Chapter 105.1

Chapter 105.1. Just Right For A Show Of Strength

It has a gigantic physique of more than 10 meters. It has a metallic carapace that glistens in the strong sunlight. Shears as thick as guillotines. Standing in front of this huge body, Mii-chan, who has not grown, is like an apple.

The giant crab, screaming, swings its closed shears down at me. I cross my arms as the rock-like shears close in.

[Defense]

The shears try to crush Miu’s body, which is in defense mode and covered in shadows.

[Shadowless Walk]

Miu tries to defend with a hunch, but her body shakes like a mirage, and Mashiro rushes to my aid. With a speed that was difficult to see, he ran up to me without leaving any shadows.

Then, as my body floated softly, I was held in a princess’s arms and avoided the crab’s blow.

“Thank you!”

Miu thanked me with a blooming smile.

“Yamiyo-chan!”

To Yamiyo.

It’s because Yamiyo saved me by carrying me in a princess’s carry.

“Wait, isn’t that the part where you save her, Yamiyo?”

Mashiro, with a reproachful, stern look, appears beside Yamiyo, who is carrying me in a princess’s carry.

Mashiro was running at high speed and reaching out to me with his [Shadowless Walk], a walk that made her mysterious body shimmer like a mirage.

But, using [Shadowless Walk], Yamiyo also rushed toward me. Then, one step ahead, she jumped back, carrying me in her arms like a princess.

“Hmph, I’m sorry, brother. I’m the one to save you, Mii-sama. I can’t give in on this one thing.”

Yamiyo narrows her slitted eyes, and with mysterious intimidation, she tells Mashiro.

“Haha, you are loved, Miu-chan.”

Mashiro scratches his cheeks, smiles blankly, and turns to the giant crab. There, Kongo-oneesan and the others had already begun their attack.

They’re acting fast. Isn’t this the place for Mii-chan to show off?

“That’s a rare monster that appears only once a year. It’s a Mercenary Crab. It appears to protect the coconut crabs, which is one of the reasons this place isn’t popular.”

Maybe it’s a rare monster that appears when you kill a hundred of them in a row. I don’t want to believe it. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

[Mercenary Crab: level 35, physical resistance, water resistance, weakness, earth]

It’s a high-level crab there. Probably because it was a rare monster, its ability must be an order of magnitude higher, starting with its HP, compared to a mook of the same level.

Kongo-oneesan was slamming her battle axes into mercenary crab, and she tried to shatter one of the multiple legs growing out of the ubiquitous body, but it bounced off with a hard metallic sound.

“You’re a hard-looking crab, aren’t you?”

I asked Yamiyo to let me down and landed on the beach. Crab bosses are so oddly hard. The best solution is for the vanguard to always be on the defensive and for the rear guard to shoot magic.

And if it’s not a defense-piercing martial art, that crab has [Physical Resistance].

“Yes, that’s right. We will all have to fight.”

Yamiyo says with dignity, and power in her beautiful obsidian eyes as she holds up Yaten with a shakin. She looks so beautiful with black hair pulled back in a sweeping style. She looks like the hero of an anime. Confronting a huge enemy, Yamiyo would be pulled into the second half of the anime with a close-up of her face.

“Leave it to me! Konkon!”

Fox-kin Tamamo jumps high into the sky, twists her body, smiles, and points her palm at mercenary crab.

[Spirit Flame Snake].

With a gurgle, red flames shoot out from her palm. In mid-air, the flames transformed into a snake and attacked mercenary crab, burning it to the ground.

Swirling, the flame’s snake coiled around the giant crab’s torso as if to restrain it, and heats its body. Mii-chan would be impressed that she could use magic like that.

But mercenary crab isn’t to be outdone. As it accumulates foam in its mouth, it releases it into a great snake of flame that wraps around its body.

[Dissolving Bubbles]

The bubbles spread from its mouth and quickly cling to the flaming serpent. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

It then swings its shears to attack the floating in mid-air Tamamo. The shears like a lump of iron are about to hit Tamamo. But Yamiyo raises Yaten.

“I won’t let that happen!”

[Darkness Sword Complete Sword]

Dark mana clings to the raised Yaten, and turns into human bones. It’s still a Dark technique.

The many human bones combined become a giant sword, and Yamiyo roughly steps hard into the sandy beach.

“Haaaaah!”

She swung the huge human bone sword at the mercenary crab, scattering an ominous cursed aura. Mercenary crab cracked and backed away from the body, which must have weighed several tons.

[Thunder Blade]

Sei-chan, in a relaxed tone with no sense of tension, produced a lightning sword tens of meters long and attacked at the cracks. It emits crackling purple electricity, and smoke drifts away from mercenary crabs.

Hoku-chan, Nan-chan judging that the enemy was strong, backed up, eh-hoho eh-hoho, carrying the coconuts so they wouldn’t get crushed.

“Crap, I got my feet caught in the sand.”

The attack earlier must not have been satisfactory. Yamiyo looks frustrated. Yamiyo was indeed caught in the sand, and it looked like she couldn’t swing the giant sword with all her strength.

“Well then, I guess it’s my turn!”

Why did the sand catch Yamiyo’s feet? I saw how Yamiyo, who should have been accustomed to fighting on the beach enough after fighting the coconut crabs, had lost her stance.

[Water Sand]

Mercenary crab had secretly cast a terrain-altering magic around itself. As the name implies, [Water Sand] turns the beach into the water. It was only a few centimeters deep and hard to notice, but the terrain had transformed into something similar to a shoal.

In the game, this was magic that always gets invoked on the first turn. It was a magic full of debuffs, such as speed reduction, hit rate, and evasion rate reduction.