The maximum number of party members is seven.
Me, Ichinose, Momo, Aka, Kiki, Sora, and Shiro. With us, the party’s quota was filled, and I totally forgot about it.
So I asked the Red Jellyfish to join Aiba’s party instead.
“Well, even if we are in different parties, it won’t affect our actions. We have Shram’s cooperation and Aka-chan’s power up. Isn’t this good for now?”
Rebel was in a good mood as she sipped on her coffee while picking some snacks.
“? What’s wrong, Kazuto? Why are you staring at me like that?”
“No, nothing .”
–You should look at her more, huh .
I remembered what the Sea King had said.
I looked at Rebel once more.
“ You look happy, don’t you?”
“Huh? Isn’t that obvious? I was able to increase my strength as planned. At this rate, tomorrow–“
“No, it’s not that. It’s because I could meet the Sea King.”
Rebel was puzzled.
–I want the Sea King to be one of us.
In order to prepare for the war and increase our strength, Rebel had suggested so.
In fact, the Sea King’s power was truly out of the norm, and I’m grateful to have him as an ally.
But, now that I think about it, I realized that there was a much simpler reason for making this proposal.
Yes, a simple one.
“You wanted to see an old friend, didn’t you?”
“-“
For a moment, Rebel looked at me as if she didn’t understand what was being said.
“It, it’s not like that! I, I’m not sure what you’re talking about all of a sudden, Kazuto! I don’t know. Really, that’s all.”
Rebel looked away and took a bite of her pastry.
But if you look closely, you can see that her cheeks are a little red.
Yes – it was simply because she was lonely after coming to this world.
That’s why we didn’t even notice the obvious thing, that she wanted to meet a friend she could trust.
( .That’s true. Sea King, you were right.)
I’ve been treating her as a partner from the other world until now.
I was not making any efforts to know her or understand her thoughts or feelings.
(I need to face her properly.)
As a human being, as a friend.
That’s the best I can offer her.
“Well, tomorrow is going to be tougher .”
And there are other people to face.
The strongest monster that bears the title of the Sixth King, and the one who is our fated opponent.
“ The Wolf King , Schwarz .”
The time for a showdown against him is almost upon us.
Additional information on the main story
Sea Lord’s Skills –
Resistance: Increases durability and magic power as HP decreases.
Guard: Increases durability and magic power when not moving.
Defense: When not attacking, durability increases.
Heavy Armor: The higher the HP percentage, the more physical damage reduction (up to 35%)
Vajra: The higher the MP percentage, the less magic damage you take (up to 40%).
Counter: Increases counter attack damage rate.
CH 216
Blue’s donation chapter (4/5)
Previous episode:
The Sea King has joined us.
He gave me a miniature red jellyfish as a souvenir.
The next day after our encounter with the Sea King, we went to the outskirts of the “Safe Zone”.
The group consisted of me, Ichinose, Nishino’s group, Fujita and other former city hall members, and the Self-Defense Forces. Aiba’s group is also there. It’s quite a large group.
A little further away was Sora with a small red jellyfish desperately clinging onto her head.
Oh, and Igarashi is hiding in my shadow.
For some reason, she’s been staying in the shadows on a regular basis lately
(They are all skilled And they’re all high level )
You can say that the members here are practically the main force of the “Safe Zone”.
So, it was easy to predict the reason for our gathering.
Once everyone was assembled, Rebel stepped forward.
“I want to thank you for coming here so early. I’ve asked you to come here today for one reason and one reason only. I want to begin leveling you guys seriously.”
Leveling – that is, raising your level.
“It’s great that you were able to get Shram’s help, but you’re still not strong enough. Starting today, you’re going to be hunting more and more monsters.
“What? Are we going to fight that monster? The one that looks like a huge burning cow that Rebel summoned.”
Rebel shook her head at Rikka-chan, who raised her hand.
“I’m not going to use that for a while. But there’s no point in training if you guys can’t beat that thing. First of all, at the very least, you need to raise your level to be able to beat my Ifrit. Or should I say, until you are able to beat me?”
“Ah, I see, that means we’re still weak. Ugh! It’s so frustrating . Oh yeah, that’s right, how about we call you Reberen! Not good?”
T/N: Rebel in Japanese is Reberu and Leveling is Leberin, so she made a pun here
“ .No, it’s not that I don’t like it. I don’t really care what you call me .”
“Really! Hehe, thank you, Reberen.”
“ You, you don’t have to thank me every time.”
Rikka-chan smiled at Rebel as she scratched her cheeks.
As expected, she is a genius at communicating. Slowly, slowly, we will close the gap.
Yes, that, I’m not at all jealous.
It’s not like Rikka-chan was stolen away, right?
I quietly appeased Ichinose, who tugged at my hem with a complicated expression.
“Well, it’s a good thing that the gap between us is closing .”
Fujita and the people from the Self-Defense Force have recently started to warm up to Rebel when they talk to her.
Their feelings may still be complicated, but the distance between them seems to be getting smaller and smaller.
While I was thinking so, Fujita raised his hand.
“When you talk about leveling up, what about the monsters? We’ve already hunted most of the monsters around here, haven’t we?”
“Don’t worry about that. I used a summon to search for them at night.”
As expected of Rebel. She works fast.
She took out a map from her pocket and unfolded it.
The map was marked with several circles and triangles.
Most of them were cities and towns, but for some reason, two places in the mountains were marked with double circles.
“These are the places where the monsters are holed up. There’s also a coordinate point for Aka-chan a little further away, so it shouldn’t take too long to get around.”
“Most of the towns . Didn’t you find out anything about the town when you were investigating?”
When Fujita asked this, Rebel looked a little reluctant.
“ It’s mostly the same everywhere. The city was torn apart because of the Treant’s attacks, and most of the residents were either killed by monsters or evacuated to some other place. There were four confirmed settlements – groups of more than ten people. The triangle represents these survivors. Two of them were in the same “safe zone” as this one. The number of people in each place is much smaller than here, though.”
Hearing this, everyone, including Fujita, felt a pang of sadness.
“ Only this much in the whole prefecture .?”
“No, it’s not just within the prefecture. The situation is probably similar in Kanto, Kansai, Hokkaido and Kyushu .”
“How many tens of thousands of people have lost their lives in this past month ”
“It’s not tens of thousands . Tens of millions maybe hundreds of millions for the whole world.”
That’s right. It’s not just Japan.
The same thing is happening all over the world, Rebel said.
An army of monsters had suddenly appeared.