Lonely Attack on the Different World (WN)

Chapter 423

Day 98 – Daytime, Dungeon, 80FSmooth progress, smooth descent, and we’ve already reached the 80th floor. The lovely nun equipment training session came to an end, after which the Girls returned to their rugged armor, and in the blink of an eye blazed through the mid-levels. Certainly, their armor is still pretty sexy clinging to the body and outlining every feminine curve, but compared to the ultra-tight nun habits, it just doesn’t quite do it for the Highschool Boy.

「Up front, don’t clash! Redirect them! Just surround and whittle them down!」

「「「Jaa!」」」

「But is it really okay not to stop them?」

「If you try to take it head-on, you’ll get crushed. Even if it’s not okay, just let it slide!」

Still, from the 80th floor onward, the pace dropped drastically. That means the margin for safety is just that small at this point. Steady, gradual strength gains are safer and more reliable, but maybe out of impatience, they just want to go deeper and deeper. At the inn, they obsessively repeat anti-personnel combat drills. In the Dungeon, they focus on teamwork and leveling up.

And Sister Girl, likely the most desperate among them, seeing the Girls’ resolution just silently swings her sword with single-minded focus. She’s already a head above the rest of the church group. There’s no hesitation in her blade. Putting it nicely, it means she’s committed to staking her life on the sword. Putting it less nicely, it means her feelings outweigh her fear of death.

Equipment steadily increases via hidden rooms and drops, but major finds are rare. Still, as long as even small gains are made it’s all good. Even if it’s tedious, those incremental upgrades also increase the odds of survival. As they say, 『Dust amassed makes a mountain』 or 『a constant drip wears through stone.』 …Those two supposedly mean the same thing, but I wish the proverbs would pick one, amassing or eroding. If you’re doing both, you’re stuck in a loop and not making progress!

Pres, Bitch Leader, and other party leaders, are not using their signature weapons. Inside enemy territory, the Theocracy, it’s likely would turn into a constant combat, without room for rest, so equipment that consumes too much MP is probably seen as impractical for regular use.

Still, even when riddled with arrows and spears, turned into a walking pincushion, the bull-san charges on, cheerfully, even, chasing after high school girl butts. Though maybe it’s not butts he’s after, but I don’t know (and don’t want to know) the exact nature of a bull’s fetishistic inclinations.

Tough and stubborn. Whether he’s also stubborn and inflexible, I can’t say, but this giant demon ox, 『Behemoth Lv 80』, just keeps charging no matter how much he gets stabbed or slashed. A massive specimen, but apparently not wagyu. Yep, no wagyu seal on this one. Which means he’s not fake-branded, it’s an honest original Floor Boss Behemoth, asking to go into a pot.

「VWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!」(Jiggle-Jiggle~!)

Yeah, sorry. Looks like its patience finally ran out. Slime-san is bouncing after the bull now, clearly intending to eat him. Well, it is beef after all?

Well, can’t be helped now, so I step forward. Armored Pres-san goes even further forward, so Dancing Girl-san moves even further ahead to cover, and while they’re doing that, I leap into the frontmost line. Then Armored Pres-san bursts ahead, and Dancing Girl-san vaults over her. I blast through the air, ending up running shoulder to shoulder in a dead heat, trambling and hacking the annoying bull into pieces, finally turning him into Slime-san’s food. While I managed to cut off one leg, they cut off three legs, a head, and a tail. So one leg is my entire contribution this time?

「Come on, it’s all because you were all teasing and bullying the bull with your 『Come and catch us~ Ufufufufu~』 play, and because of that, Slime-san couldn’t bear the temptation of delicious beef and went for a bite! The four of us were sitting here, dying of boredom since we had nothing to do, and you are just playing with food? Maybe ban this teasing play? Right, Slime-san?」(Jiggle-Jiggle!)

I got a lot of Flat Gaze on me, but I put a hard emphasis on that point. Which sounds nice, but if a Highschool Boy focuses hard on something, it’s usually sexual in nature. That’s just how it goes.

「Look, yeah, it took a while, but we weren’t teasing the bull or anything!」

「Who was it that said 『Come and catch me~ Ufufufufu~』 to the bull! I didn’t say that! And if it did catch us, we’d be screwed!」

「I mean, 『Come and catch me』just not happening?」

「Yeah, and 『Ufufufufu~』 is even less so.」

「But to oneshot that tanky behemoth like that…」

「Yeah, oneshot my confidence along with it? Like, I knew it, but seeing it myself hits different.」

If we take too long, we’ll keep the Delivery Health onee-san waiting, and more importantly, from a Highschool Boy perspective, a gorgeous delivery health onee-san should be welcomed properly. That said, if I went with the traditional, long-passed-down Highschool Boy ritual of naked seiza for a greeting (kneeling respectfully while nude), she’d probably reverse-change on me and bounce.

「Okay, everyone move out.」「「「Okaaay~」」」

Pres-sama’s leading the group. LIke, you can argue that it is a sort of off-campus activity, but since we can’t go back to school, it feels more like an expulsion risk. Still, since we got isekai’d in the middle of attending school, we should technically still be 『Present』. We just can’t actually end the school day? I got teleported still wearing my indoor shoes? I wonder if my regular shoes are alright?

「We’re past 80th floor now, so stay sharp.」「「「Okaa~ay!」」」

When I say the exact same line, it never sharpens anything. But when Pres says it, suddenly everyone’s alert. Still, with the girls’ current gear, everything past this point is the danger zone, loaded with all kinds of risk, so they shouldn’t be allowed past the 80th floor. They really shouldn’t, but they want to. Probably out of allowance. Yeah, I’m broke too, so I get it.

The lower floors do offer insane profits, but at the cost of stepping into an area where survival can’t be guaranteed. Everyone’s always worrying about me, but I’ve got a LuK stat that’s broken past LvMAX limits. In probability theory sense that’s not even a Cheat anymore, and more of a total fraud. And since I’m jobless, I get zero passive buffs from any job, but on the flip side, I’m not bound by any job restrictions either. Yeah, that’s jobless for ya.

So as long as its weapons that have no level restriction I can use any. My destructive output from just my gear already qualifies as cheat-level. I’m just a little weak, just a little brittle, ending up self-destructing a tiny bit as I fight. But in terms of raw firepower, I’m already Dungeon Emperor-class. That’s why I can safely resolve everything by just killing them before they kill me. Simple and easy.

One-shotting the Behemoth, a beast boasting infinite regeneration and absurd durability, makes it clear. Moreover, not a single limb lost, a clean win. Perfect.

Sure, the girls could have taken down the Behemoth too if Pres and the others used their strongest equipment and maxed-out firepower. But it would’ve drained all their MP in just one battle.

And in this world, running out of MP is the same as dying. Monsters don’t stop just because you’re out of juice. They aren’t gonna go『Oh, you’re OOM? I’ll wait』. No, this is a terrifying world where even the Dungeon Emperors just say, 『Nice!』 and jump straight at you?! Yeah, running out of MP as a Highschool Boy’s led to running dry on many things too. Every night becomes a crisis of dwindling Highschool Boy essence! Since Dancing Girl-san’s been teaching all kinds of things, now even Armored Pres-san has picked up some crazy techniques, like, seriously crazy. So now it’s double crazy!