Ch 232: Remember, you’re not alone

Ch 232: Remember, you’re not alone

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"BLUE WIND, NO!" shouts Delia beside me as the spear in her hands extends at blinding speed towards the boss's body before she has time to react.

The spear penetrates through the acidic cloud and begins to pierce the boss’ body repeatedly, causing the gas to close around it at the speed of the talking weapon's movement.

As this happens, Delia looks at her spear with tears in her eyes, as I and Alessia watch helplessly.

Only a few seconds later, a shrill screech is heard, and the cloud begins to disappear as the colossal spider's body dissolves into golden particles.

Delia panics at the thought that she might lose her companion and quickly begins to cast detoxification into the spear as it retracts to regain its normal length.Ne/w novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

But then the three of us are surprised to notice that she has no damage.

'- Don't you ever do anything like that to me again!'

'- It's all right, Delia. I knew that the cloud couldn't do anything to me. I am too sacred for something like that to pose a threat to me.'

"How come the weapon isn't damaged?..." asks Alessia to me as she approaches us.

"...I saw in the front row how the arrow you shot towards that cloud disintegrated into nothingness itself."

"Perhaps... the Celestial Chalice rune gives magical resistance to the weapon that possesses it. If we assume that that acid cloud was magical, and considering that Blue Wind has an enhanced version of Celestial Chalice, that's the only explanation I can think of for this..." I say, as I look with renewed curiosity at the weapon in Delia's hands while pondering the subject out loud.

I am increasingly amazed at how bizarre the creation I contributed to making is.

"...By the way, Delia, why didn't you alter the direction of Blue Wind while she was extending? If you had done so, you could have prevented her from putting herself at risk like that."

"It was all too fast! I didn't know how to react in time!" says Delia, wiping away her tears with the back of her left hand while looking furiously at the spear she holds in her right hand.

Delia checks it from several angles to see if it doesn't have any damage she hasn't seen yet.

"Well, that's something you need to work on. Nothing bad happened today, thankfully. But in another situation, we could end up seriously injured if you freeze like that...." I say, putting away my bow and sitting down on the floor while leaning my back against one of the walls of the room to rest for a moment, before walking through the doors leading to the next floor.

"....And I'm not just talking about this last moment. At the beginning of the fight, you also stood idly by for several seconds while Alessia risked her life for us."

"Don't talk nonsense, Master; I wasn't risking my life. That thing could never have touched me unless I allowed it to," says Alessia, full of herself, as she sits down next to me and leans against my right side.

'And there we go again with that new attitude of hers. Haa.... One of my girls is overconfident, and the other is too shy. I wish they could learn from each other to balance their personalities a little bit'

After these words, Delia swallows saliva and looks with visible fear at the door that would lead us towards the tenth floor of the labyrinth.

"... Don't be frightened. Remember what I told you a moment ago? You are not alone. We are a team, and we are more than capable of facing any danger if we are together. Don't you trust me?" I say, taking her by the chin and forcing her, with my left hand, to look directly into my eyes.

"Y-" Delia starts to say, but then I plant a playful kiss on her lips, which silences her response.

Delia instantly kisses me back passionately, her hands flying to my hair to cling to me and prevent me from pulling away as she caresses my head.

I let her do what she wants with me until....

After a few moments, it seems to dawn on her where we are, and she gives me a slight push to pull me away and open her mouth so she can continue talking, but something interrupts her intentions again.

"Huh? What happened? Emir?" asks a confused Alessia as she wakes up to our movements.

"It's nothing, Alessia. You can go back to sleep if you want. I was just talking to Delia about the No man's zone," I say, laughing as I see Delia's frustrated face, who again has to swallow her words.

"I wasn't sleeping! I was just.... resting my eyes for a bit. I think those Boss fumes irritated my eyesight a bit," Alessia says quickly.

"Why didn't you say so before? I can heal you!" says Delia, getting on all fours to get closer to Alessia and better examine her face.

"No... there's no need. I'm fine now," says Alessia, shielding herself with her hands so that the more than obvious lie, which the naive Delia is not picking up on, doesn't show on her face.

Laughing again at the scene in front of me, I say, playing along, "Well, since you weren't asleep, can we go on exploring some more now?"

"Yes, we can go on as long as you want," Alessia says as she slyly removes a speck of eye booger from her right eye.

"Good. Likewise, if we want to rest in the No man's zone, we could do that. I got some very interesting toys in the war zone," I say with a mischievous smile while I take out the Pseudo dimension magic object that Fabio's guild gifted me.

[Pseudo Dimension: Small pseudo dimension, both the bearer and those in his team will be invisible to monsters belonging to the No Man's Zones. Effect valid for monsters under level 50.]

The magic object has the shape of a little crystal ball, with no special details in sight.

But I guess, when activated in the No Man's Zone, it will create some kind of invisible barrier around us.

'- I don't like the way Master’s words sound... Those kinds of objects are usually very expensive... Haa.... I just hope Master didn't steal it. No... he wouldn't be that stupid to steal something from the kingdom's army.'

'Alessia is looking at me suspiciously....

She must be trying to guess how I got this item, but....

If she knew who this object came from and the story behind how I acquired it, she wouldn't have any objection to it....

But I'm not going to say anything about it....

It's better to keep a little mystery in our relationship....

Lately, I've been revealing too many things for my liking'