The Spearmaster and the Black Cat

f the pillar.

My suspicious movements weren’t noticed by the goblin between the central pillars.

 

So far so good I’m quietly sneaking up the place where the goblin corpse fell while rejoicing.

 

The goblin that had its neck crushed is still breathing.
But, when I see the face of the goblin, the breathing peters out and it stops moving.
From the neck of the body, I collect the bloody stone, and put it in my pocket.
I got a short spear as the reward from the victim.
It has no money.

 

The difference in the size of the leather armor is too much, I leave it as is.
Because there is a dirty cloth tied around the waste with a string, I took it.

 

I endure the faint smell of the cloth.

 

Also, just to be safe, I have to hide this body.

I move it to the shadow of a pillar in the left corner……

 

As I hid the body of the goblin in shadow of the pillar, I advance towards the inside of the door to the two goblins I killed were protecting.
I entered and immediately there were stairs going down.

 

I go down the stairs.

 

There was a passage before the stairs went down.

It leads to the lower right from the upper right corner.

 

From the front and back.
It’s the one in front.

 

I choose the passage in front of me.
I walked carefully next to the right hand wall.

 

While bending down and using hiding, I arrive at a corner.

 

–I look ahead from the corner.

 

There’s no one there.

There’s only a similar passage, there seems to be no presence.

 

I turn at the corner, and advance along the small passage.

 

Then, I discovered a door on the left.

I can advance ahead, first, I decide to examine the door here.

 

I grasp the old red iron handle and break it.

 

It’s an old room.

There’s a strange circular silver container on the slant, a faint white light leaking from inside.

 

It’s probably the source of light.
A magic light.

I search the room using its light.

 

There are clouded spider’s webs throughout.
The smell of mold is present as well.

 

There’s a stone chair and desk, and a bookshelf further in.

Somehow or other, this place seems to be an ancient library.

 

The books on the book shelf have rotted away and gathered dust, so I’m able to figure this room was used a considerably long time ago.

 

The bookshelf is made of some kind of building stone and extends lengthwise deeper into the room.

The bookshelf made of stone was built firmly.
I grasp the short spear, and look to the interior of the bookshelfs.
I confirm no one is there.

 

There’s no one there.

 

I return to the place close to the entrance and sit down, deciding to take a little break.

I bite the fruit like peach I got a little while ago.

 

–It’s delicious.
It tastes like a mango and pear were put together.

Chewing *munch munch*, I eat.

 

Which reminds me, I haven’t eaten anything yet……

 

When I look at the clock, it shows 11:00.

Today, for the whole day, I walked and ran in the cave.

 

I, even then, experienced no fatigue.

Did my appetite decrease somewhat?

After all, the stamina doesn’t seem to be ordinary.

 

I’m free so I’d like something to read, I looked for a book.

On the bookshelf, “Life of the Arotoshu Tree”, “Sword of the Weiss”, “Baptism of Orimiru”, “Ashura Calendar”, and, I found many readable books with the title written on the cover, I stretched out a finger to the book.

 

–But, the moment my finger touched the book, the book quickly crumbled to dust.

 

It’s rotted away.

Although the words stayed readable, it was in vain.

 

There’s no helping it.

 

I give up and go further along the book shelf.

I decide to take a rest in the corner.

 

With my back at the corner of the wall, I close my eyes, and motionlessly for a while, I calmed myself.

Naturally closing my eyes, I fall asleep.

 

 

◇◇◇◇

 

 

“–Tsu.”

 

While exhaling, I woke up.

When I check my watch it’s 3:00 in the morning.

 

Fortunately, the green monsters resembling goblins don’t seem to have come to this room.

 

Moving, there’s no helping it even if I’m here.

I have to escape from this ruins-like place.

 

I grasped the short spear and left the ancient library.

 

Again, I open an old iron door.

I returned to the small passage.

 

For the time being, I choose to go left.

Right is the way I came from.

 

The passage became wider as I advance.

Suddenly I come upon a crossroads.

 

There’s passages going left right and forwards.

I choose to go strait, and advance.

 

Then, again the passage becomes small.
When I pass through the small passage, I came into a big bright hall.

 

A huge red curtain is raised up coming from the walls.

 

Oh, an emblem?

The emblem is made of three intersected bars with an ax in the middle.

 

–Huh?

Uhyu, there was a group of goblins further in the hall.

Moreover, their figures were *chichikuri* embracing each other.

 

“Ugee, oh what?”

 

I unintentional speak after seeing the unpleasant figures of the goblins.

 

Tsu, shi, oops.

 

“Giyago! Nu?”

“Getsu.”

“Gotsu!?” “Ningenda!” “Why, Human gaa!””Gorose!”

“Eh……tsu.”

 

My eyes swim quickly as I take in the hall.
There was a passage to the left and right, in an instant I choose the left passage and use .

 

I activate the skill.

 

–And escape.

 

I run.
Run.

 

“Gunuootsu.” “Get him!” “Oe!”

 

Goblin voices.
I think there were nearly ten of them? I can’t look back.

 

I run through the passage.

Around the corner is a door with what appear to be strange old markings on it.

 

There’s no time to open it.

I hurl my shoulder at it–and break down the door.

 

I rush into the room while rolling.

 

There’s a shock to my shoulder, but it’s not painful.

The runs out now.

 

A cloud of dust rises up.

 

“Cough, cough.”

 

Grit whirls up into my mouth, and gives me a coughing fit.

While twisting my face I check the surroundings.

Excepting the low round column in the middle of the room–

 

“It’s just, a wall.”

 

The room I knocked the door of down and invaded, was a circular room with mysterious symbols carved along the walls.

 

The pattern is countless thin lines like the veins of a leaf.

The sealed space was surrounded with a strange atmosphere.

 

If I need it, this is a dead end.

 

The effect of already ended long ago.

 

“Itazooo.” “This human, fast.” “I found him, here-su.”

 

Meanwhile, the goblins that ran after me came into the circular room.

 

I’m trapped.

Only three of them……can I kill them?

 

Short spear in hand, a stone in my pocket.

 

Surrounded, dangerous……

The time lag for is just a little longer.

 

There’s the skill too, I’ll survive.

The goblin smiles, comes approaching me……

 

I withdrew backing up.

My back leg hits the central pillar of the room.

 

“Long time-ro, Human.” “Demon, guuu.”

 

Reinforcement Goblins enter the room one after the other.

I put my foot up the central column, the moment my weight moved to the pillar–the ground shakes?

 

–Eh?

–The ground is shaking!?

 

No, falling–Rururuuuu–

 

I immediately eject .
But, the chain doesn’t reach the ceiling.

The earsplitting sound of howling wind.

 

Time, it’s already too late…….I fall head over heel……

 

Uheeeeeee, I say such a thing.

I fall, falling.

 

The goblins seem to fall, too.

 

Serves you right, I cannot say.

 

Well that room.

The whole room seems to have been a hexagonal pitfall trap.

 

–Shit, I extend the chain to the side–but there’s no wall.

Easily, it proves right without minding it, I produced the chain.

 

The chain penetrates through several goblins in the midst of falling, but it was just that.

 

The wind blows up vigorously, I feel like my body is falling like an arrow.

 

I’m skydiving with no parachute.

 

An unpleasant thought crosses my mind.

This, if I arrive below, will my body be destroyed?

Eeeeh, I don’t want that

 

Chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain.

 

I repeatedly eject many times, but the width seems considerably wide too–in vain, the chain shoots into the sky.

 

My body is of Vampire lineage.
I don’t think I’ll die even if it’s crushed, but… it will hurt first.

 

It’s for so long I’m able to think to that extent, I still admire it while in the middle of falling.

 

Suddenly–with a *bua*, the sensation of piercing something.

I felt the sense of the air clogging up my ears.
Did the atmospheric pressure even change?

 

This, how far will I fall……

 

I up the repeated ejection of .

Many times, many times, many times, is shot out, then–

 

A whole bunch of chain–did it get stuck!?

The chain bends and doesn’t break off, carrying me to the wall in one go.
Feeling to chain for how many second, I rejoice, but, the though ends there, it broke.

 

–I crash into to wall with awful force.

The sound of the impact as my head is smashed, my brain shakes.

 

–The side of the wall collapsed.

Blood seeps into the cracks on the wall, it collapses.

 

Half of my left shoulder is torn off, instantly adhering, repeatedly tearing–the broken ribs are healed, the bones protruding from my chest also.

 

I reel at such extraordinary pain and shock several times, I completely black out.
The disappeared automatically when I blacked out.

 

Completely exhausted, blood sprays out from everywhere on my body.

I do a nose dive in one breath.

 

Dooooon, dogoootsuntsu!

 

A dull crash resounds and echoes.

Pieces of bone are scattered.

 

From the shock of the impact at the bottom, my consciousness is restored, but, I was attacked by an undetermined fierce pain in my body.

 

As if I promote such pain, I rolled down bone mountain.

 

The long pit I fell from fortunately led to this “Skeleton Mountain.” The many bones became a cushion, I fell on the heap of skeletons and while it absorbed the impact my body rolls

 

I finish rolling when I arrive at the bottom of bone mountain.

 

A twitch, my body doesn’t move.

 

I arrived……

 

I feel relieved, then, again I fainted.

 

 

After a while, how much time passed–

At last, I wake up.

 

“Itetete.
My entire body hurts.”

 

Haha, there’s too much pain.

On my chest and thigh, splintered bones stick out here and there.

 

From a laying down posture, I pull out bone fragments I don’t think are mine, and a sharp pain runs through my body.

 

Bururi, my whole body shook, and muscles relaxed.

 

“Guaa, sigh……ite.”

 

While biting my lip to suppress the pain, I look at the wound I remove the bone shard from.
Blood overflows from the wound, but the wound closes up in an instant.

 

I’m stunned at the recovery abilities of the vampire lineage.

 

“Su, amazing……”

 

Well, is it all right? I……

 

The pain is now a more common pain.

Yes I’ll be paralyzed while I recover like this.

 

But even if I say paralyzed, I fainted from the extreme pain earlier.

Immortal, but the sense of pain is normal.

 

By the way, other than such a thing, where am I?

 

I stand up unsteadily, and look at the bone mountain before me–

 

Like the remains of a battlefield and a landfill.
It’s probably the bones of humans and monster accumulated in large numbers.

 

Just above, a huge pit opens.

This, is it the hole I fell from?

 

I look into the hole.
Pitch-darkness.

 

Well, by crashing from such a height, okay, well, I was saved.

A normal human would have had their left arm torn off first, having both the chest and head destroyed would have been “Instant Death.”

 

Speaking of pitch-darkness, it’s bright here.

The sources of light emit bright light, I turn to face it.

 

–There seems to be light everywhere.

 

Is there a large cauldron hanging from the ceiling by chains?

A strange orange flame burns in the pot.

 

“It’s totally the pit of hell……”

 

I look around the area but there’s only bones.

There are scattered old spears, swords, and armor among the bones too.

 

“Is anything here usable?”

 

I lost the spear I picked up a while ago.

 

Then, while cautiously stepping on the bones on the ground, there might be a weapon that seems usable or an armor that could be worn, the search begins.

The huge bone mountain before my eyes, there seem to be many of them, but because the bone mountain seems unstable I detour around it.

 

“Ooh, does the size match?”

 

Then I discover a cuirass that seems usable.

It covers everything above my thighs.

 

I attach the cuirass with green scales and red from my bloodied jeans.
The jeans are bloodied and tattered full of holes, but because this fits, I decide it’s good.

 

It just fits.

 

Searching for other armor, moving bones aside, I move forward.
(TN: Not really sure.)

 

I pick up a rusted brown sword this time.

Using the sword, I pushed a bone aside and looked.

 

I’m able to find armor equipment, but the only things I can find are broken things that were crushed and full of holes.

 

However, I found a good looking gauntlet that seemed to fit.

It’s only the right hand, but the grey armor seemed to have some green scales mixed in with a darkish firm metal on the back.

 

It seems to be old, but it’s better than nothing at all.

 

I stretch the clothe out into a string and attach it to the claps on the back of the cuirass to bind it together.

I fitted it to my wrist.

 

I check my watch then.
The watch was broken.
The face is badly cracked and the needle is bent, it has completely stopped.

 

Aaaaahhh, the precious light, the power of civilization……

 

–I should throw it away.

 

I throw my watch away into the bone mountain.

 

–The legacy of civilization, taken away!

 

I continue going around bone mountain.

As usual, the bone are piled up in large quantities on the ground.
It was hard to walk.

 

Jumping ahead from the middle to walk, already playing, I decide to move.

 

There it is, at last!

 

As my jumping power also rose considerably, I was able to jump considerably far.

 

But, the scene continues to not change at all.

 

This bone place is a huge cave, it’s nothing but an ocean of bones.
Where ever I look, the horizon is covered by the sea of bones.

 

Luckily, it’s bright so I can advance easily……

Intently, running across the sea of bones, walking, jumping, I continue.

 

One or two days have probably already passed.

 

I’m thirsty.
I want water.

But, in here it doesn’t seem likely to find food or water.

 

Also, there are bone mountain.

On top of it, there’s also a huge pit.

 

There seems to be a bone mountain under the huge pit like the once I fell through.

 

If I can get high, I may be able to understand the layout of this place……

 

“Let’s try it.”

 

Muttering so, I look up the bone mountain in front of me.

 

Yoshi, let’s do it in one go.

 

I put strength into my legs and run.

 

At first I was able to climb with a good feeling.

But, my feet are immediately caught by the sea of bones even if I jump, I’m then buried and swallowed up by a whirlpool of bones.
My feet rapidly sank into the bone mountain as it collapsed and my body spilled down.

 

Since there’s no helping it, I advance along the side of the bone mountain.

 

Small bones, are crushed underfoot while I walk.

The sword I take hold of in my hand is substituted for a walking stick.

In such a way, I pass several bone mountains.

 

Another bone mountain……is what I though then.

 

Slowly, zoazoa, and, it is a group of moving people? But I saw it.

 

I approached.

 

Hm? Huh, oh, it’s a group of corpses.

 

Zombies.
The living dead are moving corpses.

There’s skeletons made of only bones too.

 

I took care to slowly walk around the group of corpses.

 

Part of the group, noticed me.

The decomposed zombie corpses all moaned, and came this way.

 

Uhyu, don’t come here!

 

I turn my left left wrist towards a zombie, and extend .

 

–The aim is the head.

The chain makes a swish sound as it advances, piercing through the head of the zombie.

 

The zombie who lost its head collapsed weakly to the ground.

 

–I did it.

 

I was terribly idle in my previous life.

I remember that I loved drama, movies and games were zombies came out.

While remembering the scene I enjoyed in my previous life, I ejected and reeled in the chain, slaughtering the slow zombies.

 

But, if they were the serious heinous running zombies, I don’t think I would have such a composed attitude.

 

With a rusted sword equipped in my right hand and the chain in the left, I stick the sword into the head of a zombie, killing it.

 

As I don’t know how to use a sword, I just use it by stabbing with the sharp end.

 

The zombies stop moving if I smash their head, it also works on the skeletons even if they’re only made of bones.
Yet, in addition to being slow, shaking and clattering, I was able to kill them by destroying the bleached skeletons with my chain.

 

When I finish killing several zombies and skeletons, is the source of the zombies the white fog surrounding the bone mountain? That sort of thing can be confirmed by sight.

 

Oi, a ghost?

That’s probably what it is, I approach and observe the white fog……

 

If I think it’s shaped like a person, it’s a ladybug?

It shines.
Is it a group of shining lady bugs?

 

Why? Shining with a white light, the group of ladybugs float like fireflies.

 

“Why here?”

 

When I’m going to touch with my hand, the ladybugs swiftly moved nose diving in a fine zig-zag.

 

Curiously, I tried feeling around on the ground.

 

“Otsu.”

 

On the ground there was a blurred hard to read character written on the ground.

 

Re, Te, Ta, Wa, Me, Su, Mu.

 

Different world characters.
They can be read, but several placed have been worn down.

White light shines under the characters, there was a necklace decorated with big beautiful ladybugs.

 

The ladybugs are beautiful crafted like a work of art.

 

A chain of gold is on the end of the decoration.

On the backside of the ladybug, there seem to be several lines of grooves like an ordinary necklace.

 

However, the light just now? The fog? Sort of……

 

『……』

 

“Mm?”

 

When I hold it in my hand, a faint wind blows.

The ladybug pendant shined white for an instant.

 

“Being an insect, foreboding? For the time being, let’s take it……”

 

Muttering so, I hang the necklace around my neck.

The necklace stops shining then.

 

Leaving that place, again, I begin to advice along the side of bone mountain.

 

I walk determined.

The sea of bones spread out like an infinite hell.

 

Haa, how long will it take?

 

My sense of time is already completely out of order.

Only the sound of bones crunching echoes.