Blessing from the Goddess and Transfer to Another World! ~No Thanks, I Don’t Need a Special Ability~ Chapter 45

[Yes, Sorchan.]

[[One, two, three!]]

[Wh What are you doing nodesu!? Release me nodesu!]

Those twins restrain the struggling Cynthia. By the way, the restraining method is the wrapping in a mat one. Cynthia is wrapped round and round in the bat of an eye and is then carried on the shoulders of the twins.

The number of explorers fighting in the adjacent area is rapidly decreasing. After confirming there are no other explorers in the area, I get close to it with the and "Warp" high speed movement combo  and pull the remaining members to me with “Summon”. We got nearby without even taking five minutes, but as far as I can see there were about 20 explorers who have died and were displayed in grey. By the time we finally reached them, only one explorer and one volcano golem survived. That one explorer received quite some damage, he would soon die if he stays as is.

[Sakura, please apply recovery magic on the survivor!]

[Alright!]

Sakura heads toward survivor. The Volcano golem notices and is heading our way.

[Sera, defeat that huge thing!]

[Understood!]

[I want to defeat it nodesu~!]

And like that, Sera starts running towards the Volcano Golem. I naturally ignore the complaints of the mat-wrapped Cynthia.

We also had our status greatly decreased, but even then we would hardly lose against a moderate lvl 20 monster. Having approached the Volcano golem, Sera swings her greatsword. With just that the volcano golem was bisected vertically. The golem split left and right and collapsed. Lava spills from the inside, but immediately cools down and solidifies. It seems the temperature drops sharply when dead.

[I am done.]

[Good job.]

I show my appreciation to Sera who decided the match easily. I could have done it as well, but I would get a little hot if I belly punched that as one would expect.

[There are no problems here either.]

[Much appreciated.]

It seems Sakura also safely finished the recovery. The fainted explorer is a girl. She is wearing light armor but her armor is completely worn out.

[However, with a loss of an arm and severe burns, I don't think she can return to a normal life without "Revive".]

One of her arms is broken and she's burned all over her body. You can think of this world's recovery magic as an extension to self-healing. Since it doesn't fix impairments nor do the burn marks and scars disappear. It's become better at a certain degree, but a situation as awful as the girl in front of me won't sit well with me either. Her broken arm went past the level where it could somehow make do with self-healing, it's not going to go back to normal if there's no "Revive".

[Jin-sama, what will you do?]

[Actually, this girl is the princess of this country, isn't she?]

[Yeah, that's right.]

Like Mio said, she is a daughter of the king of Estia kingdom, a princess.

Name : Cattleya Auswell (カトレア・アズウェル ; katorea azuweru)

LV12

s.e.x : Female

Age : 15

Race : Human

Skill :

t.i.tle : Princess of Ishtar kingdom

Furthermore, several of the surrounding corpses have the t.i.tle of knight, and there's even a t.i.tle of prince among them.

[What sort of grouping is this I wonder?]

The one who answered Sakura's question isn't Alta, but Kate.

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It must be a custom because it's a country supported by the dungeon. They won't help if the royalty dies in that case though……

The knights' levels are around 40. There were more than ten volcano golems. They shouldn't be opponents where they would get annihilated though……

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They should've ended with the 10th floor, but going to the 19th floor. They're pretty rash.

[More importantly Master! A Princess you know, a Princess! Now that we have Dorchan, Yurichan and Sakuychan, let's get Estia's princess next!]

With a very nice smile Mio says something sleazy. Yeah, I'm really thought to be collecting women of the royal family. ……It's sad that I don't have any points that I can deny though.

[Get you say, what are you planning on doing?]

[Couldn't you just say “become my subordinate if you want to fix your burns and arm”? Simple right?]

[No, it is simple but……]

[In that case, then I will……]

For some reason Maria is showing motivation.

[Wait wait. I'm not planning on doing that this time you know.]

[Eh? Why?]

Mio asks questioningly.

[No I mean, making a princess my subordinate means I'll be well involved with the country right? If that happens, then the chances of meeting a Hero would pointlessly go up you know. There's no need to go out of our way to get close to unpleasant people right?]

[If we take part in the royalties and this country of the Hero supporting faction, then the encounter rate of Jin-sama's hated Heroes will increase.]

If we get too close to the authorities of this country, then our encounter rate with the Heroes will increase and I'm not happy with that. It's better to persist with just Elinsia, a knight of one city, I don't really want to increase contact with the royal family which are the central figures. Well, we've decided to go to the capital to receive the rewards though……

[Then, will we release her here?]

Sakura says something brutal. If you  refer to Heroes, then Sakura's actions would seem to become a little extreme.

It's kind of like Royal family = Supports Heroes = Enemy.

[No, that's a waste as expected.]

[Eh? It is not pitiful but a waste? ……Master is also quite himself isn't he.]

[……Sera, no food……]

[I am sorry!]

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[Please spare me from that!]

Sera apologizes immediately. And Dora surprisingly didn't go easy on her.

[For the time being, let's just hear her out first. We can think about the future afterwards, right?]

[That is right. Not all of the royal families are necessarily supporting the Heroes after all.]

Maria nods. It's a strange thing for Maria, who is more or less a Hero who should've been supported, to say.

[You could cure just the burns with Midori-chan's secret medicine series right?]

[I guess so. "Heal" won't cure something like burn marks, but the secret medicine is different after all.]

I nod at Mio's word. Midori's secret medicine is not so out of this world's logic, so it'll work out even if it leaked out in the worst case.

[U-Ugh……]

Like Dora told us, she is about to wake up.

[E-Eh? I was, by a volcano golem…… Ah! Oniisama! What about Oniisama!?]

The awakened princess tries to get up but she couldn't because one of her arms is broken and so she collapses like that.

[Ouch!? Eh? My arm is……, moreover my body……]

Princess is shocked from seeing her own body. But she still manages to get up and looks around. At this stage she seems to be observing us and the disastrous scene around us. She stands up even while disoriented and walks towards a certain corpse.

[Ah……Aah……Oniisama, Oniisama……]

One of the surrounding corpses. The princess is clinging on the corpse whose body was wrapped in the most high grade looking armor. If the corpse is that damaged, then it shouldn't be possible for us to revive him.

[Ughh……, Why did something like this……, that's why I said we should return quickly……]

So the princess planned to return on the 10th floor? The princess has been crying for a while but, maybe because she remembered us, she wipes away her tears and approaches us. Even though she herself is also in tatters, she is quite tough.

[All of you are explorers correct? Forgive me, but could not you tell me what occured while I was unconscious?]

I'm glad the princess didn't say anything to us with an arrogant att.i.tude. I'm confident I would give up on this place if I were to feel unpleasant.

[Yeah, we are explorers. We discovered the volcano golems and this disastrous scene when we explored this floor. There was only one volcano golem left so we defeated it. You were the only survivor so we applied “Heal” on you for now.]

I give a concise explanation and the princess nods as if she understood.

[I understand. My grat.i.tude for your explanation.]

[What happened here? Volcano golems are monsters from a lower floor right?]

The princess showed a behavior like she is pondering about my question.

[Yes. Allow me to tell you what occured here. Before that, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cattleya. I am a princess of this country.]

[My name is Jin. There are many of us here, so the other members will introduce themselves when there's a chance for that .]

[Yes. Eh? Just that? I am a princess, you know?]

[Yeah, is there something about that?]

[……No, never mind. Would you allow me to call you Jin-sama?]

What's going on? This is a talk that happens often only when the one you rescued is a princess right?

A : …….

[Err, can you really give us your name this easily to explorers like us?]

Sakura asked. Yeah, I knew it beforehand, but usually you would hide it won't you?

[I cannot do something discourteous as not giving my name to the ones who have rescued me. I intend to give rewards and payments, so it would be nice if you could refrain from abducting me and so on if possible.]

Her frankness is showing effect. From just the reward. ……Now then, shall I go in a monster house and die? Ah, no good. I won't receive decent damage if it's this floor.

Other members excluding me smile awkwardly.

[I dove into this dungeon for the coming of age ceremony. Originally it was fine to go until the tenth floor, but since a fellow traveler cravingly asked, we have gone until the next floors. So arriving here, our party were surrounded by volcano golems and was annihilated.]

[Fellow traveler?]

A guy who could push their opinion even though one of the two royal family is stopping, who is that guy?

[It is a Hero dispatched from Eludia.]

[[A Hero……]]

Sakura and I unintentionally looked at each other's face in harmony. No, the possibility of them to come to this country wasn't low, but I didn't think I would hear that t.i.tle inside the dungeon.

[Is there something the matter?]

[No, please don't worry about it. It is something personal.]

Cattleya asks us in wonder.

[The hero who was dispatched here from Eludia two weeks ago, had accompanied my coming of age ceremony. I believe there was more or less an aspect of authority to fight alonside the Hero. He said exploring up to the tenth floor was boring and suggested to move on ahead. I was against it, but the Hero advanced on his own accord and so we helplessly advanced as is.]

I checked, but there was no Hero, or rather person from another world among the corpses around here.

[The knights were elite, but since we intended to go until the tenth floor we only brought only one magic caster, we had very bad affinity with volcano golems.]

The volcano golem is tough and hot so it is difficult to do close quarter combat. It's famous on the 20th floor and first on a list of monsters who would checkmate you if you don't take any countermeasures against them.

[Didn't the Hero fight?]

[The Hero…… fought once. But he escaped on his own from the excessively bad affinity with the volcano golem. In order to push the monsters to us, he slashed at Oniisama with his sword and injured him as a bonus…… Then he took distance from the monsters like that and he seems to have escaped using a transfer stone……]

Saying that much, the princess casts down her eyes and s.h.i.+vered. What was reflected when she lifts up her eyes was clearly anger.

[What do you mean "I will protect you"! You coward who ran away from the beginning! Because Oniisama who was the strongest among us was injured, we were annihilated by the volcano golem! It wouldn't have turned out like this if Oniisama was safe! The magic caster was killed when he tried healing Oniisama! Even though we should have been able to at least escape if all of us were safe! Everything was because of the Hero!]

Having shouted that much, Cattleya was gasping out of breath. You're the worst human being just from what little I've heard, Hero.

[Ah! My apologies. I have shown you something unsightly……]

[No, well, yeah……]

[If you have something to say, then please say it!]

[You've been holding it in didn't you.]

[Certainly! It wasn't just the horrible behavior of his in this dungeon! He is sc.u.m who gets carried away from being flattered as a Hero! Sc.u.m who tried to court me, who hated it, without thinking deeply about it and getting distracted by other women in the middle of courting me and then going along with my coming of age ceremony by declaring the unreasonable to Otousama! We did not become a Hero supporting country to support someone like that! Once I return I shall have Otousama repeal our support!]

I can feel she is getting very angry. Even thought it's unpleasant under normal circ.u.mstances, he became her important brother's enemy, so I guess it's natural.

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Sakura sends me a telepathic message.

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Sure, there's plenty of room to sympathise with her. Not to mention, if there is a chance that this country casts away the Heroes then some cooperation should be pretty cheap. ……Looks like I pretty much hate Heroes too.