22 I Rescue

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/25/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

We switch our heads and proceed down the hallway with Alice at maximum caution.

Even so, while being cautious I was showing viewers “shaki, spa” like I had FPS syndrome, and at first I thought “what am I doing”———but after getting hurt I thought (I really die) and it stopped being a joke.

While optimizing movement I walk slowly with Alice, looking around the hallway so as not to make blind spots as much as possible.

Going up floors, we encounter goblins several times.

It was when we’d come to the 16th floor taking about 30 minutes.
A certain comment came into view.

❝Emergency info! Bad, that hotel is bad!❞
❝What what❞
❝A big streamer is exploring the same hotel so I was simul-watching, there——there’s a Dominant Ogre! An ogre hyper-mutant!!❞
❝A Dominant Ogre! That’s a Floor 30 enemy, the deepest humanity’s reached……!❞
❝A Wandering Event!?❞
❝Even Wandering, a Floor 30 enemy on Floor 2 is brutal———❞
❝Run Suu-tan! On 18 a woman streamer got caught and is “about to be assaulted by the goblins”!!❞

I started running.
I take the stairs in one go.

❝Why are you going deeper!!❞

“I’m saving her.”

While running up the stairs I stick a grapple wire to the 17th-floor ceiling coming into view and fly.

“I’ll accompany you!!”

Alice flies on grapple wire too.

“Alice, go back!!”
“Please don’t joke at a time like this!!”

———Alice would go even alone.

“I’ve got the rear, then!?”
“Leave it to me!!”

❝Reckless!! Even Suu and Alice!! The enemy is a Floor 30 one! A Dominant Ogre from Floor 30 where exploration stopped because the enemies are too strong! An opponent that wrecked armies!!❞
❝Misses, Think again! That monster killed many of my men!!❞

Even Marine James-san is stopping us.
But it’s fine. If I die a copy of me won’t make anyone sad.

More than that, someone about to be assaulted is the problem.

“Comment everyone, please. Tell that streamer I’m coming right now! Don’t give up, buy time! ——Even in FateLege they say you don’t die, absolutely don’t let her suicide!!”

❝But———!❞
❝I’ll go tell her❞
❝Me too❞

When I attach a grapple wire to the 18th-floor ceiling, maybe they heard the sound, goblins appear at the top of the stairs. I immediately punch three brows.
But still six more come from behind the fallen goblins——tch, the numbers are high.

When I bring the Housekeeper sight in front of my eyes, a leaping sound behind.

Alice———, Alice was leaping on grapple wire while drawing Hotarumaru from her back.

“Awaken, Hotarumaru!”

(——Amazing jump power)

❝Alice-tan’s sealstone skill, 〖Gravity Control〗!❞

Then Alice goes without hesitation into the middle of the goblins.

“Seiyaaaa———”

She puts outrageous physical power on long Hotarumaru and spins once as if mowing.

The blue-glowing high-frequency blade splits the six goblins in two while scattering grains of light.

❝As expected——❞
❝Truly Crimson Flash Alice……❞

The goblins crystallize and vanish.

“Suu-san, let’s hurry.”
“Yeah!”

Probably the people who went to comment on that stream, a report comes in.

❝Knowing Suu and Alice are coming, the streamer is resisting desperately! At this point both of you, do your best!!❞
❝The viewers over there are saying thanks like crazy. Do your best!❞

And even viewers from over there seem to have come.

❝Suu-san! Thank you!!❞
❝Hurry!!❞
❝Save Otoko-aaaa!!❞

“Leave it to us!!”
“Leave it to us!!”

The two of us keep moving like flying using grapple wires.
Then———

(There!!)

I find a room where a mass of goblins are clustering.

“Stooooop———!!”

Hanging from the grapple wire I confirm a shadow that seems to be Otoko-san, then sweep the Housekeeper avoiding her.

Goblins falling in a blink.

Otoko-san, face wet with tears all over, turned pupils at me like asking for help.

“I’ll save you now!!”

Otoko-san’s apparent pilot suit is in tatters. Goblins cluster on Otoko-san’s face and body, licking with long purple tongues.

Otoko-san is desperately trying to push them back.

I punch every remaining brow of the goblins still clustering on Otoko-san.

“Ill-san, can you mosaic Otoko-san’s body in real time?!”
“Yes, My Master. Alice-sama, please transfer camera control.”
“Transfer camera authority to Swallowtail.”

❝Suu-san, Otoko-san got mosaiced!❞
❝Otoko-san’s body isn’t visible so you can fight freely❞

“Thank you for telling us!”

Freed Otoko-san tried to run this way.——But her arm is pulled and something huge lifts her.

That’s the Dominant Ogre!?

A giant that must be 3 meters, stooping because the hotel ceiling is low, was dangling Otoko-san.

Info displays on my retina. Ogre-type hyper-mutant, Dominant Ogre.——No mistake.

Even so this Dominant Ogre——the look is beige flesh piled unshapely, red arteries and green veins like hoses wrapped on at random; really creepy.

The Dominant Ogre leers nastily with a pulsing beige human-like face.
This one doesn’t have an ant face.

The Dominant Ogre shows struggling Otoko-san this way like showing off a catch it reeled in.

I fire a round trying to punch the ogre’s brow.
——But the ogre stops the bullet with its palm. And the hole the bullet opened in the ogre’s hand closes at once.

It has regen——and outrageously fast.

❝Miss Suu!! That thing heals infinitely!! Blowing the head, blowing the heart, useless!❞

Info from James-san.
I see———.

While I’m thinking a plan, Alice shouts behind.

“I’m charging!!”

I reel the wire and jump to the ceiling.

A red afterimage ran under my eyes. She used 〖Gravity Control〗 probably; outrageous speed like a flash.

“Awaken, Hotarumaru!”

Alice takes Hotarumaru and spins like a bullet, raising a whirlwind, and slams into the ogre.

In front of the ogre Alice for an instant shuts her eyes and seems to inhale, then,

“Dooooooo!!”

she swung Hotarumaru through.

The ogre’s torso is bisected and shifts.

But already a lower body is starting to grow from the upper.——The ogre’s body is still falling.

“——But.”

I blow a sharp breath through closed teeth.

Then I slam my feet on the floor and leap.

(Enter, the zone!!)

The ogre lost balance from Alice’s one stroke——then complete!!

I stick a grapple wire to the room ceiling and charge the window while flying.

I kick through the glass and jump outside the hotel.

❝Whoa———what are you doing, Suu-san!!❞

I came to the inside of the doughnut of the doughnut-shaped cylinder building.

“It regenerates as much as it wants? ——Then!”

I stick a grapple wire to the ogre’s chest.

“Alice———!!”
“———Yes!!”

Alice cut the ogre’s arm holding Otoko-san with “Koteeeeee!”
Then on the return stroke she cuts off the ogre’s regenerating legs and kicks the ogre away.

Alice lowered the ogre’s weight with 〖Gravity Control〗 probably. Even just the upper body looks twice Alice’s weight as a giant, but it flew easily.

I try to pull the ogre out the window on the momentum.
But the ogre struggles and tries to resist. It tries to hook the wristless arm on the window frame.
In that time the ogre’s hand is trying to recover.

Falling, I rapid-fire the Housekeeper into the ogre’s brow.

❝Wait…… wait wait wait❞
❝Full-auto and while falling she’s keeping rounds exactly on the brow!?❞
❝Ridiculous recoil……❞

“Even if you can regen however much, if the brain is destroyed you can’t think!”

The ogre’s arm loosens toward the air.

But I fall too, the wire catches on the window frame, and I’m slammed into the wall like a pendulum.

“——Guh.”

I go “then” and put my feet on the wall and yank the wire hard.
But over here I only have a normal high-school girl’s strength. The ogre barely moves.
Then Alice kicked the ogre up again, I guess; the giant is thrown completely outside the window.

I put one wire over my shoulder and accelerate the airborne ogre.
My soles on the wall slip, and my body starts falling.

Pulled by the ogred that gained momentum, my body is floated into the air——then after a slight float I start falling.

I confirm the ogre has come to a position where it can’t grab anything anymore, and relea——no good.
The ogre grabbed my grapple wire.

“You———!! Let go!!”

I reel the wire and close on the ogre.
While doing that I sweep the ogre’s wrists with the Housekeeper.
Rounds with power that on Earth would be mistaken for an anti-materiel rifle tear the ogre’s arms off.

I kick the ogre’s chest that came close and reverse.
I extend the grapple wire again——stick it to the original window frame, and return inside just like that.

The ogre falls alone. Slammed into the ground under the hotel, it becomes a blood puddle.
But that thing will probably revive.

I return to the room and shout.

“Alice, Otoko-san, we’re running!!”
“Yes!”
“U-un!!”

We don’t need to defeat it.

The military people couldn’t win; could I win.
——Then I won’t fight.

❝Miss Suu, the best judgment…… some of my men survived that way too……❞

I stop Otoko-san, who tries to run for the stairs, with my arm and hug her.

Otoko-san’s face went bright red.

“Eh!? What!? Is Suu ‘that’ kind of person!?”

Otoko-san looked up at tall me a little from below.

Th-that’s not it!

Incidentally Otoko-san was super soft.

Even so, Otoko-san is Kansai dialect?

Holding Otoko-san I kick and break the window on the opposite side from the one the ogre fell from. I explain simply to Otoko-san.

“This way is faster I think! Swallowtail, come!!”

While snapping my fingers I connect a grapple wire to the window frame and jump outside with momentum.

At my action Otoko-san screams.

“——Wait, kyaaaaaaaaa!!”

I stick the grapple wire to Swallow-san’s gangway that arrived in a blink and reel it in.

When we come under the gangway I have Otoko-san climb the ladder first and I climb too.

Otoko-san was in the cabin, teary-eyed.
Her laid-back-looking face is a mess.

“T-too scary! ——Does Suu have a broken sense of fear!?”
“Ah———I forgot about being scared……”
“No no, fear isn’t something you forget like an oops, is it!?”
“Anyway we can’t leave the ogre like that.”
“Wait wait, we finally escaped and you’re still getting involved!?”
“The hotel people are in danger.”
“Ah, that’s so.…… The hotel folks seem to have fled to the top floor and holed up. Guests luckily weren’t there because of the Alien Kraken.”

I’d completely forgotten Alien Kraken too.

“I see…… Otoko-san, there’s my spare pilot suit in that storage so please put it on. If we fly in Swallow-san there might be G, so for safety please sit in the upper cockpit seat.”
“I’m putting on Suu’s pilot suit———?”
“Ah…… I washed it.”
“What…… you washed it.”

I sit in the cockpit like an F1 car or canoe with wings and VR-connect.

Butler Ill-san pops in and the guide starts.

“All green, Swallowtail. Standby OK.”

Seeing Otoko-san sit above and fix her body with the belt, I tell Ill-san.

“Launch.”
“Model ST-81 Swallowtail, launching.”