However, it is generally agreed upon that it is a word that is being used to describe the act of worshiping or deifying someone, and the ones who worship and deify someone are called worshipers. And when you stop to think about it for a moment, worshiping their lord can be said to be an essence of a being a Knight.
I take a Mabream out after teaching Roxanne the Skill incantation, and we continue to hunt until we eventually get two Whole Fishes.
「Here, desu!」
Miria brings the two Whole Fish over to me while literally beaming with happiness. I receive the fish and put them in my Item Box.
「Alright. With this, we have our two Whole Fish just like we planned. Let’s move on to the Boss Room now then, shall we?」
「Understood.」
Roxanne says as she walks ahead of me.
Ah! I know the location of the Boss Room. I know it... but for some reason I can’t recall it properly.
No, no, no, it’s not that I have forgotten such a crucial piece of information. My memory is perfect, after all. It’s just that as we were wandering around the inside of the caverns and tunnels of the Labyrinth in search of Mabreams, I have completely lost track of where we were and which way we took in order to get here. It’s not a memory issue, just a matter of getting disoriented due to all the corridors looking the exact same no matter where we went.
Because we have already reached the outside the Boss Room once, I can use 「Dungeon Walker] to jump to the small Waiting Room outside the Boss Room, but...
「Sherry, do you remember the direction we need to take to go back to the Boss Room?」
「No, I don’t.」
Even Sherry says that she doesn’t remember the way that we needed to take. It’s not I whose memory is weak.
「Ah, I feel like I have seen this intersection before. No, it’s probably different. Oh well, I can’t tell whether it’s the same one or a different one at all.」
「A while ago, I noticed the smell of a person disappearing from the other side of the door. I think they must have been someone who has entered the Boss Room.」
「Is that so?」
「Yes, that is so.」
When I look at Sherry, she nods, so it really seems to be the case. Thereafter, we took two more groups of the enemies around the Waiting Room out to kill some time.
When we came back after a while, the door to the Boss Room were really opened, so we proceeded to enter inside to finally face the Floor Boss. Since it was not already waiting for us, I guess that has to mean that the other Party managed to successfully defeat it and move on head, even though the battle took them quite a lot of time.
The door closes behind us and smoke gathers at two points of the room, and after a short delay, two monsters are finally making their appearance.
Since the points where the smoke gathered at were high in the air, it was clear that the accompanying monster would be a Bitch Butterfly.
The boss, Black Diamond Tuna, is swimming in the air, too. It doesn’t have feet like Mabreams had. It’s truly a fish, in every sense of the word. A fish that swims in the sky instead of water, but a fish nonetheless.
「I’ll clean up the small fry first, as usual.」
「To serve my lord, to not just defend them with my body, but to worship them — Defense!」
Roxanne recites the incantation of 「Defense」 Skill and activates it. Right after that, Sherry and Miria confront the Floor Boss alongside her, too. I approach the Bitch Butterfly and smash Durandal into it. The butterfly collapses quickly under the barrage of my 「Rushes」. Once it was done for, I join the attack on the Floor Boss alongside the girls.
As for the Black Diamond Tuna itself, it’s a slightly more than one-meter-long fish, which should be expected since it has tina in its name. That being said, I cannot definitely say if its is more of a bluefin tuna or southern bluefin tuna that is present in my old world. It is also colored black from its head to its tail and possesses the scales that seem to be pretty tough to break through. As expected of something whose name itself sound quite strong and imposing.
Roxanne dodges the initial charge from the Black Diamond Tuna and proceeds to attack it with her weapon. Sherry warned us that it is going to be fast, but I never expected that it is actually going to be that fast.
It then advances to stab into her. To be honest, I have no confidence in being able to evade that kind of attack. It’s a relief that Roxanne has her godly dodging abilities that can essentially allow her to play with that kind of enemy however she wants.
I approach it from around the side and smash Durandal into it. The tuna swings its tail fin and attacks Miria who was standing behind it. So it even has such a trick up its sleeve, huh?
Miria crouches half a foot down and dodges the attack. Finding the opening when the tuna was trying to attack Miria, Sherry thrusts her spear into its side. I take a hack at it with Durandal whenever I can, too.
Even if the Black Diamond Tuna can attack in the front and back of it, it has nothing to take care of its sides or any ways of protecting them from incoming attacks of a focused Party like ours.