Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku Vol 15 Chapter 10

Published at 2nd of October 2018 09:54:54 PM

Chapter 10: 10
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15-10. Phantasmal Labyrinth (2) Satou's here. It's said that there are three people who have the same face in the world, but looking at the likelihood of those people meeting with each other, I think accidental resemblance is more common.

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"U-um, this is, uh"

Lady Karina is flustered to see Lady Liedill who appeared from the opposite side of the Iron Golem.

However, there's something else that has caught my attention.

"H-hey, Master, what should we do?"

"Nothing."

I lightly cut off Arisa's worry, pats her shoulder and points at Liedill.

"--Ah"

"You understand?"

"Y-yes. Shall I do it instead?"

"No, I'm happy with just the thought."

I don't really want to do it but it'd be a mistake to let the children to.

This is something that I must do.

"SSatou."

"It's alright."

After nodding at Lady Karina who looks uneasy, I step forward in front of her.

"....U-uu."

A groan came from the golem's wreckage.

Oops, I've got to deal with that one first.

I chantlessly healed the trampled adventurers who were dying and then I made them sleep with mind magic chantlessly too.

After I'm done with the emergency task, I head to Liedill.

"Oh? Perhaps you'd be the one explaining--"

Without waiting until the end, I kick Liedill's stomach, flinging it away at the line of the escort who are standing still behind.

As an insurance, I also use earth magic's [Toss Drill Stone] to skewer it and the escort together.

"M-Master?"

"SSatou?"

Seeing my brutality, Liza and Lady Karina are shaken.

The other girls are also shaken with different reactions.

"Uwah, gross."

"Don't worry be happy~?"

Only Arisa and Tama are reacting differently.

However, besides the two's, the voices tapered off.

"Uhyaa, so that's what Doppelganger like."

"Nopperabou~?"

"It dissolves like, slush nodesu."

"Master, requesting provision of information."

I explain to the girls while glancing at the log.

The brief words from Arisa already explained it all though.

"The monster earlier is called Doppelganger, a monster that can steal a part of someone's memory and assume the appearance of a person."

Arisa was deceived at first, but she realized immediately once she appraised her.

In the first place, there's no way that I won't notice Lady Liedill, who has been marked, once she enters the Radar's range.

"You can't let your guard down with people you meet in the labyrinth even if you know them okay?"

The girls cheerfully replied me positively.

The reason why I'm telling the girls that is because judging from the fact that there was no one we met who warned us about the monster and that there is no other Doppelganger inside the labyrinth, that means it was probably prepared by the Dungeon Master who got flustered since some high level adventurers entered the labyrinth.

There's a room fully loaded with water and paralyze traps at the end of one of the long passages from the large room where the Doppelgangers and the Iron Golem appeared.

The Doppelgangers earlier were probably going to lead us there.

Further, there might have been a gentler way to defeat them, but I did what I did since I wanted to defeat them before my companions did.

I don't want to see the girls killing beings that look like people after all.

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"Putting your name in your technique's name is really not a good idea."

"--Uu."

"Why~?"

"It's cool nodesuyo?"

Lady Karina faltered with Arisa's frank advice, Tama and Pochi covered for her.

"Even after you hide your figure, if you shout a technique name like that out loud, you can end up in trouble like just now right?"

"Oo~ops~?"

"Ah, nanodesu."

Tama and Pochi who heard the explanation were surprised.

Don't tell me, they only noticed it just now?

"Recommending to change the name so I advice."

"That's right...."

Nana spoke calmly, Liza hesitated.

As for me, I don't intend to force Lady Karina to correct it since her clumsiness is within my tolerance, but it appears the other girls don't think so.

"SSatou won't tell me to change it too right?"

"Yes, it's fine--"

Lady Karina looks relieved when I affirm her.

"--As long as you stay behind when we're on missions where we need to disguise ourselves that is."

Even though I followed up with a smile, Lady Karina's face looks like she's having a monologue, "I've been betrayed."

--Incomprehensible.

"Then, since Karinsama agrees too--"

Arisa begins to take ideas for the new technique name beside the dispirited Lady Karina.

"The first meetiing~ Karina Kick new technique naame~ Naming conventioon~"

She's using some strange intonation, it must be some kind of reference.

"The safe one would be 『Oppai Kick』 I guess?"

"Arisa, take this seriously. How about 『Jump Kick』?"

"『Inazuma Fall』 is nice so I suggest."

"Mwuu, Swooping Kick Strike."

Liza reproved Arisa for her joking remark, Nana and Mia suggested some acceptable names.

And--.

"Meat Attack~?"

"Hamburg Steak sounds stronger nanodesu. Hamburg Steak Kick is good nodesu!"

--Triggered by Tama and Pochi, the suggestion for the technique names all became of dishes name, so the naming convention came to a close prematurely.

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"This is the place where the figurines were found?"

Arisa tilted her head at a shrine-like place inside the labyrinth.

She probably feels the gap between the anime figurine and the place.

"Nope, there's a hidden passage inside that shrine, and that place seems to be at the end of that passage."

The inside of the shrine is decorated with many stone statues.

"Uwaah, the Star Oni Girl Lovely Momo, and there's even Mecha Girl Version of the Space Warrior Random. The guy who created these must be quite an enthusiast."

Arisa voiced her admiration, but I don't know the sources for half of the statues.

I pulled the excited Arisa's hand and we entered the hidden door.

"The fog is thick. Tama, Pochi, be on the lookout."

"Aye aye sir~?"

"Roger nanodesu."

Tama puts her hands on her ears strengthening her hearing, Pochi closes her eyes and sniffs the surrounding smell.

Before long, we see the shadow of buildings beyond the fog.

This place seems to be a phantom town block filled with gray rocks.

"This looks like a gray rock street doesn't it."

"Yeah, it's like a petrified Akiba."

This place is not that large, yet there are several multi-floor buildings and asphalt-like road carved from gray rocks.

A familiar townscape with unfamiliar signboards--the one who created this real-sized models of the street is probably a reincarnated or a transported person from Japan that resembles mine.

"This upright cabinet is empty inside too."

"That seems to be the case."

Apparently there's nothing of worth here.

"Master!"

"Master, a discovery so I inform."

When I turned toward Lulu and Nana, I saw half-petrified manga books on the ground.

Many badly made figurines are piled up beside them.

It looks like they're transformed into stone from material build-up.

"Master, that!"

Arisa pointed at a scribble-like brush writing.

"『I want to go home』 huh--"

The scribble is hard to read, but that's certainly what's written in Katakana.

We didn't find a gate that connects to our world, but it's certain that a reincarnated or perhaps a teleported person had come here.

Perhaps, the demon lord in this labyrinth created weapons using the same mean.

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"That reminds me, is the real Kukkorosan in the labyrinth?"

"Yes, it seems they're exploring in the middle layer."

They were already there when we entered the labyrinth.

They must have gone into the labyrinth not long after their intrusion incident yesterday.

Lady Liedill's stamina gauge has decreased more than half, it seems they're forcing themselves.

"--Huh?"

"What's wrong?"

Lady Liedill's state on the map has changed to [Panic].

When I peer the room where she is with space magic [Remote View]--.

"They are in serious trouble somehow."

The scene and sound projected by Remote View magic in mind is just like pandemonium from a disaster film.