Fifteen floors below Nifonium.

　A demon appeared.

"Well, nice to meet you then.
Yes, sir!
I'm on it.

　Emily and Celeste responded.
　They both went at the demon with their hammers and bicorn horns at the ready.

　Emily stopped the demon with a bicorn horn bombing that appeared to be radio controlled, and then Emily fired a thumping blow.

　Then the demon's two horns broke off in one motion.

''Huh?　Oh ...... you timed it right.

　For a moment I was surprised at what had happened, but I quickly understood.

'Yes, sir,'
I figured out their timing earlier, so I tuned in.
It's amazing.

　I'm honestly impressed.

　It is actually quite difficult to get the timing right.
　There's a technique in pachislot called "mechaji", which involves timing the stakes to get them aligned.

　Emily and Celeste's current one is the equivalent of that eye push, so it looked like Emily's tome broke two corners in one go.

　I was impressed with the two of my friends who were able to take it down with such perfect timing.

　No, the amazing thing is that they were able to do it too.
　The fact that Emily and the others were able to match it means that they must have timed it exactly the same as before.

　Or, they may be in sync with each other.

It's amazing.
What are you talking about?
What?
The most amazing person in the world is Mr. Yoda.
Oh, no.
That one, too, is easy for Yoda to do.
It's ...... well.

　If you ask me if I can do it or not, I can probably do it.

　But I'm a little embarrassed when they say that to me.

"Well, ...... Oh, I dropped it. I found the stairs.

　I picked up a dropped snakescale fruit - a fruit that Sakura told me was a snake fruit.

　The Japanese language is straightforward around here.
　Like Starfruit or Snake Fruit.
　Probably using the English names as they are.

　Well, it was easy to understand.

All right, let's get going then. Let's do our best.
'Yes. I'll do my best.
It's a fight.

　Encouraging each other, we descended the three steps that appeared.
　It probably wouldn't have made any difference where we went down, but I took the middle one, while Emily and Celeste went down the right and left, respectively.

　We went down to the sixteenth floor underground.

　It was the usual internal dungeon.

　And the monster that appeared--

Crows?　Three legs!

　A huge, black crow appeared, and I was surprised by its features.
　A three-legged crow.

　With the soccer boom of the last few years, even people who aren't up on myths and such have started to see them on TV and such.

　Yatagaras.

　It is a crow with three distinctive legs, and is closely related to Japanese mythology.

　If you ask Dr. Goole these days, it's a bit amusing that a football is predictably coming up behind the yatagaras.

"Well, first of all, we need to buy some time.

　Three balls floated above the yataglass's head.

　All three were different colors, and they circled around the top of his head.

　Eventually, the yataglass absorbed one of the balls.

　An orange ball - a ball that probably symbolizes the sun, considering the original source.

　What it was - I knew immediately.

'Ack!'

　I yelled out.
　Immediately after I took in the sun ball, the area around me turned into a sea of fire.

　The scorching flames scorched my body, if not directly.

　And the other two balls disappeared as well.
　However, there was no change.

'...... Good luck, Emily, Celeste.'

　I cheered in my heart for my friends, who, like here, would be in a completely different environment.