I Was Reincarnated as a Nameless Combatant in a Japanese-style Fantasy Depressive Erotic Game, but the Women Around Me Are All Dangerous, and I Have a Bad Feeling about It

now serving the court again with ease.
Currently, he is an assistant in the taxation department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
…In any case, he is not trustworthy from the spider's point of view, partly because of his origins.

 

　”Hehehe, there is no need for you to be so cautious.
I gave you the kappa specimen half a century ago, didn't I? I also constructed the detonation technique, and you should be thanking me for my contribution.”

　”Kappa is for making soldiers for the coming time, okay? That's unlike the way you blow things around.
How is it that you, who are so concerned with planning everything, would cooperate with me rather than suppress my arbitrary decision?”

 

　Though uncomfortable and unconvincing, the spider knew that Kuuban was not stupid.
And the same goes for the fact that the shadowy entity in front of him is one of Kuuban's trusted advisors.

 

　Therefore, the monster in front of her should have been working according to the plan that Kuuban, whom she trusted and respected for the past 500 years or so, had instructed her in advance.
It is suspicious that he would come here now…
especially when he is a young man who is cautious and puts his own safety first, even if he is a relative of Kuuban.

 

　”Oh, oh, it's sad that you don't trust me that much.”

　”Stop joking.
I don't think you're the kind of guy who'd be sad.
So, what do you want?”

 

　The spider's piercing, piercing eyes fill the room with a thick, murderous atmosphere.
A normal person would have fainted, but the shadow only cowered his shoulders.

 

　”No, no, I have recently found an interesting object of observation.
Not to mention that earth mother goddess, the moody and insatiable blue demon who has been worrying about the subject for years, I can't ignore it either.”

 

　In response to the shadow's reply, the spider's face turned into a blatant frown.
It was a disappointment.

 

　”What, you too? I don't mean to advertise, but how dare you show your face for something that has nothing to do with what I'm planning?”

　”That way of talking, is the blue demon here too?”

　”I don't know where she is.
That wanderer seems to have a hobby of following people and is good at hiding her presence.”

 

　When Kuuban asked for her participation in the tournament, the demon was very evasive about the request and disappeared from sight.
Several calamity youkai were ordered to search for her, but they were unable to locate her until the very end of the war…

 

　”It's probably still here somewhere in this den…
but how rude of her to walk around with her dirty feet without telling me, the master of the land.
Hey…
Don't you think so, monkey?”

　”…!!?”

 

　The young man who had been eavesdropping on the conversation between the spider and the figure from the shadow of a rock noticed that his gaze locked with the spider's from a distance of more than a hundred paces.
The next moment he was running, his body strengthened by spiritual power.

 

　With Dagger (tantō) drawn, he aimed not at the spider in human form…
but at the explosive that had been borrowed from the human body beside him.
It was a momentary dazzle to deploy several bird-shaped shikigami to rush into the spider.
Under the cover, he charge at the ex-exorcist, who was bounded, in one fell swoop, but…

 

　”You are underestimating me, aren't you?”

　”!!!”

 

　The next moment, the spider was standing beside the young man, uttering taunts.
The monster smirks right beside him when he looks at her.

 

　”Be gone…”

　”Ggh…
Gah!!?”

 

　The boy caught the kick from the girl's body, and the metal gauntlet on his arm was shattered, breaking the bone.
At the same time, the boy was throwing Dagger (tantō) with a precise trajectory.
Dagger (tantō) went straight for the former head exorcist…

 

　”Don't be stupid!”

 

　One of the grotesque spider-legs sprouting from the girl's back interrupts the path of the Dagger (tantō).
The small knife (kogatana) that collides with the spider-leg is bounced off with a screeching sound, and wanders through the air.

 

　”D*mn!?”

 

　Hayama bites his tongue in bitterness as his own desperate attack is knocked out of action, but the next moment he is struck from the side by another spider-leg, sending him flying and slamming him into the rock face in the cave.
A cracking sound echoes through the cave, as if the flesh is being ripped open.

 

　”Ugh…
Ggh….!?”

　”Wow, you're surprisingly strong for a member of Hidden Group that you didn't die just now.
Oh, this is…”

 

　The spider approaches Hayama, who is already covered with blood and breathing insects, and notices something wrong with his body peeking through the gap in his clothes.
Then it smiles with delight.

 

　”Kukuku, this is a funny thing.
You have turned into a kappa, haven't you? You are in such a state that if you were found, you would be immediately destroyed…
how pathetic you are.”

 

　The spider laughed at Hayama's deed.
It was truly ridiculous.
To do such a reckless thing when he is powerless, helpless, and has no future even if he succeeds…

 

　”I don't want to have any more regrets.”

　”Hmm?”

 

　Hayama muttered to the spider who was mocking his foolishness with all his heart.
He stared at the spider with a look that showed no despair at this point.

 

　”It's a stupid thing to do, I know…
but it's much better than regretting it…!!!”

 

　Hayama boasts while coughing up blood.
In fact, it was not a strong statement, but a true one.
He didn't want to regret it anymore.
He did not want to betray the people he cared about as he did that day.
That's why he took up this reckless fight.

 

　Even though he knew he would die in vain in pain…

 

　”….What an unpleasant eye.”

 

　The spider takes one look at Hayama and gives him a contemptuous stare.
Then she turns on her heel as if she is no longer interested in him.

 

　”Oh, you don't kill or eat him? Even though he's not as good as exorcists, he's better than kappa, isn't he?”

　”I'm not happy about it.
But I won't let him get away with it.
Leave him there and let him die in agony.”

　”Well…”

 

　The spider replies to the shadow's question as if to throw up.
It looks pretty badly wounded.
Half a minute or so at most? Either way, it will be a slow, agonizing death for a while now.
Needless to say, it is much more terrible to sink into the darkness, suffering, and be unable to do anything, than to die without awareness or pain in an instant.

 

　”Gggh…”

 

　The young man tried to resist, but was prevented from doing so by the strings the girl spit out from her slender palm.
Now, after, the young man from the hidden group, trapped by viscous threads on the rock face…
the spider turns on her heel, having lost interest in the fish that is just waiting to die.
In fact, Hayama is nothing more than a trinket to her.
She wants only the top exorcists for companionship…

 

　”…Oh, so that's one of Kizuki's hidden groups.
This is another one of those fateful events.”

 

　And in the midst of all this, only the shadows are watching their captors from afar with interest.

 

　That's it.
It is like an audience preparing for watching a play…