Chapter 278: 【Adventurer Mitran】The Reunion of Archaeologist Leseida and the "Ruins Plunderer" Ibrabarleg

Chapter 278: 【Adventurer Mitran】The Reunion of Archaeologist Leseida and the "Ruins Plunderer" Ibrabarleg 【Adventurer Mitran】The Reunion of Archaeologist Leseida and the “Ruins Plunderer” Ibrabarleg

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“Whether it’s an accident or an incident... there might be injured people there, right!? We have to help them!”

After receiving my report that “I smell blood,” Leseida-san thought for a bit and reached that conclusion.

Leseida-san is a strange person who becomes blind to other things when it comes to ruins, but at heart, Leseida-san is straightforward and kind.

That point is very admirable.

But as a bodyguard!

I really wish Leseida-san would stop running ahead, leaving me behind!

“Wait! Wait for me, Leseida-san!”

So, having allowed Leseida-san to go ahead, I, Mitran the adventurer bodyguard, am now hurriedly chasing after Leseida-san’s back...

This is really a deduction point for an adventurer’s response!

My cheats have a flaw.

Whether it’s 【Super Intuition】, 【Super Senses】, or 【Super Combat Instinct】 that allows me to intuitively respond appropriately in combat against any opponent...

There is a “fluctuation” in their activation.

Sometimes, they don’t activate when I really want them to, and I make mistakes.

Like this time, I couldn’t immediately respond to Leseida-san running off.

My cheats alone don’t make me a perfect superhuman.

In a sense, that could be said to be very protagonist-like.

The old man Adventure God seems to have set this “fluctuation” because he wants me to “ultimately rely on my own power and experience instead of cheats”...

But at times like this, I really think “give me a break”!

In the end, it’s my own fault for being slow to judge, and I know it’s misguided to complain to the old man Adventure God!

“Hey, wait, you guys! What in the world... did you do!?”

Well, I finally caught up to Leseida-san in a somewhat spacious small room located a few staircases down from the room where we were investigating earlier.

The worst part is that the situation has already progressed before I could stop it!

Leseida-san is already confronting a group of four men with clearly shady faces in the room!

“Ugh!”

And I unintentionally covered my mouth with one hand.

Because there was the corpse of a man who had been horribly beaten and was staining the floor red with a large slash wound.

It’s been years since I was reincarnated from relatively safe Japan to this conflict-ridden world of Ardyst, but I still can’t get used to human corpses.

This is also one of my flaws as an adventurer that my cheats can’t solve...

“Ah!”

“Those guys...!”

But I wasn’t the only one turning pale in this situation.

Two of the four men, the ones wearing eyepatches, were pointing at us while trembling and saying something to the large, bearded man.

Ah!

Those two were the ruffians who were bothering Leseida-san in the town of Nebo!

“Oh my, well well. Long time no see, Leseida-kun.”

In this confusion-dominated situation, the next one to speak was... a dandy-looking man with a deep-brimmed hat and a goatee.

That man stepped forward from the back, addressed Leseida-san by name, and greeted like that.

“Kukuku... there’s no need to reach. If I use my unique ability.”

“What did you say!?”

The one who let out a surprised voice upon hearing the words “unique ability” was Leseida-san.

A unique ability... if I remember correctly, it’s a special power that individuals possess, different from magic...

Judging from the conversation so far, Leseida-san and Ibrabarleg are former acquaintances.

Despite that, Leseida-san doesn’t know about it.

...He was hiding it?

“It’s a bit unfair, so I kept quiet about it to look cool in front of Leseida-kun, but I possess a unique ability. And the name of that unique ability is... 【Scan】.”

“【Scan】... you say!?”

Pishi!

Pishi!

Pishi!

The light whip strikes, strikes, strikes the floor!

“Yes. It’s a convenient supportive unique ability that allows me to grasp and understand the structure of various things like magic. If you use this, you can do various things. You can grasp the structure of ruins at once and easily explore them, and by scanning the human body... kukuku, you can even perform efficient torture.”

“You...!”

Pishi!

Pishi!

Pishi!

“And let’s see.”

Ibrabarleg said that while smiling coldly.

Something bad is going to happen!

My non-cheat instincts are screaming that!

But I don’t know what to do or what will happen.

My body won’t move!

“Like which stone to strike to collapse the floor of the ruins that have become brittle due to age! I can even figure out things like that!”

“Oh no...!”

Hearing those words, I tried to lift up Leseida-san and jump back from the spot, but... I was a step too late.

GARARARA...!

With a loud noise, the ruins’ floor collapsed, and a large hole opened there.

Leseida-san and I were helplessly caught up in the floor’s collapse...!

“Farewell, my student Leseida!! No one will interfere with my exploration!! The magic sword ‘Soul Devourer’ sleeping in these ruins is mine!!”

While hearing Ibrabarleg’s triumphant voice... we fell into the large hole that opened up... into the deep, deep darkness.

【Kiralimake】

Appeared in Arc 5.

A school in the country of Teenidys, officially named the “Royal Kiralimake Academy.”

Currently, a little bird named Fate Goddess Allofa or something is using this academy as the stage to shoot an otome game-style isekai reincarnation broadcast.

【Magic Sword “Soul Devourer”】

A magic sword whose fake version appeared in Arc 13.

It seems to be a well-known existence that even appears in fairy tales.