Legend

d! I just want to bring their bodies back as adventurers should! You’re just assuming I would take anything of value from the dead! I demand an apology and compensation!」

「……In other words, you’re saying that if I bring their bodies back up to the surface, you have no intention of taking any of their weapons and equipment?」

「……」

The man probably didn’t want Rei to take him at his word and remained silent.

His attitude was a clear indicator of what he was aiming for.

「It’s fine, I’ll watch him, so could you please bring the bodies back? Although we were only a temporary party, I can’t bear to see their bodies just dumped in the dungeon like this.」

He must have thought that things wouldn’t get anywhere if they continued like this.
The adventurer with the sword called out to Rei.

「Guru~」

It seemed even Set thought that it would be better to move on than to stay and engage in trivial disputes.
He turned to Rei and gave a cry.

Rei gave in at Set’s attitude and gave a small sigh as he stored the bodies into the Misty Ring.

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The the adventurer with the spear saw that he smiled at Rei.
However, Rei decided that he would only feel worse if he kept dealing with the man.
After storing away the three bodies, he visually signalled to Elena and Set.
But, when they tried to leave again, the man’s unpleasant voice was thrown at them again.

「Wait! What about our escort until we finish stripping the materials!」

「I don’t know.
Why do we have to take care of you that much? Do what you want.」

With a short reply, Rei, Elena, and Set continued in the direction of the stairs marked on the map.

As he watched them leave, the adventurer with the spear’s face turned bright red as if it had been set on fire as he stomped his feet.

「Don’t be stupid! If you saved us, then it’s only natural for you to take care of us to the end! But they……damn it, when I get back to the surface, I’ll tell everyone about this and isolate him!」

「Stop it.」

The adventurer with the sword, who had been silently listening up until now, called out to the man with the spear.

「Why! They should have protected us to the end……」

「You’re being unsightly.
In the first place, you insisted that you weren’t rescued and that they had stolen the Rock SPider.
If so, it’s too unreasonable to ask them to escort us.
Instead of isolating Crimson, you will be isolated instead.」

「What are you saying! In the first place, it was only because I negotiated with him that he didn’t take all the Rock Spider materials!」

「As far as I’m concerned, they saved my life, so I don’t mind giving them all the materials.
……Rather, how do you intend to bring everything back?」

The adventurer with the sword spoke as he looked at the corpse of the Rock Spider.

The Rock Spider was a huge monster 4m in size and its materials were correspondingly large and heavy.
As for the carapace that could be used as armour, it was naturally larger than a human.
The adventurer with the sword could easily imagine how much it would weigh.

「That’s why! If we could use his item box……」

「Haah, that’s enough.
Suit yourself.
It was my mistake to form a party with someone like you, even if it was a temporary party.
I’ll give you all the materials.
I’d rather keep my life.」

He looked at the adventurer with the spear in amazement before saying that, sheathing his sword and leaving the area.

His direction wasn’t the direction they had originally been going in……but in the direction Rei’s group had left in.
As if chasing after them, he sprinted away from the corpse of the Rock Spider and the adventurer with the spear.

Seeing him leave, the adventurer with the spear kicked the ground to vent his frustration.

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「Damn it, what is he thinking, even though I negotiated to keep the Rock Spider, he didn’t even thank me? I’m going to get him to compensate me when I get out of the dungeon.
……First of all, I guess I’ll strip the materials from the Rock Spider.
If I had an item box, I could just take the whole thing, but he didn’t even listen to me and just left.」

Perhaps he was irritated that Rei didn’t hear out what he had to say, taking out a knife from his waist, his spare weapon, he tried to stab the Rock Spider’s body with the tip in frustration……

There was a metallic sound as the tip of the knife bounced off.

No, the tip didn’t just bounce off.
Looking closely, the knife was missing a whole 1cm from the tip and could no longer be used.

「Damn it, I’m really unlucky today.
I had to team up with useless adventurers, ran into monster snatchers, and that adventurer didn’t even listen to me at all, he just looked at me with contempt.
Lastly, the only other survivor of the party was heartless enough to leave me behind.」

In frustration, he kicked the corpse of the Rock Spider before realising the next moment how hard it was as severe pain ran up his leg.

Even so, the materials that could be stripped from the Rock Spider in front of him could be sold at a good price at the guild, so he couldn’t give up here.

「It can’t be helped.
I had wanted to use the knife if possible.」

Sighing, he used his spear to take apart the Rock Spider.

It might have been because the carapace was torn in some places due to Set’s attacks, but unlike the knife, the spear was a weapon used for battle, so while the spear tip felt some resistance, but there was no difficulty in cutting through the Rock Spider’s carapace.

Even though Rei had known this, he had chosen to cut only the minimum parts necessary to extract the magic stone.

For about 20 minutes, he desperately stripped the carapace off the Rock Spider with the tip of his spear, but when he was about halfway through, he jumped to the side with spear still in hand.

As one would expect from an adventurer who had been able to descend to the 12th floor, he was quite skilled.
But that was all there was to it.

「Bah, why are there so many!」

Bhiend him was a giant spider with gray, rock like, skin.

It was slightly smaller than the one Set had killed, but it was still nearly twice his size.

「Gya, Gyaaa, GYAAAAAAAAA-!」

It wasn’t clear if the Rock Spider was conscious of its fellow spider, but regardless, it attacked the man.

「Damn it-! How could this happen to me……hey, someone help me! Hey, hey! If I die, it will be a huge loss for Exil! Hey, someone……anyone help meeeeeeee-!」

He screamed out, but there were no signs of anyone coming to his rescue……the man was reward for his foolishness and was eaten alive by the Rock Spider, the cruellest death a human could ever suffer.