While walking along the night road with my friends and heading for Villa De Edge, I was confirming my newly awakened power.
While walking, I drew the map of the city that came to mind in the notepad presented by Celeste.
Basically overlaying the afterimage after seeing the map once and drawing it on the paper.
After writing the whole thing, Alice had a look at it.
âWow, you really do understand it.â (Alice)
âAlice knows it too?â (Ryouta)
âYeah! Because over hereâ (Alice)
Alice pointed to a blank spot on the map I drew.
âThey just demolished this place yesterday. Itâs not on any map yet, and Ryouta was busy so you shouldnât have known it right?â (Alice)
âI see, so itâs like having the latest information.â (Ryouta)
âRather, why do you know about it?â (Celeste)
Celeste had doubts.
âI take Kel-chan for a walk every day.â (Alice)
Kel-chan a.k.a Cerberus.
Cerberus, a rogue monster, is a child who has become a unique monster and has become our pet.
âOh, you take him for walks?â (Ryouta)
âYup!â (Alice)
âHe goes to the village of Ryouta every day, no wonder he says that he has enough exercise.â (Ryouta)
Thatâs why I didnât think about taking him for a walk.
âCh-Ch-Ch, youâre too sweet Ryouta.â (Alice)
âWhatâs with that tone?â (Ryouta)
She smiles and speaks like an old man.
âFor dogs, walking has nothing to do with lack of exercise. Walking with the owner has the effect of enriching the dogâs mind.â (Alice)
Thatâs another strange way of saying it.
âI see, so thereâs something like that?â (Ryouta)
âOf course.â (Alice)
âI think so too desuâ (Emily)
Emily agreed with Alice.
âIf he hears that heâs going for a walk after coming back from Yoda-sanâs village, no matter if he is tired, heâll gladly go nanodesu.â (Emily)
âI seeâ (Ryouta)
âReturning to the story, it turned out that this is the latest and current map of the city written by Ryouta-san, but can you only see the map of the city?â (Celeste)
âYeah.â (Ryouta)
I nodded to Celeste who brought back the topic.
âCan Alice also export the map like this?â (Celeste)
âI can though?â (Alice)
âWhat about monsters?â (Ryouta)
âI can do that properlyâ (Alice)
âI see. I canât seem to tell where the monsters are. However, there are no monsters in the city, so itâs from when I was in the dungeon.â (Ryouta)
âThatâs not the caseâ (Alice)
âEh?â (Ryouta)
âThere is a rogue monster now. Look at this house.â (Alice)
Alice pointed to the map I wrote where there seems to be a private house.
âHere, there is a slime rogue monster.â (Alice)
âIs it soâ (Ryouta)
âYeah. I donât know if they still have it ⊠In the first place, there are quite a few rogue monsters with owners, right?â (Alice)
âNow that you mention.â (Ryouta)
There was a person who originally kept rogue monsters.
It has increased more and more since I welcomed Cerberus.
Shikuro is a fairly large city, so you are bound to have a hand or two that owns a rogue monster.
âHmmm, yeah I donât get it.â (Ryouta)
âYou will understand it soon?â (Alice)
âI guess youâre right.â (Ryouta)
While doing so, we arrived at the familiar bar, Villa De Edge.
We entered the store, at the usual seats, and had a feast as usual and got excited.
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On the way home from a tipsy mood.
All of my friendsâ footsteps were fluffy, and Vanadium was sleeping comfortably on my back.
All of my friends are smiling.
Emily, Celeste and Alice are all smiling.
It seems that Eve, who has been biting a carrot alone even after leaving the store, enjoyed it for some reason.
When I was on earth, I didnât like drinking parties because my bossâs sermons and boastful sake were just annoying, so I didnât know that drinking with like-minded people was so much fun.
âHey Hey Ryoutaâ (Alice)
âHmm?â (Ryouta)
âDo you feel this?â (Alice)
Alice came with a smile and summoned and changed Boney-chan to her original form.
The size is the original, but it is a deformed and lovely skeleton.
It stood in front of me and walked backwards at the same speed as me.
âI see, youâre talking about what weâve said just now before we entered the bar?â (Ryouta)
âYeah, all of them are different from ordinary monsters, isnât it?â (Alice)
âSure, even if they are defeated, they can revive immediately, and they can go in and out of the dungeon and go through floors.â (Ryouta)
âYes, and I can understand and distinguish between them.â (Alice)
âI see?â (Ryouta)
âOrdinary monsters have red dots and everyone has blue dots?â (Alice)
âSo thatâs itâ (Ryouta)
Itâs somewhat understood and not understood.
âLetâs try and see.â (Ryouta)
I closed my eyes and focused my consciousness on my new ability.
My eyes were closed because they felt more clear than when they were open.
If I open my eyes, Iâm being distracted by other things, thus dropping my concentration
So I closed my eyes and tried to imagine a map projected on the back of my retina.
I couldnât feel the sign of Boney-chanââ-but.
âWhat?â (Ryouta)
âWhatâs wrong?â (Alice)
I stopped.
Alice and Boney-chan talking stopped first, and Emily, Celeste, and Eve who noticed immediately after that also stopped and turned around.
Everyone got together and looked at me with a face asking, âWhat happened?â
I was looking at the map through everyoneâs appearance.
The feeling of discomfort like a small bone caught in the throat gradually increased.
âThe vacant lot just beforeâ (Ryouta)
âAre you there?â (Alice)
âIs it the place to be demolished yesterday nanodesu?â (Emily)
âYeah, thereâs something in that vacant lot.â (Ryouta)
âWhat is that something?â (Alice)
âI donât know, but something. Itâs not a monster, but something very familiar.â (Ryouta)
âMaybe: carrot?â (Eve)
âIâm sure thatâs too far fetched.â (Ryouta)
I laugh bitterly.
It should not be such a pinpoint detection.
ââŠâŠLetâs head there.â (Celeste)
With a little thought, Celeste suggested.
âIâm curious about Ryouta-sanâs âsomething very familiarâ.â (Celeste)
âWell, letâs go!â (Alice)
Alice first went along with Celesteâs opinion and started walking first.
There was no other dissenting opinion, and everyone followed Alice.
Alice took the lead by going around the night road.
After a while, a vacant lot opened at the end of the road.
âLook at that!â (Celeste)
Suddenly, Celeste shouted.
When I looked into the vacant lot she pointed to, with a screaming voice, there was a bonsai lying down there, and the bonsai was just in the process of hatching into a rogue monster.
A stone giant with a size of about 10 meters in height and wide in width.
âItâs a golem nanodesu!â (Emily)
âThis is bad, itâs about to start rampagingâ (Ryouta)
âIâll stop it!â (Celeste)
Celeste cast magic.
At the same time, Eve also jumped with a carrot on her mouth, holding a hand sword that was lined up.
Alice summons fellow monsters all at once, first surrounds the golem, and surrounds it so that the attack does not cause damage to the city.
Meanwhile, Emily, who left her weapon at home, approached me.
âYoda-san, did you feel this nanodesu?â (Emily)
âItâs a little different, it kind of is, but itâs not.â (Ryouta)
âWhat does that mean nanodesu?â (Emily)
âStrictly speaking, I think it was a sign that a rogue monster was about to hatch.â (Ryouta)
After closing my eyes for a moment and feeling a sign, I answer Emily.
There was no sign of a golem in front of me, but I felt something like a residue.
The sign that I felt familiar with was the sign that a rogue monster hatched.
Probably because I witnessed the most of the moment when a rogue monster hatched in this world ⊠I thought that maybe that was the cause of it.
While thinking such, my three friends defeated the golem.
It was quite strong, but it felt like it was overwhelmed by the haste of the three.
Because of the rampage, the ground of the vacant lot became bumpy.
âYoda-sanâs power didnât cause any damage to the people around him desu.â (Emily)
Emily said and Alice replied.
âLookie look, did you notice this? Thatâs amazing Ryouta.â (Alice)