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"Huff huff, are you okay, Kaori?"

"Y-Yeah, so froe amount of seawater, were Hajime, whose hand was coiled on her waist, and a pure-white sand beach There was nothing else beside those around her, but she could densely see packed rove-like trees in the distance, and the surface of the waving sea high in the sky The seawater was like a barrier, preventing any intruder It was a vast space

"Looks like we are getting separated… Well, I gave everyone a smaller version of "Treasure Box," so they should be able to do sohtly said after letting go of Kaori, and fixed his hair However, Kaori’sHaji, Kaori recalled what happened a while ago

Hajie Clione

The place they fell into was a gigantic, spherical space with tens of tunnels, where there were spouting seawater with tremendous force Orfrom there; a place with storm-like and messy current

Swept by the swift current, Hajiether, but next the current mercilessly separated the party Yue tried to control the current with ic, but it didn’t ell because the current was too randoht of Doryukken in cooperation with Tio; a fine play

Hajime had actually wanted to take out the submarine and ride it, but it was i his teeth, Hajime took out ultra-heavy, coht to overcome the current just like Shia

At that ti swept towards him, and Yue would meet up with Hajime thanks to the current Shia and Tio had already disappeared into a tunnel soer be seen inside the space

Hajiet separated fro swept to the lower side had entered his view The pained gaze of Kaori’s met Hajime’s He previously reached out to Yue before hiaze had indeed met

There were two choices

If he catches Yue, Kaori would be swept alone into a tunnel The sa would happen to Yue if he was to catch Kaori The current Hajime could only choose one of theed gazes with Yue, and he ht from the ultra heavy compressed ore he took out froht Kaori Kaori’s eyes ide in surprise, but the tere iether, the tere thrown into a tunnel

While being swept away, Haji it even when he was thrown at a rock wall Then, he was able to see light co from above once the current weakened and went up

And there was the pure white sandy beach spreaded across the coastline

"… Nee, Hajime-kun Why… why did you save me?"

"Hah?"

Kaori questioned Hajime whose back was turned towards her Haji "what kind of question was that?"

"Why did you saveand Yue can do so by herself Yue’s eyes also told me to save Kaori"

"… You really trust her, eh"

"Isn’t that natural? We are partners, you know?"

"…"

The already depressed Kaori was eventhe answer Suddenly, a shadow stretched over the downcast Kaori

Puzzled, Kaori looked up and there was Hajiht before her A distance that would conclude in a kiss if he move even a little closer Kaori felt as if she was sucked by Hajime’s eyes, and suddenly, her cheeks were pulled

"Ift huwt! Waft au uing!" Kaori protested with teary eyes

However, Hajinored Kaori’s protest and played with her soft cheeks without reserve for a while After finally being released, Kaori looked up with a reproachful gaze while rubbing her red cheeks, but Hajime only snorted with "Hmph"

"If you have time to be depressed, then it’s better to use and eon, you know? Just until ill you stay wet like this? Or, are you trying to gain my sympathy?"

Hajime’s sharp words made Kaori’s face instantly reddened It was of shame She noticed what he unexpressed said, isn’t this the wrong place for that?

"Th-There’s no such a thing! I was just daydreae my clothes soon Sorry"

"…"

Kaori hurriedly stood up and began to take off her clothes after taking out substitute clothes froe) that was given to her before the party left Elisen Hajime nonchalantly turned his back towards her The nor, "It’s okay to watch," though e her clothes without saying anything

"I-I ao to seabed again, we still don’t knohere the others are… but there’s nothing we can do other than keep searching Those girls would probably do so as well"

After looking at the jungle nearby, Haji; a shtly narrowed his eyes at Kaori’s s in the end and started to walk

Advancing along the pure-white sandy beach, creating sounds as they walked, the two entered the jungle The dense trees and bushes were cut by Haji him from behind

Then, Hajime suddenly halted and turned towards Kaori, put his hand on the back of Kaori’s head as if to embrace her

"Fue? Ah, umm, Hajime-kun? Wh-What’s with this sudden…"

Kaori blushed, but Hajime immediately separated and she instantly paled when she saw the thing on Haji as a pal frorew fro using both sides! It looked disgusting

"Don’t let your guard down, okay? A Great Dungeon is vastly different compared to the surface of Orcus Don’t think of it as the same or else you’ll experience pain"

"U-Un Sorry I will be careful"

"…"

The spider Hajiic stone, a normal poisonous spider The fact that she was almost killed by creature other than a demonic beast, and how Hajime helped her, made Kaori even more depressed

When she was still in Kouki’s party, she was an all-rounder, however, in Hajime’s party, she isn’t at all useful It made Kaori panic more and more inwardly

As such, Kaori put even s which caused the conversation between the two to lessen, and they got out of the jungle with a subtle atmosphere between them

Ahead of theraveyard?"

"A ships, but the size…"

In the rocky area ahead of the jungle were several partly rotted sailing ships lodged The sailing ships were around a hundred th at the lowest, and in the far distant was an even bigger one with at least three hundred th

The bizarre spectacle made Hajime and Kaori unconsciously halted their advance However, it didn’t take a long tiain their senses and entered the ship’s graveyard

They advanced by passing through the gaps between rocks, so over them, while at other times, they walked on the ships

"Even so… there are only battleships here"

"Un But only the biggest one there seeer boat It has luxurious decorations on it…"

The ships in this graveyard didn’t have cannons located at the starboard side like those battleship (sail-type) on earth Even so, Hajime was able to conclude they were battleships because there were marks of fierce battle on all of the ships From the appearance of the ships, they seeic attacks Some have their masts cleanly cut, burnt, carbonized decks, and petrified ropes and nets

They didn’t have any cannon, so they used long-ranged inable frouess was proven to be a fact when he and Kaori were halfway through the ship’s graveyard

-- UoOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

-- WAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

"-!? What the!?"

"Hajis are--!"

When they felt they heard shout of an to distort Haji fros to observe as happening The surrounding distortion became even more intense and before they were aware of it, Hajime and Kaori were already on a ship’s deck, above the vast ocean

Following that, they looked at their surroundings, it was not the ship’s graveyard, but hundreds of sailing ships divided into two groups, confronting each other Above the ships were people raising their weapons while shouting

"Th-The heck is this…" "Ha-Ha-Hajime-kun? Aht? Right?"

Both Hajiet out of their confusion, however, they weren’t able to look at their surroundings

While they did so, a big spark rose into the sky, generating firework-like loud voices followed by the hundreds of shipsout simultaneously The fleet on the side of the ship Hajime and Kaori rode on also moved out after the firework rose

And when the ships approached a certain distance, they used the ic were also fired

GOoOOOOOOOO!! DOoGAaAAAN!! DOBAaAAAA!!!

"Owh!?"

"Kyaa!"

Fla sounds and created holes in the ships’ bodies Huge tornadoes advanced ai the ships And bullets of gray-colored sphere instantly petrified everything

Even the deck Hajian to blaze up grandly The ship’s crews iuished the fire

It was literally a battlefield where innuic clad in killing intent grazed their skins

Haji these spectacle, and once again fire bullets fired froht towards Hajime and Kaori

Hajime buried his question of why did they suddenly were involved in this war in his head, and he pulled out Donner because it was OK to kill everyone because they attacked first Thus, he intercepted the fire bullets using the railgun

The bullet fired was accompanied by explosive sound and a flash, but unexpectedly it didn’t even hit the fla them The bullet flew into the sky, and it disappeared

"What!?"

Raising surprised voice for the nth tian to evade

"Wait, I will obstruct theinner-level defense ht attribute appeared

Haji even after their cores were hit, but Kaori had activated her ic and couldn’t move away from there Reluctantly, he activated "Vajra" and waited for the flaroundless because Kaori’s barrier completely blocked the flaht whether he just ain fired at the incoic Eye indeed saw the cores being hit, but the bullet just passed through the flame bullets and fleards the day after to why his attack wasn’t effective and decided to try anotherKaori tried to put up another barrier to block the inco flame bullets, but Haji that, he evaded, and at the sa "Wind Claw" This tih and slashed in two

"Umm, Hajime-kun?"

"It doesn’t see The physical attack didn’t effective, but attacks that contained rief, what’s with this situation"

Hajih froonized voice rang right fro what it was, he turned around and there was a younghis abdo carefully, there was a pool of blood below hi nearby He must have been shot with the icicle