Chapter 53
Explosion!
Translator : PolterGlast
Clutching the robe we
found, we looked around the room. First, we had to get out of here.
"There's only one
exit at a quick glance, though..."
The lone wooden door
in the room had a round gold handle. Before I could reach for it, Lotus waved
one hand at me. Confirming that I had backed away with Ichi and the others, his
large hand gripped the knob and slowly twisted it. It didn't budge.
"............This
ain't normal."
"Is there some
kind of trick?"
I groaned and turned
around, and quietly, I and Ichi and the others put our hands together. We
stacked up nicely. We didn't move forward an inch. Around that time, Lotus
quietly lowered his stance, preparing to draw the sword at his waist.
"B-Battle stanceーーー!!?" "Guess
we gotta break it." "Lotus, you're surprisingly simple-minded, aren't
you!? Wait, one more! One more minuteーーー!"
I clung desperately to
Lotus's arm and swung around while making a fuss, but I kept my voice lower
than usual, as expected. And me swinging around was no problem for Lotus at
all. If we didn't hurry, Lotus would destroy the door very skillfully.
"Don't I have
some good skill... nope, not really... my skills seem convenient but aren't, or
so it seems, but they can actually be surprisingly useful, you know!?"
I tried using
Appraisal, but the door was clearly labeled 【Magic Tool】, but that was it. The blue window that only I could see flickered in
front of my eyes. The skills that had once mostly disappeared had now increased
to the point where I could scroll through them. Among them, every time I saw
the display for Underwater Breathing Lv. 2, I couldn't help but wonder when on
earth I would ever use that, and my lips would purse. My ears felt a little
hot.
Putting that aside, I
tapped the displayed skills and checked their descriptions. "Ah, how about
this one?" I tried using it.
【Wall Climbing Skill Lv. 1: You can understand
buildings a little better. Once you understand them, you can climb them.】
Once you understand
them, you can climb them...
Putting aside that
quiet nod, this was the skill I had acquired earlier, just before I clumsily
climbed the Magic Tower and fell. If I understood a building, it would become
easier to climb. Whether or not a door counted as a building was another
matter, but I put both hands together, intending to climb the door. I was very
thirsty. My heart was. No, that's not it. "Ichi-sama and the others!
Water!" "Did you call for us?" Ichi and the others, still
slightly damaged, approached shakily. "Are you thirsty?" they asked,
but I shook my head, pointing to the bottom of the door. There was a slight,
thin gap between the door and the floor.
Ichi gently extended a
thin arm there and dripped water down. The small droplet slipped in smoothly,
and before I knew it, the gap had disappeared. When I reached for the doorknob,
I heard a kachiri sound as it moved.
"...So, it needs
water to open and close. No wonder it won't open easily."
In Cloudy Country,
where Lotus and I grew up, it didn't rain. Instead, there were wells in the
city, but we didn't use water limitlessly, and slimes were valued for producing
precious and delicious water. In this country, it didn't rain, and slimes were
nowhere to be found. The innkeeper had looked at the captured San as if he was
seeing a slime for the first time.
Since there was a thin
film of water on the dome, it probably wasn't zero, but there was no doubt that
water was even more precious in Soleil than in Cloudy Country. And they used a
small amount of it every time they opened and closed a door. It was
extravagant. And the security was high. But they must have had no choice but to
do this much.
Well then, we slipped
through the exit, which had become a normal door while containing water, and
popped our heads out into the hallway. Lotus, me, and Ichi and the others, in
that order.
"...Alright, no
one's here. Probably, no one is!"
I muttered and then
jumped out with a "eiya!" "Hey, El." At Lotus's words, I
hurriedly took a step back. "No, you see, I'm using my 【Skill】! Listening Skill. The surrounding voices... I can't hear them!
Definitely!"
I had added
"probably" due to my lack of confidence from being a klutz for so
long. The fist I clenched and thrust out felt sleeker and much longer than
usual. The distance to Lotus was also very close. I was hiding my face and body
with the black robe, but my figure was still noticeable, and the overflowing
sex appeal was probably strong.
I took a deep breath
and puffed out my chest. It felt like it was about to burst. I couldn't see
myself, but I was probably sporting bright red eyes, and my hair had grown down
to my waist. It was silky smooth.
"We'll go quickly
and come back quickly! You guys, let's sortie!"
The sound effect
chudon that echoed was just a mental image in my head. Behind me, Ichi and the
others were striking poses.
--Due to various
circumstances, it was the long-awaited deployment of the adult version of Eldorado.
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