Retired Hero Wants To Sleep

Mission No.1 Return of Magic Swordsman (16)

Yes. Ewald is an adventure lover to the core. He is not a great man who just leaves behind a big fish called Cerberus. Elif’s crying and fussing was not a stumbling block to Ebalt at all.

“Usbel Demon King’s grandmother, this person must be crazy. They say they’re going to catch Cerberus. Let it dry a little.”

“Doesn’t that sound like fun?”

But, of course, Usbel Demon King’s grandmother was not on Elif’s side.

“Aww! The demon king is crazy too, crazy! Bard sister, stop these people! Come on!”

“… Do I look like a younger brother?”

Adele didn’t seem to be on Elif’s side either.

As if a stone had fallen from above her head, Elif stopped and started to laugh in a weak voice.

“… Wrong. It’s over. This group has no answers.”

“You just have to find the answer.”

Ebalt, who cut off Elif’s words with those words, continued his words with a rather heavy tone.

“He who goes up goes up. Because it is dangerous.”

“How do you go up? You already explained it. There is no way to go up.”

Elif, weeping pitifully, answered Ewald in a voice that had given up on her life. But Adele silently followed behind Ewald without answering.

Aside from Elif, as Adele followed, Ewald paused slightly and opened his mouth.

“I can’t tell what will happen if a fight starts.”

“No. I want to see Cerberus die.”

Would he dare to watch him die? Ewald tilted his head.

“Have you lost any grudge?”

Adele nodded.

“He took my food.”

“…”

Ewald didn’t want to care what bullsh*t he was talking about. But Usbel, looking at Adele with her shocked face, began to sympathize with her fiercely.

“Whoa, whoa, is that a bad guy? Are you taking something to eat?”

“Yes? You know my heart.”

“Well, yes. Anyone who steals food should be torn to pieces. You have to rip it horizontally, then vertically, then just rip it diagonally.”

“I agree. When it’s all torn, I’ll sew up the wound, and when it’s healed, I’ll tear it again.”

“… Crazy things.”

I don’t even want to answer. Ewald hastened his steps, as if not wanting to interfere any further in the conversation.

“Master, Master, it’s not crazy, it’s natural. You shouldn’t live under the same sky as the guy who stole your food.”

“… If I take your food, will you tear it to death?”

Usbel, who gasped and drew in her breath, was conflicted. Turning to Balt with her astonished face, she rolled her eyes and put her hands together with her eyes welling with tears.

“Don’t take it away, don’t take it away. You can’t do that, my lord. It’s not like that. I’ll listen carefully, master. Don’t take it away please.”

“… Shut up and let’s go.”

I’ll run out of gin before I arrive. Ewald faced the front, leaving behind the two of them, who were having a friendly and bloody conversation whether it was a joke or a serious conversation. Then, as always, he meticulously explored his surroundings.

‘… Brimstone?’

Ewald slightly tensed his body.

A faint smell of sulfur stung his nostrils. There are no volcanoes around, so only guys on business trips from hell can smell this. The Cerberus I met before also gave off a similar smell, so I’m sure.

“Adele, the Cerberus you said you saw.”

“Yes, please.”

“Big?”

“Yes.”

“… Specifically.”

“Very big.”

“… By using units or something.”

“I didn’t look that closely.”

Cerberus is basically Tier 7. Beelzedeus alone was Tier 18, so Tier 7 is a level that is too much to catch. Of course, if you fight to some extent, it won’t be that difficult to catch it.

However, if it is a super-giant Cerberus, it goes up to Tier 10. Thinking that far, Ewald clicked his tongue at the sparse information.

After waking up from the dungeon, Tier 10 is completely unreasonable because he has not yet fully regained his strength. Tier 10 is because you have to form a party.

A proper party, too.

Ewald was clearly measuring his own level.

But even so, Ewald was enjoying his heart beating.

He is also a man who is crazy about adventure.

“Master, Master, the smell of sulfur is getting stronger. This is definitely Cerberus, Cerberus.”

“Hey hey! Aww! I hate Cerberus!”

“I hate Cerberus too.”

Ewald clenched his right fist.

“It’s good to catch.”

* * *

“Aww! aaa! Help me! Cerberus is ridiculous! It’s just the devil!”

“I caught it, but it’s not a big deal.”

“Kitsuka-san, what kind of job do you have that you walk around holding onto something like that?”

“Are you going on an adventure?”

Of course, not all adventurers go around holding Cerberus or demons, but Ebalt had a different level of experience.

He was once the one who went around trying to catch all the monsters in the monster encyclopedia. In the end, he couldn’t catch them all and went straight to the dungeon after defeating Beelze Deus.

“Cerberus is ambiguous because there is no strategy, but that’s why it’s more fun.”

What is strategy Elif only looks at Ebalt, who doesn’t even look like a human, with eyes mixed with astonishment. I don’t have the courage to leave these people and go up alone, and I can’t even overcome the fear of going to catch Cerberus.

In a situation where he really couldn’t take it off, his body just shuddered.

“What are you so afraid of? You can catch Cerberus.”

Elif looked at Ebalt with a lost expression as he threw out unreasonable words.

“Are you kidding me right now?”

“It’s not?”

“No, what’s wrong! You did that before. What kind of Cerberus is the town mutt!”

“I feel sorry for the mutts in the neighborhood, so I can’t catch them.”

Elif, who had an expression of astonishment on his face as if wondering what this madman was talking about, shouted out loud.

“Will you catch Cerberus too if he becomes pitiful?”

“It’s not bullying a dumb beast.”

“What do you mean by that?”

Ewald glanced at Elif’s face, which seemed to be about to cry at any moment, and passed Elef’s words away.

“Are there any other signs yet?”

“No, no. I think just following the smell of sulfur would be enough. Even if you can fake other things, you can’t fake the smell, can you?”

“Yes. Besides, it’s sulfur-smelling ramen, what.”

The smell of sulfur is a smell that cannot be missed.

“By the way, by the way, is it true that an elf can catch Cerberus?”

“Hmm…”

Usbel nodded her head. At the same time, Ewald also nodded.

“Is it possible for the little one?”

“Is he good enough?”

“I don’t know because I haven’t seen the actual game…”

Ewald made a ‘chuck’ sound once and nodded.

“Perhaps it is possible?”

“Whoa, whoa, what a nice female, right?”

“Don’t call me a b*tch, old woman!”

“Master, Master, can I hit him?”

Ewald opened his mouth with a determined expression.

“I would have told you to be friendly.”

“By the way, by the way, I guess he has little intention of being friendly.”

“You just have to try.”

“… I will, I will.”

Ewald was able to silence Usbel thanks to Elif, and was able to spend some more time exploring her surroundings.

Clear traces of the monster were drawn everywhere.

“Didn’t you say you saw Cerberus for the first time today?”

Adele nodded.

“You’ve never been down here before?”

“When I first entered the monastery, I came down here, but I haven’t come down since then.”

“At that time, there were no other monsters besides ogres, right?”

Again Adele nodded his head. Seeing that, Ewald nodded his head this time.

“… You came five days ago, that Cerberus.”

Usbel’s face was full of curiosity.

“To? Five days, five days? How do you know that, Master?”

Ewald opened his mouth in a cautious tone.

“Cerberus exudes an unusual scent. It sprays sulfurous secretions like a musk deer, and once a day it circles its territory and marks it.”

Ewald raised his sword and pointed it at the wall.

“Once sprayed, the secretion emits a yellowish light, and that light lasts exactly five days.”

Ewald, poking at the secretion that was glowing yellow on the wall, nodded and continued his words.

“Looking at the oldest secretions almost giving off their last light, it must be five days.”

“Whoa, whoa! Master, how do you know all that?”

“How could an adventurer go around without knowing the characteristics of monsters?”

“By the way, by the way, what would have happened five days ago? Could it be that Cerberus came over for some reason?”

However, Ewald had to keep his mouth shut at Usbel’s question.

Five days ago was the day Ebalt woke up in the dungeon.

* * *

“It is close.”

The smell of sulfur stings his nostrils. The temperature rises rapidly to the point of sweating. No matter how underground it is, you can’t sweat in the winter weather.

“Ah, the smell of rotten eggs.”

Usbel, with a displeased expression, fanned her body in front of her nose with the palm of his hand, but to no avail as the space itself was filled with the smell of sulfur.

“Quietly.”

Ewald spoke in a low voice.

“Usbel?”

“Yes, yes, master.”

“Can you hear me?”

“Thump, thump?”

Ewald nodded his head. However, contrary to his nervous voice, it was Ebalt with a long, raised expression on one of his lips.

“Found.”

Thud.

“Hee!”

A vibration that even Elif could feel resonated slightly in the space. How big is he that the sound of footsteps makes the air tremble?

“Howdy! Hey! Men and horses!”

“Mu, mu, mu, mu, what are you doing!”

Elif waved Ewald’s arm wildly, trying to get him to close his mouth, but Ewald was already waving his left arm.

“Here, here! Hey!”

“Me, me, me, me, me, me, are you crazy?”

“We’ll meet anyway, but it’s better to meet early.”

“Nothing better…”

Six pupils appeared behind the pillar on the other side.

“Ahh! aaagh!”

An elf running amok. However, Ewald did not think of stopping such an elf.

Those three dog heads emitting light with bright red eyes were terrifying enough to knock people into fainting.

Fully exposed from the stairs, Cerberus let out a sulphurous breath and swallowed the flames from his snout. It was exactly as described on the map of hell.

At the majesty of Cerberus, Ebalt created a perfect smile on his lips.

“Oops! Are you really Cerberus?”

Ewald drew his sword. Ewald’s sword was lifted into his hand with a cheerful sound of ‘Shoot’, and Ewald’s sword soared high into the air, and Ewald grinned and spat out magic words.

“Lysa.”

Light emanated from Ewald’s sword. A blue light that was infinitely close to white engulfed the dark space and spread in all directions.

“Here, here.”

At that moment, a terrifying scream exploded from Cerberus.

“aaa! Came out! It is a monster!”

Entering a semi-panic state, Elif hugged Usbel and sat down. Ewald started throwing nonsense, waving his light-emitting sword from side to side.

“Here, here. Come on. Woo-ju-ju-ju-ju.”

“Don’t call me!”

“Would it be more dangerous if I ran into that?”

Cerberus’ gaze began to follow the rhythm of Ewald’s left and right movement of the sword.

Left, right, left, right.

A huge body that was almost 3 meters tall at the shoulders approached Ewald with a thumping sound.

You have to look up to see how big it is. Ewald slowly moved to the right and started separating Cerberus from the others.

It’s huge. Ewald cursed out without realizing it.

“… hahahaha, you bastard Marcus, they said there are no dangerous monsters.”

Even without Marcus listening, Ewald, who had lost his temper for no reason, glared at Cerberus with a somewhat excited face. At that size, it’s at least Tier 8. Hopefully it will be around tier 9.

Ebalt lifted one corner of his mouth and smiled wickedly.

“There is something very interesting.”