495 495. Female Goblins




 Sakura and I flew into the Californium Dungeon.

 A huge maze of dungeons with walls of hedges.
 It wasn't the first time we had come here, but Sakura looked around.

'This place is interesting, isn't it?'
Is that funny?
Unlike other dungeons and such, it's not even The Otherworldly, but it's got a very otherworldly feel to it.
Yeah.

 That's something I can understand.

 Huge mazes with hedges like this exist in the other world as well.
 In fact, they even exist as a kind of attraction in general.

 However, when you enter such a thing, you feel a sense of unusualness as much as possible.
 Probably, if it was in some amusement park, when I enter there, I would mumble my impression that it's like a fantasy.

It's a dungeon with a tellurian or otherworldly feel, but it doesn't feel quite as otherworldly as this one.
Yeah. It's funny--oh.

 A goblin emerged from a bend in the maze.
 I quickly pulled out my pistol and took him down with a precise shot between the eyes.

'Huh, I knew you'd be great, Uncle.
Really?
You're so fast from the time you pull it out to the time you shoot it, and you're super accurate. Were you working as a cleaner or something in Shinjuku before you came here?
That's just a story you're trying to get me into, like, a stallion or something.

 I sighed lightly and pointed out ahead of time.

'They found out? They have a cheerleader constitution, too, and they look something like my uncle.
It's very original to classify that one as a Cheerleader.
But isn't that right? That Shinjuku is half a different world. They call it "backstage Shinjuku.
That's the other piece.

 I mean, aside from the lumpy ones, it's probably pretty amazing to read that you know even the back of Shinjuku.

Let's start with that.
Yeah.

 Sakura opened her sketchbook and chanted Genesis.
 She calls up the box from earlier again and looks at me with her hand on the edge.

 I nod back, gun at the ready.

 Sakura opened the box, we both jumped away from the box at the same time, keeping our distance.
 A monster jumped out from inside.

'Oh?'
This is .......

 Me and Sakura both stopped dead in our tracks.

'It's like The Rare, isn't it?'
Yeah.

 We had the exact same feeling.
 What emerged from the box was a female goblin.

 There are no distinctive features.
 It's just that it's a goblin, and a clearly recognizable female.

 But the goblins you've encountered so far are all male.

They were all males, right?
Yeah.
The meth--Oh, he's gone!

 The female goblin ran away, I thought she ran into the wall, and then she went straight into transparency and disappeared.

'Beyond the wall, I guess.'
It's not... no, it's gone.

 I fired a tracking round into the air as if I were shooting blanks.

 I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that I'm not the only one who's been in this situation.

I guess we need to take it down now.
Yeah. Can you do it again?
I'll take care of it.

 He casts Genesis again, brings out a box and summons a rare monster.
 Another female goblin.

 This time it wasn't too fast or too slow.

 Once the female goblin's entire body was properly identified, I shot it mercilessly between the eyes and took it down.

 The female goblin was weak.
 It had no counterattack and no special abilities.

 It was shot out between the eyes and quickly disappeared.

 Then - a gate appeared.

 A gate that looked like a flat door appeared in front of us.

 I know this, this is the first time Sakura has seen it.

"Are you sure about this?
Yeah. There's probably another fight ahead, though.
All right, let's go in.
Oh, wait a minute!

 Before he could stop her, Sakura jumped into the door.