Chapter 1378 When You Want to Catch Your Breath, But the Color of Your Sigh Is Different Than Usual Part 1

「……Fuh.」

After posting on that bulletin board I was convinced once more that jealousy truly was one of the most dangerous Seven Deadly Sins. I didn’t care about that at all because I pretty much got used to it since way back then, but the problem is that jealousy can oftentimes make a mediocre sinner into a pretty hardcore one. Take a look at the Pervert Deepslaughter, for example. Lust and jealousy are a terrifying combination.

She is that kind of a pervert who would call someone out in the general chat rather than sending them a private message…… If she’s left as it is, she’ll most definitely try to talk to me on the Knight Bulletin Board in the future.

「Umm…… Sanraku, -kun?」

「Hmm, what is it? I have conveyed everything that you wanted me to make public on your behalf, and it seems that they managed to receive it without going TOO crazy. So it should all be fine for now.」

「No, but, umm…… Some rather terrible words were being thrown out there……」

「Rei-san, don’t worry about it, that was basically nothing. Besides, it’s way better to just drop all of your bombshells all at once rather than doing it one at a time. Trust me.」

The only ones who can actively try to hit you are the ones who deliberately have to go out of their way to stand right in front of you to do so. But when you see them like that, feel free to hit them back without holding back. Because idiots who do such a thing cannot be reasoned with words alone, you need to settle this with violence. But since the screen is separating us, you can think of it as nothing more but barking of a small and harmless animal.

Writing on the bulletin board is nothing more than letting out your frustrations in the form of “screaming”…… Takeda-san also said that you should ignore it moderately and accept it moderately. That’s the key here.

I mean, when compared to Takeda-san, he seems to have a rather short fuse when it comes to those things, so as long as I keep a level head about this, I should be more or less fine.

「Now then, since our little errand is officially over, shall we get to try and get to the bottom of that primordial business of yours, Rei-san?」

I can’t really do Fast Travel right now since I don’t have Emul with me, anyways. It’s a hassle, but should I come back here with Emul on some other occasion? In that case, it’s not a bad idea to look for the traces of the Primordial being around here, rather than just returning home with golden magma in tow right away.

「Hmm?」

I just happened to notice something. There is a name plate on tha armored horse. Could it be that Rei-san finally gave this thing a name while I was busy typing on that bulletin board? What do we have here……

「Scarlet Fur…… Hishikage?」

「It’s written as “Hikage” but you read it as “Scarlet Mane”…… Umm, that is, you can see some beautiful scarlet-colored mane peeking from in between the armor plates if you look really close at it…… Umm, this is, I mean, umm…… isn’t it a little bit too pretentious?」

「No, not at all. I actually think that it’s really cool.」

I honestly don’t think that I wouldn’t be able to come up with something like that myself. I’m glad I didn’t opt for calling it after a horse sashimi…… Because if it wasn’t for Rei-san dropping that bombshell about Lunar Dragoon, we would have already stripped it of its armor and all that other stuff, and we would already be halfway through making preparations to feast on some delicious horse meat.

「VALLULULUUL!!!」

「HOGUNH!?」

「S-Sanraku-kun !? No! Stop, bad horse!」

「OGOGOGOGOGOGO!!!」

Hey! No! No, no, no, no, no, no! Don’t chew on me! Don’t chew on me! Don’t nibble on my head like that! ! Even though it’s a tamed monster, why is it so aggressive against me!!!?? I mean, uwah! Those fangs are really making a number on my HP…… Wait, fangs?

「I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m dying!!!」

Isn’t it supposed to be a carnivore!!!!!!!!!!????????????

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General Dullahan’s “Lost Memory”.

What was waiting at the end of that hell…… A neckless knight who has lost his head forever alongside with his beautiful memories. What remained was only a lump of grudge that even the delusions that were darker than black flames that blows out from the base of its neck could not burn out. It created a face of a lamenting person to make up for the place where his head used to be, but it was no longer there.

Even the shape of “the knight and the horse that once existed” has collapsed, and there were five shadows that attacked the strange beast horse that has become a human-horse unit like the Centaur.

「Oooooohhhhhh!!!」

A shield on the right hand and a shield on the left hand. That is, there was a man who received the rush attack of “Lost Memory” by blocking it with double shields. The sturdy man using those shields, who deserved to be called the embodiment of the role of a Tank, received the attack that transformed into a large sword wielded by “the ‘Lost Memory” (who was now wielding a terrifyingly heavy and oversized, exotic-looking sword.

The man was pushed back while scraping the ground of the valley by the oversized sword of “Lost Memory”. It was a force so powerful and unstoppable that without his double shield wall, the man would have been crushed to death a while back.

「Curly your body just the way you are! I’ll use it as a stepping stone!」

「Oi, Liberty, are you for real, man!?」

A sharp but high-pitched female voice screamed at a man who was two-handed shields, whose avatar was actually a pretty mediocre one…… especially if we take into account the fact that this was a game and it could be modified in any way that someone wanted it.

A man who was prepared to be stepped on while letting out a startled voice, and then he felt someone stepping on his back, holding a sword with a whole lot of ceremonial ornaments in his left hand. Because of the irregular shape of the monster, right now he was at the same height as the flames that made out the “Lost Memory”’s head allowing their lines of sight to actually meet. Incidentally, that was at the level of about three meters from the ground.

「“Advita Karkerakua”!!」

The Mystic wields his sword high above his head, and the magic memorized by the ritual sword Litus is revealed to the world in that very moment.

At the same time as the activation command, the MP continues to decrease for ten seconds, and during that time, the high-risk, high-reward magic that restrains the enemy in the water sphere prison is set into motion, signaling the battle entering its final stage. The Mystic sword Retzel demonstrates its true value only with the effort of someone who is willing to risk it all in order to see things done.

Suddenly, the upper part of the monster’s body, which at this point in time was barely keeping its humanoid shape, was restrained by a water ring enclosing around it. However, a blow of the ritual sword soon followed with an explosion of a Piercing skill, and “Lost Memory” was struck with the “Stun” debuff.

「─── Alright, just leave it to me!」

「Huh!? You’re jumping!? Dude, if you are going to do something like that, at least give me a warning first……!」

「Whoa there!?」

And it just so happened that an accident took place right about now.

Following Liberty, Mystic Knight, he himself was a man wearing jet-black armor as he ran up into the air, but there was a slight lag until Haze heard the declaration of striking the finishing blow to the monster. Instead, there was only a slightly incomprehensible muttering. Therefore, the dual wielding swordfighter who put his foot on the shoulder of Haze, which had lost his posture as a stepping stone, bends his ankle in an unpleasant direction, a direction in which ankles should never bend…… At that moment, the jumping skill was activated.

「DOOOAAAHHH!?」

「Do you wish to get us all killed!?」

「No! Not yet! Not just yeeet!」

The dual wielding swordfighter screamed out loud as the grand suicide bomber trampled in the air and regained his posture. Then he sprinkle the divine sword that shined with golden light and a terrifying Demon Sword giving out a jet-black luster, and rotated himself like a top while slashing into “Lost Memory”.

「Fuh…… Jumping Dragon “Self-Turning Wind Tornado”…!!!」

「That self-styled secret technique of yours, you know that the damage multiplier on this thing is garbage! So why would you even want to use it at such a crucial time!?」

「No, no, no…… That may be so, but at least it looks cool, right?」

「I know that it is supposed to reflect both the Holy Sword and the Demon Lord Sword, but……!!!」

「We are still alive for now! And that’s all that matters!」

「「Watch out!!!」」

If the dual wielding swordfighter JUMP is consolidating with equipment that allows him to role play while balancing light and darkness aspects, this is the front while hitting the head of JUMP and Liberty who started the pose dressed by the female fell forward and all of them hit their heads against one another.