543 543. Not history




Speak of the devil, and you'll get what you deserve.
Hey, what kind of monster is this guy? I've seen those d*mn things on this floor.
'It must be rare, I fought the Dungeon Master many times, and I was allowed to take a good look at him when I was in Tennysin. He wasn't like this.
What are you talking about, old man?

 Sakura said in a dumbfounded voice.

''Eh?''
Everything in the dungeon and the monsters have changed. Why not the dungeon master?
It was. Yeah, that's for sure. That's not a monster, that's a previous undead bindings.

 Sakura was right.
 I was embarrassed by my hasty decision to make a big careless mistake.

 With a deliberate coughing fit, I looked again at Yamatano Orochi.

 The one that sits in front of the stairs is not attacking me, probably because of the distance between us.

''It's not buzzing,''
Not moving.
Do you think they'll attack us if we get too close?
I don't know. I'll give it a try.

 With that, Sakura took out her sketchbook, which she carried under her skin, flipped through the pages and chanted "Genesis".

 From the sketchbook, the picture she drew materialized and was summoned.

'What's that?'
"Three Slime Brothers.

 Sakura replied matter-of-factly.

''This is the original story, right? 'The three round, somehow-named brothers,'
There's a song like that, I've missed it.
That was before I was born, so I've never heard of it.
What?
What?

 I was surprised, Sakura was surprised by my reaction.

'Before she was born?'
Yeah. I've seen you have a CD that came out before I was born.
......

 I was raptured.
 Born, before .......

 Sakura tilted her head at first at that, but then she caught on to the hustle and bustle.

'It can't be helped, it can't be helped. Because he's an uncle, he's an uncle.

 He laughed and toddled off.

'Before you were born, really? ...... It's only a few days ago.'
I was born in the twentieth century.
Guho!

 I almost vomited blood.
 The memories of the twentieth century are pretty vivid ...... yes.

 While I was fatally wounded in my heart, Sakura wooed the three slime brothers she had summoned.

 The three vertically stacked, tower-like slimes flew towards Yamatano Orochi with a meeeeeeeeeee.

 The Yamatano Orochi didn't move at all, but as soon as the slimes got close to a certain distance - as soon as they got close enough, half of their necks opened their mouths wide and spat out flames all at once.

 The searing flames burned the three slime brothers in an instant.

''Wow, this is egregious. There's not a trace of them left.''
I don't want to eat that.
Will I die if I eat it?
It's not too hard to die. It's much more powerful than my flaming bullets.
I see. Look at you, your power.
Yeah, he's not weak.

 It doesn't attack the other side in time, so Sakura and I stay where we are and evaluate Yamatano Orochi.

 An eight-necked snake - or dragon - with a body so huge that it could completely cover a staircase.
 No matter how you estimate it conservatively, there is no way it is weak in power.

''It looks like it's going to be tough to attack straight away.
I think so.
But you can do it, right, Uncle?
Maybe, somehow.

 There was too little information, and I avoided making a determination.

'But, well, if we just want to attack it, we can probably manage it.
Oh, I can do that too.

 Sakura said.

'We just need to follow the historical facts, right?'
It's not a 'history', though.

 I chuckle.
 I have the original story, but it's a myth, so calling it a historical fact is a bit of a misnomer.

I'll have to write one from scratch, because I'm not prepared for that.
Really?
It would be better if they had carrots or something.
'I don't want to do that because I think we'll catch Eve if we do.
Yeah.

 After we both laughed at each other.

'Then I'll do it,'

 I said.
 As it is, he pulls out two pistols and jams a recovery round in both.
 And - depression.

 The recovery rounds hit each other in the middle and fuse together.

 Normally we don't use recovery bullets that are rarely used, but they are fusion bullets between recovery bullets - sleep bullets.

 It hits, and Yamata-no-Orochi is--

You went to bed easy, more than I expected.
It's the same as it was before.

 So it's not "history," I chuckled, doubly so.