Genius Hero
"Master, something black is wriggling around."
Shiro points to the end of the passage.
I think there is definitely something there.
"It's making some kind of noise."
"Yes, it is."
"Are there more of them?"
"It's increasing."
"Isn’t that what it is?"
"That?"
"You know, that thing you often see in kitchens."
"That thing?"
"That thing that glows black"
"Glows black?"
"When you take your eyes off it, it flies."
"That thing that flies?"
"That's what I'm talking about!"
"What's that thing?"
"It's G! G!"
(TN: G = gokiburi, meaning cockroach.)
"What is G?"
"It's a roach! A roach!"
"Roach?"
"You don't know about roaches?"
"I don't know, but..."
"It's a cockroach!"
"Cockroach?"
"It’s the cockroach that everyone hates!"
"Is it some kind of scary monster?"
"It's not a monster, it's an insect!"
"It's a huge insect."
"Hmm... huge?"
I looked at G, which was wriggling.
It's definitely big. Or rather, it's too big.
Is it about 1 meter long?
A large army of 1 meter class G's filled the passageway and were coming towards us.
"Shiro! Release wind magic!"
"I got it!"
When Shiro released her wind magic, the group of G who was running at the front was torn to pieces.
"Good, that's good! Keep them coming!"
"I got it!"
Shiro uses wind magic repeatedly and quickly defeats G.
However, no matter how many times you defeat them, a new G will appear beyond the corpse of the defeated G.
"Master! No matter how many times I defeat them, there is no end!"
"I understand! I'll help too!"
I used wind magic to defeat G along with Shiro, but I quickly ran out of mana.
"Damn it! There are too many. Ori Hime! Act change, Ori Hime Sword!"
"Kyui!"
Ori Hime changes form into Ori Hime Sword, which resembles a Japanese sword.
"Okay! I'll kill you!"
I didn't want to get close to G, but I was out of mana so I had no choice.
As a matter of fact, we can't move forward unless we defeat the hordes of G.
I use my 3rd dan kendo skills from my previous life and the sword skills I cultivated during my time as an adventurer to defeat G one after another, but there are simply too many of them.
No matter how good the Ori Hime Sword is, it was no match for the sheer force of numbers.
"Darn it! No matter how many I slash, they keep coming!"
"Master! I'm about to run out of mana!"
"Squeeze out your mana!"
"Master! It's impossible! If we continue like this, we'll be wiped out!"
"Damn it! That's right... let's go back to the 32nd level!"
In the end, there was nothing we could do to defeat the glowing black G, and we were defeated.
ーーー
"Haa, haa, haa..."
Somehow we managed to shake off the black glowing G, and we were looking up at the ceiling on the 32nd level, lying down.
"Haa, haa, haa...... it looks like it will be difficult to conquer the 33rd level......"
"Indeed...... if the stage has a sky like the 5th or 22nd level, we can just fly through the air and move around, but the 33rd level is a labyrinth stage with a stone ceiling,......"
"What should we do……"
"The only way to do that is to level up."
"That's right."
"It seems impossible to conquer that stage with magic, so I have no choice but to hone my sword skills."
"My spider web attack can capture G, but it cannot kill that large number of G."
Shiro also seems to agree with my opinion.
"Okay! Let's return to the 29th level! And put on some flesh!"
"What do you do with the flesh?"
"I get stronger when I have flesh! Now that I’m a Lich, I mainly fight with magic, but when I was an adventurer my occupation was a warrior, and in my previous life I was a 3rd dan kendo fighter!
Besides, a hero would normally use a sword!"
"I see……"
"Of course! My original occupation is that of a hero!"
"So, Master's appearance up until now has only been a temporary one!"
Shiro asks me with shining eyes.
"That's right! The basic setting for a Lich is that they were a high-ranking mage or priest who used powerful magic to transform their own body into an undead one!"
"Then you are saying that the current Master, pulled by a Lich's basic setting, is not producing even 1/1000th of Master's original power?"
"1/1000th is an exaggeration, but my sword skills will definitely improve!
If I have flesh, I will be able to firmly step on the ground, and I will be able to use techniques such as Kendo's footwork!"
"That's amazing! Master, I've fallen in love with you again!"
"R... really?"
"Because Master was amazing until now, but Master is still going to get even more amazing!"
"Well!"
"Besides, if Master's brain recovers, Master will become a genius!"
"G… genius?"
"I mean, didn’t Master say that if you get your brain back, Master will become smarter?"
"Well, that's true, but..."
"From my point of view, Master is already as smart as a great sage!
Master said with great confidence that it would make Master smarter!
The fact that Master is so confident that it will make you smarter means that Master was a very smart and talented adventurer when Master was an adventurer!"
The me in Shiro's mind was becoming a monstrous and amazing person.
I don't think a skilled adventurer would get caught in a trap and die...
"Well..."
However, I couldn't disappoint Shiro's expectations, so I kept repeating [Well], like a parrot.
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