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Deep Valley Abyss, Erebor234 ? Deep Valley Abyss, Erebor #4
There are three women. I want to roughly eat them all, with my panties pulled aside.
My voice was heard from the air.
It was my voice that left no room for excuses no matter what anyone said.
However, it wasn’t my mouth that said it. That’s why I was so flustered that I started sweating, and I felt like I was going to die because of all the eyes on me in an instant.
“This is a misunderstanding. It’s a false accusation. I never thought of that.”
The Dark Force, the sleep demons, were said to read the darkness in people’s hearts and cleverly use it to destroy their minds. They were indeed bastards.
Three girls. Six breasts. Wow-!
“Fuck you!
As I swore at the air, someone grabbed my shoulder. It was Antiope, who was in charge of my rear, who grabbed my shoulder.
“You are being eroded by the abyss right now. There is no need to react so violently.”
“I really didn’t think like that.”
“Because you deny it so strongly, I start to doubt it because it seems like it’s true.”
The eyes of the women directed at me were extremely fierce.
Lately, I’ve been feeling a little moved by Luna’s warm gaze, but this is how women normally look at Samaritans like me.
The cold gaze of women is enough to make a man cringe, and his back becomes drenched in sweat.
However, it was Hippolyte who resolved that atmosphere.
“The dreamers don’t tell stories that are completely false. They just exaggerate and distort them. That’s why they cause even more turmoil.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes, from now on, the four of us will be telling strange stories. There will be some truth in them, but most of them are lies, so ignore them-.”
When Hippolyte was about to say something.
I wish you would give me a good beating in the Temple of Mars.
This time, Hippolyte’s voice echoed through the air.
Gulp.
What followed was the sound of swallowing saliva coming from Hippolyte’s throat. What a sound of swallowing saliva. It was truly a gold-tier saliva swallow.
However, Hippolyte, like a seasoned adventurer, quickly regained her composure.
“As I said before, this is nothing but the tricks of darkness. I will bless everyone with words of courage.”
The sight of Hippolyte’s back, where she maintains a calm demeanor and eventually says she will even recite a spell as a priestess, is somehow very reassuring.
“Braveness and courage become my shield, and hold my shoulders with strong strength-.”
I think it would be great if you could press down on my shoulders with a strong force and ride me from behind like you’re taming a wild horse.
“-Even though I walk through the valley of death, I will not fear, for I always have a sharp sword and a sharp sword-.”
I wish you’d stab me with a thick, hot spear. Just tie me up with rope in this darkness, without thinking about anything.
“… .”
Hippolyte’s prayer, which had been being recited with great fervor, stops.
I couldn’t read her expression or attitude because she was staring straight ahead, but judging from the way her shoulder blades were trembling, I could tell she was quite agitated.
“Sister… the prayers have stopped. Sister, sister-?”
Antiope, standing at the rear, continues to call to Hippolyte, but there is no answer from Hippolyte.
Antiope shouting at him.
“Samaritan, I think my sister is having a meltdown! Get that dog meat or something in her mouth quickly!”
“Oh, s-.”
I quickly grabbed Hippolyte by the shoulder and turned her towards me. At that very moment, I felt so shocked that I wanted to scream.
Hippolyte’s distinct brown eyes were completely blackened, as if they were pitch-black darkness, and they gleamed in a grotesque manner.
“What the heck, what the heck, what the heck is this!”
So I ended up screaming. It was like a scene from a fucking horror movie, a woman with her eyes completely blackened.
What was even more terrifying was that Hippolyta, who was facing me, raised the corners of her mouth and laughed in a frivolous voice that she would never normally do.
“.”
A laugh that is indescribable, like the howl of a mad beast.
Not only that, she throws the torch she is holding on the ground as if she is throwing it away and starts running towards somewhere.
Swish-.
“Gueeeeek-!”
Because of the ropes tied around our waists, Elfriede, Antiope, and I were also dragged by Hippolyte’s waist and leg strength.
“Ugh-!?”
Elfriede was unable to cope with the situation and was just lying on the floor, rolling around.
It’s like the owner being dragged by a tied up bull.
Wasn’t Hippolyte powerless in the dark?
“I’m screwed, I’m screwed! Samaritan, you’re the one who tied your body to my sister, so you have to do something about it!”
“What the hell, what am I doing here!”
“If we are dragged into the darkness like this, we will all die!”
“Fuck-!”
But there was nothing I could do to stop it. The only thing that came to mind was the urgent thought of cutting Hippolyta’s strings with the dagger at my waist.
Of course, if you do that, Hippolyta will disappear into the darkness.
If Hippolyte were to run wild like a Ferrari at full throttle, it would surely disappear before we could catch her.
Because of that, I couldn’t reach for the dagger at my waist.
Hippolyte was one of the few high-ranking people I knew who treated me well and treated me casually. I didn’t want to lose her here.
“Oh, shit-!”
But if we continue like this, we might all be dragged into some unknown darkness. So I had no choice but to pull out the dagger at my waist.
And then after lifting it up, bring it down with all your might.
Kkwaduk.
I slammed it into the floor.
Jooooowook-.
Ga-ga-ga-gak-.
The dagger deeply embedded screams.
As if that wasn’t enough, I grabbed the floor with all my might with my Titanium Gauntlets. The sparks flying as I slid down made an incredibly horrible sound.
“Everyone, hold on!”
“Fuck-! Got it!”
Antiope, understanding what I was trying to do, also took out her javelin from her waist and stuck it into the ground.
And Elfriede also sat up from her seat and slammed her wand into the floor with all her might.
Kwaaaaak-.
Now, Hippolyte’s power was abnormally strong, but it wasn’t enough to deal with the three of us, so she ended up standing still.
Kwaaaaak-.
But she screamed as if the string tied around her waist was going to break.
“Fuck, Lady Hippolyte, I’m sorry-!”
Without missing a beat, I raised my body from the floor where I had stuck the dagger in, then raised my palm as high as I could.
Phew-.
What follows is a swing that draws an arc at a fairly wide angle.
Bam-!
My gauntleted palm slaps Hippolyta across the cheek.
“Geeeeeek-!”
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It was a few minutes later that Hippolyte, who had lost consciousness after being hit in the cheek, regained consciousness.
It could have been several dozen minutes later.
This pitch-black space had some strange effects on her sense of direction and time. Anyway, when one of the torches burned out and became useless, Hippolyta opened her eyes.
Her eyes, which were like a sea of pitch-black ink, now flashed brown like before.
“What the heck-. Why am I lying down?”
“Sister, I was eaten by the abyss. I almost killed us all!”
“… Shit. I don’t remember. Did I really do that?”
“okay!’
“Huh, even a dragon could stop that.”
“Samaritan somehow managed to stop it by slapping him in the face.”
“Is it a cheek-.”
Only then did Hippolyte touch her flushed cheeks.
He looked very sick, but I decided not to apologize because I was glad he came to his senses.
“So, where on earth is this place?”
“We don’t know either.”
“Oh, no. First, I think it would be best to take some time to reorganize.”
So, with mutual consent, we laid a bonfire on the floor and lit it.
Hwaruk-.
As the fire spreads, I feel a little relieved. The cave dwellers, the first humans, must have warmed their hearts and bodies by lighting a bonfire like this.
With the campfire lit, we took stock of each other’s gear and belongings.
Because the situation was so sudden, many items were dropped and thrown away, so our supplies have been reduced by more than half compared to before.
Of all the luggage I had, the only thing that was intact was this large bundle I was holding.
The only things inside are the dried food and elixir that Luna packed for me to eat.
“How many lightning bolts are there?”
“I dropped a few, so now there are less than five left. If we share the food between four people, there will only be enough for one day. Most of the holy water bottles are broken. There are only two or three cloths left to wrap the torches.”
“Damn, showing such a disgrace. I still have a long way to go.”
It was Hippolyte who hit the floor with a bang. Antiope said to him.
“Don’t blame yourself too much. This is a space where the power of the ancient gods is mixed. If you can endure this, you will have surpassed superhumans and reached the ranks of myths.”
As I watched the sisters comforting each other, I felt a little warm, like a bonfire in my troubled heart. They are family after all.
What if my sister were here? Oh my, it’s horrible to even imagine.
While Hippolyte and Antiope were talking about what to do next, Elfriede was silently stroking her wand.
Moon, moon-.
The lower part of the wand was broken and tattered, probably because I had rammed it into the floor earlier, and it looked really horrible.
Moon, moon-.
Elfriede moved her hand as if trying to fix it, but there was no way she could fix a broken wand without any tools or materials.
“… .”
However, Elfriede’s expression was quite detached.
Unlike her initial panic, Elfriede was able to maintain her composure even in the midst of these strange hallucinations.
Now that I think about it, I don’t think I heard Elfriede’s voice. Do the little guys named Mongma also pick out people and then bewitch them?
“shit-.”
Elfriede swears softly, as if she has finally given up on the repairs. I hold out my palm to her.
“Give it to me.”
Elfriede wasn’t originally good at things like tool repair. She had no patience and wasn’t very good with her hands.
That’s why, back when I was a slave, I had to spend a lot of time fixing the furniture and materials she had broken.
However, Elfriede just looked at me with gloomy eyes.
I said.
“You, without the wand, you’ll lose magic power or something and become stronger. You should think about fixing it quickly and getting out of here first.”
“… .”
Elfriede continued to glare at me.
Now that I think about it, I think I saw this face a lot when I first met this guy. He pretended to be friendly on the outside, but he was actually quite shy.
“I never asked you to do it. You said you would do it.”
As I was lost in such old thoughts, Elfriede held out her broken wand towards me.
I put some of the sticky adhesive from the bag Luna had packed for me on my palm and roughly spread it on the broken area.
The broken section was not evenly spaced, so it didn’t heal properly, but it looked okay after roughly wrapping it with a bandage.
“That’s all. Thank you, that’s all.”
“What about saying thank you? Anyone can do that. Don’t show off.”
“But you can’t even do that, you idiot.”
“What is the idiot?”
“개새끼? 나는 멍청이라고 했는데, 너는 왜 나보고 개새끼라고 하냐? 말이 너무 심한 거 아냐?”
“개새끼. 병신 같은 야만인. 머저리. 찌질이. 찐따 새끼. 이제 와서, 이런 거 나한테 해준다고 내가 고마워 할 거 같아?”
“Sval.”
Sval, I’m probably the only one in the world who gets cursed at for doing good deeds.
That was the end of my conversation with Elfriede.
They just do their own thing silently, feeling bad for each other.
I also pulled out the dagger from my waist with a self-mocking feeling, thinking, “What did I expect?”
The blade is so damaged that it may become completely unusable if I don’t resharpen it, perhaps because I scraped it hard on the floor.
This dagger was something I had been using since the days when I was a slave, and it had helped me out of many crises, so it was quite precious to me.
So, I was a little bit uneasy about the fact that this dagger was on the verge of breaking.
As I was undoing the leather belt around my waist and sharpening the dagger blade on it, Elfriede, who was also finishing up her wand, spoke to me in a very small voice, as if talking to herself.
“You’re still using that old dagger.”
“Whether or not other people use the same thing.”
“If I remember correctly, you bought it with the allowance I gave you.”
“Yeah, well. That’s true. So what? You want it back?”
“No. I thought you had thrown away everything related to me.”
“Why would you do something like that and waste money?”
“Well, I guess so. Poor guy-.”
Elfriede ended her story with that. Poor girl? You tease and criticize people to the end. You are truly a bad girl.
However, it seemed as if some strength had returned to the hand movements that had been trembling just a moment ago.
Knock-knock-.
Also, perhaps because of his mood, the tips of his pointed ears were dyed red and were twitching.
From my long experience, it must have meant that Elfriede’s mood had improved a lot.
Is there anything pleasant about this situation?
It seemed like she had always been like that, but for the time being, she was a girl whose thoughts were impossible to know.
My head must have gone blank in the dark.
When I thought about it that way, I felt a little sorry for him.
[Work Review] Since it’s summer, I thought it was time for a spooky episode to appear, so I included it…!! An escape from the everyday…!! The extraordinary..!!
