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Chapter 17 - Trial of the Tower: Floor 3. First Night

Inside a cabin where you can't see an inch in front of you.

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-So, are you coming today? Or not?

If my prediction is correct, there's a high probability the rapist will watch for about 1-2 days before attacking.

But you never know.

The real culprit might be horny and come to attack today, or might not.

I don't want to gamble with my baby room, so I can't sleep.

- I'm just gonna sleep

- Yeah, he probably won't come today

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While lightly joking around with the viewers like that.

Thump. Thump...

Someone's footsteps are slowly heard.

"Shh..."

- Gasp

- He really came, damn

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Quickly deleting the chat window, I pretend to sleep.

Quiet breathing, exhaling with regular and comfortable breaths, waiting for the other person to come in.

After a bit of time passes,

- Squeak...

The old wooden door opens with a friction sound.

- Clack..!

And closes.

'Now.'

I can't allow that dirty rapist to touch even a thread of my clothes.

Like a cat in the dark, I quietly and quickly run and strike the rapist's abdomen.

- Thwack!

"Ugh!"

Taking advantage of the moment he bent over from the unexpected surprise attack, I put him in a rear naked choke, blocking his airway. "Kuh...! Ugh!"

A desperate struggle to live.

He tries to release my hands, scratches, and stomps his feet, but the arm completely wrapped around his neck will never be released.

And after a while,

The unknown man's body droops down, losing consciousness.

"Hmph, it's nothing."

Laying the man on the bed, I light a small candle to check his face.

His identity is,

"Paul?"

Paul, the red-haired village chief's son.

"Wait, this..."

Feeling uneasy, I take off his pants.

"Ah, damn it..."

There's no scar on his lower abdomen.

I'm screwed...

*

-Should we just kill that bastard?

- LOLOLOLOL

- Damn it, I knew this would happen.

- It's okay, let's start by abandoning the body

"No, you can't kill him..."

I'm fucked.

I'm so angry I want to stab the sleeping Paul in the neck as he lies sprawled on my bed, oblivious to the world. But killing him will lead to a failure of the true ending. "Why did this bastard come?"

Is it perhaps a gimmick that the culprit turns out to be two people?

"No, no, the victim's statement was the same. Besides, this bastard..."

I pull his pants down further and check one more time.

"It's small?"

- Gasp

- T_T

- Paul is a baby

- Small penis...

- What

- LOLOLOL

- Uh-huh!

- Hey hey hey

- Damn, he looks pathetic like that

- Isn't this because he couldn't meet a girl because of that, so he came all the way here?

"Ahem ahem... Is that so? Anyway, how should we deal with this guy?"

The most ordinary method is to say that he attacked me while I was sleeping, so I fought back and subdued him...

'But then the real culprit won't come.'

I've been advertising myself as a woman who is unguarded and easy to take advantage of, wouldn't that all be in vain?

If so...

"Where was this bastard's house again?"

I have no choice.

Surely, he won't wake up in the morning and spread rumors like, 'I went to rape that female adventurer~, but I got hit and choked unconscious~'.

- LOLOLOL

- He'll be dumbfounded when he wakes up tomorrow

- He probably won't be able to show his face from embarrassment

- He can't talk, though lol

In the end, I carry him on my back and secretly go into his room, quietly laying him down.

- Thwack!

As punishment for bothering me, I hit his thigh once before coming out. Tomorrow, he'll probably feel some muscle pain.

"Hoo..."

I couldn't sleep and carried a heavy load, even doing a round trip, so I'm quite exhausted.

More than anything, I feel so empty and futile because the culprit I thought I caught wasn't the real one.

"Sigh, I'm just going to sleep. If someone comes, the donation alarm, you know? I'm only trusting you guys?"

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[Ding~]

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- Idiots, if it ends here, the porn also ends

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'What is it.'

As soon as I hear the donation message sound, I jump up.

"Huh?"

"Hmm!"

Someone is half-riding on top of my body.

Quickly assessing the situation, I lift my knee and strike the guy's groin area.

- Thud

But he barely avoids it by closing his legs.

A fist flying from the darkness.

Turning my head to dodge it, I gather my legs to the limit again, then kick his upper body.

- Bang!!

He flies away and lightly collides with the wooden wall, landing stably on the ground.

"Who is it!"

He's no ordinary guy. The only person in this village capable of such movements is...

- Clang!

The sound of drawing a sword.

I also grab the spear placed next to the bed and aim it at him.

In an instant, a quiet tension fills the air.

A dark cabin where only silhouettes can barely be identified.

The only light is a very faint ray of moonlight flowing from the ceiling.

Silently glaring at each other, we charge toward each other without a word.

- Swoosh!!

A blurry shape, footsteps, breathing sounds.

Identifying his location with everything, I strongly thrust the spear.

The spear tip glitters in the moonlight.

However, he sets the sword sideways, pushing away the spear and charging forward.

And pouring the power of his charge into the sword, he swings it.

Swish-

Quickly withdrawing the spear and stepping back at the same time, the sword is swung in the place where I was.

My upper body almost got cut in half.

'That crazy bastard... he's trying to kill me?'

"[Haste]"

An enemy that absolutely cannot be won by fighting casually. It's only agility 1, but it's better than nothing.

Without attacking recklessly, I use the distance created to aim for his legs, keeping him in check.

He tries to charge at the gap, but only receives a light wound from the quickly recovered spear and repeatedly retreats.

"Kuh, you... were you hiding your skills?"

A grave, middle-aged voice. He can't easily approach me, focusing on avoiding getting stabbed by the spear.

"Weren't you hiding that dirty desire, instead?"

- Clang!

He barely deflects the spear and steps back.

A dark space.

I don't give him a chance to identify the location of the spear.

Feint attacks and real attacks in the invisible dark space pour in dazzlingly.

Pretending to aim for his legs, I strike his head. Unfortunately, it only hits his shoulder, but wounds accumulate on his body.

"Damn it... this can't be."

He tries to charge desperately, but when his hand gets stabbed by my spear, he hurriedly retreats again.

"How

something like this

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Sparks fly from the spear and his sword clashing. My spear gets pushed back by his power, but as he approaches, the spear that reappears from somewhere scratches past his calf.

"Kuh... such a ridiculous... me, to a woman."

The difference isn't in power, but in skill and experience.

"Reflect in death."

I deliver the final blow towards his neck.

At that moment, his eyes glow blue in the darkness.

"You brought this on yourself."

Along with his words, tremendous energy gathers in his body.

- Kwaaaang!!!

'That's... aura?'

The gathered mana causes an explosion, collapsing the shabby cabin and sending my body flying outside.

"Kuh!"

Among the scattering dust and log fragments, he opens his bluish eyes and, with blue mana imbued in his sword, instantly charges in the shortest distance.

Knocking away the flying pieces of wood with the spear to obscure his vision, I quickly roll to the side to avoid him.

- Voom Voom Voom!!!

The sound of air tearing echoes in the place where I was just a moment ago, and he carefully takes a fighting stance again.

"Ha! I expected it, but the difficulty is really crazy!"

I knew it when he blocked my flying fist at the village chief's house.

His face, now properly visible in the faint moonlight.

"Guard Captain Michael! Why did you attack me!!!"

People are already starting to gather little by little at the sound of the cabin exploding.

But Michael in front of me shows no sign of backing down. Rather, blue mana seems to be gathering more and more from his whole body. I can feel his resolute will to focus only

on conval

"Ha!"

I like it.

Although a shitty situation has unfolded, I'm happy instead.

How long has it been?

How long has it been since a life-or-death struggle?

How long has it been since a blood-boiling duel!!!

The moment I see his thigh muscles compressing, the ground shatters instantly, and he arrives right in front of me.

- Swish!!

Evading the sword stabbing my chest by a paper's width between my breasts, I try to stab with the spear but-

Like touching a rapidly rotating cog, the spear tip bounces up.

I greatly step back to avoid his second horizontal slash.

"I'm sorry, but die here. Undercover investigator Pitchina Ibenstein."

'Shit.'

He knew everything?

The air changes. Blue mana is concentrated and gathered on the Guard Captain's blade.

A spatial slash using sword aura.

A crescent-shaped sword wave that cuts through space approaches vertically.

The air vibrates, and the ground splits.

"Hoo!!"

Taking a deep breath and quickly dodging to the side, his blue aura-infused sword comes down in an instant as if he was waiting, about to cut my body in half.

Intertwined.

My spear tip and his sword intertwine in the air.

Of course, the aura-infused sword overwhelmingly cuts down the spear as it comes down, but in that small gap.

Redirects.

The trajectory of the sword is twisted, and in the gap where the speed is slowed.

Abandoning the spear, I escape the space of the sword and penetrate inside him.

"What?"

He must have expected me to block it until the end because his body was completely leaning forward.

Gathering all the power from my lower body. I load all the gathered power into a single punch and accurately strike his chin.

- Pow!!

Even as his body falters, he tries to swing the sword horizontally, but I duck my waist completely to avoid it and strongly sweep his legs, knocking him over.

"Keugh?"

And picking up the spear stuck in the ground, I stab his chest.

- Crack!!!

His heart explodes, scattering red blood around.

"Keuheuk... how?"

His eyes waver. More than the fact that he is dying, his expression is one of not understanding the match just now.

"Talent."

- Thud...

Michael's eyes shake as if asking what that even means, then stop.

I'm sorry, but I have nothing more to say.

No, in fact, there are more than 20 things I want to critique about the battle just now, but there's no time.

'Hoo... what should I do now.'

Everyone is holding their breath and watching the sudden commotion. Everyone is flustered because crazy people destroyed a house and flew around fighting in the middle of the

night.

Before they start questioning me first, I take the initiative.

'There's no need to reveal that I'm an investigator.'

"Phew, everyone!! I caught the crazy sex offender who came into my room!!"

"Oh?"

"Ah...?"

"The Guard Captain is a sex offender...?"

I mustn't give them time to come to their senses.

What I'm saying is obviously the truth, but there's no evidence to present right now, and these crazy village people might try to kill me even if they know.

Of course, I won't lose, but then all the efforts I've put in so far will be in vain.

First, I take out a sack prepared in advance from the destroyed cabin and put Michael in it.

Before putting him in, I secretly check below, and there was a scar and another arm. He was the culprit after all.

"Um... what's going on?"

"The Guard Captain!! What are you doing right now!!"

Those who were usually close to him must have slowly come to their senses, as they try to block me.

'Damn it, this mission sucks.'

The shitty part about the Floor 3 trial.

In order to arrest the culprit and achieve the true ending, you have to safely bring even the corpse to the city for it to end. So, operations like assassinations or snipers aren't easy

either.

'Whatever I don't care.'

As I run with the sack containing his corpse, the village people start chasing after me with weapons.

"Catch him!!!"

"He's a murderer, catch him!!!!"

"No, this bastard is a sex offender!!"

And before I knew it, I arrived at the village entrance.

"Ah..."

How unlucky can I be?

The huge herbalist Rood is standing guard right in front of the gate.

'Damn it, there's no time...'

But then,

"Go, quickly!"

'Huh???'

He subtly makes way for me, even opening the door.

'What is it...'

I don't know what kind of story there is. But I've been shown kindness.

I slightly lower my head and as I leave, the door closes again.

I hear a commotion from inside, and the door opens again soon after, but the distance between me and them was already quite far.

"Wow!! Damn it, you guys succeeded!!"

Of course, it's too early to rest assured.

Quickly untying the horse tied near the village, I get on and ride away.

Eventually, the distance between me and the chasing village people gets further and further, disappearing from sight.

I really did it...

"Hahahahaha!!! This is it!! This is it!!"

The joy of victory that boils up after a long time.

"Guys, isn't this the world's first? Floor 3 SS Rank!!!"

That's right.

A Guard Captain who suddenly appears and even uses aura.

Even the difficulty of knowing my identity in advance.

Of course, even if I just fight, it's an S rank, but if I clear the true ending conditions safely, the rank increases further.

As far as I've heard, no one has received SS rank here.

With anticipation, I open the chat window.

"How was I?"

- Kyaa

- He fights so well, what is he?

- Wow... I was amazed

- I admit it this time

- How did you win?

- Kyaaaaa~

- I heard rumors and came, I'll look at your breasts

- Is it really the world's first?

- I heard it's the first in the country?

- Damn, that's amazing

- Oh....

- Is that Do-hui?

"Hahahahahahaha!!"

This is the taste of doing a broadcast. Yes!

- Hmph~

"???"

Suddenly, the scenery reverses.

I feel a sense of floating from my body, falling off the horse and flying through the air.

"Eh?"

'Why?'

-Crash Bang Bang!!

The horse, with its speed as it was running, crashes into the ground and rolls roughly.

"Kwak... Keuh!!"

It feels like I've been in a car accident. I can't breathe properly.

'What the hell?'

The cause soon comes into view.

- Kieeeet!

- Kishaat!!

Goblins. Numerous goblins are running wildly excited from the forest to the road.

And then I remember the words of the village people.

[Originally, we don't accept adventurers, but goblins often appear around here, so we can't just turn a blind eye.]

[There have been a lot more monsters near here lately.]

[Please take on a monster extermination request around here later. The goblins are rampant these days, so the women can't go outside...]

[It's dangerous outside the village, so we have to go to the well together.]

And even the village's seemingly excessively strong wooden fence...

All the clues were warning to be careful of the goblins.

"Haha... so, the SS-class reward won't be given easily, huh?"

I knew things were going too well.

"Come in all at once, I'll kill you all!"

Tonight might be a long night.

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