to treat the wound that way."

　Watching the SEAL Worm, Ray mutters, nodding silently, wondering if Elena was the same.

"It must have been a stopgap service now, but... that's just time‐consuming." Look at Bune."

　Following Vichela's gaze, there is a figure of Bune kicking the ground, kicking the wall, soaring high above the seal worm's head like a triangular jump. There were several needles about 20cm long between my fingers, which I had not seen before I took them out. Shake them up wide... throw them the next moment.
　Throwing is a completely different thing from throwing spears that Ray uses as a means of long-range attack. Unlike Ray's throwing, which used his whole body to increase speed and power, Bune's throwing of needles was done by taking advantage of the flexibility of his wrist, and although the speed itself was not so fast, it was superior in continuous shooting or rapid shooting.
　Within seconds, he threw all the needles between his fingers, and the only thing left was the seven seal worms that had been stuck in motion after being pierced through his body with needles.
　After throwing every needle he had, Bune drew two daggers from the sheaths of his waist again... the next moment he fell to the ground. Using its falling speed, dagger tips are embedded in the heads of two seal worms.
　Then it lands on the aisle, and leaps forward... towards the seal worm. Sharpening its blade as it passes by, it cuts through the body of a seal worm stuck with a needle. The movement never stopped. a kind of triangular jump like Seto often does Over and over again, he gradually cuts the seal worm's body.
　Originally, the wound could have been covered with the characteristic hardener. But that's also difficult in today's situation, where needles are holding you back. Therefore, it continues to be cut unilaterally... and eventually the seal worm dies.

"Yes!"

　This is his!, and in fact it was Bune's own who beat the seal worm, so Rey and others acknowledge it and help strip the material off.

"You don't say that this battle is cruel." He was such a hard-nosed general that I always thought he would complain."

　After inserting a bottle into the body of a seal worm and collecting a hardened solution, the fangs of the testifying part and material are peeled off, and the magical stone is taken out of the heart. While acting like that, Vihela calls out to Elena whether she still had time to spare.
　Elena listened to the words, stripping off the tusks of Seal Worm, but she spoke with a serious expression on her face at the provocation of Vihela's words.

"It certainly looks like a murderous act. But can't Bune beat the seal worm with a single stroke under normal conditions? He's making up for it with speed and increasing his offensive power with a single stroke. -- I don't think it's funny?"
"... yes, sir. I hope you understand that."

　Vichela briefly looks surprised at what she says and nods convincingly.
　The only thing in my mind was an adventurer who had been with me before. The adventurers were jealous of Bune, who was more than ten years younger than them, and even described Bune's fighting style as cruel, cruel, and cruel. The person who was told seemed to ignore it with the same expression as usual, and the words of blame from the adventurers became stronger.
　But Vichela, who had partied with Bune several times before, found Bune deeply hurt. If Bune hadn't stopped, Viehra was angry enough to think that the party would probably have gone missing in the dungeon... but the party eventually went deeper into the hierarchy without reflecting on their abilities and never returned.

(There were some suspicious things about the party, such as being hard on Bune, who was a survivor of the Flauts... after that incident Bune began to hide his feelings and no longer had any wild parties. It's a good thing to have a party with Ray and Elena like this, though they're wild.)

　Vishela thanked Ray and Elena in her heart.
　It's not just the fighting power of the two people I'm interested in, but it's also open to Bune.

(Oh, but that's all I'm going to say... if I fight these two, and as a result I'm going to die, Bune will be sad.)

　Taking out the magical stone, Vihela looks slightly sad at the thought of the moment.
　But whatever the feeling, Vihela had no option not to fight Ray and Elena. Yes, even if you, Ray, or Elena, were to die in the battle.
　a burning desire to fight inside oneself and even oneself Fortunately, it's a crisp, hazy flame now, but it could be said that it's definitive for Vihela that the flame will eventually grow.And when the flames grow, if you fight Ray and Elena, how much fulfillment and pleasure will satisfy you? Given the excitement, there is no way we can stop it, which can be called the original impulse.

(for I could enjoy all the fighting with only a little flame in me.)

　Vichela is enraptured to remember the battle with Ray the day before. Fortunately, no one was looking at his expression, but if he had seen his present Vihela... his glamorous expression, many would have attacked him without even recognizing his ability.
　Whether it was myself or Ray, it was a half-baked battle that could have caught fire. But if they both fought in perfect condition...
　Tokun (literally, "great")
　Just imagining that moment makes my heart pound as if I were in love.

"Yes!"

　To such a Vihela, she called out to him whether Bune was worried.
　Bune shows little emotion, but her eyes are faintly... faintly worried.
　Seeing it, Vihela shakes her head slightly and smiles. The same smile, but very different from the previous one.

"Hmmm, it's nothing. More than that... Yes, this. the magic stone of the Seal Worm and the fangs of the testimonial."
"Yes,"

　Put them into the waist pouch with a small nod.
　Unlike Elena's magic pouch, it's just a normal pouch, so the amount that can be stored inside is fixed.
　For the most expensive and space-saving veneers who needed to earn money, they were collecting them -- mostly magical stones.
　However, if you look at it today, you don't have to worry about taking it home because there are Ray who has a mistling, and Elena who has a magic pouch even if it's not as good.
　Bune nods satisfactorily at the bottle containing the material, the pomegranate, and the hardener.

"Wait a minute? If possible, I'd like you to give me two seal worms next time."
"Huh?"
"Is it just two?"

　Ray nods to Vihela, who asks instead of Bune.

"I am collecting monsters' magical stones as a hobby. I don't have any seal worm magic stones yet, so I want to keep them for preservation and for ornamental purposes."
"Huh...huh!"

　The group goes straight through the dungeon, thanking Bune, who says she understands.

"I've been going upstairs looking at the map, but if there's a thief, there's no need to look at the map."
"Well, it's a good idea to remember the passageway of the dungeon. I understand why thieves are so popular when searching for dungeons."

　Elena and Ray are walking talking like that. But that's not true, Vichela interrupts.

"That's a little different," Even if you say it's a thief, it's no joke. Especially bad thieves can't see through or release the trap. You know what a thief Bune is, don't you?
"How long is your arm in particularly.

　Ray asks the proud Vihela for some reason.
　Speaking of bandits Ray knows, Culotte and Ons, who worked together on the rank-up exam. What's more, Reno, an all-powerful adventurer, who is not a professional thief, but has some skill as a thief, and Ver, who was a knight of Elena's bodyguard but betrayed her.
　Vichela replies to Ray, who thinks like that, while looking at Bune, who chose the right road on the Y road without hesitation.

"Well, if you're purely a thief, I think you're one of the best in the world at that age." ... well, I don't know how many children of that age are adventurers in the first place. If you look at the bandits as a whole, you'll find them from the bottom to the bottom. That's how good he is at his present age, and how good he will be if he grows up like this... it's a good idea."

　She said so, looking at Bune walking down the aisle, guarding against traps.