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Part 3
After rescuing the teary-eyed Lexia, they proceeded cautiously, taking care to avoid the traps.
Suddenly, Tito stopped short of the treasure chest.
“! Wait, please…!”
“What? What is it? Do you feel anything, Tito?”
Lexia had learned her lesson and quietly followed the instructions.
Tito picked up a pebble and threw it in front of the treasure chest.
But nothing happened.
“It looks okay, let’s go!”
“N-no, not yet!”
“Why are you jumping out so blindly?”
“Lexia-san, calm down…!”
Luna and Giselle hold Lexia down as she tries to jump out.
Tito went back to the hole, peeled off the wall, and brought it back.
“All right!”
“It’s amazing how easily you can carry a piece of stone wall like that…”
Tito brought up a piece as big as a child and threw it again.
Baannggg! A strong vibration echoed through the air.
Swisshhh!
A large number of needles protruded all over the ground.
“Hyii…!”
“I see. It seems to respond to a certain amount of weight.”
“What a nasty trap! We almost got skewered!”
“Only you.”
Tito’s ears go down as she looks at the needle-covered ground.
“What should we do, there’s no guarantee that those were the only traps… Should we turn back?”
“But either way, this road was a dead end…”
Giselle suddenly exclaimed.
“Oh, look… there’s an exit in the wall over there.”
Giselle was right; there was a way out beyond the treasure chest.
“In any case, we’re going to have to get past this whole needle to continue! And while we’re at it, let’s get the contents of the treasure chest!”
“That’s what you want, isn’t it?”
Luna said, looking for a way to cross the room.
“We could use string to get across, but it would take a little longer if we all crossed.”
“Oh yes! I have an idea, just wait a minute!”
Tito said and went back to the hole.
Then she peeled off the stone wall and threw it in a heap.
“Eiieiii!”
“Eeeeeeeeehhh! Th-that’s amazing…!”
Baaanngg! Baaaammm!
A heavy bass sound echoed through the ruins.
Soon, stone slabs were laid across the room.
“Phew, that should do it!”
“Nice work, Tito!”
“I-I didn’t know there was such a solution…!”
“The pirates who set the trap will be stunned when they see this.”
They cross the stone and reach the treasure chest.
“Wow, this is a magnificent chest…!”
“It looks quite old.”
“I have a bad feeling… Are you really going to open it?”
“Isn’t it obvious? Well, Luna, please!”
“Goodness.”
Luna sighed, checked the treasure chest carefully, and inserted her string into the keyhole.
The lock opened with a loud click.
“All right, it’s open.”
“Luna-san, you can even open locks?”
“If it’s a simple key.”
“Well, I wonder what treasures are in there?”
While Luna and the others looked around, Lexia opened the treasure chest.
The next moment,
“Gugyaaa!”
A soft-bodied monster jumped out of the treasure chest.
“Kyaaaah!”
“Acid Slime…!”
Giselle’s eyes widened in horror.
Acid Slime is a subspecies of slime, a vicious monster that melts living creatures and then takes them into its body.
“Be careful, the slightest touch will melt you to the bone!”
“I see… in that case──Cocoon!”
Luna immediately released her strings.
A large number of strings wrapped around the slime like a cocoon, squeezing and crushing it to death without giving it time to dissolve.
“Gyagya, gyaa….”
“A-amazing, even the best adventurers struggle against it, but in a moment…!”
“Geez, it’s a surprise, isn’t it? There’s no way that there’s only that monster in there, is there?”
Lexia peers into the treasure chest with a pout on her lips.
Inside the chest was a small bottle filled with a light peach-colored liquid.
“What is it?”
“Is it some kind of medicine?”
“Sniff, sniff… It smells slightly sweet.”
Giselle’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Could this be… an aphrodisiac…?”
“Eh?”
“A-aphrodisiac?”
Giselle nodded at the three in amazement.
“A long time ago, there was a mysterious aphrodisiac that was passed down from generation to generation on this island. It is said that in the past, royalty and nobility were all in search of it, but the ingredients were very rare and the process was lost in the long history of the island… It is said to have the same effect as a love potion, making someone fall madly in love with the first person they see after taking the drug…”
“What a great drug!”
Lexia suddenly snapped out of it.
Her jade-green eyes sparkle as she looks at the small bottle in the treasure chest.
“If Yuuya-sama drinks this, he will be enchanted by my charms, won’t he?”
“Are you going to rely on an aphrodisiac?”
“Ara, sometimes it is necessary to ask for the help of an object. Yuuya-sama is a very gentlemanly and shy person, so I don’t think he would step forward without being pushed. …And really, Luna would want it too, right? This aphrodisiac?”
“Wha-!? I-I’m not that…!”
“With this aphrodisiac, you can do this and that with Yuuya-sama, you know?”
“…I see.”
“”Luna-san!””
For a moment, Luna almost agreed with Lexia, but then she shook her head at the sound of Tito and Giselle’s voices.
“No, wait, it was deliberately placed in a treasure chest. It’s obviously a trap.”
“T-that’s right, as soon as you take the bottle, some kind of trap could be set!”
Tito pleaded desperately.
Then Lexia tilted her head with the small bottle in her hand.
“Eh? I already took it, you know?”
“Nooo!”
“Youuuuuuuuu!”
They shouted, but it was too late.
A clanking sound of something being activated echoed off the surrounding walls.
Luna screamed as soon as she saw something glinting in the gaps between the stones.
“R-run!”
“Awawawawa!”
Luna drove them to the farthest exit on the other side.
Arrows fly from the walls on either side of them as they sprint.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
“Look, a storm of arrows! This is just like the ones I read about in adventure novels!”
“This is no time to rejoice! Boisterous Dance!”
“C-Claws Concert!”
Luna’s strings sliced through the incoming arrows, and Tito’s claws shattered them.
Giselle also activates her spirit art as she runs.
“O-o wind, blow!”
A gust of wind whips up, blowing the arrows away at once.
“Wow! That’s amazing, Giselle-san!”
“All right, let’s run through it in one breath!”
The group managed to slip through one arrow after another and slipped into the exit.
“Hah, hah, hah…!”
“I’ve tasted enough traps for a lifetime today…!”
Luna and the others were exhausted, but Lexia was elated and held up the small bottle.
“But thanks to that, we have something amazing! I’ll take care of it for now!”
“No, wait. If you’re the one holding it, you’ll break it or spill it. I’ll hold it.”
“Luna, I thought you weren’t interested in the aphrodisiac.”
“I-I didn’t say I wasn’t interested!”
“It’s okay, we are equal rivals for Yuuya-sama. I’ll make sure to share it with Luna later!”
“Ugh… Y-you hear me, there’s no cheating!”
Giselle’s eyes flutter when she sees the two of them talking animatedly to each other.
“Luna-san is so red… not only Lexia-san, but even Luna-san is captivated by that Yuuya-san? Who is this Yuuya-san… who makes not only Lexia-san but also Luna-san fall in love with him?”
“I’ve never met him either, but I hear he’s an amazing person! He is a disciple of Kicking Saint-sama and Sword Saint-sama, he has a lot of extraordinary weapons, he has acquired a mysterious power in no time, and he gets stronger every time they meet…!”
“Eeeehhhh…!? Luna-san and Tito-san are strong enough… but I didn’t know there was such an amazing person…”
Giselle is stunned by Tito’s explanation.
Unbeknownst to him, Yuuya’s heroic tale was developing rapidly.
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